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Sabbath Scriptural Selections •
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 16:18-21:9
Prophetical portion—is: 51:12-52:12
August 18, 1939
Ellul 3, 5699
Save the Pavilion
The possibility that the Jewish Pales-
tine Pavilion at the New York's World
Fair may be compelled to close its doors
unless financial aid is forthcoming is most
distressing.
Jews have reason to feel inspired that
we are represented as an entity among
the nations of the world at the great
international exhibit. In an age of nega-
tivism and destruction, at a time when
decency is being trampled under foot and
Jewry everywhere is being crucified, we
have an opportunity to show on the free
soil of the United States our ability
to create on an equal plane with the other
nations of the world. The Palestine Pavil-
ion provides this chance to show the world
the constructive spirit of our people. It
displays the manner in which Jews have
transformed wastelands into garden spots,
how a country that has been turned into
a desert has been made habitable. It
shows true pioneering spirit and gives
a signal to the world at large that the
Jewish people lives and that we refuse
to yield to terrorism that seeks to reduce
us to pariahs.
Unfortunately, unlike the other exhibits
at the World's Fair, the Palestine Pavil-
ion has no functioning government to look
to for help. All we possess is a moral
claim upon our people to come to the aid
of constructive pursuits. In time of stress,
the people must make sacrifices.
To close the Palestine Pavilion would
mean to create a condition of stress, even
disrespect for our own creativeness and
therefore self-humiliation. Our people
must not permit the Pavilion to be aban-
doned. It must stay open for the sake of
our own self-respect. Jews must respond
liberally to the appeal for a fund to keep
the Pavilion open. If the exhibit closes
its doors, it will mean moral bankruptcy.
The fact that all our energies are being
taxed by the demands for refugee relief
is a poor excuse. The honor of Jewry de-
mands that the Pavilion stay open and
function with dignity and without finan-
cial hindrances.
Anti-Semitic Techniques
Germany is flooding the world with
anti-Semitic literature. The revelations in
the great film "Confessions of a Nazi Spy"
are mild compared with reports of the
extent of anti-Semitic propaganda emanat-
ing from Naziland, experienced in France.
England, the other European democracies
and South American countries.
The French government has taken fic-
tion to put a stop to the spread of racial
bigotry, and the test came when Louis
Darquier de Pellepoix, a Paris councilor,
was given a three-month jail sentence and
fined 500 francs for an inciting article in
his anti-Semitic newspaper France En-
chainee. The judgment concluded that
de Pellepoix had libeled "a group of per-
sons who by their origin belonged to a
special race or religion and that his pur-
pose was to excite hatred between citi-
zens and inhabitants." Pierre Gerard, an-
other member of the newspaper's staff,
was sentenced to a month in jail and fined
500 francs.
But in the meantime newspapers charge
that the decree against anti-Semites is
being combatted by a flow of anti-Jewish
literature in Alsace-Lorraine and other
French territories, and that one of the
schemes resorted to is a mail campaign
among French citizens to whom Nazis
send leaflets and caricatures deriding the
Jews.
Another scheme of the Nazis is typical
of the method adopted by the Bund in
America. Under the cloak of patriotism,
the anti-Semites peddle their poison and
therefore become even more danger-
ous than if they had carried on an open
fight against the Jews. In France, in-
stead of shouting "Down With the Jews,"
which falls under the decree banning cam-
paigns of race hatred, the anti-Semites
are shouting "Long Live the Jews! Down
with the French!" It is obvious that such
an approach is more dangerous and that
it is fraught with dire consequences.
The disturbing account of Nazi-Cough-
linite activities in New York, prepared for
the Nation by James Wechsler, describes
other similarly damaging techniques of
the anti-Semites in this country. Women,
who pose as having been insulted by Jews,
are used as tools to stir up trouble. Chil-
dren, too, are used in the organized at-
tack. "A slight variation is worked with
children," Mr. Wechsler writes. "In mid-
town New York a little boy selling Social
Justice starts to weep pitiably. Bystanders
come up to him and ask him what's wrong.
