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THE JEWISH 'NEWS
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Plaintiffs for Eretz
With the certainty that a special session of
the United Nations General Assembly will be
called in May to consider the Palestinian
problem, the address delivered by David Ben
Gurion before the Jewish National Council in
Jerusalem assumes special significance.
It is most unfortunate that the Jewish posi-
tion in the latest development is marked by
lack of confidence in Great Britain as manda-
tory' power. Mr. Ben Gurion has found it
necessary to warn that the Zionist Organiza-
tion will present evidence to the UN that the
"mandatory's oppressive regime created
terror, assisted and still is helping terror";
and to make the charge that Foreign Secre-
tary Bevin's "policy," which "ignored all obli-
gations to the Jews and planned to liquidate
the Jews as a people,•' is to "convert Palestine
into a second Malta on the eastern shores of
the Mediterranean under the guise of an
international trusteeship."
These charges should not be taken lightly.
Past events have proven Mr. Ben Gurion cor-
rect in his assertion that the Bevin scheme is
to recognize the existence only of individual
Jews who could serve "as objects either for
pogroms or pity," while he ignores sacred
obligations under the Mandate and the Bal-
four Declaration to the entire Jewish people.
The declaration made by Mr. Ben Gurion
that Jews will appear before the UN as plain-
tiffs and not as defendants is certain to be
approved by Jews everywhere.
Mr. Ben Gurion's strong condemnation of
terrorism should put an end to excuses for
Britain's failure to live up to her duties as
mandatory power. The Jewish leader's asser-
tion that "our weapon now is a struggle for
more immigration and more settlements, not
mad gangsterism," sets forth Jewish policy
in Palestine in the sirr•iest terms. -
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It is eraeodYaging to know that Mr. Ben
Curion retains faith in the ultimate realiza-
tion of Jewish hopes when he asserts that "a
Jewish state will be established in our time
and an understanding will be reached be-
tween the Arabs and ourselves."
In his dramatic description of his experi-
cores in Palestine as a member of the Anglo-
Anieric;1 Committee of Inquiry, in his book
"Behind the Silken Curtain," Mr. Bartley C.
Crum, who will be heard in an address here
on Monday evening, at the Shaarey Zedek,
makes this significant statement:
"The Jews-of Palestine realize that the
whole world is an indivisible political and
economic unit; that their future is inextric-
ably bound up with the future of all people
everywhere. But they are not making the
mistake of waiting for the world to recog-
nize this truth, to give up its self-destruc-
tive militant nationalism and its power
politics. They are going forward with their
own cooperative society, creating economic
conditions under which all Palestinians,
Arab and Jew alike, can improve their
standard of living.... They are 'building a
society which recognizes and emphasizes
the fundamental dignity and significance of
the individual. In such a society, derived
from a people drawn from all nations and
all cultures, it is impossible for a narrow,
self-limiting nationalism to flourish."
This is the policy of faith and determina-
tion which has resulted in near-miraculous
accomplishments in Eretz Israel, in defiance
of all obstacles placed in the paths of the
Jewish pioneers by the British. These are the
ideals which most certainly will conquer.
British stubbornness and world indifference.
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Dr. Harry Friedenwald, eminent physician,
professor emeritus of ophthalmology at the Uni-
versity of Maryland, eminent Zionist who was
among the first president of the American Zionist
Federation, also has distinguished himself as his-
torian, man of research and author.
His recent two-volume monumental "The Jews
and Medicine," published by the Johns Hop::ins
Press, Baltimore, right-
fully was acclaimed as a
very great contribution to
Jewish historical data.
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WE'VE LET IN ENOUGH ENEMIES; LET'S RESCUE OUR FRIEND.il
Bartley Crum and Ira Hirschmann- i
Detroit Jewry will be host to two very distinguished men
during; the coming week.
On Monday evening, Mr. Bartley C. Crum, member of the
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, author
of the revealing book, "Behind the Silken Curtain," under
review in this issue, will be the guest of the Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit at a public meeting at the Shaarev Zedek.
