/I EVETMOn*Y15110 RON 'CUE
and TIffe_49:441„. CHRONICLE

PAGE TWO

INIIIIIIIMMI•1•11111•0111 ,

THE BARGAINS OF ALL TIME

c

DeLuxe Family Service

Flat Pieces and Handkerchiefs
Neatly Ironed
Bath Towels and Underwear
Fluffed Dried
Additional pounds 7e lb.
THE BEST UNIVERSAL SERVICE

ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN $125,000 SHORT OF GOAL
AS DRIVE ENTERS SECOND WEEK OF SOLICITATIONS;
LEADERS ISSUE URGENT APPEAL TO DETROIT JEWRY

(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1)

by Julius Berman and Milton Mad-
din, which reported a total of
an ornament for the Jewish pea
$4,701 of its quota of $4,700 on
pie. No country can be built by
Monday.
a Jewry which is persecuted and
The speaker at the luncheon on
driven from its positions. Pales-
Monday was Bud Berman, one of
tine cannot be built by a panic-
the younger workers in the cam-
stricken mob. A hysterical Jew-
paign, who urged the leaders in
ish mass is the greatest danger
the Jewish Welfare Federation to
to the future of Palestine.
'conduct educational activities
Miniature Center Drive
The greatest and most impor-
among the youth in order to pre-
A miniature campaign is being pare them for future community
tant asset of the Polish Jews is
their faith in themselves. The conducted by the Jewish Commu- efforts. Mr. Berman, who is the
WE HAVE THE BEST EQUIPMENT MADE
Jews of Poland have as a people nity Center in behalf of the Al- I district manager of the United
been morally rooted in the soil lied Jewish Campaign under the Shirt Distributors, Inc., proposed
of Poland for a thousand years. co-chairmanship of Miriam Souls that an active junior division be
$1 0
They consider themselves fully and lIerbert A. Greenstone. A organized for future drives.
Flat Pia! dull, Ironed
privileged citizens of the country. quota of $775 has been set and
The workers' rally on Monday
Additional Pounds 15% e lb
In this present emergency they already they have raised 32 per opened with the singing of
have with examplary courage re- cent of this sum. More than 100 campaign songs led by Harry Mc-
A VERY INEXPENSIVE SERVICE
sisted their fate. They have con- youth organizations connected Donald.
vinced not only us but our ad- with both Centers will be con-
The Opening Dinner
versaries too, that 3,000,000 peo- tacted.
Per 27c
Approximately 1,000 men and
ple who have been established in
Assisting the co-chairmen are
Not responsible for sae-burnt or windmlilpmal curtain.
women
attended the opening din-
a land for centuries, possessing the following: Shirley Kane and
THE NEWEST DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY
an abiding faith in their own Max Chomsky, keyrnen; Rodelle ner of the campaign at Hotel
Statler on Sunday evening. Henry
Wineman, general chairman of
the drive, presided.
The campaign was formally
your
25C
'
opened with brief remarks by
John W. Smith, president of the
OUR NEW EMERGENCY SERVICE
Common Council of Detroit. "I
hope and predict that you will be
Laundry Brought to Plant by 9 o'clock a. m. will be
through in a week," Mr. Smith
Finished Same Day-NO EXTRA CHARGE
said. 'If not, I will be disap-
pointed in some of my best
friends."
Percival Dodge, managing di-
per
pooW
NEARING APPAREL
rector of the Detroit Community
pg. pomod
Fund,
greeted the workers briefly
IOC
and wished them success in their
Minimum Charge, $1.50
solicitations. Referring to the
A MOST RELIABLE INSTITUTION
petitions that were circulated de-
manding the retention of Kurt
Peiser in Detroit as executive
director of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, he said: "I have seen
the petitions go around-and may
I hope that your signature along
with mine will mean a great deal
0 I. .1t `,
to the future of our city."
Fred M. Butzel hailed the re-
Oil
,
,
i' , l'
`
sponse to this year's campaign as
Call hot and Di i,,
an indication that "the commu-
nity seems at last to be waking
up." He pointed out that the at-
sOs
Toll CAN MY QUALM NOSH= MEATS WISH CONFIDENCE from
tendance that night was the larg-
est in the history of campaign
gatherings.
Mr. Butzel described the burden
WE DELIVER
borne by the Jewish community
11537-41 DEXTER BLVD.
"We have our obligations to the
Phone HOGARTH 3042
Nehmen meiintAme.nd Webb
sto... Na I - UI4 TWILIATH STREET
Community Fund, and there is
, the frightful burden of helping
those of our fellow Jews who are
under the yoke of oppression. Be-
cause we have the double burden
we should make good."
Addresses appealing to Detroit
