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Vol. XXXIX No. 15

THE YEAR 5697

Viewing the world Jewish pano-
rama during 6697 from a meter-
eological station in some mythi-
, cal center of the scene, and ap-
plying a weather expert's barom-
eter to it, one would find the

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is an au-
' thoritative review of the Jew-
ish year, by two experts who
g ive you a bard's eye view of
the Jewish panorama during
the past year. The managing
editor of the Seven Arts Feat-
ure Syndicate and the editor
of the Worldwide News Serv-
ice have also compiled a chron-
oligical table of events which
is a calendar of Jewish news
during the past year, present-
ing an informative, interest•
ing and authentic resume of
Jewish history in 5697.

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Jewish political and economic
weather conditions of the last
12 months to be somewhat as
follows:

Uncomfortable temperatures
occur frequently, with frigid
or torrid winds blowing inter-
mittently; freesing regions in
Eastern and Central Europe
unrelieved; cloudy conditions in
Balkans unchanged; clouds
over England clearing; contin•
ued clear in the Soviet Union;
generally fair throughout Wes-
tern Europe, but conditions
threatening over Iberian Penin-
sula; storms over Palestine!
overcast in the rest of Asia;
Australia continued fair; oc-
casional thunderstorms in North
■ and South Africa; fair in Cen•
tral zone; generally cloudy

throughout Latin-America; gen-
erally fair in North America,
with occasional disturbing Eu-
ropean winds.

But even so these pseudo-sci-
entific measurements of the Jew-
ish status in 6697 hardly afford
an idea of what the year actu-
ally meant in historical terms.
There need be no resitancy in
labeling 6697 as a bad year gen-
erally. The German-Jewish situ-
ation did not improve, while the
Polish cold-pogrom refrigerator
played havoc with the three mil-
lion Jews of Poland. Palestine,
as a haven of refuge, was un4
able to absorb all victims of no ,
litical and economic persecution
in Europe who were ready to
strive for a new life in the Near
East The tightining of buni.

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1937

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gration restrictions in other
countries, notably in Africa and
Latin America, made the prob-
lem of Jewry in Eastern and
Central Europe still more acute.
Few countries were able to boast
of a clear record as regards their
Jewish populations. The Soviet
Union, notwithstanding the fact
that it went through internal con-
vulsions in which quite a few
Jews were involved, kept anti-
Semitism away from its doors.
The Scandinavian states main-
tained their unique record of hav-
ing no Jewish problem. Else-
where, even in the United States
and other democratic lands, Nazi
and Fascist winds gave the Jews
some uncomfortable moments.

Most Important Event

There is no question but that
the report of the Royal Commis-
sion on Palestine, recommending
the partition of the Holy Land
into Jewish and Arab states,
overshadowed every other event
of 5697 no far as the Jewish
world was concerned. The re-
action of world Jewry to this far-
teaching proposal varied, and in
many respects was conflicting.
The non-Zionists, genuiAely in-

This Issue 15 Cents

A BAROMETER OF THE JEWISH WORLD

By BERNARD POSTAL and JOSEPH SALMARK

adopted a program for economic
rehabilitation of the Moslems and
for checking race hatred. In
Tunisia too the Jews were con-
fronted with a similar problem,
Arab nationalists there mixing
anti-French agitation with anti-
Semitism.
Italy's assiduous wooing of the
Moslem world brought misery to
the Jews of Tripoli. who suffered
economic discrimination and even
violence. Refusal of the Jews
to obey an anti-Semitic law forc-
ing them to keep their shops open
on Saturday on pain of being
forced back into a mercantile
ghetto led to the arrest and im-
prisonment of several hundreds
and the public flogging of two
others. Mussolini's visit to Trip-
oli and his promise of protection
failed to ease the plight of the
Jews there. Egyptian Jewry
alone in North Africa enjoyed a
year of tranquility, marked by
the dedication of a new syna-
gogue and the formation of a
branch of the World Jewish Con-
gress. In the first year of the
Italian conquest of Ethiopia the
', slashes were organized into com-
munities under the guidance of a

effectively drowned out the les-
ser rumblings of trouble that be-
set the Jews of the far-flung
Asiastic mainland. It was in
Iraq, Transjordania and Afghan-
istan, the lands nearest Pales-
tine, that the lot of the Jews
was worst. Although Afghanis-
tan remains the moat unfamiliar
spot on the map of the Jewish
world, Jewish emigrants reaching
Jerusalem from that country told
of the economic hardships of their
brethre nand their compulsory
concentration in a few towns to
facilitate the curtailment of their

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lsh 'government for protection
proved unavailing. In an effort
to allay anti-Jewish sentiment
the chief rabbi repudiated Zion-
ism. A protest strike by the
Jewish community and the Iraqi
government's poetise of equality
for all minorities did not succeed
in halting the violence and in.
citement. Nevertheless three
Jews were elected to the new
Iraqi parliament. Transjordania,
which has long been the subject
of discussion as a scene of Jew-
ish colonization, forbade the no-

personal and economic freedom.
Most of the Afghan Jews have
been beggared by the government
policy of state monopolies, and
all look to emigration as their sole
hope. In Iraq the Jews suffered
a great variety of outrages, rang-
ing from murder and pillage to
a strong wave of anti-Zionism
and political and economic per-
secution. Following the Novem-
ber putsch, anti-Jewish and anti-
Zionist agitation reaches a cli-
max with the murder of a num-
ber of Jews. Appeals to the
League of Nations and the Brit-

