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PARTITION

Of Blessed Memory
Rabbi M. M. Zager

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cepted, the Zionist president as-
serts: "We have suffered one
partitioning of Palestine, one
partitioning too many, when in
1922 Trans-Jordan was stricken
from the promise of the Jewish
National Home. To partition
Jewish Palestine further would
be tantamount to carving an-
other iniquitious White Paper in-
to the soil of the Jewish National
Home."
In his statement on the prob-
lems that will confront American
Zionists at their forthcoming
convention, Dr. Goldstein de-
clares that "of immediate con-
cern will be the opening of Pal-
estine to Jewish immigration as
soon as possible."
He charges that "there is a
bottleneck " which obstructs the
free flow of Jewish immigration.
We are told that war conditions
have imposed restrictions, such
as the unwillingness of Nazi-con-
trolked governments to release
Jews, the unwillingness of neu-
tral countries to permit their
transit, and the lack of shipping
facilities. From now on these
obstacles will increasingly dim-
inish. By the time the Zionists
convene in Atlantic City, these
obstacles may disappear. If then
there is still a bottleneck, it can
only be due as some suspect, to
the chief source of difficulty all
along, the same which today stul-
tifies the effectiveness of the In-
tergovernmental Committee for
the Refugees now in session in
London, namely the stubborn re-
fusal of the British Government
to open wide the gates of Pales-
tine. Against such refusal, if it
should still exist by Oct. 14, the
Zionists of America will be com-
pelled to protest with all the
power at their command."
Dr. Goldstein also revealed that
the forthcoming Zionist conven-
tion will be called upon to adopt
a "new emphasis on economic
planning and well-considered fi-
nancing for the development of
Palestine. As soon as our politi-
cal aims are met, the forefront
of Zionist attention will be
claimed by economic plans and
prospects."
"The ZOA, as the largest Zion-
ist constituency in the world,
whose membership notably in-
cludes men of business experi-
ence and financial competence,
can become a tremendous factor
in stimulating the economic de-
velopment of Palestine, bringing
to this task characteristically
American business vision and re-
sourcefulness. This would be a
first class American contribution.
American Jews need to be made
more economic-conscious with re-
gard to Palestine. The responsi-
bility for doing it lies squarely
on the shoulders of the ZOA,"
Dr. Goldstein concluded.

COUNCIL

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By RABBI MOSES FISCHER

Tlie Eve of Rosh Hashonah
will again commemorate the sad
and tragic day of the passing
of Rabbi Menachim Mendell Hal-

RABBI M. M. ZAGER

CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

PARTISANS

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transporting them to Spain and
Switzerland. No details have yet
been made public how the Jew-
ish partisans operated in their
rescue work. But among their
outstanding accomplishments was
the establishment of numerous
refugee shelters for Jewish chil-
dren. The shelters were under
the supervision of French women
who operated with the under-
ground movement. These women
not only took care of the physical
needs of the children, but also
provided educational and recrea-
tional activities for them.
Many of the children were
placed by the Jewish partisans
in churches, monasteries and in
the homes of Christian families.
To ensure their safety, they were
in many instances provided with
Christian baptismal certificates.
To make sure that the Jewish
children would be properly iden-
tified when the time came to re-
turn them to their parents or sur-
viving relatives, the partisans
kept secret records of the names
of the children, their parents and
relatives. They also kept a rec-
ord of each of the places in which
the children were hidden. Now
the partisans are contacting Jew-
ish organizations with a view of
effecting the return of the chil-
dren to their parents and the
Jewish fold.
While there are no available
records at this time as to the
number of Jews who lived in
France at the time of its occu-
pation by the Germans, it is be-
lieved in informed circles that
the pre-war Jewish population in
France was approximately 350,-
000, including refugees. Of the
120,000 Jews who lived in Paris
before its occupation by the
Nazis, there are estimated to be
about 30,000 survivors. There is,
however, a possibility that many
of the Parisian Jews had escaped
to small cities and towns and
that they would return to their
homes soon. It is estimated that
the Nazis had deported more than
100,000 French Jews to concen-
tration camps in eastern Germany
and Poland.
There is not a Jew in Paris
who does not have some member
of his family among Hitler's vic-
tims. Some of the Jews still cling
to the faint hope that their peo-
ple were taken to the miles of
upper Silesia and Poland and
that they are still alive. Although
many Jews have returned to their
homes and are back in the life
of Paris again, mention of the
w o r d "Drancy concentration
camp" still frightens them. Dran-
cy, near Le Bourget, was the
"Dachau" of France. Few of the
internees there came out alive.

