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ZION CONCLAVE
EXHIBITION IS
Congress "White Book"
MARKS RECORD The Coughlin Racket CONTINUED AT Community Council Votes
Charges Nazi Murder ACHIEVEMENTS Exposing the Finaglings of the Radio Priest NEW CENTER To Sponsor Mass Meeting
S. Funds Aid Colon-
Works of Prominent
25,000 Jews in Poland U. ization-Expansion,
American Artists
Together With Congress
By JOHN L SPIVAK
Nazis Officially List 120,000 Jews" Dead in Po-
land; Rabbi Schorr, Sommerstein Get
9-Year Soviet Sentences
PARIS. — (WNS) — The World Jewish
Congress issued a Jewish White Book in which
it estimates that 250,000 Jews have been killed
by military operations, executions,. disease and
starvation in Nazi-occupied Poland. The docu-
ment, reciting the darkest chapter in Jewish his-
tory, records the rievagea of anti-
Semitism since the outbreak of
the war. The 16-page record,
which included five pages of docu-
men tar y evidence, revealed,
among other things, that after the
Munich bomb attempt on Hitler,
Nazi leaders were disuaded by the
Soviet Ambassador from carry-
ing out completed plans for large-
scale anti-Jewish pogroms
throughout the Reich.
The White Book charged that
at least 80 per cent of the re-
maining 1,250,000 Jews in Nazi
territory had been reduced to
complete beggary. The document
• . estimated that the majority of
40,000 Jews who attempted to es-
cape from Warsaw during the
Nazi bombardment were killed, in
addition to 30,000 more who per-
ished in the city before and after
the Nazi occupation. In the town-
ship of Lukow, it was charged,
Nazis executed 400 Jews in the
public market place, and similar
massacres took place in other
towns. Cities populated chiefly by
Jews were burned down com-
pletely and uncounted numbers of
Jews died on forced labor proj-
ects.
NEW LEADER OF
BRITISH JEWRY
Election of Brodetsky
Assures Cooperation
With Congress
LONDON. — (WNS) — Closer
cooperation between the Board of
Jewish Deputies and the World
Jewish Congress is believed as-
sured following the formal elec-
tion here on Sunday, Dec. 17, of
Seelzi es g to prevent Jews
from crossing the frontiers
int o countries contiguous to
Poland. N•si authorities issued
an order forbidding Jews to
leave Polish towns without po-
lice authority. Simultaneously,
a decree was issued making
po 'on of unregistered ar-
lisles of value, punishable by
execution.
_Informed seurces belicee_this
order was issued as an excuse for
eventual confiscation of all gold
and silver articles of value owned
by Jews and to impress upon the
Poles the fact that Jews were
wealthy, hoard gold and there-
fore are enemies of Poland.
Max Schwartzstein, a young
Czechoslovakian Jew was sen-
tenced to death by a Nazi mili-
tary tribunal in Prague for hav-
ing written toielatives in France,
it was reported here. The court
acknowledged that the letters
found on the person of the ac-
cused contained no disclosures of
a military nature but nevertheless
imposed the death sentence as a
warning to other Jews to refrain
from attempting to write to rela-
tives residing in enemy countries.
The position of many Jewish
refugees who fled to Lithuania
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NAZI WARNING
ON PROTESTS
Great New York Rally
Asked President
Aid Oppressed
Land Acquisition
When hundreds of American
Jewish leaders gather in Wash-
ington on Jan. 6 and 7 for the
National Conference on Palestine
they will be celebrating the con-
clusion of the greatest fund-rais-
ing effort for Palestine in the
history of American Jewry, as
they hear the report showing that
the United Palestine Appeal, un-
der the leadership of Rabbi Abbe
Billet Silver and his associates,
was responsible for the raising
of over $5,000,000 in 1939, taking
into consideration the proceeds in
cash of the current and previous
campaigns.
