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Detroit Jews Are Warned Against
Misrepresentation by Solicitors

In his principal address at the sessions of the con•on•
lion of District Grand Lodge No. 6 of Bnai Brith, Henry
Monsky, president of the order, warned against fly-by-night
organizations that are capitalizing on anti-Semitism and are
creating ■ racket by soliciting funds under false pretenses.
Solicitors for several out-of-town English-Jewish week•
lies are also •ttemoting to capitalize on Jewish woes by
misrepresenting their missions in attempts to collect funds.
Instead of trying to sell their papers in ■ legitimate way
by securing subscribers, these solicitors ask for contributions
in sums three or four times the amount of the regular s ub-
scription price of their paper s to fight anti-Semitism.
Detroit Jews are warned not to be misled by the
tactics of these salesmen. There are in existence important
movements like the Bn•i Brith, the American Jewish Con-
gress, the America n Jewish Committee, the Jewish Labor
Committee--all through the General Jewish Council—and
locally the Jewish Community Council of Detroit, which de-
vote themselves, through recognized spokesmen, to the task
of fightin g against discrimination. Claims of newspaper
solicitors that they are engaged in such a fight on their o w n
responsibility constitut e misrepresentation of fact.

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Religion and Magic

Jewish Folk-Lore Brilliantly Presented

A Review by HENRY MONTOR

that he is a practitioner of the

J ewish religion. He could not re -

currently emphasize that a great
many of the formal observances
of orthodox Judaism are the Beal-
mutations of the atmosphere to
which all men were subject dur-
ing the centuries. But the ma-
terial he accumulated with so
much patience and scholarship is
devastating without underlining
of its inevitable conclusion.
What Trachtenberg has tried
to do is to trace the absorption
by the Jewish community during
the period from 1000 to approxi-
mately 1600 C. E. of ideas and
practices which seeped into the
religion and folklore of all peo-
ples during the Middle Ages. He
has been handicapped by the
absence of literature which could
be used as primary sources.
Largely he has had to build on
indirect references, on the inter-
pretations of writers and books
of a later period and on the
internal evidence which indicated
the continued observance of the
practices which were in use in
the days of the Talmud. The
latter volume might, In a sense,
be termed the source book for
any Jewish "Golden Bough."
There is an inconsistency in
"Jewish Magic and Superstition."
At the beginning Trachtenberg
Points out that the imitation by
Jews of rites and ideas universal
in the Middle Ages is the best
proof that they were not as shut
off from the Christian world as
later writers have tried to make
it appear. But again and again
in the book it is clear, if not
emphasized, that there was an
impassable abyss between the
Jewish and the Christian world
which found exnression in many
ways. One wonders, for example,
whether there is not a simpler
explanation then has been given
prime Tfl ItinTOMAL

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t e r Loire,
Lorre. the screen's Mr.
was the principal
tion at a luncheon given by 20th
Century Films to visiting Japan-
ese officials, who think that Mr.
Lorre does a great deal for
American-Japanese good will . . .
But when Lorre appeared at the
luncheon he was wearing a "Boy-
cott Japanese Goods" button.
Secretary Henry Morgenthau
is putting up a whale of a battle
against the dumping of 300,000
bales of cotton in the lap of
General Franco . . . He believes
that Spain's Fascist leader will
never pay for them.

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FAIR FACTS
Orchids to

Congressman Sol
Bloom for getting the texts of
the anti-White Paper speeches
delivered at the dedication of
the Palestine Pavilion into the
Congressional Record on June 19
. . . The attendance record of
the World's Fair set by the Pa-
vilion dedication on May 28 is
still unbroken . . . Even during
the Independence Day week-end
no day surpassed the high mark
net by the Palestine Pavilion
dedication . . . And that, inci-
dentally, also goes for the paid
attendance at the opening cere-
monies of the Fair on April 30
. . . The political status of Jew-
ish Palestine is most satisfactory
as far as the Fair is concerned
. In the "Book of Nations"
published under the auspices of
commissioners general of the
participating nations Jewish Pal-
estine has equal representation in
space with Great Britain
Myra Manning, Chicago Civic
Opera soprano, who sang at the
recent Tolerance Broadcast from
the Fair. is a cousin of Mrs.
Henry Fisher, wife of the Chi-
c ago judge . . . Which reminds
a s to tell you that Henrietta
Chase, one of Chicago's rising
young singers, it the daughter of
Zionist I. T. Feingold, while the
young conductor with whom she
has been presenting some inter-
esting programs is the son of
the president of the Vienna Jew-
ish community, Dr. Loewenherz
. . . Following in the footsteps

