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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 25:1-27:34.
Prophetical portion—Ter. 16:19-17:14.

Rosh Chodesh Readings of the Law
Tuesday, May 11

Num. 28:1-15.

May 7, 1937

lyar 26, 5697

The Campaign Must Not Fail

anniversary of the famous purge—on
June 30. Yale University followed in the
footsteps of the great English universities
and also rejected the bid to send a dele-
gate to Goettingen. The Yale Daily News,
having urged such action by the univer-
sity authorities in a leading editorial, has
strengthened the rebuke to the Nazis by
making it an expression of both faculty
and student sentiment. Princeton Univer-
sity has also rejected the bid. Harvard's
acceptance is half-hearted, and this great
school will be represented at Goettingen
only if a member of the faculty should
happen to be in Germany at the time of
the celebration.
It is in this fashion that we are being
avenged. In a cable from Berlin to the
New York Times, Frederick T. Birchall,
eminent foreign correspondent, recently
pointed out that the Nazi persecutions are
a bar to possible accord on a trade basis
with other nations. "It must be remem-
bered," Mr. Birchall wrote, "that in the
German trade situation the series of boy-
cotts due to world-wide resentment against
German domestic policies, adopted after
the Nazis' attainment of power, play al-
most as large a part as do the trade bar-
riers that it is purposed to remove or
modify in the new world conference. These
domestic policies, deliberately adopted
and steadfastly persisted, in, are part of
Germany's sovereign rights which Reich
spokesmen again and again refused to dis-
cuss with outsiders, no matter what the
cc nsequences were. They are directed
against what General Erich Ludendorff
called 'supernatural' powers—Jews and
the Catholic and Protestant churches."
Mr. Birchall continues to state that
"there are indications at this time of in-
tensification of these policies. The Jewish
persecution is important because as long
as it persists German Jews will continue
to try to leave the country with their pos-
sessions. The value of their possessions is
still estimated at between 10,000,000,000
and 15,000,000,000 marks. While such
an amount of capital is seeking any pos-
sible outlet from the country Germany
cannot lift her foreign exchange restric-
tions. As long as she is unable to do this
she cannot join any movement for a freer
international exchange of goods and
money. So the German anti-Semitic pol-
icy has become one of the main hindrances
to German international collaboration. Of
less direct significance but of real import-
ance 1n negativing any attempt to revive
international good-will is the attitude to-
ward the churches. The reading from pul-
pits of the papal encyclical condemning
Nazi policies against Catholics has been
answered by a new drive against the
church."
But when vengeance is invoked by des-
tiny it will be humanity that will be the
victor, and the German people will finally
he liberated from a terrible yoke. One of
the more recent reports to come from Ger-
many states that all house owners of Ber-
lin and the metropolitan area have been
ordered by the Gestapo, the state secret
police, to furnish police headquarters with
a complete set of their house and apart-
ment keys. It is a wonder that Germans
can continue to submit to such medieval
suppression. But there certainly will be
an end to these persecutions. When the
end comes it will be a triumph for human
rights and for democracy.

