744.4 17, 1942;
THE JEWISH. NEWS
Palm 6911.
Henrietta Szold's 'Post' Is Sued
Streicher Loses Women's Congress
By Stockholder
Life Began at 60 PHILADELPHIA (JPS) — George Gauleiter Post Rally on Monday
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04 COMMENTARY
E. Wanderman ,of New York, owner
A Review of Her Life and of 50 shares of stock of the Sat-
urday Evening Post, entered suit
Letters, Edited by
for an injunction against the heads
Marvin Lowenthal
and editors of the weekly publica-
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
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By FANNY
IN THEIR PARENTS'
FOOTSTEPS
Don't let anyone tell you that
our young people are not devoted
to Jewish causes. Look at the rec-
ord. make a study of the young
leadership, and ycu will find that
many of the rising stars on the
Jewish firmament are young people
with splendid backgrounds and
family traditions for Jewish inter-
ests. The Warburgs.„ and the Ro-
senwalds and the Marshalls are
not the only shining lights.
Look in on the office of the
Council for Democracy on West
42nd Street in New York. Yeti will
find. in responsible jobs, young
people with well-known names.
There is Miss Sara M. Lamport,
the daughter of the late Samuel C.
Lamport. who is dedicating herself
to the task of spreading the demo-
cratic ideal. Then there is Ray-
mond S. Rubinow, son of the late
Dr. leitac M. Rubinow, who was in
his day one of the outstanding so-
cial workers in America.
Anti to top it off, Marshall • D.
Shulman, the Executive Vice-Presi-
dent of Council for Democracy—a
very responsible job for a very
young man—hails from a promi-
nent midwestern family. His par-
ents, the Harry M. Shulmans of
Detroit, are active in many fields,
and one of the best-known mem-
bers of this family was the late
Max Shulman of Chicago.
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OUR JEWISH WARRIORS
Samuel H. Abramson of the Jew-
ish Section of the Interfaith Com-
mittee for Aid to the Democracies
has compiled some interesting fig-
ures. Jewish names, he show - , are
very conspicuous in the Canadian
forces. The Cohens are especially
prominent. So are the Goldbergs
and the Friedmans and the Green-
bergs—and also the Abramscens,
about which our research man
boas tx.--
More amazing, however, is the
following observation made by Mr.
Abramson.
"Close study of the lists revealed
other interesting information. For
instance, there are two Jewish boys
in the army named RIFLE, and
one named GUNN. There are alsc
a number of Jewish soldiers, sailors
and airmen who bear such flee old
Jewish names as Chapman, Collins,
Cameron, Campbell, Clapham,
Chambers, Costello, Cripps, Evans,
Hillier, Hyde, James, Jolley, Joff-
rey, Keene. Kerr, King. Leighton,
Livermore, Marshall, Moore, Mor-
gan and Thomson. But the real
gems are the names Donavan
Thornclick, Albert James Windsor,
Robert Christensen and Hugh Jar-
Vs Bedell, all borne by brave Jews
wearing his Majesty's uniform."
Which suggest that the study of
Jewish participation in the war be
supplemented with a sociological
study of name-changing and name-
adoption by Jews.
The English can perhaps tell an
even more interesting tale. During
the early days of the war it was
difficult to ascertain the number
of Jews in the British military
forces, because so many cf our
boys were afraid lest they run
into trouble if caught prisoners
by the Nazis. Today the story is
entirely different, and there is a
spirit of confidence and courage
that surpasses all previous records.
R. ADLERSTEIN
Just as, in the 'minds of most
people, the name of Freud is sy-
nonymous with psychoanalysis, and
the name of Edison with the elec-
tric light, so the name of Henrietta
Szold signifies Hadassah. Yet, bow
many know that Henrietta Szold
was in her sixtieth year when she
began the great adventure of her
life—the task of formulating and
directing American medical aid in
Palestine? And how many know
that, had she followed the advice
Won to demand the discontinuance
of its "anti-government, isolationist
policy." He declared that the policies
hitherto pursued were harmful to
the interests of over 25,000 stock-
holders,
The article by Milton Mayer, "The
Case Against the Jew", was cited
as typical of the offensive policies.
As a result of holding Jews up to
"ridicule and contempt", Mr. Wan-
derman contends, good will has been
lost in circulation and advertising.
she engaged in several extraneous
activities, among them serving as
the Baltimore correspondent of the
New York Jewish Messenger, one
of the earliest Anglo-Jewish papers
in America.
