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Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD

Vol. 48, No. 6

Friday, February 8, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Four

Publisher, CY AARON

Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN

Friday, February 8, 1946 (ADAR I 7, 5706)

Detroit 26, Michigan

Shall Judaism Die?

Book Review

By LEON SAUNDERS

"The Great Conspiracy"

Published by Little, Brown & Co.

Under this title Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn repeat ttl,t
success of their "Sabotage" and present to the world an intellige tt:
book about Russia and the Allies. This is not a book about "CosSat I
and Vodka," peasants merrily singing and praying for their "Litt, •
Father."

It is an HONEST book and a terrible one, showing the why,
lurid history of a conspiracy in comparison with which Oppenheit..
Wallace and similar authors seem totally without imagination.

From the 23rd day of December, 1917, when the agents of En„•
been in vain and Nazidom has won
land and France met in France and agreed to "dismember" Soy. .
its battle. Else the noblest, the most
Russia, all the foul means possible were used by the allied nations t.
splendid spiritual force in history, has
strangle the struggling Soviets. Starting with Bruce Lockhart ,u I
lost its luster.
the unspeakable Sidney Reily as secret agents sent to disrupt Itust
from within, all the might and wealth of the powerful countries in t.
The study of Jewish law and culture world led by England were employed to harass, slander, starve and
must continue! The Jew worships God ruin Soviet Russia.
through the study of the Law. Study is
U. S. Representative Incompetent
more important than any religious prac-
Unfortunately for the Soviets, the U. S. was at the time of the
tice, according to the words of the sages. revolution represented by an incompetent, David Francis, who did
And let no one think for a minute that not know what it was all about, • and when the intelligent and honest
this detracts from our Americanism ! If Col. Robbins reported the true facts and Lenin's proposal for Russo-
relations, these documents never reached Pres. Wilson. All
we have anything concrete to offer to American
the reactionary prejudices and dark forces in the world united in th.,.
America, if we want to furnish strength relentless attempt to crush Russia by means of fifth columns withm
and glory to this land of ours, if we would and direct military attacks from without. Aside from factual storiei
add to the greatness of our country and based on documents and facts known to the world, the reader gets
impression of reading a detective story by an author of limitless
not detract, then we must see that the the
imagination but little finesse, so crude and brutal were the means
study of Judaism goes on.
used in the prosecution of their aims by the enemies of Russia.
That is why, orthodox, conservative or
Trotzky Stalin Altair
reform, every Jew must lend his support,
The book devotes much space to the Trotzky-Stalin affair and, in
moral and financial, to institutions like spite of our complete trust in the integrity of the authors, they seem
the two Yeshivas of Detroit, Chachmey to be not a little prejudiced against Trotzky or too much for Stalin.
Lublin and Beth Yehuda. The strength We still have in mind the Soviet Russian novels in which Trotzky is
a traitor. We fully agree with Lockhart's impression of Trotzky
and the richness of Judaism must be kept called
that he would only start a revolution provided he had a big enough
in full. Only through study can this be audience to watch it. But we still think that the Russian novels in
kept alive. And only through Yeshivath which Trotzky is pictured as a traitor to the revolution and a "bielo-
bandit," a bandit working for the whites, smell to heaven. To place
can there be study.
Trotzky in the same category with Petliura, Machno and other white
bandits can mean only a desire to please Stalin or fear to displease
The present superficial education-
him.
al setup in the United States is totally
Behind the Scenes
inadequate to furnish real education
for Jews or to furnish the kind of in-
All the powerful figures behind the scenes like Deterding, Chur-
chill, Hoover and Poincare are shown in this book in their true light.
tellectual Jewish leadership they need
France had invested eight billion dollars in the czar's Russia; Eng-
so badly. They are so inadequate, they
land wanted the Caucasion oil, and for that they kept up the war
cannot hope even to scratch the sur-
after the armistice with Germany, for, as Herbert Hoover bluntly said:
face of the vast treasures of Jewish
War is better than bolshevism.
knowledge. Only through Yeshivath,
All the efforts and all the bloodshed ended in failure for the
with their thorough grounding in the
robbers, but the poison and hatred lingered for 30 years. The While
sacred literature and secular knowl-
Russians, the refugees, who "have forgotten nothing and learned
nothing," began to spread all over the world the poison which brought
edge that is Jewish can we meet the
out a new deadly weed — fascism. The authors disclose all the activi-
demands of our age.
ties of Henry Ford and how his henchmen, using all their vast re-
There have been holocausts before in sources to spread hatred and anti-Semitism, were all ready to organ-
old-fashioned pogroms, and how Ford was rewarded by Hitler who
our past. Whole sections of our people ize
hung his picture in the chancellory in Munich.
have been wiped out. We survived that.
The Dies Committee, Lindbergh, the great authority on flying and
And we will survive this one.
world economics, and all who live and breathe in the dark, poisonous
Our seats of learning have been moved atmosphere of hatred are brought to light in this book.
before. After the fall of the Temple, the
Like Murder Incorporated
great schools of Sura and Pumpeditha
You may dislike Soviet Russia, but the methods and means used
were founded in Babylonia. From Baby- by high financiers, statesmen and politicians were outrageous and the
lonia, Moses ben Hanoch brought them picture presented by the authors of "The Great Conspiracy" smacks
over to Spain. From Spain they were of Murder Incorporated. If one benevolent soul doubts the possibility
such things, the authors give, chapter by chapter, all the bibliog-
transferred to Germany and Poland. Now of
raphy and document the sources upon which they drew for their in-
they must move again.
formation.
And it is to America even more than to
The book should be read by all and especially by those who think
Palestine that the citadels of learning that Hitler was the Knight Errant who defended civilization against
must be transplanted. Whether we wish bolshevism, and that the Deterdings, the Churchills and the Henry
A Liberal Daily
or whether we do not, the real seat) of Fords are benefactors of the world and humanity.
With all due deference to our three Jewish learning is here—to live or to die.
great metropolitan newspapers, Detroit
LEST WE FORGET
does not have any great liberal daily that
The essence of the Jewish religion,
the essence of Judaism is Torah. And
speaks for the welfare of a people as does
for Judaism to stay alive, Torah, rich
the P.M. of New York or the Chicago
"...IF THERE IS ANYTHING WHICH
and full, must be kept alive. If that
Sun. The need for such a liberal daily has
IT IS THE DUTY OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE
is permitted to die, the Jewish people
long been felt by thinking people in this
NEVER TO ENTRUST TO ANY HANDS
is
dies. They have nothing else to bind
city.
BUT OUR OWN THAT THING IS THE
them together. And to the question
PRESERVATION AND PERPETUATION
At long last, there is a prospect
of survival, a Jew can have only one
OF OUR LIBERTIES AND INSTITUTIONS
that such a daily may come to De-
answer. Judaism will live on. It will
troit. A committee for a liberal daily
flourish forever.
has been set up with Alan Brown,
well !mown attorney, at its head. This
committee is circulating petitions to
Lincoln's Birthday
bring such a daily here.
Details cannot be given here. We rec-
Every year when Lincoln's birthday
ommend the project, however, and urge rolls around we have occasion to refresh
people to sign these petitions in the hope ourselves on the genuine essence of Amer-
that a great liberal daily, free from de-
icanism. It is a long time since the figure
mands and pressures will appear on our of the tall and swarthy Abraham strode
the American scene, yet we seem to need
streets.
The CHRONICLE carries such petitions
his message today as much as ever.
in their offices at 525 Woodward. People
He said that the slave was a man, that
who are desirous of bringing such a daily
men must not be denied their rights on
here and who cannot find any other place
account of color or creed. These are quite
to set down their names in a great and
simple things, it would seem — and yet,
liberal cause may come here and get such in all ages, men have continued to ignore
petitions. For others, the petitions may be them. Today the world is still distorted
obtained at 963 Penobscot Building.
over essentially the same thing.
"Let's look at the record," Al Smith
The greatness of Lincoln is that he
used to say. There is no greater weapon
for these simple — yet so great —
stood
than the truth. There is no greater force
things
in such a way that he impressed
to fight injustice than the merciless spot-
some extent on the whole Ameri-
them
to
light of publicity focussed on the forces can life. To give way to preju dice today
of evil. We congratulate the committee
is to light Lincoln just Its truly us the slave
for their progressive action and wish them driver
once fought him,
the greatest succatheir work.

