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It is Most appropriate that,
on the eve of his 80th birthday,
at least one volume of Louis
Lipsky's collected essays should
be made
able.
Lipsky's "A'
Gallery o f
Zionist P r o-
files" has just
been published,
b y Farrar
Straus & Cud,
ahy. It is one
of the rare vol-
umes in which
the reader
Lipsky
finds' an • emi-
nent critic's Opinions of distin-
guished leaders, a tribute to the
critic by a great writer—in the
forward of Maurice Samuel en-
titled "The Missing Profile"—
and the critic's brilliant writ-
ing.
hitherto unacquainted with. He
will meet a man who worked
with the first "American rabbis
whose sympathies were with
Zionism, the Jastrows, the ven-
erable Gustave Gottheil, B'en-
jamin Szold of Baltimore, Ber-
nard Felsenthal of Chicago." He
will learn new facts about the
great tribune who aspired to be
the rabbi of New York's Temple
Emanu-El, "but he was opposed
and rejected by most of the lay
leaders of the congregation,"
Lipsky explains.
"Fortunately for him and
his people," Lipsky adds
about Wise, "he was not des-
tined to be chained to that
golden chariot, to be cribbed
and cabined in thought and
action. Upon the frustration
of his ambition, he hit out for
freedom through the Free
Synagogue."
A bit later in this fine book,
Lipsky knew the men he
evaluated. He worked with the reader is introduced to
them in Zionist ranks and in Judah L. Magnes, the idol of
other Jewish , activities. With the masses of New York, who
the exception of Theodor did become rabbi of Temple
Herzl, he "knew most of the Emanu-El, but who resigned in
leading personalities of the protest against their ritual; Mag-
nes, who was a pacifist, who be-
Zionist movement for over
half a century." But even the came president of the Hebrew
Herzlian essay .reveals a deep University in Jerusalem, who
understanding of "the Prince worked for Arab-Jewish amity,
who "believed—looking beyond
of them all."
the realities — that the Jewish
The reader will be introduced people could achieve their aims
to a Stephen S. Wise he was
through an appeal to the ideals
of peace and justice."
The heroes in "A Gallery of
Zionist Profiles" are vastly dif-
presents their
ferent from popular conceptions
because Lipsky treats them real-
istically from personal knowl-
with Carl Simms and
edge and experience. Naphtali
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ing ' of the difficulties of a
mass of human beings" came
"out of servitude to freedom;
she was a mother of them
all."
It is a new Louis D. Brandeis,
a very human Weizmann, an
interesting Bialik and many
other great men who emerge
from this volume. "The first
three" in this fine book are
Herzl, Max Nordau and David
Wolffsohn. They are followed
by those we have mentioned
and Nahum Sokolow, Menahem
Ussishkin, Shmarya Levin, Leo
Motzkin, Victor Jacobson, Vlad-
imir Jabotinsky, Ahad Ha-Am,
Robert Stricker, Eliezer Kaplan,
Pinchas Rutenberg, Eliezer Ben
Yehuda, Jacob DeHaas, Solo-
mon Schechter, Hirsch Maslian-
sky, Abraham Goldberg, Joseph
Seff and Cyrus Adler.
And in a concluding chapter,
"Israel Among the Nations,"
Lipsky includes a sketch of
David Ben-Gurion.
The foreword by Samuel,
"the missing profile," of the .
author of these biographical
sketches, Is a deserving tri-
bute to the great American
Zionist leader, to the octogen-
arian Louis Lipsky. "Few of
them occupy as' distinguished
a place in the Zionist and
Jewish tradition as Louis Lip-
sky," Maurice Samuel states
in his masterful essay. "His
liking for human beings over-
comes the gravest obstacles
. . Not the least of the serv-
ices which Louis Lipsky has
performed for American Jew-
ry has been to set a new
standard in secular leadership
... Lipsky has been the only
one . . . to confine himself to
the Jewish world, simply as a
secular official, and to dem-
onstrate that neither wealth
nor outside recognition are
indispensable to effe ctiv e
Jewish leadership."
Thus, Lipsky's book of tri-
butes to many men is in effect
a tribute to him as the associate
of these men — whom he knew
and described so well — and as
the person who has matched
their leadership.
B. C. R. SayS:
Masliansky Still Speaks!
