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The Detroit Jewish News, 1963-09-13

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Friday, Sept. 13, 1963 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — 1 0

Waldman's 'Sieg Heil!' Reviews Hitler's
Terrors, Shortsightedness of Statesmen

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=1111 ■1111 government leaders and of

the heads of the governments
that were swallowed up by
Hitler's Third Reich.
He relates how ineffectual
negotiations were with the Polish
government and tells about the
Morris D. Waldman, former pro-German attitude of some of
executive vice-president of the the heads of Poland who did
American Jewish Committee, not realize that they were them-
who was the I selves doomed to destruction.
first executive Yet the lot of Polish Jewry re-
director of De- mained precarious.
Having attended a perform-
troit's Jewish
ance
of "The Passion Play in
Welfare Fed-
eration, h a s Oberammergau" in 1922, Wald-
delved into man writes authoritatively about
many histor- the spectacle which he brands
ical records as utterly anti-Jewish. He
for data about ascribes one of the reasons for
Adolf Hitler Hitler's anti-Semitism to his hav-
in his new ing seen the play, his having
book, "Sieg witnessed its venom, his having
Heil!" which begun to believe that Jesus was
an Aryan. Lengthy quotations
has been
from "The Passion Play" in
published b y
"Sieg Heil!" attest to his con-
Oceana Publi-
clusions.
cations (40
Dating back Hitler's "violent
Cedar St.,
outbursts" to the first world
Dobbs Ferry,
war, Waldman points out:
Waldman N. Y.)
"Even when the fighting
Every aspect of the Nazi ter- looked good he would suddenly
ror, the early life of Hitler, burst forth in his characteris-
the reasons that motivated his tically violent manner to pre-
hatred for the Jewish people, dict that in spite of German
his associates, his lady friends superiority the war would be
whose companionship he sought lost by the betrayal of enemies
in order to dispel the belief within—the Jews, the Marxists,
that he either had no sex in- the shirkers and black marke-
terests or that he may have teer' His fellows avoided him.
been homosexual — these and
"Yet on August 4, 1916, he is
scores of other elements of the alleged to have received the
most brutal era in history are Iron Cross 1st Class, an unusual
recorded in this volume.
award for a corporal. (Years
Because he occupied one of later inquiries among his regi-
the most decisive, positions in
ment failed to confirm the
Jewish life, as the director of granting of this award.)"
the American Jewish Com-
Then follows a thorough
mittee, he was - able, in this
searching into historical rec-
account of Hitler's life and
ords, in the course of which
the years of the emergence
Waldman describes the oc-
of Nazism, to relate numerous
currences during Hitler's rule
historical facts that have a
over his countrymen, the en-
bearing on the attitudes of
couragement he was given by
deluded statesmen and even
Discover Ancient
by churchmen. Waldman men-
tions many Americans who
Library in Jerusalem
fell prey to Hitler's preach-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A
ments and he reviews the role
valuable library of Judaica com-
prising about 1,500 volumes was that was played by Father
discovered here recently during Coughlin who resorted to the
a routine inspection of a con- lies in "The Protocols of the
demned structure in the run Elders of Zion" in fomenting
down Nachlat Shiva Quarter, anti-Semitism.
The repudiations of Coughlin
earmarked for demolition.
The library was assembled are part of the "Meg Heil!"
more than a century ago by story. Waldman quotes the re-
Rabbi David ben Shimon of plies to Coughlin by many Cath-
Egypt, who died here many olic dignitaries, including Bish-
years ago, and was inherited op Mundelein of Chicago who
by his son who became chief said: "As an American citizen,
rabbi of Egypt and took them Father Coughlin has the right
with him to Cairo. Subsequent- to express his personal views
ly the books were taken to on current events but he is not
Morocco and later sent back to authorized to speak for the
Jerusalem to the Yeshiva of Catholic Church nor does he
Rabbi Amram Abu Rabiah in represent the sentiments of the
Church."
the Old City.
Continuing his analysis of
During the Mandatory period,
when that Yeshiva building was the mentality of Hitler, Wald-
closed by the British authorities man shows that his "fundamen-
as unsafe, the books were turn- tal ideas," commencing with his
ed over to the Committee of the fulminations while he was a
Moroccan Community. In the corporal in the German .army
interim. however, many of the in the first world war, "had
books became badly damaged undergone little change from
due to their having been stack- those he expressed during his
ed in damp closets where ver- youth, to wit, that race is the
min devoured many of their cornerstone of history, that
might makes right" He quotes
pages.
Through the assistance of the Hitler's assertions about "a
American Jewish Joint Distribu- Jewish invention like circum-
tion Committee here, the library cision," that the Passion Play
has been recently installed in of Oberammergau is "the truest
the Porath Yoseph Yeshiva analysis of the Jewish spirit
which will restore it and place and the best warning against
it in a special reading room. the Jewish danger."
Because he touches upon all
This Yeshiva was forced to
abandon its 30,000-volume lib- the related factors in the Hitler
rary when it evacuated its for- tragedy—his dealings with the
mer quarters in the Old City world's statesmen, many of
whom were blinded by his ini-
in 1948.
Among the rare books in the tial promises to cooperate for
Ben Shimon collection is a hand- peace, his murderous associates,
written commentary on the the perverts who made up his
Kabbalah by Jonah Hegirondi, corps of bandits—the Waldman
a book on Jewish thought en- story has great merit..
titled "Ahavat Olam" by Shlomo
In a lengthy introduction
Algazi published in 1647 in Con- to "Sieg Heil!", Dr. George
stantinople, "Binah le'Etim" by N. Shuster, the eminent
Azaria Figo, published in Lem- Catholic lay leader who now
berg, Poland in 1527, and re- is a member of the faculty of
sponsa by Joseph Caro, printed Notre Dame University, ana-
in Mantoa, Spain in 1790.
lyzes Waldman's reasoning

This review had been in type
in The Jewish News plant for
several weeks nrior to Mr.
Waldman's death.