moral and physical strength can- Broder and Saul Shrager, senior
not be easily destroyed. The division heads; Victor Rose and Jewry to respond liberally to the
best proof of this is that the Meyer Israel, sub-senior division Allied Jewish Campaign were de-
8238 Woodward Ave. at Seward
Polish Jews themselves contribute heads; Fred Breyer and Clara livered through an especially in-
80 per cent of the budget for their Yawitz, intermediate division stalled long-distance phone by the
ESTABLISHED 1917
following: Eddie Cantor, from
social activities. The remaining heads.
20 per cent is supplied by the
Miss Souls issued the following Beverly Hills, Calif.; Morris Roth-
rest of the world.
statement regarding the Center's enberg of New York, chairman of
the administrative committee of
"The Joint Distribution Com- efforts:
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
mittee's relief work must be car-
"We are confident that the ica, who spoke from Philadelphia;
ried on in such a manner that it quota for the Center will be
will alleviate the sufferings of the reached soon. Members of groups William J. Shroder of Cincinnati,
poor and oppressed. At the same are quick to realize the necessity president of the Council of Jew-
time we must not arouse the hope of giving. What is most impor- ish Welfare Federations; Abbe
Silver, who spoke from the
that we are able to remove the tant, however, is this campaign's
Jews from Poland. We must not educational value. Through it we dinner which opened the Cleveland
Is Available for Bridge Parties, Luncheons, Weddings, Showers,
make the burden of our oppon- are helping to build Allied Jew- campaign; Louis E. Kirstein,
•
Bar Mitzvahs, Ete.
ents easier. The salvation of the ish Campaign workers for the fu- honorary president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Boston,
Jews in Poland can and must come ture."
and Felix M. Warburg, national
KOSHER CATERING
in Poland itself. Essentially this Altman'
■ Hour Sunday Devoted chairman of the Joint Distribution
is the task of the Polish govern-
to Drive
Committee.
ment itself. But we can give our
Hyman Altman announced on Eddie Cantor made a stirring
assistance. However, we can only
render financial aid to the hun- Wednesday that his complete pro- appeal in behal fof the less for-
YESHIVA BETH JUDAH
gry and the suffering. We can- gram over Station WMBC this I tunate. He upbraided those who
BANQUET THIS SUNDAY
not contribute one cent toward Sunday, from 12 to 1:30 p. m., will can give and don't. "If you fail
be devoted to the Allied Jewish in this campaign you provide your
emigration."
Campaign. In addition to a guest enemies and mine with ammunit-
On Sunday, May 9, at 7 p. m.,
At Wednesday's luncheon it speaker, who will discuss the ion against us," he said.
was reported that a total of $244,- causes of the drive, a specially ar- The broadcasting of Eddie Can-
at the Beth David Synagogue,
974 or 64 per cent of the goal
Elmhurst and 14th Ste., the La-
The Odessa Progressive Aid So- was reached. Joseph II. Ehrlich ranged prograsin will be presented tor's greeting was arranged by
Gus D. Newman, who is a per-
dles Auxiliary of the Yeshiva ciety will celebrate the silver reported a total of $187,264 for by Cantor Jacob H. Sonenklar.
sons! friend of the comedian. Mr.
Two "Ace" Solicitors
Beth Judah will have its yearly jubilee on May 30 (Decoration the special gifts division.
Gus
The two "ace" solicitors of the Cantor made a stirring appeal
Day), at the Book-Cadillac Hotel. D. Newman, reported a total of
banquet. The auxiliary has been The Italian Gardens, Reception
Allied Jewish Campaign, Henry in behalf of the less fortunate
successful in procuring as the Hall and Main Ballroom have been $41,729 for the executive com- Lapides and Nathan Yaffa, told of Jews. lie upbraided those who
mittee of the general division.
their interesting soliciting experi- enemies and mine with ammuni-
principal speaker for this occa- engaged for this event.
Irving Blumberg announced the
The ceremonies will start sum of $15,981 raised by the ences to a group of Division E lion against us," he said.
sion Rabbi Shmaryahu T. Swirsky
promptly at 3 p. m. Prominent general divisions. A series of im- captains which met at the home of lie further stated: "Your eon-
Harry Cohen last Tuesday evening. tribution will be the premium you
guests and speakers will grace the
portant programs are planned for Harry Cohen, A. J. Blumenau and are paying to help insure the fut-
occasion. A fine musical program
