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THE 'JEWISH NEWS

Friday, May L . 1944'

Neumann Debunks Palestine Ask Majority THEATER
`Report' in Reader's Digest In Palestine Schwartz's Yiddish Troupe
At Masonic Tuesday Evening

Points to Misrepresentations and Denounces 'Flagrant British Labor Party Policy
Piece of Anti-Zionist Propaganda'; Mowrer Describes
Would Subsidize Moving
Progress Wrought by Jews
Arabs Elsewhere
Littman Secures Huge Auditorium to Enable as Many as
e' NEW YORK (JPS)—Statements to the effect that the
Possible to See- Noted Cast Give One Performance of
LONDON, (Palcor)—A Pales-
Jews have a "bottomless purse" and "vast wealth" and the tine
'The Family Carnovsky', On Tour After Season in N. Y.
policy more sweeping that
Olarge that Jewish Palestine has "fascist storm troopers" any ever proposed by the Jews
and that "the Jews have been smuggling in_arms on a rather themselves, is contained in a
Maurice Schwartz and his entire Yiddish Art Theater
astenishirig Scale--L-not only rifles, but alSo machine guns statement on.. postwar policy Ensemble will appear in the main auditorium. of the Masonic
and mortars, "while the Arab has few arms," are interpersed drawn up by the British Labor Temple Tuesday evening in I. J. Singer's "The Family Car-
in a lengthy article in the cur- G
Party and to be submitted to its novsky." The production will be brought here by Mr.
rent - issue of Reader's Digest, a
forthcoming convention.
Schwartz after a highly successful presentation for an entire
1914 the United States too "was
magazine that has frequently
The statement recommends ad- season on New York's BroadWay.
in this sense a . debtor country
been under fire from liberal
In view of the fact that Mr.€
and the gross foreign invest- mission of Jews into Palestine

