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Vol. XXVI JUNE, 1945 — TAMMUZ, 5705 No. 38

We were outraged when the Nazis were

THE "EXCOMMUNICATION" OF PROFESSOR guilty of this sin. Heaven forbid that it

MORDECAI KAPLAN should be said that this Nazi practice has

been accepted by some of our own.
was a sorry spectacle, an unseemly the irresponsible action taken against This is no way to fight for truth.

ITscene, which was enacted in a New Professor Kaplan. These Rabbis have a perfect right to

York hotel a few weeks ago, when a The Cberem was never an effective in- protest against the teachingspropounded
group of Rabbis performed the act of strument in Jewish life. The greatest in this Siddur as contrary to what they

Chereui —
excommunication upon Pro- — Rabbi of
Gaon
his age, and for generations af-
Chercm
regard as essential to orthodox belief.

fessor Mordecai M. Kaplan for having

ter, the of Wilna, put into They have a right to criticize any fea-
edited a new prayer book which they in- the teachers and followers of the Chas- ture of this volume with which they dis-
sidic Movement, and yet, despite that agree. But this docs not imply the right
sist proclaims teachings contrary to the
tenets of Orthodox Judaism. Not con- Cberem, Chassidism in those days spread to indulge in practices against which

tent with this irresponsible action, they

like wild-fire through all the provinces every intelligent and devoted Jew,
climaxed their performance by publicly of Eastern Jewry. whether orthodox or not, must revolt as
burning the new Siddur. Nor need this writer state what every contrary to the very spirit of our faith
intelligent Jew knows, that burning and our people.
This writer holds no brief for the views
of Professor Kaplan or for his new prayer
books is abhorrent to the Jewish spirit. — Israel H. Levinthal
book. With all the respect that he has
for this great teacher, philosopher and
with
DR. LEVINTHAL 35 YEARS IN THE RABBINATE
saintly personality, he disagrees
many new volume. He month marks stream to enrich the countryside." Said
features of this THIS the completion of
has expressed in the columns of the Cen- min-
thirty-five years of service in the the second pupil: "To me these words
ter Review his disagreement with the istry for our distinguished Rabbi, Dr. mean that one's deeds must always be
Passover Haggaduh, which Professor Israel H. Levinthal. These years have pure and clear like the fresh and living

Kaplan and his associates in the Rccon- witnessed the intellectual and spiritual waters of the stream." Replied the mas-
structionist Movement published several growth of a rare talent and a beloved ter, "My pupils, well have you spoken.
years ago. And he has also recently stated personality. Perhaps you are both right. However, I
from the pulpit his reasons why this new Since Dr. Levinthal is a master .of par- words differently. To me
interpret these

prayer book of the Reconstructionists ables, it is fitting to apply to him a

they convey the thought that one's life
cannot be accepted by him and his con- parable told of an ancient teacher. As must be consecrated to the service of his
gregation. the teacher and his pupils walked along countrymen; one must serve not selfishly,
But disagreement with the author docs the banks of a river, they discovered the but as this stream does, unselfishly with-
not warrant medieval actions on the part fountain which was the source of the out a vain search for glory and reward."

of men who call themselves Jewish spir- stream. On the rock above the mouth Replied the pupils, "Our master, all three

itual leaders. The Cberem was never a of the river were inscribed the words: interpretations apply to you. We pray
Jewish practice. It appeared in Jewish "Tamid here dome!) la-wayan zeh, May God that he will bless you with health

the middle ages, but came not fountain." The and longlife so that you may continue
life in it you always be like this
from the reservoir of Jewish teaching. teacher turned to his two companions to serveand to guide your people for
On the contrary, it was derived from and said, "My pupils, how do you inter- many, many years to come."
non- Jewish sources. And even when pret this inscription?" "My master," re- Is not Dr. Levinthal indeed like the
adopted, it followed certain specific reg- plied the first pupil, "to me thesewords Mayan ha-mitgaber, like the vigorous
ulations. The accused had to be sum- seem clear. One must be like l well which fount of living waters of whom it might
moned and given an opportunity to de- always gathers new strength, new im- well be said, "Tamid here dnmeh la-

fend himself. Never, as far as this writer petus, as it gushes forth from the sub- in a ya it zeh."
can recall, was there anything to match terranean depths in an ever-widening [Continued on page 20

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sonal happiness!" The anecdote does

"JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES" not
upon
tell

these
what punishment was inflicted
Resha-im. The Divine re-
buke, however, must have touched even
their wicked souls.
An Intimate Chat Between Rabbi and Reader This Rabbinic tale of the first Black
Market recorded in history should be of
special significance in our day. The very
THE NEW RESHA-IM goods and material which are so essen-

A MINISTER,
has served for
especially

many
* usually sense the reaction of the
one
years,
who
can
deadly net citizens of
all

of
classes

moderate
—from
from those
circumstance,
all types
the very rich to those
and of
tial to help destroy the enemies or man-

kind are utilized by some as means with

which to enrich
to their personal pleasures
themselves and to add
and delights.
affiliated with Church and Synagogue to
congregation to his sermons. Your Rabbi If ever men deserved the title Resha-
rarely has he felt such
those of no religious attachment.
must admit that im, wicked ones, such men certainly do.
It did your Rabbi's heart good to see
a warm response to any sermon that he And this title applies, too, to those who
that his congregation felt as he did, that
preached which greeted the mes-
as that indirectly help or encourage the Black
sage he delivered some weeks ago on one
it was high time for all religious forces,
Marketeer.
of the greatest evils in American life
Christian and Jewish, to unite in de-
—
today the Black Market. The buzz of
nouncing the Black Market and all who
indulge in it, or who, by any means, help
A vile greed has taken hold of many
approving comment which followed the men and women.
to countenance or to encourage it, as
sermon, which interrupted the service They must have their luxuries no mat-
sinners towards God and towards Amer-
for some minutes, symbolized the con- ter at what cost. They have the money
demnation felt by the large congrega- ica — yea, sinners towards our brave
— money which came because of the
tion present of a plague which, per- lads sacrificing their lives on the blood-
if war, and no comfort or luxury is too
stained fields of battle.
mitted to go unchecked, will demoralize much, even though through such reck-
our home-front and delay the final vic- less spending they help to damage the
It was a striking comment of the
tory. Everyone in the congregation economic foundation of our country and
ancient rabbis, which formed the text of
sensed that the Black Market was a black to bring the greatest hazards to our men
your Rabbi's sermon that morning, one
mark upon the conscience of the Amer- at the front. It is bad enough that the
well worth frequent repetition until it
ican people, and presented a distinct Makoh, the plague of war, had to come
sinks deep into the hearts of the great
challenge, particularly to the spiritual in order to win freedom for humanity.
forces in the community — the Church
mass of our citizens. It dealt with one
Let us not be among the real Resha-im
and the Synagogue — to arouse the citi-
of the ten plagues which
on the Egyptians to force the liberation
God sent up-
— those guilty of utilizing this Makoh
zens to an awareness of its evil and to enrich themselves.
of the enslaved Israelites, the plague of
danger. Here is a realistic challenge to all
the locusts. It seems that a certain type
The worst phase of this evil is that right thinking Americans, everywhere.
of locust, despite its destructive and
it is taken for granted. We no longer devastating nature, was also used by the
I repeat, the evil has taken hold of all

rebel when we come face to face with types of citizens, men and women,
ancients as food. In fact, in some
it.

of it
We
on the
read of it

radio,
in the press,
and the average
we hear
citi-
countries — evidently, also in Egypt it — Christian and Jew, in the east and in the
west, in the north and in the south. The
was regarded as a delicacy. So when the
zen does not even feel a sense of revul- protest against this evil must also come
plague of locusts came, and they ap-
sion. He accepts it as the norm of life from all types of citizens. A united
peared in thick droves to destroy the
in days of war. But it is the sin of voice, speaking for every thoughtful and
produce of the land, certain Egyptians
sins. The Black Market, in whatever loyal citizen of our land, must make it-
thought it would be a good idea to catch
form indulged in, traffics in human lives. self heard in the old Divine rebuke, so
these insects and store them in barrels.
It is not only that more money is paid that those who do indulge in this un-
"The plague cannot last forever," they
and received than lawfully allowed. It worthy practise may realize that they
thought. "It will end, and then people
means that you are helping to break the set upon themselves the stigma of
will want to purchase the locusts for
entire economic structure of our coun- Resha-im. Only those who are free
food and will be compelled to come to
More than that, you are robbing from the stain of this sin can truly re-
try.
us. We will have the market cornered,
have had in win-
some man in the armed forces of mater- joice in the share they
and we will be able to ask whatever
ial which he needs to defend his life and
ning victory for our cause and peace for
price we
please!" But then God's voice
to help crush our enemy. You are en- all the peoples of the earth.
was heard, rebuking them: "Rcsba-im,
dangering the very victory for which B' makoh She-he-vesi Alechem Boh Atari
you hope and pray. —
S'mechim Ye wicked ones, this instru-
And yet, despite the gravity of the ment of destruction which I have
danger which, the Black Market repre- brought upon you, you turn into a
sents, it seems to have caught in its means for self aggrandizement and per-

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POOR Vienna!"Jews of my Amer- A Former Viennese Surveys
ican friends, as well as Gen-
the Jewish Future in Austria
tiles, exclaimed when, early this

spring the Nazis seemed to have de-

cided to hold Austria at whatever cost,
to turn the Austrian capital into a sec- AUSTRIA— YESTERDAY, TODAY
ond Stalingrad, necessary. "Vienna,

AND TOMORROW
if

Germany —
hard to believe, isn't it?" the
U. S. clerk remarked to me as he glanced
through my First Papers, when I filed
my petition for citizenship almost on Most of the swanky restaurants and By ALFRED WERNER
the same day that Marshal Tolbukhin's hotels were three-fourths empty, except
men started to shell my native city. for a few Nazi officials and military upon the Jews: -Z'wegen den Saujuden
These kind-hearted people, some of officers, who hardly any tips for the
left bam mcr jetzt doe Saupreussen, "because
whom had spent a beautiful summer in waiters. No English was heard, for An- of the Jewish swine we now have the
the Austrian Alps, at Salzburg, or in glo-Saxon tourists were virtually non- Prussian swine" they complained in their
Vienna, others had read Arthur
while existent in Nazified Vienna; but "Heil inimitable dialect. The average Austrian
Schnitzler's charming Viennese novelet- Hitler!" was uttered constantly, and, as is ruled by sentiments and passions to a
tes or seen some Hollywood movie with far as the Austrians were concerned, not larger degree than, say, the average Prus-
an Old-Vienna setting, simply refused to with any buoyancy, but almost like a re- sian who thinks with cruel logic as a

realize that Vienna in the seven sad years frain of fear. Hitler's portrait was dis- leader and obeys without grumbling as

of Nazi occupation, has deteriorated to played in every window, and one of the a follower. Austria's Little Man turned
such an extent that all that remains of finest shops of the city, formerly owned against the Jew because long before the
the old glory are a few gorgeous ancient by a Jew, displayed a huge framed paint- Anschluss the lower clergy had incited
buildings and the name of the streets ing of Schickelgruber, captioned: "How him against the "Christ-killers." He dis-
and squares. The rural sections of the ShaltThou Find The Fuehrer? Not liked the outlandish appearance of the
country have not fared better. I did With Thy Mind But With The Strength Jewish immigrant from Galicia just as

not recognize Vienna myself when I re- Of Thy Head!" he ridiculed the faulty accent of the
turned there, in the spring of 193 9, —That appeal to the heart was ridiculous "Boehm" (Bohemian) who settled in

after a stay of "only" sixmonths in the in the city where 80S of the popula- Vienna. The unemployed worker turned
Dachau concentration last camp: the tion were against the Anschluss. Chan- from Socialism to Nazism, because he
charm and gemuetlichkeit had
vestiges of cellor Schuschnigg had intended to ex- saw some Jewish ladies parading their
disappeared. What you heard in the pose to the world the falsehood of Hit- jewels in the street but failed to see the
streets and public places were the bark- ler's assertion that the Austrians wanted Jewish proletarian who lived in squalor
ing accents of Prussians, Pommeranians, to go Heim ins Reich, "back to Ger- in the Leopoldstadt and Brigittenau. The
Frisians and other Northern German many," by means of a plebiscite, for Austrians arc less disciplined than their
tribes, but very little of the suave, melo- Schuschnigg and his advisers knew that German neighbors, and many foreign
dious Austrian accent. The natives kept at least seventy percent of Austria's observers agree that the Austrian civil-
silent, letting the invaders talk. Indeed, total population would vote for him ians outdid the German civilians as far
most of the Public Service personnel, and and against the Anschluss. Realizing as maltreatment of the Jews was con-
many policemen, were German, and that he would be defeated at the polls, cerned.
many of the stores and shops that had Hitler prevented the plebiscite, forced I could tell dozens of stories, based
belonged to Jews or supporters of Chan- Schuchnigg to abdicate, and ordered the on my own sad experiences, to prove
cellor Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front Wehrmacht to occupy Austria. that the Austrians did not have to learn
had been "acquired" by Teutons, who I am sorry to say that the Austrians, the ABC of anti-Semitism from the Ger-
treated the native population as conde- as a rule, showed little of the magnifi- mans, but to escape the rebuke of being
scendingly as the haughtiest British cent spirit of moral resistance displayed called biased, I shall quote a non-Jew, the
colonial administrators would treat Bush- by the Czechs, Frenchmen, Belgians, G. E. R. Gedye, who covered
journalist,
men. and other defeated nations. They the Anschluss for his newspapers. Gedye
On the famous Ringstrasse, at least grumbled to themselves while hailing expressed his horror over the heartless-
one third of the shops were closed. Of Hitler, meekly swallowing the free gou- ness, not of Austrian Nazi diehards, but
those which were open, many carried the lash the Reichswehr treated them with. of average Viennese:
conspicuous sign: Reopened "Recently When the Nazi overlords forced the "It is the heartless, grinning, soberly
Under Clean Aryan Management." Al- men into labor squads, detailed to work dressed crowds on the Graben, and the
most every hotel and eating establish- at West Wall, when cream,
the Reich's Kacrtnerstrasse, the 'Strube's Little Man'
ment displayed a sign reading: Nur butter, and other food became
eggs class of Austria, the fluffy Viennese
arische Gaeste crwuemcht, "Only Aryan scarce, and awful German ersatz replaced blondes fighting one another to get
guests wanted." Apparently these signs the quality fabrics in the shops, the closer to the elevating spectacle of an
did not usher in an era of prosperity. stupid Austrians blamed their misfortune ashen-faced Jewish surgeon on hands and

