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Yiddish Press i n- an Era- -Of Mirth Bayard Rustin:
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
runs. They were glad they didn't Racism Behind
(Copyright 1972, JTA, Inc)
have to run home but could take
The Tog-Morgen Journal h as .; the
trolley car. And as for prize Queens Protests
passed into history. There is no t fights,
anyone fighting with their
TR—Friday, January
14,
1972
THE DETROIT-jEWISH NEWS
KosherFood at Princeton
too much left of the once so liv e 'Y fists was a bum. They wouldn't
NEW YORK (JTA)—Two promi-
Yiddish press.
pay a nickel to see anyone fighting nent black civil rights leaders have
Jews always liked papers. Wh en .. in
Madison Square Garden. They named racism as the prime moti-
the Masheeakh comes, they expe c thought
the police should arrest vating factor behind the bitter pro-
the papers to get out an extra - ` them.
tests by residents of the predomi-
Even when the Jews were in the
They liked the finer things. nently Jewish Forest Hills section
wilderness going out of Egyp t, When
of
Queens against a controversial
young Yehudi Menuhin
there was the Daily Manna.
brought here _by his father, low-income housing project there.
The old Yiddish editors we re he was
Articles on the controversy by
was taken to the Morning
fighters and reflected and illu nu
Journaland young Menuhin Bayard -Austin, executive director
nated their readers. • Joseph Eta r- played
a lullaby for Morris Spec- of the A. Philip Randolph Institute
ondess said to Louis Miller of th e
tor, the editor, who was so of- of New 'York and Vernon E: Jor-
Warheit: "It's time you forg ot
fected he fell asleep. Spector had dan, executive director of the Na-
what Morris Rosenfeld said of y ou a weakness
for food. In a res- tional Urban League, were pub-
and forgive." "My trouble," r
when the waiter handed lished in the latest issue of the
plied Miller, "is that I can't forg e e: ` courant'
him the menu, he read it and Amsterdam News, the leading
what I said of him."
Negro newspaper in the U.S.
said "I'll take it."
The man who perhaps made th e
According to Jordan, the objec-
An interesting character on the
strongest journalistic impressio
tions raised by Forest Hills resi-
was Abe Cahan, editor of the Je w- Tageblatt was Zevin. He was a dents that schools and transit fa-
little,hunchback.
In
order
to
reach
ish Daily Forward. He was a Li t-
cilities in the neighborhood would
vak from.a town near Whe his desk, he sat on a big Webster's become hopelessly congested as a
he liked a Galitzianer, he -ma de dictionary, aiding his colleagues result of the project intended to
e
to
say-
he
had
the
most
educated
him into a- Litvak. There is th
house 840 families were openly a
noted humorous writer, B. Kovne r posterior on the staff.
ruse to conceal their racism of
a Galitzianer. His real name is ' The Yiddish press left Rs im- which northern liberals are
print
on
American
history.
It
Adler, but Cahan found no on e
played a vital role in the. cam- ashamed.
could write such funny things,
Rustin contended that "Of all
Cahan made him change 'his nam paigns of Al Smith, Herbert Leh- the significant civil rights laws
man
and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
to the name of the Lithdanian city
enacted
the .1960s, open hous-
Kovno. So he became and still i s ' "Clear it with Sidney," Franklin ing . met in
with the least enthusi-
Delano Roosevelt was wont to say.
B. Kovner.
asm, even from _liberals." Now,
Sidney
Hillman
was
one
of
the
Cahan had worked for a tiro e
he continued, "We see another
for the English press in Americ many influenced by waves of - the chapter in the histury
of society's
Jewish labor movement flowing
and no doubt was influenced by it r i through
the
Yiddish
press.
resistance
to open housing 'acted
Today, editors are polite, but i
The Yiddish press was an in- out on the 'streets of Forest
those days, they often times wer
a little rough, sometimes eve dispensable influence hr uniting Hills."
Nothing that the spokesmen for
American
Jewry in the movement
physically assailing one another
Forest Hills .community insist
Dana of the Sun, in Cahan's day ' which culminated in the rebirth of the
that they are not opposed to the
history.
was more genteel but he alway - East Broadway _ may hold its
possible
influx of Blacks but to the
blasted at Pulitzer of the World
large scale of the project and its
as that btankety-blank "hungr y head high.
impact
on
neighborhood schools.
Joe." What be meant to say wa
transit and other service, Rustin
"Hungarian Jew" but Dana was a • Former SS Official
little civilized to be openly anti- Offers to Turn Mengele stated: "But one must ask himself
whether these issues alone are
Semitic. Joseph Pulitzer, editor o
sufficient to have provoked the in-
the New York World, was a Hun - Over to Israelis •
garian half-Jew and the World had
BONN (JTA) — An unidentified tense passions which the protestors
been cutting in on the Sun's circu - former SS officer has offered to have daily displayed at the project
lation.
turn the notorious death camp site? Indeed, would the structure's
Abe Cahan could be tough too. doctor, A. Mengele, over to Israeli aesthetics and size have- brought
When a man asked for a job, authorities for $50,000, it was re- about nightly picketing in sub-
freezing temperatures had the pro-
Cahan asked him what he could ported here.
do.
The offer was said to have been ject been slated for occupancy by
upper-income
families?"
"I can write poetry," said the made-to Tuvia Friedman of Haifa,
Meanwhile a housing authority
applicant.
who heads the Nazi documentation
"Poetry doesn't sell papers," and war research center in Israel. spokesman ' confirmed that the
Community Housing Council in the
said Cahan. "Can you make
Mengele, the physician-who se- A
pogroms? Pogroms sell papers." -lected Jewish prisoners for the a, rverne-Edgemere section of
ueens, led by Orthodox Rabbi
Bayarsky of the Jewish Morn- Auschwitz gas chambers, has
ing Journal was as bellicose. He
been at large since the end of Herschel Solnica of the Young Is-
would hire some radicals for his World War II and is reportedly rael of the Rockaways, has been
granted an advisory role in the
religious oriented paper. "It
hiding in South America.
gives me pleasure," he would
The Frankfurt attorney general's selection of tenants for a low-in-
say, "to see these atheists for a office has a standing offer of come housing project. But -the
pittance praising Jewish religious $15,000 to anyone - who can provide spokesman stressed to the Jewish
institutions." .
information on Mengele's precise Telegraphic Agency that "we have
But it wasn't all fighting. There whereabouts. - • - _ - not given. up our right to select
tenants."
was the Bintel Brief of the For-
The SS man reportedly told
The 712-unit projed is scheduled
ward. Now English dailies have Friedman that Mengele was in
taken up the same idea with Dear Paraguay and that- he knew - .-his to open in June in- the middle-in-
come neighborhood. _ -
Abby and similar coulmns. In the hideout.
Morning Journal, Abraham Shomer He submitted a__- photograPh. - ..of
wrote novelettes which gave the the wanted %vat' criminal'-that.' lie Charltg deals, wik ithajptoms -
Jewish mother a nice cry as she claimed to have taien:.-hirnself in Ilia if'of- tan*. '''"7';-.Ord- Samuel
prepared the gefilte fish. And after South 'Anieriea receilifiy..Re Said
the cry, she could use the paper that with a -sufficient/Y strong task.
to wrap the herring in.
force he could rcaptine Mengele
The Yiddish press had no sports and deliver him.talsraell sitithori:
section. Few of the Jews who came ties.
from Kovno or Bialystok were in-
terested in who made any home
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