In Behalf of Segal

An Answer to J. V. Ariel

By AL SEGAL

Mr. J. V. Arid, in a letter to
the editor of the Detroit Jewish
Chronicle, takes me to task for
saying (In a recent column) that
Jesus wan one of our prophets.
"Of course," says Mr. Ariel,
"this is a free country and Mr.
Segal may worship as prophet
whomever he chooses. But before
he tries to include you and me in
his Minyan he should consult us.
"Sir, I am tired of these smart,
flippant. sophisticated journalists
of the Smart Set or the Mercury
type who one moment will sneer
at everything ideal and the next
apotheosize trivial things, just as
the spirit (or whiskey in soda)
moves them.
"Where did Mr. Segal learn to
talk that way? Not in the Hebrew
school, if I know anything about
the Hebrew school. Nor in the
Ilebrew Union College, as any Re-
form rabbi will tell you .. . Our
Bible knows nothing of such a
prophet, the Talmud does not
speak of Jesus as prophet, and the.
book which many are pleased to
call the New Testament speaks of
Jesus as the Son of God, but not
as prophet or teacher.
"The only fountain-head of
knowledge that remains to be con-
sidered is the radio. That's it.
Easter Sunday, stories of Cruci-
fixion! And Mr. Segal is just the
kind of innocent to believe every-
thing he hears over the radio."
• •
My dear Mr. Ariel: In behalf of
Mr. Segal I answer that Mr. Segal
had a great deal of respect for
Jesus even before the time of the
radio. He always did consider Jesus
a kinsman of his (both of blood
and of spirit) and has been sad
to see Jesus suffering continuing
in the world, trampled as he is,
by Ilitlers, Francois and Musso-
lin is.
"What a horrid fate for a Jew!"
exclaims Mr. Segal. "To suffer
resurrection and to be persecute
forever!"
Other Jews, says Mr. Segal, die
and happily stay buried, and in
their graves are protected forever.
But Jesus is condemned to endure
the pain of a prophet unfulfilled
(even after 2000 years) and to
suffer one crucifixion after an-
other.
Mr. Segal feels that it is for
him, the Jew, to embrace his kins-
man Jesus, since the world has
scorned him. It would be churlish
for Mr. Segal to turn away this
despised brother. He extends his
arms and says, "0 my kinsman!
Brother of blood and brother of
spirit and brother in persecution!"
Certainly, Jesus does speak for
Mr. Segal, the Jews. When Jesus
speaks for loving-kindness, mercy
and justice, when he weeps for the
meek and the lowly, when he exalts
the peace-makers and heaps scorn
on the arrogant, Mr. Segal knows
him as a true prophet of Israel.
Not that Mr. Segal has read of
Jesus the prophet in any book of
Talmud or Scripture or heard of

Don't Let Then. Die

Strictly
Confidential

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

Notes from a Diary on a Journey Through Poland

By SHOLEM ASCH

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sholem Asch, world-famous novelist and playwright, who has just arrived
in this country for a nation-wide speaking tour in behalf of the Joint Distribution
Committee. has written for the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate and The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle this exclusive article in which he records his impression s of the misery and
suffering he saw and felt among the Jews of Poland during his recent visit there.

(Copyright, 1937, Seven Arta Feature Syndicate)

These are random notes that I scribbled dur-
ing my journey through Poland. What I saw
there, whati felt as the misery of our brethren
was brought home to me, compelled me to come
back to America to tell my fellow-Jews, my fel-
low-Americans that they cannot leave these peo-
ple to their fate. I saw, too, the work of the
Joint Distribution C o m m i t t e e. the amazing
achievements of this organization, with the com-
paratively small resources at its command. I
decided that I must do my part in increasing
these resources, even as I did during the war and
post war years.
•
One Sunday morning I strolled through the
streets of the poor Jewish district in Warsaw.
The congregations were returning from the syna-
