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VOL. XL NO. 8
1,000 Jews Under Arms for Defense CONVICT 6 NAZIS
IN NEW YORK FOR
Of Yishuv; To Suppress "Lunatics" CIVIL LAW ABUSE
Who Are Harming Jewish Position
Clergy Urge Probe of
Rev. Gerald Winrod,
the "Kansas Hitler"
TOPEKA, Kansas. (WNS)—
Alarmed at the increasing po-
litical strength of the Rev.
Gerald Winrod, fundamental-
ist minister and anti-Semite,
who is seeking the Republican
senatorial nomination in Kan-
sas, a statewide committee of
religious and educational lead-
ers here have appealed to the
Dies Congressional Committee
on Un-American Activities to
investigate Winrod's record.
"We appeal to the Dies com-
mittee to investigate Winrod,
his record, the sources of his
lavish expenditures and his
Fascist connections," the com-
mittee said. "The swastika
must not fly over Kansas."
Rev. J. C. Cleveland of the
First Congregational Church
in Kansas City, Kan., chair-
man of the committee, said
Winrod had forced the Nazi
issue upon Kansas and had
attacked many Protestant de-
nominations, the Catholics,
Free Masons, Jews and the
Y. AL C. A. The committee
quoted excerpts from Winrod's
magazine, "The Defender Mag-
azine" and asserted that "in
fact the pages of his periodi-
cals frequently read like pages
from Hitler's 'Mein Kampf.'"
Minutes of Trial Ordered
by Judge to Be Sent
to Washington
Warning With Regard to Security Issued by Moshe
Shertok to Nationwide Conference Called
ONE OF DEFENDANTS
to Discuss Security for the Jews
GAVE HITLER SALUTE
COMMITTEE IS ORGANIZED TO ENFORCE
DISCIPLINE AMONG JEWS IN PALESTINE
Watchman Slain While on Duty in J. N. F. Forest; Jew-
ish Ghaffir and Three Colonists Among Recent
Killed; Situation Remains Tense
JERUSALEM (WNS—Palcor Agency)—There are
7,000 Jews under arms, engaged in day and night duty
to defend Palestine Jewry, Moshe Shertok, head of the
political department of the Jewish Agency Executive,
told a nationwide conference called to discuss the secur-
ity situation. At the same time he called upon the Yishuv
to "reframe its attitude against the lunacy of the past few days"
which, he held, has imperilled the Jewish situation.
Previously, Isaac Ben Zvi, president of the Vaad Leumi, had
emphasized that "irresponsible elements are stabbing the Yishub
in the back. The necessity of curbing Jews who, allegedly, have
been responsible for some of the recent acts of violence was one
of the principal themes of the e'
MONTEFIORE DIES
IN LONDON AT 80
conference. A committee rep-
resenting various factions and
groups in Palestine Jewry was
organized at the conference to
help enforce discipline among
Jews. Representatives of Tel
Eminent Leader and Au-
Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, the Farm-
thor; Headed Anglo-Jew-
ers' Federation, the Federation
ish Aaa'n 1896-1921
of Labor and the Agudath Israel
were named to the committee
LONDON.—Dr. Claude Joseph
which has been given en arduous
task by the running amok during Goldsmid-Montefiore died last Sa-
the past few days of individual turday at the age of 80. A mem-
Jews.
ber of one of the most prominent
Statement by Chief Rabbi
British-Jewish families, he had
After Ben Zvi had condemned
individual acts of reprisal and
warned that refusal to maintain
discipline would have serious con-
sequences, Shertok said that the
7,000 Jews under arms are
equipped with nearly 5,000 gov-
ernment rifles which have been
distributed among the various
formations at the disposal of le-
gal defense day and night in com-
batting Arab terror. This activ-
ity, he emphasises, "is being con-
tinuously extended into new
spheres. Any irresponsible ac-
tivity fans the flames and
strengthens Arab terror." .Chief
Rabbi Herzog, in condemning any
Jew taking the law into his own
hands, said "attacks on innocent
Arabs are impure. If Arabs were
to shoot me I would beseech Jews
not to avenge my. death."