Friday, September 15, 1944

Jewish Refugees in
Italy Organize to Aid
In Rehabilitation Work

ROME (WNS)—An "informal
parliament" to discuss rescue
problems and to help coordinate
the work of furnishing relief and
in assisting in the rehabilitation
of 2,500 of their number resid-
ing in refugee centers has re-
cently been formed by the Jew-
ish refugees in southern Italy.
The "parliament," the brain-child
of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, meets once a month and is
attended by two refugees from
each center in Bari, the province
of Potenza and the camps at Fer-
amonte and Santa Maria de
Bagni.
The JDC representative in
southern Italy, Max Pearlman,
declared here at a press confer-
ence that the set-up was not only
providing a highly satisfactory
channel for distributing the re-
lief provided by American Jewry,
but that it also made available
a great store of personal experi-
ences and knowledge on which to
draw in organizing rehabilitation
plans.
Behind the refugee council is
the organization on democratic
line, of the Jewish refugees into
communities with their own elect-
ed representatives and commit-
tees handling such common inter-
ests as schools, training farms,
wood and metal-working shops,
and other enterprises. One pur-
pose of this, and one result, is
to maintain the morale of these
people, most of whom have been
prisoners for so long, and to give
them the feeling that they are
not helpless chattels but men
and women able to decide and
do things for themselves.
The refugees in southern Italy
are not "interned" in the camps
but are free to leave if they de-
sire. More than a thousand of
them have already settled in
Bari and have found employment
with the Allied military authori-
ties as interpreters, clerks and
in other capacities. Over half
of them are from Yugoslavia.

Abolish Anti-Jewish
Laws in Bulgaria

N
g(
c iul broadcast W ov N eS r —
the! . " So a fi n a °rffi
a:
Bulgarian G
overnment
announced the rescission
of
anti-Jewish laws and the e t h dai all
s o tl h ue.
tion of the Bulgarian Commis
sariat for Jewish affairs. The
broadcast, as heard terea,llov,
here saei:
that the Jews in

the Bulgarian
ghettos have been permitted to
return
i r homes , that
Jews have the
bee n
to withdraw funds from their
"frozen" bank accounts and that
the authorities had enlisted the
aid of the Jewish Consistoire to
solve the problem of restoring
c o rrhsec
nfi a at nt
ed J J ee w s hh
eahj e n i

t oduced in Bulgaria in 19 41, by r
the e
o f 1942 rci gh
pro-Nazi
W hen,
June of
Parliament, adopted a resolution
giving the authorities full power
"to settle the Jewish question,"
the Bulgarian Government sup-
plemented its anti-Jewish laws by
adding the Nurenberg Laws. This
was immediately followed by de-
crees ordering the confiscation
of Jewish-owned property, the
deportation of Jews from Sofia
and the banishing of Jews to
ghettos.
Later the Bulgarian
Government dissolved the Jewish
Consistoire, representing the in.
terests of the Jewish communi-
ties throughout Bulgaria, and es-
tablished a Commissariat for Jew-
ish Affairs whose function was
to aid in the liquidation of the

