ednesday, March 31, 1937
JEWISH   WESTERN BULLETIN
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Claudia Cooks By Mail
Dear Mother:
Everybody is always asking me—you included—^how I get such splendid variety in the food I serve. So I've decided to let you in on a little secret.
Every time I write a friend I enclose a correspondence card in the letter and ask that friend to write one of her recipes, in ink, on the card, sign it and return it.
Now I have a perfectly marvelous collection of signed recipes.
Lovingly,
CLAUDIA.
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BULLETIN COMMITTEE WILLIAM STEINER____________________________.....----------------------------Chairman
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-Executive-Secretary
A PILLAR OF CLOUD AND A PILLAR OP FIRE Through these devices did the Lord lead the children of Israel as they paced their weary way through the wilderness. There was cloud by day, that all might see the way and there wa^ fire by night so that light was furnished for travel by day and night. And so they marched—from Egypt to Palestine, from slavery to salvation.
Where, we might ask, where is the leading cloud today and where the fire by night to shine forth to us in this night of need? What will be lOur beacon, what the token that there is hope ahead in this troubled world for the children of Israel? Whither the path and whence?
Perhaps there is no certain answer to this. In all likelihood it is a matter that each man must know for himself through deep searching and self-analysis. For a cloud, at best is a flimsy thing —a wisp of moisture blown by the winds, and the skies are full of clouds. Who can say which is the right cloud for man to pursue?
And there are many kmds of fire. There is the warmth of the hearth, which blesses the harmonious family group. There is the inner fire which bums within youth, kindling for him all the world about hun with its warmth. There is the steadfast glow that shines through the eyes of the old=reassaring in its wisdom. There is the brilliant conflagration of hope which points ever forward, deluding men or refreshing them—^who knows?
Was the cloud and the fire which led Israel a physical sign, or was it not the direction that that brave band learned through years of patient plodding?
If, from the story of Exodus, we can come to that interpretation, then the way for all of Israel becomes, in a sense, clearer. Slowly, painfully we of the twentieth century will reenact the saga of the wilderness. Slowly, painfully we will wend our way out, as did our ancient forbears.
The story of the Passover is, for the Hebrews, a Hymn of Hope. It shows us that ours is only one lOf endless generations of sufferers. It leads, as the story progresses, into the heart of the land of "milk and honey." But we know that not one step of the way was easy and that through the long and torturous path the people of Israel learned to gird themselves in their faith.
"For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders; neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou Shalt appear before the Lord thy God."
New Books in the Youth
Federation Library
By RABBI SAMUEL CASS
One of the major cultural projects undertaken by tbe Vancouver Jewish Youth Federation was to establish a Library which would provide for the entire Jev/ish Community the best of books of Jewish interest and by Jewish authors To establish a Library and to inculate habits of good reading are by no means easy tasks. They involve a great deal of planning, organization, and administrative details. During the past several months, without the fanfare of trumpets and publicity, the necessary preliminary work has been pursued patiently and steadfastly. Library hours have been established on Sunday evenings, the present stock of books has been carefully catalogued and made available for circulation, viilling and devoted workers have spared neither time nor energy in order to lay a secure foundation for what we hope will ultimately become one of the finest cultural possessions of the Community. Though the vision of its founders is still far from the present reality, it is gratifying to note that the Library is definitely making progress, week by week.
During the past several weeks, an imposing list of new books has been placed on the Library shelves. It is the purpose of this article to briefly indicate what these books are and what they contain,
FICTION
At the head of our fiction list we place two novels by the master of historcial fiction and character portrayal. Lion Feuchtwanger. They are "Josephus" and "The Jew of Rome." Both these novels are fascinating reading from cover to cover. The life of Josephus, the Jewish historian and eye-witness to the destruction of the Temple, favorite of Emperors, yet regarded as a traitor by his own people, is portrayed with all the consummate   skill   of Feuchtwanger's
pen. In "Josephus," the young and ambitious Flavins emerges from the musty pages of his own record and is seen as an individual and as a Jew. One breathes the atmosphere of Rome, of Galilee, of Alexandria, of Jerusalem, in those turbulent days when the mighty legions of Rome were directing their battering rams against the walls of the Holy City, "The Jew of Rome" takes up the story of Josephus after he had become a power in Rome, Josephus struggles with the conflict which tears his soul in twain, loyalty to the Emperor and loyalty to Judea, the insistent call of nationalism as against the broader attraction of world citizenship, the new faith of early Christianity as against authoritative Judaism of the Synagogue. All these stirring problems are woven into the colorful tapestry of an intensely individual and personal story.
"The Forty Days of Musah Dagh" by Franz Werfel, is one of the most powerful novels that has appeared in recent years. This book, too, may be classed under the heading of historical fiction, as it deals with the atrocities executed by the Turks on the Armenians in the summer of 1915. This book has passion and dramatic power, Werfel, as a Jew, could undoubtedly feel the problem of the Armenian people more intimately and more feelingly than can writers of other more favored and more sheltered peoples. In Gabriel Bag-radien, the hero of the novel, we have a keen study of an individual who, estranged from his own race and people by upbrining and culture, heeds the bonds of blood and kin-
ship and ultimately casts his lot with that of his own brethren, in a time of great stress. But "The Forty Days" is more than a study of individual characters. It gives us a broad picutre of a sociological nature, all executed with the dramatic ability of one of the most significant writers of today.
