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. Confidential

Dr. Meyer Waxman's Monumental
History of Jewish Literature

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyright, ISO, a. A. T C

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NAZI-ITIS

A Scholarly Discussion Which Mirrors the Story and the
Movements of the Jewish People

Columbia Broadcasting System
has a seem of humor ... Asked
to broadcast Hitler's recent
Reichstag address, CBS refused
unless all German stations broad-
A HISTORY OF JEWISH LITERATUREt FROM THE CLOSE OF THE BIBLE TO OUR
cast
a message by Dr. Stephen S.
OWN DAYS. By Meyer Waxman, Ph. D. Vol. 1111 From the Middle of the 17th Cen-
Wise . . . No American network
tury to the Year 1880. Published by the Bloch Publishing Co., 31 W. 31st St., New
carried the Fuehrer's harangue.
York ($4.50).
The Chest for the Liberation of
Workers of Europe, the anti-Nazi
When Dr. Waxman completes the gigantic and left a "lasting influence upon Jewish life and and anti-Fascist arm of the
task of compiling his history of Jewish literature, who initiated three great movements in American Federation of Labor, is
being liquidated:
covering the creations of more than 15 centuries, Judaism": Israel Ba'al Shem (the Beaht), who
The Swedish government is op-
he will have to his credit a set of volumes which founded Hassidism; Elijah Gaon of Wiles, whose posed to Fascism and Nazism but
efforts
revitalized
rabbinic
learning
and
leavened
the Swedish-American Lines bar
will rank among the most important Jewish
literary productions ever published in English. it with • scientific spirit; and Mendelssohn, who Jews from their cruises ... They
also have a 20 per cent quota for
was
responsible
for
"enlightenment
or
Haskalah
The first volume of "A History of Jewish
Jewish transatlantic passengers.
Literature" appeared in 1930 and covered the in its first phase." These movements are thor-
Did you know that "fylfot" is
periods from the end of the Bible Canon to the oughly discussed and their founders' work a perfectly good synonym for
swastika? .. Collegiate contest-
12th century. The second volume appeared in scrutinized in able fashion.
In his descriptions of the first and second ants in a spelling bee learned that
1933 and carried the work through to the year
when they spelled it 24 different
1751 The present volume surveys the greater Haskalah periods, Dr. Waxman deals with the ways, all of them were wrong.
part of the modern period, up to the year 1880, work of Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, Naphtali Pere
Six-day bicycle race fans at
(Hartwig) Wessely, writers and poets of France, Madison Square Garden howled
and is perhaps the most important of the three
with
glee when the two swastikas
volumes because it deals with the vital move- Holland and Italy, the Gilician writers and
flying alongside of 80 other flags
ments and issues, as embodied in literature, scores of leading as well as less important authors. came down after two Nazi riders
Discussing the dawn of Haskalah in Russia, were eliminated.
which immediately preceded the most serious
Dr. Waxman reviews the works of the better
There are 31 national anti-Nazi
years in the life of the present generation.
known writers, including Isaac Baer Levinsohn, organizations in the United States.
Transition, Emancipation Periods
"Israel in Caricature and Satire"
Judah
Leib
Gordon,
and
others.
Dr. Waxman rightfully points out in the
is the title of a voluminous work
The Novel and the Essay
introduction to Volume III that the events cov-
just published in Dresden by Wal-
The novel—Abraham Mapu's, Perez Smol- ter Rainer under Nazi auspices
ered in it mark a transition period for Jewry,
. . The book is a pornographic
which was followed by the emancipation and enskin's, Shalom Jacob Abramowitz's—the essays
adaptation of the Bible in unprint-
liberation movements. During the years from and criticisms, the poetry and the periodicals of able doggerel rhyme.
about 1750 to about 1820 there was the conflict the Ilaskalah movement are reviewed and studied
Nazi tourists report that the
swastika flys from many house-
between medieval and modern types. Important at great length.
For the student of this period the resume steps in Cairo on important Nazi
spiritual contributions were made by the Hassidic
movement and by the type of learning initiated of the periodical literature of that time forma a holidays.
Walter )(Appel, editor of the
by the Gaon of Wilna. "This period, as indi- most fascinating subject Dr. Waxman rightly Deutscher Weckruf and Beobach-
cated, is sometimes called the first Haskalah states that there is hardly a literature in the ter, chief Nazi organ in America,
period, for it is characterized by the striving for world in the development of which the period- has been fired on orders from Ber-
... Strong dissension in York-
enlightenment on the part of the Jews of Ger- icals played as important a part as they did in lin
ville over the Nazi propaganda
many and the first stage in the renaissance of Hebrew. He reviews the various publications- ministry's efforts to mobilize all
ha-Maggid, ha-Carmel, ha-Melitz, ha-Shahar, etc. Germans abroad has something to
Hebrew literature."
