rftEfjerRortfEwssa AROXIC14
April 16, 1937
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
so in equal proportion to the number of Lights from
Strictly
non-Jews who similarly exhibit their ma-
Confidential
terial possessions. We also deny that we Shadowland
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
are
any
more
vociferous
than
many
other
Tidbits from Everywhere
By
LOUIS
PEKARSKY
TehlLima Weekly by The Jewish anonWe Publishing Co, lac
people and we point to the French and Reproduction -
In part or 'thole forbid.
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Retorts! aa Seaciettelase natter Mardi S, ISM at the Post.
German
Jews
Are
Its
Victims
without permleelon of the 60•00
Italians as proof that there are some who den,
ogle. at Detroit. Welt. ander the kat of Illareh I. HIM
Art. Feature Syndicate, Copyright.. of
(Copyright, 153,. S. A. e. ezt
this feature.
General Offices and Publication Building are even more loud in their emotionalism.
(Copiiight,1111, S. A. F.
LISTEN TO THIS
By ARNOLD ZWEIG
525 Woodward Avenue
But from time to time an individual Jew
"Cherchez la femme" would be
Telephomet Cedilla. 1040 Cable Address Chronicle will make himself so conspicuous in the IN MEMORIAM
a good tip to those hunting for
Louisa Whew
Hollywood film circles this week
the
angel backing the Nazi move-
14 Stratford Place, London, W. I, England
EDITOR'S NOTE: Until recent yearn recognised by all Germans as one of their great modern
eyes of the non-Jewish as well as the Jew- mourn the passing of Edward
ment in this country ... We have
literary figures, Arnold Zweig is now an exile from his native land. In Palestine, where
Laemmle,
veteran
motion
picture
it
on
good authority that the lady,
Year
Per
0
ish
world
with
the
vulgar
exhibition
of
Subscription, in Advance...---....--$3.0
he has found • new home, he wrote the following analysis of events in Germany, here
director and nephew of Carl
whose initials are H. F. S., is one
published by special arrangement with Die Neue Weltbucline, liberal German weekly,
To insure publicetios, all se...ponies. awl sews tastier his materialism that he lends truth to the Laemmle. Death was due to a heart
of
the
key figures in New York's
now appearing in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
most fetish tills ofhw by Tuesday evening a web week.
ailment. Edward Laemmle was
"400" and that she traces her an-
When mailing Pollee*. kindly use one We of the WW1 lab. charges made against us. When such a born in Chicago Oct. 25, 1887, the
cestry back a couple of generations
sub. display is made a matter of public rec- eon of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
in America ... She's also said to
Chronicle Invitee earreepesiease
The Det roit set
What is the essential significance of the wanted to eat their fill and enjoy possession of be one of the heavy contributors
intereet to the lervieh venni*, bet tierlelwit reerend- ord, when a Bar Mitzvah or a Bris or Laemmle. He was educated at the
/eets
the
slow.
erpreseed
by
the
miters
of
batty for es isdersereent
Armour Institute of Technology
to a number of alien-baiting out-
all
the
wares
which
modern
industry
so
allur-
crushing
of
German
Jewry
by
the
Nazi
spirit,
as
a wedding is made so lavish an affair that and after working as a machinist
. . . Incidentally, New York's
Sabbath Readings of the Law
nen from the heights of Mount Carmel after ingly displayed to them in the streets and in the fits
in
the
eyes
of
the
humble,
and
those
who
and
clerk,
came
to
Universal
Film
high society folks have taken to
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 12:1-15:33.
attending Nazi parties . . . That
like to dignify sacred events, it assumes Studios in 1913. His widow, the four years of successful assaults? It emerges shop windows.
Prophetical portion—II Kings 7:3-20.
