December 24, DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 1943 I0 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 (Continued from Page 7) 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 Sincere Chanukah Greetings! 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- Appraisers--Engineers ago. Industrial Surveys 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 Registered Appraisers— Make It a Fragrant Holiday down through the years of Ameri- Occident were Sabato Morais, Max Sincere Chanukah Greetings! U. S. District Court With Beautiful Flowers can history. In these days when Lilienthal, Mordecai M. Noah, and anti-Semites so damagingly ex- other early American figures. 823 PENOBSCOT BLDG. Only shortly surviving the death —FROM- ploit the utterlyy untrue charges CAdillac 6654 of alleged Jewish slackerism, I of its founder (March, 1869), with Etsol Synthetic Products 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 Solvent Cleaning Compounds much reference to "the fighting its own valedictory Laying down THREE STORES Jews" as there is to "the fight- the editorial pen with mixed feel- ings of pleasure and pain, it still BOOK-CADILLAC HOTEL Sincere Chanukah Greetings! ing Irish,"—and in saying this I heaved a valiant wallop at Jews 970 E. 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