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January 3, 1941

BRANDEIS

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GEWERKSHAFTEN CONFERENCE AT
VICE-MAYOR OF TEL AVIV
KILLED IN AUTO CRASH STATLER HOTEL ALL DAY SUNDAY

have to be placed in control of
Dov Hos, vice-mayor of Tel Aviv, 46 years old, was
a national budget. It was inevit- killed in an auto crash between Tiberias and Nathania,
able that some form of the Keren
Hayesod should be approved in while on the way to Tel Aviv after a visit to the interned
London. All the American dele- Jews in Achau concentration camp.
gates voted for the proposal sub-
Others who were killed were his wife, Rebecca,
mitted on behalf of the Keren who was the sister of Moshe Shertok, head of the Zionist
Hayesod Committee, and pledged
their cooperation in establishing political bureau ; their 18-year-old daughter, Tirzah;
the Fund. The only Jewry that Feiga Shertok, sister-in-law of Moshe Shertok ; Ben
had emerged out of the war with Yaakov, director of aviation department of Jewish Agen-
unimpaired resources was the cy for Palestine, who was at the wheel.
Jewry of America. The pledging
Eva Hos, sister of Dov Hos, was the only passenger
of their support in London,
therefore, was decisive in giving in the car to escape with light injuries.
reality to the undertakings of the
Zionist Organization.
sider the practical implications the Keren Hayesod. They were
of his Zionist faith. He was dis- amazingly excited. They aided
The return of the American appointed in the Zionist leaders. Dr. Weizmann in the extension
delegates from London was not He found himself—in London— of the Jewish Agency, his per-
used to launch a campaign for for the first time in the center suasive approach to non-Zion-
the Keren Hayesod. The contrary of a free Zionist discussion. It ists. They fostered the Jewish
was the fact. The annual con- was a long drawn-out contro- labor movement; all the implica-
vention of the ZOA was held in versy, in many languages, in tions of the ideals of the Chal-
the fall of 1920 at Buffalo. The which he could scarcely articulate utz. They aided the growth of
Keren Hayesod was not noticed. his thoughts. He realized the dif- the Hebrew University. They
The late Joseph Cowen of Lon- ficulty of maintaining an effec- aroused American opinion to the
don came to the convention, rep- tive working body with so many point of endorsing the Mandate
resenting the Keren Hayesod, but varieties of temperaments and through an act of Congress.
he was not given a hearing. Mr. ways of thinking. He wondered Year after year, nineteen times,
Brandeis was determined to have how American Zionists, and he the Zionists of America—with an
American Zionism go its own more particularly, would be able ever increasing army of general
way. It was his opinion that leg- to exercise an influence in such Jewish support—have been drawn
ally the ZOA was not under ob- a milieu. All his American in- closer and closer to the nation-
ligations to give cooperation to stincts revolted against the big- al work in Palestine, and given
the Keren Hayesod. He advocat- ness and complexities of an in- continuous and uninterrupted
ed the idea of a World Zionist ternational administration under service and support in every
Organization made up of auto- such conditions. He could not crisis that has developed in the
nomous federations, cooperating think of himself as being tied building of the Jewish National
on an eclectic basis. In effect, he to that "wagon of Jewish renais- Home. They made possible a
was preparing the ZOA for seces- sance." Up to that date he had united American Jewish opinion
participated in Zionist affairs in that gave support to the pro-
sion.
When Schmarya Levin began to an American atmosphere, with test against the Passfield White
make propaganda for the Keren people of his own choosing, ex- Paper. A united American Jew-
those who were not in ish opinion re-enforced the Weiz-
Hayesod, with the cooperation cluding with
his views or meth- mann administration in all of its
of other American Zionists, the accord
ods. He had not realized the
administration of the ZOA, fol- implications of a national move- critical encounters with the Man-
lowing the advice of Mr. Bran- ment—nationalism in the Galuth; datory Government. All Amer-
deis, began a counter propaganda. that all Jews, no matter what ican Jewry, it may be said, has
Public action was taken in oppo- land they came from, would have been found behind the Keren
sition to the terms of incorpora- equal rights; that all of them Hayesod, behind the political ac-
tion of the Keren Hayesod. Paid were included in the national tivities of Zionist administration
advertisements appeared in the rebirth; that Zionism would have during the entire period of the
Yiddish press, advising Jews that to operate with a national as- Mandate, which is identical with
period of Dr. Weizmann's
the Keren Hayesod was not en- sembly, democratic procedure, the
leadership.
dorsed by the ZOA. Dr. Weiz- etc.
mann announced that he would
He over-rated the Balfour
come to the United States to
And in all these years Mr.
inaugurate a campaign for the Declaration and undervalued the Brandeis has occupied a seclud-
turbulence
of
the
Jewish
spirit.
Keren Hayesod, in view of the
ed nook, a sanctuary of his own
refusal of the ZOA to take a He believed that under the terms contrivance, never emerging to
favorable position toward it. The of the Declaration you would be participate in public ,action, never
administration of the ZOA de- able to build according to plan, venturing out of his Ivory Tow-
clined to participate in an all- slowly, carefully, efficiently, that er. He has hardly ever spoken
would not be called to take
Jewish reception committee for you
to the Jewish public. He has
Dr. Weizmann and his delega- into account the intruding acci- been consultant, adviser, contrib-
dents
of
Jewish
life—the
pres-
tion. The aggressive minority in
for instance, that forced utor, but at no time actively par-
the administration of the ZOA sure,
thousands of Polish Jews, un- ticipating in decision, in plan-
