This Week in Jewish History
(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
There were four more Jewish suicides in Berlin—all on the
same day.
The American Jewish Committee said only 1.74 per cent of the
inmates of state prisons in the U.S. were Jewish.
King Ghazi assumed the power to name the presidents of Iraqi
Jewish communities.
Syracuse, N.Y., public schools banned "The Merchant of Venice"
after being told of its "unfair and malicious conception of Jews."
JTA reported from Berlin: "Grave anti-Secntic excesses, resulting
in the injury of scores of Jewish men and women, took place here
. . . the second day of Rosh Hashana when organized Nazi forces sur-
rounded the leading synagogues . . . and fell upon Jewish worshippers
as they emerged from High Holy Day services. Simultaneously attacks
were organized in various sections . . . Even the elderly Jews did not
escape the violence of the Nazis, who, after felling their victims,
trampled upon them with their heavy nailed boots." The government
condemned the Attacks, arrested 50 Fascists.
There were 12 Jewish theaters in New York City and 10 in "the
provinces." Boris Thomashefsky shifted to Broadway for "The Singing
Rabbi."
Moses Rogatchewsky, 108-year-old Polish blacksmith, sought a
pension for service in the 1863 insurrection.
David Skultchitz, a political prisoner in Grodno, Poland, died at
24 after a week-long hunger strike to protest alleged mistreatment.
Friday, September 10, 1971-17
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Minister Victor Shemtov promises
that he would take steps to pro-
tect pathologists from harassment
by religious zealots opposed to
autopsies. Anti-autopsy slogans
have been smeared on the walls
of pathologists" homes in recent
weeks.
Dr. Gil Goldberg, head of the
Pathology Institute at the Cen-
tral Negev Hospital in Beersheba,
reported receiving a threatening
letter. The typewritten letter sent
from Jerusalem ordered him to
stop autopsies or "We will burn
you."
In a statement issued by the
Government Press Office, Shem-
tov urged the public to •condemn
what he called the hysterical acts
of religious extremists who seek
to . spread hatred of pathologists
who perform their jobs in accord-
ance with the law.
10 Years Ago This Week: 1961
Jews and Moslems fought in the streets of Oran, Algeria, on
Rosh Hashana after a Jew was seriously wounded by a Moslem knifer.
Three Arabs were killed; 17 Arabs and nine Jews were injured.
More than 1,000 Jews jammed Moscow's Central Synagogue for
Rosh Hashana, despite the lack of prayer books. Most of them were
over 50.
The Peking magazine "Chinese Literature" apologized for identify-
ing the author of a translated work as "Sh. Aleichem," claiming
ignorance of the meaning of the nom de plume.
President Ben-Zvi asked Finance Minister Levi Eshkol to form
a new Israeli government after Premier Ben-Gurion declined to do so.
The remains of a 2,220-year-old synagogue were unearthed in
Rome.
Nathan Straus, philanthropist, community leader and chairman
of WMCA Radio, died in New York at 72.
Orthodox - Synagogue Hit by Vandals,
Fire, Appeals for Help to Start Over
NEW YORK (JTA)—A 78-year- er than increasing the number of
old Orthodox synagogue that suf- car patrols they were "helpless."
An issuing his appeal, Goldman
fered $50,000 in damages through
vandalism last March has ap- said: "The rabbi (Morris Shisgal)
pealed "to all people of good will has served unsalaried for 18 years
to offer suggestions to help us because the poor people who at-
restore this Holy House of Wor- tend could not afford to pay him
ship so that the good works of a salary as well as take care of
the expenses.
many years may be continued."
"His income is from a teaching
The appeal was issued by Irwin position in a religious school (on
Goldman, president of Cong. Beth Staten Island). He would be most
Haknesses, which was ransacked pleased to see this synagogue re-
and set afire the weekend of Mar. opened."
20-21.
Two days later, vandals re- Calm Israeli Reception
turned under cover of darkness
to abuse the religious articles Greets Ex-Storintrooper
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Gerhard
that had escaped the fire. A few
weeks later anti-Semitic slogans Schroeder, the former West Ger-
were scrawled in black ink on' man foreign minister who once
the synagogue's floors, and last belonged to the Nazi Party and the
week most of the remaining SA (stormtroopers), was received
by Deputy Knesset Speaker Yitzhak
prayer books were stolen.
Navon after touring Jerusalem.
The congregation's 60 elderly
Schroeder's arrival at Lydda
worshipers "find it most difficult Airport was without incident al-
to walk to the next nearest syna- though a group of concentration
gogue" five blocks away, Goldman camp survivors and resistance
said. Many of them live in low- fighters protested his invitation
income housing and are feeble and and threatened to demonstrate.
partially handicaped.
The German diplomat did not
At the time of the March in- visit the. Yad Vashem memorial to
cidents, Goldman said the police Nazi victims where West Ger•
had told him "they just don't have many's incumbent foreign minis-
the manpower" to station a man ter, Walter Scheel, laid a wreath
in each synagogue in the area— on his visit here in July.
Scheel was a target of demon-
the lower East Side—and that oth-
strators and hecklers, but Schroe-
der's visit has aroused only mild
controversy. In contrast to the
SS, membership in the SA is not
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