gogues, the Beth-Medreshim and from the innum-
erable small congregations of the Chassidic quar-
ters. It was a beautiful day, a bright early aut-
umn sun shed an agreeable warmth, and the en-
tire Jewish population was out in the streets, in
the courts, on the balconies of their homes or
strolling about in the squares while the children
were playing in the dried-out gutters or in the
dirt of the courtyards ... It was a sight of the
most frightful misery, neglect, hunger and pov-
erty. The people made the impression of having
been buried alive. Every second person was
undernourished, skeletons of akin and bones,
crippled, candidates for the grave, as if writhing
between the emaciated fingers of consumption
which is consuming not only the body but the
SOW as well.
•
In this country the Jewish children look as
if they were living in a Chinese province which
has just passed through a period of famine. I
saw the children of Germany soon after the war,
but the Jewish children of Poland, in Warsaw
streets overflowing with dirt and misery—these
children are more undernourished than those Ger-
man children who had passed through the war.
Male and female teachers of the primary schools
told me facts such as, for example, of the chil-
dren saving the bread of their only meal, pro-
vided for them by the schools, in order to take
it home to their hungry parents.
•
In the Warsaw ghetto I saw young women,
some 20 or 30 years old, who looked old and
broken down: dead eyes, swollen bodies, legs like
mateh-sticks, dragging along in rags, breathing
ashmatic breath ... I saw men going about like
ghosts, pale as sheets, living corpses with mad,
flaming eyes, continually jabbering to themselves.
The slums of Warsaw are the worst, teem with
the greatest misery to be found anywhere in
Europe.
•
In one Warsaw court, in a dirty cellar, the
two small windows of which were buried three-
fourths below the surface of the ground and
where the light of the sun could come in through
only a small slit, where one must step through a
dirty gutter to get in—in this cellar I counted
the following inhabitants:
One widow who had two young daughters,
busy at flower-making near the window; a
woman with several grandchildren—her husband
had gone away, no one knows where; a working-
man; and a sick Jew who, bedridden, was spit-
ting out the last remnants of his lungs into the
faces of the small children. Those children who
were already able to crawl collected like little
birds around the dustbin near the privy in order
to play, while the bigger children played in the
dirty street. The very little ones were playing
about on the broken stone floor of the cellar.
•
On the third day, Monday, I was on the
way from Warsaw to Otvozk. Warsaw has a
40 per cent Jewish population, Otvozk 90 per
cent or more. A new road is under construction
between the two towns. During my walk I saw
hundreds of workers laying pipes, hewing stone,
preparing the tar base; there was not one Jew
among them. Near Otvozk a few Jews were
standing about, idling and looking on, while the
Goyim were building the road from the town to
Warsaw. I asked them why they stood there
while the others worker. "What else should we
do? Do you think they would let us work on the
road? Go ahead, talk to them, you'll seer
•
Three miles behind Warsaw there is a farm of
Chalutzim, which the Jewish community has put
at their disposal for their training. One hundred
and fifty young people, drawn from all of Po-
land, have made a model farm out of this neg-
lected, swampy piece of land. They raise there
the choicest flowers, and angora rabbits, which
Jews have Introduced into Polish farming. Their
cows give double the milk of the average cow
of the Polish peasant. Their vegetables are the
best to be had in Warsaw. But these young
people are training themselves for emigration.
The Poles are satisfied with that—as long as it
is for emigration and not for Poland.
•
The Jewish businessman, even when he sees
possibilities for enlarging his activities, is in con-
tinuous fear of excesses provoked by anti-Semites.

