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Purely
Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

THE JEWISH NEWS

Quotation of the Week

"One of the tests of a people's civilization is its capacity to treat
well a defined minority. To fail in this is to revert to the ethics of the
wolf-pack; and to succeed is the evidence of moral stability."

—The Archbishop of Canterbury.

(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)

Friday, March 5, 1943

Between
You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic

Strictly
Confidential

Agency, Inc.)
SHOLOM ALEICHEM RECREATED
A generation that knew not Sholom
AMONG DIPLOMATS
Aleichem suddenly finds itself in posses-
It can now be stated -definitely that
sion of a great literary gem. American
the United Nations do not intend to ap-
Jews whose Yiddish is limited to a few
proach Hitler with a request that he re-
commonplace words and phrases, or
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
lease the Jews of Nazi Europe . . Var-
By DAVID DEUTSCH
know nothing at all of the language,
(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
ious motives are given privately in Lon-
have been presented with a great treas-
Syndicate)
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
don to Jewish leaders there "explaining"
ure in the form of the Knopf-published
Jewish Press Service)
why such a bold challenge to Hitler is
"The World of Sholom Aleichem" by YOU SHOULD KNOW
not possible at the present time . . .
Maurice Samuel.
Father Coughlin will be heard over the WAR FRONT
In a sense, this charming story is a air again ere long ... Arrangements have
The movement to make Irving Berlin JeWish organizations will be interested
book review. It explains and evaluates been completed for him to make a week- the second civilian recipient of the Con- to learn that the U. S. Government is
the writings of Sholom Aleichem. In ly broadcast to be carried by 165 stations, gressional Medal of Honor, the first being now canvassing the various Govern-
another sense, it is the biography of the located mostly in Mexico and South the late George M. Cohan, is gaining mo- ments-in-Exile on their views regarding
great Jewish humorist. But in an even America . . . And, strange though it may mentum, with the revelation that at least . the post-war treatment of national mi-
larger sense, it is the psychological study seem, Coughlin's hierarchic superiors are $5,000 ; 000 will accrue to the Army Relief norities in their countries . . . Which
of an entire civilization which stood in said to view ,with great favor this ven- Fund from the one-time singing waiter's comes at a time when private reports
continue to reach this country that anti-
danger of being completely forgotten by ture into "good neighborly" activity.
"This Is the Army." Modest Berlin is Semitism is raising its ugly head
those to whom Yiddish is a strange lan-
said to have done most to whip up public the Poles in London . • . One of among
these
Editor's Note: The. Jewish News is
guage. Maurice Samuel's book uncovers
sentiment against Berlin.
reports states that the anti-Jewish spirit
reliably informed that the Coughlin
this civilization, with its poverty and
Reproached for having introduced the in the ranks of the Polish Army in Eng-
broadcasts in South American coun- .
sufferings, its sturdy Jewish loyalties and
controversial resolution on Palestine as land has reached a point where
tries will be in Spanish. This ex-
Jew
martyrdom, for view by those who might
his first act as president of the American serving in the Polish forces is a a real
plains why the Royal Oak Priest has
have forgotten, or might never have
Jewish Committee, Joseph M. Proskauer martyr . . . And Jews in Palestine do
been sponsoring classes in Spanish at
not
learned, the significance of generations of
insists that he submitted it first to lead-
seem to feel too happy over the appoint-
the Shrine of the Little Flower. The
ing officials in. the State Department and
toil and devotion by the Jews of Russia
ment by the Polish Government of its
Jewish News is also informed on
get their approval. Could it have been
and Poland and the Ukraine to keep
new Consul-General there, one of the
good authority. that Father Coughlin
Wallace Murray, noted pro-Arab aide in
alive the flame of Jewishness and retain
Polish diplomats who was declared per-
is not returning to the air in this
the State Department?
the spark of life in the Jewish bodies
sona non-grata by the American Govern-
country, contrary to reports to this
.
The
Zionists
and
even
the
anti-Zionists
that were threatened by adversaries and
ment and had to leave Washington on
effect
now
being
circulated
in
the
are
all
in
a
dither
because
of
the
adver-
untold tragic conditions.
that account.
east.
tising activities of the Committee for a
THE GENIUS OF MAURICE SAMUEL
Zionist leaders in America are im-
Silliest suggestion we're heard in a Jewish Army, which has expanded its
It took the genius of Maurice Samuel
pressed
with a statement made privately
program
to
take
in
everything
that
con-
to create this splendid work. This bril- long time proposes that after the war all
liant writer and linguist knows the spirit Nazis be compelled to wear sleevebands cern,s. Jews. Its ad to help Jews out of by Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov
of his people and understands the his- bearing the letter N in analogy to the J Rumania for $50 a piece is said to have that he sees no reason why Jews should
torical implications of the last century the Nazis make Jews wear throughout gotten a $50,000 response . . . The New not have Palestine as a Jewish State.
