December 26, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

12

BAUM

Pioneer Women's
Luncheon Program

WAR

reason was given for the new
arrest of the leaders who had
recently been released and were

Zedakah Club
Aids Red Cross
Drive for Funds

working in the Polish Embassy
at Kuibyshev. Polish Ambassador
were Natalie Bodanya, Irene Jess- Mrs. Schaver to Be Guest Soloist; the frankness with which Nazi Stanislaw Kot has asked Soviet
Zedakah Club women are now
leaders . now openly admit the Minister of the Interior M. Vish-
ner, sopranos, and Rose Bok, Aus-
Expect 2,000 at the Event
actively engaged in soliciting
possibility of defeat as significant insky to release the two men.
trian soprano, who had yet to
on Jan. 13
passages in the Angriff article. Can't Transfer Refugees from funds in the Red Cross residen-
make her debut; Anthony Mar-
Drive
tial drive. The following are
Shanghai to Australia
lowe and Jan Peerce, tenors; Wal-
The Council of the Pioneer Japs Launch Anti-Jewish
In an attempt to please their
All efforts to transfer 50 Po- serving in this capacity: Mes-
ter Olitzki and Leonard Warren, Women's Organization of Detroit
baritones; Friedrich Schorr, great has invited the well known De- Nazi allies, the Japanese have lish Jewish families from Shang- dames Sam Bahor, Jack Dunne,
Wagnerian baritone; Alexander troit soprano, Mrs. Emma Lazar- launched a virulent anti-Jewish hai to Australia broke down with Lewis Paul, T. Shaffer, Allan
Kipnis, Emanuel List and Ger- off-Schaver, to appear at the an- drive in all Nipponese-controlled the advent of war in the Far Sloan, Irving Shevin, David
countries, according to DNB, East, it was revealed by Dr. Trager, Belle Berkowitz, Paul
hard Pechner, a new singer, bas-
official German news agency.
Ignacz Schwartzbard on behalf of Hoffman, Morris Knopper, Meyer
sos. Of course, Erich Leinsdorf,
The Jap Government has or- Polish-Jewish leaders here who Waterstone, Jacob Waldstein,
brilliant, young, temperamental
dered the expulsion of all Jews had attempted to aid the refu- Nathan Shogan, Max Simon.
conductor also is a Jew.
from Kobe and Yokahama on the gees.
Women interested in assign-
His Bar Mitzvah
ground that the Jews are liable
The 50 families, numbering
should contact Mrs. Al-
Baum is a friendly fellow, happy
to commit acts of espionage about 250 persons, had received ments
Sloan, Townsend 8-6604.
that he has made his mark in
against Japan and for the United visas from the Australian Gov- lan
Mrs. Irving Shevin, president of
the United States, grateful for
States and Great Britain, the re- ernment and were ready to sail Zedakah
Club, announces that she
the home, he has an opportunity
port states.
for their new haven when war
to create in America and insis-
The puppet government in broke out. All communication with is making arrangements for first
tent that he is a good Jew.
Japanese-controlled Manchukuo is Australia was cut off and, con- aid classes. Zedakah members
preparing to introduce all the sequently, the refugees are still wishing to join should call Mrs.
"At first," he said, in a deep
Shevin at University 1-4525.
anti-Semitic laws now prevailing in Shanghai.
voice, strange for a tenor, "I
The next meeting of Zedakah
in the Third Reich while the au-
began to sing in a choir in
Prague, where I was born 30
thorities in Manchukuo have al- 6,000 Jews in Paris Rounded Up Club will be held at the home
ready closed all synagogues in
of Mrs. Morris Halperin, 3033
years ago. I liked to go to the
GENEVA. (JPS) — German Calvert Ave., on Monday, Dec.
Harbin because they are alleged
synagogue. My parents were Or-
to be "nests" of Bolshevik propa- terrorism hit a new high in 29, at 1:30 p. in. There will be
thodox Jews." He sighed, "I am
France as 6,000 Jews, including an address on Red Cross.
not like them. But I had a very
ganda "
Japanese authorities have ar- some of the most influential and
big Bar Mitzvah in Cologne," he
rested all Jewish refugees in wealthiest, were rounded up in a greater number of Jews. Al-
added with a bit of confused
Thailand, formerly Siam, and Paris for deportation to Eastern
pride in his tone. He said it as
though the official results have
though a Bar Mitzvah were the
they are being questioned by Europe.
The group included Eugene not yet been published, it is un-
Nazi agents on their relationship
most significant symbol of Juda-
with the United States, according Dreyfus, former president of the derstood here that the figures
ism. Then he talked of his father
