May 28, 1937
ThEVErgiorr,/eamt
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
ono n-RONICLE
Horst Weasel Song in Cleveland
Lights from
Shadowland
Candor About Baksheesh-Hunters
Strictly
Confidential
Something truly tragic has happened in
Cleveland. It is not the exchanging of
Tidbits from Everywhere
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
students between Cleveland and Germany
-----
Psa,usise4 weeks , by The Jewish awnsicla rubtlabWe Cow W. that is alone a deplorable fact—deplor-
By PHINEAS J. [(IRON
Reproduction in part or whole forbid-
t.
den. without foriniseton of the Seven
oad-class matte r War. I, Ulf. at the
Zatored aa
(Copyright,
1531, ft- A. s.
11115.
able
because
the
idea
is
so
evidently
a
St.
John
Ervine's
Travel
Story
Condemns
the
Greed
of
the
Art.
Feature
Syndicate,
CopYrighter•
of
ostler the Ast of Marsh
ofil. at Detroit,
Nazi propaganda scheme. It is the pomp this feature.
NEWS
IN
THE
MAKING
Arabs
and
Lauds
Jewish
Efforts
in
Palestine
General Offices and Publication Building and display of Nazism that resulted from
(Cot yright. 1937, S. A. F. 5
There's a wild scramble on for
525 Woodward Avenue
the job of national commander-in-
Telephone: Cedillas 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle this exchange.
chief of the Jewish War Veterans
The•100 children who arrived in Cleve- MRS. LASKY WINS HONORS
Leal. Mc.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
. . . Among the candidates are
14 Stratford Plait, London, W. 1, England
land from Germany were greeted at a Mrs. Jesse Lasky, wife of the
Maxwell Cohen of Boston, Dave
Subscription, in Advance__-_-_----$3.00 Per Year public ceremony at which the youngsters distinguished Hollywood film pro-
Coyne of Hoboken and Morris
A
JOURNEY
TO
JERUSALEM.
By
St.
John
Ervine.
The
Macmillan
Co.,
New
York
($4.).
from
Germany
saluted
the
swastika-bear-
ducer, is being showered with
Mendelson and J. David Delman
To Imam publicatioa„ all eormapondence sad news matter
mak
week.
honors
as
a
result
of
her
excel-
a
ing
flag
and
sang
the
Horst
Wessel
song.
of New York.
mast ressh this office by Tinted. main/
whenwalling notion, kindly .0 .4 sidle .1 the yaw slay. It is almost unbelievable that this should lence in art work. Four of her
Stephen S. Wise is a candidate
beatutiful
paintings
were
selected
succeed himself as president
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle belt« correepondenee ea .11- be permitted in a civilized American com-
St. John Ervine has the knack of fascinating . . . When I replied to the Arab idolators that to
for display in the Coronation Art
of the Zionist Organization of
*is W tetsemt C. the Jewish people, but Cede.. respomi-
his readers. He is informative, entertaining and their pets seemed a lot of lazy and incompetent America.
batty for an Indorsement of the •Wws esprsased by the writers munity. Imagine a group of children sing- Exhibition in London. Following
ing a hymn of hate, propagating blood- this, her paintings will be moved crafty in his choice of material. Most important louts, I was instantly subjected to recitals of
Lord Melchett had a pole.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
Chicago and New York to en- of all is his mastery of the English language and the oppressions the Arabs had had to bear under
ate audience with President
shed for Jews, appealing to the vilest sen- to
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 8:1-12:16.
hance other outstanding collections.
Roosevelt . . . Of all Jewish
timents—at a public gathering condoned Mrs. Lasky also was honored by the classics. At times even what he says be- Turkish misrule. 'The poor devil has been ground visitors
Prophetical portion—Zech. 2:14-4:7.
from abroad, Melchett
less important than the way in which he down for generations!' No doubt they have,
Sivan 18, 5697 by the school board of a great American being invited to do the Mother's comes
is perhaps the first known to
May 28, 1937
states it. but the Jews have suffered the extremes of per.
