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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 20, 1946
U. S. Donations Care for DP's
Eyes
British Labor Party
Accused of War' on
Palestine Labor
A Jewish DP has
TEL AVIV (JTA)—"The Brit-
his eyes examined at
ish Labor Party has declared war
clinic
in
Munich
a
upon Palestine's Labor Party,"
supported by t h e Zalman Rubashov, a leader of the
Joint Distribution Histadruth and editor of Davar,
Committee. Through-
out the continent the
JDC operates or sub-
venes 90 dispensaries,
clinics, sanatoria and
hospitals for Euro-
pe's Jewish survi-
vors. Funds for these
activities come from
the UJA of the II. S.
largest newspaper in Palestine,
declared at the opening session of
the national conference of the
Mapai, Jewish Labor Party.
Rubashov, speaking of the arrest
and imprisonment, declared: "Pal-
estine Labor will not rest until our
leaders are freed and we will con-
tinue to fight with them until
stage after stage of Jewish inde-
pendence and Jewish statehood is
achieved. Our arms are arms for
defense."
American
Hayim Greenberg,
Zionist labor leader, greeted the
conference in the name of Ameri-
can labor. Goldie Meirson, po-
litical chief of the Jewish Agency,
reported on internal and external
problems facing the Zionist move-
ment.
'Rise of Jewish Community of N. Y.'
=- New
New Book Views History
1654 Through 1860
Dr. Hyman B. Grinstein's "The Rise of the Jewish Community
of New York," published by the Jewish Publication Society of
American
America, emerges as a striking addition to the bookshelf on
the develop-
Jewish history because of its interesting evaluations of
ment of a great Jewish corn- •
as was American life in general.
ninitv
This book is a full-length American individualism, added
history of the N. Y. Jewish to innate Jewish individualism,
community, and describes how did not make for unity or uni-
the Jews lived, worshiped, amus- formity. Dr. Grinstein points out
ed themselves, engaged in phil- that, while the synagogues con-
anthropy, built their earliest in- tinued throughout this period to
stitutions, cooperated, and quar- be the centers of communal life,
reled. One may well regret that they mushroomed on every hand
the story is not completed in this to satisfy personal and social as
volume, for the author takes us well as religious ambitions.
Before long the very existence
only to the year 1860. But the
book, being more than 650 pages of so many congregations, plus
religious laxity
in length, is of more than aver- the spread of
and the author characteristic of that age, result-
age length,
promises to continue in the near ed in the appearance of fraternal
future to present the vast ma- organizations, notably the Bnai
terial which he is now collecting. Brith. On the other hand, there
Arranged Topically was a surprisingly large number
of men who strove for the reviv-
The book is arranged topically,
al of the old spirit of Jewish
under seven headings, each with
unity and who gave wise, gen-
three or more subheadings, a erous and far-sighted leadership
method which enables the author
to the growing community.
to describe social developments
Tw o interesting maps which
without causing the reader to lose
serve as endpapers show the dis-
the thread of the narrative.
trios of early N. Y. inhabited
Starting always from the simple
which obtained by Jews. A number of illustra
organization
tinder the leadership of the tions serve to make the story
more realistic.
Shearith Israel Congregation, one
JPS Membership Book
sees problems multiplying and
"The Rise of the Jewish Com-
life becomes more varied as the
munity of New York 1654-1860"
population grows and the coun-
may be secured as one of the
try as a whole expands. Al-
membership books of The Jewish
though many details are relegat-
Publication Society of America.
ed to appendices, enough are Membership in The Society costs
left in the body of the book to as little as $5. per year, for which
give a complete picture of Jew-
members receive any three _cloth-
ish life in New York City espe-
bound books published by the
cially during those 40 import-
society, plus a 20 percent dis-
ant formative years between 1826
count on additional purchases of
and 1860.
the society's own books. Library
One sees, for example, how
memberships, available to all at
the community split and then
per year, bring the member
became fractionalized; what vali- $10
any six cloth-bound books pub-
main-
made
to
ant efforts were
lished by the society, plus the
tain Jewish education; to what
discount. Full details on the
extent philanthropy remained an
membership plan, catalogues and
integral part of Jewish life, and
other interesting literature on
how early the process of Ameri- the work of the Jewish Publica-
canization affected the individual
tion Society of America, the
and the community.
world's largest publishers of Jew-
Amusing Sidelights
ish books in English, can be
These are serious matters in secured by writing to the ex-
which one may see the roots of ecutive vice-president, Maurice
Jewish community life of our Jacobs, 320 Lewis Tower Build-
own day, but they offer also some ing, Philadelphia 2. Pa.
amusing sidelights. The ban-
quets of those days were really
something. There were a num-
ber of prescribed toasts and an
even larger number of toasts to
suit the particular occasion,
Managing Owner
though the pleasure found in the
drinks must have been lost in
of tile
the speeches with which each was
accompanied.
A toastmaster actually wore
a chain of office which must
have added greatly to the pomp-
ousness with which the toast was
MT. CLEMENS
offered. Balls had belles who
were glorified in the next day's
WISHES ALL HIS'
newspapers, though the ever-
present chaperons must have
FRIENDS
spoiled some of the fun. Young
people's organizations vied with
end
one another for the membership
,G UESTS
the
most
gifted
elocutionist
in
of
Mr.Tilax
eitin
COLONIAL
HOTEL
town.
The story of -congregational
life, too, is not devoid of amus-
ing surprises. Witness, for ex-
ample, the congregation which
was organized apparently for the
sole purpose of performing one
wedding ceremony and then
went out of existence.
Jewish life was colorful then,
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