who had made the Bar Mitzvah
to DNB. Men, women and chil- Court of Appeals, Judge Laemle, have greatly surprised French
former president of the Seine authorities.
and who sent him to cheder,
dren were interned.
Court, and the two Pollack broth-
The Universal Israelite Alli-
where he studied Hebrew and •*
EMMA SCHAVER
other subjects involving Jewish
Nazi Paper Demands Abolition ers, members of the Paris Stock ance may now be considered prac-
Exchange.
tically liquidated with the re-
nual donor luncheon which will
culture.
of Riga Ghetto
strange Commenting on the new reign port that its president, Georges
It has taken Kurt Baum 12 be held Tuesday afternoon, Jan.
GENEVA. (JPS) The
. f terror instituted by the Nazis Leven, and M. Half, secretary gen-
years to reach the top of his 13, at the Masonic Temple.
demand of the Riga Ostland o in . France , as a result of con- eral, have died.
An
elaborate
program
is
being
art. "It was at a party," he
Zeitung,
German
daily
of
the
tamed , sabotage", the Petit
The only other body in un-
mused, "that I discovered I had planned.
Emma Lazaroff Schaver has Baltic States, that the ghetto in P arisien said that the new system occupied France still acting as
a voice. I sang a few songs, and sung
Riga be abolished was prompted strikes the Jews personally and
in
concert
and
opera
here
a Jewish representation is the
then somebody said: `But Kurt,
by fear of the spreading typhu s their
ie • fortunes, and is arousing an
th
.pi Consistoire Israelite, under the
you can sing. Why don't you and abroad. She won particular epidemic, not by sudden friend- immedate
tempest
of
protests
of M. Heilbronner,
study?' I did And sure enough, recognition as an interpreter of ship for the Jews, it was re- The London Times asserted that chairminship
' is ' in ' official
. who
contact with
it came about that I did have a Hebrew and Yiddish songs. She ported here.
the
reported
execution of the
10u the notorious anti-Semite, Xavier
will render a number of songs,
and Communists"
had
voice."
„ Jews
The
epidemics,
now
raging
in
He told me the tale with which she will also sing in a the ghettos, are rapidly spread- aroused pu bl is opinion in ' F ri nce Vallat, Commissioner-General for
amusement. He probably visual- concert with Sedor Belarsky at ing outside the Jewish areas and more than any other Nazi 'out- Jewish Questions. Collaborating
ized the years of hard work, of Carnegie Hall, N. Y. C.
are affecting Germans as well as rage since the occupation of with M. Heilbronner's group is
The Council is planning for Jews.
the "Union des Societes Juives de
constant practice, of heartbreaks
nce.
France," representing the foreign
The Riga newspaper charges France.
and musical scores, of ups and an attendance of 2,000 guests
k rench i in occupied France are
that the cause of the epidemics boycotting the enormous amount or newly naturalized Jews of
downs, of Hitlerized Europe and at this annual donor luncheon.
can be traced directly to the of anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda France. The union's president is
pre-Nazi days, when opera was
ghettos, for there had never been flooding the land, according to M. Jarblum.
important in Vienna, in Prague,
such plagues in Latvia before reports received here. The Nazis Danes Again Combat Nazi Anti-
in Paris—the capitals where the Council Changes
establishment of ghettos. The have filled French libraries and
most popular music nowadays is
Semitism
Representation the
best way of checking the epi- book stores with anti-Semitic lit-
the Horst Wessel.
How
the
Danes
deal with Nazi
demics is to do away with the
Debut in 1939
NEW YORK (JPS) — To source, the paper asserts, in ex erature translated intoFrench. anti-Semitism was vividly illus-
Baum made his American debut obviate some of the difficulties
The people, however, deliberately trated by the unique demonstra-
in 1939 with the Chicago Civic which it experienced at the plaining that congestion and avoid reading the hate-laden tion which took place in Copen-
starvation
in
the
Jewish
areas
Opera Company in Aida. That he 1941 meeting at Atlanta, where
books.
hagen, capital of Denmark last
sang well is indicated by his ac- national budgeting was the are responsible for the countless Limit Jewish Professionals in week.
ceptance in the "Met" after fol- chief issue, the Council of Jew-_ diseases now prevalent.
The Nazis of the city had dem-
Bulgaria
Raging in all the ghettos, the
lowing up his Chicago success ish Federations and Welfare