the luncheon meetings of work- Bernard Isaacs are co-chairmen of ure of all Jews, and you will be
will be presented and will be fol-
lowed by a dinner dance. Many ens at the Hotel Statler next week. this division. doing your duty hot only as good
other features are planned by the Addresses 1,500 at Meeting at
When asked what is the real Jews but as good Americans."
Shaarey Zedek
arrangements committee.
secret of their success In soliciting, In speaking of the Gentile for-
A sum of money which has been
Mr. Asch addressed an audience Mr. Lapides and Mr. Yaffe both cos
must
a ro ew a n s a
how un i
reserved for presentation to va- of 1,500 who filled the main syna- agreed that there is only one piece fled d and
who
ho sm
strong
t ruo t we
bee sh
rious worthy institutions will be gogue of Shaarey Zedek on Wed- of advice to give to solicitors and Mr. Cantor declared that "you
distributed on that day.
nesday evening. lie was intro- that is first to sell the idea to (Detroit Jewry) must redouble
duced by Rabbi A. M. Hershman themselves and then they will be Your efforts. Make them under-
who was chairman of the evening. able to impress others. If the stand in no uncertain terms that
Outlining the political condi- solicitor is not fully convinced of we Jews do take care of our own.
tions in Poland, Mr. Asch again the importance of this work, he Give and thank God you are of the
emphasized that Jews are in Po- cannot succeed.", giving instead of the receiving
Messrs. Lapides and Yaffa have end."
land to stay and that the problem
National Secretary of Pioneer is a political rather an an eco- worked until now on pre-campaign
Mr. Rothenberg pointed out
Women'. Organisation to
solicitations
with much success. that in spite of the present clouds
nomic one. Ile stated that while
Address S
I Meetings
the entire country is suffering They are now leading a team in hovering over Palestine Jewry will
economically, the Jews are the Division E and are securing excel- survive its difficulties and more
The following are the plans ones chosen for oppression and lent results.
and more Jews will in the fut-
which the Pioneer Women's Or- discrimination by the govern-
Tuesd ■ ys Luncheon
ure look to Palestine as their home
ganization has mapped for the ment.
Volunteer workers for the Al- and as the means of escape from
stay of Sara Feder, national secre- Youth Project Speakers at Lunch- lied Jewish Campaign were the persecutions throughout the
tary:
warned at a luncheon meeting on world.
eon Tuesday
Sunday night, May 16, the
The rebuilding of Palestine was
In response to a phase of the Tuesday held at Hotel Statler
Twelfth St. Club will have a Youth Project work of the Jew- that unless they redouble their referred to by Dr. Silver as "a
Rabbi Shmaryabu T. Swirsky
Shevuoth supper in her honor at ish Welfare Federation to en- efforts, the campaign stands in magnificent chapter in modern
the Farbank Folk School, corner lighten the Jewish young people danger of failure. The warning Jewish renaissance."
of Chicago, Ill. The rabbi, re- Twelfth and Taylor, to which the of Detroit on the various philan- was made by Kurt Peiser, execu•
The principal address of the
puted to be one of the finest ora- general public is invited.
evening was delivered by Rabbi
thropic agencies benefited by tive director of the drive.
tors and effective speakers in the
Monday afternoon, May 17, at the Allied Jewish Campaign, a
Meyer L. Prentis, co-chairman James G. Heller of Cincinnati.
Middle West, was clam valedic- 1:30 p. m., the Drora-Kadimah group of four has been organized with Fred M. Butzel of the ape- Speaking of the advantages and
torian at the Chicago Hebrew Group (English speaking branch) to deliver speeches on the red- cial gifts division, presided at the disadvantages of being a Jew,
College at the time of his gradua- is to have a membership tea at the merits of the drive.
luncheon and announced that a Rabbi Heller declared that being
tion. He was one of the speakers Wilshire Hotel, Collingwood and
Temple Beth El's represents- total of $237,915 or 62 per cent a Jew meant the inability to sink
on the same platform at his alma Third, at which Sara Feder will be tive, Helen Hamburg, has been of the quota of $385,000 was sub- into the commonplace.
mater recently with Governor the guest speaker. Anyone desiring selected to discuss the local scribed on the second day of the
"What is happening in Jewry
Horner of Illinois.
to attend is welcome.
agencies supported by the Allied drive. Melville S. Welt reported today is what has happened to