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THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939

LONDON. (WNS-Palcor Agen-
cy) — Categorical denial was
made in the House of Commons
by Colonial Secretary Malcolm
MacDonald of charges prefirred
by Haifa Christian leaders
against the Jewish supernumer-
aries of that city, in which re-
cent bomb outrages have taken
a high toll of Arab life. Captain
A. it. M. Ramsay, Conservative
had asked whether the Colonia
Jewish Gravedigger Gets
Secretary had given considera
Reinstatement in Cologne
tion to the letter addressed t
High Commissioner Sir Harol
COLOGNE, Germany. — A
MacMichael by the religion
Jewish gravedigger, who had
leaders of the Christian com -
sued
the Jewish community •in
munities of Haifa charging th e Peter P. Gilbert Selected this city
because of his dismis-
Jewish supernumeraries wit
sal was reinstated by the labor
Chairman of Nominating
having been the authors of th
court. The plaintiff proved that
Committee
bomb outrages in Haifa. lie als o
the Jewish community had en-
wanted to know what action th
gaged "Aryan" workers to dig
government proposed to take in
Peter P. Gilbert has been named graves in the Jewish cemetery
the matter.
chairman of a nominating commit- and the court decided in his
Mr. MacDonald replied tha t tee to present a slate of officers favor on the ground that, be-
the High Commissioner had re - and board of directors to the De- cause of the Reich's labor scarc-
ceived such a letter signed by troit Service Group, fund-raising ity, all available "Aryans" are
the local representatives of the arm of the Jewish Welfare Federa- needed for "urgent State and
Christian churches of Haifa and tion, it was announced by Simon political work."
making general allegations Shetzer, chairman of the board
against the Jewish supernumer - Serving on the committee with Mr.
cries. The High Commissioner Gilbert are Louis C. Blumberg, Dr.
he said, was satisfied that the Max Winslow, Ben Kramer, Bar-
ney Smith and Harvey H. Gold-
allegations were untrue.
man.
The Colonial Secretary de-
The nominating committee will
nied emphatically that there
was any foundation for ru- meet during the coming week to
pick
nominees for a president, four Tidbits from Everywhere
mors alleged] y circulated
vice-presidents, a secretary and 21
among the Jews of Palestine
members
of the board of directors.
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
that the Palestine and British
There are 63 members on the board
governments were not unsytn•
(NATrIght 1939, a. A. P. a )
and
one-third
of
the
positions
are
pathetic towards so-called il-
filled each year.
legal immigration. On the con-
ABROADCASTS
The Detroit Service Group plans
trary, he declared, the govern-
Did you know that the Na-
ment was using its best en- campaign organization, provides
deavors to prevent this traffic, the executive personnel and fur- tional Broadcasting Company is
short-waving
an hour of news to
nishes
the
man-power
for
fund
soli-
and the number of illegals
will be deducted from the citation in the annual Allied Jew- Naziland every day, in the Ger-
ish
Campaigns.
Functioning
ac-
man
language,
at 8 p. m. Ber-
next quota.
The Colonial Secretary was tively throughout the year, it au- lin time? . . . What's more,
pervises
the
collection
of
pledges,
NBC receives an average of 200
asked by Vyvyan Adams. Con- promotes programs 'Sind
—directs letters - e'• Month - from' 'German
servative, concerning what safe-
Also, under the aus- listeners-in who praise the "ob-
guards were being provided for publicity.
pices of this body, a budget com-
Jewish Holy Places, and espe- mittee conducts the hearings and jectivity"—they are afraid to use
cially what safeguards there weighs the petitions of each organ- a more complimentary term—of
would be if the Mandate were ization requesting inclusion in the broadcasts.
Oswald Pirow, South African
to be relinquished.
the annual local Jewish drive.
Minister of Defense, who is mov-
Adams had raised the question
The
Detroit
Service
Group
also
ing"
heaven and earth for the
in connection with the destruc-
tion on June 17 by Arab terror- co-operates in the general fund- return of Germany's former
raising
program
of
the
annual
De-
African
colonies to Hitler, has a
ists of the ancient Ashkenazic
Community Fund Campaign. daughter, Elsie, who lives in
synagogue and sepulcher that troit
Gus D. Newman is president of the Germany now, learning to be a
formed the Tiberias shrine of organization.
good hauafrau according to Nazi
the second-century "miracle"
standards.
Rabbi Meir Baal Haynes. "What
Here's hoping that Hjalmar
steps are being taken to stop NICARAGUA STUDENTS
Schacht
stays away from Nazi-
such outrages against Jewish
IN ANTI-NAZI RALLY land . . . Since he left the Ger-
Holy Places in Palestine?" he
man
Reichsbank
its reserve has
asked.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua .(WNS)
a new low.
The Colonial Secretary an- —University students engaged in reached
The reason why Polo Negri,
swered that he had received a anti-Nazi demonstrations here in silent film star,
is suing a Paris
report from the High Commis- protest against an order from
sioner stating that considerable Berlin to a German citizen not movie magazine for having called
her
a
friend
of
Adolf
Hitler is
damage had been done by un- to marry his Jewish Nicaraguan
known incendiaries to the Tiber- sweetheart. National Guardsmen that the rumor of such a friend-
ship
has
proved
harmful
to her
ias shrine. The Palestine govern- dispersed crowds attracted by in a busiress way . . French
ment, he asserted, was using its the demonstration, and stopped
and
American
movie
producers
utmost endeavors to protect the anti-Hitler speeches. Handbills have refused to do business with
Holy Places from attacks and were circulated throughout the her.
outrages from whatever quarter city calling upon citizens to re-
YOU SHOULD KNOW
they might emanate.
frain from patronizing Nazi-
The Jewish People's Committee
"Were not priceless holy books owned establishments.
is trying to raise a $30,000 fund
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for an anti-Coughlin radio cam-