onstrated in front of the Min-
The
extent
to
which
Bulgaria
plagues
are
extremely
severe
in
with appearances in St. Louis, Funds has announced that for
istry of Commerce as a protest
Buenos Aires, Mexico, Philadel- the first time in its nine-year W lute Russia, former Poland and has succeeded in driving Jews against the appointment by the
in
the
Baltic
States,
the
paper
out
of
the
professions
is
indi-
phia, Boston and other cities .. history no general invitations
declares. Thousands of persons, rated in a recent report which Ministry of a Copenhagen Jew,
where opera flourishes.
w s, are reveals that in all Bulgaria there Einer Kohen, to the position of
will
be
issued
except
to
ac-
-Jews as well as Jews,
non-Jews
But the new "Met" sensation
dying
daily
in
Minsk,
Bialystok
are only 39 Jewish doctors, 17 vice-chairman of the department
credited
delegates
for
the
Gen-
i
liked to talk of other things as
of price regulation of food.
well. "I am a Czech citizen," he eral Assembly it is to hold at and Vilna. The victims include dentists, 36 lawyers, 2 chemists Rumanians Merge Jewish Groups
many
German
soldiers,
particu-
and
2
architects
who
have
not
the
Drake
Hotel,
Chicago,
Jan.
declared. "I hope, however, to
Following the lead of Nazi au-
larly the wounded ones lying in been prohibited from working at
become a good American, I can 31 through Feb. 2.
Communities have been ask- the hospitals who have been their jobs. All other Jewish pro- thorities in Belgium, the Ruma-
do more than sing. I was a
nian government has decreed the
medical student in Cologne and ed to name their delegates by weakened by loss of blood . fessionals in the country are dissolution of the Union of Jew-
Fifteen thousand Jews in Slo- banned.
I can fight." He chuckled. "You Dec. 29. New methods of nam-
ish Communities in Rumania.
Nazis to Enlarge Lemberg
don't know, I suppose, that I ing delegates and revised pro- vakia have been hit by the typhus
Prime Minister Ion Antonescu an-
was an amateur' heavyweight cedures for voting at the Gen- epidemic raging in Eastern Eu-
rope.
The
victims
are
all
herded
Because
many
Jews
from
the
flounced
that a new government-
eral
Assembly
have
been
adopt-
fighter and trained together with
Max Schmeling when he was a ed. The Council reports 219 in the concentration camp of small towns in Galicia have been controlled central Jewish office
young boy." He added, as an community agencies are now Sered, Slovakia where they have transferred to the Lemberg ghet- will represent Jewish group in-
been exiled mostly from Bratis- to, the Nazis have ordered that terests. All existing Jewish as-
afterthought: "He wasn't very affiliated with it.
lava, by the Slovak Nazis.
the ghetto be enlarged. Wagowa, sociations will be absorbed in t h e
the
good then. He was so young."
Spitalna, Kleparovska and Rap- new body. It was emphasized that
After he had decided to study Testimonial Night for Abra-
Russians Re-Arrest Jewish Bund paport streets have been added all Jews in Rumania must reg-
voice, Baum went to Vienna in
to the ghetto. ister with the organization.
ham Lax, a Celebrated
Leaders
1931. The next year he entered
Comedian, Tuesday, Jan. LONDON. (JPS) — The two Small Number of Jews in France The Vichy government has put
the International Contest at the
the Jews of Algeria under cou•t-
Surprises Anti-Semites
Vienna Festival, where he had
Jewish Bundist leaders Henryk
6, at Littman's Theater
The small number of Jews liv- martial law for civil offenses
700 competitors. He won the con-
Ehrlich and Victor Alter have
test and decided that he was
Abraham Lax, talented young been re-arrested by the Soviet ing in France, as revealed by such as speculation and offenses
really a singer. The next Euro- comedian, will be honored with government, the U.S.S.R. has in- the census of the Jewish popu- against rationing. For commit-
pean stops were the Vienna State a testimonial night at Littman's formed the Polish Embassy in lation undertaken by the Com- ting these "crimes" Jews will
Opera, the Prague Opera, where People's Theater, on Tuesday Moscow, according to Dr. Ignacz mission for Jewish Affairs, has have to appear before a court-
he was a leading tenor singing night, Jan. 6. For that night, Schwartzbard, Jewish representa- shocked French anti-Semites who martial and be liable to the death
Italian roles, the Opera Comique Mr. Lax will be seen in his great tive on the Polish Council. No thought they were dealing with penalty.

