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HAROFE HAIVRI
IN 12th YEAR

Hebrew Medical Jour-
nal Indicates Vision
of Its Founders

Attention is called to the cur-
rent issue of Harofe Haivri
which concludes the 12th year of
its existence, under the editorship
of Dr. Moses Einhorn, of New
York City. With the next issue,
which is to be dedicated to Prof.
Sigmund Freud, it reaches its
Bar Mitzvah.
The founding of a medical jour-
nal in the Hebrew language more
than 12 years ago required vision,
courage and determination. The
revival of Hebrew, the develop-
ment " of an extraordinarily rich
and significant literature in that
language, and the rapid develop-
ment of Palestine, where Hebrew
had become the language of daily
use, persuaded the editors that
Hebrew had again become the
most effective means of commun-
ication among the educated Jews
of the world. Harofe Haivri has
behind it a remarkable record of
accomplishment and has met with
a warm response from the Jewish
physicians the world over. For
Palestine there is issued a special
edition which reaches practically
every physician in that country.
The present issue is indicative
of steady growth in size, form
and contents. Much of the ma-
terial is of more than contempory
interest.
Of great general interest and
value is an article by Dr. Joseph
A. Goldberg, research director of
the Medical Committee of the
Research on Jewish Relations.
The study discloses that since
1901 the number of Jewish phy-
sicians in this country has increas-
ed with the growth of the Jewish
population. During the period
1901 to 1905, it is reported that
460 Jews entered the medical pro-
fession; during the period 1931
to 1936 the number was 2313.
The distribution of Jewish phy-
sicians likewise follows the dis-
tribution of Jewish population.
In 1936, for example, Jewish phy-
sicians in the State of New York
numbered 7557, whereas in Ver-
mont they numbered only 11. In
over 400 cities of a general popu-
lation of more than 10,000 in
1936, there were no Jewish phy-
sicians. It is suggested that the
movement looking to the exten-
sion of medical service to the
poorer classes and smaller com-
munities might open up new op-
portunities to Jewish physicians
willing to settle in small towns.
It is important to note also
that during the past two decades
there has been a substantial re-
duction in the number of medical
schools, and that in existing
schools there has been a decided
tendency to reduce the size of the
enrollment, Jewish and non-Jew-
ish, even in the face of an in-
creasing number of applicants.
It is not surprising therefore to
find that in 1936, the Jewish phy-
sicians of New York City were
graduated of 182 medical schools,
of which only 97 were in this
country. Graduates of foreign
schools are meeting with increas-
ing difficulty in securing licenses
to practice in the United States.
The entire report is entirely
objective in spirit and is de-

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signed to place the essential facts
before the Jewish student con-
templating entering the medical
profession. This subject will be
recognized as one having as-
pects of profound importance to
Jews generally.
Another article of interest to
laymen is that of Dr. Leon Nemoy
of Yale University who gives the
contents of an unpublished man-
uscript of the Karaite physician,
al-Qiimirsani. The manuscript
deals with the provisions of the
Jewish legal codes on gynaecol-
ogy and embryology. According to
Dr. Nemoy the manuscript throws
"an interesting side light on the
history of medical knowledge
amongst the Jews of the Middle
Ages—particularly because sur-
prisingly few people realize how
the standard of medical aware-
ness was among Jewish scholars
of the Talmudic and post-Talmudic
periods."
From Dr. Haim Stark-Eitan of
Jerusalem comes a study on "Bio-
logical Problems of Criminology
in Palestine," the result of care-
ful research. The greatest amount
of space is naturally given to the
articles on medical science writ-
ten by men of distinction in the
profession. Among the contribu-
tors are: Reuben L. Kahn, head
of the department of bacteriology
of the University of Michigan;
Dr. Jesse G. M. Bullowa, clinical
professor of medicine at New York
University; Dr. Joseph M. Yof-
fey, of University College, South
Wales, England, and others.
In the section on Personalia, Dr.
Solomon R. Kagan sketches the
carreers of distinguished Jewish
physicians in the United States
and Dr. Bernard Weiss gives the
biography of Paul Ehrlich, the
great German-Jewish discoverer of
Salvarsan. Another division, pri-
mary in its relation to the even-
tual service for the development
of Hebrew medical literature is
the section dealing with new He-
brew medical terms. For those
who cannot read Hebrew, there is
appended a generous English sup-
plement of 50 pages, containing
summaries and translations of the
original articles.
Those who desire information
of any sort, or who wish to sub-
scribe, should communicate with:
The Hebrew Medical Journal, 983
Park Ave., New York City.