The huge army of general unemployed, for- mysterious fraternal order known
former Peppi Heller, and two chil- clearly as nothing more or less than a dress re-
an undignified air, we feel deeply hurt.
dren, Carlotta and Constance hearsal for a bloodless—and hence all the more
mer petty officers and adherents of the opposi- as the Mantle Club, which the San
lyar 5, 5697
April 16, 1937
However, it is unwise to become unduly Laemmle, survive.
tion parties saw that jobs were filled with Social- Francisco police are investigating,
effective—civil war. The German Jews—who,
isn't by any chance a higher order
alarmed over these things. An individual "WINCHELL IS A REGULAR
ist and Catholic workers and clerks; they were of some secret anti-Semitic move-
sociologically
speaking,
represent
a
cross-section
Jew has a perfect right to spend his money GUY"
"What Have We Done?"
The following impression of of the German population, including all strata the first to feel the full force of the blow. But ment? . . . Two years ago there
its he pleases. There are those who say
Winchell, actor-columnist, from the poorest to the richest—are serving to do away with intellectual differentiation, to were rumors that it was connected
Under this heading our readers will find that a man who spends thousands on a Walter
the Silver Shirts ... A high-
appears in the Studio Club publica-
available positions for professors, notaries, with
De-
ranking Nazi visitor to these
a full-page appeal in this issue of The
Bar Mitzvah ought to give in equal meas- tion of 20th Century-Fox Studios: as the guinea pigs; they are the victims of the make
physicians
and
editors,
to
create
room
for
writers
Central
European
social
revolution,
the
early
shores
in nursing a swollen jaw
"When
Walter
Winchell
made
his
troit Jewish Chronicle in behalf of the ure to Jewish relief campaigns. But peo-
and actors, to take over banks and business en- and a pip of a shiner received
debut on the lot to make a motion
forthcoming Allied Jewish Campaign.
ple who have spent such large sums for picture, there were many of us manifestations of which we can observe by terprises and clienteles a slogan had to be found when he tried a little Heil-Hitler-
It is a tragic cry. There is the child, their personal vainglory have never given readers curiously anxious to see watching the fate of these Jews. Citizens are that would catch the popular fancy, Satisfy the Ing in one of Gotham's swanky
warding off the danger that lurks behind in due measure to worthy causes. This just what the most talked-of-news- being expropriated by the state as well as by guiding powers and mask the social character of night clubs in the presence of a
their local groups. Citizens are being fought
couple of Jewish guests . . . One
man in the world looked like.
the swastika. There are the old men and may for a long time remain one of our paper
the attack. Three ancient bogeys, well tried of New York's most exclusive
The disappointment must have
the old women, the eternal wanderers,' the major problems in trying to teach an in- been terrific if they expected to with boycott and defamation, are contemptuously through centuries of struggles for power, were clubs, which has no known Jewish
from the ranks of those enjoying full
members, was the scene recently
homeless and the hungry—all crying to dividual that he lives not for today alone find anything but a gracious, ap- removed
charming gentleman. In civic rights. All relationships with them are available, and the choice fell on all three: "Down of a confab on how to deal with
us and to the world: 'What have we done?' end that he is responsible not to himself preciative,
degraded. Love affairs with them have become with the Jews, down with the Jesuits, down with Jew-baiting ... Speaking of Jew-
less
than
a
week
he
was
the
most
They are, of course, blameless of crime. alone but to a much wider community.
popular person on the lot, the most
crimes; marriages with them render the non- the Free Masons, undermlners of the state!" To baiting, the whispering campaign
But when an individual steps out of his talked about, and, above all, a Jewish partner unfit for full citizenship and are direct the attack against all three was impru- against Sidney Hillman on the part
Their only sin is that they embrace a
labor-busting business men in
4,000-year-old heritage: Their Jewish an- personal role and assumes to display his friendly guy more than willing to unequivocally prohibited today. The very neces- dent, for it facilitated the opposition's views of of
the South is growing louder.
his part any time or anywhere.
cestry. And a cruel world continues to mo- wealth before an unusually wide public, do
Everyone in his company thor- sities of life are refused citizens who are Jews: the motives behind the events. But it was un- BOYCOTT NEWS
we have reason to resent his ac- oughly enjoyed being with him." The milkman, the butcher, the baker is entitled avoidable. Millions of jobs had to be given out,
lest, hound and persecute them for it.