Meanwhile, seven additional
Jews were killed. A watchman
was Blain while on duty in the
J. N. F. forests near Sheikh
Abrek. A Jewish ghaffir was shot DR. CLAUDE G. MONTEFIORE
to death in a battle in Emek
Jezreel between a mixed detach- been active in Jewish affairs for
ment of British soldiers and Jew- many years. Ile was the organizer
ish ghaffirs and brigands. Three of the liberal or reform Jewish
Jewish colonists were killed when
movement in England in 1910.
300 brigands attacked Civet Ada.
Recognized as one of Britain's
A sixth Jew was shot to death
while walking home in the dark outstanding authorities on Jewish
in Tiberias and the seventh fatal- literature, he was honored for his
ity died of injuries received when researches by Oxford and Men-
a bomb shattered a bus crowded chester Universities. lie was born
with Jews in Haifa. Thirty-nine in London in 1858, the oldest son
Jews were injured, 30 of them of the late Nathaniel and Emma
seriously, in two Haifa bomb ex- Montefiore. His mother was the
plosions. Individual stabbings, daughter of Sir Isaac Lyon Gold-
shootings, stonings and bombings smid. His additional surname was
multiplied so rapidly in Haifa acquired by Dr. Goldsmid-Monte-
that military officers ordered pro- fiore by letters patent.
From 1896 to 1921 he served
tection for the Jewish quarters.
Steel-helmeted marines formed a as president of the Anglo-Jewish
cordod around the eastern end of Association. Ile was president of
the Kingsway to prevent an Arab the Liberal Jewish Synagogue and
mob from entering the Jewish president of University College,
quarter. With Haifa the new Southhampton, from 1915 to
focus for the disturbances. there 1934. He was the author of a
was a general air of relief at the number of scholarly J e w i s h
arrival of an advance detach- works.
ment of Irish Guards and Essex
Regiments, the remainder of
whom will follow, to bring the
strength of British forces in Pal-
estine almost back to the point
where they were in 1936.
Maximum Fine of $10,000
Imposed Upon Offending
Nazi Organization
EIVERHEAD, N. Y. — The
maximum fine of $10,000 was im-
posed upon the German-American
Settlement League, Inc., for vio-
lation of the New York state civil
rights law.
It took the Suffolk County jury
less than two minutes on Tuesday
to find the six officials of the
league guilty of abusing the law
and to convict them of the crime.
Judge L. Barron Hill, in met-
ing out near maximum sentences,
said that he would ask the Dis-
trict Attorney's office to forward
minutes of the trial to Washing-
ton.
He characterized certain actions
of the defendants at the trial as
"amazing," referring to one of
the defendants who gave the Nazi
salute to the American flag in
the court room and when asked
if that was the American salute,
replied:
"No, but it will be!"
The specific charge accused
leaders of the league—an affiliate
of the German-American Bund,
which claims 400,000 members—
of conducting a secret oath-taking
society without filing a list of
members with the secretary of
state.
Judge Hill imposed the maxi-
mum fine of $10,000 against the
league and sentenced Ernest Muel-
ler, league president, to serve oee
year in the county jail and fined
him $1,000.
The other five defendants were
each fined $500 and given sus-
pended jail terms of one year,
pending good behavior. The five
are Henry Hauck, manager of
the camp; Herman Schwarzmann,
Bruno Ilaehnel, Henry Wolfgang
and Adds Bielefeld.
Fritz Kuhn, national leader of
the Bend, who was in court when
the jury returned, said the verdict
would be appealed. Under this
verdict Kuhn and officials of the
Bund are also liable to prosecu-
tion since the Bund has not filed a
membership as required by the
law. Roy P. Mondhan, state corn-
niander of the Disabled American
Veterans of the World War, was
the complainant against the six
Nazis.
Strictly
Confidential
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS .1. BIR.014
(Copyright, MI. If A. F. 8./
OPEN YOUR EARS
That much-talked-of Jewish
unity received its first test when
Nathaniel Goodrich of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee's staff
represented that organization, the
American Jewish Congress and
the Jewish War Veterans in hear-
ings before a committee of the
New York State Constitutional
Convention . . . July 15 will be
ty
ycontro-
ndate
th ei
b
an important
in Jersey
versy between
i
Jew sh Community Center and
Congregation Emanu-EI . .. The
alien-baiters who are howling
against admitting German and
Austrian .refugees don't know
their history . . . In the records
of the General Land Office in
Chicago there's a dust-laden vol-
ume revealing that in 1934 the
government offered free land in
Illinois and Michigan to 235 refu-
gees from war-torn Poland . . .