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knees before a half-dozen young hooli- in the issuance of a proclamation, signed ity. (Small Jewish communities were to
gans with Swastika armlets and dog- by him and all other Austrian arch- be found in the cities and villages of the
whips, that sticks in my mind. His deli- bishops and bishops, which asked the Burgenland, and in the capitals of the
cate fingers, which must have made the Austrian people to support the Greater Austrian Federal States, such as Graz,
swift and confident incisions that have Germany and its Fuehrer, "whose strug- Linz and Salzburg. They were dissolved
saved the lives of many Viennese, held gle against . communism and for the shortly after the Anschluss, all Jews
a scrubbing-brush. A stormtrooper was power, honor, and unity of Germany streaming from the provinces to the
pouring some acid solution over the corresponds to the Divine Providence." capital). There were also a large num-
brush —and his fingers. Another sluiced Innitzer,who once was on the best terms ber of converted Jews, half and quarter
the pavement from a bucket, taking care with several Viennese rabbis and Jewish Jews, and Gentiles married to Jews, who
to drench the surgeon's striped trousers civil leaders, did not move a finger to would all be classed as "Jews" accord-
as he did so. And the Viennese —not help the Jews after the Anschluss, thus ing to the Nuremberg laws.
uniformed Nazis or a- raging mob, but differing completely from the high- When the German armies marched in-
the Viennese Little Man and his wife ranking clergy of other countries, France, to Poland, there still remained in Aus-
just grinned approval at the glorious fun. for instance, who aided the Jews as tria 5 5,000 desperate and destitute Jews,
That is the picture which I have some- wholeheartedly as possible. Innitzer, who the others having emigrated, committed
how to reconcile with that of the soft- is also Vienna's archbishop, recently suicide or perished in prisons and concen-
hearted, over-sentimental folk whom I changed his attitude again, and is now tration camps. Needless to say, they were
thought I had got to know so well." telling everyone who wants — or doesn't deprived of most of their property, after
(From "Betrayal in Central Europe.") want — to hear, that he never liked Hit- having lost their jobs (except those who
I would be an ingrate would I not lerism and was always an ardent anti- worked in the offices of the Israelitische
state, in the same breath, that quite a Nazi. Kultusgemeinde) . They were forbid-
few Austrians acted differently. Christian While the Austrians suffered consid- den to appear in the streets after night-
friends of mine helped me as much as erably under the rule of the Hitlerites, fall. They were forbidden to sit on
they could while I prepared for my emi- who sucked the country dry, the fate of park benches. They were forbidden to
gration, although it was dangerous to be the Austrian Jews was infinitely more go to cafeterias or restaurants (not to
known as a Judengenosse "friend of terrible. Before the Anschluss there mention theatres or movies). They were
Jews." Several outstanding Christians lived about 180,000 citizens of the Jew- forced to abandon whatever apartments
preferred exile to collaboration with the ish faith in Austria, more than 90% of they still had in the more fashionable
Nazis, such as Vienna's Christian Social- whom resided in the capital of its vicin- areas of the city and to live in the slums
ist vice mayor, Ernst Karl Winter (he
taught for some time at New York's
New School of Social Research), the
poet and dramatist, Franz Theodor
JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA
Czokor, the composer, Ernst Krenek, the Rabbi Low created Golem
organizer of a movement for the com-
THE surviving Jews of Prague have the
16th century, remains intact even though
in the
formed a committee to work out a
batting of anti-Semitism, Irene Harand, plan for the revival of the Jewish com- German troops made their last-ditch
and others. Many labor leaders died in munity, one of the oldest Jewish settle- stand around the synagogue premises. A
concentration camps, while others hid ments in Europe. Very few of the 40,000 few windows of the synagogue building
and carried on a relentless underground Jews who lived in Prague before the are broken and many bullet marks
battle against the Nazis. Germans occupied the city have survived. chipped the centuries-old gray walls. All
But there were many traitors, too. I The committee which was formed today other synagogues in Prague are intact.
do not talk of men of the type of Seyss- is headed by Dr. Ernst Frischer, Jewish They were used by the Nazis as ware-
Inquart, whom Chancellor Schuschnigg member of the Czechoslovakian Na- houses for confiscated Jewish furniture
made Minister of the Interior and who tional London, who returned
Council in and have now been cleaned out and re-
betrayed his former school-mate to Hit- from England to Prague together with stored. Only the Vinogrady Synagogue
ler, earning for himself the title of the government. is largely destroyed.

Reichsstatthalter of Austria. Seyss-In- A large number of the surviving Jews The Jewish community in Brno, larg-
quart at least did not claim to be a lib- in Prague are changing their names and est in Moravia, resumed functioning. In
eral, as did Cardinal Innitzer, who for dropping their religion in an attempt to Bratislavia, a city of ancient Jewish tra-
many years posed as an anti-Nazi and assimilate themselves with the non-Jew- dition and the birthplace of the Chassidic
ardent friend of the Jews (he recom- ish population. On the other hand, a movement, no Jewish institutions exist,
mended the Jews to rush to the baptis- number of Jews who had no interest in since most of the Jews there and all
mal font in order to improve their posi- Jewish affairs before the war, are now Jewish institutions were wiped out by
tion under the clerical Dollfuss-Schusch- strengthening their ties with nationalist the pro-Nazi Slovakian government. The
nigg regime). Yet on March 12, 1938 Jews, in the hope that they may even- only historic monument of Jewish life in

the Cardinal ordered the pealing of all tually be able to proceed to Palestine. Bratislavia that remains is a library of
church bells to greet Hitler. This "spit- The ancient synagogue in Prague, the Jewish community, containing 75,-
tle-licker" of the Nazis was instrumental where, according to legend, Der Hohe 000 volumes.

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only, without light or heat. Their radios or after arrival." Significantly, the civilians wearing armlets with the Star
were confiscated. Only the few Jewish same source stated that the Austrians of David, as in Holland. Some kind-
doctors had telephones. They got ration "who once accepted persecution of Jews hearted Christians may have gone out of
cards, but they were allowed to shop only with relative apathy, now are so horri- their way to aid Jewish friends, but the
at certain places at certain hours in the fied at the result that, despite the dan- majority of the population, if asked to-
afternoon, and they considered them- ger, they aid as far as they can the few day why they did not try to save the
selves fortunate if they got the left- left." Jews, would answer, indignantly: "Am
overs the "Aryans" would not buy. Thus This last statement was likely based on I my brother's keeper?"
the handful of "rich" Jews (those who truth, as seems to be a 1944 report that At the time of this writing mid- —
received pensions or donations from Austrian partisans had attacked trains June, 1945 —we do not have the exact
abroad) depended on the meager meals carrying Hungarian Jews en route to figure of the number of Jews now on
distributed by the Israelitische Kultus- labor camps in Austria and liberated the Austrian soil. It will take some time be-
gemeinde just as did the completely im- deportees. Regrettably, however, these fore we have this information, for Jews
poverished majority. acts of human sympathy occurred only who hid themselves during the Nazi era
Since the fall of 1939, batches of Jews long after the synagogues had been de- are turning up constantly, and streams
who seemed fit for labor (at least in the stroyed and many thousands Jews killed of refugees, liberated from the horror
opinion of cruel Nazi physicians) were or expelled. As far as we know, the camps in Czechoslovakia, or from other
deported to the East, from where they aid given by Austrians to their Jewish regions, are pouring into Austria. In
never returned. The old and sick people brethren never reached the proportions of Vienna, which is occupied by the Rus-
were removed by "mercy killings," and the support given to Jews by the Parti- only about 3,000
sians, native Jews
the wave of suicides continued to rise, sans of Tito, or the Maquis in France. (including half -Jews who now declare
so that by mid-summer of 1942 only We did not learn of Austrian mass themselves members of the Jewish com-
some 10,000 native Jews were left in demonstrations against the deportation of munity) seem to be left. According to
Vienna. Jews like those that were staged spon- a broadcast by the Moscow-sponsored
taneously by civilians at French and Bel-
How did the Viennese react to these Viennese radio, the Soviet military au-
gian railway stations, nor of Austrian thorities permitted the establishment of
mass-persecutions? In the spring of 1938,
when "Field Marshall" Goering honored Vienna committees to represent national
defeated Vienna with his presence, shout-
Letter from a Soldier minorities, including Hungarians,
ing in huge Nordwestbahnhalle,
the By Ira Lipshutz, SK I /c Czechs, Slovaks, and Jews. The Jewish
"Vienna must become German again I I IA YE seen faith in God, faith in man- committee has opened an office in the
the Jews must go!" there were many- * kind, and faith of an individual in building which formerly housed the
Viennese who cheered him. Several himself. I pray that mankind shall sus- Viennese kehillah (Jewish Community
years later, most Viennese seemed to have tain and bulwark the faith we have placed Council) and began the registration of
changed, if we can believe the reports in it. So far it has given us cause to the Jewish survivors.

of neutral visitors and the tales that think that such faith may be misplaced. Then there are thousands of liber-

came from underground sources. In any Recently some of us were discussing the ated Jewish Hungarian slave workers
event, the report that United Press cor- woes and evils of our civilization. Many supposed to be as many as 20,000 — in

respondent Joseph W. Griegg cabled reasons were advanced for the distrust, Vienna. They prepared for a Thanks-
from London, in November, 1943, is fear and turmoil in the world today. I giving Service at the site of the Leopold
sad enough. Only occasionally, he wrote, was worriedly unimpressed by my con- Street Synagogue. Of the many stories

a Jew would be seen in a Vienna street, tribution, or lack of contribution to the circulated about the resuscitation of Jew-
"thin, underfed, ragged, with split shoes, conversation, and thereupon resolved to ish life in Vienna a few are rather inter-
always wearing sewed to the left breast formulate an opinion which I honestly esting. Jewish soldiers of the Red Army
pocket a big yellow Star of David, in- and sincerely believed. After thinking are said to have visited Herzl's grave in
scribed with the word Jude." The re- about it ethnically, politically, and al- Doebling cemetery and deposited a

on information that reached

port, based ways selfishly, I suddenly realized that wreath of flowers. (The fact that it is

England through Austrian underground the solution was to be

found in the spirit- not usual among Jews to place flowers
channels, also graphically described the ualgood of man and nowhere else. It on graves does not necessarily imply that
deportation of our unfortunate brerti- may have taken me too long to realize the report was fabricated). The anti-
ren: "Jews are arrested at midnight or what wiser men have known throughout Nazis are hunting for Hitlerites, and the
in the early morning hours. The green the ages. you my conclusions,
I give Jews, and people of Jewish descent still

police trucks take them to an empty hoping you may

some merit in them:see wear their Shield of David arm bands
synagogue, used as a transit station, "This is inevitable the end of faith — in order to be perfectly safe in this tur-
where there crowded rows of
are tightly is the end of man. In faith man lives moil. Frightened Nazis are turning over
straw sacks for beds on the stone floor. in justice unto himself and in peace with property, stolen from Jews, to the Jew-
Thence they are taken in cattle cars, or his neighbors. To forsake faith is to ish kehillah, or try to get rid of shops
ancient unheated passenger coaches, to forsake God, and God forsaken causes or real estate, criminally acquired from
the ghettos of East Poland, Latvia or oc- great afflictions. Have faith — believe ir Jews. Little is known about the physi-
cupied Russia . . . Many die on the way it, act on it, live with it." [Continued on page 23]