A few days ago one of the
foremost women columnists was
giving me her interpretation of
Jewish cultural development in
Palestine. What struck her most
sharply about the colonies was
what the considered lack of re-
ligious practice. Commenting on
the fact that the overwhelming
majority of the world's Jews are
more or less orthodox in the ob-
servance of traditional rites, she
Pondered on the likelihood of a
rejection ultimately by that
Diaspora population of the re-
built Zion because the religion
the Diaspora observed might not
be reflected in the Jewish home-
land.
The only fallacy in this great
writer's conclusion was the weak-
ness of her premise: that Juda-
ism with all its encrustations in
the world at large is the only
true revelation, so to speak.
But the columnist to whom I
icier is not alone in her anxiety.
Bring a Christian, her observe-
tiona might be traced to her
awn devout faith. There are a
great many others, Jews who
have personally visited Palestine
and those who take their trav-
eling second hand. who have con-
trasted the orthodox religion their
fathers worshipped and the out-
look, which might be termed so-
cial religion, prevalent in many
of the communal colonies.
The seeming paradox will have
to be resolved. But there can be
no intelligent, rational resolu-
tion without the scientific exami-
nation of Judaism that is typified
in Joshua Trachtenberg's "Jew-
ish Magic and Superstition"
( fishrrnan's Jewish Book House).
Trachtenberg was faced with
a supremely difficult task. An-
Preaching It with detachment
and knowledge, he was never-
theless constrained by the fact

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Statement by Colonial Un-
der Secretary Dufferin
Called Un-English

Replies to Appeal of Jewish , •
National Workers'
Alliance

NAZI-INSPIRED UNION
MUST MAINTAIN JEWRY

INDICT ALLEN ZOLL
IN EXTORTION CASE

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Attack on Detroit Jews Is
Seen as Spread of Ter-
rorist Propaganda