The personnel of the World Youth
Congress to be held at Vassar
College in August opens some in-
triguing possibilities . . . Among
the delegates will be Arabs and
Jews from Palestine, Czech Nazis
and Jewish refugees from AU,-
tria and members of the youth
-- division of a British Fascist par-
ty • . . Ben Wigder, star re-
porter of the Detroit News. told
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RABBI ADLER GETS
CALL TO DETROIT
Named Assistant to Dr. A.
M. Hershman at the
Shaarey Zedek
Maurice II. Zackheim, president
of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
announced on Wednesday that
Rabbi Morris Adler has been call-
ed to the post of assistant rabbi.
He will 'assume his duties as as-
Jailed on Morals Charge
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo:
Noted as Jurist and Jew
By BERNARD POSTAL
(Copyright, 'III, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
Men seldom spoke or wrote
about Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
without resorting to superlatives.
When he was an undergraduate
at Columbia University, a profes-
sor said of him: "there goes the
man who writes the most powerful
English of any Columbia student
since Alexander Hamilton." Ila
boiled lawyers who pleaded cases
before him compared him to a
saint, a medieval scholar and
Abraham Lincoln. Chief Justice
Charles E. Hughes called him the
best qualified man ever to head
the bench of New York State. Be-
fore his appointment to the Su-
preme Court he was widely ac-
claimed as "the most distinguished
American jurist not on the Su-
preme Court." On the occasion
of his departure for the Supreme
Court, his colleagues on the New
York State Court of Appeals eu-
logized him as "the one man who
could best carry on the great
Holmes tradition of philosophic
approach to modern American
jurisprudence." Card ozo ap-
pointment to the Supreme Court
vacancy created by the retirement
of Holmes in 1932 was met with
universal approbation unparalleled
in the memory of any living mem-
ber of the American bar. Charles
Evans itughes, Jr., when he was
Cardozo's secretary in Washing-
ton. was asked if the job was a
difficult one. "It is the grandest
in the world," he replied, "but
you might as well be secretary to
an enclyclopedia." After his ele-
vation to the highest court in the
land, so eminent an authority as
RABBI MORRIS ADLER
sistant to Dr. A. M. Hershman
on Sept. 1, in time to assist in
planning for the High Holy Days
and for the next school year
which will commence after Rosh
Hashonah which will be observed
on Sept. 26 and 27.
Rabbi Adler had graduated
f r o ni the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America with the
highest honors, winning first
prizes in Bible, Hebrew and
Homiletics. He received his acad-
emic training at the College of
the City of New York. For three
years he served as rabbi of Con-
gregation Emanu-El, Buffalo, N.
Y. He is the present president
of the Buffalo Zionist District and
was one of its delegates to the
41st annual convention of the
Zionist Organization of America
held in Detroit July 1 to 5. In
the popular elections for the
American Jewish Congress Extra-
ordinary Session to be held in
New York in September, he was
elected one of the Buffalo dele-
gates. He is a member of the ad-
ministrative committee of three of
the Bureau of Jewish Education
in Buffalo and is a member of
the board of governors of the
Buffalo Jewish Federation.
His father, Rabbi Joseph Ad-
ler, is a rabbi in New York and
is the dean of Yeshivah Trefereth
Jerusalem.
Rabbi Adler was recommended
for the Shaarey Zedek post by
Dr. Hershman from a field of sev-
eral candidates who appeared be-
fore the congregation during the
winter months.
ikon Roscoe Pound of the liar-
yard Law School, said that Car-
dozo ranks with John Marshall,
Joseph Story and Oliver Wendell
Holmes among the 10 greatest
judges in American judicial his-
tory. Liberals and conservatives
both saw something to applaud in
his record and attainmente. Even
the most bitter critics of the "nine
ld men" and the power they
wielded over the political and eco-
nomic destiny of the nation spoke
softly of Cardoso.
