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ednes, ay.
Heller, Shoshana Damari on Proo-rain
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Friday, March 21, 1952
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Bloch, Sharett, Chafee,
An impressive program has artist, respectively. the gather- Goldmann Awarded 1951
been arranged to conclude the ing is expected to attract an Stephen Wise Honors
1952 Israel Histadrut campaign overflow audience of campaign
workers and contributors. Rab-
Foreign Minister Moshe Sha-
bi Morris Adler also will speak. rett
of Israel': Prof. Zechariah
Rabbi Heller, of Isaac M. Wise Chafee. Jr., of Harvard Univer-
Temple, Cincinnati, is a former
chairman of the United Pales-
tine Appeal, a leader in many
national organizations, a noted
musician and composer.
Shoshana Damari hypnotizes
her audience with her .Yemen-
ite melodies. She is accompa-
nied by Moshe Wilensky,
Admission tickets to 'the af-
fair have been distributed to
campaign workers and repre-
sentatives of affiliated organiza-
tions and may be obtained at
the Histadrut office, 13722 Lin-
wood.
At the pre-closing gathering
of workers at the Labor Zionist * Ernest Bloch
Prof. Chafee
' DR. JAMES G. HELLER,
Institute last Sunday afternoon,
at the contributors' rally next which was addressed by Rabbi
Wednesday evening at the Emanuel Green of New York,
Shaarey Zedek.
Chaim Gottlieb, executive direc-
With Rabbi James Heller, tor, acclaimed the tireless work
noted leader, and Shoshana Da- of countless Histadrut workers.
marl, leading exponent of Is- LZOA and Farband branches
rael's folk song in the oriental .have been in the lead through-
manner, as guest speaker and out the campaign.
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
All Agreed—on Retaining Term 'Jewish'
There is one point of agreement on our proposal that Feder-
ation and Council be merged into a single organization. After
we had suggested that Welfare be dropped from the Federation's
name and Council be removed from Council's name. and that a
Jewish Community Federation be formed. it became evident that
all were in favor of retaining one term: the word Jewish.
Accents and Prejudices
Rousseau once said: "Accent is the soul of language; it gives
to it both feeling and truth." We can't possibly have total agree-
ment on this poetic interpretation. Some accents grate on nerves,
others soothe.
Take the Jewish accents. There still are many of the. old
school whose English is punctuated by emphases which are trace-
able to speech in the Old World. There was a time when the
German accent predominated. Then came the Russian (r-r-r-r)
and Polish influences. If the thoroughly assimilated were to be
completely intolerant, we would have accentuated- hatreds and
dislikes.
For that- matter, we have had prejudices in Jewish ranks
against marriages between • various elements in American Jewry.
Reform and/or Orthodox Jews frequently objected to the marriage
of their offspring outside their own Jewish religious ranks. It
was called intermarriage. The same feeling existed between Ger-
man and Polish or Russian Jews.
An interesting bit of evidence is offered in the "YIVO
Annual of Jewish Social Science", just .released, in the article
by Rudolf Glanz on "Source Materials on the History of Jewish
Immigration to the United States, 1800-1880." He quotes the fol-
lowing from The Asmonean, the first English-Jewish weekly to
be published in this country (vol. iii-1850—p. 109), on the atti-
tudes of Portuguese and German Jews:
"Time which brings with it many changes in the condition
of men, increased the nominal force of German Jews and
rapidly advanced them in education and enterprise, while the
intermarriages of Portuguese with Portuguese, gradually dimin-
ished their number, and as at the present day it is generally
admitted that the talent of Germany is with the Jew—certainly
it must be conceded that there has been within the last century
more enterprise, energy, and resolution, more ambition and
more decision of character displayed by the German Jews
among the Portuguese,-although we are bound to admit that
the Portuguese Jews have ever been orthodox and strict in the
observance of their religion . . . So fierce and vindictive were the
prejudices entertained by the Portuguese toward the German
Jews, that they mourned a son or daughter as dead who in-
termarried with them."
It is safe to say that such prejudices no longer predominate.
The reactions against accents may still exist, but, then, the ac-
cents are disappearing. The prejudices that existed against
internal Jewish intermarriages certainly have been reduced in
great measure. Which leads us to say that we are in . a happier
frame of mind as an American community. We have differences
-- of opinion, but on general principles the division in our ranks
undoubtedly is strictly in accord with general differences in the
population as a whole—politically, socially, economically—mostly
the latter.
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B. G. Richards — Versatile, Alert, Courageous — at 75
Bernard G. Richards will be given a party next Thursday—
Dr. Goldmann Moshe Sharett
sity; Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
co-chairman of the Jewish
Agency, and the noted composer.