Mr. Crum undoubtedly will speak very frankly on his
reactions to British pledge-breaking which he holds responsi-
ble for the present state of unrest in Palestine, on the miracu-
lous Jewish achievements in Palestine, on the myth of Arab-
Jewish rifts which he exposes in his hook. It is to be hoped
that he will, as expected, have an overflow audience.
Equally as important is the appearance here, before the
Trades and Professional Division of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, of Mr. Ira A. Hirschmann, next Wednesday evening,
at Hotel Tuller.
Mr. Hirschmann, essentially a business executive and
primarily a lover of music, has had the most interesting ex-
perience of all living men in the efforts that were exerted
during the war to rescue lives. As chairman of the War
Refugee Board, as the appointee of President Roosevelt, he
was responsible for breaking down the resistance that came
from many quarters against rescue activities, and he was
personally responsible for saving thousands of lives. His was
the outstanding achievement in humanitarian work in our
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time.
Mr. Crum's book, "Behind the Silken Curtaii," makes
reference to the help which was given to members of the
Anglo-American Committee by U. 'S. Ambassador ,ip_Czechcr
slovakia Laurence Steinhardt, and he relates an"i.rrtportant -
incident in Mr. Hirschmann's rescue activities, Airiiieh re-
ceived the help of Mr. Steinhardt. Mr. Crum states in hiS book:
"I knew that Steinhardt's name had been inscribed in the Golden
Book in Jerusalem because of his magnificent and humanitarian
work while our Ambassador to Turkey during the .vat. He had
greatly assisted Ira Hirschmann, special envoy of President Roose-
velt's Refugee Board. in bringing Jewish displaced persons out of
the Axis-dominated Balkan states and was responsible for saving
hundreds of lives. Steinhardt told me of some of the extraordinary -
dealings between ('retsianu, the Rumanian, and Hirschmanit, and
how he had been obliged to go over the heads of both the British
and the Russians and. with Hirschmann, make secret -arraiige-
ments with Itaganah and British Intelligence to get these ffieople
out. He explained with eloquence to Sir Frederick (Logetti.why.-
it was to Britain's own interest to open the doors of Palestine tO .
the Jews."
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The complete story of Mr. Hirschmann's ,couragetbus
rescue activities is told in his own book, "Life Line to a
Promised Land." His nai,ne will be recorded indelibly in
APRIL 11, 1947
VOL. XI—NO. -I
Jewish history with references to the most significant chapter
in humanitarian work of our century.
Scriptural Selections for Seventh Day
Every Detroit Jew who has an opportunity to attend the
of Passover. Friday, April 11
E.;. 13:17-15:26; Num.
P,nt Act- 1)91 porti ,
rn ceting to be addressed by Mr. Hirschmann should consider
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it an honor to join in honoring this courageous man who
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to recognize obstacles or dangers whenever or where-
Selections for Ctae ;aches; i:Av of
PX,SoNer, Sattirt!:ty. AprO 1.!.
o ,- er Jewish lives were at stake during his great mission in
.Pentateuchal portion_D ,..ut. I.-,•1!)-16.17; Num. I Turkey, during the war, in 'behalf of our government and in
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the interests of rescuing Jewish lives.
Prophetical portion--Is. 10:i2 12.6.
1'1111 11' , 1 11 ■ 10% 1TZ, Editor
It is the text of . an ad-
dress delivered at Johns
Hopkins University on
Feb. 10, 1943,_- but the
major portion of the book
ntains the- catalogue of
the author's library bear-
ing upon the -subject of
Jews and. medicine. The
book was,'.publiShed un-
der a grant of the Fried-
en•ald Foundation es-
. ' nt Fr;edery
tablished by Herbert and
Rose Diebold. Friedenwald of Washington. D. C.,
in memory, of Moses and Jane Ahlborn Frieden-
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Dr. Friedenwald's essay is a fascinating analysis
of Jewish contr'.butions to medicine. It 130 . 71 . S out
that "the greatest contribution of the an:.-ient
Hebrews to medicine was in the field of hygiene"
and reveals that "the earliest Hebrew medical
manuscript extant is a work attributed to Asatah
Judaeus. Nothing is known concerning him: he
may have lived as early as the 7th century or as
late as the 10th."