No one thinks of enlarging his business; on the
contrary, every one tries to reduce his enterprise.
The insecure situation of the Jews increases un-
employment among them, which, in turn, has a
fatal influence upon the economic life of the
country as a whole. But who bothers about a
little thing like that when the object is to under-
mine Jewish enterprise and force the Jews to
emigrate?
One day I found myself in a Warsaw an-
tique shop, an elegant shop in excellent taste,
when a Christian woman entered. To my surprise
she addressed the neat elderly shopkeeper in the
familiar form, as if speaking to an inferior. As
I expressed my amazement the old Jew replied:
"What can I do? I am a Jew. I cannot expect
her to regard me as a human being."
•
On the second Sunday I went by car from
Warsaw to Kutna. It was a magnificent day.
The car passed through many villages and small
and bigger towns. Everywhere the population
was out in the street dressed up in its colorful
Sunday best. A race of motorcycles was to pass
through that day, going from Berlin to Warsaw,
and the people were out awaiting the passing
show. The road leads through the famous Polish
town Loyvitsh. The peasant folk of this district
dress in brightly colored woolen clothes which
are, incidentally, woven by the Jews on the hand
looms as in the old days. The entire countryside
—fields, woods, pastures—lay under brilliant sun-
shine, and was brilliant with the gay colors of
the peasant costumes. Every peasant, man or
woman, looked as if cut out of a picture; well-
washed, combed, ornamented, and dressed as
for a marriage feast.
In general the atmosphere has improved
lately among the non-Jewish population. The
depression is decreasing and there is hope for
better times. But as for the Jews on this happy
occasion—
Pale, haggard faces, frightened eyes, faces
mirroring the damp walls of the unventilated cel-
lars where they must live. They were dressed in
their poor torn caftans, with their small, worn
hats slapped down over their faces, and stood
there with their weary women and children—
whom they hid for fear of the Goyim—in the
courts of the little houses, and looked out into
the street through the cracks in door windows.
And if a Jew did venture out into the streets and
look on this fete of the swastika and the eagle,
he stood pressed against the wall as an unwel-
come stranger, filled with fear and trembling,
his eyes dark with death-fear, like a mourner at
a marriage feast...
•
The hope of the Jews lies in the democratic
and radical elements of Polapd. It would be
immeasurably stupid, even criminal, to lump
the entire Polish people together into a single
anti-Semitic bloc. There are sections of the
Polish people who have had no opportunity to
speak their mind during recent years. Their
leaders were silenced by brute force, their or-
ganization crippled; but they are alive, and are
now starting to collect their forces. They know
and understand that the anti-Semitic wave which
has swept over Poland is an artificial. one. Jewish
poverty cries to heaven.
The Polish peasant, who has lived close to
the Jew for a thousand years, is in touch with
him in a hundred different ways in daily life. lie
knows and sees that the Jewish peddler, the
Jewish craftsman who makes his little fur coat
for him, or the poor Jewish shopkeeper who sells
him his salt herring—he sees that all these Jews
are starving and live in even greater poverty
than he himself. He sees that the Jew is earning
his bit of bread honestly and is satisfied with
next to nothing. This poor peasant is beginning
to understand that the entire anti-Semitic move-
ment—carried on by the idle middle class, sup-
ported by the rich landowners and sanctioned by
the ruling class—is intended for one purpose
only: To throw sand in the peasant's eyes, dis-
tract his attention from the true causes of hie
misery, quiet his thirst for soil and home.
They fry to offer him the doubtful Jewish
stragan, or push cart, instead of the soil which
he needs; the Jewish shop is to be his own if
only he will aid the landowner in ousting the
Jew. However, he has no grudge against the
Jew, and he has reasons for hating the rich land-
owner who lives at the expense of the peasant.
Those peasants who have let themselves be drawn
into opening shops in the towns do not know
how to manage. No matter how much support
they receive from society and no matter bow
great the campaign for the boycott against the
Jew, the peasants prefer to go to the Jewish
shops rather than patronize their fellow peas-
ants. The Jew is content with a minimum profit,
and his living expenses are so low and his trad-
ing experience so great that it is very difficult
to compete with him.
•
These things I have seen wring my heart.
What can I do to help my struggling brethren?
I can help but little in a monetary way. But I
can lend the weight of my pen and my voice
to the cause, so that the whole world will know
of the plight of my brethren.