'A big Jew hit me,' he cries. A crowd
collects and women try to soothe the
child. An observer who once watched
this performance decided to remain on
the scene for a while. Nearly an hour later
the same boy reappeared and proceeded
to cry loudly. Again a crowd gathered. 'A
big Jew hit me.' sobbed the little boy.
Like confidence-game devices which are
handed down from one generation to an-
other, these Coughlin techniques are old.
They have been tried in other countries
with impressive results, and only the em-
bellishments are peculiar to this time and
city."
In the meantime the clock of time has
been turned back several hundred years,
and even the middle ages are being out-
smarted by the more extensive anti-Semi-
tic techniques resorted to by the arch-
bigots who seek to drown humanity in a
flood of race hatred.
The unfortunate thing about these ex-
periences is that while the Nazi-inspired
groups are organized the liberals are not.
While hatred finds an audience democracy
and the forces of freedom are still debat-
ing the advisability of curbing the activi-
ties of those who, under the advantage of
statutes that guarantee them freedom,
aim to deprive their targets of that lib-
erty under which they operate. Great
libertarians like Mayor LaGuardia of New
York refuse to check the anti-Semitism of
a group that is not only becoming destruc-
tive but which claims to have the encour-
agement of the police of the Empire City
of the Empire State in the Union.
New methods of counter-attack will
have to be adopted in dealing with ene-
mies of democracy. That which was feas-
ible eight months ago may be impractical
today. An occasional radio broadcast, a
massmeeting, a brief newspaper article, in
fact, all these methods combined, are prob-
ably insufficient to deal with the collective
enemy.
The best heads in our democracy had
better get together and deal with the
problem before democracy is destroyed and
there is no longer a discussable problem.
A Catholic Error
When Father Coughlin and his maga-
zine Social Justice link Jews with Com-
munism, we begin to take it for granted
that irresponsible 'people and truth-
betraying organs will not learn the first
principles of decency. But when the cam-
paign of race hatred inaugurated by the
Royal Oak radio priest finds even the
slightest response in dignified Catholic
periodicals, then it becomes necessary to
become concerned lest bigotry should find
deeper root in this country.
It was, frankly, a disappointment to
read the editorial comment in America,
A Catholic Review of the Week, of July
29, in which "Semites and Communists"
are spoken of in one breath, and in which
there is defense of activities of the Chris-
tian Front group in New York. Even more
disappointing is the conclusion of this
comment that "the attack on Father
Coughlin has become, in reality, an at-
tack on Catholicism." Nothing could pos-
sibly be further from the truth, especially
in the case of the "Semites," as America
insists on referring to Jews in this edi-
torial.
The comment in America, to which we
take exception, reads:
The cops of New York, God bless them
and all the cops like them, are being as-
sailed. Thousands of thern, according to the
Nation, •re Fascists and Coughlinites and
Christian Frontiers, and they must be dis•
missed, inquired into, reprimanded or, at
least, told not to arrest Communists and
Semites. It seems that there has been • reign
of terror during the past six months or more
in certain sections of Mayor LaGu•rdia's
town. When • Coughlinite starts an alleged
fight, the policeman to the poor person
the burly Coughlinite picks on. Not much is
needed to make the Nation scream; but the
provocation now makes the Nation scream
through an editorial and ten columns and
two half-columns. Not only must the cops
be discharged, but the Coughlinites and Chris-
tian Front boys must be cleared off the street.
The Liberals used to champion freedom of
speech and assembly; that was before all
Liberals lured out to be All-Leftist. The
Nation, fronting for the Semites and Cornr
monists, wants no freedom for any opposi.
Lion, wants "LaGuardia's police" at its beck,
wants no competition for the Daily Worker
and the New Masses and Equality and
wants Social Justice supp d. Few will pay
attention to the scream s of the Nation. We
pay attention, however, because we recognize
this added attack on Father Coughlin as part
of ■ vicious campaign to sling slime at him
and of a determination to silence him. More
than that. the attack on Father Coughlin has
become, in reality, an attack on Catholicism.