Monday night, May 17, the Dex- Jewish Campaign; Shirley Freed- for the special gifts division. our people throughout the cen-
Attorney Mandell Bernstein and
other well known communal lead- ter Club it to have an open meet- man will speak on the national Gus D. Newman reported for the turies," he stated.
ers will also address the gather- ing with Mrs. Feder at the home causes for Bnal Moshe; Milton executive committee of the gen-
"The causes included in your
of Mrs. Goldberg, 2683 Clements Gordon will discuss overseas pro- oral division and Irving Blumberg, campaign form a sort of compen-
ing.
A musical treat will be furn- Ave.
jects In behalf of Shaarey Zedek co-chairman with 51. A. Mittel- dium in the life of the Jewish
Tuesday, Miy 18, at 1:30 p. rn., and Gertrude Strauss will review man of the Trade Council• re- people," he said.
ished by Cantor Ruben Boyarsky
He particularly emphasized the
of Congregation Beth Tephila there will be a general meeting the educational phase of the drive ported for the general division.
with the guest at Lachar's, 8939 for the United Hebrew Schools.
'Emanuel.
Mr. Peiser outlined the results importance of the work of the
Tickets for the dinner are $1 Twelfth St. There will be • musi-
These four delegates will talk of the campaign thus far and de- Joint Distribution Committee and
per person. May 9 being Mother's cal program and Sara Feder will at the luncheon meeting of cam- dared that unless pressure is the United Palestine Appeal and
Day, it is urged by the committee be the main speaker. Admission paign workers on May 11. Louis brought to bear on every worker emphasized the absolute need of
that this event should be utilized will be free.
S. Cohane is chairman of the to cover prospect slips at once, it fighting for Jewish rights •her-
The Goldie-Myerson Group is to
will be very difficult for the cam- ever Jews may reside. Palestine,
by the young folks to honor the
have an open meeting with Mrs. Youth Project and he will in- pain to reach its goal, he said, is not intended to be a
Yeshiva and at the same time
troduce the speakers. Levy M.
Feder on Tuesday night, May 18,
The Monte Carlo Troupe was negation but rather the fulfillment
celebrate Mother's Day by attend-
Becker, secretary, made the
at the home of Mrs. M. Dincin,
ing the banquet.
arrangements for these talks. presented at the Tuesday lunch- of such • policy. Speaking of
2023 Pingree Ave.
Rabbi Joshua Sperka will give
Shaarey Zedek sponsored a regu- eon meeting through the courtesy Palestine's place in the economy
The public is invited to attend
the invocation and present the any or all of the above gather- lar oratorical contest in order to of the Monte Carlo Dancing Stu- of the Jewish problem be said that
determine who their representa- din. Palestine today remains the one
toastmaster of the evening, At- ings.
Mond ■ y's Meeting
land to which Jews can come in
tive would be.
form; David Cohen.
At the luncheon meeting of the considerable numbers.
Ladies' Day Wednesday
Mrs. H. Rottenberg is president
Rabbi Heller urged liberal giv-
Wednesday's luncheon will be workers in the Allied Jewish Cam-
of the Ladies Auxiliary of the aided by Mr& Lansky and Mr.
ladies day. and an unique pro- osign held at Hotel Statler on ing to the campaign and depre-
Yeshiva Beth Judah. Under her Lessor.
Tickets may be obtained from gram is being arranged for that Monday, Henry Wineman, general cated the practice on the part of
able guidance and leadership the
chairman of the drive. reported many people of measuring their
Yeshiva has become a factor in Mrs. Minnie Katz, Townsend gathering.
The results of the poster con. that a quota of $223,088, or 68 gifts not by those of the most
Detroit Jewish life. Collaborating 6-4230, Mrs. H. Rottenberg,
with her and aiding her in this Townsend 5-1171, or any member test which was conducted by the per cent of the quota of $385,000 generous but rather by the least
affair is Mrs. Minnie Katz, who of the committee. Tickets may be Youth Project Committee will be was raised. generous.
The first group to raise its . Dr. Leo M. Franklin delivered
is in charge of the tickets and obtained at the door prior to the announced early next week. Poe-
ten were submitted by the fol- complete quota was Division D the invocation at the opening
reservations committee. The gen- banquet.
Harold
Eras.
of
the executive committee headeddinner.
owing:
Pauline
Invited
to
attend.
eral arrangements committee is. All are