The years from 1815 to 1880 are marked —and introduces the reader to a very rich period do with his exit.
INSIDE STUFF
as a period whose underlying motive is the desire in Jewish literary creativeness.
The man indirectly responsible
Movements in Judaism
for emancipation, in Western Europe. In Eastern
the epochal agreement between
Equally as enlightening and as fascinating for
Europe its counterpart was the Haskalah move-
the steel industry and John L.
ment. But there the emancipation idea was not are his descriptions of the various movements in Lewis' C. I. 0. industrial union
as pronounced. "The Haskalah took a different Judaism. lie describes the Reform and Conser- group is Maurice Falk, Pitts-
burgm philanthropist Although
attitude, a more lenient one, towards the old vative movements and their literatures, and pre- Falk is the head of the National
sents an interesting discussion of the polemic Steel Corporation, it was he who
Due to the extensive Interest In 'Val.
life,
and
its
effects
were,
therefore,
more
satis-
anodic 'raise . . Its legends and over see
Pearls of wisdom have been collected
factory and more constructive. It has to its literature of the periods that marked the rise of financed the study "The Econom-
III
an attract'. book of 116 cocoa
credit the creation of an important 'part of these movements. In another chapter he deals ics of the Steel Industry," the
handsomely bound In grained blue eel-
lum cloth, with gold.starnped
with the builders of Jewish science and concerns findings of which recommended
modern Hebrew literature."
Autographed by author. Suitable for
sitte sad prises. Price $1.60 post-paid.
himself with the work and achievements of Zunz, unioniation of steel workers along
History in Literature
the lines urged by Lewis ... The
Address order. to David Morsels. Oros.
man Building, Kansas City, Kansas
It is evident that this volume deals with one Krochmal, Frankel, Geiger, Greets and others. agreement between Lewis and the
Rabbinic
literature,
ethics,
theology
and
steel barons came within 10 days
of the moat Important periods in Jewish history.
publication of the report
The breakdown of the ghetto walls, the fight for philosophy are discussed equally as eloquently, after
. Some of the most prominent
emancipation, the rise of assimilation, the and the chapter on homiletic literature is one of members of the Academy of Arts
various conflicts that arose in Jewry as a result the ablest discussions on the subject that have and Sciences have resigned . .
Among them are said to be Profs.
of these revolutionary occurrences—these were been written in recent years.
Solomon Zeitlin and Israel David-
The Author
movements that inevitably caused most stirring
By LOUIS PEICAKSKY
Dr. Waxman, who is known to Detroiters son ... Prof. Chaim Tschernowitz
events for the Jewish people.
is reported to have refused an
In
part
or
whale
forbid.
neerettocues
In the literature of these periods is naturally (having appeared as lecturer at Congregation honorary fellowship in the Aca-
don. without nonalaele• of the levee
Shaarey Zedek), received his education in Euro- demy.
Art. Feature Syndicate. Coplrightore of
reflected
the
history
of
these
movements,
as
well
tills feature.
pean academies, at the Jewish Theological Semi-
The famous Lubavitcher Rebbe
as the philosophic differences that divided JeWish
(Copyrisht, 1017, It A. T. 1.)
(Rabbi Isaac• Schneuersohn) is
ranks. The most scholarly history of this cut- nary of America, and at Columbia University. seriously ill in Paris.
He
holds
the
degrees
of
Rabbi,
A.
B.,
M.
A.
and
ters, which was ably and fascinatingly written by
BEATRICE KAUFMAN GIVES',
Persons who contributed Amer!.
ADVICE TO YOUNG WOULD.
Dr. Waxman, Is thus significant as the record Ph. D.
can Judaica to a proposed Jewish
Distinguished
in
the
field
of
Jewish
learning
BE WRITERS
museum
on East Broadway in New
"Did you ever try mixing con- and the chronicle of Jewish achievements as well and research, Dr. Waxman has since 1925 held York are beginning to wonder
as of the Jewish creative genius.
crete?"
what
happened
to their material.
the poet of professor of Bible and Jewish
These cryptic words to young
Men and Movements
Christian missionary e f forts
would-be writers come from Bea-
Men and movements alike come in for treat- philosophy at the Hebrew Theological College in among Jews in the proper sections
trice Kaufman, author, publisher's ment In Dr. Waxman's history. In the initial Chicago. He is also instructor in rabbinics and of America's big cities have been
executive, magazine editor and
mediaeval Jewish literature at the College of crippled by the WPA and other
wife of the noted playwright, chapters of the first portion of the latest volume, Jewish Studies in Chicago. He is the author of Federal relief projects ... It was
George S. Kaufman. Mrs. Kauf- dealing with the transition period and with the
only the food and clothing offered
man, who until recently was fiction rise of Hassidism, he points out that three men a number of important books, besides his scholarly by the missionaries that tempted
editor of Harper's Bazaar, is the ushered in the modern period in Jewish history contributions to periodicals and encyclopaedias.
the hungry Jews.

