Students Engaged
10—THE JEWISH NEWS
Partners in 'Insane' Crusade
Friday. August 5, 1949
Herzl's Professional Callon Nordau
Was Real Beginnig of Jewish State
Men's Clubs I
Troth. Announced
ISRAEL LODGE of Bnai Brith
will bowl Tuesday evenings at the
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for the coming season. Openings
are available. Interested bowlers
should contact Melvin Weisz,
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TO. 5-1962.
The story is told that Herzl's first visit witk Max Nor-
dau, the world-renowned journalist and'Physician,. was a
professional one. The founder of Modern Zionism had been
stigmatized as a madman by so many, of his friends when he
was ckculating the manuscript of his "Judenstaat" that he
finally acquiesced to the bidding of one of his colleagues
MISS IELENE LIPSHAW
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lipshaw
Of Santa Rosa Dr. announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Ilene Beverly, to Milford Nemer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Nemer of Santa Barbara Drive.
The bride-elect is a student at
Wayne University and her fiance
attends the University of Mich-.
igan, where he is affiliated with
Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity.
tiogirthi
May 12—To Mr. and Mrs. Jos-
eph Hertzberg (Phyllis Levin-
don) of 2465 Waverly, a son,
Mark Gary.
*
July 11 — To Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Lipson (Elsie Adler) of
Gladstone Ave., a son, Joel Wil-
liam•-.•
* •
July 15—To Mr. and Mrs. Lew-
is S. Grossman (Mildred Gerson)
of Muirland Ave., a son, Fred-
erick H.
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July 18—To Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Storch (June Jacobs) of
3735 Boston, a son, Kitn Barry.
* * *
that he submit himself to the't%
examination of Dr.' Max Nor- understood only too clearly the
dau, the eminent psychiatrist "practical considerations" which
and medical authority. Dr. had impelled the British Gov-
Herzl's first words to Nordeau ernment to issue the Balfour
were: "Schiff (a mutual friend) Declaration and subsequently
says that I'm insane."
seek the British Mandate for
For three successive days, the Palestine. He had insisted for a
young Viennese journalist re- long time that "if Zionism had
turned to Dr. Nordau's study— not existed, Great Britain would
reading, • explaining,
arguing, have had to invent it."
The
great Zionist figure
pleading his case. Dr.
Nor-
dau listened, first with the pro- passed away in early . 1923. Like
fessional ear of the medical Moses, he had never seen Eretz
consultant. As Herzl's ideas Israel.
Today his remains rest in a
began to take root, Nordau grew
taut in his chair, completely ab- quiet spot in Tel Aviv.
On the occasion of his 70th
Sorbed and shaken by the young
journalist's startling concepts. birthday, the Karen Kayemeth
The physician curbed himself had informed him that a garden
cruelly, he confessed later, but city in Palestine, bearing the
at last he could restrain himself name of Max Nordau, would
no longer. Rising, he opened his soon be established.
arms to young Herzl and •said'
"If you are insane, we are in-
sane together. You may count
on me for your future work."
ewrft
This marked the beginning of
the Jewish State. In gaining
Max Nordau as a protagonist of
his "Judenstaat" idea, Dr. Herzl
won for himself — and Zionism
—one of the most distinguished
figures in 'Europe., •• Dr. Nordau
was at the zenith. of his bril-
liant career. A widely - read
journalist, philosopher, drama-
tist, critic, man of science, Max
Nordau had been the friend and
confidante of the great names
of Western Europe for more
than a generation. It was his
personal friendship and influ-
ence with such important fig-
ures as Clemenceau, Venezelos,
Vambery, Emile Zola, Jaures,
Luigi Luzzatti and Stephen
Pichon that enabled the Zion-
ist movement to win important
politiCal gains for itself during
the early Herzlian period.
July 19—To Mr. and Mrs. Law-
rence William Krieger (R a y
Yanovsky), a son, Donald Jef-
fery- .
* * *
-July 20—To Mr. and Mrs. El-
The Dreyfus case, which had
liot Cohen (Rita Kaltman) of
brought Herzl to Paris, made
the Wilshire, a son, Stephen.
* * *
Nordau realize how false was
July 2i—To Mr. and Mrs. Jack his own conception - of himself.
Cohan (Celia Gelman) ) of 3710 To his amazement he learned
Humphrey, a daughter, Eileen that he ; who had denounced
the whole world as sinking into
Rochelle.
* * *
lies, was himself sinking into
July 24—To Mr. and Mrs. Nor- the greatest of all self-delusions,
man A. Broder (Rose Chapnick) the lie of assimilation. He was
of Chicago, formerly of Detroit, to denounce this as similationist
spirit on many occasions later
a son, Jeffery Kent.
* * *
on in his Zionist career.
July 26—To Mr. and Mrs.
It was to the Jew of the West.
Stephen Fox (Ruth Bloom) of that half-assimilated, half-un-
20437 Ap -ooline, a son, Robert assimilated Semite, at whom
Stephen.
Nordau addressed some of his
* * *
bitterest invective. These people,
July 29 — To Mr. and Mrs. Nordau said, "deluded them-
Gerald Rosen (Estelle Katz) of selves into the belief that they
19345 Lauder, a daughter, Karen were good Jews because they
Ann.
loved Heine, believed in Daniel
* * *
Deronda, and left nothing to be
To Mr- and Mrs. Ted Lepof- desired in their praise of 'kugel'
sky (Audrey Perchik oef f), a and `sholent.' They protested
daughter, Shelley Mona.
that they were `Ruch Juden'
(also Jews). I say that they are
merely 'Bauch Juden' (belly
BIB Bloch Lodge Gives
JewS.)"
Picnic, Moonlight Plans
In the post-war years, Nordau
Louis Weber, president of
Bloch Lodge, of Bnai Brith, an-
notmces that the second annual
picnic will be held at Lola Valley
Park Sunday, Aug. 7.
Refreshments will be available
at the picnic grounds. Games
have been arranged for the ail-
day affair.
A moonlight on the steamer
Put-in-Bay, in conjunction with
Irael Lodge, will be held Sun-
day. Aug. 21.
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—The Ro-
manian Supreme Court upheld
sentences of hard labor for life
which had been imposed. on Col.
Ramiro Negruzzi and Lt. Radu
Ionescu, war criminals convict-
ed by a Bucharest court on
charges of having killed 50 Jews,
the whole Jewish population of
Hancesti. Moldavia.
CERTIFIED MOHEL
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