Canadian Humane Slaughter Law
Unification of Jewish Chic Protective
of Shehita
Movements Advocated by James Rosenberg Allows Full Protection
"cabinet ministers, from state-
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
To The Jewish News
ments in the House of Commons
(Copyright, 1959, Jewish Telegraphic Agency , Inc.)
MONTREAL — The Canadian and from the authorities in gen-
For more than two decades, unification of Zionist forces. in his approach to life's prob- Jewish Congress has been given eral that the regulations which
especially during the trying But I fail to see any reason lems. His energy enervates "ample assurance" by Canadian will he promulgated by the Min-
years after World War I and for three or four separate those around him—his family officials that Cana d a' s new ister of Agriculture will fully
during the tragic Hitlerian era, civic protective movements and the friends who constantly humane slaughter law will be protect the interests of the Jew-
James Naumburg Rosenberg instead of one, or several visit him.
administered in a way to "pro-
He seemed as much con- tect fully" the interests of the ish community.
was one of American Jewry's Zionist organizations instead
"In fact," he added, "we are
most distinguished leaders. He of organized units. I believe cerned about the attainment of Jewish Community, Saul Hayes, advised that the declaration
was the volunteer director of that we can increase effi• Jewish unity as he was about executive director of the CJC, that shehita is a humane method
the American Jewish Joint Dis- ciency in communal work by making a success of the recent said Thursday.
of slaughter will be included
abandoning competitive cam- exhibitions of his paintings in
Both Houses of Parliament in the regulations."
tribution Corn-
Washington,
Miami,
Baltimore
paigns and a multiplicity of
approved the measure after
mittee in Eu-
Hayes also disclosed that a
and other cities. He is convinc- studying a parliamentary com-
overlapping projects."
rope in 1921
study
was under way under Jew-
Rosenberg speaks with the ing to his. friends: he is not so mittee report which made a dis- ish auspices on problems of pre-
and 1922, his
sure
he
can
convince
the
Ameri-
vigor of y out h. Neither his
tinction between schehita, spe- h a ndling, including shackling
work as a
paintings nor his daily activ- can Jewish community to aban- cifically described as a humane and hoisting. He said the view
leader in wel-
ities reveal any trace of old don overlapping in communal form of slaughter, and pre- of the CJC was that "there is
fare activities
age. He is young in spirit and efforts.
handling of food animals, which no scientific proof that shack-
during the
was not so described.
first w ar 1 d
ling and hoisting is inhumane,
Hayes said that in adopting but if it is so proven, then the
war havin
the m e a s u r e, Parliament left Jewish community will have to
prepared him .
out all references to shehita and find other ways."
Rosenberg
ably for that
by PHINEAS J. BIRON
pre-handling, leaving it to the
task. He was chairman of the
While the study is being
Minister of Agriculture, D. S.
Agro-Joint. He directed the
The public at large—not even zest for life . . . The same also Harkness, to implement the law. made, he said, "we intend to
work of the American Commit- all Jews—are aware that the applies to his "Bal Shem" and
continue pressing our views to
Hayes said that the CJC has insure that the practical aspects
tee for Jewish Farm Settle- world has lost in the recent his "Nigun" . . . His composi-
asked for an appointment to of Jewish ritual slaughter and
ments in Russia.
passing of Ernest Bloch an im- tions were played throughout
Rosenberg, who was one of mortal . . . Bloch was undoubt- the world ... His originality and meet with Harkness to present the desire of the Canadian
this countr y' s most distin- edly one of the all-time great his genius were recognized by the Jewish community view- Parliament to eliminate in-
guished lawyers, also was pres- composers . .. It was only dur- the cognoscente . . . But once point, but that no date has been humanity will merge into com-
ident of the Dominican Republic ing the last few years of his life his subsidy had been exhausted set. The CJC leader said that mon findings and regulations."
Settlement Association which that his name became known and he returned to the United the Minister of Agriculture had
was organized as a result of the beyond the lovers of good music. States, his struggle started all not given any indication of
when he intended to begin
offer made at the Evian Confer-
His popular successes were over again.
We met him during that time. implementing the law.
ence in 1938, by President Rafel few and far between. Although
It was expected that Harkness
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Republic, for the settlement of years in the United States, the - mated by eyes, the glow of
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could
not
dim
.
.
He
would
For more than 50 year s, ed him . . . He was born in 1880 have accepted commissions to the special parliamentary com-
for Over 45 Years
Rosenberg, who will be 85 in Geneva . . . At the age of 36 write music for special occa- mittee.
next November, also devoted he came to this country as the sions, but nobody cared to offer
The CJC offical said assur-
most of his spare time to his conductor of a visiting ballet them . . . He lived in a small ances had been received from
major hobby; painting. About ensemble . . . After a number of apartment, austerely furnished.
ten years ago, he retired from performances in far corners of
. There was something monk-
communal leadership and America, the troupe and its con- like about his existence . . . His
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is now devoting himself en- out money, of course.
with the exuberance of his Has-
World
War
I
was
raging
in
tirely to painting, in the
sidic tunes . . . Yet there was
Adirondacks, in Europe where Europe, and Ernest Bloch tried a grandeur about him as if he
he travels frequently, and at to establish himself in our land, were fully confident of his im-
his studio in his home in which at that time was still at mortality.