1
Pounds

SHIRTS

eleth .

No matter what you pay,
no laundry
can launder a finer shirt

18

lbs.

D

Klein, Lorraine Shrenwald. El-
liot Schubiner, Evelyn Green, Don-
ald Rosman, Marian Aaron, Shir-
l ey Klein, all from Bnai Moshe; Es-
ther Zussman from Temple Beth
El; Dorothy Freedman from the
Jewish Community Center; and
Jordan Lachman from Shaarey
Zedek.

Lace Curtains 4E°

Double Woolen Blankets
g•a
Feather Pillows

35c

All Ironed Service 25c

DIVISION

of

1937
ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN

DOLLAR

FLAT PIECES

14

.i

ATTENTION
MOTORISTS!

Thru the Oldest and Largest
Exclusive Automobile
Insurance Company

0 0

.

..

May 7, 1937

kSSACHUSETTS

LOCAL NEEDS

45$

LAUNDRY CO.

PHONE CADILLAC 7423
'I c

MARGOLIS Bros. F3 Sons

Kosher Meat and Poultry Market

Dorman's Grill

4tositorg aTION

Fred AlNO

& Co.

W BRINGS TO YOU

The Broadest and Most Liberal Policy
in Existence at a 30% Reduction

FROM STANDARD RATES WHEN CAR IS NOT EX-
CLUSIVELY USED FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES,

Without Additional Cost:

You are covered for Public Liability and Property Damage even while
driving someone else's cart

Without Additional Cost:

You are allowed $5 a day for taxicab use or car rental pending adjust-
ment if your car is stolen!

Without Additional Cost:

You will be paid the full amount stipulated in policy in event of total
loss by fire or theft or collision. There is positively no deduction for
depreciation.

THESE AND MANY OTHER FEATURES OF THIS
POLICY ARE ADDED PROOF OF THE DISTINCTIVE
INSURANCE SERVICE THAT IS RENDERED BY

FRED A. GINSBURG &C O.

Serving Detroiters For 25 Years

1110 Lafayette Building

RAndolph 2628

Club Breakfast -- Luncheon - Dinner

25e

40c 50e up

Our Mayflower Room

Odessa Aid Society
To Celebrate 25th
Anniversary May 30

Sara Feder Guest
Here May 16 to 18

SIXTY-EIGHT KINGS

WON' LUDED Mold PAGE ONE)