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Mech'ke're Avot, Ethics of

the Fathers, with a Com-
mentary,
Levinson.
by Rabbi Jacob NEW BOOKS
ONE of the Talmudic tractates,
which has had the greatest in-
The
are taken
essays
from
included
the weekly
in this volume
column which Rabbi
Reviewed by
Israel H. Levinthal
fluence in moulding the char- Dr. Greenstone has conducted for many
acter and the life of the Jew throughout years as Contributor Editor of the Jew-
Every Jew knows how
thoughtful
the ages, is Avot. So popular has it ish Exponent in Philadelphia, under the much Sabbath
the meant for the has
become that it was incorporated in the title, "About Men and Things," and preservation of Jewish life, and what
Prayer Book, and even the uninitiated in deal with the general theme of Jewish danger faces the entire religious struc-
the study of Mishna or Gemara became feast days and fast days. But these are ture of Jewish life in America with the
familiar with those priceless ethical not just explanatory essays in the usual
gradual weakening of Sabbath obser-
gems found in the chapters which be- sense of the term. The author discusses vance. The author's purpose in this
came known as the Ethics of the Fathers. phases and characteristics of these days
book was to revive a love for the Sab-
Rabbi Jacob Levinson, our distin- which known. He gives
are not generally
show us how and why it brought
bath, to
guished neighbor, and beloved Rabbi of interesting side-lightson historical back- Jew and how the Sabbath can
joy to the
Congregation Chovevei Torah, pub- ground of these festive and solemn once more become a day of delight to
lished a valuablecommentary to these events which the days commemorate,
the Jew.
ethical teachings in 1915. The book and he delights to discuss features of the
The volume is divided into several
was then hailed by Rabbinic scholars holiday observances which are usually parts. The first deals with the Sabbath
throughout the world as an important ignored in all popular presentations of in Practice, and gives a detailed descrip-
contribution, a better understanding of religious rites. Thus, in the chapter on tion of all the customs and observances
the deeper meanings of these precepts. Yom Kippur, he has a fascinating study
in the home and in the Synagogue. There
The volume has long been out of print, on the now almost forgotten custom of is a collection of delightful Sabbath
and now the author has published a new Kapparot, and in the chapter on Rosh
stories poems on the
to tell to children,
and much enlarged edition. Much new Hashonah, an interesting account of the theme of the Sabbath, a chapter on Sab-
material has been incorporated, and origin and meaning of the custom of
bath humor collected from our rich liter-
Rabbi Levinson gives us the results of Tashlich. So, too, there is a most in- ature, a chapter dealing with the laws
added research which he has made both teresting account of theTemple Service of the Sabbath, the Hebrew as well as
in Halachah, or legal interpretations, as on the Day of Atonement, as well as a English texts and music of the Kiddush,
well as in Hagaddah, the folklore of very important essay on "Kneeling Dur-
the Grace after meals, and the Sabbath
Jewish wisdom. Rabbi Levinson had ing Prayer." To further show the au-
Table Songs.
adopted the historic approach in his thor's skill in penetrating the oddities The second part of the book deals with
study of each of the teachings. He gives of the ancient celebrations, there is the the Sabbath in Literature, Art and Music,
you the historical background of every very delightful essay on "Matchmak- and is a splendid anthology of the best
Rabbi who produced these jewels of wis- ing on Yom Kippur." In his studies of that was written on the theme of the
dom, so that we get to understand the every holiday and fast day, Dr. Green- Sabbath in the Bible, in Judaeo-Hellen-
intent of the author, and can better ap- stone gives us most useful as well as
istic literature, in the Talmud and Mid-
preciate their relevance to our day. A most interesting facts, which, if better rash and in medieval and modern Jewish
fine analysis of the Jewish concept of known and understood, would lend more literature.
ethics forms a major part of the Intro- strength to our observance of these days
The third part discusses the Sabbath
duction, and should be read by all who and to our appreciation of their real in History, inwhich we are told of the
want to know the great contribution significance.
origin and development of the Sabbath,
which Judaism has made in that im- * * » the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian
portant field.

The author writes in a beautiful and "Sabbath —The Day of De-

Sunday, and gives a
batlr observance in the far-flung Jewish
description of Sab-

classic Hebrew. light," by Abraham E. Mill-

communities. There is a fine music sup-
•'e * i'e gram. The Jewish Publica-
plement, and a number of beautiful illus-
"Jewish Feasts and Fasts,"
tion Society of America.
trations add to the value of the volume.
by Julius H. Greenstone. The Jewish Publication Society of This book fills a great need in our Jew-
This volume is a beautiful and fitting America is deserving of a hearty K'ya- ish life. It will undoubtedly help to re-
indication of the esteem in which the sher Ko'ach for publishing such a use- store Sabbath observance in a very mean-
author is held by his many students and ful and much needed volume, and the ingful way. book that should be
It is a
admirers. Dr. Greenstone recently cele- author, Rabbi Millgram, is to be con- in the home of every intelligent Jew, and
brated his seventieth birthday, and his gratulated upon the excellent job he has should be read and re-read by parents
disciples and friends have published this performed in presenting the theme in and children, by all who desire to experi-
collection of his writings, to mark and such an interesting and well-planned ence the Oneg Shabbat, the delight which
to honor this event. manner. the Sabbath can bring to us.

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men
THE
Congress
eight in the Seventy-ninth
of widely

They have
backgrounds, interests
in
are

common
—and
the fact that
different
merits.
all
WHO'S JEWISH IN CONGRESS
are Democrats, representing districts in
when he does get aroused it causes con- By MURIEL LEVIN*
where there heavy concentra-
cities

tion of Jews.
is

Five are from

a

New York,
siderable attention — as it did last session
when he became incensed at anti-Semitic day. Bloom used showman tactics to
one from Chicago, one from Hartford,
remarks by Rep. John Rankin of Mis- make the country conscious of the found-
and one from Allegheny County, Penn-
sylvania, which includes the city of Mc-
sissippi. ing father —and Sol Bloom. When it

Sabath married late in life to May came to the 15 0th Anniversary of the
Keesport.
Ruth Furst. He has no children. Constitution, he was the logical man to
ADOLPH J. SABATH take over.
Dean of the House, with a record of At the death of Rep. Sam McReynoIds
thirty-nine years of continuous service, SOL BLOOM in 1939, Bloom moved up to the chair-
is white-haired, white-mustached Adolph Sol Bloom, who spent his boyhood in manship of the House Foreign Affairs
J. Sabath of Illinois, who was seventy- the slums of San Francisco, is going back Committee. For the last six years, his
nine this month. Straight-backed, digni- to the Golden Gate City to represent the small body clothed in striped pants and
fied, chairman of the very pow-
Sabath is United States at the United Nations morning coat, he has officially greeted
erful Rules Committee without whose Conference. kings and queens, presidents and foreign
consent no legislation can come up on Born seveny-five years ago in a little ministers. He has piloted through the
the floor for consideration. He is quietly town in Illinois of Polish immigrant par- House neutrality legislation, lend-lease,
effective, makes little Aoise, gets things ents, he worked in a brush factory in declaration of war, authorization of U. S.

done, and is highly regarded by Jewish San Francisco at eight, sold programs in participation in UNRRA, and support
and non-Jewish groups because of an a theater at night and acted kid parts. of international cooperation. The una-
impressive and solid record of liberal leg- When he was twenty-two, having risen nimity with which his committee has
islation. to treasurer of the Alcazar Theater at acted during this crisis is considered a

Born in Czechoslovakia the year Lin- sixteen, he decided to see the world. He direct result of his political astuteness.
coln was assassinated, Sabath migrated to got as far as Chicago, where the World's Widowed by the death of talented
the United States alone at fifteen and Columbian Exposition was about to Evelyn Hechheimer in 1941, Bloom lives
arrived in Chicago with $1.3 J in his open. He found construction of the with his daughter Vera. He likes good
pocket. He subsequently brought over amusement area was behind schedule, food, has had the same cook for years,
his parents and his five brothers. Work- took a hand, and won a diamond medal and brings lunch to the office to avoid
ing as a salesman in department store,
a for his successful efforts. He gave the upsetting his stomach. He smokes spe-
he studied law at night at the Chicago world the "Hootchy-Kootchy" when, as cial cigars and enjoys good wines and
College of Law and Lake Forest Univer- barker for Little Egypt, the pioneer liquors. He spices his conversation with
sity and was active in Czech and politi- muscle-dancer, he hummed to advertise occasional Yiddish expressions, calls him-
cal organizations. Before the turn of the his wares. self a lifetime Zionist, likes appreciation
last century, he had become a power in From there, Bloom took up music- from Jewish groups. Despite his theatri-
Chicago political circles. He served in publishing in a similarly spectacular and cal background, he believes more can be
the city council, as Justice of the Peace, successful fashion, moved his enterprises accomplished by quiet manipulation than
and as Police Magistrate. As judge he to New York and opened a chain of pho- by loud demands and he acts accord-
advocated and helped establish a juvenile nograph stores. Then he drifted back to ingly —some of the time.
court and the parole system for first construction, building some of the most * » »
offenders. famous of the New York theaters. He
Judge Sabath fathered workmen's com- knew the great and the near great of SAMUEL D1CKSTEIN
pensation legislation, and the parcel post the theatrical and New York political Another of the Congressional veterans
and postal savings act was adopted world. It was not surprising that Tam- is sixty-year-old Samuel Dickstein, a
largely because of his efforts. He cham- many boss Charles F. Murphy should ask product of New York's East Side. An
pioned the rights of the immigrant on him run for Congress in 1922. The
to early disciple of Tammany Hall, he stud-
the Immigration Committee for twenty- fact that he won in a normally Republi- ied law as a political stepping stone, and
four years, was never chairman because can district was a surprise; the race was was active in local political organiza-
the Republican Party was in ascendancy so close that his election was contested tions. He went from the Board of Al-
when he was eligible, and finally gave up and it was only after a year-long lapse dermen, to the New York State Assem-
that assignment for a position on the that he was seated. bly, and in 1922 successfully opposed
Rules Committee he now heads. He was just another congressman Socialist Meyer London as Fusion candi-
He is ordinarily so restrained that among 48$ until Coolidge appointed a date for congress.
1 commission to celebrate the 200th An- Consciously a Jew throughout his
• Through Jewish Telegraphic Agency. niversary of George Washington's birth- Congressional life, Dickstein fought for

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special laws to protect Kosher food buy-