The outstanding part of Ameri-
can Jewry this year in making
possible intensified programs of
colonization, land purchase and
other upbuilding activities in Pal-
estine was reflected during the
past week In annual reports is-
sued in Jerusalem by both the
Keren Hayesod and the Keren
Kayemeth, the constituent agen-
cies of the United Palestine Ap-
peal.
Associated with Dr. Silver as
national co-chairmen of the Uni-
ted Palestine Appeal are Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, Louis Lipsky,
Dr. Solomon Goldman, Dr. Israel
Goldstein and Judge Morris Roth-
enberg.
Part in United Jewish Appeal
Having merged its fund-nlising
effort during 1939 in the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees and
Overseas Needs, the United Pal-
estine Appeal has been one of the
major factors in the unprecedent-
ed results obtained by the United
Jewish Appeal, which is credited
with having raised the largest
sum in any one year since Ameri-
can Jewry began its annual cam-
paigns for Palestine and over-
seas purposes.
The unceasing activity in Pal-
estine immigration, colonization,
land purchase and general de-
velopment constituted an overtone
in the United Jewish Appeal cam-
paign which gave tempo and
stimulus to the hundreds of drives,
whether in the form of welfare
fund or-independent campaigns.
Dr. Goldman Strengthens U. P. A.
DR. SELIG BRODETSKY
Prof. Selig Brodetsky as president
of the Board of Deputies of Brit-
ish Jews.
Prof. Brodetsky, member of
the Jewish Agency Executive and
a noted mathematician, succeeds
Neville Laski who resigned for
"professional reasons" after hold-
ing the presidency since 1933.
In a message of congratulations
broadcast over the radio Neville
Laski urged reforms to make the
board more representative of the
community, expressed opposition
to proposals of affiliation of the
board with the World Jewish Con-
gress. He advised, however, that
discussions be held with Congress
representatives to determine the
separate functions of each body.
He warned against rigid, uncom-
promising orthodoxy with regard
to Palestine and cautioned against
a partisan spirit in the conduct
of the public business by the
board.
Plan for Peace Conference
Another outstanding factor in
the success of the 1939 United
Jewish Appeal, which helped make
possible the substantial gains re-
corded for Palestine, was Dr. Sol-
omon Goldman. In addition to his
onerous responsibilities as presi-
dent of the Zionist Organization
of America, Dr. Goldman literally
gave weeks of his time to insure
the success of the United Pales-
tine Appeal through the United
Jewish Appeal. From Providence,
R. I., to Tulsa, Okla., from Colum-
bus, 0., to Atlantic City, he trav-
eled to small and large commun-
ities alike, bringing the message
of refugee and Palestine require.
ments, evoking ovations in every
city which had the opportunity of
hearing him.
Dr. Goldman's relation to local
fund-raising is also indicated in
his membership on the limited
Board of Directors of the Chicago
Jewish Welfare Fund, one of the
two most important fund-raising
instrumentalities in the American
community.
Other Chairmen Active
The personalities of Dr. Slosh.
en S. Wise, Louis Lipsky, Judge
Morris Rothenberg and Dr. Israel
Goldstein were other effective fac-
tors in the final results that will
be reported to the delegates at-
tending the National Conference
of the United Palestine Appeal in
Washington.
Second only to Dr. Silver in
the number of communities visited
was Arthur Lamport, treasurer of
the United Palestine Appeal, who
Prof. Brodetsky, in reply to the
radio address of Neville Laski,
thanked the board and the former
LONDON (WNS) — "Nazi president for the honor conferred
Germany will not discontinue her
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campaign against the Jews until
world Jewry has been destroyed,"
according to an announcement
broadcast over the Nazi-controlled
radio station at Breslau in ans-
wer to the protest meeting held
at Madison Square Garden in New
York City on Wednesday, Dec. Continuation of Symposium Conducted Among Detroit
Jewish Youth on Their Status as Jews
13. (The protest meeting had
strongly condemned Nazi persecu-
and as Americans
tion of Jews In that section of
Poland controlled by the Nazis.)