Bible translated from the original
Hebrew into Anglo-Saxon with the
help of converted Jews. Even
tradition is silent for nearly an-
other century, when we learn that
King Canute (1016), the same
monarch who tried to stop the tide,
expelled the Jews from his king-
dom.
William I, the Norman conquer-
er, is the first British king whose
association with Jews is a matter
of record. When he invaded Eng-
land In 1066 he brought with him
a number of Jewish traders and
artisans from France, and thus be-
came the founder of British Jewry.
The conquerer's son, William II
(1087-1100), surnamed Rufus, took
the Jews under his regal wing and
protected them. It is said that his
friendship for the Jews even went
to far as to make him a sort of
missionary of Judaism, ancient rec-
ords telling of his efforts to force
Jewish converts to Christianity to
re-embrace their own faith. This,
however, was probably due more
to his desire to annoy his Christian
noblemen. Under Henry I (1100-
1135) Jewish privileges were in-
creased and the Jews were per-
mitted to settle their own law cases
and were placed under the special
protection of the King's officers.
Henry's nephew and successor,
Stephen (1135-1169), confirmed by
charter all the rights granted the
Jews by Henry and spared them
the brutalities suffered by their co-
religionists on the continent during
the first Crusade. It was in his
reign, however, that the tragic
blood ritual libel first appeared in
connection with the death of Wil-
liam of Norwich in 1144.
The Platagenet House
Henry II (1159-1189), first king
of the house of Plantagenet, re-
vised the laws of Edward the Con-
fessor and made the Jews his
w. -de. His son, Richard the Lion-
hearted (1189.1199), was the first
English king to visit Palestine,
where he fought during the Cru-
sades. There is a legend that while
in Palestine he tried to prevail
upon Maimonides to return to
England with him as royal physi-
cian. It was during Richard's coro-
nation, on Sept. 8, 1189, that Eng-
land witnessed its first pogrom. A
delegation of Jews that came to
NVestminister to present the king
with a gift was attacked by the
nobelmen, and for 24 hours Jewish
blood ran in the streets of London.
After the London riot, which sorely
displeased Richard, he granted the
Jews a charter confirming their
• ht to live freely in his domains,
to be judged by their peers and
to be free of all tolls and customs.
It was also Richard who established
the "Exchequer of the Jews," a
special branch of the treasury to
control Jewish loans and benefit
the royal purse. One of the earliest
acts of John (1199.1216), who suc-
ceeded his brother Richard, was
to confirm the "Exchequer of the
Jews" and to issue another charter
of liberties to the Jews. Anti-Jew-
ish riots in London in 1204 were
halted by John's order.
During the reign of Henry III
(1216-1272), John's son, special
burgesses were appointed in all
towns to protect Jews from the
violence of crusaders. But it was
the same king who ordered the
Jews in 1218 to wear two tablets
of white linen on their garments

as a distinctive sign and later
forbade them to leave the ghettos
without a special license. Henry
also wrung money from the Jews
to rebuild Westminster Abbey, and
in 1241 convened a parliament of
Jews to devise means of taxing
them more efficiently. Towards the
close of his reign he had all the
Jews arrested, closed many syna-
gogues and sold the Jews to his
brother. Previously he had built
the Domus Conversum, a home for
Jewish converts. With Henry's son,
Edward I (1272-1307), ends the
formal record of Jewish history in
England until the middle of the
17th century, for it was he who
expelled them from Britain in 1291.
Prominent Jews
Despite the expulsion, however,
Jewish connections with England
were never wholly severed. Henry
IV (1400-1413), first king of the
house of Lancaster, invited Elias
Sabot, a Jewish physician from
Bologna, to settle in England in
1410, if he would become the royal
doctor. Henry VIII (1509-1547),
founder of the house of Tudor,
called Rabbi Mark of Venice to
London in 1513 to advise him on
the legality of his contemplated
divorce from his first wife, Cath-
erine of Aragon, a divorce which
paved the way for England's seces-
sion from the Catholic Church.
Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603), last
of the Tudor line and something
of a liebraist, granted the mono-
poly of importing seed to England
to Rodrigo Lopez, who later be-
came her personal physician. Lo-
pez, who was also the doctor of
the Tarl of Essex, was ranged,
drawn and quartered in the Tow-
er of London on Essex's charge
that he had plotted to poison the
queen.
The kings of the house of Stu-
art were all friendly to the Jews.
Charles I (1625-1649) received
large sums of money from Jewish
bankers in Amsterdam. When the
corporation of the City of London
petitioned Charles II (1660-1685)
to expel the Jews, he assured them
of his continued favor. An effort
to forbid Jewish religious worship
was blocked by Charles' interven-
tion. Charles II, whose wife, Cath-
erine of Braganza, brought Duarte
and Francisco da Sylva, Jewish
bankers, to London to administer
her dowry, had not forgotten that
Jews had financed the Restoration.
Although it was not a royal per-
sonage, but a commoner, Oliver
Cromwell, who permitted the Jews
to return to England, the first legal
recognition of Jewish resettlement
was accorded by James II (1685-
1699) on Nov. 13 , 1685, who al-
lowed the Jews free exercise of
their religion. James' son-in-law,
William III (1699-1702) and his
wife, Queen Mary, continued the
Stuart tradition toward the Jews.
William, whose descent on England
had been underwritten by Jewish
bankers in Holland, was the first
king to knight a professing Jew,
Sir Solomon Medina. Queen Anne
(1702-1714), last of the Stuarts,
presented to the Bevis Marks Syna-
gogue, built in 1702, one of its main
beams as a special mark of favor.
The H
n Lie.
A new chapter in Jewish history
began with the coming of the
Hanoverian kings. George II
(1727.1760) encouraged legislation
to remove the political disabilities
under which Jews lived. It was in
his reign that Parliament passed