Louis Marshall Lodge Inaug-
ural Meeting on Tuesday

On Tuesday evening, July 9,
Louis Marshall Lodge officers will
assume their posts at a meeting
at the Jewish Community Center.
Formal announcement of many
committees will be made by the
president, Nathaniel H. Rubin.
The annual outing for members
and their friends will be an-
nounced shortly.

Gifts to North End Clinic

North End Clinic has received
the following contributions : In
memory of Leo Waldbott, from
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel G. Klein;
in memory of Jack Fisher, from
Mr. and Mrs, Emanuel G. Klein;
in memory of Morris Myers, from
Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel G. Klein.

Lithuanian Federation's

Picnic, Sunday, July 28

The Federation of Lithuanian
Jews, Detroit chapter, announces
that beginning on Tuesday it will
meet at the new Workmen's Cir-
cle Center, Linwood near Bur-
lingame.
The annual picnic of the Lithu-
anian Federation will be held on
Sunday, July 28, at Budka Park.
Details will be announced next
week.

Those who decried the Sovieti-
zation of parts of Poland as
history's greatest menace to the
Jewish spirit are now deploring
the reported agreement between
the German and Soviet govern-
ments to send back to German-
held territory some tens of thou-
sands of Jews who fled across
the border to the U. S. S. R.

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and the Legal Chronicle

1944

RELIGION AND THE STRUGGLE
Attorneys - - -
AGAINST THE TOTALITARIANS Attention!

A Discussion of the Major Is sue of the Day Incorporated
in Review of "The Catholic Crisis" by
George Seldes

Before the totalitarian war
blazed forth with its full fury
on the Scandinavian and Low
countries; before France was
humbled and made a Nazi anti-
British base; before Mussolini's
Italy, in the words of President
Roosevelt, "stabbed its neighbor
in the back"; before all those sin-
ister and terrifying events over-
took the lands of the free and
the homes of the brave, but un-
prepared, George Seldes wrote
a sensational but well-document-
ed discussion of "The Catholic
Crisis," a 357-page volume pub-
lished by Julian Messner, Inc.
George Seldes is a left-wing
journalist, not to be confused
•,vith his conversative brother,
Gilbert, and in spite of his poli-
tics has a good reputation in his
profession as a truthful observer
and recorded of the contemporary
scene. He has written widely on
such subjects as civil liberties,
the practice and malpractice
thereof in America; "The Vati-
can: Yesterday, Today, Tomor-
row," an analysis that was wide-
ly approved in Christian circles
throughout the world; a biogra-
phy of Il Duce, "Sawdust Caesar,"
which this writer considers one
of the keenest penetrations into
the life and career of Interna-
tional Gangster No. 2 at the
present time. Stalin was No. 2
during his Finnish fiasco.
Seldes began his book about
Catholic interests in politics na-
tional and international before
September, 1939, at a time when
the ideas of collective security
were still presumed to have a
chance of keeping Hitler cor-
nered.
Seldes' purpose seems to be
this: He seeks to show that the
struggle for domination in Eu-
rope is not at all between Com-
munism and Fascism, which is the
reason given by Catholic officials
as they align themselves with
Fascist politicos every time there
seems to be any movement against
Fascism on the part of the vari-
ous populaces of Europe. Seldes
diagnoses the conflict as a Fas-
cism-Democracy dichotomy. He
implies that the U. S. S. R. is
on the side of democracy; one
result of such a viewpoint is his
quoting military men as being in
favor of an alliance between
America and the U. S. S. R.
against the spreading imperial-
ism of Japan.
Because Seldes clearly shows
that the idea of a Nazi-Soviet
rapprochement never entered his
mind, his foreign policy for
America—and his entire warn-
ing to the Catholic Church in the
United States—falls flat. If we
accept his thesis that the issue
in Europe is one between Fas-
cism and Democracy—and as a
matter of fact we realize that is
perfectly true—then, since Russia
today stands with German Fas-
cism (albeit opportunistically)
and therefore with Italian reac-
tion, America's interests lie di-
rectly counter to Russia's, as
the foreign policy of this nation
backs Britain and her Empire,
and the empires of the now de-
funct French, Dutch, Belgians and
Danes. And many people realize
that the only reason the United
States hasn't actually gone to
war against Germany—and Italy
and, possibly, the U. S. S. R.—is
the fact that the United States
lacks the material and mobilized
man-and machine-power to fight
overseas.
The foregoing paragraphs serve
to indicate the writer's opinion
that Mr. Seldes' book is out-of-
date and ineffectual generally.
His dissertation on Catholic con-
nections with Fascism, anti-Semi-
tism and anti-civil liberty move-
ments; on Catholic pressure in
politics; on its machinations in
press and film censorship; and
on its countenancing of totalitar-
ian governments is a pretty broad
indictment of lay activity of the
Roman Catholic organization.
If hope for human dignity and
freedom weren't already blacked
out in Europe, "The Catholic
Crisis" that Seldes so convincing-
ly indicates is present might re-
ceive the attention it no doubt
deserves. As it is, it is plain that
Pius XII is pretty much the
victim of circumstances beyond
his control just as you and/or I.
What matter now the anti-
Loyalist crusade of the Catholic
Church during the Spanish revo-
lution? What difference if the