The Mexican Government has appoint-
in the life of our people: His re-creation occupied Europe . . . Since when are we Zionist Organization, the Revisionist-
of Sholom Eleichem is therefore a biog- supposed to adopt Hitler's methods Zionist outfit which has been keeping in ed a Jew as its honorary consul for Pal-
the background while its front, the Com- estine . . . He is Eliahu Mani, a Palestine-
against any one, even his followers?
raphy of East European Jewry.
Dr. Preston Bradley, , the Chicago mittee for a Jewish Army, carried the born barrister who studied law in Eng-
This work must have come very nat-
urally to Mr. Samuel. He loves" the hu- clergyman who is unquestionably the ball, now feels that it is respectable to land and was admitted to the bar there.
mor of the Ghetto, and no one could most popular radio broadcaster in the show its own face and many more full-
have caught the spirit of Sholom Alei- Midwestern area, has come out in no un- page ads, fathered by Al Strelsin, the ad- RESCUE NOTES
chem better than this genius of the certain terms against the hush-hush pol- vertising tycoon looking for something to
President Roosevelt, we learn, has
icy of a certain type of Jewish leadership. put his energy into, will now carry the
public platform and the printed word.
taken a personal interest in the report
Equally as important is Mr. Samuel's . . . In a recent broadcast he warned his New Zionist Organization label. But anti- that Rumania is allegedly ready to per-
ability to fall into the spirit of Sholom large audience that Hitlerism may come Zionists attack the regular Zionist Orga- mit 70,000 Jews to leave trans-Dniestrian
Aleichem's humor. Without it his work to prevail even without Hitler unless do- nization for misleading advertising and internment camps for any place of refuge
the Zionists attack the New Zionists for providing $200 is paid for each Jew . .
would have been a failure.
mestic Fascism is fought openly.
the same thing . . . The Jews might listen The State Department is now trying to
CEMETERIES AND HUMOR
GRAPEVINE TENDRILS
Even with dealing with the cemetery,
Germany's black market, through to James Byrne's dictum: Let's stop fight- verify this report . . . The British Gov-
the Beth Olam or The Eternal House as which well-to-do Nazis can buy all the ing each other and fight the common
ernment, too, is making an effort to es-
tablish the authenticity of the offer which
a "national fixation" (as Samuel de- luxuries—and even necessities—that are enemy.
is doubted by many . . . It is very pos-
scribes it), • Sholom Aleichem rose to denied the rest of Europe's people, is RED FRONT
great heights. Maurice Samuel relates strictly a family affair, the operators of
New York Yiddishists are squabbling sible that by the time these lines are
in his great book the classic Sholom. that black market being Nazi soldiers about the difference between praising the published the exact truth and purpose
Aleichem story of the young Jew about who have managed to bring home loot Red Army and giving aid to local Com- of this report will be clear .. . Cyrus L.
to be conscripted into the army who is from the occupied countries.
munists . . . Each of the big Yiddish Sulzberger, London correspondent of the
addressed by a friend "with the following
Could it be possible that the J. H. Carp dailies has a different angle on the sub- N. Y. Times who reported the alleged
exhortation to cheerfulness":
whom the Gestapo just appointed chief- ject, which has become the basis of a cir- Rumanian offer, was approached by in-
terested Jewish, organizations which
tain. of .8.11 cultural activities in the Neth- culation war . . . Most violent agitators
"There's really nothing to be de-
erlands is identical with the famous against the Reds are the radical Bundists, asked that he disclose the source of his
pressed about, if you consider the
information . . . He has so far refused
Spinoza scholar—who, we believe, is non- the Polish Jewish immigrants who have
chances sensibly. You're being taken
Aryan?
into the army! Well, one of two
imported into New York the peculiar to do so, declaring that this might prej-
udice his chances of getting further news
READER'S GUIDE
things will happen: either there's a
outlook on life they had in Poland . . .
We hope ex-Ambassador Joseph E. Still hating Zionists, they charge the lat- from the same source on the same sub-
war or there isn't. If there isn't, what
ject . . . Meanwhile, the Committee for
Davies doesn't mind our pointing out a ter with "fraternizing" with the Reds, al-
have you to worry about? But even
a Jewish Army is cashing in on this re-
minor error we just caught in his "Mis- though the Zionists are the ones who
suppose you're sent to the front,
sion to Moscow," which we have just re- should be the first to complain, since port . . . The appeal which this group
one of two things will happen: either
read in the new 1943 Pocket Book edi- their folk are still under ban in the So- made to the non-Jewish world through
you'll be wounded or you won't. If
tion . . . We herewith inform Mr. Davies viet Union . . . The strange quirk often its sensational advertisement "Jews for
you're not, what is there to worry
that Mrs. Maxim Litvinov is not the sis- exhibited among Jews that prevents Sale" implying that for $50 one can save
about? But even suppose you're
ter of his old friend Sir Sidney Low of them from taking an objective view of a Jew in Rumania, is bringing in checks
wounded, one of two things will
London, but the niece of the late editor Jewish problems seems to mark even . . . Needless to say that Jewish relief
happen: either you'll recover or you
