8—THE JEWISH NEWS
Widespread Negro Anti-Semitism
Denied, But Official Contends
Merchants, Agents Spur Race Jas
NEW YORK (AJP)—A leading
national spokesman for Amer-
ica's 12,000,000 Negroes denied
that "widesprear'. and intense
Negro anti-Semitism" existed,
but admitteu "certain practices"
by Jewish merchants, landlords,;
and housewives in Negro sections
had produced an anti-Jewish at-1
titude on the part of some mem-
bers of the nation's largest mi-
nority.
Answering charges contained
in a series of two articles by Prof.
Edwin N. Sears, a law professor
at Denver University, Henry .
Moon, national public relations
director for the National Asso-
ciation for the
Advancement of
Colored People,
told the Amer-
ican Jewish
Press that "cer-
tainly any anti-
Jewish feeling
among Negroes
is neither in-
tense nor wide-a,
spread." P r o f. Henry Moon
Sears' blast at Jewish defense
agencies, one of a number of
views expressed in a series which
appeared in a national Jewish
monthly ma gazin e, warned
against "fighting for others, in-
cluding Negroes and Hispanics."
He termed such undertakings
"a thankless job, as proved by
the existence of widespread and
intense Negro anti-Semitism."
Moon, taking sharp issue with
Prof. Sears' statement, neverthe-
less admitted that some anti-
Jewish feelir.g existed among
Negroes. "But it is totally ab-
sent of the religious aspect you
find among some Irish Catho-
lics-,---for_instance, who refer to
JewS as "Christ-Killers" and in
similar terms," he maintained.
The NAACP official attributed
existing anti-Semitism among
Negroes, instead, to their daily
contacts with landlords, agents,
and merchants "who happen to
be Jews." "LandlOrds and agents
for apartments are traditionally
unpopu:ar in Harlem," Moon
commented, "and many of them
in this class are Jewish."
Some s m a 11 e r Jewish mer-
chants who occasionally "over-
charge or sell inferior goods" to
Negroes were responsible in some
measuret for fanning anti-Jew-
ish feelings among the Race, he
added.
Munich Council Adopts
Ban on Schechita
MUNICH, (JTA) — A resolu-
tion adopted by the Munich City
Council calling on the Bavarian
Parliament to enact legislation
prohibiting Schechita, the
slaughter of animals according
to Jewish religious precepts,
came under fire from German
Jewish leaders.
The resolution, introduced by
the Socialists : was carried, 26
to 16, over the opposition of the
Christian Socialist Party. In in-
troducing the resolution, the
Socialists argued that Schechita
was cruel and a "crime against
humanity." It was, they said,
prohibited in Norway and 'Swit-
zerland for that reason.
City Councillors Erwin Hamm
and Otto Gritschneider, both
Catholics, assailed the move,
Hamm denouncing it as "pure
anti-Semitism and discrimina-
tion and as a result of a hostile
attitude toward the Jews."
He said the Christian Socialist
Party would oppose the measure
because they did not want the
German people to feel that the
Catholics wanted to interfere
with the freedom of the Jewish
religion.
The resolution was assailed by
Chief Rabbi Aron Ohrenstein
and by Senator Julius Spaniel,
president of the Jewish coin-
munit y, as a discriminatory
measure. -
A school and kindergarten
teachers' college for the training
of some 600 teachers for the set-
tlements of northern Israel is
under construction at Yaar Al-
exazoder in the Emek.
Echoes of WWI I Tragedy:
Friday, June 22, 1951
Moon lashed out against what
he termed "an anti-Negro atti-
tude on the part of some Jews.
"The superior manner in which
these Jews treat Negroes," the
anti-bias executive alleged, "pro-
duces strong resentment among
the Race."
Poor treatment by Jewish
housewives in the New York area
of Negro domestics was also cit-
ed by Moon as a cause for anti-
Jewish feeling among Negroes.
Stressing that the attitude was
"not widespread," Moon said
many domestics spoke "resent-
fully" of their employers because
of over - work, under-pay and
general exploitation.
He pointed out the existence
15 years ago of what was known
in Harlem as the "Bronx Slave
Market," corrupt employment
system born of the depression.
"But most Negroes know that
their battle for equal rights in
America is closely allied with
the fight waged by liberal Jew-
ish groups," Moon contended.