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in Paris, the Royal Operas of
Budapest and Antwerp and then
the round of American cities
which led to his debut in the
"Met",
Unlike many temperamental
singers who are goaded into fury
when other singers are mentioned
in their presence, Mr. Baum real-
izes that he is not the only artist
in the world. Laughingly, he dis-
cussed other tenors, which is an
unheard of thing in music cir-
cles. He talked about Jan Peerce,
and discussed the difficulties of
playing certain roles. He told a
few stories of his own quest for
operatic perfection.
When he had realized that his
forte was singing Italian roles,
he said, he had gone to Rome
to study. It is a fact that the
best way to learn any particular
music is to study that music
where it was created. One can-
not know Bach well unless one
studies in Germany, and the light,
lyric, operatic roles created by
the Italians are best learned in
Italy. So Kurt Baum went to
Rome and found out what there
was to know about singing Ital-
ian operas. Now, in the midst
of his success, he continues to
study with Renato Belini, one of

musical comedy success, "Chayi-
mel From Poland," supported by
the star cast, Lily Liliana, Leon
Liebgold, Ethel Dorf, Misha Fisl-
zon and the entire company.

Purely Commentary

the foremost teachers in the
country. As a result, Kurt Baum
is a polished artist, who can act
as well as sing. He has what
is known in operatic circles as
temperament. That is, the ability
to impart to a role fire, enthu-
siasm, meaning. He has a voice
with ringing tones and has the
flexibility necessary to make his
instrument do as it must in the
most demanding roles.
He is at home on the stage,
and comfortable when he talks
about his art. Nevertheless, it is
apparent that America is a bit
more than he can absorb in such
a short time as two years. Give
him a few more seasons in the
"Met" and he may add to his
confidence, to his understanding
of the temper of the American
people and, as a result, give many
memorable performances to the
people who have accepted him
and have welcomed to their midst.

ment: "Nazis are made at our hearths. The place
to begin fighting them is in our homes, at (Jur
clubs, in our local schools, our shops or offices.
The war is on in our backyard. This is the heart
of the insidious propaganda—the Nazi poison."
The ensuing pages splendidly describe the
growth of anti-Semitism, as a spearhead of Naz-
ism; the existence of Jew-hatred as a fact and
not as fiction; and the conclusion is that the
problem presents a challenge to democracy.
Stephen Vincent Benet's "Creed for Ameri-
cans" is an appropriate supplement to the volume,
which also contains a list of suggested readings
on the subject.
The concluding paragraph is significant, and
we quote it:

Copyright, 1941, by Independent
Jewish Press Service, Inc.

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

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country. There have been times when some among
us, who are the most outspoken libertarians and
who insist on absolute freedom of speech, began
to doubt absolutism and were ready to approye
suppression of anti-Semitic groups like the Chris-
tian Front, vile magazines like Social Justice, the
Pelleys and the Sanctuaries and their publishing
houses.
But if the Council for Democracy program, as
enunciated in the last quoted paragraph, can be
made effective—and it can if all loyal libertai
ians will strive to that end—it is the preferable
approach to the need for uprooting the evils oc-
casioned by the Nazi-made anti-Semitic weapons
Reference to the splendid pamphlet "Nazi Poi-
son" would be incomplete without mention of the
name of an able young Detroiter who has had a
"The Nazis are systematically using anti-
great shart in the work of the Council for De-
Semitic lies to divide and weaken us. We
mocracy. He is Marshall Shulman, son of Mr. and
as Americans need no government program
Mrs. Harry Shulman. He interrupted a promising
to defeat this menace. We can spread the
career on the Detroit News to join to Council i for
facts in this memo, send it to our friends,
Democracy, threw himself heart and soul ntu
discuss it in our clubs and churches. If we
this work and has to his credit splendid achie•e-
do this, the Nazi poison will be ineffective.
ments, including a share in the preparation of the
The Nazi threat to our unity will be crushed."
There are some who disagree on this point. pamphlet "Nazi Poison." Recognition of his efforts
Dorothy Thompson, Lewis Browne and others be- was shown recently in his election as executive
vice-president of the Council for Democracy.
lieve that anti-Semitism should be outlawed in this