Forced to Support Commu-
nity as a Functioning
State-Within-State

LONDON. (WNS)—A govern-
ment spokesman revealed that
despite demands from all parts
of the House of Lords for
more liberal policy toward refu-
gees, the government refused
either to loosen existing restric-
tions on immigration or to pro-
vide public funds to aid the pro-
REV, WALTON E. COLE
posed settlement of German
Jews in British Guiana and else-
where.
Lord Dufferin, who said the
total number of refugees now in
Great Britain was 40,000, as-
serted that Britain could not ad-
mit large numbers because it
would stimulate anti-Semitism.
"I have the strongest feeling,"
said Lord Dufferin, "that any Jews in Diaspora Urged to
Strengthen Economy
very large increase in the Jew-
ish population of this country
in Palestine
would provoke an anti-Semitic
feeling, which, I cannot disguise r
is an underlying factor in Eng,
The Confederation of General
land, in common with almosn Zionists, with headquarters at 75
every other country in the Great Russell St., London, Eng-
Eng-
world."
land, has issued the following
Nathan Laski, president of the World Zionist Congress election
Manchester Jewish Community, manifesto, in which the political,
took exception to the statement economic and organization prob-
made by Colonial Undersecre- leas are discussed '
tary Lord Dufferin who declared
The officers of the Confedera-
recently in the House of Lords tion of General Zionists are:
that "An increased influx of Chairman: The Rev. J. K. Gold-
refugees would lead to an id- bloom; Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
crease in anti-Semitism in Eng- Paul Goodman, Barnett Janner,
land." Laski sharply criticized The Rev. M. L. Perlzweig, Dr.
the assertion, terming it "insult- Martin Rosenblueth; honorary
ing to the noblest traditions of secretary, P. Bakstansky; honor-
the country." Writing in the cry assistant secretary, S. Tem-
Manchester Guardian, Mr. Laski, kin.
father of the president of ilia
Political Issues
Board of Deputies of British
1. The Confederation of Gen-
Jews, charged that anti-Semitism
was a product of the Ness re- eral Zionists declares the Pales-
tine White Paper issued by the
gime and that it was used
Mandatory Power to be a be-
means of disseminating an
trayal of the Jewish people and
British -
e 'violation- of intdinatteriat obli-
The Daily Express, however; gations. The new policy is a de-
complimented Lord Dufferin as

GENERAL ZIONIST
MANIFESTO ISSUED

Spread of anti-Semitic terror-
bit propaganda is seen in the
attack upon four Detroit Jews
during the past week by gang-
sters who asked them whether
they are Jewish and then pro-
ceeded to beat them up.
Similar incidents have been
reported for a number of weeks
n New York. In several In-
stances the victims were not
only beaten but also slashed
These attacks were made in the
name of a so-called "Christian
Front."
Given Year's Probation
The three youths who were
arraigned on the charge of as-
saulting Jews on Linwood near
Tuxedo on June 29 were placed
on a year's probation by Re-
corder's Judge John J. Maher.
The boys, 18 to 20 years old,
are Joseph Placido, 18 years old,

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UNITARIAN DRIVE FOR JUSTICE

Rally at Naval Armory to Be Opening
Gun in National Program to Fight
Subversive Movements in U. S.

CLERGYMEN WILL ALSO SPEAK
ON RADIO THURSDAY, JULY 20

Initial Mass Meeting to Be Followed by
Other Addresses on Advantages
of Democratic Government

The Rev. Dale DeWitt, president of Unitarian Fel-
lowship for Social Justice, of New York City, announces
that the mass meeting scheduled for 8 p. m. Monday,
July 24, at the Naval Armory, Detroit, where the Rev,
Walton E. Cole of Toledo will speak, will be the open-
ing gun in a national program of the Unitarian Church

RABBIS URGE MORE
RELIGIOUS STUDY

Mencotti, 19, of 15117 Quincy.
After he had heard the testi-
mony, Judge Maher said:
"You live in a country that Is Assembly Favors Shorter
known for its tolerance, We don't
School Days to Permit
want anybody to bring any of
Time for Religion
Europe's racial hatreds here, If
I thought that you were mem-
ASBURY
PARK, N. J. (Reli-
here of any group that was per-
secuting another race, I would gious News Service) — A resolu-
send you to jail. However, I be- tion urging shorter school days in
lieve that you are just passing order to allow more time for reli-
through the smart-aleck stage, gious education, was adopted here
so I will place you on one year's at the 39th annual convention of
Rabbinical Assembly of Amer-
probation and hope it will teach the
ica.
you a lesson."
Other resolutions passed by the
The youths were charged spe-
cifically with insulting and beat- assembly included a repudiation of
ing Albert Cohen, 29, of 8720 all forms of totalitarianism and
Twelfth; his two brothers, Fran- dictatorship, a protest against
kel and Norman, and a 19-year- Great Britain's Palestine stand, an
of the rehabilitation
old girl, Sylvia Engleberg, of appreciation
work accomplished by the Amer--
1676 Gladstone.
, can Society of Friends among refu-
1 gees, and support of the Wagner- .