Germany gets revenue out of
But the cry of these unfortunates is di- tions, to say to him that he harms his peo- Orchids for Winchell!
to stop serving them. They are driven out of millions of promises had to be kept—the group every picture shown in this coun-
ERICH KORNGOLD HONORED
ple,
and
to
tell
the
outside
world
that
we
of
those
to
be
dispossessed
had
to
be
made
as
try
regardless of where it is made
rected particularly to us—the fortunate
places, villages and cities, where they have lived
Fifty members of the Vitaphone
... The basic patents on the talk-
Jewish community of America. They look are in no sense responsible for his abuses Orchestra at Warner Bros. Studios for centuries. In public conveyances, in public large as possible.
lea are German-owned and Amer-
presented Erich Korngold with a parks and resorts, on the very streets of their
Jews Buried Under Mass of Lies
to us for comfort and for sustenance. If of Jewish heritage.
ican producers have to pony up.
As no further extension of it is possible,
We maintain that we remain a humble beautiful wrist watch in apprecia-
we do not give it to them, then we are part-
Don't let anyone tell you that
native towns they are exposed to moral and phy-
the
musi-
tion of his great work on
however,
the
discontent
of
those
who
have
been
German
optical glass is indispens-
people
and
that
no
individual's
vainglor-
ners in the world's crime of molesting, de-
sical injury. At the same time they are forced
cal score of "The Prince and the
American chemists have
.
classing, torturing and persecuting these ious actions can possibly destroy the tra- Pauper." Korngold, writer, corn- to concentrate in given places, so that they can partially or wholly neglected no far Is becoming able
now
developed
a glen which is
a source of danger. This we can see from the far superior to the German prod-
dition of many centuries. If Gentiles choose poser and musical conductor, re- be handled all the more easily.
millions of Jewish martyrs.
cently won the award of the Aca-
welfare
carried
on
against
other
organizations
to
blame
us
for
the
faults
of
individuals,
uct . . . But American beer guz-
There is only one answer that we, the
The fact that this is happening to citizens
demy of Motion Picture Arts and
still like German brews ...
free Jews of America, can possibly give it is something that we have never been Sciences for his musical score for who represented all shadings of political opinion, and groups that are distinguishable from actual zlers
Imports of German beer rose from
Nazis
only
by
the
fact
that
their
allegiance
to
able
to
avoid
or
prevent.
As
a
humble
"Anthony Adverse."
our tragically-afflicted kinsmen. We are
and because they supported 'the various political
56,000 gallons in 1934 to 300,000
in position to broadcast to them the com- people we even accept our sinners with
parties before the brown shifted regime came to to old leaders and commanders—the conserva- gallons in 1935 and nearly 600,-
tive wealthy Prussian landowners and the mili- 000 gallons in 1936.
forting words that their sorrow is also our humility.
power, brings out all the more clearly the civil-
Columnist Milton Sussman of
sorrow; that we share withithem their suf-
war-like' character of these measures. It is tary aristocracy—is embellished with no explana- the Pittsburgh Jewish Criterion
fering and their affliction—and that we
obvious, furthermore, that these people are to tions or brown coloring. But the inevitable next has discovered that a large steam-
are prepared to help ease their suffering Prof. Landsteiner is to be Pitied
be expropriated, and that to a large degree such step toward giving work and human dignity to ship company is making special
By DAVID MORANTZ
by providing them with the means neces-
expropriation has already taken place. Disre- all is frank social revolution. To avoid it the world cruises which carefully omit
Poor Prof. Karl Landsteiner! In suing Dosed upon the ancient legend. and garding all questions of individual provocation present system is willing to shed the blood of its Germany from their itineraries.
