September 19, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

THE WORST IS BEHIND US

Rosh Hashonah Greetings

The Wish of the

A New Year Message

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BY DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
President, American Jewish Congress

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Dr. Stephen S. Wise, President * of the American
Jewish Congress, in a New Year's message to the Jew-
ish people, expressed the hope "that the worst is behind
us, and that the years of darkness and of horror are
soon to end."
He stated that the American Jewish Congress was
proud of having taken its part in awakening America
to an understanding of Hitlerism, and of the relations
which it has established with the democracies in order
to strengthen them and in odrer to assure a return of
Jews of freedom and security.
The text of his message declares:
"The worst is behind us. The light is before us.
We have gone through years of darkness and horror,
but they are soon to end. Force and lawlessness have
done their worst, but have hot prevailed. Law and
liberty have done their best and will prevail. The entire
democratic world is being warred upon by Hitlerism as
Jews have been warred upon by Hitlerism for eight years
and more. Hitlerism has pushed the Democracies over
to our side, which now realize that the infinite wrongs
clone to the Jew were the beginning of its war against
humanity, civilization and every human decency. We
stand with the Democracies and the Democracies stand
with and for us, because these recognize that Hitlerism
is the enemy of the Jew, because the Jew is the ,friend
of human freedom, the devotee of human progress, and
the defender of Democracy.
"As President of the American Jewish Congress, I
have the satisfaction of knowing that without the faint-
est trace of war-mongering, the American Jewish Con-
gress has done itt; part in awakening America, helping
Americans to understand the menace of Hitlerism to all
that America is, loves and stands for. We have thus
rendered a service to the American Democracy and we
have borne ourselves with self-respect as Jews. Not
every American Jewish organization can say as much,
least of all some which now speak much about demo-
cratic defense but in the testing years were timid, silent
and inactive. The American Jewish Congress is increas-
ingly winning the support of American Jews because
American Jews understand that the mood, the spirit and
the activities of the Congress are calculated to safeguard
thellace of the Jew in the world and to make a worth-
while contribution to American Democracy."

New Central Organization to
' Represent Russian Jewry

LONDON (3PS) — In a shift
of policy which will have historic
significqnce for the millions of
Jews in Russia, the Soviet goy-
e ∎ mment has decided to organize
a central Jewish body to repre-
sent the interests of Russian Jew-
ry and to stimulate contact with
Jews throughout the world, it is
learned here on the basis of high-
ly reliable reports from Istanbul.
The new organization will be
similar in structure to the Kehil-
las now representing Jews in
other lands. It will consist of
leading Soviet Jews who have an
outlook totally different from the
assimilationist Yevseks who for-
merly dominated the Jewish policy
of the Russian regime.
Impetus to the adoption of the
new approach to Jewish questions
was given by the conference of
leading Jews in Moscow on Aug.
2.1, when Jewish writers and in-
tellectuals issued a ringing appeal
to all Jews to rally to the com-
mon cause of defeating. Hitler.
At the same time, it is learned
from sources close to the Soviet
Embassy in the Turkish capital,
a private conference attended by
writers, actors, teachers, repre-
sentatives of Jewish youth groups
and leaders of the former Yid-
dish Section of the Communist
party, or Yevsektzia, was also
held in Moscow.
The private meeting was fea-
tured by a vigorous attack on the
policies of the Yevseks, who were
charged with stranging Russian
Jews from world Jewry. Chief
critics were said to have been
David Bergelson and Perez Mar-
kish, who denounced the Yevseks
in bitter terms, declaring that
they had made the name of So-
viet Russia unpopular with Jews
abroad.
The attack on foreign issues
was accompanied by a charge of
assimilationism. The decline of
Yiddish schools, the Yiddish press
and a Yiddish literature in Soviet
Russia was traced to their in-
fluence.
Representatives of the Yevseks
attempted to defend their outlook,
but were greatly outnumbered by
the other conferees, it was said.
At a result of these private dis-
cussions, a committee of 50 mem-
bers was elected to work out a
program for a new central organi-

zation, which will speak in the
name of all Russian Jews and
carry out the implied rapport of
the appeal publicly issued late in
August.

A YEAR OF GOOD TIDINGS

MRS. NATHAN FISHMAN, President.

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Dawning of the
New Year . . .

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