Yet, of all those with whom
he served on the Supreme Court,
Cardozo was the least well known
to the American people. Most of
his colleagues had come to the
Court with well-established rein,
tations earned in the highest
strata, of public life and were no
strangers to the headlines. Car-
dozo's road to the Supreme Court,
however, had been marked by
nothing more startling than a repu-
tation as one of the nation's great-
est jurists and legal scholars, ac-
quired through two decades of
service on the New York Court
of Appeals. Until President
Iloover elevated him to the Su-
preme Court, Cardozo was known
only in the comparatively limited
academic circles of the law among
his fellow judges. His five years
on the Supreme Court, marked as
they were by even more brilliant
accomplishments, did not bring
him into the limelight that focused
on the other judges. Even the
historic controversy between the
Supreme Court and the Roosevelt
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'PROFESSORS HIT Permanent Refugee Commission looms as Outgrowth
SEGREGATION OF Of Evian Parley; Mexico and Dominican Republic Offer
JEWS IN POLAND
Winterseheidt, Nazi Leader, Is
NEW YORK (WNS)—Severin
iVinterscheidt, former managing
editor and advertising manager
of the Deutseher Weckruf and
Beobachter, official organ of the
Nazi German-American Bund, was
given an indeterminate sentence
in the New York County Peniten-
tiary in Special Sessions Court
after his conviction on a charge
of impairing the morals of a
minor. He will have to serve
from six months to three years
after which time he may be de-
ported. He had previously served
a 30-day term for a similar of-
fense. A report of a probation
officer revealed that he was sworn
in 1936 by Julius Streicher as a
representative of the Nazi propa-
ganda bureau and that he is a
member of the Storm Troops. A
letter from Fritz Kuhn, Nazi
leader in this country, declaring
"we cannot extol his virtues too
highly," failed to sway the court.
TELEPHONE
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1-040
266 Academic Leaders in
Britain Condemn the
Ghetto Benches
DEFEND TRADITION OF
WORLD SCHOLARSHIP
Liberal Conditions for the Colonization If Exiles
South American Countries Ready to Take Only Farm Workers; Tentative Agree-
ment Reached Between United States and Britain With Regard to Pro-
posed Program for Relief to Expatriates
Protest Announced by Civil
Liberties and World
CONFERENCE ADJOURNED ON FRIDAY AFTER HEARING COSTA RICA,
Jewish Congress
PANAMA, NICARAGUA, HONDURAS WILL ADMIT SHARE OF REFUGEES
LONDON.—Two hundred and
sixty-six outstanding leaders of
the academic world in Great Brit-
ain have joined in a strong pro-
test against the segregation of
Jewish students of Poland in
ghetto benches in Polish academic
institutions. Coupled with this
protest leaders in the academic
world of Great Britain appeal to
their colleagues in Polish institu-
tions of learning to "oppose this
plan of segregation" and "to seek
peace through means that are in
consonance with the great tradi-
tion of Polish and world scholar-
ship."
A copy of this declaration was
also sent to the Polish argbassa-
dor in London and to the Polish
ministry of education in Warsaw.
Syracuse Mayor Flays Anti-
Semitic Group Seeking His
Membership
Hear Germany Will Permit Emigrants to Take 10 Per Cent of Value of Their Prop-
erty With Them; Sir Neil Malcolm Estimates It Will Cost $5,000
to Settle a Family on a Farm
EVIAN-LES-RAINS, France. (WNS)—The intergovernmental refugee conference
moved into three days of executive session Tuesday, July 12, in preparation for ad-
journment on Friday, July 15, after hearing Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and
Honduras pledge themselves to admit their share of refugees if other countries did
likewise. Meanwhile, the conference was stirred by a rumor as yet unconfirmed that
Germany had let it be known she was ready to permit emigrants to take 10 per cent
of the value of their property with them on condition that the conference worked out a program
for getting all Jews out of Germany and Austria within live years. At the same time the American
and British delegations agreed to meet with a German-Jewish delegation headed by Otto Hirsch
that presented a memorandum urging that provision be made for the emigration "f 200,000 Jews
from Germany in six years and the creation of a special clearing bank to facilitate the transfer of
Jewish funds from the Reich.