Day
picture
by
the
founder
of
have
given
the bum's rush to
city!
international movement, and
all reporters and photograph-
From the moment he leaves Plymouth until secution, including captivity in Balyon on at
Nothing more horrifying has been ex- that
this picture is now on display at
ers
seeking
interviews
and pic-
Counting Our Forces
perienced in this country since the advent the Stendahl Galleries in Los An- he reaches Jerusalem, he holds the reader's inter- least two occasions, incessant raids and wars in-
tures ... But we have to cred-
est in "A Journey to Jerusalem" and becomes side their own territory, slavery in Egypt that
We have approached the deadline in of Hitlerism in Germany. When Rabbi geles.
it him with bringing to our
the master over him who listens to his stories and lasted for four and a half centuries, and imposi-
shores two expressions which
the counting of our forces on the battle - Barnett R. Brickner first registered his pro- ELAINE AND JOHN MAY
•
we recommend for adoption • • •
to his account of his trip. A great raconteur, tions, deprivations and pogroms in Europe from
front for the rehabilitation of Palestine . test against the bringing of these children PLAY IN. FILM
One is the designation of what
Within a few days we shall know how from Germany we had hoped that his . Grand National Films' President he has incorporated his observations in a most the time of the dispersion to these days of Hit-
we are wont to call the shah-
many American Jews have been enrolled voice would be heard. Nevertheless, the Edward L. Alperson is considering unusual book, and there is hardly a person, non- ler; yet they have maintained their spirit and shah type of Jews as the 0. T.
I., or, to spell it out, the Order
as Shekel-holders and as participants in Cleveland Board of Education at the last a proposal to produce a film adap- Jew or Jew, whether interested in science, reli- their fortitude, and Israel, under their cultiva-
mbling Israelites . . •
is beginning to
or ire
the movement for the reconstruction o f moment ignored his protest—and to the tation of the English stage play, gion, philosophy, or history, who will not be lion, blossomed in the past, as it rose.
It
seems,
if
The other is • phrase eminent.
a
Royal Box," and put Elaine charmed by the humor of this volume. blossom in the present, like
the Jewish National Home. Much is a t acting shame of the Jewish community is "The
suitable for the purposes of
Barrie
and
her
ex-husband,
John
ly
For the Jewish reader Mr. Ervine's discus- the apologists for the Arabs are to be trusted,
stake in the effort to mobilize Israe l recorded the fact that the Jewish member Barrymore, in the leading roles.
fund-raisers approaching Pro-
of
donors: "Are you schnorrable?"
through the sale of Shekolim. Our hono r f the board voted with the majority to Mr. Barrymore, himself, approach- eion of the Arab-Jewish problem is of particular that the Arabs have nothing like the spirit
creat-
ed Alperson's company with the importance. Ile does not reach this issue until the Jews, that they are shiftless, shambling
Rabbi Joachim Prinz, formerly
will be measured in direct proportion to welcome these children!
ready
to
collapse
at
the
first
hint
of
adver-
Berlin's leading rabbi, will settle
Something has gone wrong in Cleveland. idea and suggested that the film page 300 in this volume of 360 pages, but ures,
the number of Jews who, as purchasers o f
be called "The Royal Lovers."
permanently
in the United States.
sity.
I
find
it
hard
to
believe
that
a
ruling
race
the Shekel—the Zionist tax—will be lined We sympathize with the Jews of that com- Two discussions with Miss Barrie he is so frank and emphatic in his views, and
Chicago is going to inaugurate
first
up on the side of the defenders of our munity, although we are at a loss to cinder- and Barryinore have been held at is so outspoken in his setiments, that his opinions, can spring from a people whose infants'
cry is, not 'Allah,' but 'Baksheesh.' a new Jewish center in the Fall
people's right to live as a natural entity. stand why the much-tooted Jewish Com- this writing and several Grand Na- especially at this time, assume great importance. articulate
as an annex to Congregation
producers are now reading He leaves nothing to the imagination of the That whine, from the moment we reached Caper- Anshe Emet, Solomon Goldman's
On the eve of the Shekel campaign munity Council, League for Human Rights, tional
the play to determine its box of-
naum
to
the
moment
we
left
Haifa,
was
con-
synagogue . . . Incidentally, Dr.