We consider this an unfair interpreta-
tion of the incidents occurring in New
York. We resent the linking of "Semites
and Communists" and we deny emphati-
cally that an attack on Coughlin and
Coughlinism means an attack on Catholi-
cism. On the contrary, we reiterate our
appeal to Catholics to curb the Coughlin-
ite campaign of race hatred and to help
put an end to bigotry and to antagonism
that divides Americans into warring
groups.
A Home — Ready Made
For those who are still misled by fac-
tionalism in times of crisis, there is a sad
but striking commentary on existing af-
fairs in the transfer of a famous German-
Jewish periodical from Berlin to Jeru-
salem and Paris. The Judische Rundschau,
which for 43 years appeared regularly
every week in Berlin, Germany, now has
its headquarters in Paris under the title
Judische Welt Rundschau and is circu-
lated in Palestine.
As long as there is a Jewish center in
Palestine, Jerusalem becomes the major
haven of refuge for Jews—politically, so-
cially, spiritually, culturally. Always there
is a cultural and spiritual haven in Jewish
tradition, in the national Jewish center.
The tragedy is that a section of Jewry
with a rich background for culture must
suddenly be uprooted and find a new home.
It is fortunate that in the present tragedy
this home was ready-made.
Factionalism must at least be avoided in
time of tragedy. It is only by achieving
unity of action based on a practical pro-
gram of work that relief will be found from
the horrors of this dark period in history.
Unity for Palestine must be made a major
plank in this program.
ANTI-NAZIS URGE
INVESTIGATION OF
HUNTER PROFESSOR
PURELY COMMENTARY
ary for Overseas Trade for
Great Britain, is quoted as hay-
'rig said, "German trade repre-
sentatives say, 'Let us know the
lowest British tender that has
been quoted and we will then
let you have the goods at 25
per cent less.' This leads to gen-
eral unsettlement and destruc-
tion of normal commercial rela-
ions and confidence. Germany's
methods are destroying trade
hroughout the world. They must
be countered."
The subsidy given by the Ger-
man government to their export-
ers has particularly effected the
textile industry in England. Many
looms in the North were threat-
ened with idleness that would
have added to the widespread
unemployment in the silk and
wool industries. This ominous
note, due to the fact that the
German subsidies were sufficient
to overcome the duty and the
currency difference between the
Pound and the mark is being
effectively remedied by the co-
operation of the textile buyers
with the anti-Nazi boycott. The
same menace has not arisen in
the dress industry as the Ger-
man dress styles did not appeal
to the British women.
The subsidy granted German
motor car manufacturera has
also created alarm, according to
Lord Perry, president of the
British branch of the Ford Mo-
tor Company. Reports show that
during the first two months of
this year German cars were be-
ing imported at a rate of nearly
three times that of 1937. The
German subsidies in this par-
ticular field have been kept a
very close secret. Urgent govern-
ment action has counteracted this
unfair competition on the part
of the Reich whose markets are
completely closed to any British
imports.
Effective work on the part of
the Anti-Nazi League's affiliates
have enforced plainly marked
labeling of all Reich goods so
that unscrupulous shopkeepers
can not foist German goods on
unwilling customers.
Third Reich to Protect Heathen
from Christianity
"Christianity is bound to suf-
fer if Germany should be per-
mitted to regain control over her
former colonies," said Captain
Harriman, executive secretary of
the Non - Sectarian Anti - Nazi
League. "This statement is issued
as a result of the recent meet-
ing of the Nazi Colonial Policy
Congress held in Vienna for the
purpose of discussing the stand
of the Third Reich in regard to
projected plans for missionary
activities in the event Germany's
colonies should be returned,"
continued Captain Harriman.
Prof. Rodenwaldt of Heidel-
berg University is quoted as hav-
ing said at the Congress, "The
bringing of Christianity to the
heathen of Africa and Asia
means a fatal breach between
him and his traditions. Any at-
tempt to establish a native Epis-
copate and clergy must be sharp-
ly condemned in the National So-
cialist theory of race."
Prof. Rodenwaldt f u r t he r
stated that as soon as the Third
Reich regains control of her colo-
nies she will prohibit Christian
Missionaries' activities and de-
mand unconditional protection
for the heathen traditions and
customs such is licensed traffic
in women, polygamy, and the
assignment of female children to
prospective husbands at birth.