EDITOR'S NOTE—Keen interest has been displayed by the youth
The Breslau radio, asserting that
of Detroit in the symposium conducted by The Detroit
the anti-Nazi boycott in America
Jewish Chronicle on the future of our youth In this country.
was concentrated in the hands of
We present here additional statements.
the Jews, warned that the Nazi
campaign against the Jews
"Gentiles Preferred"
Jews and Jobs
throughout the world would be
Let us examine a few typical
intensified until they are de-
cases of open discrimination
stroyed.
By MORT LIEBERMAN
against Jewish youth in America.
(F.DITOI•S NOTE, The anthor of The professions abound with
NEW YORK (WNS) — More this cootribetioe to the symposium es
them. In fact, Rabbi Stephen Wise
than 20,000 persons filled Madi- tar state, of youth Is • Detroiter who
says, "The only profession I know
son Square Garden to hear Mayor Is sow seedily. at Northwester. tel-
e...11y, He la • member of the editorial of that does not bar Jews is the
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, former board
of the tinily horthaeotent.)
rabbinical profession". Do not
President Herbert Hoover, Wil-
consider this an over-statement.
liam Green, president of the
The future of Jewish youth Take medicine for example. Loy-
American Federation of Labor
ola University of Chicago answers
raises
a
problem.
It
is
a
problem
and prominent representatives of
all faiths denounce persecution of which we all feel. But we are a hopeful Jew in these words, "We
are sorry to inform yousthat your
loath
to
discuss
it;
some
publica-
Jews and others within the Nazi
tions never mention it; and our application for admission to the
domain.
"horse
sense"
tells
us
we
ought
Medicine School cannot be' ac-
The meeting, held under the
auspices of the American Jewish to leave it alone. Yet when view- cepted because the quota for Jew-
ing
the
future
of
Jewish
youth—
ish
students has been filled." That
Congress and the Jewish Labor
Committee, unanimously adopted the question of anti-Jewish preju- may sound unusual, but the only
dice
is
a
burning
issue.
Maybe
I
striking
thing about that letter is
a resolution asking President
Roosevelt to convey American con- am dragging out something we its honesty. Quotas in professional
would
much
rather
ignore.
But
it
colleges are quite a common
demnation of the persecution of
the Jews In Nazi Poland to the has been postponed long enough. thing.
What is the extent of America's
Professions, from law to phar-
German government and to use
every possible means to succor the Problem of anti-Semitism that macy are filled with anti-Semitism.
victims of the oppression. The Jewish youth will face? It rages But suppose the Jewish youth
resolution adopted by the audience from New York's East Side, only wants a job to earn his bread
expressed Christian and Jewish through cities and villages of the and butter. Ile will have a hard
unity In "condemnation of the un- Middle West, to the tip of South- time. Heywood Broun made a sur-
paralleled acts of aggression which ern California. It flares forth in vey of all the large employment
have resulted In the dismember- the blatant squabbles of the ill- agencies in New York City, and
ment of Poland, the ruthless con- educated on Hastings Street. And he found that nine out of .every
quest of Finland, the strafing of yet it emanates from the mouth ten available office jobs were
unfortified cities, the murder of of the President of Harvard. From barred to Jew& The figures for
a Christian pulpit, we hear it. other types of work were equally
civil ions."
Although the American peo- Through a lyncher's noose we see high; and you may read the same
ple are neutral in political action, it. And deep clown in the inner thing In the employment ads of
it said, they "can not and will not hearts of a hundred million Amer. the newspapers: "Gentiles pre-
leans, we shall find it.
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Jewish Youth Views Its Future
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two articles revealing behind-
on Display
the-scene facts about Charles E. Coughlin. Information disclosed
by the one-man investigation of Silver Charles by John Spivak
is presented in part by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate through
Announcement was made this
special arrangements with New Masses, currently publishing the
week by the Jewish Community
entire series of Spivak's documented exposures.