Loyalists were misleadingly term-
ed "Communists" and General
Franco, called by Seldes "Butcher
Franco," lauded as a God-loving
savior? What matter if the Catho-
lic Church allies itself with Jer-
sey City's un-American Boss
Hague? What can be done now
with the Church's frequent co-
operation with the most anti-
Democratic individual in Amer-
ica, Fr. Charles Coughlin? What
is the use of deploring its re-
actionary role in pre-Hitler Aus-
tria, when it stood by idly if not
approvingly as Dollfuss wrecked
the workers' apartments?
When Democracy might defeat
Fascism, as was the case in Spain,
the Church sprang to Fascism's
aid (one big reason here being
the absolute truth that the Pope
is the prisoner of II Duce) just
as, after the U. S. S. R. signed
on Hitler's blood-dotted line, the
American comrades condoned Nazi
movements against the Democra-
cies using the Soviet rationaliz-
ing arguments that Britain and
France were warmongers, imper-
ialists and aggressors, as if
Britain and France had been
building up for blitzkrieg action
since 1933. Would to God they
had!
These are horrible times, per-
haps the worst from a humani-
tarian point of view, in the his-
tory of human civilization. The
writer doesn't mean that merely
the Jews suffer, but everybody
feels bereft of faith who doesn't
want to be a slave and doesn't
want to see anybody else a slave.
As Robert Briffault puts it, and
as Seldes quotes him, "We are
already in the Dark Ages." Max
Lerner, great American thinker
and interpreter, is another one
convinced the world is headed for
rack and ruin. A character in Al-
dous Huxley's recent "After
Many a Summer Dies the Swan"
remarks that the fight against
Fascism is a tragic thing. An-
other character, horrified and
outraged, demands whether the
other would have people not
fighting Fascism. The original
then points out that such is the
tragedy, that people do have to
fight Fascism. We must fight it
vth its own weapons of totali-
tarianism, with a lower standard
of living, with less liberties and
less leisure—and less hope.
(It is of course true that the
greatest philosophers of all time
have been pessimists. They—
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dos-
toyevsky, Schbert, Tolstoy, Mo-
zart, Mann—saw only too clear-
ly the inevitable doom of man.
Fundamentally, the cause of this
is Death. If not a natural death,
death at the hands of one's fel-
low men, particularly in war and
persecution, barbarism and bru-
tality, is omnipresent.)
To return to Seldes: He con-
cludes his indictment of the ac-
tions of the hierarchy of the
church saying that if it won't
change its ways, the anti-Fascist
revolution that's bound to win
(wishful thinking to the nth)
will crush the church with Fas-
cism.
Seldes is careful throughout to
indicate that he believes the ma-
jority of American Catholics are
not pro-Fascist, citing a Gallup
poll that showed Catholics dis-
agreed generally with the hier-
archy's p•o-Franco stand during
the Spanish rebellion. To judge
whether he has sufficiently linked
the Catholic Church to Fascism
(through Coughlin, Hague, Doll-
fuss, Franco, Mussolini, et cet-
era) one must read the book for
himself and decide whether there
is, or was, a Catholic Crisis.
This reviewer wonders whether
the Catholic Church, or any reli-
gious body except the State, can
survive the coming victory of to-
talitarianism in Europe and Asia.
The issues today are the greatest
in history. Will Western Civiliza-
tion itself survive in whole or in
Part?. Will the church fit in the
new setup as it adapted itself to
capitalism—and not too success-
fully at that, when Democracy
came with it?
The publishers of "The Catho-
lic Crisis" say that the total sale
"is small considering the book's
importance" although "the Prot-
estant, by and large, has spoken
very highly of it" while "the
general press has rather dodged
its issues."

