DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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August 22, 1941

NRS FULFILLS
Observe Jewish
Moishe Oisher, Eminent Film
Guardian Asks for
A
TRADITION
Education Month
Star and Cantor, to Appear in
Independent Jewish
Concert in Detroit on Sept. 7 In late August, 1654, just 287 Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 Set Aside
State in Palestine

LONDON. (JPS-Palcor —
Palestine is fundamental to any
solution of the problem of the
Middle East and should be estab-
lished as an independent Jewish
state, declares the liberal daily,
the Manchester Guardian, in an
editorial on Syria and Palestine.
Taking strong exception to the
omission of Palestine from the
recent speech of War Secretary
Anthony Eden dealing with a
coming Arab Federation, and the
• correspondence Captain Oliver
Lyttleton has had with the Free
French, the newspaper says that
without Palestine there can be
no settlement in the Near East.
The Guardian refers to the
pledges made to the Jewish peo-
ple in the Balfour Declaration,
and observes that the construc-
tive work done in Palestine dur-
ing the past two decades has
justified the British policy of
establishing there a Jewish na-
tional home.
The White Paper of May,
1939, has seriously hampered
further progress, declares the
editorial. An unmoral, illegal
document, it should now be
abandoned and an independent
Jewish state, based on firm
foundations, should be set up
instead.
The Jewish national home
would have stood even without
the persecution and pogroms the
Jews have undergone, the Guard-
ian continues. Recent events,
however, including the terrible
pogroms in Iraq just before the
end of Rashid Ali's rule, make
it more essential than ever that
Britain carry out her promise of
a national home and permit the
Jews to fight in the British
cause on the same basis as do
the Poles, Czechs, and other peo-
ples, the article concludes.

NOCK

(Continued from Page 1)

articles by him, and I think I
am right in saying that in them
you will find no slur, no animosity
calculated to injure the Jew.
"I grant you," he continues,
"that Mr. Nock was off-line in
his estimate of the number of
Jews in our Government employ,
and I am sorry that this exag-
geration was not caught in time.
In other respects Mr. Nock's
essay was neither malignant nor
abusive. I think you must agree
with me that the Atlantic has
done a service rather than dis-
service to its readers in leaving
with Christian and Jew alike a
firm sense of caution and a fresh
awareness of a threatening situ-
ation."
The September issue of the
magazine will contain a number
of replies, among them a re-
joinder by Congressman Emanuel
Celler of New York.
"According to the United
States Census of Religious Bodies
as of 1937," Mr. Celler writes,
"the total Jewish population in
this country was 4,770,647. Forty
per cent of the total Federal
civilian personnel would be more
than 8 per cent of the total Jew-
ish population, including men,
women and minors; 63 per cent
would be more than 12 per cent
of the total Jewish population.
I offers these figures to indicate
how absurd are the reported
estimates of Mr. Nock."
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president
of the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America, said, "There are
those who predict that the after-
math of war will be economic
collapse; and that, under the in-
fluence of totalitarian propa-
ganda, economic collapse will pro-
duce Mr. Nock's Frankenstein, an
'Occidental massman', who in his
hungry rage will rend his fellow
citizen in pieces. If such a future
be in store for America, the vic-
tims of persecution will be the
fortunate ones; for it is in-
finitely better to suffer persecu-
tion than to inflict it."

Refugee Training

Farm Marks

First Anni

ti

BOUND BROOK. N. J. (JPS)
—The opening of a new poultry
brooder marked the first anni-
versary of the Jewish refugee
training farm established here
by the Jewish Agricultural So-
ciety. A number of State offi-
cials, including William H. Allen,
secretary of the New Jersey
State Board of Agriculture, and
Dr. Willard C. Thompson of the
New Jersey State College of
Agriculture, were present at the
ceremonies.

Moishe Oisher, outstanding film
star and recognized as the lead-
ing cantor in America will ap-
pear in person in Detroit, in a
concert at the Wilson Theater,
on Sunday evening, Sept. 7.
Abraham Littman, manager of
Littman's Yiddish People's Thea-
ter, under whose management Mr.
Oisher will appear here, pointed
out in his announcement of the
arrangements for Mr. Oisher's
concert that this will be the first
and perhaps the only immediate

opportunity Detroit Jews will have
to hear Mr. Oisher in person.
"He is a great actor, one of
the greatest living singers, the
foremost living cantor," Mr. Litt-
man said.
Mr. Oisher will present a pro-
gram of classical, Yiddish and
cantorial music.
The guest singer gained fame
in three outstanding Jewish mo-
tion pictures—"The Cantor's Son",
"The Singing Blacksmith" and
"Overture to Glory."

