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JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chtonick

Friday, March 9, 1946

Strictly Confidential

Detroit Jewish Chroiticle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE .
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By PHINEAS J. BIRON

imaginative young attorney, is
LISTEN HERE:
The public school system of doing a bang-up one-man im-
Philadelphia will soon be under pressario stunt that sets a new
attack for its laxity in handling record . . . All by himself Aaron
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editor
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
anti-Semitic outrages committed lines up each year, for the bene-
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
by pupils under the very eyes of fit of the Jewish Home of Con-
the school authorities . . Im- valescents, a Nite of Revelry at
Vol.
47,
No.
10
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1945 (ADAR 24, 5705)
portant sections of the CIO will Carnegie Hall with artistic par-
Detroit 26, Michigan
set up, before long, an unprece- ticipation surpassing that of the
Night of Stars of the
not be accepted as a permanent policy. dentedly big machinery for a na- famous
tionwide campaign against anti- New York United Jewish Appeal
It is rather futile to argue the soundness semitism
. • This year's mammoth bene-
and anti-Negroism . .
takes place on March 11th,
The Yiddish press in the United States and reasonableness of the policy of ap- This activity will establish new fit
peasement adopted by Britain in 1939. standards for aggressive and with three Metropolitan Opera
this week celebrated its 75th anniversary. Obviously, the conditionK that existed fearless tactics, and will have stars among the many perform-
. . . A $150,000 fund is be-
Seventy-five years in terms of the Jew- in 1939 do not prevail today. The men the support of a strong Christian ers
religious leadership . . Here's ing collected for a Sergeant Mey-
ish cultural development in the United who decide on British foreign policy have a good decision. The Nazi-owned er Levin memorial . . Send in
gift . . . We shall be glad
States is a long period. When the first not the same outlook as did - :those who colony of Sarona, adjacent to your
Tel-Aviv, was expropriated by to turn it over to Judge Jacol)
formulated
British
policy
iii
489,
and
Yiddish newspaper appeared—a politica)
what is even more important, th6foreign authority of the Palestine gov- Livingston, one of the sponsors.
sheet devised by Horace Greeley to pro- policy makers know the diffeience be- ernment for the erection of a THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW:
Jacob Billikopf, who probably
mote his Presidential candidacy among tween the dynamic, constructive partici• municipal hospital.
GOOD NEWS.
knows more about Jewish life in
Jewish voters—the United States had not pating attitude of Palestine Jewry, as The liberated portion of Hol- America than any other many liv-
yet emerged from the pain and anguish contraste'd with the static, aloof and in- land is setting a splendid exam- ing, call our attention to an
ple as regards the Jewish refu- article on the Jewish community
of the Civil War. The Jewish population different policy of the Arab leaders.
gee problem . . . The Nether- in the Philippine Islands . . .
in the country at that time was small and
A people that has shown the qualities lands Association for Assistance The article is by Leopold Kahn
Jewish Minors, with headquar- and was written in Manila in
uninfluential. Jewish life, particularly in of initiative, ruggedness and imagination to
ters in Tilburg, is doing a great 1932 . . Here are some in-
the larger cities, was dominated by the shown by the Jews of Palestine must be job . . Its main purpose is to teresting facts culled from Kahn's