organizations consider the appeal of the
and historian.
won't. If you recover, what- is there
Maxim Litvinov, who has been notice-
Jewish historians of the future will ap- ably cool in steering clear of any favor- Committee for a Jewish Army irrespons-
to worry about? But even suppose
preciate the work being done by Saul able expression on Zionism. He lets the ible as long as there is not clarity on the
you don't recover, one of two things
Hayes, director of the Canadian Jewish Zionists do all the wooing and does none matter .. . But where is American Jew-
will happen: either you'll be buried
ish leadership? . . . Why don't recognzed
Congress, who is keeping a complete file himself . . . And talking about quirks, it's
in Jewish earth or you won't. If
on the 10,000 Canadian Jews in the armed interesting to see the Jewish-owned New JeWish leaders act to make this and sim-
you're buried in Jewish earth, what
ilar appeals impossible before they as-
services of their country and of others of York Times give a tremendous build-up sume
is there to worry about? But even
a mass character?
the United Nations . . . Hayes' records in- to Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, whose
suppose you're not buried in Jewish
clude not merely the names, ranks, etc., speeches today sound amazingly like
earth? Well then, well then"----here
of those fighting Jews, but also photo- those in the days when he helped found
the speaker pauses, perplexed—"Well
graphs, clippings, letters and other docu- America First. Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
then, brother, you're certainly in. one
hell of a fix."
ments wherever these are available.
Times publisher, who tells Jews that the
Four Freedoms will solve all their ills,
This is a sample of the sparkling hu- WE'RE TELLING YOU
Launched at Baltimore last week was seems to think that Rickenbacker, rather
mor, mixed with pathos, which . Mr.
An order for $40,000 worth of medical
Samuel- has welded into a great story the S.S. Louis D. Brandeis, a 10,000-ton than Roosevelt, is the man to establish
about a great man and . our people who Liberty ship . . . Other Liberty ships may the Four Freedoms on earth. There was supplies, including a substantial quantity
shortly be named after Judah P. Benja- once a man in Germany named Max of atabrine—a synthetic chemical used in
persisted in a never-say-die attitude.
Maurice Samuel has made literary his- min, Secretary of War to Jefferson Davis, Naumann. He used to cry because the the treatment of malaria—has been ship-
tory with "The World of Sholom and Haym Solomon, the Revolutionary Nazis wouldn't let the Jews wear the ped by the J.D.C. to Polish refugees in
patriot . . . The memory of bombardier brown shirts!
Aleichem."
Asiatic Russia. Health conditions among
Sergeant Meyer Levin, you ought to BOAKE CARTER AGAIN
these people are extremely bad, andma-
know, will be kept alive by a bomber
Judah David Eisentein, eminent corn- laria is common, especially among those
plane to be built with funds raised by niler of several Hebrew encyclopedic in the southern territories such as Turk-
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' works and octogenarian, contributes to estan.
By MARTIN PANZER
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Union, of which the Pacific hero's father the Boake Carter controversy in an ar-
is a member . . . The plane will be called ticle in the Hebrew weekly, Hadoar. He
The Hebrew University, at Jerusalem,
the Kelly-Levin Bomber, and that com- explodes the sensational story of the
Jewish Press Service)
is more and more assuming the role of a
bination of Irish and Jewish, like the radio columnist's "Judaization," first
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
clearing house for the educational work
original combination of Colin Kelly and
JACK COHEN, FORMER GROCERY Meyer Levin, will soon be putting the broken by the Yiddish mystic-poet called of Palestine and is thus gradually multi-
BOY, GETS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Japs in their place . . . Don't be confused, variously Sheps, Almi, Gitlin, etc. Eisen- plying its services to meet the needs of
CROSS—Headline. Still delivering the incidentally, if you continue reading stein examines specimen pages of "The the people.
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Bible in the Hands of Its Creators,"
goods.
about heroic exploits by one Sergeant
Prize for the crack-of-the-month goes Meyer Levin in the air, but over Europe. which Carter and his Jewish associate
Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chaip4
again -to Szyk, who depicts Mussolini . . . For there's a Sergeant Meyer Levin— plan to publish, and comes to the conclu- man of the Joint Distribution Committee,
sion that the entire venture is designed is delivering a series of lectures at Co-
reading "Sein Kampf."
no relation to the hero we have lost—who
Jewish fishing hauls in Palestine, has already received the Order of the to offer the Jews a Christological inter- lumbia University in the Training in In-
pretation of their Hebrew Bible. If you ternational Administration course. Stu-
which stood at 57 tons three years ago, Purple Heart for gallantry in action in
will mount to 500 tons this year. And Flying Fortress in the European war a read Hebrew, you'll be interested in the dents of the course are being trained for
convincing testimony that the aged Eisen- relief administration in
that's no fish story.
countries libesbiu
theater.
stein summons.

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the Lobbies

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ated by the United Nations.

