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Poland's Emergency Conference

GESSIIER REPLIES

HITLER'S FIRST FOUR YEARS

Strietly
Confidential

Through the initiative of the American
Jewish Congress, conferences will be held Comforts Himself With Fav-
Tidbits from Everywhere
orable Review by Lipsky's
Co., las.
INshillehed Wirek17 M Tho.1.1. Cl.alcle
this Sunday throughout the country in
Son,
But
Fails
to
Show
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Test.
Sesoaa-close matter Mar. I. ISM at the
stn.
order to co-ordinate action in this country
Truth of His Allegations
odic.at Detroit. Stich. ender the Mt of liar. I,
His Tactics Have Put Him Into a Tight Corner
—
r
in a protest against the accentuation of
0.51.1,1uht. 1937. S. A. 1 ,
General Offices and Publication Building
Robert Gessner, whose "Some of
outrages
against
Jews
in
Poland.
While
Jews"
(Far-
525 Woodward Avenue
My Beat Friends Are
ST hl e C DEPT.
FI T
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
Cadillac 1040 Cable Address' Chronicle we know that it is no longer necessary to rar & Rinhart) was criticized in
eason behind the
rea Ireason
Loalea Mice,
these columns, writes the follow-
uni-
provide
proof
that
Jews
ought
to
be
forthcoming tour of Max Schme-
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
ing reply from Havana, Cuba:
ling
through
the
South is an at-
in
it'opyright, 1937, Sewn Arta Feature Syntlivete)
"January 20, 1937.
MOO Per Year ted in a protest against the occurrences
tempt to exploit anti-Negro senti-
Subscription, in Advance.
Poland, we nevertheless wish to emphasize "Dear Sir:
ment
and
rally
it
in
opposition to
To Inane publication, as sorrespoodence and ern matter
"In view of your slanderous at-
the anti-Nazi sentiment which
as Tender ...hi of ...eh ...h. the importance of making the present con- tack
meet reach thie
After four years of growling, baring his with the Austro-Hungarian Empire on his side, seeks to boycott- the Schmeling
on
my
book,
Some
of
My
Illben mailing sloth:so, kindly on one die of ths paper only.
ferences as impressive and as widely rep- Best Friends Are Jews,' I assume teeth and sharpening his claws the Tiger of Eu- Turkey and Bulgaria as partners. The Aus- Braddock fight . . . The strategy
The Detroit Jowl. Chronicle to•Itee correeponten. on sub-
you will grant me the courtesy of rope, the Third Reich, is pacing his cage with trian Empire went into the ashcan of history.
is that if the South doesn't like
resentative as possible.
tests of intend to tle Jewish people, tut Illeclalms responsi-
your columns for a brief reply.
Negroes it will be opposed to any-
bility ter a Indorsement of the •Iews express. by the writers
nervous, exasperated step. Ile is caught. He is The successor states are not Germany's friends.
The brazeness of Polish anti-Semitism
"In the first place, I entertain
thing likely to make a Negro the
Turkey
is
Russia'
ally.
Hungary,
true,
may
be
trapped.
He
is
hemmed
in
on
all
sides
by
an
say
in
no
hopes
that
whatever
I
in
many
instances
exceeds
even
the
audac-
world's
heavyweight champion ...
Sabbath Readings of the Law
of my book will alter a impenetrable barrier of steel. There can be no counted upon in an eventual conflict to side with
If the boycott ruins the Schmeling-
Pentateuchal portioin Ex. 18:1-20:23.
ity of German Nazis. Not only are de- defense
prejudice
as
deeply
rooted
as
the
the
Nazis.
But
is
Hungary
an
asset
or
a
mill-
Braddock tilt, then Joe Louis gets
Prophetical—Is. 6:1 - 7:6; 9:5 - 6.
mands for the expulsion of Jews being one you have expressed in your sudden, lightning-like jump at somebody's throat.
a crack at Braddock . . . Hence
neck?
Shvat 17, 5697 made on the floor of the Polish Sejm but review. However, in fairness to All eyes are fixed on him, riveted on him. There stone around Germany's
Schmeling's handlers think it
January 29, 1937
war
starting
a
No,
Hitler's
prospects
of
their inan in the
there is not a single opportunity that is your readers, I believe they should are a dozen watchmen ready to overpower him at
are positively smart to show also
hear that the
South . . . We
permitted to go by without resorting to know what misrepresentations you a moment's notice, at the slightest overt move in now with any chance of success
of
the
slimest.