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circles and Government officials
ments made. here amounted to "in such numbers as to become Schwartz and his cast can ap- for whom he played leads for
who : charged it with underno r
a majority," encouragement of pear here for only one evening, three years.
approximately $5,000,000,000."
cractic sympathies.
Arabs "to move out as the Jews Abraham Littman has gone into
Author of the article, which Edgar Mowrer See
Brief engagements with Yid-
move in," and a "re-examination great expense in securing the
was immediately - denounced by
of the possibility of extending large Masonic Auditorium in or- dish stock companies followed in
No Compromise on Palestine
Jewish leaders as a "flagrant
the present Palestine boundaries der to give every Detroit Jew an Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburgh
Declaring that "Zionism in
piece of anti-Zionist propagan-
and Philadelphia. In the latter
by an agreement with Egypt,
city, the late David Kessler ad-
da," is Frederick C. Painton, Palestine is so explosive a force Syria or Transjordan."
Reader's Digest correspondent in that it must be seen to be real-
mired his acting and engaged
The section on Palestine is
him for his New York company,
the Near East, and the editors ized, reading isn't enough," and eluded in that portion of the
that
"the
import
of
hundreds
of
describe it as an inter-office
with whom he played for nine
statement dealing with the ques-
Memo whibh they. found "so in- thousands of highly trained, tion of frontiers, minorities and
years. His weekly stipend sky-
formative and so important as to highly competent European col- the transfer of populations. Re-
rocketed from $30 to $120 per
onists, bursting with enthusiasm
week.
warrant publication."
ferring to Palestine, the state-
upon a medieval Islamic Society ment points out:
• Night Performances'
Attacks "Jewish Philanthropy"
is literally terrific," U. S. cor-
"There is surely neither hope
During his last two years with
' Making only inferential men- respondent Edgar Ansel Mow-
Kessler, Schwartz was permitted
tion of the organized Arab bands rer, cabling from Jerusalem, sees nor meaning in a Jewish Na-
to stage special one night per-
that kept the country in a tur- no compromise solution for tional Home unless we are pre-
pared to let the Jews enter in
formances of "Ghosts" a n
bulent state for three years, be- Palestine.
such numbers as. to become a
"Faust" and that gave him the-
tween 1936-8, and the Mufti-in-
In a column syndicated by the
idea for an Art Theater.
spired outbreaks before that, the Press Allianre, the first U. S. majority. There is a strong .case
The cast, which will- appear
writer says: "For the moment correspondent to be expelled here, based on human grounds,
here, consisting of 60 actors; in-
the Arabs are afraid of the Jews. from Germany on Hitler's ad- for promoting stable settlement
cludes Isadore Casher, Leon
This for two reasons: first,' the vent to power, writes of Pales- on the one hand -and- for the
Gold, Rebecca Weintraub, Muriel
Jews are more articulate and tine: "Outbursts and stresses transfer of population on the
Gruber, Charlotte Goldstein, and
have a world press and vast seem all but inevitable. They other hand. Let the Arabs be
Anatole Winogradov.
wealth; second, the Jews have can, in the long run, he allayed encouraged to move out. Let
been smuggling in arms on a only by the triumph of one pat- them be compensated for their
rather astonishing scale — not tern of life or the other. This land and their settlement ' else-
MAURICE SCHWARTZ
only rifles, but also machine doesn't mean that either the where be organized and gener-
guns and mortars; and are get- Jews or the Arabs must disap- ously financed.
"We should seek to win the opportunity to see "The Family
ting good, I'm told, at' making pear. It does mean that either
Carnovsky."
grenades. The Arab is unor- the Jews be permitted to make Lill sympathy and support of
Maurice Schwartz has dedicat-.
ganized, he has no spokesmen, Palestine into an entirely mod- both The American and Russian
ed the ,past 25 years to raising
Governments
for
the
execution
and he has few arms."
ern' country—a sort of outpost in of this Palestine policy."
the standard of the Yiddish
He charges that "there are the Middle East of all the finest
The London Times carried an theater.
three extremist (Jewish) groups, of the Oceident-L-or that the
Spectacles Restored
editorial criticizing the Labor
all illegal military organizations. Arabs manage to limit, 'ghet-
Party's proposals.
The repertoire of the Yiddish
T.-ley have fascist manners and toize', the Jews."
Art Theater has restored the na-
fascist uniforms and are storm
Edgar Ansel Mowrer reports: Industrialist Demands
tive folk spectacles of Abraham
troopers. There are also gangs "According to British adminis- Worker Be Made Partner
Goldfadden, father of the Jewish
of real outlaws." He quotes the trators and foreign diplomats,
A New Wor-Time Convenience!
TEL AVIV, (Palcor)—Propos- stage. It has given eloquent dra-
Arabs as saying that "the Jews no job is too tough to be tackled
als for legislative and other re- matic expression to old masters
have a bottomless purse. We by these people. They not only
forms that would "enable the of Yiddish letters, varying from
have nothing except what we raise good citrus fruits. No, they
worker to regard himself as a the sharp, vitriolic comedies of
take out of our people's mouths must raise the best oranges,
partner" in Jewish Palestine's Ossip Dymov to the stark mor-
- and hearts." Admitting that the lemons, grapefruits to grow any-
industry, were proposed by Dr. bidity of Jonah Rosenfield's
