01
27, 1942
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
EXODUS
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Quisling Closes All Jewish ish communal offices and other
Institutions in Norway
By LIONEL S. REISS
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Jewish institutions was believed
to be the forerunner of a bitter
STOCKHOLM. (WNS)—major anti-Jewish drive. The confisca-
V idkun Quisling, who emerged turn
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of property owned by the
as a foremOst authority on the
"Jewish question" following his •Iewish community will probably
recent visits to Berlin, this week be next on Quisling's agenda.
Quisling officials have already.
intensified the anti-Jewish cam-
paign in Norway, ordering all issued a decree barring Jews
Plans
Jewish institutions in that coun- from entering Norway.
try closed, it was reported here are now under consideration to
deport the Jewish population of
by Swedish correspondents.
The order closing down Jew- about 3,000.
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ferentially condemning Judge Palestine is not arsenals, not
Jerome Frank, who had pre- synagogues, but schools. And
viously written on the Jewish we shall co-operate with the
problem in the same magazine, Arabs. Nevertheless, it is true;
Waldo Frank, noted American- we are a peculiar people, al-
Jewish novelist, critic and essay- though today we share our God
ist, asserted in an article for with all the west."
The Saturday Evening Post that
Recognizing that there is an
"the Jews are different," aid influential group of Jews in the
that any attempt to deny the United States "who deny that
fact is to "ignore the meaning their Jewishness means anything
of democracy."
at all except a racial memory,"
The credo of the Jew was Waldo Frank asserts that "no
described by Frank as "to win one else is convinced" of this.
"The Jew who insists that
the world, under God, through
justice, mercy and love, for the Jewish Americans are 'just like
brotherhood of man"—and it is Polish or Irish or Italian Amer-
that credo, basic to Christianity icans' may be so good a law-
as to Judaism, which the totali- yer, so loyal an American, that
tarian powers are now fighting. he would grace the Supreme
"Most emphatically it is not true Court of the United States;
that Jews become better Amer- nevertheless, he ignores some-
icans as they become less Jew- thing that the man in the street
ish," Waldo Frank declares, say- knows, however vaguely. And
if this is true, to deny the es-
ing:
"The American Jew who sential difference of the Jews
denies or ignores the validity of is to play into the hands of the
this tradition (Jewish-democrat- enemy of both the Jews and
ic tradition) therefore does the American democracy. For if you
contrary of what he supposes; refuse to recognize the existence
he weakens his claims upon of the real reason behind the
America. I do not mean that common man's intuition by deny-
such Jews are bad Americans. ing the intuition, he. won't be-
But if the Jew 'only in name' lieve you, but he will be more
is a safe American, because of open to the false and vicious
the unconscious strength of his reasons, such as the Fascists pro-
tradition and because of his nat- vide.
"The bitterest irony of the
ural inclination for the Amer-
ican way, I deny that he makes situation is that there are Jews
the best of leaders. Me may be themselves who deny their own
brillia t, he may be loyal. Inso- peculiar value in a world strug-
far as he ignores the depths of gling for democracy, and there-
his own soul, he is shallow. And by play straight into the hands
in this crisis we need more than of the arch enemy of America,
clever men of good will; we of democracy and of the Jewish
people."
need deep men for leaders."
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White and Blue Herring," in
which he denied that Jews were
The Youth and Campus Com-
in any way different from other mittee of the Michigan Syna-
Americans, Waldo Frank assert- gogue Conference is again this
ed that one of the reasons why year providing funds for the
American Christians fail to Gli- establishment of a Passover kit-
derstand the Jews is because chen at Ann Arbor, to serve
"1:,e. Jews themselves have not meals to Jewish University stu-
been guiltless in spreading the dents during . the entire eight
confusion. Their own herrings (lays of the Festival.
Over the signatures of David
to blur the scent of the trail
are subtler, politer. But ner- I. Berris, president, and Rabbi
haps in the long run they are Jacob J. Nathan, committee
chairman, an appeal was issued
also dangerous."
Examining some of the preju- to congregations, sisterhoods and
dices against and misconceptions communal organizations to make
of the Jew, Frank cites the ac- contributions, ranging between
cusation that "the Jews are city $10 and $25, towards this fund.
people and hence inveterate A number of organizations have
enemies of the Good" Saying already responded and others are
that the Jews "were always asked to mail their checks forth-
farmers," the famous novelist, with to the Conference office at
who himself spent a long time 1550 Taylor, Detroit.
in Palestine, points to that coun-
try, where there "are Jewish
youths who have perhaps walked
thousands of miles from city
Preston Slosson, associate pro-
slums to turn into enthusiastic fessor of history at the Univer-
farmers."
sity of Michigan, was the speak-
Taking up some of his name- er on Thursday evening at Tem-
sake's strictures on the Zionists, ple Beth Jacob. He was the
Waldo Frank condemns the Re- , last speaker in a series of lec-
visionists, "small but vociferous,' tures sponsored by the Bnai
because they believe in a "blood Brith, the Temple, and Congre-
destiny." He adds: "But this is gation Bnai Israel.
only an extreme minority group.
A far larger body of Zionists
Services were conducted by
would answer: 'No! We are a Rabbi Friedland on Friday eve-
people by culture, and our sole ning at Temple Beth Jacob. He
arms are of peace. We obey gave a lecture on the subject of
the Prophets who 2,600 years Joseph Davie's book, "Mission to
ago bade us beat swords into Moscow".
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