'There
is
a
French
system
of
have made.
Help Victims of Flood
Hitler
hero's
appearances
below
fact. lie knows this and his nervousness in-
the ridiculing of Jews by Polish leaders.
Your venom, over my sugges-
in the Mason-Dixon line will be used
fortifications
in
existence
which
was
not
there
creases
by
the
hour.
in
tion
that
Zionists
(for
the
sake
of
An account of antl-SemitiC\ violences
A national tragedy is being enacted
1914. The Maginot-line is an incalculable fac- to test out how much boycott senti-
Herr Hitler and his Reich are in bad shape.
their skins and cause) should
ment there is . . . New York's
our land. Millions of our people are being committed in Poland in 1936 shows that help save Arabs from their feudal Leaving aside, for the moment, the interior situa- tor in any future war. It certainly neutralizes Nazis have hired the Hippodrome
made homeless by the rise of waters and 56 Jews were killed and that more than poverty, was expressed in • series tion, which is characterized by a near-famine, we the initial advantage Germany has in her ability for Feb. 12 to stage a protest
1,000 other were injured. This report of attacks upon my statistical evi-
meeting against the boycott of the
by a flood which human hands are incap- which comes from reliable Jewish authori. dence. Your argument here lies see Hitler's hope of tackling France, "the mortal to mobilize more quickly than France. That the fight . . . Mike Jacobs operates
enemy," single-handed, and choking her off be- Russian army is a more efficient striking force
with me but with the Zionists,
the Hipp .. . Although the New
able of stemming.
ties indicates that September and October not
today than the Czar's famous steamroller nobody, York State Athletic Commission
whose cause you are purporting
The sorrow of the sufferers is the sorrow were the' worst months for Polish Jewry, to defend, for it is their statistics fore starting for the happy hunting grounds of will contest.
failed to act on the request for a
the Ukraine and Caucasia, gone up in thin smoke.
of the entire American people. That which 14 Jews having been killed or fatally in-1 I have used, or British statistics His proposals to isolate possible areas of fric-
boycott of the bout, one of the
If Germany is militarily in no position to
which
the
Zionists
have
accepted
in
September
and
200
having
been
commissioners is privately in fa-
affects one section of the population is also jured
You charge me with wearing tion in Europe have been rejected one after the wage war now, economically the situation is even vor of calling off the fight .. .
injured in October.
horns and a tail, like a devil other. The scheme was too transparent. Crush worse. The Kaiser started out at a moment
the concern of the whole people.
What makes this report stand out in its quoting the Bible for his purposes, France, wipe out Czechoslovakia, swallow up Aus- when the depots were chuckful with stocks on NAZI NEWS
Therefore the whole people must join brutal
If you eat in a hotel or restau-
reality is the section which shows because 1 'managed to take single tria, walk over Lithuanio. Conquer half of Eu- hand. There wan an immense gold reserve in
that has German help you
the American fellowship which is being that Jewish property losses through the phrases and sentences from entire rope in a succession of swift hammer-blows and 1914. Today half of Germany hungers and Dr. rant
had
better speak in whispers .
by Dr. Chaim Weizmann
cemented by human want. Not a single smashing of windows, destruction and loot- speeches
Because the Nazis have organized
and Miss Henrietta Szold.' If your have the rest of the Continent trembling at his Schacht does not know where to find the 200,-
person who is in position to do some good ing of shops and the bombing of homes are jaundiced eye would permit you feet before the military campaigns were over. 000,000 marks which his master has thrown the League of German-American
Waiters, whose members are in-
read the book as printed you
away in the Spanish adventure.
in the present crisis must be permitted to estimated at approximately 5,000,000 to
structed to spy on guests in hotels
note that these 'speeches' The invitation to that dance was not accepted.
zlotys or $250,000 in our money. At a might
Those supermen in Berlin may be shouting and restaurants ... The members
stand
together,
prefer
to
The
European
states
were
personal
interviews
gra-
claim immunity from participation in the time when we are straining all our ener-
that cannons are more important than butter, make regular reports on their
ciously granted me by Miss Szold
remain
within
each
other's
call,
watch
the
Tiger
relief and reconstructibn efforts.