Ludwig Lewisohn wrote an appeal in and other anti-defamation groups in that fice possibilities. The joint billing readers. He is horrified by the backwardness
Goldman, who is on his way to
in our ears."
which he eloquently pointed out that our city failed to arouse sufficient resentment of the divorced couple is expected of the Arabs and is thrilled by Jewish endeavors. tinually
T. E. Lawrence comes in for a drubbing,-and South Africa, will be the fifth
enemies are united and that we, too, must in the community to prevent such a scan- to cash in on the wide publicity And because to him the Jewish race is "superior on the
American and the first clergyman
whole the Arab fares worse in this book to fly from Southhampton to
recent romance obtained. Ad- in energy, talent and industry," he argues elo-
demonstrate our solidarity and our loyalty dal. The least they could have done their
vertised as "The Most Talked
than
perhaps
anywhere
else
on
record.
Capetown.
if we are not to lose further ground in would have been to prevent the young- About Woman in America," Miss quently in defense of the Zionist ideals.
Al Strelsin, who recently flew
Ervine's Tribute to Jewish Endeavor
His Denunciation of Baksheesh-Hunters
the battle for justice. "The enemy is one,' sters who came here with poisoned minds, Barrie is now appearing in an
from Palestine to Rome, is due
By
contrast,
Mr.
Ervine
pays
a
glowing
trib-
Mr. Ervine is resentful because "the only
wrote this eminent novelist and critic. from spreading the venom contained in one-act play at a Los Angeles
back in America soon with an
ute to Jewish aspirations and Jewish 'achieve- economic scheme for Palestine
word many Arabs seem to know" is Baksheesh!"
"The danger is one. The ruthless con- the Horst Wessel hymn among American theater.
ments. He quotes the demands made by the which will make official Zionist
(graft). Then comes an indictment that is de-
queror when he enters the sacred city children.
HOLLYWOOD NEWS BRIEF
Palestinian Arab Congress that all Jewish immi- circles nit up.
Jewish communities throughout the
which you and I have not defended will
Despite reports, published and vastatingly candid: "I was not favorably im- gration should cease, that the sale of Arab land
not ask: Were you orthodox or liberal, country must learn the lesson that is so otherwise, no change in the man- pressed by the Arabs, nor have I read or heard
IT'S A FACT
Jews be prohibited and that a national repre-
Franc esco von Mendelssohn
were you Zionist or not, were you Z. 0. A. bitterly experienced by Jews in Cleve- agement of Universal Studios is anything which increases my respect for them. to
sentative
government
should
immediately
be
in-
greatgrandson of Felix Mendels-
anticipated,
according
to
a
state-
Books in which they are treated as little less
or Mizrachi or a member of Histadruth, land. We must ever be on the alert lest
stituted; and he answers each demand by proving sohn-Bartholdy, the composer
ment issued by J. Cheever Cowdin,
whose works are verboten in Nazi-
did you give to the community chest or the scorpion invades other cities and de- chairman of the board of Univer than angels bore me to distraction, and I suspect
its unfairness and impracticability.
not, were you American Democrat or Re- stroys the sanctity of American institu- sal Pictures Company, at a dinner the authors of these works of liking Arabs only both He
land. returned from a short visit
deals
with
the
third
point
first
by
stat-
to Germany on the Europa.
given for all department heads of because they are rather infantile and incompetent.
publican? He will not ask. He will come tions.
ing that "any form of government that is estab-
the
studio.
Charles
R.