BE NOT BLINDED BY SILVER
There was once a wealthy man
who was very miserly and who
was never known to give to char-
'ty nor help the needy in any way.
One day his rabbi sent for him
and asked if he would not con-
tribute to the assistance of a cer-
Wit. nulling satiate. kindly as* Dee We
tain very poor family, greatly in
The Detroit Jewish Meanie Invitee serrosiesname• as maw
need of food and medicine, but he
Net. of latereet to Om Jewish Panda. bet dieelams reeavul-
refused.
Burden
of
Proof
Is
Christianity's
batty for as ladresement of tbe views expressed by the writers
The rabbi then handed him a
and said: "Look into this
Sabbath Rosh Chodesh Readings of the Law
It took David Lloyd George much less mirror
mirror and tell me what you see."
Pentateuchal portion — Lev, 1:1.5:26; Num.
time
to
find
the
answer
to
the
question,
The
man
took the mirror and
28:1-15; Ex. 12:1-20.
Prophetical portion—Ezek 45:16-46;18.
"Why is the Jew persecuted?" than it looked into it: "This is no differ-
ent from any other mirror," he
Adar 29, 6697 does for the average gang of hoodlums in said. "I see my face in it but
March 12, 1937
Germany, Rumania, Poland and numerous nothing else."
other countries to make a pogrom upon "Now," replied the rabbi, "look
that window and tell one
LaGuardia Is Right
the Jews. The fighting Scotchman who through
what you see."
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New has written so much about the Jews and He looked through the window as
has had so many dealings with Jewish
rabbi bade him and said: "I
York has rendered the cause of liberalism people that he ought to know better, main- the
see men and women going about
their
daily duties. Now I see two
a distinct service, opinions to the contrary thins that "the root of the trouble is to be
walking by, engrossed in
found in the determination of the Jews lovers
notwithstanding.
each other. And there, across the
The Detroit News, for instance, believes throughout the centuries not to lose their way, is a gr5up of children play-
But why do you ask that?"
that 'LaGuardia talks too r itich." Fortu- identity as a separate and distinct people ing.
"You have answered your own
in any land where they.dwell. They seem question,"
replied the r a b b i.
nately for the News some of its writers to
insist on preserving their individuality When you looked
through the win-
are wiser than others. W. S. Kelsey, for as an Oriental nation."
dow you looked at life but when
instance, writing in a different column but
Of course Mr. Lloyd George does not you looked into the mirror you
yourself.
on the same page and in the same issue in write viciously or prejudiciously. He is saw A only
mirror is only a plain piece
which a News editorial writer undertook more than kind to the Jewish people. of glass, like the window through
which you looked, but which is
to censure the brave New York mayor, ex- He gives us credit for many achievements coated
on the back with • layer
even justifies, the retention of our
pressed the opinion that, the State Depart- and
of
silver.
theless, his thesis is Just
individuality.
Never
as
tills bit of silver on the
ment having apologized, it is now time for
on a false premise. Mr. Lloyd back of the glass has concealed
the Nazis to express regrets for their con- based
George, more than anyone else, no doubt your views of life and enabled you
tinual abuse of Americans.
knows that many of the Jews he associates to see only your own countenance,
But if Mayor LaGuardia talks too much. with are in no sense different from the so has your silver, your wealth,
all else from your sight
what about the other important heads of average personalities within their environ- concealed
and narrowed your view so you
states and members of Congress who are ment. The average Jew who is given even can
see and think only of yourself.
unafraid to speak their minds and who tell the slightest bit of a chance in life is no This silver has abut out from your
the Nazis exactly what they think of different from the French or the English view and thoughts all the worth
them? On several occasions Governor or the Americans or Germans among while things in life."
As the rabbi spoke the rich man
George H. Earle of Pennsylvania has whom they live. It is only when their hung
his head.
spoken with a frankness that places him origin becomes known and the non-Jews
You are right, my good rabbi,"
in the forefront of battlers for democratic begin to rebuff and repel them that a dif- he said after a short reflection. "I
ideals. On the occasion of the anti-Hitler ference sets in—and the difference, as a have been blinded by a bit of silver
thanks to you, I now see the
demonstration to be held in Madison rule, is one that is built up in the form of but
light"