Ernest Bloch, have been named
recipients of the Stephen Wise
Awards for 1951, it was an-
nounced by Dr. Israel Goldstein.
president of the American Jew-
ish Congress.
The awards, each bearing a
cash value of $1000. were estab-
lished by the Jewish Congress in
1949 to mark the 75th birthday
of the late Dr. Wise and are
made annually in four major
areas of activity to which he had
dedicated his life. These include
the growth and development of
Israel, civil rights and civil lib-
erties, the welfare of JeW's in all
lands and Jewish culture and
education.
Nominating Committee
Selected by Council
Dr. Shmarya Kleinman. pres-
ident of the Jewish Community
Council, announces the appoint-
ment of a nominating committee
to present a slate of candidates
for vacancies on the Council's
executive committee at the next
delegate assembly. The commit-
tee, chaired by Morris Zwerdling,
consists of Mrs. Irving Hencken,
Mrs. Harry Frank, Jerome Kel-
man, Norman Naimark. Mrs. J.
Sauls and I. Sosnick.
Nominees must be presented
by a nominating committee at
the April meeting. Additional
nomination may be made by
petition signed by at least five
qualified delegates and accom-
panied by the consent of the
nominee. Such petitions are to
be filed at the office of the
Council on or before the 14th
day following the delegate as-
sembly at which the nominating
committee makes its report. No
other or subsequent nominations
are received and election of can-
didates nominated takes place
at the Council's concluding
meeting in May.
on his 75th birthday—by friends and admirers who embrace
every field of thought in American Jewry. He is a remarkable American Zionists Will
Back Miller-Neumann
man—alert, courageous, versatile.
He is the founder of the Jewish Information Bureau and
his birthday also coincides with the 25th anniversary of this
creation. Reuben Fink,. an outstanding publicist who will be re-
membered for his monumental work on Palestine and the U. S.
and for his reporting from Washington, has written the best
story of Richards' life in an article in the Yiddish Day.
Fink points. out that inquiries for facts about Jews and Jew-
ish life come to Richards' bureau in Hebrew, Yiddish, English,
French, Russian and German. And when Richards responds you
can rest assured that he gives you the proper information. He
digs deep to get the facts and he is not the type of man to yield
to "thought control"—a disease that has become evident in. some
Jewish circles, even when they call themselves democratic.
This Commentator is especially happy to have this opportunity
to greet B. G. Richards with whom he has worked in Zionist
ranks for nearly three decades and in the ranks of the Jewish
Congress since its inception in 1914 by Brandeis, Mack, Wise,
Rutenberg, et al. A happy birthday, B. G., and may your hair
stay black, may your spirit remain strong, and may you be blessed
with the courage to continue to call the bluff of those who under-
mine Jewish life with unnecessary pressure.
TEL AVIV, (ZINS)—There is
no doubt that Rabbi Irving Mil-
ler will be elected president of
the Zionist Organization of
America at its forthcoming Con-
vention in June, and that he
will have behind him 90 percent
of American Zionists, declared
Dr. Emanuel Neumann! member
of the Jewish Agency Executive,
upon his arrival at the Lydda
Airport.
Dr. Neumann also reported
that he met with Dr. Abba Hil-
lel Silver, who continues to fol-
low developments in the Zion-
ist world with great interest, al-
though he is not active in the
Zionist Organization at the
present time.
U. M. Graduate Club to Hear
IFeinberg on. Whitman March 27
Charles Feinber*, noted De-
troit collector of rare books and
manuscripts a n d ceremonial
objects, has been invited to ad-
dress the Graduate Club of the
University of Michigan on Walt
Whitman. The meeting will be
held in the U. of M. Library on
March 27—a day after the 60th
anniversary of the death of
Whitman.
Mr. Feinberg's address will be
accompanied by an exhibit of
Whitman manuscripts, including
100 rare items that have been
secured by the Detroit collector
over a period of years.
Many Whitman items have
been presented by Mr. Feinberg
to Yale, U. of M., the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem and
other schools.
Mr. Feinberg points out that.
Whitman is popular in Israel
where his work has been trans-
lated into Hebrew.