sary to carry on their battle for existence,
Certain clauses in the renewal
philosophy found In the Talmud and
to the end that they may soon have their the publishers of the Jewish Who's Who folklore of the Jealsh
or innocence, the dispossessors lay hands on the own adherents far more copiously than was done of the 1935 Polish-German com-
on
June
30,
1934.
for
$100,000
in
order
to
prevent
them
from
mercial
treaty will make hard sled-
suffering eased.
property of the Jew as the representative of his
A KING AND HIS TAXES
But the morale of German Jewry will have ding for the boycott in Poland.
Rabbi Simon tells the story of group.
The weapon at our disposal is the Allied using his name in the forthcoming volume,
been destroyed by that time. The fatal blow, ACROSS THE POND
Jewish Campaign. By making the drive a he stated that "it would be detrimental to the king, who, on returning from
The Three Ancient Bogeys
Millions of good Nazis are
though precedented some dozens of times in the
journey to a nearby country,
success we will provide the relief and the me to emphasize publicly the religion of a brought
Hitler every day . A
with
him
certain
goods
on
So skillful are these methods that the other course of Jewish history, caught it totally un- punching
comfort that is needed in the present hour my ancestors, and I would be greatly dis- which his own country laid a duty. nations
new
German stamp has Der
have not recognized, so far, the game prepared and unprotected. The 600,000 Jews Fuehrer's
tressed
and
humiliated
and
exposed
to
ridi-
picture
on it so every
On arriving at the custom house
of despair. Only the complete success of
that has been and is being played in Germany. of Germany had no group consciousness whatso- time a Nazi pushes his fist down
on the border of his country, he
the campaign will assure the succor that cule and contempt."
Prof. Landsteiner is to be pitied. His ordered his attendants to pay the Yet the fact remains that, just as Bonapartism ever. They were a creed, not unlike some old on the stamp he takes a sock at
is necessary in a tragic world crisis for
duty as prescribed by the tested the means whereby a small group of ad-
Protestant creed. Socialists and Zionists were Adolf.
weakness is making him unhappy, and his regular
It is being whispered that Mrs.
the Jewish people.
of his country.
naive blindness has led him to'believe that laws
"But your majesty," remon- venturers possessed of armed forces was able puny minorities. The pride and very life of Leon Blum, wife of the French
the world has forgotten that he was born strated his attendants, "thou art to extend for another few years the power of German Jews rested on their century-old identi- Premier, was admitted to England
a Jew; he has talked it into himself that our king and art exempt from pay- the already vanquished hosts of the nobility and fication with the German national entity, of which recently only after the British
of such taxes."
the church over democracy, so an as yet unknown they felt themselves integrally a part; on their Foreign Office had forced her to
Mr. Peiser's Deserved Honors his conversion to Catholicism has complete- ment
"I Insist upon paying them," re-
promise she would make no public
force, in the guise of Nazism, is testing out on loyalty to their country, their love of their Ger-
ly
wiped
out
his
past;
he
foolishly
imagines
turned
the
king
firmly.
"If
I
do
... The English wouldn't
Yiddish-speaking organizations of De- that he can hide his Jewish origin from not practice honesty in paying the the Jews of Central Europe the tactics of masked man homeland, their contributions to an enjoy- addresses
let her off the boat until they had
troit are stealing the thunder. Most ap-
taxes of my own country and civil war, tactics that are inconspicuous and ef- ment of German cultural values. German Jewry her promise.
son.
obeying their laws, how can I, in fective.
We hear that some German
preciative of efforts to unify the Jewish his The
had produced particularly many outstanding in-
nationally-minded Jews are much honesty,
Jews are still having their books
expect my subjects to do
community, they are the first to honor Kurt happier.
dividuals who rose above the mass like an aria- published in Naziland, but under
All this did not come out of a clear sky. The
They
know
what
they
want
and
so."
