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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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SECRETARY

and The Legal Chronicle

ANTI-SEMITISM

(Continued from Page

October I,

1943

ONE-THIRD OF VAAD HAHATZALAH
1) QUOTA RAISED BEFORE ROSH HASHONAH

the American masses. But the
More than $8,000, or one-third pioises and sent to Pale,H
good horse sense of the American of the local $25,000 goal, was Sixty persons were brought t o.
OF STATE
o
peop19 prevailed. Thus in 1934 raised during the first two weeks Spain,
Portugal, South Africa
the Silver Shirt organization in of the drive launched here on :trill South American couhtrie3,
North Carolina • went bankrupt, Sept. 14, in the interest of the and 29 scholars were transported
CORDELL HULL
but not before flashes of early National Emergency Committee to Canada.
success. In Southern California for War-Torn Yeshivoth and
In 1942 the committee aided
SEES DAWN OF A
where Shirt organizers had the Refugee Rabbis (Vaad Hahatza- dispersed exiles from Poland and
audacity to conduct a door-to-door lah). Synagogue appeals on the the Baltic States in Northern si
campaign, their activities petered New Year and Day of Atonement beria and helped most of the
NEW YEAR IN
out almost completely before were expected to bring an addi- to reach warmer areas borderi i,• o
1934. True enough, racial and tional $7,000 at least, while tic Persia and Afghanistan. Tht-t
religious prejudices were being remainder of the quota was to thousand rabbis, Yeshivah schoi
ROSH
fed
on the by
fear the
and
uncertainties come from organizations and in- ars and lay leaders were enabled
produced
depression
o f dividual contributors.
to co
concentrate in larger group,
1929,
but
on
the
whole
anti-
HASHONAH
Efforts of the Detroit commit- and continue their studies.
Semitism as an organized move-
Tile
ment and force in America seemed tee, headed by Irwin I. Cohn, committee also maintained with
were
spurred
by
recent
reports
of
the
necessities
of
life
512
per-
MESSAGE TO
to be on the wane.
intensified and far-flung activi- sons rescued from Poland, Lith-
But in the meantime good and ties of Vaad Hahatzalah during
and other parts of Europ
patriotic Americans began to re- the last few months in the res- i'
e
JEWS OF
ind stranded in China, while 160
alize that the scourge of anti-
S emitism which was being fo:i- cue of many outstanding person additional
additional men, women and chil-
alities and their families from
•
AMERICA
tered in Europe by Hitler might Nazi-occupied territories and in dren were settled in Palestin e .
were granted to stu-
attack the roots of American lif. the transmission of food and
dent exiles in Canada and 305
It was with this in mind that clothing to thousands of refugees Persons brought to America were
leading personalities in the Catho- stranded in allied and neutral helped
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Secretary of State Cordell Hull
until they became self-
told the Jews of America in a Rosh Hashonah message that
lie and Protestant churches be- lands. More than a quarter
he was in "constant smpathy with them in their sorrow"
gan to preoccupy themselves with a million dollars was spent y sufficient. Aid was extended also
by to persons awaiting emigration in
the problem of combatting anti- the Emergency Committee since
over those of their co-religionists "who still live and die in
Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Switz-
the deep shadow of persecution." Mr. Cordell Hull's message
Semitism in the home, the school last November, and all available erland
reads:
and other countries anti •
and the church. Throughout the avenues of approach to the strick-
United States organizations sprang en groups were utilized. The as_ to refugees who had reached
Santo Domingo. Offices were es-
up to anti-Semitic
counteract to propaganda
effects of sistance
of Polish
the State
Department, tablished in India, Persia, Switz-
Nazi
in
of
the
G
"On the occasion of the celebration of
. erland and other neutral coon-
overnment-in-Ex
the United States. Inter-faith or- il e ,
American and Interim_ tries to facilitate
relief.
ganization played the chief role
the Jewish New Year I desire to extend my
Top Contribu tor s
in halting the rise of discrimina- tional Red Cross was secured.
During 1940 and until the out-
greetings to all Americans of the Jewish faith.
tion and prejudice against the
Among the larger donations an-
Jews.
break of Russo-German hostilities flounced by David I. Berri: ,
in June, 1941, the committee
If seems appropriate at this season to express
treasurer for the Vaad Hahat-
When the war broke out in Ett• maintained 2,645 men,
rope and it became evident that children in Lithuania women and za lah, were three $500 gifts f
again my constant sympathy with them in their
with food, each of the following: Daront
the conflagration would engulf tne clothing and lodging and partially Edelman, Morris Fisher and Louis d
sorrow over those of their religion who still
entire world, certain social forces assisted 1,400 Yeshivah scholars.
in
the United States, extremely In addition, 497 persons were Solai.
live and die in the deep shadow of persecu-
nationalistic and isolationist, at- rescued front
Mail contribution: ,, may be
tempted to faist Nazi racial con-
occupied countries• to M . B
r b sent
tion. It is also appropriate
National
at this time for us
75
men,
women
and
children
Bank
cepts on the people of the United
r Bld
. the
. office of
g., or to
States. Arguments were often were brought to the United States the Vaad Ilahatzalah, 12219 Dex-
to rejoice together over the world's quicken-
heard that "except for his per- and 248 individuals were pro- ter Blvd., Detroit 6, Hogarth
ing hope for the dawn of a new year in which
secution of the Jews, Hitler did vided with visas and traveling ex- 4763.
nothing wrong . • " Again the lie
we may realize peace at last for all the great
was spread that "international
