THE JEWISH NEWS Behind Him All the Way Now Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951 Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich., YE. 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign N. Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879 PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager CARM1 M. SLOMOVITZ Circulation Manager FRANK SIMONS City Editor Sabbath Script ural Selections This Friday, the fourteenth day • of Tammuz, 5717, the following Scriptural sel- ections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Pinhas, Numbers 25:10-30:1. Prophetical portion, I Kings 18:46-19:21. The Fast of Tammuz will be observed on Tuesday Licht Benshen, Friday, July 12, 7:49 p.m. VOL. XXXI, No. 19 Page Four July 12, 1957 Sulzberger and Deutscher: Conflict Over Israel Arthur Hays Sulzberger, chairman of the board of the New York Times, is one of the world's most distinguished ,pub- lishers. Like his father-in-law, the late Adolph Ochs, whose genius for organiza- tion and for the establishment of a great worldwide chain of correspondents was responsible for the rise of the Times to its position of unquestioned leadership among the daily newspapers of the world, he affirms his Jewishness. Unlike his father-in-law, who was an anti-Zionist, he is a non-Zionist. In an interview he granted to the Newark Jewish News, Sulzberger said: "I want it clearly understood that I am a Jew," and 'discussed his attitudes on Zion- ism and Israel. He said that while he had opposed the establishment of Israel, now that the Jewish State is in existence his view toward it "is the same as my attitude toward Indonesia, for instance. I wish it well but I am completely without any nationalistic fervor about it." Then came the gem of the interview. He expressed agreement with the stand of his late father, Cyrus Sulzberger, "that if those who fought for the establishment of the State, starting back before the first world war, had worked with the same zeal and intensity to permit Jews to live any place in the world in peace and se- curity it would have been better and wiser." * * * Sulzberger is an able and a wise man. He understands world conditions. He knows Israel's and world Jewry's position. His newspaper has conducted the most valiant battle in defense of IsraePs se- curity in the most recent crisis, and has exposed the Nasser danger to the free nations more effectively than any other newspaper in the world. Yet he adheres to a view that if there were no Israel, it would have been wiser for Jews. Would it? We are puzzled! Jews who followed the precpt quoted from Cyrus Sulzberger have learned that they were fighting for a lost cause. Those who struggled for emancipation found themselves betrayed. Jews in Communist countries who have all but cast away their heritage are learn- ing to their consternation and despair that they still are being viewed as aliens and as strangers and now are craving for the opportunity to settle in Israel. Since the first world war, Jews who had fought for the right to live in peace and security wherever they were and, to emphasize their cosmopolitanism, bitterly fought against Zionism, learned to their sorrow that they were battling for an unrealistic dream. They have learned, as many former anti-Zionist Socialists and bundists had learned, that they had placed too much hope in the humani- tarian preachments of their fellow theo- reticians who, under Hitler and Stalin, had betrayed them and had themselves become fomenters of anti-Semitism. Let us call to witness one of the world's best informed men on Communism and Socialism, a former anti-Zionist who has visited Israel and has since then spoken frankly regarding his original position on Zionism and the Jewish State. Early in 1954, Isaac Deutscher, the eminent biogra- pher of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, author- ity on Communism who now fights the Kremlin after having become convinced of its danger to humanity, wrote two articles in The Reporter fortnightly on his visits in Israel. In a summary of his im- pressions, Deutscher stated: "Israelis who have known me as an anti-Zionist of long standing were curi- ous to hear what I was thinking about Zionism now. I have, of course, long since abandoned my anti - Zionism, which, was based on a confidence in the European labor movement, or, more broadly, a confidence in European so- ciety and civilization which that society and civilization have not justified. If, instead of arguing against Zionism in the 1920's and 1930's, I had urged Euro- pean Jews to go to Palestine, I might have helped to save some of the lives that were to be extinguished in Hitler's gas chambers." This is the confession of a man who could have been helpful and now admits he was not. But Sulzberger would have us believe that the attitude of pre-Hitler days was the right one! How blind can men be to reality? * * This is not to be interpreted as an utterly despairing viewpoint on the future position of Jews in free countries. We have faith that the principle of fair play and untarnished justice for all peoples will prevail in our own country, that Americans will defend the democratic principles and that anti-Semitism will be unable to raise its ugly head in official quarters in the United States, in Great Britain, in Canada. It is only when anti- Semitism becomes an official weapon that Jews have a great deal to fear from the rise of bigotry against them. But this is just what happened in lands where, as men like the Sulzbergers advocated, Jews were advised to repudiate Zionism and to labor only for the right to live in peace and security among their neighbors. In many countries, the liber- tarian aspirations of Jews_ in the lands of their. birth were sacrificed either to Fascism, Communism or