unskilled laborer in Egypt gets a where. They not only have hos-
M. A. Novomeysky, managing "Rivals." Nor has Mr. Schwartz
fourth the wage that his - corn- pitals, a scientific institute and a
director of the Palestine Potash overlooked the works of Shake-
in the Casserole Carton
rade in Palestine gets, the wri- university, but these must be a
Corp., speaking at a reception speare, , Shaw, Lope de, Vega,
ter ascribes it to Jewish activity model for the world—and are."
for the pioneers of Jewish in- Moliere, Gogol, Andreyev, Wilde,
Sanders offer two or more Ready
in Palestine, and ascribes this to
In conclusion, he says that he
dustry in Palestine, which at Klobund, Rolland, Toiler, Gorki
Cooked Foods daily — Chopped
an "invisible import of Jewish
doesn't have the impression
present employs one-third of and Feuchtwanger.
Beef Pie and Biscuits, Steak and
philanthropy." •
that British colonial administra-
Jewish Palestine's population,
Though a native of Russia, Mr.
tion is specifically anti Zionist
Kidney Pie, and many others.
Blow-by-Blow Reply
Dr. Novomeysky warned that Schwartz is a product of New
Emanuel Neumann, formeror anti-Jew," although "it is true without such reforms the present
These foods are packaged in the
.York. He was brought here at
member of the Jewish Agency that they seem more tender of `capitalistic system would be 11 and subsequently spent his
new Casserole Carton which can
Executive, writing in The Day, Arab susceptibilities than of unable to continue in Palestine." boyhood at the foot of the Bow-
be placed right in the oven for
;Yiddish 'daily, pointed out that Jewish ones." He finds that the
heating — and then on the table
At the close of the reception, ery, dwadling in the lobbies of
"this is not the first tendentious Jews' "dynamic c o 1 o n i z i n g Mayor Israel Rokach announced the Thalia, Windsor and People's
for serving. Each carton contains
anti-Zionist article which • it makes for tensions, problems the establishment of an Indus- Theaters. He worshipped the
four generous servings. Ready
and
attitudes
with
which
the
of-
(Reader's Digest) has publish-
trial Research Institute in Tel gods - of the Yiddish Theater—
Cooked Foods are carried in stock
ed." The article, he states, "is as ficials of the British Colonial Aviv.
Jacob P. Adler, David Kessler,
at seven Sanders stores. Orders
flagrant a piece of anti-Zionist Office aren't particularly pre-
Projects for the establishment Mogulesko, Thomashefsky and
may be placed at any store for
propaganda - as has appeared in a pared to cope. Hence their atti-
of new colonies in various parts Bertha' Kalich.
next day's specials.
long time," but he advises Zion- tude. Hence 'the anxiety which of the country, including agri-
' Joined Amateur Group
they
make
no
attempt
to
hide."
ists not to become hysterical but
cultural settlements of Yemen-
He joined an amateur group
to expect "hostile expressions of
ite and Kurdistan Jews, were which rehearsed a play for a
opinion as well as the friendly Messages From Russia
discussed by the Merkaz Chak- year and finally offered it one
kind, pointing out that "last
layi, Agricultural Council of the evening at Teutonia Hall in
week Collier's magazine, which Addressed to Detroiters
Histadruth, General Jewish Fed- Brooklyn. It was his sole ama-
CONFECTIONERS
also enjoys a large national cir-
eration of Labor, at a special teur effort. On that epochal
Messages
from
Soviet
Russia
culation, published an excellent
session which opened last night evening he was seen and engaged
CANDIES • BAKED GOODS • ICE CREAMS
article, 'The Jew as Soldier,' in for relatives in Detroit have in the village of Gvat.
for a Yiddish troupe in Baltimore,
which the Palestine question is been received for the following
treated from a sympathetic' point who have not yet been located:
Charles Shatchen, who form-
of s view."
Referring -to The Reader's Di- erly lived at 9617 Petoskey,
gest's charge that the Jews are sought by his son, Joseph Che-
arming and the Arabs are in chik.
Mrs. Smith, former known ad-
fear, Mr. Neumann says that it
is a "reckless disregard of the dress 268a Elmhurst Ave., sought
history of the past 25 years," by her niece, Anna Burviatov-
skaya.
and that "though it was the
Philip Horowitz is sought by
Arabs who were repeatedly the
aggressors, who let loose mur- his sister, Mrs. Sara Stern, Dan-
derous attacks in 1921, in 1929 ish refugee in Sweden.
That is the position of your skilled pharmacist.
Anyone knowing the where-
and in 1936 to 1938, the Jew is
somehow the villain of the piece, abouts of the above mentioned.
It's his important work on the home front to aid
if we are to believe this 'report get in touch with Mrs. S. Croll,
Jewish
Social
Service
Bureau,
today's
busy doctor with the finest service pos-
on Palestine' ".
5737 Second Ave., or telephone
Private Investments
sible ... your prescriptions filled accurately and
ti In reply to The Reader's Di- TR. 2-4080.
promptly by
gest statement that Palestine "is
still an enormous philanthropic "Heroes Are Made"
venture," Mr. Neumann says Now at Cinema Theater
that the writer of the article
"does not seem to realize that
"Heroes Are Made," current at-
the philanthropic contributions traction at the Cinema Theater
of the Jews to Palestine are is a stirring movie based on the
mainly for the purpose of creat- autobiography of Nikolai Ostrov-
ing new agricultural settle- sky.
ments" and that 'the overwhelm-
The devotion of the Russians
ing part of Jewish Palestine's to' the cause of freedom in the
import capital "conies in by.• way present war is forcefully. de-
of private investments," Until picted in this. film.

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