Creation of a permanent internation refugee aid commission independent of the existing League
4 of Nations agencies and with
headquarters in London, and
Archbishop Deplores
branches in other European cit-
Persecution of Jews
ies loomed as the probable chief
contribution of the intergovern•
CINCINNATI. — (Religious
mental refugees conference to the --
News Service)—In a pastoral
solution of the refugee problem.
letter requesting Catholics in
A
tentative agreement on such a
his archdiocese to pray for
Describes European Tour
program was reported to have
oppressed by Nazism and
After Prolonged Stay
been reached between the United
Communism, Archbishop John
in Palestine
States and Great Britain with
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final action being delayed because
vigorously deplored persecu-
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tion of Jews.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. (WNS)—
Mayor Rolland Marvin of Syra-
cuse in a letter sent to Lt. Gen.
Count von Cherep - Spiridovich,
New York City, sponsor of an or-
ganization called "The American
Tribunal," an Aryan anti-Semitic
group, denounced it as "viciously
intolerant" and demanded that his
name be removed from its files and
his "nomination" as a member of
its advisory committee withdrawn.
The mayor's nomination was for-
warded to him in a prospectus of
the organization marked "Confi-
dential Document: Do not let fall
into un-American hands." The
pronouncement contained the us-
ual anti-Semitic fulminations and
instructed members to register and
vote "only for men and women of
pure, white American blood and
race, endorsed by the American Former Vienna Editor De-
Tribunal." Members were urged
scribes Country's Last
to spy on Jewish leaders, rabbis,
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I ionI at a, Jewish officeholders, _
bankers and organizations and
diplomats of Jewish extraction.
The most dramatic and most
vividly descriptive story of the
Orthodox Rabbis Hear Praise of
last hours of the Austria of tra-
Pope for War on Anti-Semitism
dition and fame that had been
B El, 51 A R, N. J. (W N S)—
swallowed up by the Nazis In now
Praise of Pope Pius for his de-
recorded in what is without doubt
fense of the Jews was voiced by
one of the beat bits of reportorial
Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of
writing
on record.
New York in his presidential mes-
"The Last Five Hours of Aus-
sage to the annual convention of
the Rabbinical Council of Amer- tria" by Eugene Lennhoff, the
ica, which represents the English- former editor of the Vienna Tele-
graph, which continues to appear
speaking Orthodox rabbinate.
The convention adopted a reso- as organ of Nazi Germany, comes
lution urging the New York State from the press of Frederick A.
Constitutional Convention to ex- Stokes Co., 443 Fourth Ave., New
empt Jews who observe the Jewish York ($2.50), and is certain to
Sabbath from observing Sunday. be ranked as the most realistic
Rabbi Goldstein was re-elected description of the occurances in
president.
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PISGAH TO INSTALL
OFFICERS ON MONDAY
•
Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith
will hold public installation of
new officers on Monday, July 18,
at 8:30 p. m., at its lodge rooms
in the Maccabees Bldg.
The new officers to be installed
are: Former Judge Joseph Sand-
ers, president; Louis Rosenzweig,
first vice-president; Louis H.
Schostak, second vice-president;
Joseph Gains, recording secretary;
Dr. George Leib, guardian. -
Vocal selections by Mrs. Grace
Berlin, dramatic 'soprano, will be
rendered and refreshments will be
served.
The new administration, through
its newly elected president, For-
mer Judge Sanders, has announced
that the lodge members will co-
operate with and engage in all
functions for the benefit of local
or other enterprises which will
benefit the Jewish population in
Detroit or elsewhere.
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REFUGEE RELATES
AUSTRIA'S DEMISE
By MILTON MARWIL
Travelling from Palestine to
the adjacent European countries
today gives one the feeling of
stepping off into a morass of Jew-
ish misfortune and sinking deep-
er and deeper the further one
penetrates into the continent.