gies to collect relief funds for Poland, the and Dr. Weizmann and conducted collectively. There is safety in numbers.
but in reality the food shortage and the disas- eavesdropping to the Deutsch-
Amerikanischer Bund . . . There
Every American citizen should—must- damage to Jewish property at times ap- in the presence of witnesses. You
trous economic situation have lost Germany her
The
ceaseless
tom-tom
of
the
anti-Bolshevik
is also a Nazi outfit which spreads
charge me of going to Palestine
contribute to the Red Cross fund for the proximates one - fourth the amount of with
power of political attraction. That she could
slanders about prominent ■nti-
■ 'preconceived prejudice' drum by the Fuehrer has not succeeded in detach-
money we collect here for relief purposes. and of speaking 'derisively of ing France from her entente with the Soviet bind neither Poland nor Yugoslavia nor Greece N a s i German Americans and
relief of the flood sufferers.
It is clear that political action is of prime everything that is Jewish outside Union. Hitler's Bolshevik bogey did not work to her side is entirely due to the surplus of can- about other Americans opposed to
importance and that nothing must be per- of Russia.' Again your opinion even with the French bourgeoisie. The most re- non as against a shortage of butter. Butter is a Hitlerism ... And we've also told
of the Black Storm Troopers, a
with the official attitude
mitted to stand in the way to relieve the conflicts
new German group with branches
Fanatic Makes Himself Heard conditions
of the Zionists. Eleazar Lipsky, actionary journals in Paris are the most deter- mightly political weapon, mightier than cannon
which make a veritable inferno son of Louis Lipsky, writing in mined champions of the Soviet military alliance. in peace time.
throughout the country ... It has
How could Germany come through victor- special affiliates for Polish, Hun-
Ordinari ly we would completely ignore of Poland for our people. Every Jewish the New Palestine of December Extreme Right and extreme Left are in agree-
garian and White Russian Fas-
25, 1936, said that 'Some of My
organization
must
be
represented
at
the
when
she
lacks
sugar,
even
now,
that
was
addressed
to
the
editor
ious in a war
the letter
cists .
Beat Friends Are Jews' is 'earnest ment on this one point: The salvation of peace
conference on Sunday in order that unity In
when the frontiers of Ilolland, Lithuania, Poland,
depends on France and Russia joining forces.
inquiry, accurate in fact, and
of the Deti roit Free Press by a Jacob Hel-
HISTORICAL NOTE
such political action may be attained. objective m interpretation. I
Luxemburg,
Belgium,
Denmark,
Switzerland
and
for
German Diplomacy's Year of Failures
When that yarn about Jewish
ler of Boa ton, Mass., but there were so
write, Mr. Lipsky said 'fairly and
all the rest must be closed to keep Germans from colonization in Santo Domingo laid
Not all the Hitless, little Hitters and would-
judicially on Zionism.'
many call s ; of protest against this letter
going
across
to
buy
foodstuffs?
an egg it spoiled a good story ...
"Also, your wishful-thinking be Hitless can convince the world that the Soviet
Hitler's Fourth Anniversary
many condemning letters have
and so rr
If you know your history you will
Germany's Black Future
about the 'peace feasts' between Union is drilling an army for the revolutionary
recall that Santo Domingo was one
thinking
people
that
we
feel
a
word
is
in
order
If
we
had
to
do
with
sanely
Arabs
and
Jews
('actual
proofs
. come to us
conquest of the universe. That scare does not
January 30 is another black day on hu-
of
the places discovered by Chris-
the truth in a case so grossly work. The humblest citizen knows today that in the Reich it could be said that the danger of
regarding this almost insane outburst on manity's calendar. It marks the fourth of
topher Columbus on his first
misrepresented by Gessner') is no
war
has
considerably
lessened
in
the
last
year
voyage
to the New World and that
the part o f a person who does not know anniversary of the rise to power of Adolf longer practiced by responsible not Russia but Nazi Germany is the trouble- because of Germany's obvious inability to launch at each stop
it PM Luis de Torres,
enough to adhere to a code of dignity as Hitler and sounds anew a challenge to Zionists who have stated that ac- maker and that the Hitler Reich is the only po- any kind of offensive today. But we have not the Jewish Interpreter, who was
must begin, the tential grave-filler in Europe.
the democratic peoples throughout the tual co-operation
a Jew and as a man.
the
first
to
go
ashore . . . Conse-
flute area being specifically men-
In the course of the fourth year that has to do with sane individuals. The world is deal-
quently a modern Jewish colony in
It is not at all necessary to enter into a world to carry on the fight against bigotry tioned. In 16 years the 'peace
ing
with
monomaniacs.