Peiser, who will soon retire as executive what they aspire to do and to be. They
Says the Talmud further on the
post-war economic crisis, appearing first as in- ticrocy and whom every foreigner met when he the names of good Aryans . . .
director of the Jewish Welfare Federation
subject:
flation, ruined the Central European middle class. entered into the social life of the larger German And we're also told that Germany
goal
and
an
ideal.
They
know
that
a
have
"It
is
sinful
to
deceive
the
gov-
is on a hands-down strike .. .
of Detroit and will leave this city to assume you cannot hide the self-evident facts from
cities. And If hunger and fear of expulsion and Which means that except in of-
Large sections of the people suffered from a
ernment
in
taxes
and
duties."
the directorship of the Federation in Phil-
bloody
pogroms
inflict
particularly
cruel
physi-
"Promote
the
welfare
of
the
very
considerable
degree
of
poverty
and
of
fear
tidal circles and on public occa-
the world at large.
adelphia.
An interesting statement regarding the government because if it were not for their very existence. The older generation. cal pain on the Jews living in villages and small sions the Nazi salute is dying out.
But the testimonial dinner in honor of Landsteiner
inspires, saw no hope of ever again becoming wage-earners; towns, these others suffer even more keenly from A machine which can produce in
for
the
respect
which
it
case was made Dr. Stephen men would swallow each other
facsimile any written document,
Mr. Peiser, arranged for this Sunday,
the youth saw no prospects of ever becoming the contempt and degradation and abuse in which printed matter, map, etc„ in three
alive."
promises to be an event that will attract S. Wise, who said:
"Those who work for the com- a part of the process of production; and for the refined sadism of the more sophisticated minutes has been invented by Mar-
every element in Detroit. The list of
munity should work without sel- students the outlook was particularly hopeless. priests of Nazism finds its expression. These cel Levy, a German-Jewish refu-
A paradox must not go unnoted. The fa-
fishness and with the sincere in-
speakers indicates in advance that every
now living in Karachi, India.
mous expert in the field of human blood types
The practically unbiased choice of civil servants, people can no longer laugh at the suggestion gee
tention to promote its welfare."
A new Ashkenazic synagogue
alludes to the exposure of "the religion of my
shade of public opinion will be represented
that
they
choose
their
housemaids
with
a
view
(Copyright by David Morant•)
unrestricted
opportunities
In
the
liberal
profes-
seating 1,000 people is being built
ancestors." Exposure can be only of that
Due to the ralenslys Intermit In '.Tat-
—and deservedly so, because Mr. Peiser
sions and free competition in the literary and to their seduction—a notion worthy of a medieval in Shanghai.
which is deliberately hidden, to the professor
goodie Tale.," see of the legend. and
has been untiring in his efforts to make
ever 500 pearlsof wboloin hate been
Nidachel Yisrael is the name of
Is bitter over the disclosure of what he imag-
artistic domains have brought about, in the dec- brain. For them the most distressing thing of
collected In on attractive book of Ise
Detroit Jewry an united whole in the
society formed in Palestine
ined to be his long-hidden secret, and that
re. handvomely booed In grained
ade following the world war, a selection of the all is the *mountain of lies that is arising in "their a to new
•loth, with Sol -
Imo
help the isolated Jews in such
secret the religion of my ancestors." Ances-
face of difficulties and, untold obstacles.
Otte. Auloirrophed by author. suitablee
own"
Germany
and
burying
them
under
its
masses
fittest.
But
the
less
capable,
as
well
as
the
con-
out-of-the-way
• places as India,
tors are not of religion but of blood and race.
for glft• and prima Prier HA) Poet-
When the conference of Jewish organiza-
Mte,
pald. Addrem orders to David
Ka
China, Yemen and Ethiopia.
scantly swelling ranks of newly tibined youth, of filth.