FOr many years of a former
generation a sign would appear
every Friday in front of the
auditorium of the Educational
Alliance, East Broadway and
Jefferson St., on- the lower East
Side saying: Masliansky Y'daber.
This meant the famous Yiddish
preacher and orator, the cele-
brated matif l'urni. (spokesman
of the people), Zvi Hirsch Mas-
liansky, would address the Peo-
ple's Synagogue that evening as
he did continuously every week
for two decades or more.
I remember the sensation that
Masliansky made when he first
came to this country at the be-
ginning of the century, his- rep-
utation as a dynamic and most
eloquent magid having proceed-
ed him. He addressed audiences
in different large cities of the
country and everywhere stirred
his listeners to heights of en-
thusiasm and admiration. .
I heard him speak in Boston
and afterwards interviewed him
and wrote about the powerful
impression he made upon his
audiences for the Boston Post.
I did not dream
at the time that
I would be
thrown to-
gether with
• this remarkable
•man in later
years when he
was the presi-
`dent of the
company which
•published t h e
Jewish World,
a Yiddish daily,
and for which
I edited the
Masliansky
English page. That is quite a
chapter by itself.
The idea to be brought out
here is that he exerted a strong
and powerful influence on the
whole American Jewish commu-
nity which then expressed itself
chiefly in the Yiddish language
and that, among his other
achievements as a moral guide
and leader of his people, he
helped to lay the foundations of
the Zionist movement in the
United States. He belonged to
the advance guard which fur-
thered the great cause of Jew-
ish national reconstruction and
will long be remembered as an
educator and tribune of his
people.
I do not know whether a
memorial for Masliansky has
been established in the State
of Israel, though I know that
many trees have been planted
in his name in the forests reared
by the" Jewish National Fund.
Yet whether there is a Maslian-
sky Street or an institution in
Israel named after him or not,
I am certain that he still speaks
in• the new-born Homeland..
There his ideals and aspira-
tions are well articulated by a
gifted and charming grand-
daughter who is one of the im-
portant educators in the coun-
try. Sulamith Schwartz Nardi
truly represents the fervor, en-
thusiasm and high mentality of
Masliansky and her influence
in the country keeps alive and
perpetuates all that he ever held
dear and worked for. Mrs. Nardi
is an outstanding teacher in One
of the schools of the
University, and now a - new
honor has come to her as a
member of the editorial board
of the University, which is de-
ciphering and translating the
manuscripts of the renowned
"Dead Sea Scrolls."
Her husband, Noah Nardi, is
equally prominent as a Super-
visor of Schools in Jerusalem
and as the author of a number
of books on pedagogy.: Sulamith
Schwartz draws her inspiration
from both sides of her ancestry,
her father, Dr. Abraham S.
Schwartz of New York, being
a physician and a scholar as
well as a Hebrew poet, who for
many years helped to cultivate
the Hebrew language andlitera-
ture in the United States. Her
mother is, of course, a Maslian-
sky.
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U-D Law Journal Publishes
Honigman's Brandeis. Essay
The University of Detroit
Law Journal has published an
article, "Louis D. Brandeis: The
People's Lawyer," by Jason L.
Honigman.
A reprint of the article, dis-
tributed by the Detroit Friends
of Brandeis University, contains
a preparatory note by Leonard
N. Simons.
Honigman, who is a life mem-
ber of Brandeis 'University As-
sociates, reviews in his essay
Brandeis' legal attainments and
some of his court decisions and
declares:
"To lawyers of future genera-
tions he has left the heritage of
a career worthy of emulation.
To every lawyer for all time,
he has held forth a torch for a
worthy career."
Austrian Film to Depict Life
of Nobel Prize Winner
VIENNA (JTA) — The Aus-
trian Ministry of Culture will
inaugurate a new series of
government-produced films with
a screen biography of Prof. Otto
Loewi, Jewish Nobel Prize win-
ner, who left Austria after the
Nazi "Anschluss" in 1938.
Recipient of the Nobel Prize
in medicine in 1936 while a
resident of Austria, Prof. Loewi
also won the Austrian Distin-
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Science in 1936, and Edin-
burgh's Cameron Prize in 1944.
Dr. Loewi; who was born in
1673, came to the U.S. in 1940.
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