Santo
Domingo
would be carrying
closed
the
assurance
was
given
that
in
a
feasts' have taken approximately just
dispute wi th this strange fanatic over the and on behalf of just government.
on what Torres started 445 years
The danger is that the worse it goes with
675 lives and wounded over 1200 struggle for her existence France may fully
weapon
against
Hit-
as
a
boycott
The
f
religious
observance
in
Pales-
question o
h110.
on both sides.
count on Britain's aid. What this meant in such criminals the more desperate they get.
Congress has a bill to grant a
tine. Relig ions differences will continue as ler and Hitlerism must now be called into
"Concerning my 'set idea of the gnashing of teeth and guttural vituperation in
Pressed into a corner by circumstances of their
Federal charter to the Jewish War
long as th ere are religious and irreligious action again with greater force than ever superiority of everything that the Wilhelmstrasse we may imagine but will own making, the men who stand at the helm of Veterans
of the United States..
of the Soviet' it might be
people. Palestine has her share of such before. We agree with a young lady who smacks
If the precedent set by the Bnai
probably never know, for it is part of German the German state may at any time get it into
further confusing to you to know
differences I. But on the major question came to this office the other day and ex- that the official Jewish paper of diplomacy never to antagonize the British. Even their head to play va-bangue and throw the torch Brith in holding a meeting of its
there is r lo dispute. During the recent pressed an opinion that even articles the Communist Party, the Morn- When those British refuse to be impressed by into the powderkeg. We have seen them take executive committee at the Hotel
Miami, Beach, takes
troubles in Palestine all elements, includ- amounting to a single penny each must ing Frieheit, criticized any book Goebbels' shrill falsetto about Judeo-Bolshevism the risk of walking with a torch through the Floridian,
hold, we may find all Jewish or-
in the issues of January
ing the A gudas Yisroel, combined in the not be purchased from Germans as long adversely
powder magazine at the time of the occupation ganizations holding their winter
or by Joachim von Ribbentrop's undiplomatic
8th and 9th. Joseph Freeman
defense o f the Jewish population in Pal- as there is the possibility of these pennies whose Testament you praise for
powwows in Florida.
of the Rhineland. They may take worse risks
estine. Ti here was unanimity of action in going back to Germany to heip strengthen its honesty, read my book in hints. Poland swung back into the French orbit in in the future.
VIA SHORT WAVE
the testim ony presented before the Royal the machine that is the most cruel on rec- manuscript and suggested no 1936, and the process of undermining Rumania
A one-man Christian - J e w i a h
For the future of Germany is of the black-
ord. Even if it is a penny box of matches, fundamental corrections of fact or
good will movement has been
Commissie )n.
est. • Four years of Hitler have produced a state
treatment. But in your long re- and Yugoslavia, set in motion by Goosing, got
liberals
and
Jews
must
refuse
to
buy
it
and
in Poland by a Captain
Differer Ices on religious matters must must let the merchant selling it know the view you make no mention of the stuck halfway. German diplomacy can look of affairs in the'Reich where it can be said that started
Popratzky, a retired army officer
of necessi ty be straightened out in inter- resentment that goes with a refusal to thesis of the book: namely, that back upon a year of failures. Nothing succeeded, culturally, morally, economically and socially ... Through his paper, Zespolenie,
is basically eco-
he agitates against Jew-baiting
nal fashli )n and not by making public make the purchase. This is the time to anti-Semitism
nomic and only in a non-profit so- except the launching of the rebellion in Spain— there has been destruction without parallel. The
nuisances of ourselves, as was indicated strengthen the boycott against German- ciety can it be eradicated as it has a costly enterprise that may yet come to stand process of disintergration has made giant steps, and seeks to rally the peasants
and intelligentsia to his proposed
in the let ter of Jacob Helfer to the Free made goods. The boycott of Nazi Ger- been eradicated in the Soviet on the red side in Hitler's ledger.
especially in the last year. The matchless propa-
league against anti-Semitism.