Nazism. A -third of the Jewish people was exterminated as a result of this betrayal of the basic demo- cratic ideals to which anti-Zionist Jews had dedicated themselves exclusively. It is because of Zionists who adhered to their dream for Jewish national rebirth in addi- tion to participating in efforts for freedom in lands of their birth, that the foundation was created for a State where Jews were able at first to find refuge and now to attain citizenship in the autonomous State called Israel. It is because of the experiences we }gave enumerated that we believe the Sulzbergers to be so utterly misled in their approach towards Zionism. Out of- our deep respect for Arthur Hays Sulz- berger's genius as a publisher, we regret his unrealistic approach. It should have been much more consistent with the les- sons of the tragic events we had witnessed in Germany from 1933 to 1945 — and in Russia since then. The Purged Kaganovich There is no need to shed tears over the purging of Lazar M. Kaganovich by the Nikita Khrushchev clique in Russia. The only Jew in the Communist regime is known to have followed the Stalinist anti-Semitic line. It has harmed rather than helped the Russan Jewish commun- ities in their aspirations for the advance- ment of Jewish cultural undertakings, and he may have spearheaded the anti-Zionist and anti-Israel campaigns in the Soviet Union. The new Soviet purge appears to have unleashed new hopes for better under- standing between East and West and for more amicable discussions with the Com- munist rulers on armaments and on world peace. Previous Communist attitudes cause us to be skeptical and to urge that we abide by the clarifications that are al- ways provided by the time element. Only time will prove anything in matters that involve so muddled a concoction as placing faith in the Soviet rulers. 1-1 = • *1 `e;',4 ,,;` Immigrants' Many-Stranded Roles 'They All Chose America' Describes Manifold Gifts Many volumes haVe been written to show the many- stranded roles of immigrants in the making of America. One of the most fascinating of the collective stories related about newcomers to this land is "They All Chose America," by Albert Q. Maisel, published by Thomas Nelson & Sons (19 E. 47th, N. Y. 17). Maisel describes the gifts to this country, and their share in its making and in its progress, by Jews, the Dutch, the Swiss, Swedes, Scots, Poles, Negroes, the English, the French, Germans, Greeks, Irish, Italians, Japanese- and Mexicans. At the very outset, Maisel states: "When an Italian sea captain led three small Spanish caravels out of Palos Harbor in 1492 — with crews that, prophetically, included an Englishman, an Irishman and a Jew —he set into motion a churning series of migrations that were destined to alter decisively every aspect of civilization in both the Old World and the New." He proceeds to show that "Swedish or English, German or Jewish immigrants .. . had affected America in many varied ways." His chapter "The Jews" is a fine analysis of American Jewish history. It is the story of Jews who have made important contributions to American life, and to all aspects of American art, science' and literature; as well as to government, the field of sports and the labor movement. Maisel describes the arrival of Jews in New York in the days of Stuyvesant. He speaks of Haym Salomon, who financed the American Revolution; the merchant Aaron Lopez, the early American Jews the Minises, the de Leans, the Noneses and many others. He relates the story of Joseph Jonas, Cincinnati's first Jew; of the great philanthropist Judah Touro, the men in the labor movement, the great actors, the noted musicians, the literary giants, the statesmen, the athletes, the economists. Maisel reaches an interesting conclusion on "The Jews" in "They All Chose America." He sees our people clinging to their faith, continuing "to feel a special kinship for their co-religionists abroad and a special hope for the strengthening of Israel," and he adds: "If our country has any meaning at all, we can be certain that . . . the spirit that has here united Jew and Gentile in brotherhood will achieve new bonds of unity in a nation that has made their age-old dream of equality come true." Yiddish Literary Echoes By BORIS SMOLAR Editor, Jewish Telegraphic Agency Those who fear that Yiddish literature is on the decline in the United States will gain new courage from daring New York publisher Israel London. . It was only a few months ago that London, an expert in the publishing business, established a Yiddish-language publishing house, "Kval.". . . This week he brought out his second beautiful volume which, from point of view of attractive printing and binding, can compete with any English-language book published by a modern American firm. . . . It is Zalman Shneour's novel "Der Mamzer" ("The Illegiti- mate Child") . . . The first book published by "Kval" was Isaac Bashevis-Singer's "Beth Din Shtub" ("My Father's Court Room") . . . Both authors need no introduction, since their works have frequently been translated into English and published in this country by Roy Publishers and by Knopf ... They were among the best sellers. . "Kval" books, which are among the best works of contemporary Yiddish novelists, are fast joining the best seller class . . . Which can be taken as indication that there are still plenty of readers of Yiddish literature in this country . . . Successful with his first two books, London is contemplating publishing in Yiddish translation books by Ernest Hemingway and other renowned authors A man of fine taste, and a great lover of Jewish art and literature, London deserves wide recog- nition for his "Kval" enterprise . . . He fortifies interest in his books by radio discussions in Yiddish in which numerous Yiddish writers participate .