the act naturalizing Jews in the
American colonies. He also ordered
the British envoy in Prague to in-
tervene with Empress Maria
Theresia of Austria-Hungary in
1744, when she had ordered the
expulsion of the Jews from Bo-
hemia. Incidentally, it was Aaron
Franks, a Hanoverian jeweller and
grandfather of the founders of the
Franks family in America, who ac-
companied George from Hanover to
England in 1729 and lent him the
most valuable jewels for the crown
used at his coronation. In George's
reign, too, there was passed the
Jewish naturalization act (1754),
which was repealed after it led to
riots. George III (1760-1820)
fathered the royal marriage act of
1772, requiring all members of the
royal family to obtain the king's
consent before marrying, after his
brother, the Duke of Gloucester,
had scandalized London by mar-
rying Sir Edward Walpole's daugh-
ter, who was a granddaughter of
Isaac Norse, a Jewish innkeeper.
The Hanoverian line ended with
Queen Victoria (1837-1901), whose
reign was the longest in English
history. Married to Prince Albert,
said to be of Jewish lineage, Vic-
toria was intimate with more Jews
than any of her predecessors, and
during the years she was on the
throne English Jewry was com-
pletely emancipated, politically and
socially. She created the first Jew-
ish baronet, Sir Isaac Lyon Gold-
amid (1841); signed the Jewish
oath bill permitting Jews to sit in
the House of Commons, made
Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild the
first Jewish peer (1885); was the
first to have a Jewish minister,
Benjamin Disraeli, and the first to
have an unconverted Jewish minis-
ter, Sir George Jessel, who was
solicitor-general in 1872. Victoria
and her son, Edward VII (1901-
1910), were both members of the
Anglo-Israel Union, whose adher-
ents believe the British descended
from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
Edward VII, who as Prince of
Wales was the first member of
the British royal family to attend
a Jewish wedding (the wedding of
Leopold de Rothschild), set an-
other precedent when his ministers
in 1903 offered the Jewish people
Uganda as a homeland. In this
reign Herbert Samuel became the
first unbaptized Jewish member of
the cabinet.
In Jewish history the reign of
George V (1910-1936) looms big.
It was lie who first appointed •
Jew (Sir Isaac Isaacs) governor-
general of Australia. His reign
marked the issuance of the Bal-
four Declaration and England's
acquisition of the Mandate over
Palestine. He was also the first
king in whose honor Jewry estab-
lished a forest in Palestine. The
reign of Edward VIII was too
short-lived for it to have any major
significance in Jewish history, but
it may be recalled that the first
recruit to enlist in His Majesty's
army under Edward was a Jew,
that a Jewish physician (Heinrich
Neumann) cured the king of an
ear malady, and that when Edward
abdicated he bestowed upon Baron
and Baroness Eugene de Roth-
schild the distinction of being the
first Jews to be hosts to an English
king in exile. The first public
statement by George VI was a mes-
sage to the Chanukah services of
the Jews in the British army, and
the first Parliamentary act he
signed was the law outlawing the
wearing of uniforms by the anti-
Semitic blackshirta of Sir Oswald
Mosley.