Square Garden in New York on March 16, hate on the part of one and resentment on
Governor Earle has issued the following the part of the other.
statement:
Factually, the Jew is easily assimilable.
As a matter of fact, he absorbs the culture
The Hitler G 00000 tnent is • government of
hat. and oppression. The head of that g
and mannerisms and environment so
meat is waging • campaign of terrorism
speedily that where he is granted com-
against Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Masons,
plete freedom—not "toleration"—he dis-
leiter and its own war veterans. Adolph
appears from the ranks of his own people.
Hitler and his minions of hate are subordinat-
ing Christianity to Halation,. and Neel papas.
A further truth is the fact that Jews are
ism. They are giving no quarter to those
really anxious to leave the ghetto to ex-
who seek to tx.rcis. the God-given right of
plore new territority and to invade that
religious freedom. They are trying to dry
territory and to become a part of the new
up the wells of liberty and equality in • coon.
try whose centuries-old culture made it one
environment. Those Jewish leaders who
of theleading nations of the world.
out to defend the survival of the Jew
n. American people believe In liberty of set
chiefly on the theory that his clinging to
conscience, in equality of opportunity. Hay-
his Torah and to his culture is responsible
ing bees so long a free People, they moot
conceive of the tyranny that can he practiced,
for his undying existence are either too
and is practiced, by the man and men who
optimistic or just a bit blind to reality. In
new tyrannies. the German people. let us
actuality, it is prejudice, persecution and
recognise the fact that the American spirit of
anti-Semitism that has more than any-
fair play unfortunately is not uni I in all
the world and that by emphatic repudiation
thing else welded together the Jewish
of oppression and all destructiviems we can
people.
hotter serve our people and preserve our own
Evidently the world needs someone to
precious heritage of liberty and equality.
hate and it may have been said rightfully
We suppose that Governor Earle, too, and justly that if there were no Jewish
speaks too much—simply because he has people to hate and to be used as a scape-
undertaken to condemn bigotry and dic- goat, the world would invent a Jew in
tatorial form of government. In that event order to make him a scape-goat. We are
others will have to be lined up and be told that in some German communities ( PLEASE TORII TO NEXT PADS
counted against the News—and in this in- where there are no Jews, the Nazis dig
stance it must mean being counted against up all sorts of records in order to find
DOUBLY UNIQUE
those who desire to give comfort to Nazism. someone in the community who may Reference to Superiority of New
Scores of members of both Houses of Con- through a remote ancestor have inherited
An Interview With a Fam-
gress, governors of several states and Jewish blood.
ily of Genius
Testament
Over
Old
Is
Deplored
many outstanding United States officials
Mr. Lloyd George is wrong and there
By RUTH C. BROTMAN
nevertheless are of the same opinion with
of instances
those who approve of what Mayor are thousands upon thousands
NOTED In this unless later-
in the relationships between Jews and Pastor Says Every Quotation Jesus Used Came From the EDITOR'S
dew with the ?deniable family, two
LaGuardia has said.
Old Testament
Christians to prove that his theory is a
membersof which — lichee, and
But if the News has blundered in its false one when he says that the Jews are
Itephsibah—ore world-famoes mesa-
clam, Alin Benin.* of Detroit, re-
criticism of Mayor LaGuardia it has erred determined not to lose their identity and
By REV. RUSSELL J. CLINCHY
produces the atmosphere In whkb
these children were reared to be
even more seriously in another way. The when he ignores the fact that the Jews are,
Pester, Mt. Moment Congregation Church, Washington, D. C.
great artists.
Nazis condemned LaGuardia as being a instead, forced not to Rise their identity.
(Copyright, 1137, a A. F.
(Copyright, )137. N. C. Jr, O. Nov. Service)
"Talmud Jew," and a Detroit News copy-
would like to take Mr. Lloyd George
( reader undertook to define this term as on We
Yehudi Menuhin's name has
a pilgrimage through non-Jewish insti- As a Christian minister, I want tags' of family devotion. Ruth
tee bows:
been blazoned upon the page of
of the ..1 Talmud Jew is an ultra-orthodox tutions, through our school system, through to point out the way in which says to her mother-in-law. "With-
every newspaper, magazine, in
unit, who clings to the teachings of mosaic neighborhoods that are only sparcely in- Christians make references, un- ersoever thou goest I will go."
it?
=n
habited by Jews, and we are sure he intentionally, to the superiority
the radio and in records
Concerned with Mercy
prim/ as outlined in the Talmud, the Hebrew would be convinced that his statement was of the New Testament over the
It is well to remember also that throughout the world, until it
01
d.
of law."
Dr.
Christ-
is a household world. Ills vio-
with Phis explanation is amusing. But we just a bit too complimentary to the
People fall into the common while the Hebrew prophets were
ians and credits the Jews with too much error of believing that the Old concerned with justice, they were lin-playing for the past 10
, ni _ vertheless resent the judgment which loyalty to themselves.
represents a religion concerned also with mercy. It is years (he was but 10 years old
se tictated its wording, because a newspaper- David Lloyd George, if his name were Testament
of stern and unrelenting justice Isaiah who wrote, "Come now and at the time of his debut) has
man who takes it upon himself to explain
upon literal interpretations
used up all the superlatives of
and if he had a Jewish hued
of law while the New Testament let us reason together, saith the
such a rarity as a "Talmud Jew" might David Davidowitz
Scotch countenance, would exemplifies a religion of love and Lord; for tbo your sins be as manic critics and left the lay-
rather
than
a
a
worse
blunder
and
commit
• some day
scarlet, they shall be white as man spellbound! This, you
have difficulty in finding a home in the mercy.
cause the Jewish people real damage.
would think, would suffice as
is a common Christian fail- snow."
Is there such a thing as a "Talmud average American community. If he were ing It and
is based upon the general
Micah asked. "What doth the one generation's contribution to
Jew?" The truth of the matter is that in search of a flat, he would in most in- heritage given to all Christians Lord require of thee but to love the musical world, but nol the
find signs reading "No Jews that such must be the case be-
there is a Talmud and that there are Jews. stances
cause Christianity arose out of mercy . . . 1" There is no more hienuhins bring forth a pianist,
The definition for the term Jew may vary wanted" staring him in the face.
But Mr. Lloyd George says that the the historical events of the New beautiful expression of the re- a daughter Hephzibah, four
with the state of mind of the person at-
Testament, and the remembrance deeming love of God than that years Yehudi's junior, and re-
tempting to describe the Jewish people. Jew is determined to remain a separate that Jesus of Nazareth empha- which is found in the allegory of peat their sensational gift to
entity.
He
does
not
say
that
the
Christians
sised the necessity of mercy as Hoses when he closes the appeal grateful humanity. Hephzi-
Thus, the world's bigots have painted us
as "curiosities" in order to crucify us as insist on making the Jews a distinct group. well as justice.
of God to sinful Israel, saying, bah Menubin, whose Hebrew
their scapegoats. But the Talmud is not That is why we insist that his thesis Jesus Quoted Old Testament "I will love them freely, for mine name translated into everyday
reaches
a
false
conclusion.
The
burden
of
is
not
good
for
the
Christian
It
anger is turned away."
such a "mystery." Its pages are open for
English would read, "my desir-
to continue to believe such a
So much more could be written
everyone to read, and the collection of proof for the cause of hatred of the Jew Premise.
It
is
tree
that
Jesus
rave
of the expressions of love, of ed one," is the embodiment of
books that exists under this name is neither lies upon Christianity.
great emphasis to an appreciation mercy, and of compassion, which • rare orchid, with poetic eyes,
of love and understanding and
mysterious nor a secret. Any dictionary
to be found within the pages blond hair, chiseled features
mercy, but it must be remembered are
or encyclopedia will explain its meaning.
of the Old Testament, but these
that every quotation He used He are enough to let us remember and the transparent charm of