I have no way of knowing
whether, deep in his soul, the Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin has renounc-
ed his religion but, after digging
around the various corporatione
he organized and the several mil-
lions of dollars he has taken in
with no one, except his own little
coterie, ever seeing the books, I
came to the conclusion that he
has certainly learned a trick or
two of the "highest banking and
stock manipulations." As for
smokescreen, he has belched forth
several of them and each hall
brought in the shekels. So fat
as the Catholic Church is con-
cerned It not only never audited
the books of the priest's various
corporations but never even saw
them. Once when the archbishop
of Detroit, acting upon papal
structions, tried to get a little
truth into the pages of "Social
Justice," the weekly magazine
Coughlin founded, the archbishop
was told to go roll a hoop—thit
the magazine was a private ve
ture and not subject to reques
from the archbishop or anyone
else.
In the course of this series II
shall present evidence that the
Rev. Charles E. Coughlin behind
his priestly robes, has been and
is now engaged in activities which
smack of common racketeering. I
shall show that he has taken
Veterans to Present
Ambulance to Finns
place of worship, the Shrine of
the Little Flower, and turned it
into a Shrine of the Silver Dol-
lar; that he has organized profit-
making corporations and switch.
ed the stock, which he owned, to
non-profit-m eking corporations
which then sought exemption from
taxation,• that he has collected
money through the United States
mails upon his solemn assurance
that it was for a "non-political
organization" and then used al-
most $100,000 of such money to
build a political organization;
that he has taken his parish's
money, which the Catholic Church
permits him to bank in the Par-
ish's name, and used that to
build a political organization; and
that he has violated the laws
of the state of Michigan by fail-
ing to turn in certain annual re-
ports dealing with the amount of
money his non-profit-making cor-
porations have taken in.
Call. Him Racketeer
There are numerous other as-
pects of his activities which I
shall detail, including his anti-
Semitic campaign and his secret
conferences with Nazi agents and
propagandists operating in this
country. As the evidence is pub-
lished, the documents, letters, and
affidavits will be turned over to
the various federal agencies like
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COMMITTEES OF
SERVICE GROUP
NEW YORK (WNS) — The
purchase of an ambulance to
be placed at the disposal of
the Finnish army, is the aim
of a fund-raising drive by the
Jewish War Veterans of the
United States, according to an
announcement by National
Commander Edgar H. Bur-
Announcement of the re-appoint-
man, at national headquarters
ment of the following Detroit
of the organization here. The
Service Group standing commit.
campaign will be conducted in
cooperation with other Ameri-
tee heads, for 1940. has been made
can Jewish organizations it wee, „by Irving W. Blumberg, chairman
stated by Commander Burniaff,
of the Service Group board of di-
who expressed his confidence
rectors; Mrs. Sidney J. Allen,
in the wide support for the
chairman of the program commit-
project.
tee; Harry R. Solomon, chairman
and Maurice A. Enggass, co-chair-
man of the collection committee;
Israel Ilimelhoch, chairman of
the public relations committee,
and Rabbi Leon Fram, chairman
of the speakers' bureau,
In addition to its work in the
fund-raising field, which motivates
the activities of the Jewish Wel-
Tidbits from Everywhere fare Federation, the Detroit Serv-
ice Group functions actively
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
throughout the year, supervising
the
collection of Allied Jewish
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Campaign pledges, promoting pro-
grams
and directing publicity for
LISTEN HERE
all Federation and Federation
Has anybody ever told Herr
agency projects.
