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Hitler's Anti-Semitic Training in
Vienna Described in Dr. Jenks' Boo

Dr. William A. Jenks, profes-
sor of history at Washington
and Lee University, in his
"Vienna and the Young Hitler,"
published by Columbia Univer-
sity Press (2960 Broadway,
N. Y. 27), reaches the conclu-
sion that "practically all of the
future dictator's disreputable
ideas were conceived or stimu-
lated while he sojourned in the
Habsburg capital."
The hist o r i c a 1 analyses
and the account Dr. Jenks
gives' of the anti-Semites who
were active in Vienna in the
latter part of the last and the
early part of the present cen-
turies make his book especially
valuable in the study of anti-
Semitic manifestations.
Hitler had written that "Vien-
na was and remained for me
the hardest, but also the most
thorough, school of my life." He
was 17 when he lived in Vienna
at the age of 17. Austria's Pan-
German leader, Georg von
Schoenerer; was expoUnding his
anti-Semitic ideas, and anti-
Jewish propaganda was being
widely circulated. Schoenerer's
legacy was acquired by Hitler,
and, as Dr. Jenks puts it, "un-
luckily the younger man had the
demagogic , genius the elder
lacked."
Dr. Jenks' study has spe-
cial merit in its review of the
activities of notorious anti-
Semites like Schoenerer, Karl
Lueger and others.
He traces European bigotry
movements to the "traditional
quarry to be subjected to abuse
—the Jew," and he states that
the liberals' "championing of
toleration and equality made
them attractive to many Jews."
Some Jews found refuge in
Austria from czarist persecu-
tions and Hitler's first encoun-
ter, we are told, first was with

Postage Stamps of
Sholem Aleichern in
Israel and the USSR

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such refugees. "Love of the
German Empire and contemp
for the 'Jew-ridden' Habsbu
domain was a constant the
peddled by the Pan-Germans
Austria," and Hitler imbit
these ideas as a youth in Vienn..
In 1908, Dr. Jenks writes,
"Hitler was practically a tat-
tered bum." We learn: "In the
Vienna of 'Hitler's youth, there
had to be flophouses and sew
ers to augment the work of th
soup kitchens and warmi•
houses. Vienna, like the rest
the Western European citi
was plagued by an unend .
shortage of housing. You
Hitler probably spent more time
in furnished rooms than in
illegal 'mass quarters,' to say
nothing of sewers . . . Hitler's
Vienna was not the Vienna of
decadent archdukes, well-fe
party hacks, and internation
businessmen. He hated all su
persons with the loathing th
failure, hunger, and filthy r
alone can instill in a hu
soul."
Dr. Jenks also explain
Hitler's objections and_ oppos
tion to labor, unions, and
writes:
"As Hitler sank further in
poverty and bitterness du
ing his second winter in Vien-
na, he personally began to
experience other evidences of
the ugly side of Viennese
life, for a sick society has
many faces. Just as important
for his future career as the
anti-Semitic pap which nour-
ished his resentment was his
constant struggle to avoid
proletarianization. He won in
that he never joined a labor
union. He became a bum in-
stead.
Hitler swallowed all the anti-
Jewish slogans from Schoenerer
and adopted his "race" theories,
as well as the hatred for doc-
trinaire liberalism. He followed
Schoenerer's program to remove
"Jewish -influence from all
spheres of public life." The
Schoenerer, and later the Hitler,
view was that "a Jew ethnolog-
ically could not be a German."
That is how the arch enemy
of liberalism, the,"fuehrer" who
sought the extermination of
Jewry, got . his start.
Dr. Jenks offers an interest-
ing explanation of the concen-
tration of Jews in the Leopold-
-stadt district of Vienna. His
analyses of anti-Semitic activ-
ities and his explanation of
Hitler's acquisition of anti-
Semitic slogans are important
for an understanding of the rise
of Nazism, whose seeds still
are in evidence in Germany.

