World Notables Honor
Dr. Israel Goldstein
in 2-Decades' Volume
Bernard Baruch Tells of Prejudice
,Suffered by His Daughters Who Are
Episcopalians Like Their Mother
Twenty-six distinguished
world figures and skilled ob-
servers have contributed their
Bernard Mannes Baruch, fa- • connection. Baruch continues to
views and evaluations of the
past 60 years of world Jewry mous- financial wizard, adviser trace the family tree on his
in a 480-page volume entitled to Presidents, colorful person- mother's side and reaches the
who reached his 87th era of his grandmother, Sara
"Two Generations in Perspec- ality
birthd ay last
Cohen, a daughter of Deborah
tive: Notable Events and Trends week, knows
Marks and Rabbi Hartwig
1896-1956."
the taste of
Cohen, who was courted by Sal-
From the days -of the pogroms anti-Semitism.
ing Wolfe, a young merchant
in Czarist Russia. the Dreyfus
In his auto-
and planter of Winnsboro, S. C.
Affair, the birth of organized biography,
He quotes at length from their
Zionism, and the mass influx "Baruch: My-
Hebrew marriage contract.
of Jewish immigrants to the Own Story,"
Of this marriage, 13 children
United States — through the published by
were born, his mother, Isabelle
Henry
Holt
&
Nazi holocaust and the estab-
Wolfe, who later was referred
lishment of the State of Israel, Co. (383 Madi-
to as "Miss Belle, - born March
up to the present day. with the son, N. Y. 17)
4, 1850, being the third child
Baruch
current problems confronting he makes two
and first daughter.
the Jewish people—this book direct references to anti-Semi-
Of his early life in Camden,
covers all phases of Jewish life tism.
S. C., Baruch writes that the
When the family moved to
in the six eventful decades just
children had worn shoes
New York from Camden, S. C.,
past.
"only when the weather de-
Among the contributors to ' he and his brother, Hartwig, manded it or on the Jewish
heard
the
opprobrium
"sheenie"
this volume—which is dedi-
"
cated to the 60th birthday of hurled at them for the first Sabbath.
In New York, his mother be-
time.
Harty
challenged
the
Dr. Israel Goldstein—are Itzhak
Ben-Zvi, President of Israel; abusers and beat up a big boy. came active in Daughters of
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, Chancel- "No one in the gang ever called American Revolution, Daugh-
us 'sheenie' again," Baruch ters of the Confederacy and
lor of the Jewish Theological writes. numerous charities. She at-
Seminary of America; Dr. Ev- : The other occasion was the tended synagogue services and
erett R. Clinchy. President of attack upon him as a leader also went to churches to hear
the National Conference of in an "international Jewish preachers like Henry Ward
Christians and Jews; Dr. Na- conspiracy" in the Dearborn , Beecher.
hum Goldman, President of Independent. "These attacks," I But there is another interest-
the World Zionist Organization; Baruch writes in his auto- ' ing religious angel to the
Dr. Channing H. Tobias, chair- biography, "were later echoed Baruch background. He writes:
man of the National Association by the KKK, Father Charles "Mother had been brought
for the Advancement of Colored E. Coughlin, Gerald L. K. up in a strictly kosher home
People; Charles H. Silver. Pres- Smith, Dudley Pelley. to say and the observance of the Jew-
ident of the Board of Education ' nothing of Herman Goebbels ish holidays meant more to her
of the City of New York: Dr.' and Adolf Hitler. These attacks than it did to Father. In South
Solomon Grayzel, noted histo- never hurt me as much as did Carolina Father had headed the
rian, and Pierre van Paassen. the discriminations my children * Hebrew Benevolent Associa-
author and Unitarian minister. suffered. My two daughters tion, and I still have a couy of
Published by Monde Pub- were brought up in the Epis- the letter of resignation he
lishers, Inc.. and edited by copalian faith of their mother. wrote when he was leaving for
Harry Schneiderman. " T w o Yet they were refused admis- . New York. In the letter he
Generations in Perspective" is sion to the same dancing school urged continued teaching of the
scheduled for publication Sept. their mother had attended.; 'high morality' of Judaism and
5_
Even when the pastor of their the Bible. But although Father
church intervened, they were was a highly moral person, I
Let every man strive to add denied admission to several pri- remember his telling me, 'I
vate
schools for girls." don't believe there is an aveng-
a good name to his other capi-
tal.—W. H. Taft
ing God standing over people
How did he meet the issue?
xvith a sword.'"
Baruch writes that "it was
When his father felt his end
not easy to explain to my
OPEN LABOR DAY
children why they were saf- coming, he asked the Baruch
fering such senseless dis- brothers to promise him that
criminations." Instead of they would not allow their
embittering and frustrating mother "to send for a rabbi to
them, he spurred them on to say any final Jewish prayer.
"more strenuous achievement 'There is no use trying to fool
—which is how I myself have God at this late date,' Father
met the problem of pre- explained."
ENJOY JACK'S
Bernard Baruch tells how, by
judice." He adds that "it
would be wonderful if laws observing Yom Kippur, he
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wipe out bigobry and pre- brokers on a crucial day and,
judice. But human nature is while -he would otherwise have
not changed so easily." As sold Amalgamated stock at a
D Yeol :, v re
long as the priceless Ameri- loss. he, instead, made a hand-
can heritage which affords some profit.
people an opportunity to bet- I His life is replete with inci-
ter themselves "remains ours, dents of his work for the Gov-
we will continue our progress ernrnent during both wars, his
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Tracing his family background, well-educated family.
AS THO IT HAD NEVER
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geon Simon Baruch of the Con-
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of a family that settled in
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