December 24,
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
1943
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The Chanukah Tradition and Our Jewish Record of Valor
hower. It is the source book of teachers, legionaires and other
Veterans have recently published the tradition of Jewish valor; we moulders of public opinion.—"Jew s
By ARCHIE H. GREENBERG
a book, "Jews in American Wars t" give it to our fellow Jews, our fel- in American Wars" will help
by George Fredman and Louis low Americans, as one contrbu- popularize a tradition of which we
National Commander Jewish War Veterans of U. S.
Falk. This is a record, an inspir- tion from the Jewish War Vet- are all proud, a tradition too little
known.
Wtih hundreds of thousands of fought for liberation from ty- ing and thrilling recital of Jew- erans.
ish heroism from the (lays of Gen-
Copies of this book—of which
Jewish young men fighting in It- ranny.
May I suggest that you accept
The victory of the Maccabees, eral Washington to General Eisen- it; may I further suggest its ap- Governor Leverett Saltontsall of
aly and New Guinea, in the Medit-
terranean and the Pacific, and the almost two hundred years be-
propriateness as a Chanukah gift Massachusetts said: "If more
hundreds of other battlefronts of fore the Christian era, was a
for your son in the army, for Americans only knew the historic
PIONEER
this truly global war, it is inter- victory of religious morality over
your children of school age, for contributions of the various races
esting, as we approach Chanukah, decadent paganism. The Macca-
your Sunday School library, for and creeds that make up our
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I am sure there would
to turn backwards the pages of bean struggle, most historians
yourself. First, we must know our- population,
Jewish history to the valiant sons agree, was an aspect in the long sailed the seas of literary storms selves; we must know the facts. be less prejudice and misunder-
of Israel, who, under the leader- battle towards the acceptance of and calms, and of religious con- If every Jew was imbued with the standing among us." The hook
ship of Judah Maccabee, fought the religious monotheism that we troversy. It met rivalry from com- true story of Jewish valor, he can be obtained from your local
War Veteran Post, or
the battle for liberation, for free- know today. The victory of Judah peting contenders. It lived through would be a more proud Jew, a Jewish
through National Headquarters,
dom and worship, over two thous- Maccabee was a victory of moral the perilous days of national Civil Jew who could meet any and all
and years ago. It is a part of the Judaism over corrupt paganism. War. It saw the Jewish popula- charges against the Jews with a 276 Fifth Avenue, New York,
tradition of "the fighting Jews," It was an incident in the world- tion of the country increase from greater dignity, a greater feeling N. Y.
the Jew who throughout the old struggle for freedom from dic- some 40,000 to almost 200,000. of self-respect.
Throughout all these days it serv-
world's history always fought on tatorship.
Not only should we Jews know
The Syrian army may be com- ed its people well. Embalmed in the story, but all Americans should
the side of freedom, who always
pared to the Nazis. The religious its pages are not only the items
the story of Jewish hero-
persecution of the heathen hordes of news that record the humble know
two thousand years ago finds a history and progress of American ism. Presented of your local edi-
tor, this book will be the genesis
perfect counterpart in the anti- Jewry but much of the ideas and
of
an editorial or a book review.
idealism
which
animated
its
spiri-
Semitism. the anti-Catholicism and
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the anti-Christianity of the Nazis. tual leaders. In its pages Rabbi Presented to libraries, your local
And the hundreds of thousands of Isaac M. Wise and Rabbi Isaac library, university libraries, club
L. C. MAUZY
Jews in the armies of the United Leeser waged battle over the'prin- libraries, 13S0 libraries, this book
Nations today are fighting for the ciples of Judaism and, as doughty will be an ever-ready reference to
and Associates
same cause as did the Maccabeans opponents, fought over the emerg- combat such slanders as may arise.
more than two thousand years ence of Reform Judaism. Leeser
defended the right of an opponent Presented to local leaders—to min-
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It is thus that the fighting tra- to disagree even while he was op- isters, service club presidents,
dition of the Maccabeans of old posing such an adversary. Like
A recognized authority for
can be directly linked with the Wise, he sought unity in the Jew-
28 years.
fighting tradition of American ish community. Among eminent
Jewry,
a story of valor that goes contributors to the pages of The
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down
through
the years of Ameri- Occident were Sabato Morais, Max
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U. S. District Court
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can history. In these days when Lilienthal, Mordecai M. Noah, and
anti-Semites so damagingly ex- other early American figures.
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often feel that we have made too the twelfth number of its twenty-
sixth
volume
under
the
editorship
little of our tradition as warriors
Mfgrs. of
in the cause of freedom. It seems of the Honorable Mayer Sulz-
Now Serving the Third Generation
to me that there should be as berger, The Occident pronounced
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much reference to "the fighting its own valedictory Laying down
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Jews" as there is to "the fight- the editorial pen with mixed feel-
ings
of
pleasure
and
pain,
it
still
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I feel, however, that we Jews out to the beckoning onward road
ourselves have neglected to recog- for a successor. It cried out that
nize our tradition of valor and there was still need for a Jewish
heroism, a tradition that exists but monthly in whose pages American
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