Friday, Deeember 3, I948 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page Three Strictly Confidential Intermarriage Cuts U. S. Jewish Population • f S 3 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. • • 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, • * * 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 • Jewish Committee in Poland, is demanding the return IS IT 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? • • Off the Record • 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. 1 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 * 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- • • • 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. * • • 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. • • • 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 • • • 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. -- • I. - - • A Treat U Can't Miss The World C A N T 0 R Famous INCHIK In Grand Concert Plus a supporting cast of superb artists SUN., DEC. 19, 8:30p .m. Northwest Hebrew Cong. and Center Captain Yaakov Wayland.I. Hero of Israeli Army ... Commander of Israeli forces of the Negba (in the Negev) where twenty attacks by superior Egyptian Army were repulsed. 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