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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Six

Daughter of Great Jewish Leader, Max Nordau, Sees
Her Father as a Great Prophet and a Great Philosopher

O

NE DAY, Dr. Max Nordau in
Paris received a letter from
an Englishman in, India.
The writer went on to say that he
had read the books of Nordau and
regarded him as "a great wise
man." He felt sure that Dr. Nor-
dau therefore could suggest some
solution for the problem of his
son.
His son, the correspondent
wrote, was a big handsome boy--
a rich man's son. He had every-
thing, but had become ill tem-
pered, irritable, dissolute. He did
not know what to do about it.
Nordau replied to the distracted
English father, suggesting that tie
buy him a farm.
The Englishman did so. And
the cure worked. The son de-
veloped a keen Interest in flowers
and plants. ''His temper became
smooth and merry, he partici-
pated in games and sports and
finally fell in love with a beauti-
ful girl whom he subsequently
married."

One of Many Stories
This is one of the stories related
by Maxa Nordau about her father
who to the Jewish world is known
chiefly as the great Zionist leader
who stood with Herzl at the
founding of the Zionist movement.
Max and Maxa. There is not
much difference in the names,
and, true to the similarity, there
is a „strange bond uniting Maxa
with her father, Max, which even
the passing of her father has not
obliterated.
"Stories for Maxa" Is a collec-
tion of beautiful child stories by
Max Nordau—the same stories
which Max Nordau used to tell
the HUM Maxa before she went to
sleep. It is now about twenty-five
years since Max Nordau died, but
the memory of her father lingers
with her. Telling of the forevision
of her father has become some-
thing of a hobby with .Maxa.
If one looks closely at the
daughter, the resemblance to her
father is quite striking in some
of the features. In the blond tex-
ture of the skin, Maxa seems to
take after her mother, but the
nose is distinctly her father's and
there is much in the eyes also to
suggest the father.
The resemblance is more than
physical. Her father was a great
art critic. Maxa too loves art and
is a painter of some distinction.
Maxa also has the same intense
devotion to Zionism which marked
her father's Ife. There are few
parts of the country where Maxa
has not lectured on Zionism. She
has lived in Palestine and plans
to return there with her husband,
Captain Claude Greenblatt, a for-
mer officer in the French flying
corps, who, as engineer before
the war, supervised the construc-
tion of the port facilities in the
new harbor of Tel Aviv. Inci-
dentally, Mayor Rokeach of Tel
Aviv is a relative of the Nordaus.

Aviv—about the scenic beauties
of Palestine, about her father,
about painting, and also about her
lectures in America. She fined& the
lectures great fun and has been
immensely entertained by some of
the reactions to her lectures on
Zionism in some of the out of the
way places in the United States.
She chuckles with particular glee
about the newspaper reporter who
came to see her in Texas. He
wanted to know about Zionism.
Maxa began by explaining to him
that a long time ago Jerusalem
had been destroyed and the Jews
dispersed.
"That's terrible," said the re-
porter, putting everything down.
Later Miss Nordau picked up the
newspaper and saw the headline'
"Jerusalem Destroyed; All Jews
Forced Out."
Many of the non-Jews, she finds,
become keenly interested in Zion-
ism when they are first acquaint-
ed with the elementary facts. She
likes to point to the correspond-
ence she has had with many sym-
pathetic Christians following lec-
tures in their towns.
Miss Nordau also likes to em-
phasize how prophetic her father
was. She likes to tell of the talk
Max Nordau gave to a group of
American Zionists who visited him
after the first World War.

Need Half Million Jews
A half million Jews must be Im-
mediately brought to Palestine to
make the Jewish Homeland an ac-
complished fact, said Nordau.

Detroit Jews Unite
To Help Rumanians

Describing the deplorable condi-
tion of Jews in Rumania and the
necessity of furnishing them aid,
Mr. Joseph Katcher, vice-presi-
dent of the United Rumanian
Jews of America, and Mr. Sol
Rosman, executive secretary of
the same organization, told De-
troit Jews of Rumanian extrac-
tion at the Lee Plaza Hotel, Feb-
ruary 19, that help given these
Europeans by the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee must be greatly
augmented by American contribu-
tions.
As a result of this meeting, an
organization to be known as the
United Rumanian Jews of Amer-
ica was formed as an affiliation
of the parent group in New York
City. Emil Kahan was elected pre-
sident of the new organization.
Other officers are as follows: Mrs.
Ben Feldman, vice-president; Geo.
Silverman, secretary; and Ben
Feldman, terasurer.