Detroiter's Mother Dies at
Montreal
5Irs. Blume B. Simon, mother
of Benjamin Selbst of Gladstone
Ave., passed away on Aug. 9,
at the age of 68 after an ill-
ness of four weeks. Mr. Selbst,
vice-president of the Radomer
Friendly Society, attended the
funeral services the following
day. Surviving Mrs. Simon are
three sons, Benjamin Selbst, of
Detroit, and Harry and Abe
Simon, of Montreal, Canada.
"Vain to Live for Them and Die
for Them"
with ■ complete and undivided love, our
great fatherland. Why? Because of the rest-
less soul of the Russian people, because of
its eternal striving, because of its sleepless
hungering afte r truth, because of the im-
perishable spirit of love in its m . The
Russian dream, Russian books, Russian
friends, eager to suffer for the uni I good
—these had filled our hearts, these had
bound us in indissoluble bonds of love to
the immense Russia n homeland. Pogroms have
neither embittered us nor isolated us; we
believed, we wanted to believe, that every
blow which fell upon us was as bitterly felt
by you . .
But the lackeys of Csarism would not dis-
arm. At the call for the defense of its native
soil, the entire nation rose, under • uni I
impulse of sacrifice, shoulder to shoulder with
us, with our sons and brothers—the govern-
ment of the Czar replied with new accusa-
tions of treason, in order to cover its own in-
competence and even its treachery. Shelter.
less, pauperised, despised, the Jewish people
stood in impotence before the ruins of their
homes, and sought an explanation for these
calumnies. And the Russian people has
give n us 'its reply in the act of March 21,
which gives equality of rights. Comrades,
blessed be our common warriors and martyrs,
blessed be our common agonies, our common
humiliations; they have tempered our spirit
and made it invincible. We shall surrender
our sacred victory, our common liberty, to no
one, to no one. Let us stand guard over it
in an iron ring. He that has once been freed
shall never ■ g•io be enslaved.
Jews, in their despair over existing conditions
and the rise of bigotry, are frantic. They are
uncertain of their position. Some advise Jews to
mingle more with their neighbors as means of
creating good will. Others say, "don't be ag-
gressive; keep in the background."
Perhaps there is something to be learned from
the agonizing confessions of the late Jakob
Wassermann, the German-Jewish novelist who was
one of the greatest writers of our time. Wasser-
mann, too, was perplexed. He wanted to merge
with his neighbors. Ile gladly would have merged
with his environment and would have blessed
the day that might have marked the end of
racial antagonism—even if it were to be at the
expense of Jewish existence. But all his attempts
at assimilating with his environment did not work.
Ile expressed his reactions in a book, "Mein Weg
als Deutscher and Jude"—"My Way as German
and Jew"—in which he wrote a confessional that
should serve as an admonition to every Jew who
seeks escape and does not realize that there is
no escape. Jakob Wassermann wrote:
Vain to adjure the nation of poets and
thinkers in the name of its poets and think-
ers. Every prejudice one thinks disposed of
breeds a thousand others, as carrion breeds
m ts .
Vain to p
t the right cheek after the
left has been struck. It does not move them
to the slightest thoughfulness, it neither
touches nor disarms them: they strike the
right cheek too.
Vain to interject words of reason into
their crazy shrieking. They say: He dares to
open his mouth? Gag him.
Vain to act in exemplary fashion. They
say: We know nothing, we have seen nothing,
we have heard nothing.
Vain to seek obscurity. They say: The
coward! He is creeping into hiding, driven
by his evil conscience,
Vain to go among them and offer them
one's hand. They say: Why does he take
such liberties, with his Jewish obtrusiveness?
Vain to keep faith with them, as a com-
rade-in-arms or a fellow citizen. They say:
He is Proteus, he can assume any shape or
form.
Vain to help them strip off the chains of
slavery. They say: No doubt he found it
profitable.
Vai n to counteract the poison. They brew
fresh venom.
Vain to live for them and die for them.
They say: He is a Jew.
