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House Foreign Affairs Committee to Hear Sholem Asch, Noted Novelist,
Further Testimony on Palestine Resolution Gives His Position on Jesus

WASHINGTON (WNS).—The House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on
the resolution calling for free Jewish entry into Palestine and the ultimate estab-
lishment of a free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth there will be resumed
when the committee meets again on Tuesday, Feb. 15.
The hearings opened last Tuesday with the testimony of various Jewish leaders
representing diverse views on the question of Palestine. The first Jewish leader

was Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. He
expounded the point of view that date for the political equality
Jews are both a religious and of all citizens and for the civil
and religious rights of existing
national group.
After tracing the history and non-Jewish communities. He em-
growth of Palestine, Dr. Silver phasized that "the Palestine Arab
declared that "politically, the has not been exploited and that
Jewish people as a people must "no Arab on the face of the
become like every other people, earth today is more prosperous
possessed of an independent life than the Arab of Palestine."
Dr. Silver's testimony was pre-
in a national home" and that
"there must be a land of Israel ceded by that of Congressman
in order that the status of the John McCormick, Democrat, and
Jewish people may be normalized Joseph Martin Jr., Republican,
throughout the world." He said majority and minority leaden,
that there are no other oppor- both of whom declared them-
tunities for mass emigration of
See FOREIGN—Page 16
Jews anywhere else in the world.
He pointed out that under the
terms of the White Paper, Jews
will be permitted to enter Pal-
estine only on Arab sufferance
and consent, that Jewish home-
lessness will be widespread after
the war and that a free and
open Palestine is the indispen-
sable condition, not only for a
specific solution "of this most
Wrote Famous Novel,
obdurate problem of Europe, but
also for the pacification of Eu-
"Brothers Ashkenazi"
rope and the world." Asserting
that when the framers of the
NEW YORK ( WNS ). — Israel
Balfour Declaration and the Pal- Joshua Singer, Yiddish author
estine Mandate spoke of the es- and playwright, whose works
tablishment of a National Hone were translated into many lan-
for the Jewish people in Pale- guages, died on Feb. 10 of a
stine they had in mind "a Jewish heart attack. He was 50 years
State, a Jewish Commonwealth," old.
Dr. Silver said that the White
His novels, which dealt with
Paper was the "total liquidation" Polish Jews, included "The
and not the fulfillment of the Brothers Ashkenazi," "Yoshe
national aspirations of the Jew- Kalb" and "The Family Carnov-
ish people. Ile pointed out that sky," dramatizations of which
provision was made in the Bal- were produced by Maurice
four Declaration and in the Man- Schwartz.
The English translation by
Maurice Samuel of "The Broth-
ers Ashkenazi" was published in
NOTICE
1936, in a review in The New
York Times of Sept. 11, 1936,
Thompson described this
All copy must be in not Ralph
story of the rise and fall of two
Polish Jews as "serious, solid
later than Wednesday, 3 and
eloquent . . . a memorable
of fiction.
p. m. It must be written piece
His "Yosha Kalb" was pro-
by the Yiddish Art Thea-
on one side of paper only duced
ter with great success in 1933.
and where possible should and his "The Family Carnovsky"
was a hit here late in 1943.
Born in the village of Bilgoroj,
be typewritten.

leverkshaften to
Be Addressed by
Joseph Schlosberg

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The next Geverkshaf ten cam-
paign rally will mark the sixth
in this year's campaign, and will
be held Thursday evening, Feb.

DR. A. M. HERSHMAN

second year, the community is
invited to an interesting sym-

See GEVERKSHAFTEN—Pg. 16

Noted Austrian
Poet to Appear on
Program at Center

See EDUCATIONAL—Page 16

See AUSTRIAN—Page 16

The Guest Speaker

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24, at Lachar's on 12th St., with
Joseph Schlosberg of New York
as guest speaker.
Mr. Schlosberg, a veteran la-
bor leader of the Jewish labor
movement in America. was one