iconyttent 1st,

S. A. e.

•

WHISPER IT LOW
There's a movement under way
to revolutionize the Bnai Brith...
District grand lodge presidents
have received circulars proposing
a plan to deprive the international
president of the right to appoint
the executive secretary ... Under
the new setup the secretary would
be an elective officer responsible
only to the board of directors
It is also proposed to make all
elective officers hold office for one
year instead of fir three as at
present ... This would mean hold-
ing a convention annually instead
of triennially, with interim rule
by a new executive board . . .
Maurice Bisgyer, new executive
secretary, who is a personal ap-
pointee of President Cohen, will
not take over his duties for some
time yet.
Recently, one of the best known
national .Jewish organizations en-
gaged in defending Jewish rights
abroad—it was not the Jewish
Congress—had a meeting with
representatives of the Polish gov-
ernment in this country .. , The
latter insisted on addressing the
Jewish spokesmen as Jews . . .
Whereupon the spokesman for the
Jewish organization indignantly
reparteed—"We are not Jews.
Please understand that we are
Americans with Jewish sympa-
thies."
That rumor about a new scheme
for co-ordinating the fight against
Nazism and anti-Semitism in this
country will not down . • . 'Tis
said that leaders of four national
Jewish groups are to meet un-
officially to lay the groundwork.
We are reliably informed that
the winner of the Jewish Publica-
tion Society's contest for the best
American Jewish novel will be a
woman . She may lie the wife
of a mid-west rabbi.
SCIENCE DEPT.
Sunday evening Scripta Mathe-
matica, the popular mathematical
quarterly published by Yeshiva
College, is throwing a whale of a
party in honor of four men who
have done a great deal toward the
populariation of mathematics .
Three of the guests honor are un-
diluted Aryans—Prof, David Eu-
gene Smith and Cassius Jackson
Keyser of Columbia, and Prof.
Eric Temple Bell of California
Tech . , . The lone non-Aryan of
the four is M. Lincoln Schuster,
publisher of Dr. Bell's fascinating
new biographical volume "Men of
Mathematics" ... If your young-
sters tell you about having to do
homework in something called
trihornometry blame it on Prof.
Edward Kastner of Columbia, who
developed this new form of geom-
etry as a means of improving' the
measurment of the horn angle ...
Kastner was the first to measure
this angle Prof. Solomon Zeit ,
lin has taken Sabbatical leave from
Dropsie College to undertake re-
search in France in preparation
of a book on the life of Rashi
which will be published in 1940 on
the 900th anniversary of his birth.
THE NON-ARYAN ANGLE
There'll be plenty of non-Aryans
among the royalty attending King
George VI's coronation . . . The
King himself is said to be the
great-great-grandson of a Jew be-
cause his great-great-grandfather,
Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's
consort, is supposed to have been
of partly Jewish ancestry . . .
relatives of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm at
the coronation will also be non-
Aryans, for Wilhelm was Vic-
toria's grandson And the same
goes for former Queen Eugenie
of Spain, a granddaughter of
Victoria ... One of the six- blue-
blooded train-bearers of Queen
Elizabeth will be 17-year-old Lady
Irish Mounthatton, whose father,
Lord Louis Mounthatten, great-
grandson of Victoria, married Ed-
w i n a Cynthia Ashley, grand-
daughter of Sir Ernest Cassel,
famous Jewish banker . . . Some-
where among the coronation guests
will be the children of Hannah
Rothschild, who married Henry
Fitzroy, a direct descendant of
King Charles II, and the descend-
ants of Maria North, daughter of
a London Jewish innkeeper, whose
d aughter married the Duke of
Gloucester, brother of King George
III ... And under the coronation
throne on which King George VI
will sit will be the famous Stone
of Scone of Lia Fail, which accord-
ing to legend, was one of the stones
the Patriarch Jacob used as his
pillow .. . Other guests will be
members of the British Israel So-
ciety, an organization which be-
lieves the English are descendants
of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel,
and of which Queen Victoria and
King Edward VII were members.