Recent Bride

REALISM AT
ITS HIGHEST

Photo by Marty-Mack Studio

MRS. GEORGE CHARNAS
(Miss Mildred Rose Feldman)

The effect of war, the mark it
leaves on children, the reactions
of human beings to the terror of
ddestruction — these are subjects
that call for most artistic treat-
ment if the issues are to be seen
in the real sense.
A great artist, who combines
the genius of novelist and poet—
Robert Nathan—has drawn one
of the most touching pictures of
the war and has provided us with
this type of realism, in his latest
novel, "They Went On Together."
(Knopf).
It is a story of evacuation, of
the residents of an ordinary com-
munity whose flight is accom-
panied by the roar of planes, by
the exploding of bombs, by the
search for freedom.
There is romance in the story
of Paul and Sylvie, their flight,
the search made for them by
Paul's mother, their reunion and
their continued march together in
search for the freedom that the
human beings yearn for.
The genius of Robert Nathan's
literary skill makes this work
stand out as a splendid and most
artistic bit of writing. It is a
novel marked by faith and by
the unquenchable thirst for life.
In "They Went On Together"
there is a continuation of that
skill which has made Robert Na-
than's "One More Spring", "Road
of Ages", "The Enchanted Voy-
age" and numerous other works
stand out as real contributions to
literature by Americans.

Miss Mildred Rose Feldman,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max
Feldman of 2319 Calvert Ave.,
became the bride of Dr. George
Charnas, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sol Charnas of 3345 Glendale
Ave., on June 29, at the Wilshire
Hotel. Rabbi Morris Adler offi-
ciated.
The bride was assisted by Es-
ther Charnas and the best man
was the bride's brother, Dr. Mil-
ton D. Feldman.
The bride's grandparents from
New York attended the wedding. Revolutionary Heroes Play

Danish Mayor Curbs Anti-Jewish
Circulars "to Protect
Germans"
GENEVA. (JPS) — The tern-
per of German-occupied countries
is graphically shown in a recent
episode in the city of Randers
in Denmark.
One day the Nazis distributed
their usual outpouring of obscene
anti-Jewish literature among the
populace, in the hope of stir-
ring up anti-Jewish rioting.
Instead of arousing the Danes
to a pogrom, however, the "lit-
erature" brought down rioting
on the heads of the Nazis them-
selves. As a result, the Mayor
of the city was forced to halt
the distribution of the circulars.
When arraigned by the Ger-
mans for interfering with au-
thorized German agents, the
Mayor stoutly maintained that
he took the action only as a
precautionary measure in the
interest of the Nazis. His people,
he insisted, had been on the
verge of attacking the Hitlerites.
The Mayor is still in prison.
Meanwhile, the Nazis have no
way of determining his guilt.

to Be Executed in
Bessarabia
GENEVA. (JPS) — Reports
reaching here from Istanbul
state that the Rumanian Mili-
tary Command of Bessarabia has
officially ordered the execution
of 1,750 Jews on the charge of
helping Russian troops during
the campaign in the former So-
viet region. The Jews condemned
to death live in the following
regions:
Eight hundred in Kishineff ;
400 in Alterman, 350 in Tigina,
and 200 in Benderi. The latest
measure follows the execution
early in July of 500 Jews in
Jassy on the same charge of
"communism". The mass slaugh-
ter at that time evoked protests
even in Nazi Rumania.
The Rumanian press admits
that the Germans who have
taken over the country have re-
quisitioned all Jewish hospitals
and clinics for the use of Ger-
man wounded. Jewish patients
have been evicted without cere-
mony.