In these experience-begotten words that drip
with blood and reflect the pain of a great Ger-
man, one finds the reply to the Jew's desire to
merge with his neighbors. "Rejection" has been
the answer, even the instance of one as far
removed from his people as Jakob Wassermann.
The day of good will is still far removed from
our time. The period of emancipation brought
temporary hope. The ray of light has been
dimmed by the dark elements in human nature.
As a Jew, would you merge, would you mingle
more with your neighbors, would you stretch out
your hand in friendship—sometimes turn the
right cheek after the left had been smitten—and
would you seek to interject words of reason? It
is what we do daily, is it not? But it is not what
we do that counts, it is the answer we receive
that is the final result of an effort at cementing
human friendships.
"Vain to live for them and die for them. They
say: He is a Jew."
•
"Once Freed—Never Again Enslaved"
There is a note of hopelessness in the Wasser-
mann confessional which not all Jews will accept
gracefully. There is a rebellious spirit that re-
fuses to be stifled, to yield constantly, to be dom-
inated, to be trampled under foot. There are
some Christians who prefer the Jew who fights
for his rights, who rejects enslavement.
In the present hour of our battle for freedom,
for equivalent rights with our neighbors, for
our very existence, there is one document that
is worth quoting. It is the address that was de-
livered in March, 1917, by Senator M. C. Grusen-
berg before the Council of Workers' and Soldiers'
Delegates in Russia, at the time of the emancipa-
tion of Russian Jews by the Provisional Govern-
ment of Prince Lvov. Senator Grusenberg said:
Three days ago we were still slaves. Today,
by the sovereign will of the people in revolu-
tion, we are citizens . Comrades, if before
the Revolution the Russian state was merely
an immense prison, comprising only prisoners
and jailers, the most horrible cell it contained,
the torture-chamber, was reserved for us, the
Jewish people, with our six million souls.
From earliest childhood, when, eager to learn,
we knocked at the doors of the State school,
we found them hermetically sealed; and in
reply to that first child's cry there came the
brutal: "Begone! The school is not for your'
Like galley-slaves we were all chained to a
single bench, isolated in a common contempt.
If individual Jews were guilty of mis•
behavior, the Jewish people as a whole was
held responsible. Nevertheless, we have always
loved, with an unhappy and helpless love,
JEWS BEATEN IN BRATISLAVA,
SYNAGOGUES DEFILED; POLICE
FREE ARRESTED ANTI-SEMITES
(CONCLUDED FRO/1 PAGE ON1C)
(CONCLUDED FRONE PAGE 1)N
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGI ONE)
investigate this rat-hole of in-
trigue which goes under the
name of the Domaine D'Esterel,
as well as the charge that Wer-
ner Haag is the importer of ra-
cial strife in the Laurentians."
Social Security Department of
the Labor Ministry. Dr. Pomer-
antz is a refugee from Czech°.
Slovakia and a former instructor
of mathematics at Prague Uni-
versity. Two refugee expers
t
were ale° engaged by the Agri - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
culture Ministry.
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
The government granted per-
mission for kosher slaughter on
application of the Jewish center Pavilion at the World's Fair... .
which perviously had been per- So here goes B. P.'s lowdown.
mitted to slaughter only fowl REFUGEE ROLL CALL
according to Hebrew ritual. The A big scheme connected with
action led one newspaper to con- refugees is believed to be the
demn kosher slaughter as unhy-
real reason for Postmaster Gen-
gienic and unhumanitarian.
eral Farley's trip to Europe, dur-
ing which he visited Germany
Ch
Hitler Hireling with
and Poland. . .