Rogers,
who
The Passaic post of the Jew-
We
must
again
admonish
our
important
When
I
hear
an
Englishman
sentimentalizing
with the old, old contemptuous cry of the
the studios and is
lished in Palestine will be subject to the Man-
War Vet has expelled Joe
Middle Ages: Ilierosolymn ist perdital self-defense groups to be on guard. Even reorganized
carrying on its operation, will con- about the noble Arab, and remembers the dirty,
Weinberger,
city counsel, be-
inefficient and greedy baksheesh-hunters I saw date while the Mandate continues in force, and
Jerusalem is lost! Hep I Hep! cried the the shortest nap may permit the worst tinue as executive producer.
cause he took • cruise on a Ger-
it will, in my belief, continue for a very long
Jerry
Lawrence
(his
real
name
went,
I
feel
rage
rising
within
me.
crusaders as they waded through pools tragedy.
wherever I
man boat.
is Jerry Stein, son of Mr. and Mrs. These people will praise the Arab and belittle time." He opens his argument in behalf of the
Senator Borah's blast against
of Jewish blood."
Joseph Stein of Long Beach,
Jewish cause by stating: "I have not read an
Fascism
was not just oratory ...
the
Jew
merely,
so
far
as
I
can
discover,
be-
And Lewisohn rightfully appeals: "Jews
Calif., formerly of Rochester, N.
argument in favor of the Arabs' claim to domi- He's really serious about it and
"Putzi" in Exile
of America, see to it that Jerusalem is not
Y.) is doing very well in his new cause the Jew is industrious, enterprising and
is
quietly
making a preliminary
position as announcer with the adult, and unwilling to be patronized like a pet nate in Palestine which is worth the paper on investigation . . . If the files of a
lost again!" We are facing a crucial test
which it is written. If the Arab is given the certain government department in
Ernst
"Putzi"
Hanfstaengl,
Fuehrer
Mutual
Broadcasting
System.
He
dog,
whereas
the
Arab
flatters
the
European's
ill the efforts for Palestine's redemption.
is stationed in New York. He was
to restrict the number of Jews who may Washington were made public
The enemies are united against us, and Adolf Hitler's personal pianist, the man successful in radio work in Long sense of his own superiority by playing the part right
enter Jerusalem, he may claim the right to re- they would reveal some sensational
our own voices have been weak. Our voices who has financed the Nazi party and has Beach and San Diego before going of the helpless nomad, the simple child of the duce the number of those already there."
data on Nazi and Fascist activities
must be stronger, more persistent, more acted as its propagandist, is now himself on the stage with a stock com- desert, the melting-eyed infant who will allow
hereabouts.
at the Great Lakes Exposi- the big, strong Englishman to take care of him
(PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE)
demanding. Every Jew must stand up and an exile from Germany. In London he pany
tion in Cleveland.
be counted. He—or she—is either with told his friends that he regards himself as
us or against us. The number of those a refugee. "If I go back I am afraid I
who are indifferent or—destiny forbid— will be in danger of swift imprisonment or
against us, must be diminished. The ranks sudden death," the notorious Harvard
By BERNARD G. RICHARDS
of the defenders,of Jewish rights must be graduate said.
Director, Jewish Information Bureau
The Private Life of a Public Entertainer
Are these the wages of sin? - " Hanf-
increased until every man and woman of
EDITOR'S NOTE: This review of Jewish rommunal sctleld. for the past year
Zionist voting age is enlisted in the sacred staengl's fate is a particularly ironic one.
Writer Seeks Symmetry in
appears In The American Year Book, the leading reference solo.. of it•
By HARRY RICHMAN
edited by Prof. Albert Bushnell Bart and
cause of defending our position in Pale - He has borne, with Hitler, the rebuke that
kind, which has for years been
(As Told to Myer F. Steinglass_,
end which now appwrs under the imprint
New Approach to a
has
been
handed
Nazi
bigotry
by
liberal
hler,
Bantam 31. wo
tine, of making it impossible for another
Tbe book hi Published with the aid of 45
of Thomas Nelson I Slon e. and
Jew
the
Study
of
Mr. Richards' review of the melds of
groups.
On
his
last
visit
to
this
country
EDITOR'S INOTE1 Barry 'Nehmen Is the highest-pal/1 este entertainer In the
national
learned
"Hep! Hep!" movement to crush us under
19311 marks
the ...Wile«,
nth annual contribution ahIch be bas PriPmed for
he was derided and scorned. Now he must
world. For two lifT111h% he Ws been an outstanding celebrity of .t...
the heels of anti-Semitic reaction.
wreen end radio, and only recently crested et wormlion ng the eoron-
Ohio volume.