Da liegt der Hund begraben! And the pro-
to City,
te'
Crewman lildF.
ra
tions was first created by him in behalf
fuser in his suit adds that he wishes to spare
of the Allied Jewish Campaign, it was the
hie 19-year-old child the shock of discovery."
Revolting and Evil
So the Nobel Prize winner has been lying to
first time in the history of Jewish commu-
his little child, and the poor, dear child has
nal activities in Detroit that such an united
been kept in complete ignorance of his shame!
What Is Happening in Spain
front was presented in behalf of commu-
The shame of being a fellow-Jew of Moses and
How to Make It So
nal work. Out of these conferences grew
What the Hebrew University Means to Palestine
Isaiah, Spinoza and Herzl, Mendelsohn and
Einstein! One devoutly hopes the shock will
By THOMAS MANN
By DR. HUGO BERGMANN
the movement for a new Home for the
By RABBI JACOB D. SCHWARZ
not prove fatal to the child who has been led
Aged, and the fact that the new home will
to believe that he is a racial brother of Hitler,
Rector of the Hebrew University
soon be ready for occupancy is a tribute
What
is
it
that
is
happening
EDITOR'S
NOTEI
I.
lblo article, tip director of 17-n•gogne sensitive of the
Goering, Goebbels—not forgetting Roehm and
Union of American Hebrew Congregation. oetlinet wine of the ePerthe
to these efforts. Out of these conferences,
in Spain? An oppressed peo-
Streicher!
EDITOR'S NOTE+ la the drat article he ever wrote for the Angle-Jewleh prm•
being taken by Reform Judaism in this country in the resitallsenene at
Bermaan• rector of the Hebrew galveralty, who In now le this conntr7
Jewish life end the relatmdartleo of ceremonial obarevance• Rebid
What if the shocked child should turn to
also developed Mr. Peiser's proposals for
ple, subjected to medieval ex-
ea a visit, inn the waders of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the
Sella-ars le editor of the hyangegae, • monthly magazine Pablished by
his prize-winning father and ask whether the
Neves Arts Poetises Nyndlcale this excleeive went picture of the Oniveraly
the formation of a Jewish Community
ploitation, seeks to attain a
tido.
award was made for his discovery about blood
Paiestlatlee
Jewish
life.
to
Council. The approaching realization of
brighter
and
more
human
life,
generally or for lying about his own blood?
(Copyright, IHT, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
this aspiration may, in the very near fut-
a social order more compat-
When the Hebrew University hued, through education. with
By hiding his identity Dr. Landsteiner
ure, be credited among the finest Jewish
Jewish
culture
and
Jewish
spir-
ible
with
modern
civilization.
Judaism
is
a way of life. The change of family gifts and the
its work 12 years ago itual values and will then leave
creations and Mr. Peiser's greatest person- hurts no one but himself and his son from started
The concepts of liberty and most important aspect of Israel's sending of portions to the poor.
much apprehension was expressed Palestine to act as apostles to the
progress have not yet been faith has always been not theology
whom he hides the truth.
The Holiday Food
al triumph.
in different quarters. People whole Jewish Diaspora.
Of course, it is a mistake for us to claim asked: "Do we need a Hebrew
In such a home the poetic beauty
undermined there, but repro- or creed but conduct and observ-
It is no wonder that the Jewish organ-
Tackling Arab Problems
izations of Detroit entertain such affection men like Dr. Landsteiner. If they refuse University in Palestine?" "is Tut as important as this aspect ' sent for this people the highest ance. The perpetuation of Juda- of the Festival of Freedom was
for Mr. Peiser. He has been most sympa- to be a part of us, let them go! We have there not great danger that the r Hebrew University is, I will values, indispensable if its na- ism depends primarily on the cul- expressed in the scrupulous clean-
of the Jewish life. It was liness of household crockery and
thetic to their ways of thinking. His earn- enough trouble without them. Also, we university will attract young men not dwell on it longer, for it is tional boner Is to remain in- tivation
however, in the synagogue utensils, in the gleaming bright-
est efforts to draw them into community have enough geniuses to be able to dispose from the plow and from industry the purpose of this article to In- tact. It chooses a government not,
that
the
way
of life, which is Ju- ness of the festive board, decked
its study rooms?" "Was it not dicate the importance of the He- that—with all the caution dic-
work have placed him in the front ranks of those who cringe when their Jewishness a to fact
daism, had its fullest and finest out for the Seder with traditional
that many of our pioneers brew University to Jewish life in
tated by the special circum- expression. The unit of Jewish ob- symbolism, in the stirring narra-
as a democratic social worker. If it were is mentioned.