The Detroit News has in its possession at
If the Jew Wills It
took from the Old Testament. He that the source of all the sym- another planet, plus the gift of
least one set of the Jewish Encyclopedia,
Paid we should love our neigh-
and understanding which music, simple mannerisms, cook-
"As long as I breathe I will repeat that bors as ourselves, and He quoted pathy
and there is a lengthy chapter which de-
characterizes the spirit of Jesus ing and tap dancing!
Zionism
depends
solely
upon
our
own
that from Leviticus; that God of Nazareth was in the Old Tes-
scribes the Talmud. But even the laziest
When I was granted the
desires mercy and not sacrifice- tament in which lie was reared,
reader can read the meaning and basic ex- work."
* quotation from Hosea; and and whose immortal words were privilege of interviewing these
These
are
the
words
of
Henrietta
planation in two paragraphs. The term
when He wanted to describe His on His lips as He died upon the starlets, little did I realize I
Talmud, applied to two works prepared Szold, Jewry's most brilliant woman whole mission and purpose in life cross.
would be led into the sanctuary
Isaiah in that
by Palestinian and Babylonian scholars leader. They were spoken on the occasion Ile quoted from beginning,
No. it is not the Old Testa- of the Menuhin family group.
"The
famous passage
and rabbis, "is an old scholastic term of of Hadassah's 25th anniversary celebra- spirit
both
ment
against
the
New.
In
But there I was! talking to
of the Lord is upon me..."
in Jerusalem.
be found compassion and un-
It is just as important to re- can
Moshe Menuhin, Mother Menu-
the Tannalm, and is a noun formed from tion,
It is not a new Idea, but it is a timely member
the verb 'Ihnmed'—'to each.' It therefore
the spiritual content of derstanding.
bin, who had her arm In a sling
'means primarily 'teaching,' although it de- reminder. Beginning with Theodor Herzl, the Old Testament In no other New Austrian Stamp Bears due to a burn, Yaltah, the
Jews have been admonished that if they literature do we find a more mov-
'learning'
..."
W
ehave
quoted
notes also
expression of a father's love
Head of Jewish Inventor youngest, blond and daredevil
will it that Palestine shall become the ing
from the Jewish Encycloperio.
than in the words of King David
of them all (and I'm willing
But you do not have to go to a Jewish homeland of the Jew then the aspiration a over the death of his son who had VIENNA (WNS)—A new series to wager we'll hear from her
will
not
be
a
dream
but
will
become
rebelled
against
him—"0
Abu-
source. You might consult that great
of social welfare stamps, the 60 yet) and of course Yehudi and
kir,. my ton, would to God I had grocben
series, issued by the Aus-
Christian and scholar, the late Prof. reality.
died for thee!"
No
one
will
build
Palestine
for
the
Jew.
Post Office bears the head Ifephribah. No painter, no mat-
George Foote Moore of Harvard; or any- He must do it himself. The Balfour There is presentation of the trian
of- a distinguished Jewish scien- ter how adept with the brush,
love
of
men
for
each
other
who
one of a dozen other great Christian
the late Dr. Robert von Lieb- has ever succeeded in capturing
and the Mandate merely give were destined to be enemies as tist,
scholars, like Prof. Hermann Strack, Dr. Declaration
in the friendship of David and en, inventor of the trimiectron on canvas a sunrise as beau-
us
the
sanctions
of
the
British
Empire
and
tube
which is credited with mak- tiful as nature's early dawn, or
Herbert Denby, former residential canon
There is no story in all
other nations of the world. But the Jonathan.
the world which better exuresem ing possible talking pictures and
of St. George's Cathedral in Jerusalem, the
task of making the dream a reality be- the warmth and tenderness of the perfection of radio broadcast- the greatest poet ever succeed-
and many others.
comes the responsibility of the Jew alone. family loyalty than that in the ing. The stamp shows Lieben's ed In describing adequately the
It ought to be clear that the Talmud is
If we will it, it will not be a dream. Old Testament story of Roth and head and to the left the electron simplicity of a mother and her
ib
property
of
all
Jews,
and
like
the
Nami as, from the Jewiab bed- invented by him.
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B Bible may also be made the property of Let us make it a reality.