Jews who try
Spreading
ng o ttb ie -S e emitism to pass as Aryans are no novelty,
but officers of Jewish emigration
TORONTO. (WNS) — Alder- societies in many European cities
man Stewart Smith charged Bel- now report that they are often
gian Baron Ampin with dissemi- approached by Aryans from dic-
nating anti-Semitism in St. tator-ridden states who want to
Agathe, Quebec. and that "the emigrate and therefore attempt
lateNt manifestations of anti- to pass as Jews. . . . The Italian
Semitism are directly caused by government has decided to sell
Hitler hirelings who play on lo- to an American museum Michel-
cal prejudice to raise high the angelo's famous statue of Moses,
anti-Canadian flame of racism because this world-renowned
and hatred." In a speech to his piece of art is regarded as not
constituents following his nomi- being ,in accord. with Italy's new
nation, Alderman Smith said anti-Jewish policy. . . . Hun-
that the anti-Jewish demonstra- garian Jews, who were probably
tions in St. Agathe recently can more anti•Zionist than any other
be attributed to the activities of Jewish community in the world,
the Baron Ampin. "This foreign were among the most bitter op-
fascist," said Smith, "operates ponents of Herz!, whom they
Nazi propaganda from the Do- regarded as a dangerous revolu-
maine D'Esterel and under his tionary.. . . Maybe they're sorry
influence local pro-Nazis and now.... At any rate they ought
anti-Semites are attempting to to be a f ter reading what he
force Jewish residents to sell wrote in 1903 to a Hungarian
their holdings for ridiculously friend: "I would have been pre-
small amounts." Alderman Smith pared to renounce the Hungarian
concluded that "It is essential Jews if I were sure that their
for the well-being of the whole patriotism would save them
Canadian people that the Do- from the anti -Semitic din-
minion government immediately aster. . . . I am not speculating
These are the words of a freeman. They are
words which, had they been spoken with a vow
to be broken by every man formerly tyrannized
and once freed, could have made all mankind
free for all time.
There is a lesson in these words—for people
not to betray their rights, not to bow down their
heads, to fight for their rights, to believe in the
best in man, to work for a common brotherhood
and a common goal of decency.
Even in lands of the worst oppressions, there
are people who oppose indignities. Just as in
Russia there were—in the words of Senator
Grusenberg—people who "bitterly felt" the op-
pressions of Jews, so are there such men and
women today in Germany and in Poland and
in Spain and in Italy. An interresting report from
Prague provides best proof of this contention.
The New York Times correspondent cabled his
paper the following: "A line in Elmer Rice's
play, 'Street Scene,' playing in one of Prague's
largest theaters, drew such a burst of applause
that the Czech police observer ordered it cut at
future performances. The line was: 'After all,
Jews are human beings.' " (The Czech police
today, of course, is Nazi police).
Here is an incident that proves that sympathy
still lurks in the hearts of men, that decency
is not dead, that the human element struggles to
conquer over brutality.
The human spirit will conquer if free men will
make real the words of Senator Grusenberg:
"He that has once been freed shall never again
be enslaved."
•
Two Nuns Get Jewish Hospital Diplomas
Here is a news item that deserves more than
passing attention.
Sisters Anna Vincent and Catherine, two nuns
of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph,
Brentwood, L. I., were graduated from the lab-
oratory school of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn
and were awarded diplomas at special commence-
ment ceremonies. It was the first time that the
Jewish Hospital had given training and diplomas
to members of a Roman -Catholic Sisterhood. The
two nuns enrolled at the laboratories about a
year ago to prepare to assume charge of
the laboratory at the Ponce Hospital in Puerto
Rico. Both are in their early twenties. They will
soon depart for their new posts. At the cere-
monies held in the Nurses Residence Hall of the
hospital, Dr. Max Lederer, director of the depart-
ment of laboratories of the Jewish Hospital, pre-
sented the diplomas. Congratulations were ex-
pressed by the Rev. Mother Jane Frances of the
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph; Dr.
Sidney S. Tedesche, rabbi of Union Temple; Dr.
Maurice Rosenfeld and Dr. Irving J. Sands. In
a prepared statement the nuns praised the "very
high professional standards" which they had
found at the Jewish llospital.
This story is significant at this time, when
libretarians and spirituually-minded men end
women plead for good will and tolerance among
members of all faiths and races. The fact that
Roman Catholic Sisters study in Jewish hos-
pitals and that Jewish students are at home
in Catholic colleges is indication enough that
inter-faith amity is not and need not be a myth.
Jews and Christians have studied and worked
side by side, in schools, in laboratories, in fac-
tories, in offices. But there are some people who
would, today, undermine this spirit of true
brotherhood and true Americanism.