Press. It is true that on previous occas- many may in the end mean a defeat for Union. It is somewhat amusing
Having survived an anti-Semitic
But the great failure, the all-important mis- ganda system can still mask the misery to the
you attack practically every.
plot
to poison him, former Foreign
ions the J kgudas Yisroel appeared before reaction which threatens to spread out- that
outside world to a large extent. But the cracks
thing in the book but this thesis. calculation remains the inability to isolate
Minister Nicholas Titulescu is
the British and Palestine governments and side the borders of the Third Reich.
and
fissures
in
the
Nazi
edifice
are
widening.
"Your hysteria has apparently France. The chance of a localized war has dis-
busily
engaged in welding all
mandates commissions and de-
before rn
prevented you from understanding appeared for good. If the Tiger takes a jump The road goes downward. That is certain. The
democratic and anti-Fascist forces
even the title of the book—an
manded i mmigration schedules of their
disaster
is
speeding
up.
Hitler's
diffi-
in
Rumania
into a single bloc.
use of the popular cloak of today or tomorrow against France, or against tempo of
Those Jewish protests to Tokio
own. Ja c ob Heller admits in his letter The President Rebukes Poland ironic
culties are constantly increasing. But with that
Czechoslovakia or even against Russia, hi knows
an
anti-Semite.
against anti-Semitism in Japanese.
that some concessions were made to the
"Finally, my father's humani- that be must count on facing all three and prob- increases his insane recklessness. That is why
Manchukuo won't get
There is no mistaking the meaning of tarian work among Jews and gen- ably more. For the international constellation there is no prophesying of what the future may controlled
Agudas Yisroel. But there is something
far . . . Nippon has gone Nazi-
much mo re vitally important than the the following sentence in President Roose- tiles in Michigan needs no de- against Germany may well be quite a deal more bring. The fear of an explosion grows in the crazy . . . The swastika is omni-
fense from anyone, least of all
present in Japan . .. And pro-
mere den riand by some group large or velt's inaugural address:
Reich as the glory and the splendor begin to
unfavorable than it was in 1914.
from his son.
Nazi feeling is widespread.
"We are determined to make every
small for visas. The point is that certiii-
"The 'lack of temper' in my re-
No matter in how gorgeous an array of dim. There are signs that the regime is growing
Leo Reuss, an exiled German
cates for settlement of Jews in Palestine American citizen the subject of his own ply to Ludwig Lewiaohn, which braid and medals Herman Goering goes up to weaker. To us these are hopeful signs. The actor,
is the sensation of Vienna
must go tt ) men and women who are fitted country's interest and concern and we will apparently amazed you, might Rome, the prospect of French gold and an Eng- final episode of Europe's distress has begun. , .. Unable to get a job under his
you now; but it is precisely
own
name
he passed himself off
for the li re in Palestine. These men and never regard any faithful law-abiding amaze
Herr
Hitler
is
now
going
around
praying
for
exploitation
of
Ethiopia
keep
loan
for
the
the hysteria and venom of your at- lish
women m ust be prepared for the life in group within our borders as 'super- titude which have prolonged the Mussolini a very uncertain partner for any major help to stave off chaos—and Bolshevism. Ile as Kasper Brandhofer, a Tyrolean
mountaineer
... Under this alias
the Jewis h Homeland and it is on that fluous.' "
ghetto from within and given anti- undertaking on Germany's side. In certain small tries to scare other states with a picture of
he applied for a theatrical job and
This statement came immediately on the Semites a rationalization for their affairs the two Fascisms collaborate, but on the revolution in the Reich and seeks to intimidate got it without question because of
basis that they are and should be appor-
I am told I should be
tioned. 3 ,lerely because Agudas Yisroel heels of efforts on the part of Polish anti- hatred.
others with the prospect of a Communist regime his unusual talent ... When the
pleased that my book was 'insult- supreme issue which is vital to both of them—the
brilliant and "self-trained" peas-
is a religi ous sect that claims priority for Semites, who unfortunately formed the ing' to you, but your antics are hegemony in Central Europe — Italy and the as the successor of his own.
ant had taken Vienna by storm
Palestine
does
not
entitle
it
to
vast majority of the Sejm, to force the ex- saddening in these flops. Mr. Reich are irreconcilable once and for all and on
action in
Hitler ip in a tight corner. Unless he gets
Reuss broke down and confessed
any more than it is getting.
patriation of Jewish citizens on the ground Eleazar Lipsky has again sshown that issue they can always be split. Neither Lon- help he will not be able to stay the downward the hoax.
that
there
are
some
gentlemen
in
in
Our boss Joe Brainin's cousin,
But the latter point is merely an aside of their being the "superfluous" element
! don nor Paris worries about the Berlin-Rome glide. As far as the deluge after him is con-
the House of Zionism.
