THE Page Fifty-four Create World Federation of YMITIAs Streicher's Editor Given 3 Years, Loses Half of Property is e r e g 1 01 V g h -e 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, 1 : , ) 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. e f E Friday, September 20, 1946 JEWISH NEWS IIs 70 Years Old - 'Internationally Known Poet, 01 Author Encourages Young ea ie Talent; Lives Modestly en Ie 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 3 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 'a< ifiddi..11 letters. Abraham Reisen. A ,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.: • (Copyrigh 1946, JPS) i ti (he published his first volume a: is the age of 16), Reisen followed Greetiny it s from Din the footsteps of the two genoi- ations of Yiddish writers before T him Mendele Mocher Sef Arun. THEODO E J. SMITH