"Job, The Story of a Simple Man" by Joseph Roth, is a stirring, warm, human story that lingers on in one's memory long after having read it. Like Job of old, Mendel Singer, is visited by calamity after calamity, each of a personal, tragic, overwhelming nature; yet like Job of old, Mendel Singer too reconfirms his faith and finds happinc" beyond his dreams. Though the scenes of the story are laid in the ghettos of Russia and in the teeming streets of East Side New York, this is a human document that finds an echo in every heart and that "holds good for any age."
'The Street of the Fishing Cat" by Jolan Foldes, a Hungarian Jewess, won the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition last year, and was chosen the Literary Guild's choice for last September. It is a delightful, fresh, sincere story of post-war years in Europe, touching all peoples.
"The Matriarch Chronicles" by G. B. Stern, is a one volume omnibus of the four novels "The Matriarch," "A Deputy was King," "Mosaic," and "Shining and Free." These are four famous novels presenting a chronicle of a family and a character that have become immortal in modern fiction. If you have a whole week-
JewBshness!
A rabbi's voice, a hushed and pious throng,
A rhapsody of prayer in holy song, Bent old men, with shaking beards
and long. The Torah is its canopy!
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A little candle glimm'ring in the night,
A tear shed, sadly in the fading light, A sigh, a prayer, seen thru tear-
dimm'd sight, A sweet, and haunting, memory.
Like stars upon a moonless starry night.
Themselves in darkness, yet they
send a light, A nation, scorn'd, yet honest in
GOD'S sight. Abused and scattered, o'er land and
sea.
O Jew! Can you regret that yours are all
The proud traditions that shall never fall,
Tho' hatred shall be rampant, and
shall maul Your puny, earthly parody}
There is but one reply and that is, NO!
For when the clouds of ignorance
are hanging low. And howling winds of bigotry do
blow,
It soothes, and helps, and comforts thee.
Be proud, O Jew, for yours is something great.
Your Judaism is high above all hate, idealistic state,
A race whose dream portends
Can live till all eternity.
—Ike Shulman.
end in which you want to curl up and read and read, then take up this book, and you will be rewarded with many delightful and unforgettable hours, 'The Moor's Gold" by Ben Aronin is a recent novel dealing with Jews in Spain in the days of the Inquisition. A broad panorama of one of the most significant periods in human history is contained in this novel.
Our new fiction list ends with the delightful little story "Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. This is a little book that will provide you with several happy and absorbing hours in following the experiences of old Jacob Cohen, who decides to get away from his business and from his success by taking a walk in his old clothes and on foot,
BIOGRAPHY
Heading the list of new biographies placed upon the shelves of the .Youth Federation Library, are two significant volumes of direct Jewish interest. The first is "Akiba, Scholar, Saint and Martyr," by Louis Finkelstein. This is the first full length biography of Akiba ben Joseph, the Jewish Sage, who rose from humble beginnings to the leadership of the Jewish people, in the stirring days following the destruction of the Temple and the wars with Rome. The keenest scholar of his day, the mpving spirit of the Academy, the man responsible for thfi oral preservation of the Talmud, statesman and soldier, a martyr at the hands of the Romans—these episodes form the basis for a dramatic and exciting story. Louis Finkelstein is one of the most prominent of younger Jewish scholars today, and his wealth of knowledge is given to us in this book. This biography is on the "must" list of reading.
"Herod," by Jacob S. Minkin, is
the second of these biog^aphie^s. King Herod the Great, always used as the symbol of inhuman cruelty and iniquity is here portrayed by an appreciative and scholarly mind. The book is a swiftly moving narrative, packed with drama,
"The Nile," by EmU Ludwig, has
just come off the press several weeks ago and it is already on our shelves. The master biographer of our day instead if dealing with a personality, deals with the life-story of a river, the Nile of Egypt, along whose banks civilization arose and grew, and varied and manifold peoples had their rise and fall. The murky, brown waters of the Nile tell not alone the story of what once was, but convey a lesson and a moral to modern civilization. This is a big book, an intricately woven tapestry of rich, colorful, moving scenes. To read it, is to have actually lived and experienced that which has transpired along the banks of one of the most famous rivers of the world.
"The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tu-dela"  in  two  volumes, edited and translated   from   the   original Hebrew by M. Asher, is, strictly speak-(Continued on Page 8)
Community Centre
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paign must go beyond the amount necessary to erect the contemplated addition. This campaign must provide sufficient funds to pay ofif immediately at least one quarter of the present indebtedness. This is imperative. We cannot forsake old obligations and take on new ones. As a community, we must show that we have a sense of responsibility. And lastly, and most important, a plan must be devised now, which will have the wholehearted co-operation of the entire Jewry of Vancouver, whereby the indebtedness that remains on the First Unite shall be paid off "Ba'agolo U'vizman Koriv," "even speedily, and at a near time." The Community Centre must not be subpect to recurrent shocks any more. May I plead with you to give earnest heed to these suggestions. These embody my sincere desire to see our community healthy and sound, deriving untold blessing from its endeavors. All good wishes to the Centre Campaign, and may Vancouver Jewry respond in a manner commensurate with the responsibilities that we have in common.
Max Manischewitz, the matzo mogul, believes in encouraging Palestine industries. He's preparing to leave for Palestine to establish canneries for packing his kosher vegetables and tomato soups, beans and ketchups.
Did you know that there is a Jewish Temperance Association functioning in New England?
Laugh, Weep, Hiss at "The Drunkard."
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