left the intellectual life in Eur- Palestine.
was the family. The sanc- tive of the Exodus infusing new
But whether we claim them or not, men ope in order to become workers I have been asked very often stances prevailing there — en- servance
only for the reason that he has acquired
tuary of Jewish family life was hope and courage for the present
in
the
field
and
will
it
not
be
a
such sincere affection among the masses like Dr. Landsteiner are to be pitied. They
what I think about the situation deavors to do away with the the home. It was the home that and foreshadowing a better time
temptation for them to be- in Palestine with regard to the most flagrant wrongs, to carry
of the Jewish people in Detroit, his five suffer because they fear the truth—and great
enshrined the piety and personal to come. In such a home the
come intellectuals again through Arabs. I am not able to give a
through the most essential re- virtues inculcated by the Jewish memorial of the First Fruits was
years' service in Detroit is a marked suc- the truth constantly pursues them!
the help of the university?" "Was
faith. It was in the home that the entwined with God's revelation to
it not premature to open a um- Political reply to this question forms.
cess.
observance of Sabbath and holy Israel. In such a home it was at
versity in a country in which there and I cannot predict what will
The honors to be extended to Mr. Peiser
Thereupon a military rebel- days attained its fullest fruitage once a duty and a delight to dwell
is hardly any intellectual life and happen during the next few years.
on Sunday evening are well earned and Incompetent Colonial Officials which is so remote from the in- We may still have to go through lion flares up, at the behest of and influence.
in the frail booth, commemorating
very difficult days. But we should
The home in which the lessons
deservedly accorded. It is a distinct pleas-
tellectual centers of the world. not consider this question from the ousted forces of exploita- of Judaism were inculcated day the ancient harvest festival and
giving thanks for the providential
university
the
ure to be able to join with the many hun-
An Associated Press dispatch from Jer- "Can we hope that
the short-sighted view of a few tion and oppression and with by day through prayer and song,
will prosper, hampered by the dif- years. We are bound as Jews to the support of foreign coun- through custom and ceremony, was guidance of the Guardian of Is-
dreds of Mr. Peiser's friends in expressing usalem states:
rael, who neither slumbers nor
ficulties of the language, by lack consider our problems from the
in the literal sense of the word a
regret that he is leaving Detroit and in
of means?" "Can it be a uni- point of view of centuries, and I tries. It flares up briefly and is Jewish home. The home in which sleeps.
Palestine's
roll-your-own-bomb
business
is
The very food on the table, as
wishing him success in his future work.
versity worthy of this great trust that the work which Is being practically quelled when these Sabbath and festivals were ob-
booming. Nearly every week some Arab ter-
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Civil War Without Gunfire
TALMUDIC TALES
Is Your Home Jewish?
Culture and Agriculture
,
We Are An Humble People
Jewry's greatest asset throughout the
ages has been that we have been an hum-
ble people. We know the value of humil-
ity. It has taught us how to place
cultural values above material wealth, and
how to emphasize the ethical above the
corporeal.
Nevertheless, one of the reasons ascrib-
ed for the spread of anti-Semitism by non-
Jewish observers is that we are flashy;
that we display affluence to the consterna-
tion of the Gentiles; that we are loud and
vociferous. N a t u r all y, we deny these
charges. We maintain that we are not any
name."