counted an asset of inestimable value, restore Jewish children to their piece . . The year 1898 brought
German-speaking Jews.
by Britain, or any nation that seeks to parents if they are still alive, or 500 Jewish members of Uncle
Most of the Yiddish-speaking Jews were strengthen and integrate its far-flung else to their nearest relatives .. . Sam's army of 60,000 to the
If no relatives can be found, the Philippines . . In 1908 a Mr.
hardly of a caliber making for education- Commonwealth of Nations. Unfortunate- Association will arrange for the Sinsberg of Singapore donated
al advancement and cultural progress. ly, even in this day of ideologies, we still support and education of the or- two Torahs to the Jews of Ma-
can hope for more from enlightened self- phaned children . . Bravo! .. . nila on condition that services be
While many of the Jewish immigrants of interest than from a sense of the justice A cooperative German publish- held regularly at least during
that time came to the "New World" in and fairness. It is in the interest of Brit- ing group has been established the High Holy Days of each year
the hope of making it their home of refuge ain, or any nation or groups of nations in New York . . . Its purpose is . . When no services were held
bring out good anti-Nazi books in 1909 and 1910 Mr. Sinsberg
from persecution, others still dreamt of that may control the destinies of Pales- to
in German, for use in German demanded the return of the To-
returning to their old homes.
tine, to permit an uninterrupted flow of prisoners' camps in the USA pri- rahs, which were then sent back
marily . . The name of the to Singapore . . In 1932 Ma-
But as the wave of Jewish immigration Jewish immigrants, limited only by the publishing group is Aurora Ver- nila boasted five Torahs, a mod-
increased, American Jewish life began to capacity of that land to absorb.
lag . . . Among its sponsors are ern synagogue that cost $45,000
Ernst Bloch, Alfred Doeblin, Lion . . Many of the early settlers
assume a character of stability. It was
The emphasis at this time must be on Feuchtwanger, Heinrich Mann . intermarried
. . In 1932 the
not long after that organized Jewish life the abrogation of the White Paper.
and F. C. Weiskopf.
Jewish population numbered 200.
made its appearance. Jewish schools, syn-
JEWISH AFFAIRS:
ABOUT PEOPLE:
agogues, temples, fraternal organizations,
Winchell is rarely wrong . . .
The Lublin government has ap-
clubs, charitable and social organizations
Last week, however, somebody pointed Maj. D. David Kahane
took him for a ride when he as Chief Rabbi to the Polish
sprang up. The intellectual and educa-
The invitation of the American Jewish slipped him the "information" army . . Add things we didn't
tional demands of the Jewish masses be-
American Zionist leaders know till now: The jeweler
gan to increase—a process which was Committee, to participate in an informal that
were at Yalta and sat in on con- friend of Father Flanagan in the
vastly accelerated even by the then in- conference to consider the formulation ferences . . . This is the bunk film "Boys' Town" is modeled
. . An extract from the Jew- after none other than Henry Mon-
ferior Yiddish press.
of a unified Jewish program, was ac- , ish
Black Book sponsored by sky, president of the Bnai Brith
As Jewish immigration increased at the cepted by the Agudas Israel and the American, Palestine, Russian and . . . The late Reuben B•ainin,
turn of the century, with most of the Jewish Labor Committee, but was de- other United Nations Jewry is whose fifth Jahrzeit was com-
being readied for the San Fran-
immigrants from Eastern Europe, the
cisco Conference of the United See STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Yiddish press began to play an ever-in- clined by the American Jewish Confer- Nations . . Aaron Fishman,
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The Yiddish Press

