1111Mxit December DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle 12 27 1940 1r VIENNA: THE CRADLE OF ZIONISM By FRED D. RODECK NORMAN ROSS EXTENDS BEST WISHES TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY FOR A JOYOUS CHANUKAH! 110111111111 LUMBER COMP1111Y 14300 CLOVERDALE AVE. • AICHIGAtd ■ DETROIT JOINS US IN EXTENDING CHANUKAH GREETINGS TO THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY • Sales — BUICK — Service Michigan's Largest Buick Dealers TYLER 4-7600 IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OCCASION WE EXTEND TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF DETROIT BEST WISHES FOR A H A P P Y AND JOYOUS CHANUKAH MORTGAGE LOANS LOWEST RATES NO SERVICE CHARGE Western and Southern Life Insurance Co. Mortgage Loan Department 6560 Cass Ave. Madison 1750 L. C. JANISSE Manager of Detroit Office '." A JOYOUS CHANUKAH TO ALL! KOEPPLINGER'S Famous HEALTH BREAD MADE WITHOUT SUGAR OR FAT LOW IN CALORIES PREFERRED BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF DETROIT Ask for It at Your Grocer's and Your Favorite Restaurant Phone: UNIVERSITY 3-2021 BEST WISHES FOR A JOYOUS CHANUKAH H. 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The Of all cities on earth, Vienna Hakoah has not only done very deserves the title "Cradle of much for the physical training 9241 GRAND RIVER of the Jewish youth, but (level• Zionism". oped Jewish sportsmanship and Theodor Herzl, the founder of Opp. Riviera Theater modern political Zionism, though self-consciousness and became a kind of Jewish social center. The born in Budapest, lived and TYLER 5-0753 worked in Vienna. Except for Hakoah was dissolved soon after his "Judenstaat," which originat- the annexation of Austria by ed in Paris under the impres- Hitler. Due to a decreasing birthrate sion of the famous Dreyfus Af- fair, all his works were written and increasing emigration—most- in Vienna. There, in the Doeb- ly to Palestine—the Jewish pop- linger cemetery, he found his ulation in Austria decreased A Joyous Chanukah to All last resting place. Each return years before the Nazi occupa- of his day of death, in July, a tion. In 1923, 220,208 Jews crowd of tens of thousands lived in Austria, 201,313 of them passed silently by his grave, to in Vienna, representing 9.39 per honor the man who has sacri- cent of the whole Viennese pop- OPTOMETRIST ficed himself for the ause of his ulation. In 1934 the Jewish pop- ulation in Austria amounted to Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted people. Having later made the ac- 191,481 (or a total of 6,760,000 quaintance of Polish Jewry and inhabitants), in Vienna to 176,- eastern Jewish life, Dr. Herzl 034, representing 9.39 per cent found his first and most ardent of the entire population of DENTIST followers in Vienna in partic- 1,874,000. In the end of 1937 ular among the students of the the Jewish population of Vienna X-RAY GAS University and the technical col- had decreased to 166,000, or 8.8 leges. Soon a keen Zionist ac- per cent of the entire Viennese 7450 Twelfth Nr. Grand Blvd. tivity sprang up there. As first ,population. After elimination of an obso- Zionist organization of this kind Madison 3775 the students' association "Kadi- lete electoral system—favoring mah" was founded which took the great taxpayers for the Jew- pride in choosing Dr. Herzl as ish community, i.e., the richer honorary member. Then fol- people—and substitution by • Sincere Holiday Greetings lowed the "Maccabaea", "Zeph- democratic system, the Zionists ira" and several others. These had a majority of two-thirds in student clubs were, to some ex- the Kultusrat, the governing tent, an imitation of the Ger- council of the Juedische Kultus- man students clubs ("Burschen- gemeinde (Jewish community) of schaften"). They wore colored Vienna. The presidency and all Detroit's Largest caps and ribbons, drank, trained important offices in the commun- Snapshot Finisher ity were held by Zionists. They fencing and fought duels mostly Developing, Printing, Enlarging against the members of the Ger- represented the Jewish popula- man students' clubs. On the tion of Vienna in their relations 1055 EASTLAWN other hand, however, they were to the authorities of state and Lenox 4792 impregnated with Zionist en- city. One of the first actions of thusiasm and developed an ad- the Zionist majority was the ap- mirable Zionist fighting spirit pointment of Prof. Perez Zwi Chanukah Greetings! both physical and psychical. They Chajes, world famous Jewish rendered service to the Zionist scholar and Zionist leader, to cause during the first decade of the important office of Chief this century and made Zionism Rabbi of Vienna. It was the first and the Jewish name respected time that a Zionist was appoint- Bottles and Jars among their enemies and the ed as supervisor of the 22 larger non-Jewish population. Here is and more than 80 smaller syna- "SEE WHAT YOU BUY, an example of how they man- gogues of Vienna, as superior BUY IN GLASS" aged to do so. In order to make of the 22 rabbis in charge of the the Jewish students ridiculous a larger temples and of the entire 2903 BEAUBIEN German national student named highly developed Jewish school CAdillac 5581 Navarini, a famous fencer, chal- system in Vienna. Under his ex- celent guidance and leadership— lenged all Zionist students he saw in the University building. brought to an all-too-early end In one of the following duels he by Dr. Chajes' sudden death due Chanukah Greetings! was so thoroughly defeated by to overwork—the Jewish com- a Zionist student named Otto munity of Vienna became a Almoslino that the Zionist stu- strong Zionist community, until dents were respected as good all Jewish and Zionist life in fighters and fencers even by Austria and Vienna, the very cradle of Zionism, was destroyed their adversaries ever since. It was by these student asso- by the Nazi invasion. 2189 BEAUFAIT AVE. ciations—some of them more in the line of discussion clubs— FItzroy 0444 Bnai David Sisterhood that the Jewish youth in Aus- tria was educated and led back The Bnai David Sisterhood held from the desert of asimilation towards Zionism. Out of these an open meeting on Monday eve- Viennese students groups plenty ning, Dec. 16. The Sisterhood Chanukah Greetings! of talented young people, cham- members will be hostesses to their pions of Zionism, sprang up mothers and to the Ladies Auxil- One of them, the poet Hugo iary of the Bnai David Syna- Lafayette Waste Paper Co. Zuckermann, the author • of the on Monday evening, Dec. famous "Reiterlied" (rider's gogue MORRIS GOLDBERG song), as a lieutenant in an 30, with a Chanukah party. An Austrian dragoon regiment, fell interesting program has been ar- 1042 Rivard St. at the beginning of the World ranged for that evening. The War, like so many others, seal- annual victory party will be held ing his loyalty to his Austrian in January at the Wilshire Hotel. fatherland with his life. All these Zionist activities were restricted, however, to the Greetings of the Season so-called academic circles, the more educated people. The Sport Club Hakoah was founded shortly before the World LAFAYETTE 6280-1 6000 MICHIGAN AVE. War by Dr. J. Koerner and a Best Brands of Poultry, Pigeon and Rabbit Feeds few other enthusiastic Zionists, thus substituting a more demo- VIGORO PLANT FOOD and SUPER PEAT MOSS for LAWNS cratic basis for the, until then, Remedies, Fountains, Hoppers and Feeders almost aristocratic fundament of Hay, Grain, Oats, Feed and Straw the Zionist movement in Aus- tria. The Hakoah was in the We sell Buckeye Incubators, Oil Brooders and Standard beginning just a football (soc- Colony Brooders. Also Best Varieties of Dog Foods cer) club. 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