DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
12
June 27, 1941
gesting the lines on which Jew- of general ideas on the organiza-
ish rights may be claimed in a tion of the post-war world.
Each department will under-
post-war settlement."
(Continued from Page 1)
"The Institute," he empha- take to assemble the documentary
sized, "is not a political body. It evidence relating to its field, and
As plans for the Eighth An- the American Jewish Commit- is a group of scholars, and repre- to conduct special surveys into
nual Convention of Masada, Youth tee and the Jewish Labor Com- sents an attempt to mobilize the the facts involved.
mittee.)
Zionist Organization of America,
The Institute, which is under intellectual resources of the Jew:-
Planned Activities
at the St. Charles Hotel in At- the joint auspices of the Ameri- ish people to attack the gigantic
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In
its
broad terms, according
lantic City, N. J., on July 3, 4, can Jewish Congress and the problem which confronts it."
to Dr. Robinson, the Institute
MADE TO ORDER
institute Program
5, 6, neared completion, Morris World Jewish Congress, Dr. Wise
The Institute as now establish- will seek (1) to establish the
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Rapaport, convention chairman, explained, is to be analogous in ed is the culmination of an ef- exact facts concerning the situa-
the Jewish field to other organ-
LINOLEUM
1939 in lion of Jews
in Nazi-dominated
*
i
announced that Rabbi Edward L. izations now concerned with stu- fort that was .
Inlaid and Battleship
(2) the nature and
Israel of Baltimore, member of dies respecting the future organ- Europe and which, because of countries, of
their disabilities,
the executive of the Zionis Or- ization of the world at the end the war developments. has now the . extent
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causes underlying
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ganization of America would de- of the war.
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es of
The Institute of Jewish Affairs work
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minority problems. Associated lerns of government and protec- homes will have to be found.
The work of the Institute will
with him are Jewish scholars of tion of individual and group
concentrate for the present on
repute who will receive the gui- rights.
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Dr. Robinson, in discussing the transmigration and colonization, h
shed the
with
the Commission
to
program of the Institute, de- as well as the implications of the Study
Organization
of Peace,
Glared that its purpose is "to Refugee Problem.
e
the Federal Council of Churchs
conduct a thorough investiga-
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past
years, with
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to Reconstruction
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ent situation, determining its di- constructive solutions of Jewish
h b k raing
rect and indirect causes, and sug- problems against
te ac The Institute has already in
work a number of important pro-
"The Book of Jewish Humor," jects, the results of which will
by Rufus Learsi. recently issued he published in the coming weeks
by the Bloch Publishing Com- and in the early fall. The first
(Continued from Page 1)
pany. Here is an example of a. of these is a documented study
of the Jews in Nazified Europe,
have to laugh. Two peculiarities true Chelmer yarn.
covering the period of 1933 to
of Jewish humor were implicit in
The town liar of Chelem was the present day. This will take
the newspaper dealer's swift looking through his window one the form of a volume showing the
answer: tragedy turned to fun (lay, and the urge to lie came balance sheet of Jewish life in
and refuge found in the im- strong upon him.
Europe as a result of the Nazi
possible.
"Listen !" he called down. conquest.
The admixture of fantasy and "here is a cow flying over the
Planned for fall publication is
fact, and the sudden leap into roofs behind the bath-house !"
a study entitled "Were the Mi-
the ridiculous, sometimes make The people heard him and ran. norities Treaties a Failure?" This
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Jewish humor elusive to non- Those
se who ran told the others, study is being undertaken by
Jews, There is the famous story and soon the whole town was on Professor Max Laserson. Dr. Ja-
-surely one of the best Jewish its way to see the cow. cob Robinson and Dr. Mark
stories extant—about the Russian
The Chelem liar got up, closed Vishniak. As part of the series
Jew drafted in the Crimean War.
He stood in the trench and (lid his window, and joined the rest. of nublications dealing with Jews
"Suppose," he said to him- in the War. there is to be a book
nothing.
lf "there really is a cow fly- on "The Situation of Jews in
"What's the idea?" bawled his s e--
over the roofs behind the Poland" by Dr. Jacob Lestchin-
sergeant. "You've got a gun! tug
bath-house!"
sky. and a hook on the Jews of
Shoot
!"
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Ther e is also a tabe of a Phil- by D r. A rier Tartakow er. A n-
Demothed
ahead !"