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The Germans Have
Staunch Champion
In Erika Mann

Noted Anti-Nazi Has Faith in
Decency of Her People

Erik a Mann, illustrious and
brilliant daughter of Thomas
Mann, consistently pleads the
cause of the true Germany as
compared with dastardly Nazism
She has faith in the true spirit
of the German people, and be-
lieves that taken as a group the
folk she sprang from are not bad,
that they. will yet emerge cleans-
ed from the present mire in
which they have
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been dragged so
deep by the Hit-
ler regime. S It e
h a s condemned
Nazism while
pleading the
cause of German-
ism, and for her
indictments s h e
has been forced
Erika Mann into exile from
h e r
fatherland.
Now, in "The Lights Go Down",
a Farrar & Rinehart publication,
she again reiterates her faith in
the German people by exposing
the horror of Nazism.
But the events of the past few
weeks make Miss Mann's task
most difficult. She is convincing
enough with her descriptions, and
as usual the creations of her pen
are as fascinating as she herself
is charming. But the average
reader will no doubt ask: if all
that she describes is true—and
there is no reason for doubting
that it is—then the Germans
must have submitted to complete
subjugation and enslavement, and
that is in itself an indictment.
In "The Lights Go Down" she
pictures the average citizens in
an average German city. The
town is, of course, anonymous.
She presents ten episodes. There
is the tradesman who falsifies
his accounts, his income and his
taxes, in order to be permitted
to remain in business. But when
he is finally liquidated he cries
out, "I am not a Jew and I'm
not a Communist or a traitor to
my country; and still I've got to
be destroyed. Why?"
Then there is the professor
who did not protest the expul-
sion of his half-Jewish colleague.
but who by innuendo influenced
the students to think clearly.
Other characters—the lawyer,
the doctor, the peasant, etc.—
are intended to give a cross-sec-
tion of German life and German
people. It is a picture of suffer-
ing to which the Germans submit
but which, in the view of Miss
Mann, they do not endorse.
Maurice Samuel (lid the splen-
did translation from the German
in
d ibtok
. o was originally
written. John O'Hara Cosgrave
II illustrated it.

League for Labor Palestine

Conducts Summer Seminar

The League for Labor riles-
tine will open its fifth annual
summer seminar at Spring Glen,
N. Y.. on June 28. For the past
four years the League Seminar
has attracted a large attendance
of guests coming from many sec-
tions of the country.
The official opening will he held
on Wednesday evening, June 3.
with an unusual concert program
and entertainment.
Detailed information about the
Seminar may be obtained from
the office of the League for Labor
Palestine, 275 7th Ave., New York
City.

A constant fidelity in smal l
things is a great and heroic vir-
tue.—Bonaventure.