Mayer LaGuardia _Kept ies .1tefugee..b11,1„,„

.to fight subversive movements in
the United States.

Dr. Cole, pastor of the First
Unitarian Church of Toledo, 0.,
has a national reputation as an
authority on propaganda tech-
niques.

eh will speak over Radio

Station WJR at 9 p. m., Thurs-
day, July 20, on the subject,

"Defending Ourselve s Against
Propaganda," As principal
speaker at
■ the mass meeting
at the Naval Armor y at 8
P. M. Monday, July 24, he will
talk on the subject, "Hitler
Over America—Exposi ng the
Propagandists W„ko Are Un-
dermining DemocracY."

Founded 31 years ago in Bos-
ton, the Fellowship for Social
Justice was created because of
a feeling that the churches and
people "were not sufficiently
aware of the existing social in-
iquities," according to the Rev.
DeWitt. The Rev. John Haynes
Holmes of New York was first
president of the organization

And .thaiirst tr ePlie

was,

NEW YORK•—An urgent ap-
addresserb'y 'ROMSterfffien
Hits Social Excesses
peal to take immediate and ener-
The assembly's social Justice M Ise of New York City. The
a "true friend of the Jews." de- can
parture from the Mandate and getic action to curb the cam-
Constitution of the Fellowship,
committee,
headed
by
Rabbi
Isidor
have no legal
validity.
The paign of slander and provocation
editorially that "organi- Confederation
revised in 1920, indicated that
affirms
its deter-
zations striving to flood Britain
directed by the followers of II. Hoffman, Jewish chaplain at one of its objectives was to seek
Columbia
University,
recommended
with. Jewish refugees should mination to assist the Yishub in Father Coughlin and members of
Palestine and the Zionist Execu-
a shorter school day to permit affiliation "with all organizations
listen to this warning and act
the people
Nazi bond
against
the Jew.
tive, together with the friends of ish
ofNew
York City,
has children to receive adequate reli- and persons engaged in promotin.
upon it." The editorial warned Zionism both in Great Britain
gious
education without overbur- the interests of social justice,"
that "There is real anxiety lest been addressed to Mayor La
and to offer "a platform for dis-
the tradition of tolerance and and in the League of Nations, in Guardia, by Louis Segal, general dening their daily programs. In cussion of
all vital issues of the
reference
to proposals to net aside
kindliness in Britain should suf- the struggle against the fulfill- secretary of the Jewish National
day."
far in consequence of an influx ment of the White Paper policy. Workers' Alliance, a labor Zion- public school time for religious
education,
however,
the
committee
from the continent." 2. The Confederation believes ist fraternal order, to which AP'
"At no time has there been
expressed opposition to any such
England Asks Private Capitalto that constructive work of Jewish peal Mayor LaGuardia replied as steps as the segregation of pupils • greater challenge to , work
development in Palestine is the follows:
far
real social justice than
Finance British Guiana
along religious lines or the dis-
most effective reply to this new Lows semi, General serretars,
said Dr. DeWitt. "Re-
Settlement
missal of pupils during the school today,"
policy, and pledges itself to do 171;,!:itilr,...1.:, " rks.... Ain't... *
ligious
liberals have a special
Refugee organizations here and its utmost to support this level-
day for denominational religious
call to meet this challenge.
Nett leek, N. 1.
instruction.
in the United States hope that opment.
Dew Niri
Dr. Solomon Goldman, in an Our task is great if we will
the British government will soon
3. It records its appreciation
mi. is is wet, In io, wire sr address before the assembly, spoke assume it. Our present pro-
initiate the building of roads of the spirit of self-restraint and ref ern dal., rennnlIng
tltlt len of
gram gives us the opportunity
[mops xltaln Iltlo ell)• of weaknesses of the rabbinate and
from the coast of British Guiana national 'discipline evinced by an11-NernItle
The
.1 forth In pule teller
mistakes in synagogue practices to meet organised injustices
into the proposed areas of refu- the Yiehub during the past few
ulennl) been enlIel1 In my alIen-
with organised good will and
which
permit
extraneous
influences
gee settlement in the interior. years, and reaffirms its opposition