ers, and a Sabbath law to permit shop-
keepers to close on Saturday and remain
open on Sunday. He constantly speaks
WHEN YOU'RE ASKED TO DEFINE
on the floor and introduces legislation in "JEWISH COMMONWEALTH"
behalf of the Jews. As chairman of the
Immigration and Naturalization Com- THE Palestine Post recently published be exactly the same as that of Jewish
mittee, he has been able to block attempts a letter by a non-Jewish correspondent citizens; allwould be subject to identical
to push through more stringent immi- stating that laws to be administered by a democrati-
all non-Jews in Palestine and
gration measures. How much longer he the British public would welcome a clear cally elected Government. Furthermore,
will be able to stem the tide is a ques- statement wide measures of
of proposals of the Jewish local self-government
tion. He has been able to accomplish people on the following matters: are envisaged in urban, semi-urban and
little in the way of constructive legisla-
(1) The status of non-Jewish citizens rural areas. In addition, Moslems and
tion, though he did help pass the amend- in a Jewish Commonwealth; what laws would enjoy
Christians fullcommunal
ment of the Chinese Exclusion Act, they would be subject to, and who would autonomy as regards the management of
which shamefully discriminated against administer them. their religious, educational and social in-
the Chinese on the basis of race. In that (2) What guarantee would be given stitutions.
instance, however, he had strong support
regarding the protection of property or "(2) A guarantee for the protection
from the Roosevelt Administration; in land, the right to trade and to carry on of the above-mentioned rights, the same
other liberal immigration legislation, he personal and religious routine without as that ensuring the rights of Jewish citi-
is opposed by the strongly anti-immigra- hindrance. zens, viz. the law of the country, would
tion tenor of his committee and the
(3) What representation there would be enacted by legislature to be adminis-
House as a whole. be of non-Jewish citizens in the Govern- tered by a Government representative of,
A few years after Hitler came to ment. and responsible to, all citizens.
power, Dickstein used his committee po-
(4) The status and rights of fellahin
sition to appoint subcommittee
a special "(3) All citizens, without distinction
and bedouin, particularly in the exten-
to investigate the nefarious Nazi propa- of race or creed, would enjoy adult suf-
sive Arab areas in the South.
ganda in the United States, thus laying frage and be entitled to representation
(5) What guarantee would be given
the groundwork inuncovering Nazi ac- on legislative executive bodies, non-Jews
to the Christian and Moslem world for
tivities here. Unfortunately, from it proper freedom and facilities for visitors
being eligible for Ministerial office. No
emerged the Dies Committee on Un- citizen would be as a disadvantage as a
and pilgrims from other countries.
American Activities to prove that Ges- canditdate for public employment by
The following reply, published in the
tapo techniques, reason of his race or religion.
in whatever interest same issue of the paper, was given by
they are originally employed, eventually "(4) Fellahin and bedouin are to en-
Dr. Leo Kohn, Political Secretary of the
turn on democracy itself. joy the same status and rights as other
Jewish Agency:
was only four 'when
Dickstein his "A Jewish Commonwealth is not con- citizens and they would also benefit from
mother brought him from Vilna to join ceived as an exclusively Jewish policy. It local self-government.
his father in America, but because Yid- is realized that a considerable section of " ( 5 ) Religious rights of non- Jewish
dish was spoken in the house and in his and pilgrims would be
the population will not be Jewish by race residents, visitors
neighborhood, he still has a slight for- or religion. The Commonwealth is to be safeguarded by constitutional guarantees
eign intonation. He usually gets too ex- designated as Jewish because it is intended relating particularly to the freedom of
cited to be effective as a speaker. Short, to be the National Home of the Jewish worship, maintenance of religious and
physically fit, he takes pride in being open to
people and to that end it will be charitable institutions, family law and
immaculately dressed. He is married to any Jew desirous of settling in Palestine, personal status, and the protection of
Esther Trevers, the attractive girl who the latter function being indeed its prin- places of worship and pious foundations.
was his secretary when he first came to cipal raison d'etre. Without entering at The Moslem Holy Places will be admin-
Washington. His daughter Marlene is
by
Moslems and the Christian
the present stage into a complete exposi- istered
now eleven.
tion of the contemplated Jewish Com- Holy Places by Christians. The existing
* » * monwealth, the following may be an- religious courts of the Moslems and of
swered to the above-quoted specific ques- several Christian communities would
EMANUEL CELLER continue to exercise the same jurisdiction
tions:
Brooklyn's Emanuel Celler, also in " would
( 1 ) The status of non-Jews as now."
Congress since fought sin-
1922, has
cerely, intensely, noisily for dozens of
good and just causes ranging from bill for mustering-out pay for merchant "free ports"which have proved such a
"Down with Franco" to "More Becom- seamen, and a repeal of the Silver Pur- boom to commerce. As
international
ing Uniforms for WACS." He has in- chase Acts. Important among the legis- ranking member of the House Judiciary
troduced measure to give Eastern Hem-
a lation he has pushed through is the Celler Committee, next in line for the chair-
isphere Indians an immigration quota, a Act setting up foreign trade zones, the manship, he is head of a subcommittee

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now considering bills to give the fran- He is a very tall, thin-faced, large- Court of Special Sessions, from which he
chise to the District of Columbia. nosed man of sixty-five, with small, retired in 1936. Just a few years later,
Celler is a medium-sized round man bird-like eyes, a brusque blunt manner Leo decided to carry on the family tra-
with a mild soft voice, is a descendant and a habit of getting right to the point. dition. He ran for New York State As-
of Germans who fled here after the fail- He says he has never taken a drink in sembly and served three years.

ure of the 1848 revolution. A graduate his life, phenomenal for anyone who has With two sons in the service, Rayfiel's
of Columbia College and Columbia Law been in politics for forty-five years, but chief interest in Congress, aside from
School, tremendous library of
he has a he makes up for it by smoking cigars getting the war won quickly, is to draft
works on history and government, plays furiously. legislationwhich will "restore to nor-
both the violin and piano, works hard malcy the economic lives of all the people
* 5- s-

at keeping well informed. He has two who have been in the military services
daughters, one of whom is attending S AMU EL A. WEISS or who have had jobs or businesses af-
Brooklyn College, and a grandchild. fected by the war." He will get a chance
Although he is only forty-two, Sam- on the World War Veterans Committee,
MiiJ. j - '
£ > 9 uel A. Weiss has just been returned for to which he has been assigned, along
his third term in Congress. Weiss was a
HERMAN P. KOPPLEMAN with the Civil Service and Patents Com-
football player at Duquesne University mittees.
The Congressional career of Herman and he has maintained his interest in the
P. Koppleman is of the checker-board Over six feet tall, dark-haired, well
sport throughout the years. Even now
variety. From 1932-3 8, he served con- built, Rayfiel at fifty-seven has a ready
he is a member of the Eastern Inter-
secutively, but term since
every other collegiate Football Officials Association,
wit and a pleasant, cultured voice. He
then the people of Hartford have elected admits no voracious reader, but
he is
and continues to referee high school and
his opponent. On the alternate two years keeping up with his three dynamic sons
college football games. He talks and lec-
he has been "enjoying the luxury of lazi- has kept him alert. He is Brooklyn born
tures on the value of collegiate sports,
ness," paying close attention to his whole- and bred, went to Brooklyn and New
and appears to be proudest of the fact
sale newspaper and magazine distribution York law schools, married Flora Marks
that he was referee in the National Pro-
business (the second largest in New fessional Football League during 1942
twenty-nine years ago.
England), and plotting to get re-elected and 1943.
the next time. » * *
Weiss even looks like an ex-football
Koppleman entered politics in his early
He man
player. is a broad-shouldered BEN IAMIN ). RABIN
teens. He was elected at the age of with short limbs, a powerfully -developed
twenty-two to the Hartford City Coun- The political novice is Benjamin J.
chest, sleek black hair and dark eyes.
cil and a few years later to the Board of
Married to Jeannette Hoffman in 1930,
Rabin, who is holding his first elective
Aldermen. Then he went on to both the job. Thus far he has taken his responsi-
he is the father of a nine-year-old daugh-
House and Senate of the Connecticut ter and a six-year-old son.
bilities as congressman seriously. A vet-
legislature. In Congress, he has worked eran ofWorld War I, Rabin received his
He was born in Krotowocz, Poland;
for the welfare of the people of his city, law degree from New York University
brought to Glassport, Pennsylvania the
sponsoring legislation for the Connecti- in 1919, has been practising in New
next year. After Duquesne Law School
cut tobacco farmers and the victims of York. 1934 he was appointed to a
In
he practised law in Pennsylvania. At
the floods in that area. In addition, he legislative investigating committee and
thirty-four went to the State Legisla-
has the pen with which President Roose- then made chairman of the New York
ture for two terms, then came to Wash-
velt signed his Veterans Reimbursement State Mortgage Commission by Governor
ington. He has been serving on the Post
Act providing payment to veterans in Herbert H. Lehman.
Office and Post Roads Committee, and in
emergency cases. Now he's been treated The Bronx's freshman representative is
the Seventy-eighth Congress he was
all right, he says; he's been put on the a medium-sized, plump man in his late
chairman of a special subcommittee on
important Appropriations Committee, forties, black-browed, round-faced. He
the Lynch bill to bar from the mails ra-
and is New England representative on was born in Rochester, New York, but
cial and religious defamations. The bill
the Democratic Steering Committee, his family moved to New York City in
was pigeon-holed after the American
which plots the party's legislative tactics. 1900. He is married to Syd Sobol, has
Civil Liberties Union voiced opposition.
from Russia at the age of
Brought no children, used to be interested in agri-
two, Koppleman attended Hartford pub- culture, thinks some day he will be a city
* * *
lic and high schools. Both he and his farmer. He has been very active in Jew-
wife, Adeline Greenstein, have been ac- ish organizations, particularly the Joint
LEO F. RAY FI EL
tive in community Jewish affairs. She Distribution Committee, as a member of
was one of the founders of the Hartford Leo F. Rayfiel, elected for his first term the board of directors and the national
chapter of Hadassah; he was elected to from Brooklyn's newly created four- council. His present Congressional com-
the first American Jewish Congress in teenth district, inherited his interest in mittee assignmentInternational andis

1919. At present he is vice-president of politics from his father. Hyman Ray- Foreign Commerce, which he considers
the United Synagogue of America. fiel, now eighty-two, was justice of the the "lifeblood of economic effort."

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M
In a minute."
ORRIS,
Morris!"
did

"Sure, I'm getting up,

Morris lay in bed a while longer.

you hear me?

Ma.

He
WHEN OUR HEARTS WERE
A Short Story

was looking
dow shade
at the torn part of the
and thinking, if only
win-
this YOUNG AND BURNING
were the year 2000, and he was waking
up in a new "world like Bellamy's hero.
Gee, it would be swell. What do you starvation." He would think of his By JOAN KINNER
want to go to work for, they'd say. Our mother's meals.
machines are so good, it takes only a few "Twenty cents is enough for lunch," hand up toward his shoulder, "promise
hundred volunteers to turn out all the he said. your grandmother you won't eat pig for
goods the country needs. You can stay Grandma came and stood beside him lunch. The Highest will surely punish
in bed longer. You can get breakfast as he was finishing his roll. "Morrisel," you for such a sin."
in the community kitchen at any hour. she pleaded, "is the Yuddamat a kosher "Aw, Grandma," he teased, "you don't
Sure. You can spend the whole day in restaurant?" know how wonderful ham tastes." As
the library. Ma waved impatiently. "This is he ran out past her, he heard her urging
Ma came in again. America; this is not the old country." the Highest to send fire and darkness
"Morris, are you getting up, or aren't Morris stood up. Next to Grandma and fear upon this sinful world.
you? You want to be late? You want he could feel tall. He ran faster to the corner, and
to lose your job? And who will buy "How many times do I have to tell thanked the Highest for the red light.

you a winter coat when you go back to you?" he smiled. "Religion is the opiate If he had missed that trolley car, he
school? Maybe you think we are mil- of the people. —Ma, where's my jacket?" might not catch the last train that would
lionaires?" "Here," she sighed. "It's going to be get him in on time. J & S was the kind
"Aw, Ma, I'm getting up. I won't another hot day." She watched her of place where everybody looked up in
be late." son lovingly as he combed his straight surprise if you came in two minutes
"It reads half the night, and in the brown without a glance into the
hair after nine and where nobody went to
morning it can't open its eyes. And who mirror. Suddenly she noticed something. wash up till after six. Just slaves, Mor-
pays the electric bills? You? With your "Morris! What is sticking out of your ris thought, but he was more servile than

eight dollars a week?" pocket? Tell me this minute, what are any of them.
Morris had sat up till nearly one you taking to the office?" "Oh yes, I like the work," he would
o'clock to finish Edward Bellamy's pro- "I'll be late, Ma. Let me go." say with a blush when Mr. J asked him
phetic "Looking Backward." For a long She whisked the pamphlet out of his about it. "I hope I can come back next
time he had not been able to fall asleep pocket. summer, too. Sure, I'm learning fast."
for all the pictures rolling through his "His job he wants to lose my revolu- — To a more active boy of his age the
mind. And now he was still living in tionary hero! Giving out pamphlets in job would have been deadly. All day
the year 2000; and the realworld was the office. His mother should kill her- long Morris stood in front of the ship-
strange and ludicrous. He washed and self to buy him a winter coat, and he ping desk checking pink order slips. He
dressed automatically, chuckling over should be a martyr. I spit on such was rather glad the work wasn't more
the paper clothes Americans of the year martyrs!" interesting. His mind was free to think,
2000 had learned to wear. "Gee whiz, Ma, I'm not going to sell and Morris was doing more thinking
They complained that he wasn't listen- any pamphlets. I just got one I want than ever before in his life. His whole
ing. to read." outlook had suddenly changed last
"Sure, I heard," he murmured. "You "You can stand on your head and springwhen he joined the Revolutionary
said it was a box of corn flakes
fresh you won't get it. I will not let you go Youth League. When he wasn't plan-
and I should take more milk." to work with dynamite in your pockets." ning programs for the R. Y. L., he was
Ma snorted and Grandma laughed. And Morris didn't, though he had been picturing life under the Cooperative
"Five minutes ago I said that," Ma looking forward to reading "The Dream Commonwealth. The organization would
informed him. "Do you want sand- of Gene Debs" as soon as he had finished have elected him treasurer if he had been
wiches? That's what I asked." the Bellamy book. It was all about a a member the required six months. In-

"No, Ma, I'll eat in the Automat. I general strike, one of the comrades down stead, they had put him on the educa-

don't spend more than twenty cents." at the R. Y. L. meeting had told him. tional committee, and even Morris had
"Miser! Why don't you spend a "Good-bye," he said sourly. to admit he worked harder than the
quarter? On pamphlets and dues he But he couldn't leave just yet: Grand- chairman. Ted spent his time on the
throws away money, but on lunch he ma, tying her kerchief tighter under her beach all day, and he'd come late to
wants to save." neck, was waiting to speak with him at meetings, often with no program pre-
It always made Morris uncomfortable the door. pared. After adjournment, instead of
to sing the line, "Arise, ye prisoners of "Morrisel, father mine," she put her calling the committee together, Ted