31ST YEAR WITH BUICK
Scarsdale, N.Y. But he has peace . . . He gave music les-
The only opera he had writ-
not abandoned his interest in sons in New York, and, after a ten "Macbeth" was produced
Jewish life and his concern few years of struggling, he re- only rarely . .. Royalty checks
ceived successive appointments came infrequently from his oth-
for his people.
His most recent, very fascinat- as director of music schools in er works . . . He never com-
Cleveland and San Francisco.
ing book, "Painter's Self- . . . But he suffered because he plained . . . His two outstanding,
Portrait," indicated anew how could not devote himself to the non-Jewish compositions, "Hel-
keenly he is concerned about works of compositions which vetia" and "USA" were per-
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and interested in Jewish affairs. cried inside him to be written. formed only on special occa-
sions
.
.
.
The
last
few
years
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Rosenberg, the man who was
And then a miracle happened. of his life he was a sick man, I 11620
leader
in
the
American
Jew-
a
... A few generous friends, who
ish Committee and the JDC, had come to appreciate the tortured by the dreadful dis
who is keenly interested in the greatness of Bloch's musical cre- ease of cancer.
He knew that he was doomed.
work of the American Jewish ations helped him get a 10 year
• • • In his orchestra suite "A
Congress, now has a new out- financial subsidy . . Bloch Voice in the Wilderness" he pro-
look on matters involving the packed his bags and went to
phetically expressed the suffer-
over-all Jewish scene. He has a live in Switzerland . • This ings of a creative force longing
vision of Jewish unity, of the inaugurated Bloch's most fruit- to be heard . . . We wonder
merger of all Jewish efforts ful years . . . He had become whether his immortality, which
involving civic protective activ- very much interested in Jewish is inevitable, will be long in
ities within a single entity.
liturgy . . . Those who are fa- coming . . . His music belongs
"There was a time," he told miliar with his compositions of to the permanent creations of
us, "when there were differ- that period had no doubts that our time .. . It cannot remain
ing ideologies in Jewish life. Ernest Bloch was neither an obscured too long by the tem-
Committee, Congress, B n a i American nor a Swiss, creative- porary successes of his more
Brith and other movements ly speaking, but that he was a sensational contemporaries.
Aug. 17 Ryndam — Bermuda, 6 days
had differences of opinion on deep feeling Jew.
His involvement in Jewish
the subject of Zionism. There
West Indies, 14 days
Aug. 25 Ryndam
were debates over the issue themes was actually nothin g West Germany Still
new,
for
already
in
his
youth
of "Jewish nationalism." Such
Has 1,600,000 Claims
Sept. 25 Nieuw Amsterdam, Havana, 6 days
differences of opinion n o w he conceived an "Oriental Sym-
LONDON, (JTA) — Despite
are matters of the past. Now phony," inspired by the liturgi- the
Oct. 2 Nieuw Amsterdam, W. Indies, 12 da.
goodwill of the West Ger-
we need unity—not uniform- cal melodies he had listened to man federal government, only
in
the
home
of
his
religious
ity but unity—in dealing with
Oct. 23 Nieuw Amsterdam, to Haiti, 8 days
about 6,000,000 marks have been
major Jewish issues. What are parents . . . His symphony paid out in compensation
the dividing lines today? If "Israel," which he composed claims, while 12,000,000 marks
Nov. 27 Statendam, 15-day cruise
an anti-Semitic issue arises, much later, still carried the im- in claims remain to be process-
pact
of
his
parents'
home
.
.
.
all of us are equally con-
Dec. 4 Nieuw Amsterdam, to St. Thomas,
ed, the Bonn correspondent of
cerned. We are all dedicated Liberated from daily worries, he the Manchester Guardian re-
Martinique, Curacao, Haiti, 12 days
plunged
during
his
residence
in
to the task of making Israel
ports.
Switzerland
into
the
work
of
secure. Why have conflicting
The urgency accorded to a
his two greatest compositions
For further information call and talk to our
organizational units?"
which will unquestionably live particular claim varies from one
concerns
James
N.
staff who have taken these cruises.
provincial government in West
What
for a long time.
Rosenberg primarily is the
First there came "Trois Germany to another, he said in
From $150.
multiplicity of campaigns. "Let's Poemes Juifs" divided into his report. He cited as an ex-
get together on major issues, Danse, Rites, and Cortege Fu- ample that the Berlin compen-
and especially in I s r a e s be- nebres . . . And then what is sation office had, in compara-
half," he pleads—and he wants probably his very greatest opus, tive terms, five times as many
his appeal directed to all Jewish the Rhapsody "Schelomo" for employes as that of the Rhine
leaders, those with whom he cello and orchestra . . . Here, Palatinate, but in Berlin 341
had worked for years and those Bloch no longer used ready- claims per employe were han-
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with whom he had differed in made Jewish traditional liturgi- dled in 1958 compared with 1,-
in
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cal themes but created new '744 in the Rhine Palatinate
the past.
"I can see methodological Hassidic music—original compo- the same period.
Claims presently under ad-
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differences, not ideological sitions in which he raised a
ones," Rosenberg a d d e d. "I passionate cry exalting the Jew- judication total 1,600,000 in all
of
West
Germany,
he
said.
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