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Con.ore ss Asked to Allocate
576,000,000 for Israel Refugee Aid
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Legis- I proposing the extension of the
lation prepared by the Adminis- program inaugurated this year
tration to implement President ` for the relief and resettlement of
Truman's , Mutual Security Aid [refugees into Israel and we are
program and asking $76.000,000 proposing a contribution to the
for the relief and resettlement of United Nations fund for the re-
Jewish immigrants in Israel was lief and resettlement of the Arab
presented to a joint meeting of I refugees from Palestine and an
the Senate Foreign Relations ' appropriate program of aid to
Committee and the House For- the Arab states concentrating in
eign Affairs Committee.
those sheltering the refugees in
The measure asks for the pay- order to provide a setting in
ment of $65.000,000 to the United w h i c h reintegration can take
Nations for the resettlement of place." W. Averill Harriman,
Arab refugees in Arab lands. It head of the Mutual Security Aid
totals $141.000.000 of the $196.- program. also testified for the
000,000 asked for the Near East bill.
for the 1953 fiscal year by Presi- Aid to Israel is Now U. S.
dent Truman in his Mutual Se- Official Policy, Eban Says
NEW YORK. (JTA)—American
curity Aid message. The re-
maining $55 000,000 is expected Jews were told by Israel Am-
to be distributed to Iran and bassador Abba Eban that they
among the Arab states en- "may take comfort from the
gaged in resettling the Arab fact" that their objectives in aid-
ing the economic consolidation
refugees.
Secretary of State Dean Ache- of Israel" have now become the
son, testifying on the Mutual official policy- of tAe government
Security program, told the joint t of the United States." He spoke
session that "the problem which i at a dinner in his honor given by
confronts Israel and those which the Mizrachi Organization of
face the UN and the Arab states ! America in the interests of the
giving asylum to the Arab refu- Israel bond drive.
gees have been :ameliorated but
are not yet solved. The solution Sharett, 1.11 with Influenza.
to these problems with all of Postpones Trip to Rome
LONDON. (JTA)—Israel For-
their connotations of human suf-
fering, and the establishment of eign Minister Moshe Sharett
stable conditions are still im- was confined to bed suffering
portant in the hearts and minds from influenza and his sched-
of the people of the 'United uled visit to Rome as guest of
the Italian government was
States.
"Therefore," he added. "we are postponed for a week.
Between You
and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright.
1952, Jewixb Telegraphic Agency. Inc- )
Washington Echoes:
For the first time in many years American Zionist leader!
now have complete confidence in the White House and in the
State Department ... The official Zionist leadership in this coun-
try is convinced that President Truman and the State Depart-
ment will sincerely support maximum United States financial aid
for Israel this year ... Also, that Congress, while reducing Amer-
ican aid for other countries. will not request any reduction in the
appropriations to Israel and the Arab countries proposed by Tru-
man for 1952.
Washington does not seem to be much impressed with the
peace feelers" coming out of Cairo which try to create the im-
pression that Egypt is considering negotiating peace with Israel.
... These feelers are taken with a grain of salt ... They come
at a time when Egypt seems to be eager to play a dominant role
in the projected Middle East Command which she rejected last
October ... Egypt's idea now is that the Arab states should join
the Middle East Command not individually but as a block on a
regional arrangement based on the recently concluded Arab Col-
.. But this pact contains a clause defin-
lective Security Pact
itely directed against Israel ... And it is obvious that the West-
ern Powers could not entrust military equipment .for the defense
of the Middle East to a regional unit built on a security pact
conceived as an anti-Israel instrument .. . Hence. the Egyptian
"peace feelers" to conceal the real danger for Israel in the form-
ation of a strong Arab military bloc free to make its own re-
gional strategic decisions as partners in a Middle East Command.
... Needless to say that Israel itself is definitely not anxious to
see more arms pumped into the Arab states under the pretext of
a Weglern defense alliance.
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On the Record:
I have just finished reading the 143-page Schmorak Report on
the Jewish Agency which created such a stir in Israel . . . Ameri-
can Jews will be pleased to learn that this report, which criticizes
many aspects of the work of the Jewish Agency, has nothing but
praise for the Agency's office in New York . . . It says that "the
planning and organization of the work were excellent" and that
the examination of the accounts of the. Jewish Agency's treasury
office in New York "proved the t. the books*are kept in good order"
.. No faults whatsoever were found by Dr. Schmorak, director of
the Comptroller's Office of the Jewish Agency, with any of the
Agency's departments in New York .. . Incidentally, a lot of the
faults found by Dr. Schmorak with the departments of the Jewish
Agency in Israel, France and Switzerland pale in significance after
reading the 87-page reply of the Jewish Agency executive to Dr.
Schrnorak's charges . . . If you wish to have an idea how United
'Palestine Appeal funds—raised through the United Jewish Appeal
— are being spent, here are the figures . . . Of every UPA dollar
raised in 1951, 54 cents was spent on agricultural settlement and
land development in Israel . . . Twenty-three cents was spent on
initial absorption of immigrants, eight cents on transportation of
immigrants to Israel, eight cents on youth immigration, four cents
on education, culture and other activities .. Only three cents was
spent on administration . . . These figures come directly from the
United Palestine Appeal headquarters in New York.
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