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would dance with the girls and then That's the stuff, kid. I always did say, tention. His mind was busy turning
wind up in the ice-cream parlor, while education pays." over the problem of social change. Would
Morris put up reading lists on the bul- Morris's mounting intellectual superi- it be by a majority vote of Congress? A
letin board and changed the news ority had fallen to zero when he noticed war with the capitalist class? Or a gen-
clippings. with what ease and precision Smithson eral strike? How he wished his mother
Morris had even tried to organize a handled his food. When Morris tried to had let him take the Jack London pam-
debate on the closed shop, but they all speak, chopped liver bits came out be- phlet this morning. Well he'd read it

said it was too hot these days. "Wait tween his gums and lips and at the sides right after supper.

till after the summer." Next he had of his mouth. He hadn't tried to finish "Six o'clock," said Smithson, and the
suggested book reviews, but nobody pre- hissandwich that day. "Excuse me," he pleasant afternoon was over.
pared one except Morris, and he had got up suddenly, "I have an awful head- Evenings Morris went home the long
squirmed through a sweating, stuttering ache." way to save a nickel. He would get out

half-hour while the girls fidgeted and at Canal Street with a transfer, and walk
giggled. Ted just winked at them. along beside the candy stands thinking
what Love Nests
Just them ask Morris to review
let UTOPIA a bargain three nickel

"Looking Backward" just let them. He — By ORIAN De PLEDGE

for ten cents was.
denly realized, there was
This evening he sud-
a bigger mob
couldn't see why the girls came down to 7
the R. Y. L. anyhow. They were almost I DREAMT that Moses met me in the then ever. He discovered that nobody
I was accepting transfers and the gate to
as bad as the ones who worked here. field,

Lipstick, tabloids, gossip and movies. His massive brow serene, his eyes intent
the station was closed. Some passengers
were sore and others were laughing, but
Catch anybody ever organizing the girls Upon the blossoming heavens that re-
this place into union. All they
no one seemed to know what had caused
in a vealed
the jam.
wanted was to get married. And Miss
The glory of a million suns that bent
It was hot under the low ceiling and
Gold, Mr. J's secretary, thought it was so
Their lambent lances toward our tiny suddenly most of the lights went out.
clever when she said, "Why're you blush-
globe; More and more passengers came pushing
ing, Morris?" And the way the stupid
things bothered him about "living a
Especially, where we breathless stood, down from the street.

secret life," just because he went to the there came "Ain't Broadway Brooklyn run-
the

The beauty with which heavenly ning?" they asked.

Fifth Avenue Automat for lunch instead fingers
probe "Dirty nerve," said one man, "now it'll
of the Forty-second.
Once Morris had brought lunch from cost me another nickel to get back on
Our little souls and hearts like naked
the Brighton train."
home but he wouldn't do it again. Ma flame.
made such thick sandwiches that he "You couldn't get back there if you
Here, Moses told me truths of such
couldn't bite into them without scatter- tried, brother," said a voice high on the
moment.
ing debris all over the desk. Then, too, stairs. "The street's too jammed now."
Of other worlds, of other suns and moons The jostling was continuous; the smell
Becky, the folder, brought her lunch
from home and Morris didn't know what Where life Utopian could always be was awful. Finally a big fat man not

to say to her. She had a loud laugh, her spent, in conductor's uniform got upon a stand
hair was oily, and when she raised her Where music of the spheres lent mellow near the gate and held his arms out side-

arms you could see big green stains on tunes ways.

her brown dress. Becky was like a rela- To every kindly act and golden deed "Friends," he bellowed, ignoring the
tive. laughter that followed his greeting. His
That bore the fertile, never sterile seed.

ris
So after the first week on the job Mor-
lunched alone, with an open book
— Reprinted from The Jewish Forum
voice
street,
boomed up to the
but not the words, there was so
crowd in the

propped against the sugar and ketchup. much confusion.

Once the shipping clerk, Smithson, Smithson had suggested a doctor: it "Trains ain't running," Morris heard
had found him thus. looked like fever to him. one man say. "No, I didn't catch it,
"Mind you?" he asked, and
if I join "Oh no, all I need is some air." And don't know why, but he didn't know
set down his ham
salad, and iced tea. Morris had gone to Bryant Park to cool how long it would be before they could
"Had to get something for my wife at off, hatingmother for never having
his run."
the Five and Ten," he explained when he taught him manners, irked with
table "You mean how long before they get
returned with napkin and silver. "Notice Smithson for having intruded. scabs," Morris muttered. Like everyone
you read a lot," he chatted on. "Al- Morris didn't want to make friends else he tore up his transfer and pushed
ways wished I could pick up a good with anyone at J. & S. If Mr. J. left his way upstairs.
book. What I mean is a serious book for a minute, the whole stock room be- Canal Street was in commotion. Even
and go right through to the end. Ones came alive with buzzing and movement. at the height of the rush hour there was
I see you lugging around would put me Willie, the checker, would skate over be- never such a mob as now. Taxis were
to sleep. What I mean is, too deep for tween the racks and make a wise-crack doing a good business; four or five per-
me. Going back to school, do you think? about the boss, but Morris paid no at- [Continued on page 22)

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Up to now the government

OF THE
NEWS
thorities.
had indicated some reluctance to voiding
such transactions.

MONTH During demonstration in Tel Aviv

a
demanding the opening of Palestine to
ft

surviving Jews from Europe and the

duty at the edge of what was once Hit- White Paper,
THERE
mism
is no ground for the pessi-
ler's Reich.
cancellation of the
bomb" exploded showering
a "leaf-

prevailing among Palestine let the dem-

Jews concerning the future of the If the pledges made some time ago by onstrators with broadsides signed by the
country, Dr. James G. Heller, president the British are carried out, these men Irgun Zvai Lemui, Jewish terrorist
of the United Palestine Appeal of the will eventually have a hand in the actual group, declaring that Irgun members
United States, declared in Jerusalem. occupation of German territory. tried several times to blast the Mosul oil

Dr. Heller, who is visiting there, said "Ever since we volunteered," a Pal- pipe-line which terminates in Haifa, in
that all reports reaching Zionist leaders estine major remarked, "we've been an- retaliation for British policy with regard
—but which cannot be revealed — indi- ticipating entering Germany with the to the Jews in Palestine. Similar bombs
cate that a solution of the Palestine prob- victorious Allied armies. It will be an exploded during the evening in Jerusa-
lem favorable to the Jews is in the offing. occasion.
historic Though victory has lem.
The decision might be postponed owing we aren't in Germany yet. But
arrived

to the complicated situation in the when we do get there, it will be a kind In London, a warning that "there will
world, he added, but "we must have a of symbolic justice that the world will be a lot of trouble" if the British Gov-
little patience, because not a single one applaud. For many of us it will also be ernment does not withdraw the White
of the factors concerned has changed its a chance to return to our original home- Paper and open the doors of Palestine to
mind concerning Palestine." land." Jewish immigration was sounded by
The United States Government, Dr. Meanwhile, the Brigade is strung along David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the ex-
Heller said, favors the Jewish cause and the 100-mile road from Udine, Italy, to ecutive of the Jewish Agency, addressing
will do everything possible in accord the Austrian frontier, helping with other a national conference of the Laborite-
with the British Government, but the Eighth Army units and the American Zionists.
present world situation, especially in the Tenth to maintain a section of the sup- Emphasizing that Palestine today is a
Levant, calls for caution on all sides. ply route to the occupation forces in matter of life and death for Jews Ben-

When Dr. Weizmann recently submitted Austria. As you drive along you see Gurion declared: "Of course, we know
a demand for creation of a Jewish state them stringing telephone wires, rebuild- that the BritishGovernment has power
to Prime Minister Churchill, he was ing blown-up bridges, or filling in bomb to impose any policy it wants. But no
aware that the majority of U. S. Jewry craters in the roads. A sizeable group of power will subdue the Jewish soul. We
back the Biltmore Declaration, which German prisoners of war are working still believe in human conscience, but our
calls for immediate creation of a Jewish under their direction. main hope is self-reliance. At this stage,"
Commonwealth, the UPA head asserted. One Palestinian company has charge he continued, "we would like others to
Dr. Heller disclosed that he plans to of a prisoner-of-war hospital at Tarvisio know that we shall not submit to im-
remain in Palestine for about three which houses 245 patients. Among these position of the White Paper. If its de-
months in order to make a thorough in- are tough Nazi paratroopers who were signs are fully carried out, there will be
vestigation of conditions there and a wounded by the Palestinian group at the a lot of trouble."
study of financial measures necessary to time of the breakthrough across Senio ft

further develop the country. Referring early in April. In a chastened mood, they Swiss newspapers carry a report from
to the situation within the Zionist or- cause their Jewish captors and guards no Berlin that about 6,000 Jews are in the
ganization, he said that a world Zionist trouble now. Reich capital and more are returning.
ft
congress was certainly desirable, but The report is attributed to the Russian-
would not be possible for at least a year. The French Government has issued a appointed Berlin mayor, Arthur Werner,
decree voiding all transactions consum- a 68 -year-old German educator.
Buildings of an ancient city called mated during the German occupation Reports reaching here from Germany
Beth Yerbach, which was, apparently, a with the consent of the owners if the reveal that 1,800 Polish and Hungarian
prosperous market town of Palestine enemy directly or indirectly acquired Jews are at present in a camp near
about 2,500 years ago, have been uncov- property rights belonging to French in- Garmisch-Partenkirchen, living under
ered on the southwestern shore of the dividuals or corporations in France or "very difficult conditions," lacking food,
Sea of Galilee in northern Palestine, abroad. clothing and medicine.
ft Many ostensibly legal sales were made Other reports state that 203 Polish
At a where the boundaries of
point during the occupation by Jews and other Jews from the Dachau concentration
Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia meet, the persons who knew that if they did not camp are living under similar conditions
Jewish Brigade group, which fought its dispose of their property it would be in a camp near Bachberg. Similar re-

way up through Italy, is now assigned to taken from them eventually by the au- ports have reached Jewish organizations

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in Geneva concerning the situation of Paris for weeks seeking permission to increase of thirty percent as against last
liberated Jewish internees in various come to such camps as Belsen. This per- year's proceeds," she declared in a state-
camps in Germany located near the mission has now been granted. ment.
Swiss frontier. All these survivors are
in urgent need of food and clothing. Mrs. Archibald Silverman, who left Baruch Rivkin, noted Jewish writer,
& the United States inMarch on a mission died in New York City following a pro-
The
Mexican Foreign Office attempted for the Keren Hayesod in Latin America, longed illness. He was 62 years old.
to modify the recent decree barring im- has returned, after successfully partici- Rivkin, who was born in Russia and
migrants from many liberal professions pating in Keren Hayesod campaigns in came to this country in 1911, was the
before it was promulgated. A Foreign Argentina and other Southern American author of a number of works on religious
Office spokesman said that Foreign Min- countries. "The income of the Keren philosophy. He advanced the theory that
ister Ezequiel Padilla considered the de- Hayesod in Argentina shows, so far, an Yiddish literature had a Messianic mis-
cree "deplorably nationalistic," and was
Mexico adopted "this
displeased that
type of chauvinistic legislation."
h'ad
"PALESTINE CLAUSE" ADOPTED BY UNCIO
The section affecting immigrants was development toward self-govern-
THE behind-the-scenes fight over the gressive
ment or independence
only a small part of the law. Most of so-called "Palestine Clause" of the as may be appro-
its provisions are aimed at cleaning up UNCIO chapter on trusteeships came to priate to the particular circumstances of
the professions, which are allegedly rid- an end when the trusteeship committee each territory and its peoples and the
den with persons practicing without of the United Nations Conference voted freely expressed wishes of the peoples
proper degrees and licenses. to adopt the clause, but added a provi- concerned, as may be provided by the
a sion that "nothing in this clause is to be trusteeship arrangement."
Easing of present restrictions so as to interpreted as giving grounds for delay
Other paragraphs provide that the
allow residents of the Fort Ontario refu- or postponement" of placing mandated
present mandatory power must agree to
gee shelter to leave the camp for desig- territories under trusteeships.
the placing of mandates under trustee-
nated periods in the custody of private The addition to the text represented a
ships, that the trust areas shall be super-
relief agencies was urged by War Refu- compromise with the Soviet delegation
vised by a trusteeship council composed
gee Board Director William O'Dwyer. which originally demanded that the dis-
of an equal number of representatives of
This recommendation, Mr. O'Dwyer re- puted clause be omitted. In advancing
states which are administering and those
vealed, has already been submitted to the this demand the Soviet delegation sought
which are not administering trust areas.
Department of the Interior of which the to prevent the "freezing" of the present
This council shall have the power to ac-
War Relocation Authority, which oper- status of mandated territories. The new
cept petitions from residents of territo-
ates the shelter, is an agency. provision makes certain that these ter-
ries placed in trust, to make investiga-
ritories will now have to come under
tions in trust areas and to receive reports
The assistant manager of the Alliance trusteeship.
from administering powers. The General
Israelite Francaise in Damascus was killed Arab efforts to secure other modifica-
Assembly is also empowered to demand
during the recent disturbances there. tions in the text of the clause failed com-
annual reports from the administering
Several Jews were wounded during the pletely as a result of the determination
authority on the political, economic, so-
battle between Syrian and French forces. of the U. S. delegation not to permit any
cial and educational advancement of in-
it changes in the text which might preju-
habitants of the trust territory, based on
More than 18,000 people have died in dice the position of the Jews in Palestine
a questionnaire formulated by the Trus-
Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany since its or Jewish immigration to Palestine. A teeship Council.
liberation by British forces several weeks proposal by Iraq which would have re-
ago, and about fifty are still dying daily, stricted the "peoples" mentioned in the Dr. Nahum Goldmann, representing
despite the fact that the camp's adminis- paragraph to those now inhabiting trus- the Jewish Agency in San Francisco, said
trators and British soldiers are doing all teed territories was defeated, as was an that he was satisfied with the Palestine
they can to aid the inmates. The camp Egyptian suggestion that would have al- clause in its present formulation, since
seethes with disillusionment, and the lowed half the seats on the Trusteeship it "maintains all the rights under exist-
greatest number of complaints come Council to be given to elected members ing mandates, among them the rights of
from the Jews. of the Security Council, thus opening the the Jewish people in regards to Palestine."
The confusion among the Jewish sur- way for an Arab state, which might be He declared that the Soviet proposal for
vivors due to the excitement resulting
is named to the Security Council, to have deletion of the clause had not been aimed
from liberation and from the habits and a voice over trusteed areas. at the Jews in Palestine. Dr. Goldmann
suspicions developed during their impris- Another section which affects Pales- asserted that the Jewish Agency repre-
onment. These feelings are aggravated tine states that one of the basic objec- sentatives here had succeeded in having
by the belief that their own people are tives of the trusteeship system is "to pro- the status quo in Palestine maintained,
not thinking of them, which is very un- mote" the political, economic, social and but stressed that the real fight, for es-
fortunate, since welfare teams of the educational advancement of the trust tablishment of a Jewish state, still lies