A study of the Jew from an
aline I...114111w In London. We present here Mr. Richman's own story of
It is possible that, at this writing, some swallow the medicine he has helped mix
his early youth sad Jewish backgroand--• Pieturealue and totirldng
resigned in protest against Nazi
entirely new angle is made by JEWISH PERSECUTION
story of the beginning of • genet theatrical career.
Shekolim may yet be available before the for those who opposed his Fuehrer and the
policies, and various civil organiza-
Dr. Joseph Sachs in his new IN GERMANY
final reports are submitted by the various bigots who dominate the Nazi party.
tions, Jewish and non-Jewish, here
(Copyright, 1937, Sewn Arta Feature Syndicate)
book, "Beauty and the Jew,"
Diverted from their religious, and abroad, are giving their co-
Commonweal,
important
Catholic
per-
political parties in Zionism. If, by chance,
educational, philanthropic, a n d operation in the task of placing
just
published
by
Edward
Gold-
iodical,
makes
an
interesting
comment
on
some readers of these lines are not yet en-
When I was flying across the or love—what young man doesn't? eton, Ltd., 25 Museum St., Lon- cultural activities at home, the these wanderers in different lands
listed in the ranks of the defenders of our Hanfstaengl:
Atlantic with Dick Merrill a few There was one girl who seemed
Jews of America during 1936 and helping them to start life
months
ago all sorts of things to measure up to my expectations. don, W. C. 1, England (7s.6d.). were again called upon to devote anew. Altogether close to 100,000
position, then it is their sacred duty to do
Of course, wherever I went I
Everybody, who in recent time sought to
much time, energy and consider- Jews had already left Germany
flashed
across
my
mind.
Hundreds
The
very
tile
of
the
book
de-
so at once. It should not be necessary, in , acquire information about the Third Reich of miles in the air, surrounded by never made any secret of my reli-
scribes the unique approach to able means. to conditions affecting and, as previously indicated, a
time of crisis, to plead with Jaws for the
will have a warm spot in his heart for "Putzi"
their oppressed and poverty- large portion of these had settled
sky and ocean, a great many gion. When young fellows would
Ilanfstaengl, who fell into disgrace and is now
enrollment of their names on the side of
events came back to me. In a way engage me in a conversation about the subject. The author seeks stricken brethren in European in Palestine.
marriage or other things I would symmetry and form in the Jew- lands. As during the three previous
,
living
for
security's
sake
under
the
outmoded
I
seemed
to
unfold
on
the
curtain
their people--just as it ought not to be
ANTI-SEMITISM IN POLAND
political institutions of Great Britain. Ile
of clouds into which we were rid- always make it quite clear that I ish people. He describes the years, Germany with its ruthless AND OTHER COUNTRIES
necessary to plead with human beings in
was incredible. An inner sanctum was ap-
ing. It was a very strange ex- would not consider marrying any aesthetic elements of our peo- persecution of the Jews and other
but
a
Jewish
girl.
Next to the acute and perplex-
proached through a gauntlet of typing gentry
behalf of causes of charity. Jews should
religious minorities, which has
perience—as if somebody were
in S. A. uniform, who scraped more heels
Well, this little girl who filled ple and presents an excellent characterized the Nazi regime, ing problem which is presented
voluntarily help the needy. Jews should
running my life story off on a
my eyes with visions of a happy case in his interesting argu- has remained a major problem. by the lot of the Jews in Nazi
and gave more salutes to one another during
screen.
voluntarily enroll in the ranks of the fight-
future knew very well where I
the course of a day than the whole of West
The gradual displacement of men German y, comes the plight of
There was no plan, no sequence, stood on this subject, but before I ment.
ers for justice and for our national honor.
Point manages in a week. Yet this din was
and women of the Jewish race 3,000,000 Jews in Poland. Here,
"Beauty
and
the
Jew"
is
di-
Shekel-holder.
and
often
the
same
experience
a
nothing compared to Hanfstaengl dispensing
could stop to figure things out we
and faith from the professional, owing to the adverse economic
Every Jew must be
would keep bobbing up in my mind were all set to plunge into matri- vided into two parts, under the artistic, commercial life of the conditions which affect all ele-
propaganda.