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ence.
We had hoped that all the invitees
would accept, yet we cannot say that
we are surprised by the declination of
By AL SEGAL
the American Jewish Conference, inas-
Keys of the Kingdom
much as the Conference still believes that
it is the organization representative of
RCHBISHOP John T. Mc- We Don't Feel That Way
Nichols has admonished Cath- WELL
WELL, , your grace, most Jews
all American Jewry, despite the fact that
olics of his diocese to keep away
that way about
large and representative groups have dis- from the Conference of Chris- Catholics feel
and Catholocisns.
tians
and
Jew's
of
which
a
branch
Yes, as a Jew, I have believed
associated themselves from the Confer-
has just been organized in our that we all have keys that open
town, Speaking through his chan- various doors to the same place.
ence.
cellor, he says:
The Protestants have their keys,
Jewry
to
American
The inability of
"Catholics should not partici- the Catholics theirs and the Jews
achieve unity under most distressful cir- pate in conferences with those possess an ancient key that they
of other faiths under the auspices
at Sinai. Our own key
cumstances should go a long way in dis- of religion. Debates and confer- received
opens the door to the One God,
sipating the absurd fancy of the anti- ences, especially of a public char- ruler of the universe, who spoke
with those who are not through our prophets on the way
Semites that Jewry is united under the acter,
members of the Catholic faith, men should deal with each other.
forbidden by pontifical law.
I have believed that some day
aegis of the Elders of Zion, that pure are "The
Catholic Church teaches
our keys together will open
fiction of the anti-Semitic mind that has that only God can impose upon all
all the doors to let in the divine
world an organized religion; air and light on a world that
done much to poison world opinion the
that Christ, truly God, gave us suffocates in the acrid odor of
against the Jews.
this divinely organized religion hate and is blinded in the dark-
the Catholic Church, which is ness of its prejudices.
In our opinion the Conference of the in
the only custodian of His teach-
Should I stand apart from him
American Jewish Committee, the Jewish ing . .
because my Catholic brother has
"The Catholic Church can not a different key to another door?
Labor Committee and the Agudas Israel give the impression that one re-
I rejoice in him and esteem him
should proceed to formulate a program ligion is as good as another or as brother in faith precisely by-
she must strive with other cause he has another key to open
for unified action that should meet with that
faiths for a common denomi- a door to the kingdom. I know
the approval of the overwhelming major- nator of religion. This attempt very well that when his door and
give the faithful the im- he Jews' door and the Protest-
ity of American Jews. Such a program would
pression that basically and essen- ants' door are opened they will
should enhance the prestige and influ- tially different religions are the admit the same light and the
same breath of God to invigor-
ence of the Conference, and perhaps same."
ate the spirits of men,
At
the
same
time
the
arch-)
compel the American Jewish Conference
In Britain's Interest
Keys to Heaven
hiAop
makes
known
that
"we,
as
to join with them at a later date. In
Lord • Strabolgi expressed a negative
a body of Catholics, wish to IT PLEASES me to have many
friends who think as
satisfaction because Prime Minister Win- any event, whether the American Jewish make contact with our fellow- I do
ligin
o
s people
ot
leo
i of
c other
f rds re-
l e-
Conference
joins
or
not,
the
American
ston Churchill made no hostile pronounce-
c citizens,
in i o t it z e e n gs.00N(V a r e ,A a , z e t x imouhso e t - o h eparrotz
about Catholic
ment to the policy of a Jewish National Jewish Committee, the Agudas Israel and
i ewill;
whole-heart-
regard me, the Jew, as a for-
home in Palestine. He believes that the the Jewish Labor Committee represent edly condemn bigotry in every eigner to the Godly purposes of
C
best solution for Palestine is to proclaim such diverse elements of American Jewry form as well as every evidence Catholicism.
My friend Sweeney
it a British dominion, but until that is sideration from United Nations Confer- of hostility shown to individuals likes-to say, "Segal, you're going
done, in the meantime, the most urgent that it must receive recognition and con- or groups because of race or my way," by which he means the
question is • to secure new • immigration ences, and later on from peace confer- color or religion. In a word, we same thing I do when I say that
certificates for Jews desiring to enter ences, that will have before them the stand for the dignity of every we all have keys to the doors of
knotty and complex problems that will human- persons which bears the the kingdom.
Palestine.
I impress of God, its Creator."
See SEGAL—Page 13
The White Paper cannot and should inevitably issue from the war.

creasing influence in Jewish life. It be-
cae not only a forum for the distribution
of news, but a force in the very shaping
of Jewish life. At first inferior in con-
tent, the press rapidly realized that if it
was to continue to play its proper role
in Jewish life it must attain a higher peak
of cultural attainment. Before long the
Yiddish press here rivaled many of the
newspapers in Europe with long histories
of tradition.
When America closed its doors to im-
migration, it appeared that the Yiddish
press in America was doomed. But even
during that period its progress was so
vast that it now rivals, in content and
appearance, many of the leading Amer-
ican papers.
The Yiddish press in America also has
another accomplishment to its credit—
the rise of an American Yiddish litera-
ture, a peculiarly American art. Many of
the outstanding Yiddish poets, novelists
and essayists in the United States owe
their creativity to this press. It afforded
them a forum, an avenue, for their art.
It brought them close to the reader, an
essential contact for a writer.
Some day, when the history of Amer-
ican Jewry's contribution to American
civilization and culture is written, the
Yiddish press will hold an enviable niche.

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