IPLF:A819 TURN To PACs II
to creep in. He chided members of creative social ideals." •
On May 12, Prime Minister Ne• to violence as a political weapon,
The Detroit radio program and
synagogues who participate only in
ville Chamberlain promised that which is ethically indefensible
the synagogue's social activities. mass meeting will mark the in-
such action would be taken. His and politically harmful.
The
synagogues,
he
said,
should
troduction
of the national pro-
statement was reaffirmed in the
not absorb the weaknesses of their gram, Dr. DeWitt explained. This
House of Lords by Lord Dufferin,
Economic Needs
environment
by
adopting
card
will be followed by other ad-
under-Secretary for Colonies, but
4. The Confederation believes
games, parties and similar sods] dresses on related subjects
no time indication was given on that the building up of Eretz
diversions as then own,
throughout the country, all de-
the plan for road building in Israel ix the responsibility of
signed to acquaint Americans
Inter-Faith Work
the British territory, nor was every Jew. The framework of
Reporting to the convention on with the precious advantage of
there any indication as to the the Jewish National Home must Boris Thomashefsky Was
the Institute of Religion held last Democratic government, and to
amount of help England would be designed to afford full equal-
Translator of Plays of
winter in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Rabbi unmask the movements now afoot
actually give financially. Accord- ity to all Jews, irrespective of
Shakespeare
Louis N. Levitsky of that city de- designed to undermine Demo-
ing to the Prime Minister the
dared
co-operation of the churches cratic institutions,
extent of the British govern-
5. Recognizing the vitally ins-1 NEW YORK. — Boris Thome-
ment's assistance will depend on portant part played by national •hefsky, who first introduced the there proved that knowledge of one
There will be no admissims
another's
religions "offered not by cheers for the meeting In the
whether the proillects of devel- capital in the work of building Yiddish theater to America and
Way
of
apology,
but
with
a
con,
Naval
Armory in Detroit, but
opment are good. whether suffi- the Jewish National Home, the who for many years was a familiar
sciousness of our worthwhilenees
cient private capital is available Confederation calls upon the personage on the East Side of New in the scheme of American democ- admission will be by ticket only.
to finance large-scale settlement Jewish people to make extraordi- York, died Sunday afternoon in racy, will find an immediate re- Tickets may be obtained at the
and whether the amount of pri- nary efforts to raise the income Beth Israel Hospital, where he was sponse in the hearts of Ameri- Church of our Father, Unitarian.
Universalist, 4605 Cass Ave., De-
taken Saturday after suffering a cans."
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(PLRASII TURN TO TA011
troit.
heart attack. He was 75 years
old.
Translator into Yiddish of the
•
plays of Shakespeare, Boris Thome-
I
iihefsky built the National Theater
on Second Ave., in which he pre-
sented them season after season to
"Judaism in a Changing World," Edited by Rabbi Leo packed audience. He wrote nearly
80 operettas of his own and intro-
Jung, Is a Strong Plea for a Religious Judaism
duced to America such famous fig- Hiss-lca Shows Migration Continues This
Year; Pa.-
ures as Bertha Kalich, Belle Baker,
sengers on 15 "Stray" Ships Guided to
"Forward with Sinai!" ism in the present trying times. Sophie Tucker, Joseph and Rudolph
s, ek asll ab lsy o outstandingSchildkraut, and Regina Zucker-
New Havens
This phrase from Rabbi Leo s T ch he o laerzayse
berg, who was hailed as the "Jew-
Jung's preface to the series of
to
essays he edited under the title how to meet these attacks upon ish Tetrazzini" when he brought
PARIS.—The General Assem• difficult period in Jev
life
"Judaism in a Changing W or lds. Judaism. But, "neither Fascism her to this country 80 years ago. bly of the IIIAS-ICA Emigration when the plight of the . iiish
Jewish
Communism,
As an actor of Yiddish folk plays Association was told that 81,736 refugee-migrant reached and un-
a publication of Oxford Univer•
nor "is
i Jung
Rabbi
sity Press, New York ($3), m ay writes in the preface, "s ncluded like "The Green Millionaire " he Jewish men, women and chit- precedented peak.