Considerably far from its set goal of
$385,000, the Allied Jewish Campaign
enters its second week of solicitations, and
the leaders of our community are naturally
disturbed. What appears on the face of
things a large quota is not so large when
all the obligations and needs of things are
taken into consideration. It is well, there-
fore, at this time to evaluate once more
the great responsibility that rests upon
Detroit. Jewry.
There are many who have contributed
most liberally to the present campaign. A
large number of Detroit Jews have recog-
nized their responsibility and have lived up
to the demands of the hour. But there are
many who have not given in proportion to
their means. A large number has failed
to realize that the standard of living has
risen, and that contributions to the com-
munity's most important fund-raising ef-
fort must be given in accordance with in-
creased needs.
It is evident that some of our people
have not taken into consideration the fact
that by contributing to one large fund they
are spared the trouble of responding to
many appeals, and that they would un-
doubtedly be called upon to contribute
much larger sums than they are now call-
ed upon to give if more than one campaign
were to be sponsored here.
The average Jew, if asked to con-
tribute separately to the important causes
now incorporated in one Allied Jewish
' Campaign, would not dare refuse any of
them. It is impossible to conceive of any-
one refusing to contribute to the fund for
foreign relief, or to the effort for Pales-
tine's reconstruction. At the same time,
it is inconceivable that anyone would turn
down a solicitor for the United Hebrew
Schools, for the Yiddish schoots, for the
Hebrew Free Loan Association, for the
House of Shelter or for any one of the
other important causes included in the
(PLEA'S TURN TO NEXT PAGE)
current appeal. In instances where one or
another of the causes is unpalatable to
some members of our community, there is
Lights from
sufficient importance in the other move-
ments to make' up for what may appear
Shadowland
deficient in appeals to which exception is
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
taken.
Roproductine In part or whole forbid.
The necessity for repeating this impor-
den,without permission of the Seven
Arta Feature Syndicate, Copyright., of
tant point in the drive should long ago
this Costars.
have been eliminated. 'This community has
(Copyright, 1937, S. A. F. S.)
been spared much aggravation by the fact
The Best Gifts
that expense and effort has been saved in
"ETERNAL ROAD"
the elimination of a multiplicity of cam-
This is a gift-giving season. Confirma- EXPECTED
paigns. Nevertheless, many fail to recog- tion and consecration are approaching. H oll ywood hears that "The
nize the need for liberality that will be Graduation exercises are to be held soon. Eternal Road," described as the
expensive theatrical produc-
commensurate with wholehearted co-oper- Mother's Day will be observed this Sun- most
ever seen on a New York
ation in a joint drive that combines many day. It is therefore advisable that care tion
stage, will go on a tour of the
responsibilities into one and in more than should be exercised in the selection of larger cities of this country next
season, and Los Angeles and Hol-
one sense increases the efficiency of com- gi fts.
lywood will be among the cities
munity service.
There are many ways of honoring our fortunate enough to see this great
The claim that hundreds of thousands friends and those who are beloved. A Biblical dramatic play. The play',
are dependent upon our Allied Jewish campaign is in progress, and a gift to the huge physical production will be
in size and the third act
Campaign, and similar campaigns through- drive as a memorial is certainly a most reduced
revised, but the cast will most
out the country, is not an exaggeration. If commendable way of showing respect. The likely remain as it is now.
anything, this claim is underestimated in Jewish National Fund encourages the On May 16 this tremendous at-
the conservative appeals that have been planting of trees in Palestine to serve as traction is expected to end ita en-
gagement in New York. After
made jn the past few weeks.
a lasting tribute in the redeemed Jewish three years of preparation and the
Detroit Jews are obligated to make the National Home.
expenditure of $500,000 Max Rein-
current drive a complete success. We dare
In instances where concrete articles are hardt's Biblical offering began its
not fail. If we do, we strengthen the hands desired as gifts, we would also encourage run at the Manhattan Opera
on Jan. 7. Reports indicate
of those who persecute Jews and who the mingling of the ideal with the practi- a House
gross income of about $355,000
aspire to make life unbearable for them. cal. A book is always the very best sort up to early in April.
By helping the oppressed we give them of a present. If it is well chosen, it is
Reports from the East also
courage to carry on a battle for existence treasured by those possessing it. A good state that London too may view
this tremendous spectacle produced
—an existence which is, at best, a life of book is a most sacred possession: In addi- by
Meyer W. Weisgal and Crosby
meager possibilities.
tion to satisfying the recipient it stimulates Gaige in another production and
with
another company of players.
Much is at stake in this campaign.
good reading, it provides encouragement
will depend on conferences
Our own honor as a Jewish community for the writer, it builds up a cultural back- This
with Lord Melchett, who arrives
is threatened.
ground.
in New York next week.
The self-respect of hundreds of thous-
In addition to the purchase of individ-
ands of Jews is at stake.
ual books as gifts we would especially en-
HOW TO COMBAT
Our honor as human beings is at stake. courage the securing of subscriptions to
ANTI-SEMITISM
We must not, we dare not fail in the Jewish periodicals, and the enrolling of
present campaign.
IN THE U. S.
those chosen for honors as members of the
Notes on the Jewish Feminine World
Case of David Frankfurter
Jewish Publication Society of America. For
A Suggested Program for
a very nominal sum, membership in the
By DIANA KLOTTS
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
Jewish Self-Defense
Jewish Publication Society brings as a
The Nazi Boiling Pot
(copyright, 1537. Seven Arts Feature Byndirate)
in This Country
premium three excellent books a year. To
(Copyright, 1137, seven Arta Feature
Syndleal.)
The cauldron boils in the land of the encourage this society in its work is in it-
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
POWER
of the world: The Loyalists must