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German Jewish Girls beine r taught the mysteries of truck garden-
ing at a JDC training setup before emigration.

terested in Palestine as a refuge special Jewish commissioner sent
for economically dislocated and from Rome. A. census fixed the
politically harried Jews in Eur- European Jewish population of
ope, and totally opposed to or Addia Ababa at 123. New schools
uninterested in the political &his were opened for the Falashas,
of Zionism, fought the partition who become the special targets of
scheme with all the resources at Catholic missionaries.
At the Southern tip of the
their command. The Zionists.
while vociferously protesting par- Dark Centinent, the Union of
tition, could not suppress their South Africa found itself con-
elation over Grist Britain's rec- fronted with a serious outburst
ognition of the establishment of of anti-Semitism. Under the
a Jewish state as the ultimate leadership of Dr. F. J. Malan's
goal of Jewish efforts in Pales- Nationalist Party and a number
tine. Thus while the opposition of smaller anti-Jciwish and pro-
to partition was unanimous on Nazi groups, a violent campaign
the surface, one can predict that of Jew-baiting swept the country.
when negotiations with Britain While the government and var-
resell the practical stage the Zion- ious public leaders such as Gen-
ists will be ready to bargain and eral Smuts fought against the ris-
the non-Zionists will maintain ing tide of race hatred, they had
to bow to it by sponsoring a
their opposition to it.
stringent anti-alien law which vir-
Our review of the Jewish year tually cutoff all Jewish immigra-
5697, based on news of actual tion. The chief target of the at-
h•PPeni ngs and developments tack were the German-Jewish
throughout the Jewish world, refugees and Yiddish-speaking
makes no attempt to appraise the Jews, but Its effects were felt by
significance of these events na the entire Jewish community,
to their permanent place In his- which turned to the organization
tory. That is why we adopted of self-defense measures and took
the idea of trying to evaluate steps to deflect Jewish immigra-
the general Jewish situation in tion. Leading Christian groups
each country and continent by rallied to the support of the Jews
applying the language of the and the government gave serious
weather bureau. This method consideration to group libel legis-
also implies that that we do not lation. A corrollary to the big-
not consider the Jewish pano- otry campaign in the Urlion was
rama static in any given country, the Nazi ,propaganda in South-
but rather regard it as subject west Africa, a former German
to change. The changes may oc- colony administered as a man-
cur just as suddenly and quickly dated territory by the Union gov-
as drought may be succeeded by ernment. The latter dealt ruth-
a cloudburst or sunshine may lessly with Nazism in Southwest
overcome storms. It is not un- Africa, outlawing the Nazi party
due optimism that promote this and its various adjuncts. Com-
Point of view, but rather a reali- munally South African Jewry con-
zation that, the general political tinued its record of giving more
situation throughout the world per capita to Jewish causes than
being as unstable as it is. the a ny other Jewish community. A
Jewish position is of necessity also census numbered the Jewish popu-
subject to rapid modification.
lation as 95,000. In Johannes-
AFRICA
burg a new Jewish paper appear-
Jewish Weather Report: Cloudy ed, and the Jewish women of the
in the South. Stormy in the
Union established their first na-
North, Fair in Central Zone
tional organization. An effort
With civil war and Arab na- was made to colonize Jews in
tionalism raging in the north. nearby Swaziland.
Africa, Chronology
and embittered xenophobia and
Johanornbard Newt. 1, 11134-14. ,,,
anti-Semitic • agitation making Afelns's
Ant Referee temple dedIeeted.
their appearance in the south,
Addis Ababa, Oct. 12—Cerie
leadrh a.mad worn.at tom-
the Jews of Africa passed through Jewish
I.e.. for Ethiopian inn.
a year of storm and uncertainty.
Tsairlors. Oel.11—offe Now.. J...
Under the iron heel of the fas- reoneripted for Yee. on..
Jehanywoherr. Oet. 57—Phol utleas1
cist rebels the Jews of Spanish body
of Jewish wootre orrsoloof.
area-
Morocco suffered pogroms, extor-
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tion, pillage and rapine, with
thousands of them driven into
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and
Tr101111. flee.
exile or beggary or impressed hopriemed for defiled lew to M.
seep. .. doleedoy.
into the fascist armies. The
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Franco-Hitler bond gave free worm asps. og.ne4 rise of
rein to Nazi propaganda among
Jed I, 11131--Governor 11.1.
the Moslems. Similar agitation idle. Jew10 der. to moole dosed
In French Morocco was held in far b•it • day w Noterdar.
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check by the French authorities prate pertiontoel; Jrw1r 11.18.0.w
with more success than in Al- whet off as premier tronte ne Woodshed
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geria. where Aber nationalists strain.
Add. Ahab. itta. f7—Two Jewt.
successfully exploited Moslem re- eeetetealtise eotabliohed.
Fed ID—too. ereseised
sentment against Jews through crows,
Jewish foieelgati. In thntalls.
boycotts and terrorism. Follow- for TrIpolL Moab 11-11..ellei pledgee
Jew* of Uhrs.
prateetle•
to
ing • sweeping investigation of
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the source of this propaganda. merlhed In hoetWood Aeries.
the French prepared special legis-
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tour by Bernard Lecache. Presi- Jews
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dent of the International League
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Against Anti-Semitism. was cli-
maxed by the convening of the Jewish Weather Repents Ulmer.
min, With Constast Danger of
North African Inter-Federal Con-
of Bliwrele is Some Regioes
gress of the League in Algiers.
The thunderclaps in Palestine,
at which Jews and Moslems from
Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco bridge between Asia and Europe,

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