Rabbi Nathan Drazin received
his ordination with honors at the
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary. He has the B. S. and
M. A. degrees from the Colum-
bia University and the Ph.D. de-
gree from the Johns Hopkins
University. The latter university
also awarded him with a Phi
Beta Kappa Key.
Dr. Drazin is the author of
"History of Jewish Education
from 515 B.C.E. to 220 C.E."
The book was heralded with a

As part of the Yeshivah Month posium on Monday evening, Feb.
program, now observed for the 21, at the school's auditorium,
Dexter at Cortland. Featured on
the program will be Isaac
Franck, executive director of the
Detroit Jewish Community Coun-
cil, who will speak on "Jewish
Education and Jewish Survival'';
Dr. A. M. Hershman, rabbi of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
whose topic will be "Jewish Edu-
cation and the Synagogue"; and
Dr. Nathan Drazin, rabbi of
Congregation Sitaarey Tefiloh,
Baltimore, Md., who will talk on
"The Roots of Yeshivah Educa-
tion in Jewish History".

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JOSEPH SCHLOSBERG

The New Detroiters, an organi-
zation of Austrian and German
refugees, are sponsoring an eve-
ning of music and poetry on
Saturday, Feb. 19, in the main
auditorium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center. Alfred Farau,
outstanding Viennese writer and
lecturer, now in New York City.
will come to Detroit especially
for this event. Mr. Farau was a
professor at the Vienna lioch-
schule and also was a correspond-
ent for newspapers all over Eu-
rope. His radio plays have been
translated into almost all lan-
guages and broadcast even in
Africa. lie was among the few
great men who tried to point out
the coining danger of Hide/ism.
On Nov. 10, that unhappy day
when Von Rath was shot and the
synagogues were burned. NI r.
Farau was taken to the concen-
tration camp at Dachau where he
was kept for several months.
Friends in this country were help-
ful in bringing him to New
York. A few weeks ago his book
of poetry, "Das Trommellied von
Irrsenn," was published by the
Writers Center Service in New
York. Thomas Mann and other
great German poets now living in
this country have congratulated
Mr. Farau on his recent publica-
tion.
Mr. Farau will read some of

Educational Symposium at the
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah Feb. 21

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Rally To Be Held
At Lachar's Feb. 24

NEW YORK ( WNS ).—Sholem
Asch, the noted Yiddish novelist
whose books "The Nazarene" and
"The Apostle" created a sharp
controversy in Jewish literary
circles, declared in an interview
published in a recent issue of
the Christian Herald that he con-
siders Jesus Christ as "the out-
standing personality of all time,
all history, both as Son of God
and as Son of Man."
Frank S. Mead, editor of the
Christian Herald, who conducted
the interview with Mr. Asch,
quoted him as having made the
following reply to the query why
a man of his background should
write on Jesus and Paul instead

Isreal Singer Noted
Yiddish Novelist,
Dies at Age of 50

See SINGER—Page

S.

States His Attitude in Interview with
Frank S. Mead, Editor of Christian Herald

Lessing Rosenwald, Representing Council for Judaism, and Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver, Representing Zion Emergency Council, Clash