1750 Jews

Part in Trumbo's Political-
Reform Novel

Those who have read Dalton
Trumbo's powerful novel, "Johnny
Got His Gun," which has been
proclaimed the "most original
book of 1939," will be interested
in his 1941 sensation — "The
Remarkable Andrew." (Lippin-
cott).
Here, again, Trumbo does an
original bit of thinking. It is a
novel about a young chap — An-
drew Long, a clerk in the city
treasurer's office of Shale City,
Colo., who discovers a discrep-
ancy. He is framed. But his hero,
Andrew Jackson, seen only by
him, comes to the rescue. There
come into play, thereafter, George
Washington, Benjamin Franklin,
John Marshall and other revolu-
tionary characters—all seen only
by Andrew Long. They help him
win his case, wipe out corruption
and finally settle down to work
again.
There is, of course, a love
story, which almost ends tragic-
ally because besides Andrew's de-
votion to Peggy there is also al-
legiance to the family hero, An-
drew Jackson. But all finally ends
well, the proof of Andrew Jack-
son's participation in the life of
the hero of the novel being a pair
of the general's boots left with
the Andrew Longs.
The major interest in the novel
lies in the discussion of American
principles of liberty by the Revo-
lutionary heroes, and the applica-
tion of these principles to our
times.

Anti-Nazi Underground Papers
in Yiddish and Polish Appear
in Ghettos
New York. (JPS) — Jewish
anti - Nazi underground papers
published in Yiddish and Polish
are appearing regularly in the
ghettos of Nazi Poland, accord-
ing to a report received here by
the Friends of Polish Democracy.
Among these publications is a
paper called "For Your and Our
Freedom," which is devoted to
creating better relations between
Poles and Jews. The Jewish un-
derground newspapers carry un-
censored war news as well as
detailed reports of conditions in
the ghettos and other parts of
Poland.

years ago, a tiny ship hove to
in the harbor of New Netherlands
and its passengers crowded on
deck as the long voyage comes to
an end. A small group stood apart
from the others. They had fled
Brazil on its surrender to the
Portuguese by the Dutch, with
whom they had fought side by
side. They were the first Jewish
refugees to reach the United
States.
But trouble was yet in store
for them. Hard-headed Peter Stuy-
vesant, the governor of New Neth-
erlands, refused them entrance to
the town. He would not "permit
this boatload of poor Jews to de-
scend upon the Burghers of his
prospering settlement."
For days the little band camped
outside the city, weary and hun-
gry and disheartened, able neith-
er to leave nor to stay. At last
a letter came from the Dutch
West India Co., to which Stuy-
vesant was responsible and to
which he had written demanding
that these refugees be returned
to Holland, whence they had orig-
inally come. The letter said that
they had decided . . . "that these
people may travel and trade to
and in New Netherlands and live
and remain there, provided the
poor among them shall not become
a burden to the company or to
the community, but be supported
by their own .. ,"
Of course this is no new re-
sponsibility, for Jewish law again
and again places it upon the peo-
ple as an obligation. And since
biblical times through its troubled
history Jews have looked to "their
own" for aid in times of dis-
tress.
Today the National Refugee
Service carries on this tradition.
It is the Jewish community voice
of America responding to the

for Jewish Communities to
Stimulate Enrollment in Jew.
ish Schools

Jewish Education Month
be observed by Jews throupbout
the United States this year from
Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, and Jewish
Education Week for the enroll-
ment of pupils from Oct. 1: ∎ to
Oct. 23, it was announced by
Rabbi Samuel M. Blumenlield of
Chicago, president of the National
Council for Jewish Education,
and Hon. Mark Eisner of New
York, president of the American
Association for Jewish Edu•a.
tion.
Samuel J. Borowsky, vice-presi-
dent of the National Council for
Jewish Education and president
of the Hebrew Principals Asso-
ciation of New York, and Israel
S. Chipkin, secretary of the
American Association for Jewish
Education and associate director
of the Jewish Education Commit.
tee of New York, will serve
jointly as chairmen of Jewish
Education Month. Dr. Azriel L.
Eisenberg, vice-president of the
National Council for Jewish Edu-
cation and director of the Cleve-
land Bureau of Jewish Education,
will serve as associate chairman.

cry of suffering Jews from all over
the world. NRS is salvaging hu-
man lives, offering, from the
American people, a new chance in
life and a new freedom in which
to grow. Once more, through NRS,
the Jewish communities in Amer-
ica will see that "the poor among
them shall not become a burden
to the company or to the com-
munity, but be supported by their
own."

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