His
policy
was
to
hurl
insults
When that day comes we will be able, by
like
the
repetition
caused
by
a
."Art country has gone on apace. With ments of the population, to dis-
mony. I was only 18 then. Without
while he explained that no man in all history
demonstrating our solidarity, conquer was
scratch in a phonograph record. writing my mother or letting my titles "Life Rhythms" and
ever asked by foreigners to accomplith
various manifestations of social criminatory laws directed against
Rhythms."
The
24
sub-titles,
Suddenly
I'd
find
myself
in
a
those foes who today unite against us and
sister Clara or brother Louis know
so many impossible things. As chief piano
ostracism, casting the members of the Jews and introduced by the
each
dealing
with
a
specific
sub-
synagogue
on
the
lap
of
my
father
anything
about
it
we
got
married.
become stronger because we have grown
the Jewish community out of their government, and to a violent anti-
player to His Ilitlerian Majesty he had access,
and I would smell the camphor on There was no question in my mind ject, at once describe the pur- established and recognized posi- Semitic propaganda carried on by
of course, to that great man, and could ar-
weaker.
the
tails
of
the
man
next
to
him,
that she was Jewish. Five months pose of the book and the man- tions and causing them spiritually at least one of the political par-
range interviews if he wished and you were
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STARS ARE HUMAN
The Hillel Award
t
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J
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1
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a
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of
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an
nu
se,
tis
wit
As "the student who had done most to
advance religious thinking on the cam-
pus," Marshall D. Shulman of Detroit re-
ceives the 1937 award from the Hillel
Foundation of the University of Michigan.
It is a distinct honor of which he can feel
justly proud. Non-Jews dominated the
committee that made the award, and his
selection is therefore a distinction which
transcends the bounds of racial or reli-
gious lines. As associate editor of the
Michigan Daily he displayed ability as a
newspaperman, tact in dealing with stu
dents and faculty and dignity in his re
lations with his associates.
Because of the numerous distinctions he
won at the University of Michigan, Mar-
shall Shulman will be expected to continue
to make good. He will be watched as a
citizen. We wish him success and trust
that he will prove worthy of his people's
pride and respect.
sufficiently persistent. Heaven only knows
how many hopeful persons trekked to Beret:.
tesgaden with the blessings of "Putzi" 'on
their heads. Ile had a special admiration for
lady journalists, and his rage knew no bounds
when one of them played hini false and penned
a scathing portrait of Der Fuehrer. Once upon
a time he had financed the Nazi movement;
and it seemed only proper that he should be
fitly rewarded. Yet almost from the begin-
ning Dr. Goebbels had no use for him. We
expect that "Putri" will once again become
an art dealer, and that when he has made
a little money he will finance somebody else.
Doubtless it will again be a person who likes
to hear him play the piano.
In the meantime "Putzi" is a symbol
of the ironic treatment accorded by fate
—even to one who had once been chosen
as the favorite of the Fuehrer himself.
Those in the Reich who are now under
Hitler's protecting wing but who may
fear the consequences that come from fall-
ing into disrepute with one of the Nazi
chieftans have another famous case to look
to for justification of the fears. They must
not forget the famous purge of that fa-
A Record in. Hospitalization mous June 30 in which all the famous
Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York, the men in Nazidom made history for the
first and oldest Jewish hospital in this crushed spirit of Germany.
country, has just recorded the interesting
fact that it has received its 6,000,000th
Reason for Indifference
patient. Mrs. Jenny Berkman won the dis-
tinction of being assigned this number
Of the 300,000 Jewish children of
when she walked into the hospital to re- school age in New York City, only 76,000
ceive emergency treatment for a cut finger. are attending Hebrew schools, and lead-
When she entered the hospital, she was ers are naturally disturbed. But this per-
greeted by delegates and hospital officials centage happens to correspond through-
who informed her that she was patient out the country, the truth being that not
No. 6,000,000.
more than one-fourth of our boys and
This is history-making in Jewish hos-
are receiving a Jewish education. Is
pital work. The first patient was treated girls
it any wonder that Jews are uninformed
by Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York in regarding Jewish conditions, that drives
1852. Since then it has won an enviable fail, that pogroms alone can move people
reputation for great contributions to the to sympathy for their unfortunate fellow-
health of the city of New York and to the Jews? Lack of knowledge is undoubtedly
Patient No.