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of on such themes as Moses and
Abraham :
"I couldn't help writing on
Jesus. Since I first met Him He
has held my mind and heart. I
grew up, you know, on the bor-
der of Poland and Russia, which
wasn't exactly the finest place
in the world for a Jew to sit
down and write a life of Jesus
Christ. Yet even through those
years, the hope of doing just
that fascinated me. I floundered
a bit, at first; I was seeking that
something for which so many of
us search—that surety, that faith,
that spiritual content in my liv-
ing which would bring me peace
and through which I might help
bring some peace to others. I
found it in The Nazarene.
"For Jesus Christ, to me, is
the outstanding personality of all
time, all history, both as Son
of God and as Son of Man. Ev-
erything He ever said or did has
value for us today, and that is
something you can say of no
other man, alive or dead. No
teacher—Jewish, Christian,
Makes Declaration at other
Buddhist, Mohammedan—is still
a teacher whose teaching is such
Conference Here
a guidepost for the world we
NEW YORK ( WNS). — Ad- live in. Yes, it is true that Budd-
dressing a dinner that closed the ha influenced millions, but it is
two-day session of the National also true that only about—shell
Conference to Combat Anti- we say—five per cent of Budd-
Semitism which opened here on ha's teaching has basic value
Feb. 13, Assistant United States for the Twentieth Century. One
Attorney General Norman M. or another of these teachers may
Littell pledged the help of the have something basic for an Ori-
Federal Government in the fight ental, or an Arab, or an Occi-
against racial and religious dis- dental, depending upon where his
crimination.
teaching is best preserved ; but
Mr. Littell, who is in charge every act and word of Jesus has
of law enforcement against sub- value for all of us, wherever we
versive activities, urged public are. He became the Light of the
scrutiny of all public officials in World. Why shouldn't I, a Jew,
cities, countries and states wher- be proud of that?
ever apathy, indifferences or
"No other religious leader, ei-
prejudices denies to any citizen ther, has ever become so personal
the equal protection of the law. a part of people as The Naza-
Declaring that the test of de- rene. When you understand
Mocracy lies - in the protection Jesus, you understand that He
given to minorities to preserve came to save you, to come into
their liberties, their integrity and your personality. It isn't just a
their self-respect under the rule case of a misty, uncertain rela-
of a majority, Mr. Littell added : tionship between a worshipper
"Let us proceed by law, as Fed- and un unseen God ; that is ab-
eral prosecutors are now pro- stract; Jesus is personal.
ceeding, to strike and strike hard
"I suppose the final inspiration
wherever the facts justify."
to write, the insistence that I
James B. McNally, United write, came to me in Palestine.
States Attorney, addressing one I saw that I could never write
of the sessions, urged the en- about Jesus until I went to His
dorsement of proposed Federal homeland. So I went in 1907.
Legislation banning the use of Then the story really came alive.
mails to abuse anyone bemuse The whole landscape of the Holy
of race or religion. He promised Land held His footprints ; every
the support of his office in the bush and tree and stone was

Littell Pledges
U. S. Aid in Fight
On Anti-Semitism

See LITTELL—Page 12

See ASCH—Page 16

Georg Bernhard, Noted Journalist
In Pre-War Germany, Dies in N. Y.

Pro-
NEW YORK ( WNS I
fessor Georg Bernhard, one of
the most notable public figures
of pre-Hitler Germany and edi-
tor-in-chief of the Vossische Zei-
tung, leading newspaper in Ber-
lin, died here of pneumonia last
Thursday at the age of 69.
Prof. Bernhard, who was one
of the leading political econo-
mists and publicists in pre-Nazi
Germany, was among the first 33
distinguished German citizens ex-
patriated by the Nazi regime.
After his exile, he took up resi-
dence in Paris where, in 1933,
he founded the Parise!. Tage-
blatt, of which he became editor-
in-chief. He remained in France
until it was conquered by Get-
many, when he escaped to the
United States where he found
asylum in 1941. He first visited
the United States in 1936, at the
invitation of the American Jew-
ish Congress to be the principal
speaker at its convention in
Washington in June of that year.
Born in Berlin, a member of
a German-Jewish family which
had lived in Germany for cen-
turies, he began his career at the
age of 15 as an apprentice in a
banking firm and rose to the po•

sition of the firm's representa-
tive in the Berlin Stock Ex-
change. He began his journalistic
career at the age of 21, when
he took over the editorship of the
financial section of the radical
weekly, "Die Welt am Montag".
His articles, signed "G racchus,"
dealing with economic problems
and personalities in the financial
world, attracted such wide atten-
tion that he was invited by Leo-
pold Ullstein, founder of the
famous publishing house Ullstein
and Company, to become the co-
editor of his firm. For a brief
time he served with the Berliner
Tageblatt and following that.
with the Berliner Morgen post,
which, under his guidance, reach-
ed the highest circulation of any
German newspaper and achieved
the widest repute for the excel-
lence of its financial section.
In 1907 he became political
editor of all the Ullstein publica-
tions, a position he held until
the time of his exile. When in
1813, Ullstein took over the
Voessische Zeitung, the oldest
paper in Berlin, Prof. Bernhard
assumed the position of editor-

See BERNHARD—Page 16