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all, recently acquired by the
Theological Seminary, 92nd St.
remain on permanent display.,
a 16th century synagogue in
feet, nine inches high, and 15
synagogue wall known to exist.
By Thy abundant grace, I enter
Thy sanctuary with reverence
eway of the Lord; the righteous
118:20).

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New Israel Stamps
Salute Refugees,
12th Aniversary

Two postage stamps have
been issued in honor of the cen-
tennial of Sholem Aleichem-
in Russia and in Israel.
Soviet authorities, in defense
of their claims that Jewish cul-
ture is not prohibited in the
USSR, constantly paint to the
fact that Sholem Aleichem's
works have recently been pub-
lished there.
The two postage stamps re-
produced above were issued this
year in Israel and the USSR.

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Two new series of stamps,
marking World Refugee Year
and the forthcoming 12th an-
niversary of Israel's inde-
pendence will be released
shortly by the Israel Ministry
of Posts. Each series will con-
sist of two stamps.
Israel's decision to release the
World Refugee stamps followed
an invitation for the ' issue
from the Universal Postal
Union, a UN agency. They
will be released in IL.25 and
IL.50 denominations on April 7.
The lesser denomination de-
notes "Operation Magic Carpet,"
the air rescue of thousands of
Jews from Yemen during the
early years of the existence of
Israel. The second stamp
symbolizes resettlement of the
refugees on the soil of Israel.
The anniversary issue, de-
picting flowers of Israel, will
be in IL.12 and IL.32 denomi-
nations.
Philatelists may order the
stamps pre-paid through the
Philatelic Service of the Minis-
try of Posts, Jerusalem, Israel.
Minimum orders accepted are
$1.

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res
tion of the application
policy and of such action as is
to be taken in these matters,
but requires that the President
report to the Congress on the
implementation of this section."

House Passes Rights Bill With
Clause Against 'Hate Bombers'
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
House passed a civil rights bill
that included a measure to make
it a federal crime to cross a
state line to escape prosecution
for bombing or threatening to
bomb any building or vehicle.
This could be used against the
"hate bombers" of synagogues,
churches and schools. The bill
was passed by a vote of 311 to
109.

Canadian Jewish Scholars

Marvin Duchow is Dean of
the Faculty of Music at McGill
University; John Weintzweig is
Dean of the Faculty of Music
at University of Toronto; and
Murray Adaskin is Dean of the
Faculty of Music at the Uni-
versity of Saskatoon.

TA) — A
cal expedi-
re the coastal
srael this spring
under the direction of Edwin
A. Link, it was announced by
the America-Israel society and
Princeton Theological Seminary,
the institutions jointly sponsor-
ing the project.

to Hold 2 _Parleys

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
World Confederation of General
Zionists, headed by Dr. Emanu-
el Neumann, announced that
two regional conferences of
General Zionists—one in Eu-
rope, and the other- in Latin
America — will convene this
summer in preparation for the
25th World Zionist Congress.
The European conference will
Scholars Examine
be held in Antwerp June 24-26,
Conduct of Soviet
the Latin American in Rio de
"Soviet Conduct in World Af- Janeiro in July.
fairs," a book which assembles
divergent interpretations of So- Pamphlet by Dr. Feldman
viet behavior advanced by 15
Issued by Manufacturers
leading Western scholars has
"What Do Labor and Industry
just been published by Colum-
bia University Press. It has Have the Right to Expect from
been compiled and edited by Each Other" is the text of a
Alexander Dallin, associate pro- pamphlet by Rabbi Abraham J.
fessor of international rela- Feldman, of Hartford, Conn.,
tions at Columbia University issued this week by the National
and a member of the staff of Association of Manufacturers,
2 E. 48th, N.Y. 17.
the Russian Institute.
Other accompanying pamph-
The Gold Rush wasn't the lets issued by the association
only reason people flocked to include "American Capitalism:
California in the 19th century. Its Representation of Itself,"
TB sufferers migrated there by Rev. James L. Vizzard, and
by the thousands iri hopes that Dr. Perry E. Gresham's; "Priv-
the climate would cure them. ate Enterprise and the State—.
the Moral Implications."
Get a chest X-ray!

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