The Americans were frightened
by the vastness of the idea; "How
are these people going to be hous-
ed?" they asked.
"In the Palestine climate, they
can sleep in tents," said Nordau.
"And who is going to supply the
funds for the mass immigration?"
asked the Americans.
"You Americans are," replied
Nordau.
, Unfortunately Max Nordau's ad-
vice was not followed. The big ini-
tial settlement which might have
been made did- not come to pass.
Instead, the growth was by a
trickle. Had Nordau's advice been
followed, the Jews in Palestine
would have been a majority by
now, and the Jewish State there-
fore would have been a reality.
If only the Jews had taken Dr.
Nordau's prescription to return
to the land then as the English-
man in India took it. Individuals
were always seeking out Max Nor-
dau for advice. The great Hebrew
poet Shneur at one time was af-
flicted with a deep melancholia,
which he seemed unable to shake
off. He consulted Nordau who af-
ter listening caref ully, said:
"Write a diary."
"What is the use?" asked
Schneur.
Write Sincere Diary
"What ydu need," said Nordae,
"is to write an utterly sincere di-
ary, without fine phrases, without
circumlocutions, without any pos-
ing before a pitative audience or
before your own self. Daily you
must analyze yourself In detail
and not lie to yourself, and above
all, never dream of publishing
what you write. The thing must
be for you alone, to be shown to
no one, to be torn up, when you
need it no longer."
Shneur doubted the value of the
prescription, but, nevertheless, he
went through with it, and, ac-
cording to the poet, "after a brief
period of meticulous and harsh
self-analysis he felt restored and
able to continue his creative
work."
It was the method of psycho-
analysis which Nordau had sug-
gested, though Freud was rela-
tively unknown then. Strangely
enough, before Freud, Max Nor-
dau wrote a little short story
which he called "Psycho-Analy-
sis."
Yes, Max Nordau was a proph-
et!

Pupils Rewarded for
Perfect, Attendance

Gifts in the form of miniature
scrolls and bibles have been given
to pupils of the Rose Sittig Cohen
and Central High Schools who
have maintained perfect attend-
ance records at the Sabbath morn-
ing services which are held in the
Rose Sittig Cohen School, under
the direction of Messrs. Hugo
Apt, Aaron Toback, and Solomon
Kasdan, principal, and in the ves-
try rooms of the Bnai David Syn-
agogue with Norman Ruttenberg,
principal, directing.
The following students of the
Rose Sittig Cohen School received
the awards: Eugene Cohen, Mar-
vin Delidow, Esther Eistenstat,
Florence Gutman, Victor Kobli.i,
Miriam Lachover, Carl Leibowitz,
Molly Margolis, Alvin Ring, Arn-
old Shifman, Paul Snyder and
Gary Wexler.
The following Central High
School students received prizes:
William Burnstein, Faith Green-
baum, Larry Lipson, Hannan
Nove, Mary Robinson, Molly Rob-
inson, Morton Rosenberg, Sheldon
Schore, Jerry Weisberg, and Shel-
don Weisberg.

Wieser' tcher Dance
Highlights Anniversary

On Sunday, Mar. 10, the Mese-
ritcher Progressive Benefit Society
will celebrate its 28th anniversary
with a dinner dance at the Work-
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Report From Germany

(Continued from page 2)

Jew, to see the wreckage and
ruins, to see, as do the Germans,
that they have been in a war and
suffered "a little" as have others
they "liberated." It is a personal
satisfaction to know that the War
Crimes Branch of the U. S. Army,
of which I am a part, is deter-
mined to get the little fellow as
well as the big shots — to know
that I am a part of a group of
attorneys, intelligence officers, in-
terpreters and reporters — who
are determined to see to it that
these perpetrators get their due.
I am convinced that they will!

thers Zeiss, Ostuf. Jung, 1Wilf.
Redwits, Stubaf Plotrkowski, Os.
tubaf. Opperbeck, Uschaf. Weid.
enhammer, Rottf. peck, Z. A.
Smolka, Z. A. Becht. \

8. In order to make sure to
find out these malefactors, we
suggest that all the prism , '
should be questioned who
been a long time in the camp
as kapos or workmen in dilfel-
ent commands, especially in the
barber shop, Jourhouse, D.A.\1' , in
the garages and had plenty of oc-
casions to be in daily contact with
them.
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9. Names of the 12 Czech pris-
oners — under them Major Stan.
Letter from Files
ek — who were 4 weeks ago mur.
This is a copy of a typical letter dered in the crematorium by be-
showing how information Is ob- ing shot In the back of the head
tained.
in the presence of Botcher.
SCREENING . . .
10. Names of the 6 young pris-
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oners — aged from 16 to 18 year;
Czechoslowakian National Comm. who were murdered on the Schi-
Dachau, the 4th of Mai 1915 cssplatz in the presqnce of Bo-
To: The' President of the Discipli- tcher.
nary Department.
These mass murders have been
We beg to request the Discipli- witnessed by various prisoners
nary Department to put to the who can affirm the presence of
former Raportfuhrer Botcher the Botcher on these occassions, Pta-
following questions:
cek Jaroslav-Block 2.'4, Ileinur-
1. Who has ordered the execu- Block 2/1, Zielonka Paul•Block
tions of 92 Russian officers Sep- 4,'4.
tember 1944?
We beg to request that we may
2. Who has carried out this take part in examinations of Bo-
mass-murder — names, addresses, tcher to be able to find out mur-
personal identity marks?
ders of Czech prisoners. We can
3. Names and personals of all offer police — and judicial ex-
who may be able to set up evi- perts. We beg to remind, that
dence against the so-called Unter- Botcher was arrested by help of
Czech prisoners.
suchungsfuhrer Bach.
4. Names and particulars of the (Next week's article tells of the
prisoners who were confidants of Bruckhagen Atrocity Case.)
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