brought the matter to an issue. prepared, to come to Palestine ning; in "give-and-take" discus-
It forced the calling of a con- in 1924—the growth of a Chalutz sion. He has given generously
vention, and at Cleveland the labor movement, free, partisan, of his own means. He has given
Brandeis administration was de- full of initiative, struggling for only to those specific interests
feated by a vote of two to one. domination. He was disturbed by which have won his confidence
The Keren Hayesod was endorsed the disorder. The building of the and approval. He refuses to be
by a vote of over three to one. Jewish National Home he con- agitated. He resists the lure of
Whereupon the supporters of Mr. ceived of as a colonization proj- emotional interests. He remains
Brandeis—and Mr. Brandeis him- ect. You would have to take loyal to his first conclusions, his
self as Honorary President—pub- your time about it. Therefore, first prejudices, the loves and
licly retired from the responsi- the day of propaganda was over. hates of 20 years ago. The
bilities of the ZOA and the Keren Campaigns for the raising of mountain of Zionist achievement
Hayesod. They would have noth• funds could not be repeated; the which he as a realist is bound to
ing to do thereafter with either. field had been exhausted—in face, does not alter or disturb
1920! He came to think that the convictions of two decades
What was, in essence, the posi- if you could get individual Jews ago.
interested in specific things to
tion of Mr. Brandeis?
Thus, at the end of 20 years,
He was not the attorney of be done in Palestine, you would
record. But his position is re- build a national industry. If you the Keren Hayesod is unchal-
could
get
individual
Jews
to
en-
flected in the documents then is-
lenged, the value of its service
sued by the ZOA; in his "not gage in specific tasks of com-
merce,
you
would
build
a
nation-
universally acclaimed, and Dr.
for publication" addresses; in ac-
commerce. He wanted the Weizmann retains the leadership
tion taken on his advice by offi- al
work to be done deliberately,
cers of the ZOA; in conversa- soberly with plan. He wanted he won in 1921. He has fought
tions in which he participated, to see agriculture develop, not many battles. He has made many
and letters he wrote. It is in- the forcing of culture. His
accurate and misleading to think methodical mind made him seek erors. But he has had to fight
that Mr. Brandeis was "silent" security, stability and certainty out his policies in a public arena
and expressed views only on the in the movement. He was dis- —has been frequently defeated
larger aspects of the movement. tressed by agitation, too much —but retains his faith and con-
Details had a peculiar fascina- sentiment. He believed that out fidence and resiliency. He has
tion for him. When he had an of the prosaic work of building, not resented public criticism, but
interest it extended to all the the Jewish commonwealth would profited from it, always. He has
not nursed grudges, but elimin-
details. He was silent in public,
ated them from his system
but quite generous in his con- emerge.
through cooperation with and
tributions to private discussions.
Fortunately, these views were human sympathy for the oppon-
In effect, he was the executive
director of the whole controversy not shared by the vast majority ent.
The Mandate has run its
that reached its climax at Cleve- of American Zionists at the time.
land. To ascribe to him the They sensed in Mr. Brandeis' course. The world created by
qualities of an impartial judge postion their segregation in an the League of Nations has brok-
in Zionist affairs at that time American brand of Zionism, en down. All of Europe is in
—or, for that matter, at any which they were determined to disorder, in flames. But there
time—would be a misrepresenta- resist. They felt kinship with are 500,000 Jews in Palestine—
tion of the colorful personality the leaders of European Zion- not wards of a colonization pro-
of the man who, in his Jewish ism, who had formulated its ject—not exhibits of a planned
interests showed the same zeal, idealogy, had made the pioneer settlement—but members of a
the same partisanship, the same sacrifices, had created its loyal- national organism, members of
will to win which he displayed ties and had inspired them with a free, self-governing Jewish so-
in his advocacy in public law their contagious idealism. The ciety—the products of a national
controversies with which he was cold, dogmatiz position of Mr. revival. They are bound to the
associated before he left the Brandeis ran counter to Zionist Galuth by many ties. Their Gal-
practice of the law for the tradition and contradicted its uth wounds are still fresh. The
basic principles; it seemed to most effective bond is the Kereh
Bench.
eliminate the human qualities of Hayesod. That Fund was not
launced in London in 1920. It
His first views on Zionism were nation building.
They stood behind the leader- was born in pain and struggle
expressed in the two pamphlets
that bear his name. But his ship of Dr. Weizmann. Their de- at Cleveland in 1921. It was
views became decidedly more def- cision determined the form and maintained through the years
mite after his return from Pal- destiny of the Zionist move- by the sacrifice, loyalty and sense
of national discipline of the free
estine in 1919, after he had met ment.
With extraordinary enthusiasm brotherhood of American Zion-
the European Zionist leaders in
London, after he began to con- they rallied to the support of ists.

The annual conference of the
Gewerkshaften campaign for the
Palestine Labor movement will
be held this Sunday, 10:30 a. rn.
to 5:30 p. m., at Hotel Statler.
This conference will mark the
opening of the annual Palestine
labor campaign in Detroit.
Speakers at this conference will
include Rabbi Barnett R. Brick-
ner of Cleveland and David
Wertheim, general secretary of
the Poale Zion party.
There will be a musical pro-
gram. All are welcome, admis-
sion being free. Representatives
of organizations are especially
urged to send their delegates.

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