The best Americans must, we are confident
that they will, strive for the perpetuation of
those ideals which make Catholic-Protestant-Jew-
ish amity real and which will make friendly rela-
tions, like those indicated in the story we have
just quoted, the rule and not the exception.
Exiled Reich Scientists
Enrich U. S. Industry
NEW YORK. (WNS)—Dr.
Charles A. Browne; of the
United States Bureau of
Chemistry and Soils, pointed
out in a recent report pre-
pared for presentation to the
division of the history of
chemistry of the American
Chemical Society, that the
flight of German chemists
from Nazi persecution is en-
riching science and industry
in the United States. History
repeats itself, he said, assert-
ing that the development of
science in America has been
advanced notably by refugees
from European countries.
in disaster. . . . But it will befall
the Hungarian Jews also in a
brutal way. . . . The later it
will come, the more disastrous
it will be. . . . The stronger
the Jews will become, the more
barbarous will be the outbrust
of the disaster. . . . There is no
escape from it. . . . In the mean-
time we come,. we who are the
target for their irony, and we
build a home, a fatherland for
those who today do not want to
take any notice of us!" . . .
That's what we call prophecy.
THIS AND THAT
A Baltimore Hebrew s c h o o l
t e •c h e r has translated "God
Bless America" into Hebrew, and
his pupils sing it in Hebrew at
the opening of every class ses-
sion.
Dr. A. L. Sachar, national di-
rector of the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundations, is readying an an-
nouncement on Hillel expansion
that will be big news.
David Yellin, past president of
Beal Brith'a Palestinian district,
is due here in the fall at the
head of a delegation of Pales-
tinian Bnai Brith leaders.
ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE
EXPOSES BIGOTRY
"Many substantial citizens
have already been duped into
cooperating with those organi-
zations because of a misleading
facade of Patriotism; the real
principles of these groups being
withheld. The time has passed
when our people will tolerate
secret • un-Democratic organiza-
tions such as the once loathed
K.K.K. or the Black Legion.
These new groups, just as in-
sidious, which hide behind a
cloak of loyalty to Democratic
principles and secretly pledge
their loyalty to Nazi ideologies
must be disclosed for public con-
demnation," concluded the
League's spokesman.
The League reports that it has
already received requests for ad-
ditional thousands of copies of
this pamphlet by individuals and
organizations not countenancing
the use of New York as an ex-
perimental point for the dis-
semination of Nazi propaganda
and Nazi-inspired organizations.
DR. FRIEDLAENDER
CALLED BY DEATH
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
in the medical corps of the
United States Army and served
during the World War, being dis-
charged in 1918 with the rank
of Major. He resumed practice
of medicine in 1918 in Detroit,
and his last office was at 300
Mack Ave.
He was a member of the sur-
gical staff of Highland Park
General Hospital and a past
president of the Highland Park
Physicians' Club. He was a mem-
ber of the following professional
organizations: W a y n e County
Medical Society, Michigan State
Medical Association, Radiological
Society of the United States and
the Maimonides Medical Society.
Active in Zionism
During the past few years, Dr.
Friedlaender had become very
active in the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit. He served as
chairman • of the membership
committee, was active on the
committee for the annual Bal-
four Balls, served as secretary
and at the last annual meeting
was elected vice-president.
Dr. Friedlaender was also ac-
tive in the American Legion. lie
was a past predident of the
George Washington Post No. 88.
He was also past president of
the National Sojourners, Detroit
Chapter No. 1. He was past
president of William Muir Rus-
sell Chapter of the Reserve Offi-
cers' Association. He was a mem-
ber of Craftsman Lodge No. 251,
F. & A. M.
Dr. Friedlaender had traveled
extensively, was in Europe for
several visits and took post-grad-
uate courses in important uni-
versities and hospitals.
A very liberal man, Dr. Fried-
laender never turned down any
request for a worthy cause. He
was a contributor to all Jewish
causes and could always be
counted upon for help by all
Zionist groups.
The home of Dr. and Mrs.
Friedlaender became known in
the past few years as one of the
leading meeting places for Zion-
ist planning g r o u p s, and the
Friedlaenders were noted for
their hospitality.
