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Streicher's Editor
Given 3 Years, Loses
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Leaders of Jewish youth - serving organizations
with a combined membership of more than
500,000 in the United States, Canada, Great
Britain, Australia and France who created the
World Federation of YMHA-s and Jewish Com-
munity Centers, one of whose aims will be to de-
velop YMHAs. Jewish community centers and
Jewish youth work throughout the world.
SEATED IL. to R.) H. E. Tershorn, Montreal,
president National Council of YM-Y 1NHAs of
Canada: David Mellows. London. general secre-
Abraham Reisen,
1Y iddish Writer,
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Ghetto of Terezin
Will Be Retained
In Original State
PRAGUE (JTA)—A Czech gov-
FRANKFURT -(JTA) — Hans
Winkler, former editor of Julius ernment commission has decided
Streicher's anti-Jewish paper, to recommend that parts of the
"Der Stuermer," has been sen-
tenced to three years in a labor ghetto of Terezin, in northern Bo-
camp and confiscation_of half his hemia, be preserved in their orig-
property by a Nuremberg purge inal state. Thousands of Jews
court. The court ruled that Wink- passed through the Terezin ghet-
ler might not in the future ac- to on their way to Polish death
cept. a public office and also sen- camps.
tenced him tc• the loss of citizen-
The aarlsbad synagogue burned
ship rights for five years.
down Sept. 18. but the police have
The Jewish Community Council not yet determined whether the
in Berlin decided to exclude from fire was set deliberately or not.
its welfare scheme any Jew who Leaders of the Jewish community
testifies for the defense in purge assume it was arson, because the
proceedings against Nazis, or who prayer books and prayer shawls
refrains from testifying for the were massed together and set
persecution when he is able to ablaze.
furnish incriminating evidence.
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Friday, September 20, 1946
JEWISH NEWS
IIs 70 Years Old
- 'Internationally Known Poet,
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tarp of the Association of Jewish Youth of
Great Britain; Frank L. Weil, New York, presi-
dent National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB);
Jacques Pulver, Paris, administrator director of
Eclaireurs Israelites, and Hans Vidor, Sydney, of
the National YMILA. Council of Australia.
STANDING (L. to R.) Louis Kraft, executive
director of JWB; Mrs. Samuel Glogower, Detroit,
chairman JWB Jewish Center Division; Mrs.
Alfred Bachrach, chairman JWB Women's Di-
vision, and Rabbi Samuel Gordon, director of
Overseas Jewish Center Activities.
States and made it his permanent
home.
Where international acclaim
has turned many a writer into a
brusque introvert. Abraham Rei-
sen retains the same warm
friendliness today as he had when
he visited friends in the ghettos
of Carcow, Warsaw and Minsk a
half century ago. He encourages
young talent and associates with
hopeful young writers and poets
much as Sholom Aleichem once
encouraged him.
If the charm of Reisen the poet,
lies in the simplicity of his style.
the charm of Reisen, the man.
lies in his unconscious naivete.
and native generosity.
Though a socialist most of his
life, Reisen has always had a
great love for Palestine and a
great interest in the achievements
of Zionism. In 1929, on the staff
of the Freiheit, Yiddish Commun-
ish daily. Reisen was the first to
resign when that papei attempted
to justify the Arab pogroms
against Jews. Today Reisen is on
the staff of the Forward, leading
Jewish socialist' daily..
Printers Union Trains
New Linotype Operators
Groups Plan Joint
Discussion and Dance
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A joint meeting and dance will
be sponsored at the Jewish Com-
munity Center Sunday at 8 p. m..
Sept. 22, by Migdal, Alumna and
the Chaim Weizmann Discussion,
Group. all affiliates of the Labor
Zionist Orga 1 . zation of America-
Poale Zion.
Reviews of histories and accom-
plishments of the groupus will be
given and the brief discussion pe-
riod will be followed by dancing.
Refreshments will be served.
In view of the proposed amalga-
mation of these three groups. the
entire membership of each is urged
to be present. Non-members who
are interested in the labor Zionist
program also are invited.
By WILLIAM B. SAPHIRE
A person sitting in a small cafe
orin the heart of the Yiddish book-
Ishop and newspaper world on the
nelower East Side, may be sharing '
lt ( his table with one of the most
"beloved figures in contemporary
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ifiddi..11 letters. Abraham Reisen.
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,e ,poet and author called by many
.15the Jewish Chekkov • who cele-
iaibrates his 70 birthday this year.
Id Born in 1876. in the province
GREETINGS FOR
1r( of Minsk in the Czarist Jewish
THE NEW YEAR
Reisen grew up in the flo•.v-
enering Period of modern—Yiddi-h
c kliterature. As a youthful writer.:
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i ti (he published his first volume a:
is the age of 16), Reisen followed
Greetiny
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Din the footsteps of the two genoi-
ations of Yiddish writers before
T him Mendele Mocher Sef Arun.
THEODO E J. SMITH
<h „ls,atirist of Jewish foibles and Silo-
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ea lonl Aleichem, the great humori::
8954 Twelfth St.
and depictor of Jewish life.
lot It was Sholom Aleichein
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12748 E. McNichols Rd.
itc fir•t noticed young Reisen'; taI-
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'ent- and launched on his literary
&career. At the age of 28 Reisen
le settled in Cracow, where he pul)-
.•,', 1'PERIOR INSTRUCTION IN ALL
ierlished the "Yiddish Vor" and
FORNI5,; OF THE ART OF DANCING
ottother periodicals. In 1914. already
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