There is an amazing amount of men. It is a sinister joke to have
Nazis. And the leaders of the most re- self an important obligation—and by pre- THERE'S
Now and then through the din
confusion of morality with fear
from kitchen, factory,
actionary government in history continue senting a membership in it to those that of cannons exploiting to the ac- win! And
It is sheer folly to speak of and satisfied mediocre petty bour- refused Frankfurter the circum-
and desk it reverberates:
geois puritanism in the way the stances of a political crime. But
to gnash their teeth at the Jews. First are to be honored is in itself a most gratify- companiment of human cries of field
a
Jewish
defense
program
with-
we feel the quieting pres- Must win! And the placid, bril-
condemnation of David Frank- those judges were afraid, mortally
they forbade Jews to meet in public as- ing choice. We know of no better way of despair
ence of prophetic and dynamic liant scholar of but a short while out Including in it action for furter, the young Jew who killed afraid of Hitler and the Hitler-
friendly government of the Swiss
semblies; then they liquidated the Bnai showing one's interest and affection than power. Ernestine Gonzalesy before is suddenly the vigorous the consideration of our in- the
Nazi Gustloff, has been received Federation. Prof. Leonard Raga
Brith lodges; they followed up this cam- by enrolling celebrants, on any occasion, Fleischmann, under the auspices executive, helping direct the new ternal Jewish obligations. To in this country. Except for a cour- of
the eminent leader of
women's
projects—the
vast
intri-
paign by arresting 50 Jewish leaders, as members in the Jewish Publication So- of the American Society for Tech- cate organization of factories, the speak merely of fighting Nazism ageous word in his defense by Emil the Zurich,
Religious-Socialist movement
nical Aid to Spanish Democracy
Ludwig, not one of the major or- in that
or
Fascism,
or
discriminations
whose passports they cancelled; in addi- ciety of America.
country,
lashed those judges
opening
of
workshops,
recruiting
pleads for the loyalist cause .. .
ganizations for the defense of Jew- as
they deserved when he said that
tion to numerous curbs on Jewish cultural
And though last October a sabot- of thousands of women to work by non-Jews alone, is to be i sh rights—American Jewish Con-
"the
condemnation
of Frankfurter
false to the actual issue which gress, Bnal Brith Anti-Defamation
eur's bomb killed her husband, eight hours a day ...
and commercial activities, new legislative
has reduced Wilhelm Tell (Switz-
eed y belt
n dt ey
anten
ei
at the ro
as
ge
bat
boys
Leo Fleischmann, an American es T
rth re ildealrn
now confronts the Jewish peo- League, American Jewish Com- erland's legendary national hero)
acts against the Jews are said to be plan-
The Late Norman Hapgood
engineer, just one week after he
mittee — has risen to protest to the rank of a vulgar murderer."
ple more seriously than ever.
ned, including regulation of Jewish travel
.. ws
h leather—
a new
e
had succeeded in establishing the used ,u
m u u c c has
too m
against the outrageous and inhu-
Those judges were afraid be-
Furthermore, we fool only man sentence imposed on Frank-
We lose a great friend in the death of first munitions factory in Madrid, must be found to strengthen the
permits and control of Jewish business
canvass . • Perhaps with much ourselves if we deny that there furter by a Swiss court of law. cause they had been told to be
Norman Hapgood. For years he was one in spite of her inestimtable
ventures.
Yea with much are Jewish anti - Semites who Semprun once said: "If I have afraid. Theirs was the bourgeois
Fleischmann carries on: stitching . • . Yes,
But instead of despairing we should be of the outstanding Christian defenders of Senora
fear of violence (not to be con-
k . • . The
new belt Is
They need engineers. chemists, the
stitching
ucat
chosen the side of the people, it founded with its moral reproba-
heartened by other events, outside of Ger- Jewish rights. He propagated the cause auto mechanics, and other trained manufactured . . . of corduroy are as dangerous to us as are was because I felt that the people tion),
a fear of international com-
the
non-Jewish
enemies.
When
ts. sweater and lumber jacket.
was abandoned." Our own highly
many, which point to the renunciation of of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and was workers—The Loyalists must win! panes,
ug ht personal • Jewish author circularizes a moral leaders have a special knack plications, of personal revenge, of
boys must b taught
Ernestina Fleischmann, the
Nazi brutalities by the civilized world. The always in the front ranks of Christian
Nazi
bellowing.
They will need
can
ill
p hygiene—they
grou
feminine little thinker and and
book packed full of lies about of abandoning with serenity those their whole lives and all their
rejection of the Nazi bid to attend the friends of Zionism. As a leader in the Pro- dark,
student, possessor of a doctorate afford epidemics . . While men the Jew', he is an anti-Semite who are the victims of that aban- strength to reject the reproach of
donment. They formed closely ser-
Goettingen bicentennial celebration by alt Palestine Federation of America he ren- from the Sorbonne, and former fight, their women work ... Time
Ragas that they have prostituted
short ... Only during the fleet- even if he is a Jew. When
ried ranks around Frankfurter.
the English universities except tittle Dur- dered the movement a distinct service by head of the Fine Arts Library in is
justice.
ing period 'of peace during the Jewish employer refuses to
First of all those Swissjudges.
cuts
off
the
Madrid
University,
ham is a most heartening occurrence. Ox- joining with a group of valiant men in her peace-time quiet and a thun- Republic had they been taught to
But at least there remained
I am not justifying Frankfurter's Frankfurter's fellow Jews to un-
. . ut place Jews on his payroll, he crime.
fd ed
ford's action definitely united all the high urging that the letter of the law be ob- dering outburst of latent energy thin aloweion
I think It was senseless. derstand
becomes
a
contributing
factor
aak
new
what bad pushed this
There judges had a job to do. But
Institutions of learning in England against served in the world's pledge to facilitate echoes across the seas—a cry to
lad out of the normal 11D-
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they should have performed it like gentle
the women of Spain, to the women
the Nazi demonstration planned for the the upbuilding of Eretz Israel.
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