December 19, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Benny Goodman is more inter-
ested in getting musical raves
a
is
Deity;
and
without
it,
man
Of all virtues and dignities of
than financial raises. Cutting out
thing.
the mind, goodness is the great- busy, mischievous wretched
many lucrative dance-band dates,
—Bacon.
Nazis'
Infiltration
into
the
Land,
the
Encounter
With
The
est, being the character of the
Benny will be heard performing
"THE DEVIL IN FRANCE"
Them by Lion Feuchtwanger; A Great
Human Experience in This War
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Evil!' a German poet once
wrote, and ever since I was a
boy I had revolved an apoph-
thegm from the Talmud in my
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mind. Of evil it said: 'Gam
zu letovo' ('That too is for the
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An incident that will thrill the
orthodox reader to a realization
Restaurant
of staunch adherence to principle
is the following paragraph about 2493 Russell St.
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a fellow-passenger on the Feucht-
wanger train of internees being
taken to the concentration camp
for aliens in France upon the
outbreak of the war:
A Joyous Chanukah to All
"There was an orthodox Jew
in our car and he held fast to
his practices. For all the hell-
ish crowding and the unbear-
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able rattling of the train, he
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his philactery, took his bear-
ings to find the east, and then,
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facing Jerusalem and the Tem-
ple, said his prayers."
A sad incident is the attempt
of the eminent German author,
Walter Hasenclever, to commit
suicide. Just before Feuchtwan-
A Joyous Chanukah to All
ger escaped, he actually took his
own life.
It is a sad book—Feuchtwan-
ger's The Davil in France"—but
it is highly informative of condi-
tions in France. It is excellently
LION FEUCHTWANGER
written in the Feuchtwanger
France: My Encounter With Him style, and ably translated from
in the Summer of 1940," pub- the German by Elisabeth Abbott.
JACK ROSENBERG
lished by the Viking Press.
It is, on the whole, one of the
Mgr. Wyoming Yard
All the brilliance of this novel- very good books of our tragic
ist's writing is incorporated in time.
HOgarth 2121
this personal story of a man who
was tested by the horrors of ap- Palestinian Jew Elected President
of Oxford Union
proaching war, by the terrible
c onditions of concentration
LONDON. (JPS) — Gershon
camps, by threats of death if Hirsch, a Palestinian Jew, has
caught by the Nazis, by the been elected President of the Ox-
friendly attitude of the French ford Union, the most famous of
We Welcome
who nevertheless had to keep all student institutions in Brit-
You to
constant watch on the interned ain. In addressing the Union, Mr.
German and Austrian nationals. Hirsch said of the Jewish people:
The Swedish
It all leads up to his escape— "The world won't see peace until
Smorgasbord
but that part of the story is yet justice is done to this ancient
to be told. Mr. Feuchtwanger in- people. David's shield, which is
dicates that some of the people now used as a shameful sign in
involved might be unfavorably Berlin, will one day be a sign of
affected if the story is told now, dignity and respect."
and the end of the tale will
therefore have to await addi- Maurice P. Davidson Is Ap-
tional publication.
pointed Hospital Trustee
In the meantime, what has
in $400,000 Drive
been told is an enchanting story,
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and is revealing as a document
Representing 16,000 members
of human suffering. The herding of Bnai Brith in New York, New
together of large numbers of England and Canada, the largest
people under inhuman conditions, Jewish fraternal order in Amer-
the lack of sanitation, the ica, Maurice P. Davidson has been
crowded trains on which they appointed trustee for District No.
were moved from one camp to 1 of the National Jewish Hospital
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another—all these present a pic- at Denver, it was announced
ture of human endurance which by Paul Felix Warburg, New
it is impossible for free Ameri- York Chairman of the institu-
cans to imagine.
tion who declared this year's
"Most of Us Were Jews"
goal for the Hospital is $400,006,
As Feuchtwanger relates his an increase of $40,000 over last
story at the outset, about Les year in order to provide ex-
Mille, a ton near Aix in Prov- paneled services to patients.
ence, this . interment camp "was Sponsors of the Hospital in-
Open Day and Night
a huge brickyard that had long elude Gov. Herbert H. Lehman,
been out of use. There were more Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia,
than a thousand of us, but the Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wen-
number varied: sometimes we den L. Willkie, Owen D. Young,
were as many as three thousand. Bishop William T. Manning, Wil-
3169 SECOND BLVD.
Most of us were Jews." liam Cardinal O'Connell, Henry
An interesting incident is the Alonsky, president of Bnai Brith,
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following:
and many other leaders in pub-
There were orthodox Jews in lie life.
goodly number at Les Mille. They
adhered strictly to their observ-
Mark 20th Anniversary of
ances, d e p o r t i n g themselves
Ain Harod
meanwhile in a modest, inconspic-
JERUSALEM.
(JPS-Palcor)—
uous manner. They had the camp
A Joyous Chanukah to All
authorities assign places for their In spacious acres whose soil has
worship where they would cause been enriched by two decades of
no disturbance to others. For hard labor, thousands of settlers
that matter the French were in the Valley of Jezreel, joined
very co-operative on this point. by visitors from the rest of the
During my first detention I had country, celebrated the 20th an-
spent the most solemn of Jewish niversary of the group of settle-
festivals in camp, Yom Kippur, ments in the Valley of which
the Day of Atonement. With Ain Harod is the most important.
permission of the camp authori-
The Christian graces are like
ties the orthodox Jews had built
out of waste bricks a sort of perfumes, the more they are
synagogue, an altar, the 'almen- pressed, the sweeter they smell;
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an,' a shrine for the Torah scrolls, like stars that shine brighest in
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and a sort of lectern for the the dark; like trees which, the
cantor. As the long day drew to more they are shaken, the deeper
an end and the bricks had to root they take and the more
be taken down again, a number fruit they bear.—Beaumont.
of internees insisted on having
their fun. They went up to a
group of men who were suspected
A Happy and Joyous Chanukah to All
of being Nazis and shouted:
Jew-baiters wanted, to destroy
the temple!'
Mr. Feuchtwanger tells of the
presence of Nazis amidst the
internees, and how some of them
became arrogant when the Nazi
troops came closer to the camp,
in the course of their invasion of
ALEX G. MARION, Pres.
France.
Throughout his ex,periences as
Phone VI. 1-8656
100 E. Cicotte
an alien internee, Feuchtwanger
Ecorse, Mich.
retained faith, as evidenced by
the following:
" 'Welcome Good! Welcome
Lion Feuchtwanger's story of
his experiences in French con-
centration camps and of his sub-
sequent escape to this country
forms one of the most interesting
human dramas of the present
war. It is told in "The Devil in
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