Friday, Deeember 3, I948
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Strictly Confidential
Intermarriage Cuts U. S. Jewish Population
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THE REASONS why the Jewish population in the
U.S. today is closer to 4,50,000 rather than 5,000,-
000 are simple: The increase of intermarriage in the
last 25 years ... Also a surprising
number of conversions And last
but, not least the fact that many
Jewish refugees are not registering
as Jews.
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CHARACTER AND GENIUS are
often unrelated in a writer. The
two most recent Nobel Prize win-
ners in literature, the Frenchman
Andre Gide and the American-born
poet T. S. Eliot are outspoken anti-
P. J. Biron
Semites. So was Knut Hamsun, the
Scandinavian Nobel Prize winner of many years ago
who in the last war joined the Ilitlerites .. • Which
reminds us that Jean Paul Sartre—whose recent book
against anti-Semitism is so courageous—is a
reaction-
ary in politics,
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Even th e Zio
TWO HUNDRED SIXTY CARS of Jewish books anti-Semi tes.nist organizations were under fire by the
stolen by the Nazis from libraries and private homes
in Poland have found their way to Ametica. It seems
Lately, however, since the Zionists no longer are
that about half a million volumes were shipped to
allied with the British official circles in South Africa,
Germany. When the American Military Administration
anti-Zionism is on the decline. Jewish life as a whole
discovered these books, it sent them to a number of
is extremely jittery these days in South Africa,
the
Jewish institutions in the states. •
worst spot according to world travellers ...
Now the Polish government, in behalf of the Central
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Jewish Committee in Poland, is demanding the return
IS
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true
that
Menachem
Beigin, time former com-
of this cultural Jewish treasure. But certain American
mander of the Irgun now in this country, held off-the-
Jewish institutions of higher learning are refusing to
record conferences with the U.S. State Department
give these books back •
and
the Secretary of Defense? And is it true that at these
conferences Beigin promised—in the vent his
Free-
THE PRESS is keeping silent about the ominous in- dom Party would win the elections—
-that he would
crease of anti-Semitism in South Africa. The Malan guarantee military bases to the U.S., not Britain,
in
government has passed restrictive legislation_
the Negev?
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Off the Record
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U. S. Contradictory, Favors
Partition, Bernadotte Plan
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
YOU CAN figure out the
press reports about what is go-
ing on at Paris regarding Pales-
tine you are a lot smarter than
many people I know.
On the one hand the U. S.
delegation gives mouth service to
President Truman's pronounce-
ment against • territorial changes
except with Israel's consent and
on the other it lends itself to the
British-conceived Bernadotte plan
which would deprive the new
State of the territory granted it
by the original partition decision,
On . the one hand we urge in-
ternational recognition of Israel
and its admission to the UN and
en the other we deny Israel the
internationally-established rights
et the victor.
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Hayint Grade, Yiddish poet,
The partition decision and the
Bernadotte scheme are poles
apart. They negate each other
sharply in every respect.
Truman and Bevin, on the ba-
sis of their statements, stand for
different things. Yet the U.S.
k delegation seems to be supporting
a formula aimed at synthesizing
what to the simplest of us must
seem irreconcilable.
Jewish Book Month program,
Dec. 12 at the Jewish Center.
He will discuss Jewish liter-
ature in Europe and report on
the International Conference of
Jewish Writers he attended in
October.
The program will include dra-
matic readings of Yiddish stories
and musical selections b local
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Of Jewish
books will be on display in the
lobby.
artists. An exhibit
Sponsor of the event, is ' the
Joint Yiddish Culture Commit-
tee, a cooperative body composed
of representatives from the Jew-
ish Center and Jewish Commun-
ity Council. J. Rosenshine and I.
Zetnel are time chairmen.
Admission will be 65 cents at
the door or 35 cents if purchased
through organizations. For infor-
mation call organizational presi-
dents or the Council, Cll. 1657. ,
The Chronicle is Detroit's dem
ocratic Jewish newspaper.
YIDDISH FOR SLAWSON
DR. JOHN SLAWSON of the
American Jewish Committee is
studying Hebrew and Yiddish
Dr. S. Margoshes is authority for
the information that Dr. Sidney
Marks of the ZOA is not only an
authority on jurisprudence but on
poetry as well. In fact the for-
mer professor of law writes
poetry . . . Yiddish was the of-
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ficial language at the recent JDC
MORE DOUBLE TALK
Paris conference. JDC's Euro-
ON THE ONE hand we refuse pean Director,
Dr. Joseph
to stamp the seal of aggression Schwartz, chaired the
conference
is the Arab states which invaded in a rich and juicy Yiddish . . .
foreign territory in defiance of The fastest romance in the
his-
the UN and on the other we lend tory of the ZOA belongs to Tehil-
Ourselves to proposals calling lah Feinerman, secretary
to Dr.
Israel the aggressor in the event S. Bernstein. She met the gen-
It refuses to yield territory it
won in battle or chooses to reject
as unjust settlement. Words seem
to be taking on different mean-
ings at Paris.
Poet to Speak
at Book Program
will be the principal speaker at a
building a house with bricks
while simultaneously demolishing
it with mortar.
It is like prescribing medicine
and cyanide simultaneously to an
ailing person. It is like saving a
man from falling with a rope
and simultaneously cutting the
rope in the middle.
In a word—it is' a travesty, a
crime, and, above all, dishonest.
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Bank Organizer
IF
Mass meetings featuring anti-Semitic speakers are
a daily occurrence in Johannesberg and Cape
Town.
LEONARD N. SIMONS, of the
advertising firm of Simons-
Michelson and prominent civic
leader, has joined the group of
organizers of the City Bank
which will open in January in
the Penobscot Bldg. Besides his
activity as an officer of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation and as a
leader in the Allied Jewish
Campaign, Simons is vice-pres-
ident of the Detroit Historical
Commission, trustee of the Na-
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis and a member of the
advisory committee for Wayne
University. Simons is a mem-
ber of Temple Beth El.
tleman at the famous Cafe Royal
in New York on a Thursday, an-
nounced her engagement on Fri-
legislate out of existence the
day, and became Mrs. Elberg a
stereotyped ntiptial sermons,
few days later . . . Tehillah,
weddings could really become
whose English translation of Yal
the treat they are meant to be.
Peretz's "Three Canopies" was
If we are to believe a certain
acclaimed by many critics, has
Indianapolis Rabbi half of the
been commissioned by Alfred A.
5,000,000 Jews in the U.S. will
Knopf, publisher, to translate a
novel from the Hebrew by Mo-
she Shamir, the first Palestine-
born novelist.
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SENSE AND NONSENSE
RABBIS IN MINNESOTA will
no longer officiate at weddings
A WORLD TRAVESTY
held outside the home or Syna-
gogue. The imposition of the
TO MAKE _both the partition
ban by the Minnesota Rabbinical
decision and the Bernadotte plan
Association strikes us as a good
as a basis for settlement is like
dea. If the Rabbis would only
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have become assimilated in 25
years, and the existence of Israel
will make the assimilative proc-
ess the easier for the deserters.
This dire prediction tempts us
to paraphrase a certain journalis-
tic adage. When a Rabbi speaks
of Jewish survival and continu-
ity he does what is expected of
him but when he becomes a
prophet of doom and perdition he
has his eyes on the newspaper
headlines.
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