Lights from
Shadowland

Ten-Year Survey Shows How

Jewish Colonies Grew to 203

Report Reveals That of 410,000 Jews in Palestine, 105,-
000 Reside in Agricultural Settlepnents, Show-
ing Increase of 227 Per Cent

NEW YORK.—On Jan. 1, 1987, Jewish National Fund land. The
there were 203 Jewish agricul- increase of Jewish agricultural
tural settlements in Palestine settlers during the past 10 years
which harbored 105,000 Jews out was 227 per cent, the report
of the total Jewish population of shows.
110,000, it is stated in a report Agricultural Population Rises by
lasued by the United Palestine
227 Per Cent
Appeal, the American Jewish
At the beginning of 1937, the
agency for the settlement in Pal-
report
states,
there were 203 Jew-
estine of oppressed Jews of Ger-
ish agricultural settlements in
many, Poland and other lands.
Palestine
with
a population of
The report was based on a sur-
vey of 10 years of Jewish agri- over 97,000, Including the in-
cultural settlement just completed habitants of Emek Zebulun in the
by the Jewish Agency for Pelee- Haifa Bay area and also the in-
tine, recognized in the League of dustrial settlements which house
Nations Mandate as the supreme about 8,000 people, the total pop-
authority in the rebuilding of the ulation living in and around the
Jewish Homeland. It is on behalf Jewish agricultural ;settlements
of the Jewish Agency that the amounted to 105,000.
A comparison with the statistics
United Palestine Appeal is con-
ducting a nation-wide campaign drawn up in 1927 shows great de-
velopment of Jewish agriculture
for 14,500,000 during 1937.
• During the last decade 107 new and its settlements. Ten years
settlements were established, 68 ago, 110 settlements were regis-
of them on the land of the Jewish tered, with • population of 30,-
National Fund, one of the institu- 800. During the last decade. the
tions embraced within the United Jewish agricultural population has
Palestine Appeal which acquires grown by about 67,000 or by 227
land in Palestine as the inalien- per cent.
able property of the Jewish peo-
The following table gives the
ple, developing it on the basis of Jewish agricultural population re-
hereditary leasehold. Of the total cording to the two statistical our-
of 203 settlements. 110 are on veys mentioned above:

Needier

and Population of Jewish Settlements

Na
Pepalatioa Ne. et Nodal'''.
gettleaseats
liettlemeats

Judea I. a
Judea II. b
.....
Judea III. a ..._

Judea Total

14
10
6

6,456
8,515.
566

28
19
9

20,193
28,234
1,114

/Yenisei.
MS et

Immo.

217
232
100

30

15,537

56

49,841

220

Valley of Sharon .......
Samaria
Emek Zebulun and

8
13

1,824

3,968

59
21

22,380
9,730

1,127
169

Lower Galilee
Upper Galilee ..... -

33
17
9

5,667
2,055
1,216

44 / 10,860
2,932
16'
1,349
7

92
43
11

Total .............

110

30,267

Jeered

Scattered Farms

Grand Total

203

233

110

30,500

97,092

224

165

203

97,257

224

(a) In the part south of Tel AvIV, (b) in the part north of
Tel Aviv, (e) in the part near Jerusalem.

Many factors, the survey goes
on to state, have had their in-
fluence on the development of
these settlements. The report
Points out that the most Impor-
tant single factor to which this
singular expansion was due was

the existence of great areas of
land which were fit for intensive
agriculture. Other elements were
the possibilities of rater irrisra-
Hon, the employment of Jewish
workers in the settlements, the

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