Henrietta Szold's first significant
contribution to the social structure
of Baltimore began in 1889 when,
following the influx into Baltimore
of large numbers of Rieesian immi-
1
grants from the violence and star-
vation caused by the notorious
May Laws of 1882, she founded a
MISS HENRIETTA SZOLD
of her doctor and retired to some
rural retreat at the age of sixty,
she would yet have been known as
one of the most eminent women of
her time—an educator, a scholar,
a social worker?
Few women of our or any other
generation have lived as full a life
as Henrietta Szold, and even fewer
have reached the age of 82 in so
vigorous and mentally youthful a
state. In "Henrietta Szold—Life
and Letters," (Viking Press, $3.00)
Marvin Lowenthal has carefully
followed the professional and per-
sonal career of a purposeful, warm-
hearted and capable woman. He
has succeeded, by means of skill- .
fully selected excerpts from her
humorous letters to family . and
friends, and by clean-cut, unsenti-
mental narrative, in giving us a
full-length portrait.
AT LINCOLN . FUNERAL
Henrietta Szold's earliest mem-
ory is that of being raised on her
father's shoulders so that she
might peer through the window of
the family home on Eutaw St. in
Baltimore to see. the funeral pro-
cession of Abraham Lincoln. She
was 4 at the time.
From her father's teachings, and
through the conclusions reached by
her own nimble brain, Henrietta
learned that Judaism was a way
of life.
Following her graduation from
Western Female High School, Hen-
rietta returned to the school as a
teacher. Within a brief period, and
for 15 years thereafter, she taught
at the Misses Adams' school, a
private institution.
CORRESDONDENT, TEACHER
Never one to be content with
less than 16 hours of work a day,
GENEVA (JPS) —Further evi-
dence that Julius Streicher, No. 1
anti-Semitic in Germany after his
master Hitler, is no longer in the
good graces of the Third Reich,
is the fact that he has been re-
placed as Gauleiter of Franconia,
Bavaria. His successor is Hans
Zimmerman, the Nuremberger Zei-
tung reported.
gift from the ,directors of the Jew-
ish Publication Society enabled her
to extend it to Palestine. This was
the journey, in Mr. Lowenthal's
words, "to a world where all the
paths of life joined into one road,
a steep, rocky and tortuous road,
but this time a road without end."
HER FIELD IN ZION .
Writing to a friend from Jerusa-
lem she spoke of its beauty, interest
and problems. With what we may
now regard as pleasing irony, she
added: "If I were 20 years younger,
I would feel that my field is here."
It was not until she was 11 years
older that she actually went forth
to claim and till her "field."
When, in 1920, she finally
reached Palestine, she found "a
poor, hard land rendered poorer
and harder by the World War. A
sizeable Jewish immigration had
barely got under way, and the ring
night school for them. The first
term, 30 pupils registered. And, Mr.
Lowenthal tells us, "as superin-
tendent, teaching staff and jani-
tor, Henrietta Szold opened the of pick and crow-bar was beginning
stony hillsides
night school—among the pioneers to be heard on the
and the scrunch of shovels in the
of its kind in America."
swamps:" She had been sent to act
as representative of the Zionist
A PIONEER ZIONIST
As a member of the Hebras Zion Organization of America on the
of Baltimore, Henrietta •Szold was Executive Committee of the Ameri-
part of what was probably the first can Medical Unit to Palestine.
Zionist society created in the
After she passed her 60th birth-
United States. Indeed, three years day, she began to take pride in her
were to pass (the Hebras Zion was spryness. "What do you think," she
founded in 1893) before Herzl pub- wrote a member of her family from
lished The Jewish State, a call that Jerusalem, "of my going on a
summoned political Zionism into donkey ride of two hours one way
organized being.
and nearly three hours back? „ . .
"When Zionism converted me The next morning I was at my
desk at seven, while my 'young'
to itself," said Miss Szold in one
of her early propaganda talks, "I companions hobbled to the hospital
frankly confess I did not go at nine for their day's work."
through the whole list of objec-
tions, possible and actual, that
anti-Zionists raised . against it,
and refute them to myself. I be-
came converted to Zionism the
very moment I realized that it
supplied by bruised, torn and
bloody nation, my distracted na-
tion, with an ideal—an ideal is
balm to the self-inflicted wounds
and to the wounds inflicted by
others; an ideal that can be em-
braced by all, no matter what
their attitude may be to other
Jewish questions."