Thousands of Jewish mothers and fath-
ers attended graduation ceremonies two
weeks ago. To intermediate schools, to
high schools and to colleges they flocked
to enjoy, to congratulate, to take part.
And several hundred went to a graduation
that was of the utmost importance to
Jews and Judaism. That graduation took
place at the Yeshiva Chachmey Lublin.
Why was that graduation so important?
Why was it so full of meaning? Because
it contained within itself the seed of the
continued existence of Judaism.
The Hebrew bible has profoundly
affected the culture and political in-
stitutions of the whole world. It has
been a source of spiritual advantage
and satisfaction not only to Jews but
to all peoples. The Torah and the
Talmud and the whole of Jewish lore
has been the one link that has kept
the Jewish people alive and unified,
spread as they were over the far-
flung corners of the globe.
For the last fifty years, Jews in this
country have kept up the centers of learn-
ing in Europe with money contributions.
A Jewish conscience, half awakened, de-
manded the payment of this money.
But the whole thing was not clear to
Jews so tar removed from real Judaism.
Common sense even suggested that all
this was wasted. Still, in a half-grudging
way, as a sort of a necessary nuisance,
American Jews kept up this far-away
source of their culture. From there came
the spiritual leadership. There the culture
flourished and ripened.
Now, that source is no more. There are
no great Yeshivas left in the lands where
the Nazi scourge passed. No Wilna Gaon
will rise from prostrate Europe. No Rashi
will step forth from the bleeding wreck-
age of European Jewry. From failing
hands, they have cast the torch of our
two thousand year heritage to this coun-
try and to Palestine. And we must take
up that torch and hold it high.
We must! Else we are false to our
history, false to the civilization to
which we have already contributed
so much. Else our sufferings have all

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