Hitler that the wife of his favor-
The Budget Committee
ite ghost-thinker, Dr. Karl Haus-
Also, under the auspices of this
borer (the man who has worked bOy, a budget committee, of
out the plans for the world empire which Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich is
of the Germans to the minutest the 1940 chairman, conducts the
detail), is a non-Aryan? . and hearings and weighs the petitions
that the Reich's Number Two air of each organization requesting
man, who ranks next to Air Min- inclusion in the annual Allied
ister Goering, is of 100 per cent Jewish Campaign, conducted by
Jewish blood, bearing the strictly the Jewish Welfare Federation.
kosher name of Mflch? . . . It's
The fund-raising arm of the
beginning to look as if Adolf Jewish Welfare Federation, the
hasn't repudiated the Jewish God Detroit Service Group plans cam-
as thoroughly as we thought he paign organization, provides the
had ... Only recently Nazi charge executive personnel and furnishes
d'affaires Thomsen at Washington the man-power for fund solicita-
denounced reports that Hitler has tion in the annual Jewish drives,
gone back to the old Norse pan- and cooperates in the general
theon and explained that the fund-raising program of the an-
Fuehrer believes in the same God nual Detroit Community Fund
as Goethe ... Our feminine read- campaign. Gus D. Newman is
ers will appreciate the plight of president of the organization.
their German sisters, who are
Address by Henry Montor
prohibited by law from buying
The first of a aeries of meetings
more than six pair of hose a year arranged by the budget commit-
. .. But Hitler, wishing to avoid tee of the Detroit Service Group
alienating the ladies—who have and the Jewish Welfare Federa-
been his most ardent admirers— tion was held at the Jewish Com-
is allowing people to buy a pair munity Center on Tuesday eve-
of stockings for each of the wom- ning with Ilenry Montor, national
en on their Christmas lists without director of the Unied Jewish Ap-
deducting the purchase from their peal, as speaker.
clothing ration 'cards.
Presenting a graphic picture of
the extent of Jewish tragedy ram-
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London's Soncino Press expects
to have the final eight volumes of
its complete English translation
of the Babylonian Talmud ready
for distribution by next April ...
The $200 price of the complete
32-volume work has not been
raised since the outbreak of the
Dr. Leo M. Franklin of Temple
war, but if any of you are inter-
ested in purchasing this first un- Beth El, will present a January
series
of weekly devotional ad-
abridged English translation of
the Talmud we may tell you that dresses during the Message of
the price may be raised after Jan. Israel program, beginning Satur-
1 For $480, incidentally, you day, Jan. 6. The services, con-
ducted by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of
can at this time become one of
Central Synagogue, New York,
the chosen few to buy a de luxe
are heard from 7 to 7:30 p. m.,
edition of the Talmud, of which
EST, over the NBC-Blue Net-
only 35 numbered sets are being
work.
made.
Recently named one pf the 10
Now that he is an American
most useful citizens of Detroit,
citizen, Aryan Nobel Prize win- Rabbi - Franklin has been active
ner Thomas Mann no longer aids in community affairs for the past
the underground anti -Hitler
40 years. His topic for the series
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follow: Jan. 6, The Jew Whom
Nobody Knows"; Jan. 13, "The
SYNAGOGUE FUNCTION Jew's Answer to the World's Chal-
lenge";
20, "To Be a Jew";
TOPIC OF BNAI DAVID Jan, 27, Jan,
"Judaism and the Ameri-
DISCUSSION ON DEC. 20 can Way."
There being no outlet in De-
"What Shall the Synagogue Do troit for these programs, Station
for Jewry?" will be the topic of WXYZ has undertaken to trans-
discussion by members of Con- cribe Dr. Franklin's addresses and
gregation Bnal David at the Fri- to broadcast them over its fa-
day evening gathering on Dec. cilities on Sunday evenings at 8
29. The public is invited to at- o'clock, beginning on Jan. 7.
tend these gatherings which are
This is the second time in less
addressed by nationally prom'. than a year that Dr. Franklin
nent speakers who alternate with has been invited to deliver a
local speakers and with occasional month's addresses over the Mes-
symposia.
sage of Israel program.