be accepted as a summary o f among the challenges to Judaism. was beloved Of thousands. In ' re- dress emigrated from Eastern
80% Frew Germany
the contents of this interesting The former is a danger that cent years, although grown stouter and Central European countries
Of the 81,736 Jewish imrai-
work.•
confronts all democracies, the and older, he appeared in revues m
duizra
ring tion thecoy n e tia nrued 193.8 n a anduo tw
he grants from
Eastern and Central
This book describes the chat• latter is a religion of despair, at Allen St. restaurants, and a few
Europe, 80% were refugees from
ago revived "The Green mg scale during the first five Germany
lenges that are directed at Juda- the harvest of universal miser; weeks
and former Austria,
Millionaire"
for
a
Cone
y Island months of 1939. The Associa- and 20% originated
and of mankind's insufficient at-
from East.,
tension to the plight of the audience.
Lion, comprised by the Hebrew
ern Europe. Of this number ,
A Theatrical M
t 14
under-dog."
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
4356
refugees
from
Germany
Thomashefsky, who was nearly Society (HIAS) and the Jewish and Austria have been
trans-
Dr. Jung has also written the
first of the or 15 essays, under the six feet tall and weighed 230 Col
Colonization Association of Paris ported by the HIAS-ICA to
pounds,
was
born
in
Kiev,
Russia,
(TCA)
title "Maj
held its in
annual
meeting countries
overseas. The number
of Judas on April 21, 1864. Three earlier here recently
the preserice
of
ism," in which Aspects
he explains
Juda- generations of his family had been of delegates from
Jewish imm igrants from East
many coon-
Ism in the categories of modern cantors, and he was a boy soprano tries under the chairmanship of European countries including P Po-
thought. It is interesting to note soloist while in Russia.
and
Max Gottschilk of Brussels, Bel- land, Rumania, Li
that while, in his preface. Dr.
When he was 13
Latvia who have been transported
rted
Jung attacks Jewish secular na- family was exiled from
years
old on
his Kim, miss was chosen president overseas by the HIAS-ICA was
Russia
tionalism, in his opening essay suspicion of harboring Nihilists. of the Association. Represents , - koss, making a total of 9,392
of Jewish
he pays tribute to Zionism, stet- Almost immediately after his ar- lives
committees
and immigrant
agencies in aid
Po- refugees and immigrants aided
ing: "Zi onism has taught all Is- rival here he went to work in a land, Beligum, France, Germany, by the HIAS-ICA in 1938.
reel the centrality of the Holy cigarette factory, but even then atvia,
. Lithuania,
South Amer-
.
These figures, the report pointa
Land, and has re-galvanized Jew. his interest was in the stage, and I ica and the United States were out, do not include the number
Isis energies."
his first theatrical venture came „ ass
of refugees and immigrants who
Dr. David de Sola Pool con- I when he was only 14 years old. press
enabled to find havens of
tribute, an article on "The Chal- I This consisted of arranging for a
The report, covering the pe- refuge due to the indirect aid,
lenge to Jewish Education, ,, in I visit here
he of a Yiddish acting corn- rind between Jan. 1, 1938, to guidance and assistance given
which he points out that Jewishpan ,y . from London.
May 31, 1939, was submitted by them by the HIAS-ICA through
education is the cooperative re-
I t la said his first appearance the directorate of the HIAS-ICA, establishing contact with their
aponnibility of 'shoal and home. was as a female impersonator in Dm Edouard Oungre and James relatives, securing for them the
In "The Challenge
h allenge of Science, the now forgotten l'ofli Theater, Bernstein. It contained the high- necessary affidavits and obtain•
Dr. Moses L. Isaacs emph ae ize, " which was near the Wanamaker lights of the "Rescue Through ing as , in the case of the IIIAS-
that "religious teachings have store. Eventually he became an Emigration" work accomplished ICA Committee in Buenos Aires,
accomplished actor in musical co-
ns by the o
DR. LEO JUNG
Within in the past gover-ment permits for their
MIAMI Trtlx •r

YIDDISH THEATER'S
FOUNDER IS DEAD

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REPORT 81,736 JEWS LEFT CENTRAL
AND EASTERN EUROPE DURING 1938