"No one " Prof. Friedenwald states, "can read
Leviticus XV without amazement, for the rules
to avoid the spread of contagious disease and
contamination are given in so detailed and d efi-
nite a manner as to leave no doubt as to
purpose and erect. We see the nroneety of the
title of a hot''- that was published not many
'Moses the Founder of Preye - )' re
years ago
Medicine.'"
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"Jewish Luminaries in Medical History" 's re-
olete with anecdotes and most interesting fa-trial
information on the subject on which the author
is an outstanding authority.
Among the great Jewish names whose works
are described in this volume are Moses ben Ma;mon
(Maimonides). to whom Dr. Friedenwald devotes
, a major portion of his essay; Faraj b. Salim of
Girgenti, court physician of Charles of Anjou.
of Naples and Sicily in the late half of the 13th
century: Francisco Lopez de Villalobos, of the 15th
century. court physician to King Ferdinand and
Emperor Charles; Amatus Lusitanus. 16th contin -y
I physician. "one of the first to discover the valves
of the veins": Jacob Mantino, Italian Jewish ohs--
sician. a contemporary of Amatus: Garcia da Orta,
one of the (16th century) Jewish pioneers in the
great Portuguese adventure of discovery and
colonization' who published a study of medicinal
plants of India.
Others are David de Pomis of Italy. also of the
16th century. "a member of a family which traced
its ancestry back to the captives brought from
Jerusalem by Titus": Felipe Montalto of the 17th
century, who was born in Portugal of a M -Irrano
family: Abraham Zacutus Lusitanus, born in 1575
in Lisbon, who produced his most important work
in Amsterdam where he settled when forced by
anti-Jewish edicts to leave his birthplace: the
German Jews Moritz Schiff (1323-96) and Paul
Ehrlich who discovered the treatment of syphilis
with Salvarsan; and others.
The eatalogife. occupying 170 and 200 pages in
the book, lists all the books on the subject in Dr.
Friedenwald's library. It is without doubt the
largest and most valuable collection of its kind
possessed by any one in the world.
Both the essay and the catalogue add immeasur-
ably to information regarding Jewish contributions
to medicine. Having made a life'study of the sub-
ject. Prof. Friedenwald may well be called the
outstanding historian on Jewish medical knowl-
edge.
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His earlier work, which already was reviewed
in these columns-, and his pretent -essays , "Jetalsh.
Luminaries in Medical Sciefiee," are worfhi• Of
all JeWiish boeilt' . shelves,and
important places
are valuablerbecaUSe, Limey are sec well written
can be read tiiith equa) falcination . by- medical men
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and.lay readers.
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Facts You ShOuid
Answers to Rtaders'
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On_which days.between the Festivals of Passf.. )
over and Pentecost- are .weddings permittea? , . •
.-,-According to the current custom only on the -fall.,
days are Weddings allowed during . thit
.period: Rosh CFrodesh Iyar f The first of the Month-
of Iyar, oCcuring this year- on April 20th and -2ist):.
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Lag
BlOrner (6c-curing Ali-is year :oil .11,1ay 8thY . and . '
on and after RoSh ChOdesh Sivan: (this year en and
after May 201.h).'•A duly authorized - -rabbi should.
be consulted for further de-tails before making any
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arrangements. .
When did Jerusalem first come under role of
Christians?
In 324. when Emperor Constantine adopted
Christianity.
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Who were the Chief Rabbis in England who
were preceded in office by their fathers?
Solomon Hirschel and Hermann Adler.
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When were the Jews expelled from England,
Portugal and Spain?
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In 1290, 1497 and_1492 respectively.