Strangely enough, although Miss
Szold's attraction to Zionism was
heartfelt and sincere, 17 years
were to elapse before she set her-
meeting. Mrs. William Gottesman,
program chairman, is in charge of
arrangements for the day.
All I have seen teaches me to
trust the Creator for all I have
not seen.—Emerson.
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When, in 1923, Henrietta Szold
returned to America for family
reasons, the Zionist Medical Unit
was transformed and enlarged into 1 .6
the Hadassah Medical Organiza-
tion. In its behalf she made re-
Just call
peated trips to Palestine. In 1927, 44
she was elected one of the three
TRINITY 2-3344
members of the Palestine Execu-
tive Committee of the World Zion-
ist Organization—the first woman
out, "Henrietta Szold's Zionist seat on the executive committee of
writings as a whole are evidence the National Assembly at Palestine,
theoretically the self - government
that she never was exclusively a
BECOMES SECRETARY OF
PUBLICATION SOCIETY
Mrs. Nathan Spevakow, president
of the Detroit Women's Division of
the American Jewish Congress, an-
nounce,s that the following wemen
have bee nasked to serve as host-
esses at an open meeting at which
Mrs. Archibald Silverman of ProVi-
dence, R. I., member of the lbw-
cutive Council of the American Jew-
ish Congress, will be guest speak-
er, in the Colonnade Room, Masonic
Temple, Monday, April 20, at 2
P. M.:
Mrs. Samuel Singer, chairman;
Mesdames Irving B. Dworman,
Philip Slomovitz. Lawrence Crohn,
Jacob Harvith, Abe Rosenberg, Wil-
liam Roth, A, A. Davidson, Maz
Dushkin, Joseph H. Ehrlich, Adolph
Ehrlich, Jacob Schreier, John Gold-
en, William London, A. M. Hersh-
man, Morris Adler, Saul Levin,
Joshua Sperka, Morris HendeLson,
Fred Bond, Max Kogan, Perry
Burnstine, David Sheraga, Benja-
min Laikin M. S.. Perlis, Louis Glas-
ier, Robert Drews, Daniel Siegel,
Arnold Frank, Max Frank. Maurice
Landau, Dr. Clarissa Fineberg and
Miss Mary Caplan.
A subscription luncheon will be
tendered to Mrs. Silverman by the
board of directors preceding the
IN PALESTINE FOR GOOD
ever to serve in this capacity.
In 1931, she returned to Palestine
And yet, as her biographer points for good, having been offered a
nationalist or a religionist in her
Jewish philosophy. Even before she
knew his point of view, she was
close to Ahad Ha'am in proclaim-
ing herself a Zionist primarily for
cultural reasons in their broadest
sense."
Mrs. Archibald Silverman
Will Be the Guest Speaker;
Hostesses Named
$ for a
Bonded Messenger
$
of Palestine Jewry. Here she first
task was to organize the Keneset
Israel—union of Jewish communi-
ties of Palestine. The process was
a difficult one, but she made much
progress.
Henrietta Szold is in Palestine
today—revered, consulted and still
active in many phases of social and
educational work. More than any-
one else, she scoffs at the tributes
which are paid her, but carries on
in the "way of life" which is, to her,
true Judaism.
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IN THE FISHER BUILDING.
(Copyright 1942 by Seven Arts
Zion.
Feature Syndicate)
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which had been founded five years
earlier. She held the post for 23 -5_
he had no key with which to open
the loc: - .ed doer. "What would you
do if there were a fire?" Zorach
asked. "I would not be able to go
to it." Boruch replied.
Which indicates that the South
African Jews even in the midst of years.
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In the summer of 1909—she was
war have not lost their sense of
nearly 50—her life had changed.
humor.
TWO DELIGHTFUL STORIES
(Copyright 1942 by Independent Together with her mother she em-
We are indebted to Hamabit,
barked on a European tour, and a
Jewish Press Service)
columnist for the Zionist Record
of Johannesburg, South Africa, for
two charming stories.
One is a true tale about an Aus-
tralian officer Who loaned his, car
to a Jewish woman on her way to
a maternity ward in Palestine. He
made a condition: if a boy, he was
to be named Victor, if a girl, she
was to be Victoria. It turned out
to be Victor—and there was no
end to the gifts with which the
baby was showered by the Austra-
lian officers and soldiers in Pales-
tine.
The other .story has a Chelmer
touch. Zoracli called on his friend
Boruch but the latter would not
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