bankers" were trying to throw
brotherhood of mankind."
the United States into war for
profits. Father Coughlin was the
spearhead of this movement.
But with America's entry into
the war the ugly roup s which
NAOUM ARONSON—THE SCULPTOR
had been rearing g their heads
were driven to shelter by public
By MARGUERITE KOZENN-CHAJES
opinion as well as by the Govern-
ment. Here and there anti-Semitic
Naoum Aronson, the eminent rooms the "Aronson Hall" after organizations still continue
Russian-French sculptor, arrived having received as a gift his function but no longer openly nor to
in this country shortly after the famous bust of "The Prophet". audaciously.
Nazis had taken over Paris, in the The master's generosity was
Anti-Semitism is a disease
summer of 1940. He is known known to all the welfare institu-
whose
course
is difficult
to con-
pre-
to the American public through tions in France. He is one of diet.
When
it seems
to be
the acquisition of one of his best the founders of ORT, and made
works, the bust of Pasteur, by possible the feeding of 400 refu- quered or arrested it somehow
the New
some
years York
ago. Medical Society gees, who came from Germany, springs up again. It is a mal-
. Austria and Czechoslovakia.
ady which weakens the social or-
Aronson was born at Kres
When the Germans took over ganism and when any portion of
lawka, Russia, in 1872, but lived Paris,
Aronson became a refu-
in Paris for 50 years. He nevergee himself. Friends helped him the body politic becomes infected
received a formal education and to get to this country. In the it is likely to spread to other
never had a teacher. He found beginning it was very hard for Parts like wildfire.
his inspiration in men of genius him to adjust himself to the
Many people in America, par-
and has done sculptures of Dante, American
way of living. But soon titularly Jews, have, in my opin-
Turgeniew, Beethoven (whose his New York home became a ion, taken too pessimistic a view
monument is still today in the cultural
center, where many ar- on the problem. I, for one, be-
house of Beethoven's birth in tists, musicians and poets met lieve that in the end the good
Bonn, Germany), Chopin, Raspu- frequently. In this surrounding
tin, Lenin and Tolstoi. He was the master feels an atmosphere common sense of the American
well acquainted with the last of his pre-war home in Paris, people will reject this dangerous
three and before making busts and he is creating again out- doctrine
which can only bring
of them, he spent several months standing works. At present he is strife and discord in American
in the company of each He was
on the
busts
President
the only one for whom Rasputin working
Roosevelt,
late of
Chief
Justice life. As our New Year begins we
posed, and while studying theBrandeis, and other prominent Jews in America can look for-
monk, Aronson came to know Personalities of our day. Some of ward with great hope towards
him so well that he was able to our art connoisseurs are already future inter-denominational en-
'fill a manuscript book with P
!tinning to have Master Aron- operation and understanding.
phrases of Rasputin ' s conversa- sons works exhibited in Detroit
tion. Life has been his school and in the near future.
the masterpieces in the French
Jewry can be proud of Naoum
museum his instructors. He loves Aronson with justification.
people, life, art, all the beauty
He is a great master of con-
gb-
. of the human body, all the nobii. temporary sculpture, a great Jew
ity of a human soul; his works and a great man.
ex press pain and joy, power and
Payroll savings is
'
grace, truth and poetry.
our greatest single
factor in protecting
At the beginning of World Large Audience Attends
War I Aronson was asked why Farewell Dinner to Jewish
ourselves against in-
he did not do something to catch
flation.
the mood of the great struggle. Delegation from Russia
His answer was the bust of Pas-
NEW YOFK (WINS — More
teur, one of the great lights of than
two thousand persons at-
the world, the self-sacrificing tended a farewell dinner last Sun-
physician, who brought a message
of unity to all humanity. The day at the Hotel Commodore, N.Y.
A ROSH HASHONAH MESSAGE
French Government once hon- for Prof. Solomon Mikhoels and
ored the master with the red Lieut.-Colonel Itzik Feffer who
ribbon of the Legion d'Honneur,
From
for his bust of Pasteur, and then have made a good • will tour of
again for his contribution to tile Jewish communities in America
World's Fair in Paris in 1937.
during the past three months on
CONGRESSMAN
Aronson loves the crystalline behalf of Russian Jewry.
marbles, the hard granite, the
Spokesmen for some of the lead-
rocks of feldspar and hornblend,
which were used by the sculp- ing Jewish organizations and in-
tors of Egypt and of Chaldea. stitutions in the United States
"On this holiday of Rosh
His studio was situated in the attended jhe dinner. Among. the
Hashonah, we cannot forget the
' ' quarter' i
artists'
ideal for which our forefathers have struggled and made
sn Paris, Mont- speakers were Sholom Asch, Rabbi
sacrifices, even of their lives. Nol We cannot forget that
parnasse, and was a veritable Israel Goldstein, James N. Rosen-
storehouse of treasures, abound- berg
ideal if we are truly American, for today our present gen-
nd Dr. Nahum Goldmann.
ing in valuable sculptures, pie- Congratulatory messages were
eration are giving their lives for the same cause. Democracy
tures, miniatures, rare coins and
antique furniture.
read from Mayor LaGuardia of
shall live so long as we believe in the dignity and divinity of
Aronson is also important in New York, Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
every man and so long as we labor, in free and spontaneous
the Jewish world. The Tel Aviv Rabbi
co-operation to make ifs blessings available to all."
Alla Hillel Silver and
museum named one of the finest Prof. Einstein.

Best Wishes

for

A Happy and
Prosperous
NEW YEAR

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