Fritz of Vienna, who just got •
in the eni :ire issue. Jacob Heller, if he is the population. The American Jewish
"Very truly yours,
cerned—nobody need fear a democratic regime poetry prize, published his first
pact.
"ROBERT
GESSNER."
Congress
Bulletin,
in
a
recent
editorial,
authorize i to speak for Agudas Yisroel
in Germany, for nothing could be worse than
Hitler's Prospects of Starting a War
volume of poetry on his 16th birth-
Mr. Gessner appears to receive
—and ths it we doubt— has committed the very properly pointed out that the stone (PLEASE
Hitler himself.
day, some years ago.
In 1914 the Kaiser ventured into the war
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a
Jewish
issue
age
is,
or
certainly
ought
to
be
a
matter
grave wr; )ng of airing out
of
the
forgotten
past
and
that
the
time
is
importance
before
a
wide
public.
of minor
Reform Jews
His letter is a most undignified example gone when one group of a given population
of a fana tic's irresponsibility. We are con- can say to the other only the dominating
Show Trend to
fident tha t he and his group, if his group element has a right to live and to pursue The Refusal to Consider the Realities of Jewish Life Is Orthodox Ritual .
An Account of the Anti-Semitic Campaign
human
happiness.
him,
stand
condemned
in
the
believes with
Deplored by Rabbi
The Polish anti-Semites have gone as
eyes of Ji swish public opinion.
By RABBI PHILIP S. BERNSTEIN
By
the
Warsaw
Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian Weekly
Union of American Hebrew Con-
far back to the ancient ages of brutality
gregations Urges Use of An-
as the imagination will take us. President
Returning delegates always those dreams were. The events
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article appeared in the Manchester
cient Traditional Ceremonies
An Unjustified Complaint
Roosevelt, however, with one stinging re- grumble about conventions. The of the past 50 years have proved
Guardian Weekly of Friday, Jan. 1, 1937.
buke immediately brought back all human program was too heavy or too not only that the Jews are a dis-
Several readers of The Chronicle have beings to a level of decency and the right
tinct people but also that anti-
By
LOUIS
MINSKY
light. There were too many Semitism and not universal broth-
evidently misinterpreted a program that to life.
The violent anti-Semitic cam- Jews in Paris. 30 per cent of all
speeches or not enough opportun- erhood is the abiding reality in Asso..Ed. N. C.J. C. News Service
was broadcast by the March of Time.
paign raging in Poland today, German Jews in Berlin. But only
President Roosevelt's inaugural address ity for speaking. The orators Jewish life.
After the broadcast of the Christmas Eve is another niche in the great record which monopolized the floor or the dis- There is not a Reform rabbi in
which
has culminated in numer- just over 10 per cent of Polish
Representatives of Reform
show depicting a Christmas celebration in he has written for himself as an ultra- cussion was dull, etc., etc., ad the country whose daily exper-
ous riots and in the killing and Jews, or 362,000 live in Warsaw.
Jewish
Congregations
from
all
Nazi Germany, some readers called us and democratic executive. There is also an- nauseam. Rarely does a conven- ience does not convince him of
maiming of Jews, makes the posi- The remaining 3,000,000 are dis-
program measure up to the these facts. Although officially a parts of the country met in
complained bitterly that it was an anti- other niche in his record of service to tion
hopes of its makers or the expec- religious leader, he deals almost New Orleans last week under tion of the 3,500,000 Jews in Po- persed in hundreds of other Pol-
Semitic act. We communicted with Time down-trodden peoples. This time it is an tations of its victims.
every hour of the day with the the auspices of the Union of land wretched indeed. Both eco- ish towns and villages, and 29
Magazine. the sponsors of the March of expression in behalf of the most sorely
And yet I feel that the com- problems of a people, not of a
nomically and politically their per cent of all Jews in Lodz
plaints of those who have re- sect. And yet when Reform rab- American Hebrew Congrega- position is worsening. Polish asked for alms during the aut-
Time, and an exception was made to the tried—the Jews of Poland.