Joint Distribution Committee were in territories and their inhabitants and pro- ahead.

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sion, destined to reveal the most hidden Sidney S. Cohen has been appointed counsel. Judge Rosenman was special
forces of the Jewish people and the very executive director of the Associated Jew- counsel to the late President Roosevelt,
essence of Jewish personality. He was a ish Philanthropies in Boston, Judge Jacob and had resigned in April, although he
regular contributor to various Jewish J. Kaplan, president of the organization, agreed to remain temporarily until Presi-
newspapers, and during the last few years announced. dent Truman could find a successor. It
he was a member of the editorial staff of to is understood that in recent months
the Jewish Day. He was buried in the Judge Rosenman has been working on
The agreement reconstituting the
cemetery of the Jewish National Work- European relief problems and the pun-
United Jewish Appeal as the combined
ers Alliance. ishment of war criminals.
national fund-raising body for the Joint
•to

to
Eliahu Golomb, a leader of the His-
Pale and bewildered, David Frank-
tadruth, who played an active role in the
If the Nazi Plague had Run furter stepped out of jail inChur, Swit-
development of Palestine, died in Tel
zerland, after having spent about nine
Aviv of heart failure. He was S3 years Its Course
years in prison for assassinating the Swiss
old.
•to
ALLIED Military Government au- Nazi leader Wilhelm Gustloff. The re-
thorities in Germany announced leaseof the young Jewish medical stu-
Atrocities and persecutions on racial that the Nazis had planned to kill or dent from Yugoslavia was voted on Fri-
or religious grounds committed by the deport all the Jews in Germany in April, day by the Grison Cantonal Council.
Germans since 1933 will be considered 1942, but were prevented by transpor- Frankfurter plans to emigrate to Pal-
war crimes and those guilty of inciting, tation difficulties. They estimated that estine, as under the terms of his original
ordering or counselling their commission less than 20 percent of the Reich Jews sentence he must leave Switzerland as
will be punished, Supreme Court Justice survived. The AMG officials also stated soon as conditions permit. He has had
Robert Jackson, U. S. war crimes prose- that the Nazis planned to exterminate no word of his family since the German
cutor, declared in a report to President every one of the 12,000,000 Jews in Eu- invasion of Yugoslavia.
Truman, following his return from Lon- rope. UNRRA officials estimated that if The streets of Chur were crowded
don where he consulted with the United the warEurope had lasted another
in and many people wept when they saw
Nations War Crimes Commission. year the Germans might have come very the modest young Jew, with a little bag
Justice Jackson said that the Ameri- close to attaining their objective. in his right hand, proceed to the railway
can people considered the Nazi regime station a free man. Many shouted "God
"a band of brigands," adding that "our bless you."
people have been outraged by the op- Distribution Committee, the United Pal- •to

the cruellest form of torture, estine Appeal and the National Refugee
pressions, The first Jewish center in Panama
the large-scalemurder and the wholesale Service, was signed in New York. An
has been opened in Panama City as a re-
confiscation of property which initiated official announcement to this effect was
sult of joint efforts by all Jewish groups
the Nazi regime within Germany. issued B. Wise, Herman
by Rabbi Jonah
and prominent Panamanian intellectuals.
L. Weisman and Edwin Rosenberg, lead-
to A religious school will shortly be opened
ers of the three organizations.
in the center.
The central committee of the Histad- As a result of this agreement the
ruth, the Palestine Federation of Labor, United Jewish Appeal will have to raise
disclosed that it had no objections to the $80,000,000 to meet the estimated needs German Catholic Preserves Torah
admittance of Communists into the fed- of its agencies for the current year. Last
eration. year American Jews contributed approxi- ONE of
standing in
the few
Germany was
synagogues still

used by
•to
mately $30,000,000 to the United Jew-
Jewish soldiers of the 63rd Infantry Divi-
Three anti-Semitic groups in Paris ish Appeal.
to sion for a thanksgiving-memorial service
which have been organizing demonstra- in Bad Mergentheim, situated midway
tions to prevent Jews from re-occupying Direct air service has been inaugu-
between Nurenberg and Heidelberg,
apartments from which they were ejected rated between Jerusalem and London,
headquarters of General Jacob L. Devers'
by the Germans and securing return of making it possible to make that journey
6th Army Group.
their confiscated property, were dissolved in ten hours. William Phillips, assistant
Although all of the 308 Jews who
by government decree. to the Secretary of State, disclosed that
lived in the city in 1933 have been killed
there are American plans to develop air-
At the same time, Minister of the In- or dispersed to other lands, their ancient
lines which will bring the cities of the
terior Adrien Tixier issued a statement holy scrolls and other articles of worship
United States and the Near East within
announcing that the government is de- were handed over to Chaplain Aaron
forty-eight hours of each other.
termined to dissolve "all groups whose Kahan, of Brooklyn, by a Catholic mem-
actual purpose is to conduct anti-Semitic to ber of the community who had hidden
action or spread anti-Jewish propaganda President Truman announced that them in his warehouse until the day
under whatever legal camouflage these Judge Samuel I. Rosenman has agreed when Jews might return to Bad Mergen-
activities may be carried on." to remain another year as his special theim.

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BROOKLYN JEWISH CENTER ACTIVITIES

High Holy Day Services Rev. Newly Elected

Sauler in the Gym and Baths Department dur-
ing July and August:
Services for the coming High Holy Cantor of the Center
Days (Rosh Hashonah, Sept. 8th and 9th
Monday Men, 3 — p.m. to 10 p.m.;

and Yom Kippur, Sept. 17th) will be

Women, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Boys, 3 p.m.
to 5 P.M.
held in the Main Synagogue of our build-
ing. Our Rabbi, Dr. Israel H. Levinthal, Tuesday—Women, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.;
will preach. The services will be con- Girls, 3 p.m. to
p.m. 5

ducted by our new Cantor, Rev. William Wednesday—Men, p.m. 3 to 10 p.m.;

Sauler, accompanied by the Center choir, Women, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Boys, 3 p.m.
under the leadership of Mr. Joel Feig. to 5 P.M.
Additional services will, as heretofore, Thursday — Men, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.;
be conducted in the Auditorium. Women, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Girls, 3 p.m.
Seats for these services are now being to 5 P.M.
reserved. In view of the early date of Friday —Men and Boys, 1 p.m. to 6
the Holy Days, members are urged to P.M.
please make their reservations at the Cen-
ter office before leaving for their summer
Sunday and Legal Holidays —Men, 10
a.m. to 2 p.m.; Boys, 2 P.M. to 5 P.M.
vacations. Unless you do so immediately
you may find yourself without seats for Bar Mifzvahs
the Holy Days. A Hearty Mazel Tov is extended to
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Silverman of
Junior Congregation Services for
5 90 Eastern Parkway on the Bar Mitzvah
Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur of their son, Carl, which will be cele-
Last year we inaugurated a Junior brated at the Center on Saturday morn-
Congregation service during Rosh Ha- Cantor 'William Sauler ing, June 30th.
shonah and Yom Kippur. This year the Congratulations
are also extended to
committee has made a number of im- We are pleased to announce that Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Goldfarb of 1590
portant improvements in the service.
William Sauler has been elected as the
Carroll Street upon the Bar Mitzvah of
Rabbi Mordccai H. Lewittes, the princi- new Cantor of the Brooklyn Jewish Cen- their son, Edward, at the Center, Sat-
pal of our Hebrew and Sunday Schools,
ter, to succeed Cantor Rubin Tucker. urday, June 30th.
will conduct the services. Mr. Julius Cantor Sauler has until recently offi-

ciated at the Congregation Adath Personal

Grossman, newly appointed Music Direc- Israel,

tor of the Center, will officiate, assisted one of the largest congregations in Mon- Our best wishes are extended to Lt.
by members of the Congregation. treal, Canada. was the
Prior to that he Miriam Levine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
The services will be held in the Prayer
Cantor of the Montefiore Congregation Max H. Levine, who has been appointed
Room and tickets of admission will be of the Bronx. He studied singing and Clinical Psychologist by the Adjutant

limited to the capacity of the Beth Ha.-

voice culture in Germany and held the General's Office. Lt. Levine is stationed

medrash. Two hundred tickets will be position of Cantor for the Jewish Com- at McGuire Hospital, Richmond, Va.
sold at $2.50 each. Services will be lim- munity of Berlin.
Our new Cantor will assume his duties
Sabbath Services
ited to boys and girlsunder sixteen years
in September. Kindling of candles at 8:14 p.m.
of age. Please communicate with the
Friday evening services at 6:00 and 7:3 0.
Center office and reserve tickets for your
sons and daughters. Sabbath services, Parsha "Pinhas Leka,"

Young Folks League Roof Dance

will commence at 8:45 a.m.
Judge Greenberg Heads Metropolitan Dr. Levinthal will preach on the
The next Roof Dance of the Young
League of the United Synagogue Folks League will on Tuesday
be held
weekly portion of the Torah.
Our President, Judge Emanuel Green- evening, July 3rd (July 4th Eve) at 9 Mincha services at 6:00.
berg, has been selected as the chairman o'clock. Members of the League are asked
Daily Services
of the Metropolitan Council of the to reserve the date and attend.
United Synagogue of America, which is Morning services at 7:00 and 8:00
composed of Conservative Synagogues in Summer Gym Schedule o'clock.

Greater New York. The following schedule will prevail Mincha services at 8:00.

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Impressive Center Academy Commencement Exercises Town I Live In," was a story told by a
Brooklyn who was somewhere in
soldier
Germany. The Hebrew play, "Admatonu
He" (This Is Our Land) dealt with the
contributions of the Jewish people in
Palestine toward building the land and
winning the war.

Congratulations

Our hearty congratulations and best

wishes are extended to the following:
Mr. and Mrs Charles Blacher of 20
Plaza Street on the celebration of their
2 5th wedding anniversary on June 29th.

