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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronic!.

December 19, 1941

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cult to imagine that enlightened
dignity. By incorporating it as suggesting some distinguished
Christian peoples should tolerate
At
the concluding chapter to his vol- mark for Jew and Saracen.
it—knowing that the early Chris-
ume "Rebirth," Ludwig Lewisohn the famous Lateran Council tians, too, were subjected to ex-
(1215)
it
was
first
officially
es-
has rendered a great service. The
actly the same intended humilia-
thesis of the Juedische Rund- tablished that 'Jews and Saracens
The Story of the Yellow schau editorial, "Wear It With must be distinguished from Chris- tion, just as Christians were the
first to suffer from the ritual-
Badge
Pride—the Yellow Badgel", is tians by a difference in their murder libel, later themselves
clothes.'
The
reasons
given
were
the contention, no longer disput-
using the libel against the Jews.
able, that every Jew who now several: To prevent Christians by
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
reads Theodor Herzl's "The Jew- mistake having relations with Jew-
Copyright,
1941, by Independent
ish State" "would begin to under- ish and Saracen women; that
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Jewish Press Service, Inc.
stand and to derive from it both Moses had commanded the Jews
consolation and strength." Quota- to wear dress different from Gen-
The Nazis have made a new tions from the writings of Herzl tile; that otherwise the Jew had
move to revive the Yellow Badge, are followed by the following too aristocratic appearance.
and the reaction even within the statement which also deserves a
"In general this sign was
ranks of the Ilitle•ites is most place of priority in the discus- known as the 'rota,' or wheel,
amazing. Instead of creating sion of the Jewish national ques- or disk. The insignia were made
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shame and misery, Germans them- tion in our schools: "The guilt by the civil authorities and sold
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selves have repudiated the ap- of Jewry, the heavy guilt, it this: to the Jews much as bicycle or
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pearance of this symbol, as means that it turned a deaf ear to the auto tags are sold today. This
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of expressing sympathy for their call of Theodor Herzl and even wheel had to be worn by Jews
Jewish foe.
jeered thereat. The Jews did not of both sexes, boys of 13 or over,
The revival of the Yellow want to admit the existence of a girls of 11 or over.
Badge serves to recall the in- Jewish question. They thought that
"The accepted form of this
teresting experiences in Vienna what mattered was not to be badge came to be a circle of yel-
in March of 1938, when the Nazi known to be a Jew. We are ac- low felt, about a palm's width in
storm troopers called at the home cused today of having betrayed diameter, sewed on the outer
of General Sommer, at that time the German people; the Nat'onal- dress, over the left breast or near
the head of the Jewish Veterans' Socialist press brands us, who are the left shoulder. Sometimes this
Legion, and sought to draft him powerless to defend ourselves, as disk was half red, half white.
for the degradation of street 'enemies of the nation.' IT IS Ulysee Robert, French scholar of
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cleaning. The Jewish general was FALSE THAT THE JEWS HAVE the last century, sees in this
New,
Luxury llotel--ln a distinctive
granted time to change his clothes, BETRAYED GERMANY. IF round badge the symbol of the
ac-
and when he reappeared he wore THEY HAVE BETRAYED ANY- piece of money paid to Judas, north beach location—Near all
the full regalia of a general and ONE OR ANYTHING, IT IS or simply a symbol of gold tivities. Every facility for an enjoy-
his chest was covered with all the THEMSELVES AND THEIR (money) always associated with able vacation.
S. SLOTNICK, Manager
medals he had won in his rich JUDAISM THAT THEY HAVE
military career. Had he been sub- BETRAYED." the Jew.
Yellow
paint,
was
put on
the houses
of too,
insolvent
misted to the degradation of It is timely to ask that the debtors in the Maddle AgeS. To
street cleaning while wearing the concluding paragraph to this im- explain the use of a badge half
military
uniform, to it the
would
have of portant editorial, every word of red, half white, Robert points to
meant disgrace
insignia
which is today being burned into a medieval legend, very popu-
In the
Austria, and General Sommer the hearts and minds of the Jews lar and often heard when anti-
was released. Thereupon Viennese who are being branded with the Semitic feeling ran high. A Jew
EXCLUSIVE NORTH BEACH
Jews
following
the example
of yellow badge, should also be stu- is supposed to have stolen one
the Jewish
warrior,
and all ap-
SECTION
died by the more fortunate Jews of the consecrated wafers, and as
geared
for street
cleaning
other
menial
duties
in their and
finest who are not affected by the hor- he ran carrying the white host, On Beautiful Indian Creek Drive
drops of red blood were seen to
rot:, of Nazism:
Overlooking the Water
clothes, and in their silk top
"Less than 30 years ago it was come out of it. Hence the red
hats. This gesture had its effect; considered scandalous even to and white badge."
the Jews were ditch
released,
those
Now, in the 20th century, this
for and
others
fell mention the Jewish problem
who
dug those
the who intended hu- among educated people. The Zion- nasty symbol of the Middle Ages
therein;
re g arded as disturbers is being revived again. It is diffi-
