Mark Centennial of Judge Mack's Birth

July 19, 1966, marks the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Julian
W. Mack, the Zionist leader and
pioneering jurist for social im-
provement. Judge Mack's espousal
of individual conscience, the re-
habitation of juvenile offenders,
and Zionism won for him a reputa-
tion not far below that of his
friends and associates, Supreme
Court Justices Louis D. Brandeis
and Felix Frankfurter. His dis-
tinguished career as lawyer, educa-
tor, judge, and communal leader
testified to his eminence in the
ranks of American Jewry. Many of
his papers are to be found in the
files of the American Jewish
Archives on the Cincinnati campus
of the Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion.
Born at San Francisco in 1866,
Julian W. Mack grew up in Cin-
cinnati, where his family had al-
ready been prominent for many
years. He was only 24 when, after
his graduation from Harvard Law
School and three years of grad-
uate work at the Universities of
Berlin and Leipzig, he began to
practice law in Chicago. Five years
late he became professor of law
at Northwestern University, and
in 1902 he joined the faculty of
the University of Chicago. He won
election as judge of the Circuit
Court of Cook County, Illinois, in
1903, and was reelected in 1909.
During these years on the bench,
he presided over Chicago's famous

JULIAN W. MACK

Juvenile Court and evolved a new
method of treating youthful law-
breakers. He advanced his judicial
career notably when he was named
to the United States Commerce
Court in 1911, and two years later
to the United States Circuit Court.
Soon thereafter, Judge Mack was
appointed -to serve on the Corn-1
rnittee of Labor of the Council
of National Defense and as umpire I
on the National War Labor Board.
During the First World War.
the plight of East European
Jewry and his own passionate
concern for justice stimulated
his participation in the Zionist
movement. In 1918, he was

Role of Irish and Jews in America
Developed in Study by Dr. Glanz

Dr. Rudolf Glanz, already widely
sought to establish a Jewish set-
known for his sociologic and demo-
tlement on Mount Ararat near
graphic studies, has produced an- Buffalo, thereby gaining the title
other interesting work—"Jew and
of the "first American Zionist,"
Irish — Historic Group Relations
who was antagonistic to the Irish.
and Immigration," which has been
Dr. Glanz describes the Noah
published with the assistance of
articles against the Irish as "a
the Alexander Kohut Memorial
purely personal matter."
Foundation.
Attacks on Catholics, the suffer-
His previous works include ings that were imposed on Jews
studies of "Jew and Yankee," "Jew during the Inquisition, charges of
and Mormon" and "Jew and Chi- political aspirations leveled at the
nese" in America.
Pope figured in the antagonisms,
Much research has gone into his but Dr. Glanz states that "Amer--
work on the Irish. Dr. Glanz has can discussions on political Catho-
delved into all available periodi- licism did not invade the Jewish
cal and other literature in order press." There were tensions over
to compile the basic facts on Jew- the Mortara affair—the abduction
ish-Irish relations, their antagon- of a Jewish child by papal agents
isms a number of years back and —but that too subsided, •
their mutual accord on many mat- Dr. Glanz views emigration as
ters in recent years.
"the most meaningful demographic
Part of the study relates to process in modern Western his-
the struggles that were encoun-
tory" and he shows that the even-
tered by the two groups as dif-
tual recognition of new foundations
fering immigrant elements and in the life of Jews and Irish shaped
as is indicated at the outset "they
their present relations. The new
are today overwhelmingly Amer- understandings and the mutual ac-
ican born and immigration-prob-
cord, in spite of religious and oth-
lems are no longer important."
er differences are part of the de-
But the earlier conditions, the veloped theme in a book that called_
emigrations and the meeting of the for much labor and for search of
two peoples under the developing rare material relating to the in-
situations—with the common back- teres•ting subject of Jew and Irish
ground of the Irish famine in 1847 in America.
and the Russian pogroms in 1881,
Dr. Glanz, whose home is in New
which drove Irish and Jews to York, is the father of Mrs. Al
America's—account for the con- Michaels of Detroit.
flicts that emerged.
The fact that there were very
few. Jews in Ireland accounts for 'I Find Thee in the
part of the difficulty in attaining Marvels of Thy Might'
amity between the two groups. And
BY JEHUDA HALEVI
there were religious attitudes
12th Century Poet
which contributed to misunder-
standings. There are "folktales" 0 Lord, where shall I find Thee?
Hid in Thy lofty place;
that point to prejudicial attitudes
on the part of the Irish, and there And where shall I not find Thee,
are fables that inspired hatred.
Whose glory fills all space?
The Irish hardly knew the Jews Who formed the world, abideth
100 years ago. The census of 1861
Within man's soul alway;
showed there were only two Jews Refuge to them that seek Him
in Ireland. It took time for the I
Ransom for them that stray.
two groups to know each other.
0, how shall mortals praise Thee,
There were disturbances, in
When angels strive in vain
Limerick and other places, during Or build for Thee a dwelling,
the pursuing years, when Jews be-
Whom worlds cannot contain?
gan to come to Ireland, even in Longing to draw anear Thee
With all my heart I pray
small numbers. There were riots,
and some periodicals published ar- Then going forth to seek Thee
Thou meetest me on the way.
tides and stories maligning Jews.
Responsible Irish leaders de- I find Thee in the marvels
Of Thy creative might
plored these incidents, but in
this country there was one spe- In visions in Thy Temple,
In dreams that bless the night.
cial incident that emphasized the
conflicting attitudes—the prej- Who saith he bath not seen Thee?
Thy heavens refute his word;
udice against the Irish that was
ascribed to Mordecai Manuel Their hosts declare Thy glory,
Though never voice be heard.
Noah, the American Jew who

elected president of the Zionist
Organization of America at a
time that he was already holding
the first presidency of the
American Jewish Congress.
Mack was a leader in the negoti-
ations to establish a Jewish
homeland after the issuance of
the Balfour Declaration, and his
efforts mediated the conflicts
at the Paris Peace Conference
in 1919. His influence continued
while he served in the execu-
tive body of the American Jew-
ish Committee.
Julian Mack's interest in educa-
tion was reflected in his service
as a member of the board of
overseers at Harvard College. He
was a Trustee of Hebrew Univer-
sity of Jerusalem, a founder of
the Mack School in Jerusalem, a
founder and board chairman of
the Jewish Institute of Religion
in New York. His enlightened
liberal outlook had a valuable in-
fluence on these and all the other
institutions in which he took an
active interest. He sought, in
particular, to provide assistance
for needy students working their
way through college. Mack had a
special concern for youth, a con-
cern which even predated his
assumption in 1917 of the first
presidency of the national organ-
ization of the Y.M. and Y.W.H.A.
His work in behalf of American
and World Jewry ended only with
his death in 1943.
Judge Mack, frr all his ac-
complishments, remained a
humble, unpretentious person.
His devotion to Zionism was
very deep. When he visited the
Hebrew Union College years
ago, Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, now
director of the Archives, but
then a young instructor, asked
him if he would sit with a hand-
ful of men to discuss the nature
and problems of Zionism. The
judge was only too happy to
accede and spent the whole
evening talking to a half dozen
men about the cause to which he
was so utterly devoted.
The American Jewish Archives,
which has preserved a sizeable
body of material about Judge
Mack, operates under the direc-
tion of Prof. Marcus. Some of the
research for Harry Barnard's
forthcoming biography of Judge
Mack was done at the Archives on
the Hebrew Union College Campus
in Cincinnati.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, July 8, 1966-13

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