The NACU.. official lauded the
activities of the American Jew-
ish Congress, the American Jew-
ish Committee and the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith for its fight against bias.
Brilliant Jewish MD Returns from
Yeshivah Honors `Dead' to Graduate—Minus Dad
Late Rose Lerman
Mrs. Tranklin D. Roosevelt in.
The Parent Teachers Associa-
tion of Beth Yehudah Schools
held an impressive memorial
service for its
late president,
Rose E. (Mrs.
Simon) Lerman,
who died in an
automobile acci-
dent, May 8.
Mrs. I. Levin
acting president
of the PTA pre-
side d. Partici-
pating in the
program were:
Mrs. Samuel
Prero; David'
Greenbaum, ,
Shlomo Sperka Mrs. Lerman
and Yehuda Gellman, Yeshivah
students; Mrs. Rosenberg, repre-
senting the Pythian Sisters; Is-
rael_Naehman and Joseph Gold-
berg of the Beth Yeudah faculty.
Rabbi M. J_Wohlgelernter deliv-
ered the memorial address.
The Lernian family, in associ-
ation with several organizations,
is now making plans for a per-
manent memorial to be erected
in her name, which will provide
recreational facilities for stu-
dents of the Beth Yehudah
schools and ather Jewish chil-
dren of the city.
PWO Membership
Winner to Receive
Free Trip to Israel
A trip to Israel is assured the
winner of the pre-convention
membership drive sponsored by
Pioneer Women, the Women's
Labor Zionist Organization of
America, according to an an-
nouncement made by the Na-
tional Board today.
The National Board of Pioneer
Women felt that this would be
the best gift offered to the de-
serving Pioneer Woman who
shows great enthusiasm and re-
cruits the greatest number of
members to her club.
The prize is offered as a
means of increasing the number
of delegates to the Pioneer
Women's 12th National Biennial
Convention which will take
place at the Hotel Sherman in
Chicago, Illinois, September
8-13.
Pioneer Women establishes
and maintains children's homes,
d a y nurseries, rehabilitation
centers, vocational and trade
schools, agricultural training
schools and other social services
throughout Israel.
Mrs. Eliezer Kaplan, wife of
Israel's Finance Minister, was
honored by the National Board
of Pioneer Women, the Women's
Labor Zionist Organization of
America, June 13. Working with
the Kupat Holim (Worker's Sick
Fund) in Israel, Dr. Dvorah
Kaplan is a specialist of chil-
dren's diseases.
There is no such thing as re-
forming nations without reform-
ing the individuals who corn-
pOse them.
ALBANY, (AJP) — A brilliant
Jewish doctor received his scroll
from Albany Medical College
here, but the father who loved
his only son as much as the
Jewish state for which he tire-
lessly strived during his life-
time, was not on hand to wit-
ness the graduation.
A tragic sidelight of : World
War II—the• shock of
in action"
his son was "missing in
—deprived Dr. Abraham Ball of
witnessing his son's graduation
from the same college from
which he had received his di-
ploma in medicine 39 years ear-
lier.
The 'late Dr. Ball, a life-long
Zionist, in 1944, received a War
Department wire informing him
that his son, Stanley, was "miss-
ing in action." Coming on the
heels of a blistering meeting at
which he appeared as a prin-
ciple speaker, Dr. Ball suffered
a. heart attack.
He died never knowing that
Stanley, wounded in the Battle
of the Bulge, was found. Flown
to England, the youth was hos-
pitalized for six months, then
returned by air to New York.
On the road to recovery; Stan-
ley resumed his medical studies.
He was awarded a Research
Fellowship at his father's alma
mater, after undergoing pre-
medical studies at the Univer-
sity of Michigan and Union
University.
The young doctor's sister,
Bryna, served as secretary to
Paris during the UN meetings
there and now works for Mrs.
Roosevelt in a similar capacity
in New York.
Dr. Ball is a nephew of Dr.
and Mrs. Charles Gitlin, of De-
troit.
Judge Jennie Barron Given
Bronze Medal by Boston U.
BOSTON, (JTA)—Judge Jen-
nie Loitman Barron, who has
served on the Boston Municipal
Court bench since 1937, was
presented with a bronze medal-
in recognition of "distinguished
public service" at Boston Uni-
versity commencement exercises.
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