One leaves Ilaifa apprehensive of
facing a hostile world, and en-
tering the eastern gateway of
Europe at Turkey and proceed-
ing north into Rumania and Po-
land, the fear becomes a fact
and heightens in intensity till it
reaches its peak in Germany. It
is an actual physical conscious-
ness of the increasing tide of
anti-Semitism that nearly envel-
opes the observer as he travels
across Europe. It is like being
wound tighter and tighter with
the rags of hate until one is
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ZIONISM'S NEW LEADER
Dr. Solomon Goldman, New President of Zionist Organization of America, Is an Out-
standing Scholar, Brilliant Orator, Author of a Number of
Important Books
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
opyriaht. 1938. eaten Art, Feature Arndlcste)
At Detroit at the close of Inde-
pendence Day, a new era began
for the Zionist movement in
America with the election of the
first mid-westerner as president
of the Zionist Organization of
America.
Dr. Solomon Goldman holds the
distinction of being the first man
to be elected to that high office
by popular vote of the delegates
at the annual convention. and
that, significantly enough, is one
of the symbols of the approaching
era.
Essentially a democrat, loyally
devoted to the idea of popular
action in Jewish affairs, a believer
in the nationality-personality ideal
as the symbol of Jewish existence,
Dr. Goldman will undoubtedly be-
come the idol of the Zionist
manes. As a great scholar and
Hebraist—he has to his &edit
more than a dozen books of es-
says, literary criticisms and school
textbooks—he was first advanced
as a candidate for the presidency
by the cultural groups within
Zionism; but as the brilliant in-
terpreter of the democratic ideal
of Jewish nationalism and as an
orator who has swayed thousands,
he is certain to become the favor-
ite of the people—of Am Israel.
In his acceptance speech in
the early hours of the morning
on Tuesday, July 5, a few min-
ute. after the great demonstra-
tion hailing his ascendancy to
the presidency of American
Zionism, Rabbi Goldman told •
story that explains his prema•
turely gray hair and the genius
of his personality. H. told
th e audience of his background
—"I was born into Zionism,"
he said— and said that his
grandfather. Rabbi Joshua
Grossman of Kishineff, had slept
for 40 years using • stone for
a pillow as • mark of mourn-
ing over the deltruction of the
Temple. Hi. own ■ ppearance,
which is belied by his 44 years,
gives the impression a• if he,
too, Lad used • stone fee •
pillow becaus e he cannot rest
while a cruel world tries to de-
stroy his people and because
he had dedicated his life to the
Zionist movement.
commission be empowered to deal
with all refugees wherever they
come. The British and French are
insisting on restricting the com-
mission's field exclusively to Ger-
man and Austrian refugees and
are also anxious to subotdinate it
to the League of Nations. Under
the American plan the commis-
sion would have its own adminis-
trative and technical staff and di-
rector, with James G. McDonald,
former League High Ceinmissione--•
er for German Refugees, regarded
as the logical choice.
An
ment to constitute
the intergovernmental refugee
conference
■ as a permanent
committee which is to meet
periodically was reached by
representatives of the 32 par-
ticipating governments •s the
parley adjourned its meeting
until Aug. 3, when it will meet
again as a permanent agency
in London, with the diplomatic
representative ■ of the powers
representing them. Joseph P.
Kennedy, United States am-
bassador to Great Britain, will
represent the United States.
Myron C. Taylor, chairman of
the American delegation, will
remain in Europe in order to
participat e in use meeting. Be-
fore adjourning the conference
■ agreed to establish a perma-
nent secretariat lu London with
a n American as permanent di-
rector. Former Secretary of
State Henry L. Stinson or Mr.
Taylor ■
are dad as the
likely choice.
Meanwhile, spokesmen for 10
more countries and Sir Neil Mal-
colm, present League High Com-
missioner, were heard by the con-
ference at its tnird public session.
Mexico agreed to furnish "asylum
to foreigners who are afraid for
their lives" and promised them
opportunities for both agricultur-
al and professional men and
pledged to provide technical aid
and seed. Ecuador and Peru both
stated' that could admit only far-
mers but want no intellectuals or
traders. The Colombian and Yen-
lion at Detroit. The popular es-
teem in which he is held was
manifested two weeks ago when
26,000 of the 31,000 Chicago
Jews who voted in the popular
Rabbi Goldman was born in elections of the American Jew-
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Koein, Volhynia, on Aug. 18, ish Congress gave him their votes.