Morris D. Waldman, 'Architect'
of Welfare Federation Here, Dies

Morris D. Waldman, executive became spiritual leader of Tem-
and his conclusions that Hit- head of the American Jewish ple Anshe Er_eth in New Bruns-
ler's unhappy love affair with Committee from 1928 to 1945 wick, N.J., but then gave up the
a Jewish girl and the spell and a leader in Jewish welfare pulpit for social work.
that was made on him by the work, notably in Detroit, died
Waldman was author of "Nor
Passion Play account for the
Sept. 7 in New York. He was 84. by Power," a review of his
Nazi fuehrer's introduction to
Waldman came to Detroit in years of Jewish welfare work,
anti-Semitism.
1924
as the executive director and "Sieg Heil," an account of
"We shall not discuss the
Hitler's treatment of Jews.
or
the
United Jewish Charities.
Passion Play here, which in its
Surviving Waldman are
He
is
credited
as
the
"social
earlier version was very -prob-
daughters, Mrs. Lynn W. Pearl-
ably in part rooted in old architect" whose creativity in stein, Mrs. Pearl Glaser and
peasant antipathy to Jews community organization here Mrs. Helen Eliezer; brother,
viewed as city folk and money was largely responsible for the Henry; sister, Mrs. Lillian An-
lenders." Dr. Shuster states. establishment of the Detroit son; two grandchildren and
"But Waldman's observation, Jewish Welfare Federation in three great grandchildren.
which has seldom been ad- its modern form. He goes down
vanced, seems especially perti- on record as being the founding
German Architects
nent because of recent research director of the JWF here.
in the anti - Semitic literature
Waldman was instrumental in Win Top Prize for
Hitler read in Vienna."
broadening the program of the
Since the Passion Play .still United Jewish Charities, ex- Tel Aviv Design
is viewed as violently anti- tending its field of interests,
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Two
Semitic, Dr. Shuster's comment coordinating the basic social
raises another issue.
services and creating a true fed- West German architects were
Dr. Shuster's introduction eration for fund-raising, budget- named the winners of the first
supplements other pertinent ing and planning. As such, he prize in a worldwide competi-
material to show how Hitler's pioneered the responsibility for tion for plans for the recon-
hordes persecuted Christians as domestic and overseas causes struction of the Mashiyeh quar-
well as Jews in Holland and under single auspices. Waldman ter of Tel Aviv.
B. Alexander Branca and
in other countries that fell was also a key figure in the
Fred Angeler, both of Munich,
under Nazi rule.
overseas work of the Joint Dis- were revealed as the winners
The emphatic conclusion
tribution Committee, serving as of the $50,000 first prize when
reached by Dr. Shuster is: "We
European director of its med- the sealed envelopes identify-
cannot undo what has hap-
ico-sanitary and war orphans de- ing the designers of the win-
pened, but we can perhaps learn
ning plan were opened. An in-
how to make a repetition (of partment.
Born in Hungary and brought ternational panel of 12 leading
Nazism) impossible."
"Sieg Heil!" as an expose of to the United States when he architects chose the winning
Hitler and Hitlerism, and be- was four, Waldman was gradu- design from among 150 entries
cause of the views appended to ated from New York University from 33 countries. Second prize
it by Dr. Shuster, revives in- and from the Jewish Theological of $30,000 went to two Ameri-
terest in the Nazi horror, keep- Seminary. He took graduate can architects, Ian Lubiez Nisz
ing the story of the catastrophe work at Columbia University. and Donald Ray, of San Fran-
He was ordained a rabbi and cisco.
unforgotten.

.. .

"Let my people go!" has been the plaintive
and poignant cry for the Jewish people that has
echoed down through the ages.

In the Jewish year 5724, the plea is particularly adaptive. Israel
can use all her people, from the four corners of the earth, in continuing
to "make the desert bloom!" That she has succeeded thus far, is
patently evident in the flourishing 16-year-old nation . • . but she
needs all the willing hands she can get for the work that is yet to be
accomplished.

To those of us who unquestionably believe the Scriptures to be
Holy Writ, Israel's success comes as no surprise. It is the fulfillment
of prophecy, as the Jews are being gathered from all parts of the
earth to a homeland.

Our sincere wish for the New Year is that heads of Government,
the world over, pay heed to prophecy and hear the echo that has
come down through the ages. Let them permit the Jews to return
to a homeland, and assist in building a strong nation . . . dwelling
in Peace!

So be it in the year 5724!

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