AESTHETIC FORM Judaism and Jewish Communal Affairs
IN JEWISH LIFE
or I'd be running my fingers over later I found out that she was
the gold embroidery on the tails not Jewish. We separated, and the
sack. And the next minute I'd be marriage was annulled. I have
raiding the ice-box years later to- never married again.
gether with Abbe Hillel Silver or
It was this Incident, as it un-
Jacob Rader Marcus or any of the
before me in that plane
other rabbinical students who used furled
over
the Atlantic, that made me
to stay at my mother's house in understand
how deeply I had been
Cincinnati.
immersed in Jewish things in my
But whatever the scene, my youth.
Jewish past seemed to appear and
From the very first time that I
reappear again and again. I
couldn't help recalling my feelings expressed wonderment at my
throwing a kerchief over
when I found out that I had un- mother
knowingly married a Gentile. Per- her head and covering her face
with
her
hands as she blessed the
haps I ought to tell you about this
incident It should give you some Sabbath candles, to that historic
day
when
I stood at the Aren Ko-
idea on where I stand on Jewish
desh and delivered my Bar Mitz-
things.
vah speech, I was, exposed to a
I went on the stage when I was thorough Orthodox training.
no more than 16 years old. I
Devotion to Jewish Causes
would never have dared to take
up this profession during the life- It went considerably beyond
always
j
two-sets-of-dishes
kind of Jewish-
He
time of my father.
wanted one to be an electrical en- , ness. Of course, my father had no
gineer, and my mother had 'hopes I great illusions about me. lie •
of my becoming a Heifetz or at not plan to prepare me for the
least a Rachmaninoff. But when Irabbinate. But he did make every
my father died I decided to leave I effort to give all of us, my sister
home and join the army of young 1 Clara and my brother Louis, a
troupers who were then beginning well-rounded background in Jewish
their careers on the stage. My I life and Jewish tradition. He did
mother was considerably dismayed I insist that we sit down to the din-
by this step. To her, as to any , ner table with our heads covered,
good Jewish mother, it was a and I can still vividly remember
shameful thing for a son of re- I the striking figure of my father
spectable parents to enter into the, with his rich brown beard and silk
doubtful atmosphere of theatrical ' skull cap at the head of the family
life. Although I reproached myself I board, As for my mother, she was
for causing her this unnecessary a devout woman of rare under-
left, ' standing and devotion. She was
pain the urge of the footlights
. not only sincerely religions, but
was too great to resist and I
but rot without taking my prayer IA. was greatly interested in many
shawl with me. That I considered I charitable undertakings. There is
a sacred tie with my people, and . one thing I am very happy about
to this day I have kept and cher- ; today—that I am financially able
ished it as a symbol of my Jewish-, to support the institutions and or-
i ganizations in C i 11 c I n n • t I for
ness.
d so
. which my mother worked
An Annulled Marriage
Tramping the byways of the i cfiligently for many years.
theater in those early days was I In fact, it may not be far wrong
no triumphal march of glory. A . to say that she actually had was
an in-
re-
her own. She
y o ti n g neophyte must face all ' stitation of
situation; and all manner of hard-!, sponsible for making our house the
dormitory
fraternity
house
and
ships with a stiff upper lip.'
fess"... , .4ese hall for many of the stn.
ner of the author's approach.
In the first part of the book
Dr. Sachs deals with the fol-
lowing themes: "Muscular Ju-
daism," "T h e Gesticulating
Jew," "Jewish Humor," "The
Hebrew Kindergarten," "The
Tents of Israel," "The Cour-
age of Color," "Jewish Per-
spectives," "Jewish Form,"
"The Jewish Life-Rhythm,"
"Th.! Pilgrimage to Palestine,"
"A Message to Mars."
