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SEYMOUR TILCIIIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
Friday, January 21, 1949 (Teveth 20, 5709)
Vol. 51, No. 3
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Dexter Mourns Two Firemen
Collections are going on among residents
on Dexter for a fund to help the wives
and families of the two firemen who died
in the tragic fire at Dexter and Monterey.
We hope that everyone in the area will
respond. It is a splendid example of neigh-
borliness and shows how much Jewish resi-
dents were moved by the heroism of the
fire fighters who sacrificed their lives on
duty.
ish social organizations.
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DETROIT 26, Mich.
In the 25 years that Rabbi Moses Fischer
was spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai
Moshe, the Synagogue rose from obscurity
to become one of the leading congregations
of the city. Many orthodox institutions, na-
tional and local, have benefited from Rabbi
Fischer's devotion and labor. Today, though
he is in semi-retirement, Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah considers itself honored that he
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continues to remain as chairman of its
No Reversal in Soviet
board of education, and Young Israel finds
great delight and edification from his pe-
The report of the closing of the Jewish
riodical lectures. On Wednesday, Rabbi anti-fascist committee of Moscow together
Fischer will be 70 years of age, the Bib- with its official publication, "Einigkeit" is
lical three score and ten. - All Detroit Jewry, alarming. For, if the report is true in all
we know, rises with us to wish the venerable its particulars, the whole of Jewish social
scholar and teacher many more joyous and cultural activities in the Soviet Union
years of fruitful labors. May his wit and except those of the Synagogue, have been
vigor remain undiminished as he continues suspended. . . . The Soviet government,is
to incite the unending stream of respect still one of the staunchest supporters of
and affection that his learning and his hu- Israel in the United Nations, but its atti-
man qualities have evoked through the ,tude towards Zionism outside Israel is no
years.
longer what it was. -The dissolution of the
Jewish anti-fascist committee is doubtless a
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part of this new general policy. It certainly
is not an insignificant incident as Jewish
Oscar Cohen to Leave
Communists are attempting to have us be-
The announcement that Oscar Cohen had lieve. But similarly, the attempt of the
resigned his position as executive director Jewish anti-Communists to describe the
of the Jewish Community Council came as change as a fundamental reversal of policy
somewhat of a shock to us. We had com- on the part of the Soviet, government to-
placently assumed that he would remain in wards the Jewish problem as a whole, and
Detroit for many years; but after consid- particularly towards anti-Semitism, is also
ering it, we can understand why a com- pure propaganda. The Soviet opposition to
munal worker with his vigor and integrity anti-Semitism is too deeply-rooted in Com-
could not long stay on as director. As things munist philosophy to be changed without
go here, the Community Council is the tail changing the entire regime. It is as funda-
of the big kite, the Jewish Welfare Federa- mental.a principle of the Soviet ideology as
tion. The Council must go to the Federation the abolition of private property in the
to beg for its funds, and because it hasn't means of production and distribution. Un-
shown the leadership and the courage to less Soviet Russia changes its entire regime
stand up for its rights, the Council has and goes fascist, it will not change its
been forced to knuckle to the Federation policy towards anti-Semitism. It is simply
and see the purse strings organization usurp vicious on the part of the professional Jew-
many of its prerogatives. Today, it is the ish anti-Communists to utilize this incident
Federation which is the authoritative yoke as a sign of rising anti-Semitism in Soviet
of the Jewish community and not the Russia.
Council. Instead of democracy we have
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oligarchy, purse-proud leadership and do-
DP
Bill
Changes Due ,
minion by the professionals. How long
Proof that President Tillman is keeping
could a man with Cohen's ability and self-
respect be expected to play second-fiddle on his election promises was contained in the
speech of Senator Mathew Neely of West
a purse string?
Virginia at the conference of the United
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Service for New Americans, The senator
spoke on the new DP bill which is sure to
Yiddish Art Theater
be introduced into Congress and which will
The Yiddish Art Theater is observing contain most of the clauses advocated by
its 30th anniversary. The Yiddish Press liberals. According to Senator Neely, the
devotes much space to Maurice Schwartz discriminatory sections of the 1948 DP
and to the struggle of this fine artist and measure will be eliminated and the num-
stubborn man for the cause of good Yid- ber of immigrants to be admitted will be
dish drama. But most of the writers agree 400,000 instead of the present 205,000.
that the Yiddish stage is in a precarious
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position and that if Schwartz were to
All DP's Screened
withdraw from the theater for some reason,
Lt. Col. Jerry Sage's speech at the USNA
there would be no decent Yiddish theater
in the U. S. For nowhere else is the dis- conference helped to puncture a propaganda
integration of Yiddish more visible than on bubble which had found much currency in
the Yiddish stage. It is no secret that most the Jewish press of late—that is that most
of the so-called Yiddish stage productions non-Jewish DP's who are being 'admitted
outside the Art Theater consist of vulgar- under the present bill are fascists. The
isms which would not have been permitted colonel, speaking for the American armyr
on the Bowery burlesque stages even 50 warned against this hysterical exaggeration.