bis
gather
in
their
conferences
tions
and
affiliated
turned
from
the
biennial
meeting
brothershood
Jews are extremely poor. The
general rule of not releasing copies of
of the Union of American He- and Reform congregations in their and sisterhood groups. Result; contrast between the extreme umn. In Vilna the percentaee
scripts and we have been provided with
brew Congregations in New Or- conventions, they deal almost ex- A definite swing back to Ortho- poverty of the Polish Jews and I was over 32. There are many
the text of the play as it was broadcast on
leans are of more than cursory clusively with religious questions.
the poverty of other sections in small towns with hundreds of
Preventing Co-operation
dox ritual on the part of this the country is remarkable. Over Jewish families of which only a
significance. For behind the dis-
Should 13' Other Factors
Dec. 24.
satisfaction
lies
the
fact
that
the
66 per cent of all non-Jews in few can afford bread for break-
influential
religious
group
which
Conference
of
Palestine,
to
every
The
National
These conferences should dis-
It is clear to us, as it must be
official leaders of Reform Juda-
Poland are at least able to work fast. Seventy-five per cent of all
person who has made a study of possible called by the American Palestine Cam- ism at least in their formal pro- cuss not only religious questions came into being in America a and earn; with the Jews this per- Jewish business men and traders
anti-Se tic propaganda as well as fair paign, is to be held in Washington on Feb. ceedings do not appreciate the but also the economic, social and half century ago as the result centage is only 33. Thus every in the smaller towns had to seek
mitic of news, that nothing dis- 6 and 7. This date was decided upon when realities of Jewish life in Amer- educational factors which are of a revolt against Orthodoxy. employed Jew engaged in some loans In order to buy their trad-
Reform Judaism is still suf- shaping the future of Jewish
The convention opened with profession or business is burden- ing licences. One sixth of the
criminatory was meant by the March of is was found that Dr. Chaim Weizmann ica.
fering from the hangover of its youth in America, also the ques-
ed with two non-working Jews entire Jewish ponulation in Po-
Time program and that the intentions of could not come here for the earlier date 1885 Pittsburgh platform whose tion of the productivization of some stinging attacks against whom he has to feed and clothe, land depends for a living only on
the Christmas Eve play was actually to on which the conference was to have been writers believed Jews were not a Jewish youth, also the organiza- "modernism" by speakers of whilst every four employed non- what they got from their rela-
show how the Nazis attempt to Nazify originally held. Since the announcement people, but a sect, and that uni- tion of Jewish community life, the this Jewish denomination which Jews have only three unemployed tives in the United States, Africa,
brotherhood was just relations between synagogues and war created to modernize Or- to feed and clothe.
Australia or Canada. Thousands
everything—beginning with God and end- of the calling of the National Conference versal
around the corner.
community centers, federations,
The walling misery of the of Jewish tailors, cabinet-makers.
of Palestine for Feb. 7, word comes from
ing with the Devil.
etc., the issues raised by the Ger- thodox Judaism, to "American- Jews in Warsaw and in the other boot-makers and builders live on
Realities ignored
The complaints that have come to us New York that leaders who participated
One can understand why these man and the Polish situation, the ize" the traditional Judaism of large Polish cities is nothing com- 6s, • week and are glad to earn
against the March of Time are positively in the campaign of the American Jewish refugees from German persecution significance of Palestine, etc.. etc. Eastern Europe. Samuel B. pared with the misery of the Jews even that much. In many towns
in the smaller towns. In Western Jewish unemployed outnumber
re
unjustified and we wish to be placed on Joint Distribution Committee in 1936 will dreamed such beautiful dreams in The leaders of Reform Judaism Finkel, New York City, psi-
new freedom. Undoubted- are increasingly concerned about dent of the National Federation Europe the Jews live chiefly in the non-Jewiah by three to one.
' record now as discouraging the mistake of meet in Pittsburgh also on Sunday, Feb. 7. their
the capitals. Sixty-six per cent Jewish philanthropists here esti-
ly they acted according to their the secularization of Jewish life.
ilt the blame where it does not This is what we would call the type of in- lights. But the realities of Jew- They find that leadership in Jew- of Temple Brotherhoods, hurl- of all British Jewry live in Lon- mate that every second Jew in
don, 70 per cent of the French Poland needs assistance.
ner conflict that prevents co-operation.
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