Community Chairmen
Retained for Cur-
rent Year
STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL
Rabbi Franklin on
Message of Israel
Program in January
Center that in view of the great
interest shown in the exhibition
of works by Jewish artists the dis-
play will continue for several days
after Saturday, the day on which
it was originally scheduled to
close.
In addition to the works of the
late Prof. Boris Schatz and his
children, Bezalel and Zahara
Schatz, the works of the following
artists are on display:
"Refugees" on Display
William Meyerowitz is repre-
sented by two paintings. One of
these, entitled "Refugees", was
also included in the art exhibition
at the Chicago World's Fair.
Marco Zim is represented by
paintings typical of his life in his
woodland retreat at New Boston,
Massachusetts.
There are pleasing, picturesque
landscapes by Jacob Richard.
Four dry-points of a strong
character constitute the work rep-
resepting Nathan P. Steinberg.
Guggenheim Prise Winner
A notable contribution to this
exhibition is the work of Aaron
Bohrod. Mr. Bohrod was honored
with one of the five prizes award-
ed to American artists by the
Carnegie International Exhibition.
He was twice winner of the Gug-
genheim Fellowship. The Chicago
Art Institute awarded him six of
its prizes, the last one being the
Logan Prize. A well-known paint-
ing of his, depicting a Chicago
scene, won him honorable mention
at the San Francisco World',
Fair.
The famous William and Mar-
guerite Zorach are also in the ex-
hibtion. Mr. Zorach's sculptural
water color, entitled "Embroider.
ing", is present, as well as Mar-
guerite Zorach's well-known and
much-reproduced picture "Christ-
mas Mail — Maine -- Winter
Scene."
Another artist represented is
Harry Mintz, winner of a prize
from the Chicago Art Institute.
His prize-winning "Spring Land-
scape" is shown. His work is also
included at present in the "Half
Century of -Paintivegetu-ne-the•CM-
cago Art Institute,
A. Raymond Katz of Chicago,
who has earned an international
reputation as a mural and fresco
artist, is among the exhibitor,.
There is also work by Ben
Bean.
William S. Schwartz, who is ,
represented in many permanent '
museum collections in the coun-
try and who has been recipient of
many prizes, is represented by
two paintings.
A Csech Exhibition
Fritzi Brod,, from Prague
Czechoslovakia, has two of her
works in the present exhibition.
She has had 10 one-man shows in
the past five years, one of them
at the Art Institute in Chicago
and one at Cornell University.
Last year she was honored with
a silver medal from the Chicago
Society of Artists.
Two line-cuts by Samuel Green-
burg are also present —"The
Refugee Family", which was ex-
hibited at the New York World's
Fair, and "The Panhandler",
which is included in the Chicago
Artists' Calendar for 1940.
Emil Armin, who has exhibited
in the Center for the past 20
years, is included in the Center's
exhibition once more. He has
taken prizes at the Chicago Art
Institute, and the book, "Emil
Armin and His Forty Gods", gives
an insight into his life.
The well-known A. S. Baylin-
son is represented by two of his
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Non-Jewish Groups to Be Enlisted Among
Sponsors of Rally for Presentation of
Facts on Jewish Situation
After listening to a nuknber of outstanding
local personalities discuss the current European
atrocities and their effect upon American Jewry,
400 representatives and officers of organizations,
assembled at the quarterly meeting of the Jewish
Community Council last Sunday afternoon in
STUDENTS IN
CONVENTION
A v u k a h to Open Its
Midwest Conclave
Here on Sunday
The midwest conference of Avu-
kah, the student Zionist Organ-
i zation, will open In Detroit this
Sunday, Dec. 24, at 2:30 p. in.,
at a session in the Jewish Corn-
munity Center, Woodward and
the Jewish Community Center,
voted unanimously to co-operate
with the Detroit Chapter of the
American Jewish Congress in
sponsoring a large public meeting
with a view to presenting factual
information to the general Jewish
community on the tragic position
of Jewry in the present world
crisis. The resolution provides for
the enlisting of the co-operation
of as many non-Jewish groups as
possible, including the labor and
liberal elements in the state.