Surviving Dr. Friedlaender are
his wife. Rosa; two daughter.
Mrs. Lafon Jones, of Flint, and
Mrs. Emil D. Rothman, of De-
troit; two brothers, Max and Lest,
and a sister, Mrs. Betty Robin-
son, all of Detroit.
Mothers' Camp to Be
Open for Families for
Remainder of the Season
The Mothers' Camp located at
164 Bellevue Ave., Bellevue Is-
land, Orion, Mich., announces
that at the request of its guests.
one side of the camp, for the
balance of the season, will be
devoted to families. This plan
includes husbands and fathers.
For further information, call
N,
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the Dexter branch
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Dexter Blvd., TO 8-1878. 115"
MEDALLION OF RENAISSANCE JEWESS
IS PRESENTED TO SEMINARY MUSEUM
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1)
milian, brother of the Emperor,
and had served Henry II, King
of France.
When one of the family, Diogo
Mendes, was imprisoned to elicit
more funds for the wars of
Charles V, the Antwerp Burghers
sent a long statement in his de-
fence and in defence of the
other Marranos of Antwerp, as
productive and vitally useful citi-
zens.
In spite of her house's com-
mercial prosperity, Donna Gracia
yearned to live in a country
where she could be a Jew, and
she set out for Constantinople
in 1547 with her sister, Brianda
Mendez. Brianda resented the
will of her husband, Diogo, which
had left the management of the
Nasi house to Donna Gracia and
Brianda's daughter, Gracia Ben-
veniste, and she therefore ex-
posed Donna Gracia to the au-
thorities in Venice upon their
arrival there. Donna Gracia, who
had resumed her Jewish name
of Beatrice da Luna, was im-
prisoned, until Juan Migues ac-
complished her rescue. Through
the Sultan's Jewish physician,
Moise Hainon • the Sultan was
prevailed upon to send an am-
bassador demanding Gracie's re-
lease to Turkey. She was freed
and arrived in Ferrara, another
European haven. for Marranos, in
1549. Brianda and her daughter,
Gracia Benveniste, were expelled
from Venice for refusing to be
Christians, and they effected a
reconciliation with Donna Gracia
in Ferrara. In Ferrara Donna
Gracie's daugheer, Reyna, mar-
ried Juan Migues, who had ac-
cepted the Jewish name of Jos-
eph Neal; and her niece, Gracia
Benveniste, married Simuel Nasi.
In the Court of Ferrara pet,-
try, philosophy, medicine, astron-
omy and other sciences flour-
ished, and several works like the
famous "Bible of Ferrara" were
dedicated to Donna Gracia. But
freedom for the Jews was too
precarious in Europe, and in 1552
with a suite of five hundred
Spanish and Italian Jews, Donna
Gracia completed her voyage to
Constantinople and was welcomed
II as a princes=
royal.
For the remaining 16 years of
For
her life, Donna Gracia devoted
herself to Jewish works and to
the aid of her coreligionists in
sEyuersogpeeg eSso mf e eonfd t e dh e ha; h ol s and
oher
sti llintedasc yti.ve use in Constanti -
nople 1556 when Pope Paul I"
instituted an auto da fe against •
the Jews in Avignon, the Turk-
ish Jew se fwtehree sfreedn oene the
h e se
i tpeerf-
and
boiling in oil or conscription 10
galley slaves which was the fate
l o t ( ,i th as e D
J e wn'its a of mother whnea t isoungs.
rested the Jewish boycott of the
Papal port decreed by the Rab-
binical College of Sated, "the
only known example of coercive
tmheeasuereeesrsetakeefn boyetethe leee
J trws
his-
tory" until the action against the
Russian pogroms of the 1900's
Donna Gracia also obtained
Tiberias and seven other Pal-
tersettineianniecittsie6s 5.HrerJish
fo
e w
ttents coIon
start-
ed silk and wool industries there.
This Renaissance matriarch died
in her 58th year in Constanti -
nople, and the lovely medallion
in the Seminary Museum will
serve to keep fresh the memory
of her prodigious achievements
for h
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