miliation for their neighbors were fists were
themselves temporarily humiliated. Today
of the the
peace
haunted
by a mania.
Jewish
problem
is such
"Wear It With Pride"
a burning one that every child,
Of course, the rebuke was only every schoolboy, every simple man
temporary, but it is now being in the street is ceaselessly pre-
revived in the thrilling reaction occupied with it. On April the
to the Yellow Badge and the let- 1st every Jew in Germany was
"THE SPOT FOR A
ter "J" shown by Germans in stamped as such. According to the
response to the horrors of Nazi latest regulations of the boycott
GLORIOUS VACATION"
committee it has been determined
race prejudice.
We turn back the pages of the that, in case of renewal, only two
For Moderate Rates and Infor-
chronicle of the events of our uniform signs are to be employed:
mation
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time to the issue of April 4, 'German house' and 'Jew.' The
1933, of the Juedische Rundschau Jew is known.' Evasion or hiding
of Berlin to read that famous edi- is at an end. The Jewish answer
VERLOOKING THE OCEAN
torial published three days after must be clear. It must be that
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the boycott day inaugurated by briefest of sentences that Moses
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the Nazis. Under the t.tle "Wear spoke to the Egyptian: IVRI
It With Pride, the Yellow Badge!" ANOCHI. I, a Jew. WE MUST
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this important periodical discussed AFFIRM OUR JEWISHNESS.
"the moral issue" by declaring That is the moral meaning of this
that "Jews cannot speak other- hour in history. The time is too
wise than AS JEWS today. All agitated for argument . . . But
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else is senseless . . . The fatal we, the Jewish people, can defend
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error of many Jews that one can our honor by a moral act. We
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first of April, 1933, can be a day called Jews and have been stig-
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of Jewish awakening and Jewish matized as Jews. The world re-
"Devoted to better service and supremacy in food"
rebirth. If the Jews will it so! If minds us that we are of them,
the Jews have the inner maturity that we are Jews. And we ans
and magnanimity.If the Jews are er: Yes, it is our pride and glory
NOT as their enemies represent that we are!"
A' NEW DISTINGUISHED RESORT
For the sake of the historical
them. Embattled Jewry must af-
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record it is important to make
firm itself."
Rt•ope.rn Plan—Cceve•ietty located to fashiolable
1i, pping center, Colt (owes, Rest•urantv and
Then fol'.swed an expression of note of the fact that free peo-
Tt.evott — All roornt wi•tt privet* hate—Elevator
faith which is eternally true in ples throughout the world con-
erv;re —Solarium—Spacious veranda eitd patio
on (he Ocean
sistently
rejected
any
effort
to
oveooking
the Ocean.
Jewish life and which must stir
BETWEEN FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH
enforce
the
wearing
of
the
Yel-
Write
for booklet and reasonable raves.
everyone who reads it to his in-
AO., I. Stine.. Mamv,
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toLis Plan. . Own,
nermost depths, especially today: low Badge by Jews. Belgians,
"That the boycott committee or- Norwegians, Dutch, and others
dered shields 'showing on a black made it a mark of respect ra-
background a yellow spot to be ther than the intended symbol of
attached to the shops in ques- shame.
History of Yellow Badge
tion,' is a terrific symbol. For this
What is the history of the Yel-
shield was supposed to brand us
and to render us contemptible in low Badge?
In a recent issue of the Cath-
men's eyes. Very well. WE AC-
CEPT THE SHIELD AND olic World, edited by the Rever-
SHALL MAKE OF IT A BADGE end James M. Gillis, Miss Doro-
thy Penn wrote an article on the
OF HONOR.
"Many Jews underwent last "rota" worn by the Jew in the
Saturday a gruelling experience. Middle Ages, in which she re-
Not for an inner conviction, not viewed in interesting fashion the
for loyalty to their people, not history of the yellow badge. In
for their pride to a magnificent the course of her article, in which
history and in noblest human she made, several references to
achievement were they suddenly Dr. Solomon Grayzel's "The
forced to admit their Jewishness, Church and the Jews in the • 13th
but by the affixing of a red plac- Century," Miss Penn wrote:
AT SENSIBLE RATES
and or a yellow badge. The troop- "It is said that the origin of
ers went from house to house, the idea of separating believers
sticking their placards to doors from non-believers by special
and windows and painting the dress for the latter originated
windowpanes. For four-and-twen- with the Mohammedan Calif Omar
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MOGEN DAVID. They meant to Jews a yellow one, Christians
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PRESIDENT MADISON

Jewish National Question

So touching is the complete with the image of a monkey, and
editorial, sc powerful a confes- the Christian one with the image
sion of faith, that it should be of a pig. The same images were
read by every Jew, man, woman affixed to the houses of Jew and
and child. It should be made part Christian. (This fact is quoted
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of a compulsory course of study from Dr. Grayzel's book.)
in our Jewish schools. It is a "In Christian Europe as early
we find Pope Innocent
great lesson in self-respect and in as 1204,

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