1893, and came to this country as
His Unique Philosophy
a youth. Ile studied at the Isaac
Rabbi Goldman's philosophy is
Elchanan Yeshiva and later trans- unique. It raises to new heights
ferred to the Jewish Theological the ideal of Jewish nationality—
Seminary which ordained him as of the Jewish personality the de- How It Feels to Be a Jew
rabbi and which bestowed upon scription of which was no eloquent
him the degree of Doctor of He- at the convention banquet that
By AL SECAL
brew Literature in 1936. lie has the 1,500 people who crowded
been—and is—a leader in the the ballroom atood and cheered
Sometimes I wish I were a
Histadruth Ivrith, which he has him. Ile conceives Zionism as the Gentile. To be suss, you have
served as national president; the highest expression of the Jewish your troubles, too. You are wor-
American Jewish Congress, the renaissance. He maintains that ried about your children, and
United Palestine Appeal, of which one without the other has no wonder fearfully at tomorrow,
he is now one of the national meaning for him. He regards his suffer unemployment and tread
chairmen and of which he served congregation not merely as a timorously on an insecure world.
as honorary national vice-chair- house of worship but as a cultural
Yetis the pain of Jews as
man as far back as 1926, and of center. Ile often quotes Bialik's well.
practically every movement of im- phrase to speak of the synagogue
Yet you have only your own
portance in Jewish life. It is a as the laboratory of the Jewish pain as individuals to suffer. To-
tribute to his wide range of inter- spirit. He speaks of Judaism not morrow morning you will not be
ests and activities that he has re- as a religion but as the great cul- searching the newspapers anx-
cently been elected as a member ture of Israel of which religion iously (as Jews do); "What are
of the boards of directors of in a part. He speaks of the qual- they saying about us today?
the Jewish Publication Society of ity of our culture as being suf- What new reproaches are being
Ameri • ca and the Jewish Theologi- fused with the religious spirit and
heaped on us this morning? What
cal Seminary of America.
often affirms that our religion is new outrages?"
His election to the presidency
not something abstract and uni-
I dislike even hypothetically to
of the Zionist Organization of
versal but the expression of our put any people in the unhappy
America is more a gift to hi s
national personality. It is be- place of Jews; but, in order that
wife than to anyone else, this
cause of this that his own syna- you may understand Jews, let us
being their 20th wedding ■ nni.
gague—Congregation Anshe Emet imagine that some hideous fate
. Rabbi Goldman was
of Chicago--is • veritable work- has done to Gentiles as Jews have
married to Alice M. Lefkowitz
shop for all cultural activities. It been done by for a long time.
of Brooklyn, N. Y., on June 23,
is noteworthy that as ...part of This has made you almost
1918.
the dedication of his new sync- psychopathic about yourself—an
So great is the popularity of
Rogue annex and school building inward-looking, brooding man to
the new Zionist leader that he is
last. October he had an evening whom even the well-disposed
followed wherever he goes by of Jewish folk-music,
a Jewish neighbor may look suspect You
hosts of admirer, and students.
art exhibit, an address--by his should like to be friendly with
Ile is the proverbial teacher—the
great friend A. If. Friedland of Neighbor Smith but yesterday, as
Rabbi of Tradition—who gathers
ervaetlaunred.— devoted to Ilebrew he passed by, there was something
students wherever he goes and C
litie
in his e-yGe that suggested he might
whose students literally drink
A .description of the devotion be hantl
e.
knowledge and wisdom from his shown him by his followers would You
say to yourself, "I've De-
lips. Unbounded loyalty came to
bt incomplete without relating come . a frightened little man
him from a vast majority of the
how his own congregation won. afraid of_ everytkimg_and every-
Cleveland delegation at the con- ships him
and makes it possible body. I ought to snap out of it"
vention and the unanimous voice
for him to carry on his numerous But, then ooly day before pester-
of Chicago Zionists accompanied
activities outside the synagogue. day, your boy who Is Jost oat of
him to the 41st annual conven.
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