I think that 12 years of devel-
opment of the Hebrew University
have shown that these apprehen-
sions were unfounded. The spirit
of the country—this spirit of a
young Jewry starting on a big
adventure—burst in upon the lec-
ture-rooms and nude the univer-
young and vibrant with life.
This type of destructive activity has sity
a link in the chain of Jewish ef-
been going on for almost a year. But the forts in Palestine. The univer-
British officials in Palestine, children of sity has been a true servant of
efforts in Palestine
the much-publicized colonial system of our colonizing
colonisation is today un-
the British Empire, nevertheless resent —Jewish
thinkable without it.
,when they are criticized.
In my opinion the Hebrew Uni-
The last year's disgraceful Arab de- versity is of great importance 4or
the Jewish people all over the
efforts
prove
conclusively
how
structive
It is the spiritual center
incompetent the British officials are in world.
of Judaism. I hope the time will
Palestine. Even the severest criticisms are come very soon when young men
Palestine government deserves and women from all parts of the
rorist is injured in his efforts to make gren-
ades to use against soldiers. police, Jews or
other Arabs. The industry utilizes ammuni-
tion left when the Turks were driven from
Palestine by Lord Allenby's army in 1918.
Artillery shells have been gathered since the
World War by Arabs, who use some of them
in making bombs and mines.
done at the Arabic department
within the school of Oriental stud-
ies at Hebrew University will
some day be of very great help
in bringing about an understand-
ing between the two races.
The School of Oriental Studies
was started, on the initiative of
its first director, the late Prof.
Marcus Horovitx, of Frankfort.
on two undertakings which were
planned to occupy it for many
years to come. In planning the
work of the school. Professor
Horovitz considered that the best
way of securing • prominent place
in the field of Oriental studies for
this newly founded institute would
be to have it undertake some im-
portant research work; conse-
quently. he set it to two gigantic
tasks: The preparation of • lexi-
foreign governments—themsel-
ves anti-libertarian, and further
Interested because of promises
of economic and strategic bene-
fits to accrue to them in the
event of a rebel victory—send
to the insurgents financial and
material support, men and war
materials, so that the ever more
cruel self-mutilation of the land
must go en and on. Against
this people desperately fighting
its own freedom and human
rights, its own colonial troops
brought out Foreign
an
bombing planes destroy its cit-
ies, kill its women and chil-
dren—and all thin invokes "us-
served in the spirit of holy joy
and in which even eating and
drinking and making merry were
invested with the sanctity of a
religious rite, became • reservoir
of faith and fervor, of loyalty and
devotion that has never been sur-
passed.
In such a home Sabbath candles
were lit on Friday evening and
Queen Sabbath wag welcomed with
hallowed ritual and festive joy;
the father praised his wife and
blessed her and his children; song
and ceremony were mingled In the
happy family circle. In such a
home the Chanukah lamps were
kindled on eight consecutive eve,
flings, the entire family participat-
ing in song and game and simple
enjoyment. In such a home Purim
had its welcome festivities and
gayety wan combined with the ax.
the different feast days made their
cycle, had a holiday meaning and
savor. The twisted loaves and
other Sabbath dishes on the weekly
day of rest, flavored, according to
the rabbis, by that most delectable
of all spices, observance of the
Sabbath; pancakes on Chanukah
and poppy seed Hamana on Pu-
rim; a whole dietary of delectable
Passover dishes; dairy foods on
Shevuos and bread and honey on
Rosh Hashanah; the meals of •
whole week distinguished by being
eaten in the Sukkah. Thus the en-
tire year was marked by • suc-
cession of palatable delicacies as-
sociated with Jewish ritual and
observance and compensating for
the humble fare of the ordinary
day.
Tae Sabbath Oheervanns
The times have changed. The