avi Zager. Deeply mourned and
bewailed by the loving members
of his family, by his colleagues
—the members of Vaad Hara-
bonim and by the members of his
Congregatidns, Rabbi Zager has
Jewish
entered unto his reward in Eter-
Simu l taneously it was disclosed
nity. Sudddnly and unexpectedly
here that the Bulgarian Minister
the call from the High came to
of the Interior had held a con.
him while i \I the prime of man-
ference with a delegation of the
hood, while he was wholeheart-
executive council of the Jewish
edly engaged in the service of
Consistory, during which he said
God and Isr el.
that the Ministeries of Finance
Four year have passed since
and Agriculture would deal with
that tragic ay in the year of
the problem of confiscated Jew.
5701 (1940), but the memory of
ish property, while the Ministry
Rabbi Zager s yet fresh and is
of the Interior would deal with
greatly revere qnd respected by
the legal problems arising from
the men and women who were
the restitution of Jewish posses.
fortunate and eivileged to know
sions and the question of resettl-
him, and beta se they knew him
ing the exiled Jews. The Minis-
—have loved a d respected him.
ter of the Interior was reported
Rabbi Zager as not what we
to have told the delegation that
call a "Glam r-Rabbi," whose
the new decree covered all anti-
There is no happiness except Jewish measures "whether of a
picture made e round in the
in righteousness.
newspapers e ery week, whose
p olitical, moral or police char-
—Attanagalu-yansa.
every utteran e was to be high-
acter."
lighted in th papers or broad-
cast on the adiO! Rabbi Zager
would have onsidered it a pro-
fanization of the sacred vocation
of a Rabbi o follow such a line
of self-adve tisement. Rabbi Za-
ger was al ays aware that the
Prophet Mi ho pro0aimed in the
name of od—that the highest
virtue of an consists in "Walk-
ing humbl before the Lord."
Rabbi ger has indeed walked
humbly efore the Lord and
served srael faithfully. His
great a bition and, sole desire
was to udy devotedly the Tor-
RESETTLEMENT
ah, to se himself in the pro-
found
epths of the Talmud;
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and th n to enrich the people
of Israel with the precious pearls
he bropght up from the "Deep Federation, financed by the War
Water of the Torah," by teach- Chest through the Allied Jewish
ing hi congregational audiences Campaign.
and interpreting to them the List of Grodno Survivor.
A list of 200 Jewish survivors
Words of Law and Wisdom of
the Sages. Many of j his manu- in the liberated city of Grodno
scripts containing his precious where 45,000 Jews lived before
commentaries to the Talmudic the outbreak of the war, is now
and .Midrashic Literature and the available at the office of Reset-
outlines of his sermons are wait- tlement Service. This list was
ing for the light of publication. compiled by three of the surviv-
Rabbi Zager was endowed with ors and made available by the
a rare type and Individual Ora- Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
tory, with a type of oratory that
was born from the Soul of Is-
INTERNED
rael and was practiced in the
great Jewish communities in Eur-
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ope. It was an oratory that was
vocal with faith and trust in
God, with love and devotion to deported them in cattle traine to
Israel, with a worshipful adora- Germany and the unliberated
tion of the Torah, with grief and areas of Poland. More than 3,-
Styled in richcolor-
sorrow for the tearful sufferings 000 Jews have been removed by
the Nazis from the Vught con-
and visitations of the Galuths.
tones with the smart lines
It is by the power of such an centration camp to a camp in
oratory that Rabbi Zager has Buchenwald, Germany.
won many hearts for the Torah.
that have made Schoble
Accept the confession I make
He stirred and moved the souls
of
my
sin
in
its
sinfulness,
to
of his listeners, comforted and
Hats the choice of
consoled many grief-stricken peo- the end that in future I may
ple and caused numerous erring restrain myself therefrom.
Maker, of Fine Hats
—Cullavagga.
souls—who otherwise would have
fashion conscious men for
Since 1886
deserted the path of the Torah--
to return to standards of Jewish
st.
life.
$6.50 to $20.00 over a half of century.'
Rosh Hashanah Greetings
May the memory of the sin-
gularly righteous Rabbi Zager be
a fountain of blessing and in-
spiration to his wife, to his
C. A. Pfaffenberger
daughters, to his Congregations
Inc.
and to all Israel.

faith to the community at
large.
The Jewish Community
Council of Detroit therefore
expresses its strong disapproval
of such makeshift synagogues.
The Council appeals to Detroit
Jews who attend services dur-
ing the Holy Days to worship
in the established synagogues
in our community which func-
tion as educational and spirit-
ual centers all year, and thus
aid in removing an eyesore and
a baneful influence from Jew-
ish communal life. The Syna-
gogue should be as it has al-
ways been, a communal institu-
tion. and should never be per-
mitted to serve purely private
interests.
By abstaining from attend-
ance at temporary synagogues,
Detroit Jewry will sound the
death knell of an unworthy and
unwholesome phenomenon char-
acterized by confusion, irre-
sponsibility and commercialism.
We add our plea to the plea
of all responsible leaders in
American Jewry that this evil
be removed from the Jewish
scene.
We respectfully urge that
the established and accredited
synagogues in the community
take appropriate steps in plan-
ning for the coming year, to
create and maintain facilities
The fool who knows his fool-
for larger numbers during the
ishness is wise at any rate so
High Holiday season."
far. But the fool who thinks
himself wise, he is a fool indeed.
—Dhamma-pada.
In order to terminate all suf,
fering, be earnest in performing
good deeds.
Overcome anger by love.
—Buddhaghosa's parables.
—Dhammapada.

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