Mr. and Mrs Charles Davis of 30

Ocean Parkway on the birth of a daugh-
ter on June 15 th. Congratulations are
also extended to the grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Max Goldberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Glaubman of 448
Sterling Street, who announce the mar-
riage of their daughter, Marilyn Dorys,
CENTER ACADEMY GRADUATES Mr. Jerome
Top Row — left to right: Thomas Jay Kraner, David Trupper Schiff,
to J. Chertoff on June 10th.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Jentleson of 40
Arnolde Warwick, Ashley Leo Schiff, Herbert Michael Schulman,
—
Joseph Zimmerman. Lower Row left to right: Marcia S. Krinsley,
East 88 th Street, New York City, on

Lois Ruth Karron, Rosemay Wolfe, Edith R. Schlusselberg.

the marriage of their son, Stanley, to
Miss Debbie D. Friedland at Philadel-
On Wednesday, June Mth, the Cen- tional program of English and Hebrew. phia, Pa., on June 24th.
ter Academy held its graduation exercises He thanked Mrs. Soskin for the guidance
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham R. Melker of
in the auditorium of the Brooklyn Jew- and inspiration she has given to the
13 59 Union Street, who celebrated their
ish Center. school, and Mr. Jacob Zimmerman, the
2 5 th wedding anniversary on June 15 th.
After the processional and the songs secretary of the Board for many years,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Weinstein of
sung by the graduates and the School for his devoted services.
2601 Glenwood Road on their 20th wed-
Chorus, Mrs. Soskin greeted the gradu- Dr. Levinthal in his address to the chil-
ding anniversary, June 14th.
ates.She said that the greatest reconver- dren impressed them with the fact that
sionproblem which parents and teachers a commencement is a beginning and that Graduation
must now face is the reconversion of our the graduation represents the end of one
children for peace. The fighting spirit stage in the children's Hebrew education
We extend our very best wishes to
Charles H. Posner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
which is so strong in our children today and the beginning of a new stage. He
should not be ignored or discouraged. It impressed the children with the fact that
Louis Posner of 2 5 Plaza Street, who
graduated from the Columbia School of
should be kept alive and energetic and true Americanismincludes being good
Agriculture.
used against our peacetime enemies, Jews and that the best in Judaism and
against ignorance, bigotry, and —what is the finest in Americanism are thoroughly
Bar Mitzvahs
just as dangerous — apathy. Mrs. Soskin compatible.
Best wishes are extended to Mr.
told the graduates that the teachers have He then presented the following grad-
worked consistently to develop within uates with diplomas: Lois Ruth Karron,
Hyman Fein of 118 — 8th Avenue on the
occasion of the Bar Mitzvah of his grand-
the children a social sensitivity so that Thomas Jay Kraner, Marcia S. Krinsley,
son, Mark Adam Fein, son of Mr. and
they would be able as time went on to Ashley Leo Schiff, David Trupper Schiff,
Mrs. Irving Fein, held at the Center on
understand and foster the forces for good Edith R. Schlusselberg, Herbert Michael
June 23rd.
and recognize and stamp out the evil, Schulman, Arnolde Warwick, Rosemay
reactionary ones. She told them that the Wolfe and Joseph Zimmerman. Dr. and Mrs. Henry Plotkin of 883
school expects the young people to par- Marcia Krinsley presented the gift of Park Place on the Bar Mitzvah of their
ticipate intelligently and honestly in all the graduating class — a set of historical grandson, Neil Robert Levin, of Port
activities which will lead to a better maps of the United States. The gift was Jervis, N. Y., on June 23rd.
world for all. Dr. Solomon J. Miller fol- accepted for the school in Hebrew by Hearty congratulations are extended
lowed Mrs. Soskin. He spoke of the Ruth Ann Sackadorf, a 2nd grade child. to Mr. and Mrs. Irving Swirnow of 637
growth of the school in the last four The balance of the program included Empire Boulevard on the Bar Mitzvah
years, pointing to this as an indication —
two plays both written and produced of their son, Donald M., which was held
of the growing interest in a dual educa- by the graduates. The English play, "The at the Center on Saturday, June 23rd.

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Applications for Membership
Hebrew School Has Interesting Graduation Exercises
The following have applied for mem-
bership in the Brooklyn Jewish Center:

Buchman, Harry
Res. 65 5 Montgomery St.

Bus. Junior Coats, 2 5 W. 39th St.

Married
Proposed by George Goldenbcrg
Cohen, Miss Mina
Res. 1634 Sterling PL
Proposed by Charlotte Cohen
Gottesman, Miss Alice M.
Res. 300 Sullivan St.

Bus. Attorney, 26 Court St.

Proposed by Philip Palevsky

Krasna, Selig
Res. 441 Brooklyn Ave.
Bus. Jobber, 78 Orchard St.
Married HEBREW SCHOOL GRADUATES
Proposed by Benjamin Katz
Top Row — Joseph Buchman, Lloyd Alt man, Rita Ellen-
left to right:
Koff, Arthur port, Mrs. N. Rabinowitz, Laura Viders, Dorothy Sholin, Aaron
E.
Res. 488 Montgomery St. Meisel, Bernard Steginsky. Lower Ron- —
left to right: Mr. Leo Shpail,
Bus. Jewelry, 309 5 th Ave. Anita Brown, Florence Bromberg, Mr. Samuel Edelheit, Rabbi Mordecai
Married H. Lewittcs, Glorianne Rader, Barbara Schiller.
Proposed by Jules Gold
The annual graduation of our Hebrew the work of that school was described
Kramer, George School took on Sunday morning
place by Dorothy Sholin. Laura Viders, also
Res. 1244 Union St. June 17th, in the main dining hall of of that class delivered the Message of the
Bus. Candy, 503 Bushwick Ave. our building, and was attended by a Prophets.
Proposed by Edward Shwom, large number of parents and friends of Awardswere made by Mr. Frank
Sam Palley
our pupils. For the first time in the Chairman of the Hebrew Edu-
Schacffer,
Rosenberg, Mrs. Rose history of our institution, we also held cation Committee, Mr. K. Karl Klein,
Res. 201 Eastern Pkwy. at the same time, the graduation of the president of the Parent-Teachers Asso-
Proposed by Bert and George Ross first class to have finished the full course ciation and Mrs. Isador Lowenfeld, Pres-
Schein, Louis in the Marshalliah Hebrew High School, ident of the Sisterhood. The following
Res. 2 5 Plaza St. which is held in our Center. were the recipients of these prizes: The
Bus. Watches, 1 5 Maiden Lane Rabbi Mordecai H. Lewittcs, the prin- Rachmil Gold medal for general excel-
Married cipal of our school, presided and wel- lence to Lloyd Altman; The Parent-
Proposed by Dr. Jacob Schwartz comed the audience. Rabbi Lcvinth.il Teachers Association Gift, to Glorianne
Schorr, Miss Harriet addressed the graduates and parents, em- Rader; the Faculty Gift to Joseph Buch-
Res. 1719 Union St. phasizing the important role that Jew- man.
ish education must play in Jewish life. Judge Emanel Greenberg, president of
Shostak, Miss Si ma i

Cantor Rubin Tucker rendered a beauti- the Brooklyn Jewish Center distributed
Res. 432 Christopher Ave.
ful musical selection and led in the the Diplomas while Mr. Samuel Edelheit,
Proposed by Henry Bass
singing of Palestinian songs by the teacher of the graduating class, intro-
Silverman, Julius
school. duced the graduates to him. Dr. Levin-
Res. 23 St. Francis PI.
The theme of the graduates was "Our thal's book on "Judaism" was presented
Bus. Metal Products, 366 Butler St.
Sacred Heritage" in which all the grad- to all the graduates of the Marshalliah
Married
The Opening Prayer
uates participated. Hebrew High School. The following are
Proposed by Ira Kraner,
was delivered by Aaron Meislin of the the graduates of the Hebrew School:
Meyer A. Rosen
Marshalliah Hebrew High School and Lloyd Altman, Florence Bromberg,
Soloff, Harry
Res. 278 Buffalo Ave.
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Married July and August, as usual. Board wishes all members of the
Its Editorial
Center and its readers outside the Center membership a pleasant summer.
Proposed by Herman J. Pashenz
Publication will be resumed with the Rosh Hashonah issue.
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35 Years in the Rabbinate strength to many Jewish movements and'

[Continued from page 3] institutions of national importance. The
The first pupil thought of the unend- Jewish Theological Seminary, the United Enroll Your Child in the
ing vigor of the fountain. So, too, Dr. Synagogue, the Rabbinical Assembly, the
Levinthal's spiritual teachings have been Histadrut Ivrit and the Zionist Organ-
BROOKLYN JEWISH
a refreshing and unending source of in- ization of America are among the many CENTER HEBREW
spiration not only to the Brooklyn Jew- organizations that have called on him
ish Center but to American Jewry as a repeatedly for guidance and leadership.
SCHOOL
Louis Lipsky summed •
whole. At a time when preaching often it up well on the
deteriorated to the point where it became occasion of Dr. Levinthal's 5 0th birth- HOURS— Students attend three
little more than a series of banal book day when he said, "He has always served times a week. Each child receives
reviews, Dr. Levinthal set the example as the man of peace, of measure, sober in six hours of instruction per week.

of a Jewish preacher par excellence. He judgment, keen for justice." CURRICULUM — Sidur, Hebrew,
upheld the dignity of the pulpit and im- The ancient master in his interpreta- Bible, Jewish History, Palestinian
pressed his hearers with the profound tion of the inscription emphasized un- Songs.
significance and the relevance of the selfish service. Dr. Levinthal's self- FACILITIES— The Brooklyn Jewish
Rabbinic doctrines for our own day. He effacing character has become a by-word Center offers its students the
has been called the master of Midrash. in Jewish public His modesty, his
life. finest facilities. Hebrew School
He is that. But essentially Dr. Levinthal unassuming temperament, his utter lack students may enroll (without

is not merely an expounder of the Mid- of pomposity and pretense, his great per- charge) in the Library and in the

rash but an interpreter of Jewish tradi- sonal charm have truly endeared him Brooklyn Jewish Center Clubs.
to
The students and graduates of the
tion to whom the Midrash is but a clue the Jewish community.
Hebrew School maintain their
to the basic ideals and tenets of Judaism. On the occasion of his completion of
own Junior Congregation.
In' his love for our sacred heritage, Dr. thirty-five years of devoted service in
•
Levinthal goes back again and again to the ministry, we too pray as did the stu-
the deathless teachings of our sages, suc- dents of old, "May God bless him with Registration Now Accepted for
cessfully infusing new meaning into health and long life so that he may con- the September School Term
many a Rabbinic passage that has been tinue to and to guide the com-
serve
Reasonable Rates
forgotten or ignored. munity for many, many years to come."
The second pupil thought of the clar- — Rabbi Mordecai H. Lewittes
ity and purity of the life-giving waters.
The clarity of Dr. Levinthal's teaching
and preaching is indeed one of his out-
Sunday Schoo Graduation I

standing characteristics. Because of his brief greeting, presented prizes to the

DESPITE the inclement weather a
good judgment and clarity of vision, large gathering of parents and following: Marilyn Karlin, Ann Golden-
Dr. Levinthal has been a source of friends crowded the main dining room of berg and Pearl Salomon, as well as one

our building on Sunday morning June to Jay Cohen a member of our Post Bar

Joseph Buchman, Glorianne Rader, Bar- 1 0th to witness the graduation exercises Mitzvah Fellowship. Rabbi Lewittes
bara Schiller and Bernard Steginsky. A of our Sunday School. Rabbi Mordecai and Mr. Irwin Rubin presented diplomas
special certificate was awarded to Anita H. Lewittes the principal, presided and to the following graduates: Nancy Am-
Brown. The graduates of the Marshalliah welcomed the audience. Rabbi Levinthal sterdam, Lois Paula Bass, Ethel Bruman,

Hebrew High School are Rita Ellenport, delivered a brief message to the gradu- Barbara Goldman, Ann Goldenberg,
J.

Aaron Meislin, Dorothy Sholin and Laura ates and to the parents. Helen Joan Halperin, Irma
Ginandes,

Viders. The graduation theme dealt with the Icahn, Gloria Janow, Marilyn Karlin,

"Ideals of our People" in which all of Lilly Lachter, Joan A. Leonard, Blanche
Applications the graduates participated. Cantor Rubin Rubin, Pearl Salomon, Rhoda J. Schiff
[Continued from page 19] Tucker rendered a very beautiful selec- and Barbara Zamsky.
Travis, Dr. Irving W. tion, a composition written by our musi- Certificates of Attendance and Merit
Res. 649 Empire Blvd. cal director,Mr. Julius Grossman. Other were also awarded on this occasion to the
Bus. Dentist, 118-01 Sutphin Blvd. numbers on the program were, a piano following boys who attended regularly
Married solo rendered by Pearl Salomon, a piano during the past year, the meetings of our
Proposed by Dr. A. H. Turner duet rendered by Ann Goldenberg and newly organized Post Bar Mitzvah Fel-
The following has applied for rein- Ethel Bruman, Palestinian songs by the lowship: Jay Cohen, Paul Kozinn, Mel-
statement: entire The opening prayer was
school. vin Kamen, Irwin Gumeiner and David
Lemler, Dr. M. R. given by Ethel Bruman, the closing Schaeffer. Jay Cohen, a member of this
Res. 1173 St. Johns PI. prayer by Pearl Salomon and Ann Gold- Fellowship, delivered a talk in which he
Bus. Dentist, 1 Hanson PI. enberg was Valedictorian. described the work pursued by this group
Married Mr. Frank Schaeffer, Chairman of the during the past year under their leader
Proposed by Albert Witty Hebrew Education Committee, in a and instructor, Mr. Murry Gabel.