"Do you think I'm crazy?,, osopher who once stepped into other study in project is "The
asked the soldier. "There are a shon to buy himself a new hat Anti-Semitic State." This volume
people over there !" for Passover. He stood before treats the recent phenomenon of
Yet this story has been known the merchant and rummaged into anti-Semitism as an obligatory
doctrine not only of the State
to leave intelligent non-Jews un- one pocket after another.
"What is it? the merchant in its domestic and foreign pal-
moved. Its whimsicality draws
"You've lost something?" icy. but also in that of its sub-
deeply from the pacifism that is asked.
"I took the measurements of jects in their own country and
another characteristic of Jewish
humor. The pacifism is directed my head before I left home and abroad. The implications of this
not only toward human beings, wrote them down on paper," said new phenomenon on the situa-
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and now, alas! lion of Jews outside of Germany
but toward fate itself.
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Though this story follows the general danger for the Jewish
this
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to
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sense
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of submission to God. One of general line of absent-minded future of the survival of such a
fitted Orthodox
for a gas professor yarns, it has a Jewish state is emphasized. Another
London's best-known
twist. It deals with the head, hook is to fleal with "The Legn1
rabbis was bein g
and it intimates that half the qtato s of German Minorities in
mask just after this war broke time a Jew doesn't know whether Southeastern Europe." This yob
out. His beard was a handicap. his head is on his shoulders or tone will
give an insight into one
and no suitable mask seemed
of the most striking aspects of
available. At last he pushed them not Among the stories with an un- the German
"New World Order"
all aside, and said :
named locale which have been an (I will. on a purely scientific
"Never mind. I have more collected in the volume there are basis, having reference to official
faith in my beard than in your also many that already bear the statements and legislative meas-
mask."
marks of timelessness. Here is ores. depict the orionoisod posi-
Faith was the underlying crea-
one:
tint) of the Germans ( Volks dent-
tive force in the dozens of jokes
"Rabbi," said the unhappy fa- schel in German-controlled Eu-
that ran through the Jewish ther, "I've just married off my rope.
population of Germany in the (laughter. but she will have to
Dr. Wise recalled the impel'
early days of the Hitler rule. get a divorce. The young man
taut role played by the America' ,
Hitler. which means hatmaker won't do."
"What's wrong with him?" Jewish Congress at the end of
in Yiddish, immediately became
the last war, when, in coopera-
der Kapelush-macher in conver- asked the rabbi.
tion with the Committee of Jew-
sation, and Kraft durch Freude
"He can't play cards. "
ish Delegations, it helped to
became Koach (lurch Simche—a
"What? Would to God not a bring shoot the incorporation of
literal translation, but stark in
Jewish young man could the minorities rights clauses into
all its silliness when said in He- single
EACH WITH
play cards!"
the Peace realties and the rem. -
brew, much more than when one
"Yes, Rabbi," said the worried pition in these treaties of the
says Strength through Joy.
COMBINATION
father. "But he plays!"
But just as Jewish endurance
Pledges contained in the Balfour
Illustrated here again is the Declar a ti on with respect to the
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capacity Jews have to adjust ,
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lewish National Homeland in
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a steady process. Thousands of a son-in-law who was a genius
DAILY
stories have passed from time- at cards would somehow seem to
The present staff of the Insti-
liness to timelessness. Sholom possess moral qualities to wipe lute. which will be expanded.
IINGLE
From
Aleichem's stories always had
consists of three research fel-
-
tears hovering alongside the wit. out the slight immorality card- lows _ in n addit . ion to
the director.
playing
might
have.
The
struggle
The Chelmer Stories
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as-
for existence would provide the an editorial secretary, three as-
To the Jewish population of coverage. sistants, seven collaborators. The
AT BATES STREET
Eastern Europe, the town of
Jews have a way of getting head of the Denartment of Law
somehow became en- along with life. It has been the and Political Science is Dr. Max
Chelem
dowed with the privilege of hous- despair of our enemies.
And Laserson; the head of the De -
ing the prize simpletons of Jew- while there are some Jews who
artment
of Economics and Sta-
.
life—the
Jewish
wise
men
ish
is Dr. Jacob Lestchinslo
today
counsel
race
suicide
as
tisties
of Gotham. These
simpletons the solution of the Jewish rob- and the head of the Denartmeat
were made the
spokesmen
for lem, it is more probable humor of Migration and Colonization IS
the extravagences
Dr. A rieh Tartakower. Dr. Theo-
of Jewish wit. will win the day.
The Chelmer stories, translated (4•04))right 1941 by '
independent Jewish dare Herzl Caster is the editor
into English, form the basis for
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