All DP's coming to the U. S. are being
years ago.
carefully screened and as many as 10
percent of the applicants have been re-
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jected because of their former fascist af-
Acheson Friend of Israel
filiation, he pointed out.
There is good reason to hope that Israel
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will receive a better deal in the State De-
Agencies
Corn pete
partment. The new secretary, Dean Ache-
The American Jewish Committee has
son, is not expected to look at foreign pol-
icy with Secretary Marshall's eyes. The shown convincingly that 75,000 Jews in
general thought of it in terms of military Egypt have been the victims of a reign of
strategy; Acheson is expected to let equity terror which has deprived them of their
also have its say. A disciple of the late rights, property and freedom. The report
Justice Brandeis and of Justice Frankfurter was well-documented and accompanied by
and a friend of Ben Cohen, his sympathies photostats of recent decrees and newspaper
for Israel have been warm. The departure articles attacking Jews. The World Jewish
of Undersecretary Lovett, who was not a Congress recently issued a White Paper
friend of Israel, will also materially affect which contained most of these accusations
the poliey of the department. On. the and many others about Jews living in all
whole, the career men who always locked Arab countries, not only in Egypt. This is
on Britain as their mentor, will not be al- a graphic illustration of the needless du-
lowed to prevail as often as they have in plication and competition going on in Jew-
abe past.
Friday, Jaintary 21, 1941
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Hungary's Jews Fear
End of Red Regime
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
(Jewish World News Service)
NEW YORK—The Labor Zionist Committee for Relief and Reha-
bilitation has received a letter from Hungary which tells mare
about the life of the 180,000 Jews who live in Hungary today than
do many official and unofficial re-
ports and newspaper eorrespond- of the Jewish population in Hun-
ence.
gary.
The letter came from a Labor-
Zionist underground worker and
EMIGRATION SLOWED
was addressed to Louis Segal,
"THERE ARE STILL 185,000
chairman of the committee. It re-
veals details about the life of the Jews in Hungary, 120,000 living
country which is now undergoing in the capital. Jews of rural sec-
a process of nationalization of tions are migrating continualit y
most of its industries and bus- to Budapest where they feel saf-
iness enterprises. But more im- er. As their economic situation was
portant from the Jewish point of good until a few months ago, emi-
view, are the facts about Jewish gration and "Aliyah" were rath-
er insignificant.
life in that country.
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"At the present, thousands of
Jews are ready to go to Israel
HISTORY REPEATS
ACCORDING to the correspond- but moat of them do not want to
ent, the history of a generation leave their possessions. The new
ago is repeating in Hungary now. economic laws which have just
Hungary in general, and _Hungar- appeared will entail that about
ian Jews in particular, are living 20,000 Jewish families will lose
through once more a period like their economical base within two
that of the early Twenties, under or three months. More than 100
Hungarian Jews at the average
the regime of Bela Kun.
"Anti-Semitism is stronger than arrive daily in Vienna, having
ever," the correspondent says. crossed the 'green' border at their
The hew regime is very much own risk.
hated by the population as a
"Some 2,000 Hungarian Jews
whole because many of the im- were allowed to go to Israel sev-
portant offices are held by the eral months ago but when a' new
Jews. The general belief is that quota was asked for now, it was
the small Jewish minority takes refused. Individual emigration is
too large a share in the ruling of not entirely prohibited, but pose-
the country, even bigger than in ports are refused to persons be-
Poland.
tween 20 and 30 years of age and
"Nobody knows exact figures, to skilled laborers and other pro-
but much more than half of all fessions needed for the develop-
important offices in the state and ment of the national economy of
the party are held by Jews or by the state."
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nun-Jewish officials having Jew-
ish wives, or are believed - to be
ZIONISM
GROWS
of Jewish origin.
THE CORRESPONDENT tells
"The reason is that the Com-
munist party was always very of the remarkable growth of the
small and Jews were the driving Zionist movement in Hungary
force within it. These facts are now, but warns that this is due
of course known to the public and to the fact that people hope te
the Jews are made responsible escape from the country and from
for everything going wrong. Ev- the regime by registering as Zion-
erybody knows that, if a day of ists.
political change would come, it
On the whole economic condi-
would mean physical extinction tion: are getting worse daily.
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Congress Women to Devote
Sessions to Israeli Election
"Political Parties in Israel" will
be the subject of "Information
Please" programs to be held
Monday at all chapter study
group meetings of the Detroit
Women's Division, American
Jewish Congress.
The sessions are under the di-
rection of education chairmen,
Mesdames harry Frank, David
Vogel, Benjamin Paxton, Max
Saidman and Dan Shapiro, and
will take place in the following
homes:
SOUTH: Mrs. Irwin Meyers,
2075 Glynn court. Dessert lunch-
eon at 1:15 p.m.
CENTRAL: Mrs. Max Bonin,
3205 Monterey avenue. Dessert
luncheon at 1:15 p.m.
NORTHEAST: Mrs. Harold
Nelson, 20236 Wakefield. Lunch-
eon at 12:30 p.m.
NORTHWEST: Mrs. Arnold
Frank, 18039 Woodingham
Dessert luncheon at 1:15 p.m.