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ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS HONOR ROLL

The most expressive and convenient means
of wishing your relatives and friends a
Happy New Year is through the pages of The following is an additional
the big Rosh Hashonah issue of the list of Center members, children
"BROOKLYN JEWISH CENTER REVIEW." and grandchildren of Center mem-
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Telephone your orders (PR 4-1400) names received up to the time of
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Fortunoff, Everett

Center Adopts New Rules for the Returning Veteran Fortunoff, Gilbert

at the time they joined the Armed Karron, Gerard H., Ph.M.
FOLLOWING recommendations of
the Forces,

the Center Committee on Returning shall receive one year's membership dues Levine, Miriam, Lt.
Veterans, headed by Mr. Harry Cooper, in the Center upon payment of one-half

the Board of Trustees, at its last meet- of the regular membership fee. This re-
ing, adopted the following resolutions duction in membership fee is to apply to

concerning returning veterans: those joining the membership of the in-

1 —Center members serving in the stitution within three months after their
The following is a list of promo-
Armed Forces of the United States, as discharge. All applications shall be sub-
tions in rank:
well as sons and daughters of Center ject to the approval of the Membership

members who joined prior to the attain- Committee.

Fortunoff, Daniel G., Lt. S.G.
ment of their majority, shall receive a 3 —Sons of members over the age of
paid-up membership in the Brooklyn 23, and all veterans who were not mem- Goldstein, Albert, C.P.O.
Jewish Center for one year after their bers of the Brooklyn Jewish Center at Levin, Martin, Ensign
discharge from service. Their eligibility the time of joining the Armed Forces,
Levine, Julius, Capt.
shall be subject to the approval of the shall, upon payment of a year's member-
Membership Committee. ship dues, receive a reduction of 2S c/r of Rathkopf, Sidney, Pfc.
2 —
Sons of Center members between the membership fee, providing
regular
Seeger, Louis, Pfc.
the ages of 21 and 23 who were not mem- they apply for membership three months
bers of the institution in their own names after their discharge from service. Their
eligibility shall also be subject to the ap-
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5 yu
All of
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the
fee
aforesaid
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in

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ST. MARKS AVENUE

— one flight up —
Zionist District Elects

Mr. Maurice BERNHARDT, Secretary

New Officers
!

MUSIC
— ENTERTAINMENT
I

of the Center, was unanimously elected

as the new President of the Eastern Park-
— ALL SPORTS
Modern in all —
respects
way Zionist District No. 14, succeeding

preferred —
Mr. Louis J. Gribetz, who becomes the
All adults
new Chairman of the Executive Com-
Rental $150 per month mittee and an Honorary President. Dietary Laws Observed
including Gas and Electricity The other officers are: Joseph Gold-
berg, Harry Goldstein, Bernard Isaco-
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and Abraham H. Zirn, Vice-Presidents; N. Y. Tel. LO 5-8518
If interested please write in care of
Jacob Fortunoff, Benjamin
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Levitt, Financial Secretary; and Charles
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WHEN OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG too, but was

of the Highest.
now exulting in the power

AND BURNING five

"Five times
times I
I

ran
bothered Mr. Feitlebaum,
to him," Ma yelled.
[Continued from page 13]
" 'Did my son telephone?' I begged him.
sons, strangers, would club together for first to crush it. They and the soldiers. 'Did my son telephone?' Where were
a ride. Some were getting free rides in Oh, if only the police were enlightened. you? Tell me only where you were
trucks; others were paying a quarter. "Out of your uniforms this day," he these three hours since you stopped
Morris was ashamed of the drivers. would like to say to them. "Comrades!" work?"
"Aren't you workers, too?" he mumbled. He had been walking a long time "Don't you know what happened, Ma?
He noticed how dim the streets were, under the "El" when extra editions of I had to walk home."
candle and lamplight replacing elec- the evening papers began to appear on "But the cars have been running a
tricity. the stands. Morris resolutely turned whole hour. Before that, people were
"The electrical workers are joining, from the headlines. He know where to coming home in trucks. Even a taxi
too," he whispered in awe. get thenews of a strike. Certainly not you could have taken that my heart
He walked to the foot of Brooklyn from a scab press. should be at peace. Ten years this night
Bridge, scornful of the trucksful of "Strike-crushers, one and all," he you took from my life, ten years. But
laughing people who passed him. No whispered, flinging out his arm in dis- come now, wash yourself. Here's sup-
trolley cars were going to cross the gust. per."
bridge. Motormen and conductors sat It was growing dark. His mother, he As Morris ate, she rattled on about
idly on the benches, and the few lights knew, must be worried. Maybe she was the luck of different neighbors' children

that burned were very dim. thinking his head had been broken by in getting home. "Only my son. He
"Good for you," Morris half-called to the police. Maybe she was picturing him must be an exception. Explain to me
the men, unable to restrain the comrade- in jail for strike activities. He ought to why you didn't take the car."
ly gesture of the clenched fist on high. call her up. But maybe the telephone Morris was gulping down his soup.
"Fellow-workers, guard your tools! . . . workers were on strike, too, and he'd be "You did right, father mine," Grandma
Don't let the scabs get at your cars! . . . connected by a scab operator. No, his interposed. "Who knows how it will
Demonstrate your sympathy and your mother's feelings must be sacrificed on end yet?"
loyalty to the underpaid exploited the altar of working-class solidarity. Oh, He grinned with pleasure at her sud-
workers on the subway lines! . . . We'll he could make a speech now. And den labor sympathies.
show the public utilities! . . . We'll show people would listen as never before. Gee, "Packed like herrings they're passing
the vested interests!" there must be strike meetings all over by," she continued, "laughing and push-
He marched across the bridge in fine the city. If only he could find one now. ing, and only two hours ago the High-
elation, singing "The People's Flag," But now he realized that the street est showed them how it is going to be
"Marching to Victory," and all the other cars were beginning to run. with them when he lets loose the thunder
labor songs that one of the R. Y. L. girls "Dirty scabs," he shook his fist at and punishes all the guilty. Darkness
tried to tell him he sang flat. each that passed. "Yellow dogs, low- and fear without warning he has spread
"When Labor is united, we shall con- down skunks, traitors!" through all this sinful land."

quer every foe." Morris could have wept. Morris leaned over the table with help-
To think that only a year ago, How could anybody allow himself to less laughter.
that tune had meant "Marching to ride on those cars? Now the "El" was "Oh, Grandma," he said, "you don't
Georgia." Oh that he should be alive to running, too. Electric bulbs everywhere understand. It wasn't God that made it

witness this day! And he had planned were lighting up. Perhaps even the sub- dark. was the organized power of the
It

merely to read about it tonight. Shame way workers had surrendered? No, they working class. The workers on the sub-
on the strikebreakers who were riding never could. Everyone knew how ex- way, street cars, electric company. Gee
across the bridge! Taxi-drivers, truck- ploited they were, how the transit com- whiz, what a strike!"
drivers, why don't you join, too? Gen- panies violated every right of collective His mother looked at him in amaze-
eral Strike, Yay, General Strike!
hurray! bargaining. No, the subway trains ment. She clapped her hand over her
Toilers of America, unite! This is your would not run tonight, nor tomorrow, forehead.
hour! nor next week, —never till the bosses "Pain is mine," she screamed. "He's
When he got to Brooklyn Morris was came to terms. crazy. Good Jews, my son has gone
very tired. His mother never let him "Never. Hear that, you scabs?" called crazy. A strike! why he So that's
take such long walks. He made several Morris to the crowded trolley cars rum- walked for three hours, that's why he
false turns before he located Fulton bling by without a stop. wore out his mother's heart, that's why
Street. was the longest way to go but
It Close to nine o'clock he stumbled in- he used up shoe leather! A strike! And
the route the car followed, and he didn't to the kitchen. I stand keeping his supper warm, and
want to get lost. He didn't want to "Where were you?" his mother began. inside I'm burning like a flame, and my
have to speak to a policeman. Dogs, "My have been pulling out."
hair I smart high school boy is all the time
they'd be the last to join a strike and the His grandmother had been in tears, [Continued on page 23]

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sored by the Russians, which likely to United States, England, Palestine, Aus-
AUSTRIA be approved by the British and
is

Amer- traliaand elsewhere. But will they re-

[Continued from page 7]
icans, too, since it represents all anti- turn to Vienna? They have many rea-
cal conditions of the Jewish survivors, Nazi movements in Austria: the Com- sons — practical as well as idealistic ones
but it is easy to imagine that they are munists, Social Democrats, Christian — for staying where they are now. As
skeletons, requiring all possible medical Socialists (a Clerical bourgeois party, not for myself, I am now happy to be an
care. leftists), and Farmers. With one excep- American citizen. Some day, I may go
According to American correspon- tion, the men the new Chancellor, Dr. back to Vienna for a brief visit, but I
dents, some 50,000 refugees, 90% of Renner, picked to form a cabinet al- am sure I wouldn't sell my return ticket,
Jews (mostly Hungarians) poured into ways were free of racial bias; one of the nor risk losing my American citizenship
Linz, capital of Upper Austria, which is new secretaries of state (as the ministers for anything in the world. I admit that
occupied by the American Army. Their are called) is a half-Jew, Dr. Josef by the time I would visit Vienna it

plight is almost indescribable. Wrote a Geroe, now Department

in charge of the may have recovered from the wounds in-
correspondent: "When refugees arrive at of Justice, who was a noted District At- flicted upon it first by the semi-fascist
Linz, they are immediately catalogued torney, and spent most of the Nazi era regime of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg, and
by AMG officers of the 65 th division. as a prisoner at Dachau and Buchen- subsequently during the seven dread
The Army is trying desperately to save wald. However, I do not like the selec 1 years of Hitlerism, but that change will
all it can.
the oppressed But hundreds tion of Leopold Kunschak, a Christian hardly influence my decision. In Vienna
die daily. American doctors are liter-
. .
Socialist labor leader, who was known as I would yearn for New York's Times
ally staggering from lack of sleep. . .
an anti-Semite, though of the moderate Square, for the millions of lights illum-
They enlisted the help of Hungarian type. He advocated the "cold" pogrom inating a country that does not have
refugee doctors. All keep going with the rather than physical violence. On the to hide itself in darkness, for the million
help of benzedrine. No German doctors other hand, it is possible that Kunschak faces passingby on Broadway and tell-
were asked to help at Linz because the underwent a change of heart in the past ing me many, many lands
the story of
Americans do not trust them." Said seven years. with but one God over them all. I'd
Major Solomon Rosenfield, chief medical wish to return from Vienna's ambigu-
officer, smiling grimly. "I don't think ous gemuetlichkeit to the land under
they understand our type of medicine."
Regrettably, the report indicates that
"Will Austria,
Vienna, become a center of Jewish
or, more precisely,
life
whose banner
Carl Schurz
—— to quote the
"all the languages of civil-
immigrant

some Nazi poison is still lingering in

again?" "Will you go back to Vienna?"
ized man are spoken, where every creed
Austria: "I have often heard it said that is protected, every right is sacred. that
These are two of the questions which
. .

Austrians from Prussians,

are different banner floating over the glorious valley
I, as a former Austrian, have been asked
that they are warmer and more good- which stretches from the western slopes
frequently since the liberation of my na-
natured than the typical German. But
tive country. Each in itself is a topic
of the Alleghenies to the Rocky Moun-
they do not seem different to me. I
for a special article, but briefly, I would tains — that Valley of Jehosphaphat where
find them sullen and vile-tempered. They with an the nations of the world assemble to cele-
answer the first question "I
don't comprehend our motives in saving brate the resurrection of human free-
don't know," the second with a firm
these tired, starved creatures who have "No." doubt whether the Vienna that
I
dom."
reached Linz."
produced some of the finest artists and
It seems that the Austrians, too, will scholars, that was known for its music
have to be re-educated before they can T
and gemuetlichkeit , will rise again before
be admitted again into the family of na-
a lapse of many years, perhaps decades.
tions. This will be a rather big job
The Jewish community will be small and
ANNUAL
for the new Austrian government, spon- poor, depending on relief
It is of course quite possible that
from abroad.
many
MOTHER- DAUGHTER
WHEN OUR HEARTS WERE Viennese Christians —not so much the LUNCHEON
people of Linz and other backward places
YOUNG AND BURNING — are now regretting the support they
given by the

[Continued from page 22] gave and it is signifi-

to the Hitlerites, SISTERHOOD
hiking home from work because he can't cant that on June 3, Gustav Mahler's
read in the paper that a water pipe burst first symphony was played in the Vienna
Wednesday afternoon
and the electric went out of order in Konzerthaus for the first time since

the power house. A strike he thinks!" 1938, and that on this occasion a mem- October 24th, 1945
"Both smart. Like hens," Grandma orial tablet with the following inscrip-
mumbled as she walked into the next tion was unveiled: "In memory of the Further details will be announced at a
room. "Even the Highest can't teach historical date of the revival of Gustav
later date
them." Mahler's music in Vienna."
Morris said nothing. He was cough- There are many thousands Jewish ref-
ing up a fish bone. ugees from Vienna now living in the

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