James i, Ellmann, acting presi-
dent of the Jewish Community
Council, presided at the meeting
in the absence of Simon Shetzer,
president, who has been forced to
take a leave of absence from se-
tive communal work for the nekt
few months. Mr. Ellmann intro-
duced Herman Jacobs, executive
director of the Jewish Community
Center, who welcomed the Council
in the name of the Center and ex-
pressed a desire for continued
mutual co-operation between the
Center and the Council in activi-
ties of common interest. He in-
vited the various organizations to
make the fullest use of the facili-
ties of the new building,
Silence Is Deplored
MAURICE SAMUEl i
Holbrook. This session, which will
he open to the public, will be ad-
d ressed by Maurice Samuel, emi-
7 1 ' ent author, lecturer and trans-
ator, on the subiect "Jewish
Youth and the War."
Sunday's opening session will
also be featured by a musical
program by members of Ave-
kah. Norma Trombka, who has
appeared in concert, in Detroit,
Flint and other cities, will be the
soloist, and Hadassah Yanich will
be the piano accompanist. Miss
Yanich will also render piano
solos, and there will be community
singing under the leadership of
Leah Baschin.
Other sessions of the conference,
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REVUSKY TO ADDRESS
ZIONISTS ON JAN. 11
In the initial address of the
afternoon opening the discussion
relative to the community's ex-
pression on the current European
situation, Philip Slomovitz refer-
red to the horrors that have been
visited upon the Jews of Poland
and urged a change in attitude
on the part of American Jews,
decrying the "policy of silence" of
the past 13 months.
Posing the question why, men
like, former President Herbert
hoover, who heads the campaign
for Finnish relief, have not acted
in behalf of the much more trag-
ically affected millions of Jews in
Eastern and Central Europe, Mr.
Slomovitz declared that Finland
provides the answer. A small na-
tion, he said, stood up against
a powerful aggressor and gave
reality to the Biblical story of
a mere boy, David, fighting a
giant, Goliath. lie declared that
the action of the American Jew-
ish Congress and the Jewish
Labor Committee in New York
a week ago Wednesday, in con-
vening more than 22,000 people
for a mass demonstration against
persecutions, meant the "break-
ing of the ice" in the issue of
whether Jews ought to speak for
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NAZI AGENTS
ARE REBUKED
Anti-Semite Sentenced;
Fascist Monthly Is
Suspended
Abraham Revusky, who is recog-
nized as one of the outstanding
authorities on the situation in
Palestine and on Arab-Jewish re-
lations, will address a public meet-
ing of the Zionist Organization of
NEW YORK. (WNS)—James
Detroit Thursday evening, Jan.
11, at the Jewish Community Cen- Sardelis, 29-years-old, of 302 E.
ter. Admission to this meeting will 59th St., was sentenced to a
be free to the public.
total of 68 days in Jail when he
appeared In Yorkville Court and
later in Essex Market Court on
two separate charges of disor-
derly conduct growing out of
anti-Semitic speeches he made in
Columbus Circle on Nov. 18 and
24. In his speeches Sardelis had
raged not only against the Jews,
but also against President Room.
vent and hlayor F. H. LaGuardia.
