Noteworthy JNF Achievements Source of Revived Bigotr), Top 1959 Jewish Story Editorials Page 4 THE JEWISH 71‘,:EWS A Weekly Review J of (\ ‘0 - le* VOLUME XXXVI — No. 18 Nor ljentr!n Sgop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VF Neo-Nazism Major Menace in Trout Greetings to Jewish Communities *4 Everywhere b- Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—' Hanukah . Detroit Jewish Chronicle , January 1, 1960 .$5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c orld Anti-Semitism Threatens denauer Position as West Germany's Leader The resurgence of anti-Semitism in Germany, on the eve of Christmas, suddenly catapulted the rebirth of Nazism into one of the major stories of 1959. A gradually developing neo-Nazism, and its attendant rebirth of hatred of the remaining 35,000 Jews in Ger- many, has created a serious problem for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the West German Federal Republic. Germany's leaders have condemned the new out- breaks against the small number of Jews that remains in Germany out of the pre-World War II population of 600,000. The new incidents at Cologne have attracted world- wide notice, and the problem of a re-emerging German anti-Semitism is being discussed in many countries as one of the new menaces in a troubled world. While Adenauer's position as West •German has become endangered as a result of the new Nazi acts, there are warnings that the situation will worsen when Adenauer no longer is in power. . Political Crisis Faced by Adenauer Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News LONDON.—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who has staked his political life on the proposition that Nazism and anti-Semitism are dead in West Germany, is facing a political crisis because of the Christmas Eve deSecration of the Cologne synagogue, the Daily Express correspond- ent reported from Bonn. He reported that the Socialist opposition party issued Photo by Meirowitch, Jerusalem a call to the German people demanding whether "the (03=1 U17s) •17 rutn nn13725 rn n- 15D"y31: roots of Nazi criminality have really been torn up." The Chancellor's Christian Democratic Party has promised During the long Exile. Hanukah candles flickered only in synagogues or that "Nazis who are still smearing the good name of Ger- behind shuttered windows. Today, Hanukah torches blaze wherever Jews many" would be punished. live in free democratic communities. In Israel, menorahs are lit on roofs of houses and are visible from the hills—on towers and in homes. The accom- The synagogue scandal figured in West Germany's panying photograph shows the lighting of Hanukah torches in Jerusalem. Continued on Page 24 1960 Recollections of Century's Progress BY DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) -It's 1960! 'Remember 1860? It was only 100 years ago. How things have changed! -The entire population of the United States was only 30,000,000. Pebple didn't use tooth brushes. When they got sick, Jews took "zum molten." For a fever, you took quinine. If you were hoarse, rock candy with whiskey. People were reading Dickens and George Eliot and Emerson. Whitman had written a book but it took time before it caught on. Heinrich Heine was well known. He had died four years before 1860, but he had left a strong impression. At first, he had abandoned Judaism but later retraced his steps and became a very good Jew. His friend Karl Marx wcote . a book about Capital. He told his mother about it. She said, "Karl, it would have been better if you had some capital instead of writing about it." The only money Karl Marx made was the little he received from the New York Tribune for serving as European correspondent for it. In England, Benjamin Disraeli was coming to the fore. In 1860, he had not yet become Prime Minister but Carlyle had already called him "a superlative Hebrew conjurer." Sir Moses Montefiore was world, famous for his philanthropy. He was a very religious Jew and traveled about Europe asking the crowned heads of such countries as Turkey, Russia and Romania to be merciful to Jews. In 1860, Romania was a particularly troublesome spot for Jews. In many parts of the world, "the blood accusation" was raised against Jews. It was charged that Jews killed non-Jews to get blood which they mixed with matzot. In the United States in 1860, the slavery issue had precipitated a crisis which seemed about to rend the Union in two, at a time when, with the develop- ment of the West and the building of railroads, the country was making greater progress than ever. There was a lot of talk at the time about railroads, which were a comparatively new thing. Everywhere it was supplanting the horse, and the first name of the railroad was the iron horse. A new party called the Republicans had been organized, and it was anti=slavery. Louis N. Dembitz, a Jew who had been elected one of the delegates to the national Republican convention meeting in Chicago in 1860, was asked who he thought would be nominated. "Well," said Mr. Dembitz, "there is a great deal of hullabaloo for Seward, but there is a growing sentiment for that fellow from Illinois, Abe Lincoln. The country doesn't know much about Lincoln yet, but I think he would make a strong candidate. I am for him." However, another Jew, August Belmont, who was a leader in the Democratic party, supported Douglas. In all, there were about 200,000 Jews in the United States. In Louisiana, a Jew, Judah P. Benjamin, had been elected United States Senator. A young and beautiful Jewish actress from New Orleans, Ada Isaacs Menken, was a sensation appear- ing in tights. Mark Twain, then an unknown in Nevada, was fascinated by her. She also wrote p.*ems about the rebirth of the Jewish State. But the first person to take the idea of a Jewish State seriously was a Christian, Warder Cresson. He had been a Quaker and had gone to Palestine to establish the first Jewish agricultural colony. He died in 1860. In that same year, a child was born in Buda- pest to a Jewish merchant. The father said to his wife: "You know, Jeannette, he has your beautiful eyes and features." "But look, Jacob," she answered, "what a big fellow he is. He will grow up to be a man of tall stature like you." The grandfather of the child stod by: "He has inherited the beautiful face of his mother, the stature of his father. Where do I come in? Doesn't he inherit something from me? Maybe he will inherit my ideas." The grandfather, Simon Loeb Herzl, had frequently spoken of the re- establishment of the Jewish State. So they named the boy Theodor. It was in 1860—just 100 years ago.