The latter half deals with
"Decedents and Prophets,"
"Jakob Wasserman," "Marcel
Pronts," "The Jew in James
the Joyce," "The Jew on the
Stage," "The Jew in Modern
Music," "Wagner and Niet-
zsche," "G ustave Mahler,
"Arnold Scheonberg," "The Jew
in Modern A r t," "Samuel
Hirschenberg," "Marc Chagall,"
"Chaim Soutin."
In "Muscular Judaism" Dr.
Sachs rejoices in the fact that
the Jew is beginning to search
for recreation and that be has
"awakened to the exhilerating
rhythm of modern sport."
Speaking of the gesticula-
tions of Jews he offers an ex-
planation by stating that "the
most intense emotion ix ex-
pressed without words." Un-
like Prof. Chotzner he insists
that "the only Jewish humor we
possess is the humor of the
Galuth." Prof. Chotzner, how-
ever, has developed a thesis
proving that the Bible is rich
In humor.
' The essays describing the
to draw within themselves and ties, the position of the Jews has
find solace within the synagogues become a continuous source of
and their own organizations, clubs anxiety. This has been aggravated
and other social circles, these per- by series of anti-Jewish riots and
secutions have, as heretofore, pro- assaults upon Jewish lives and
duced new soul-searchings and an property which began in the fall
intensification of the religious life of 1935 and were resumed in the
which in this day and age is bound spring of 1936. In March, other
excesses occurred and, despite the
to be regarded as remarkable,
The various forms of discrimina- assurance of the government that
tion and the exceptions prompted order would be established, dis-
by the Aryan theory of racial turbances continued to break out
superiority have necessitated the from time to time, causing much
establishment of a separate sys- uneasiness to all those groups in
tem of Jewish schools, and by the this country who seek to aid the
same token special dramatic, mu- oppressed in Israel everywhere.
sical and literary societies have The situation has further been
been formed for the presentation complicated by conversations
of plays and operas, the giving of which the Jewish groups have
concerts and entertainments, and never authorised between certain
the production of books and maga- spokesmen ant the Foreign Min-
zines intended to spread a better ister, Joseph Beck, relating to the
knowledge of Jewish history and possibility of a mass emigration
Jewish interest in the Getman from Poland, and with such open-
language, supplemented by the ings being unavailable and the
printing of a considerable num- Jews having lived nn Polish ter-
ber of Hebrew books, constitutes ritory for 1,000 years and claim-
a veritable literary revival, and ing the right to remain where
that much of this literature ex- they are, the premature and ill-
ceeds in quality publications pro- considered ideas of mass emigra-
duced in other lands, forms one tion have only added bitterness
of the paradoxical phenomena of and confusion to the prevailing
conflict. Out of Rumania, Austria,
the time.
The climax of Nazi persecutions Lithuania, and other lands, bane
was reached in the Nuremberg come disquieting reports of anti-
laws promulgated in September Semitic agitation and economic
which, while making new classifi- discrimination, and Fascist Italy,
cations between citizens and sub- long free from any taint of racial
jects, in effect reduced the position prejudice, has witnessed news-
of the Jewish citizens to a class paper attacks upon the Jews, the
of undesirable but tolerated aliens. detractors as in other lands echo-
The problem of Jewish refugees ing the libels of the Na press
fleeing from their native land of in Germany.
Germany, like the problem of CONDITIONS IN PALESTINE
German Christians belonging to
To add to the troubles and an-
the oppressed minorities, continue xieties centering around the dis-,
tress
and the unsettled economic
to be a source of much anxiety
and care to the various groups and political conditions In Eastern
and organizations which have been Europe, • new cloud during the
endeavoring to cope with the situa- year was cast over what has been
previously described "as the one
tion.
Last March, Sir Neill Malcolm bright spot on the Jewish horizon,"
was appointed High Commissioner namely, the remarkable achieve-
of Refugees of the League of Na- ments and the promise of • new
tions to succeed Dr. James G. life which has accompanied the
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