Marcus Ravage, of Washington,
D. C., and Paris, France, author
of numerous books and magazine
Maariv services at 6:30 p. m,
articles, is about to institute legal
Drive foe Yeshivoth
action against those Nazi and pro-
At a meeting of rabbis and Nazi organizations in America
presidents of local congregations which misuse his writings for their
convened by the Detroit Region anti-Semitic purposes, it is di,-
of the Michigan Synagogue Con- closed in "The Hour," • news let-
ference last Thursday evening in ter published here by the Ameri-
Congregation Beth Shmuel, plans can Council Against Nazi Propa-
were made for raising the local ganda.
quota of $10,000 in the emer-
With the outbreak of European
gency drive for $250,000 to re- hostilities in September, 1933, the
habilitate the Polish Yeshivoth in Nazis and their American assist-
Exile.
ants have begun to misuse Mr. Ra-
Each of the following 27 con- vage's old writings to blame the
gregations indicated acceptance of Jews for the war. Misquotations
their respective share in the De- of eneh documents as Mr. Ravage's
troit quota: Ades Yeshurun, articles appeared in the English-
Ahavas Achim, Ateres Zvi, Beth language edition of the World-
Aaron Ve-Israel, Beth Abraham, Service Bulletin, • Frankfort-on-
Beth Itzhock, Beth Isaac, Beth Main, Germany, dated Oct. 1, 1939,
Jacob, Beth Moses, Beth Shmuel, copies of which were sent to the
Beth Tefilo Emanuel, Beth Tik- United States and other English-
vah, Beth Yehudah, Bnai David, speaking countries.
Bnai Israel, Bnal Jacqb, Bnai
Fascist Monthly Suspends
Moshe, Bnai Zion, ER: Chaim,
The fortunes of Peter H. Stab-
Detroit Jewish Hungarian, /dish- renberg, Nazi-sympathizing editor
ban Israel, Nussach Ari, Shaer of the National American, notor-
Hashomayim, Sephardic Jewish ious anti-democratic and anti-Se-
Community, Tifereth Israel, Unit- mitic. monthly of New York, are
ed Hebrew Schools, Synagogues definitely rockbound, according to
(2), and Young Israel.
"The Hour." Income from a var-
Appeals for funds made in • let yof Jew-baiting pamphlets,
number of synagogues by the published and sold by Stahren-
members of the rabbinical dele- berg, has fallen considerably.
gation visiting Detroit in the in-
Stahrenberg Is known to have
terest of the drive and local rab- bs!:•nd to form several of the Ital-
bis, evoked a warm response, in ian fascist units in New York,,
some occasions resulting In an and has been actively ameinta,
over-subacription of the congre- with the work of the German-
gational quota. Other synagogues American Bund. His Nationalist
MEMORIAL MEETING FOR DEANS
OF TWO YESHIVOTH ON SUNDAY
Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati and Rabbi
Notolevitz of Louisville to Speak;
Drive on for $10,000
A memorial meeting will be
held on Sunday afternoon, Dec.
24, at Congregation Beth Tefilo
Emanuel, Taylor and Woodrow
Wilson, for the heads of two
great European Yeshivoth—Rabbi
Shimon Shkop of Grodno and Rab-
bi Boruch Ber Leibovitz of Kern-
enetz—who died in Vilno after
the faculties and the student bod-
ies of their academies were trans-
ferred to that section of Poland
which is now part of Lithuania.
Chief Rabbi Eliezer Silver of
Cincinnati, 0., a member of the
praesidium of the Union of Or-
thodox Rabbis of the United
States and Canada and chairman
of the National Emergency Com-
mittee for War-Torn Yeshivoth,
and Rabbi B. Notolevitz of Louis-
ville, Ky., will be the main speak-
ers. Rabbi Notolevitz came to
Detroit last Wednesday evening
to aid in the local drive for the
Polish Yeshivoth in exile, while
Rabbi Silver will arrive in the
City Sunday morning.
The meeting will begin at 4
p. in. with Minch& services con-
ducted by Cantor David Katzman
of Congregation Brie] Moshe and
a choir. Rabbi Joseph Eisenman,
chairman of the Vaad llorabonim,
and Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter
of Congregation Beth Tell°
Emanuel, will be In charge of the
meeting. Chasms Katzman will
also recite the El Motel Raclunlm
at the conclusion of the pro-
gram, which will be followed by
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