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VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, ]?EBRUARY 20, 1936
Seymour 1909
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GENEVA—Sir Neill Mal-
The Tragedy Of German Jewry
By Pierre Van Paassen
Reprinted by Special Permission of the Toronto Daily Star It is no longer a question of revealed as an act of betrayal.
Hundreds Attend ^Mizrachi Conclave In Washington
[WASHINGTON, D. C.
Vancouver Leaders Serve Welfare Conclave
colm, noted British military argument or debate: the Ger- The Jew was asked to give up Relegates from over one hun- m^^^u Conference Of National Conference Of Tewish leader and retired major-gen- man Jews are doomed. Every his own ways of life, his tradi- di^ed American communities ^^^^ j ^-onierence iNationai v^onrerence jewisn eral was appointed League of possibility to make a living is tions, his character. He was attended the Silver Jubilee Federations And Funds Called For San FranciSCO Nations High Commisioner for denied them in the Third most willing to do so. For in Convention of the Mizrachi ^ -
Tewish and other refugees from Reich. When they are poor, return he was promised full Organizatioin of America SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Appointment of Germany. denounced because civic rights, a decent human which convened here last Sun- two prominent Vancouver Jewish leaders to serve on
-— ^^tlS. 'n/ZrSl ! IK "If""' 'T^ ^^"w"^'^^ l^^ ^ftV^V ^""^ ^^'^^^ the advisory and program committees for the Western
BERNE-Nazi district and pearance offends the eyes and other citizens^ He gave up his days at the Jewish Community . remonal conference of Tewish communal ap-en-central party organizations the esthetic sense of the Ar- folk-ways. He even reformed Centre. The annual meeting ^}^^^^ f ^ ? , , ^^^^^^^^^^^e ot jewisn communal agen
have been banned in Switzer- yans. When they are rich they his religion. A century late a of the religious wing of the ^les to be held march 28 and 29 at the St. Francis land by the Federal Council. said to have made their Jewish generation had grown \?^t)rld Zionist Organization Hotel in San Francisco under the auspices of the Na-
This decision is a direct sequel wealtli out of the misery of the up in Germany, Austria and heard a distinguished array of tional Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
to the recent assassination in German people. When they Prance which has become speakers headed by Rabbi Funds, was announced this week by Judge M. C. Sloss,
Switzerland of Wilhelm Gust- are pious, they are hated, be- completely detached from Jew- Meyer Berlin, honorary presi- chairman of the Council's advisorv committee in the
lofT German Nazi leader. cause they are non-conformists ish Hfe, but in which, in the dent of the World Mizrachi; ^^^Ir '-ouncu s aavisory committee in the
_ and their religion is full of case of Germany, is thrown Charles E. Russell, noted lib- Far West
TEL AVIV Palestine_De ^^^^y dangerous theories, back upon itself. er^al and chairman of the Pro-
rJrW tliP Tpwi«;h nosition in ^^^^ P^°"^' ^^^^ appears the tragedy Palestine Federation of Non-
ctding the Jenish position in branded as disturbers, and the betrayal. Those Jews Jiws; Morris Rothenberg,
inanv lands was "too ffloomv" ^ u^fixucu as uiativucis, ana tne oetrayai. inose jews jews; iviorris Kotnenoerg, -.i- «t-«=^„r f;,«^ t!v'- All undermmers and corrupters of have long since lost the inner president of the Zionist Organ-
'TewTsh 15S5)0\Xbit: ^^''^^JS^rSt?^ -------•- ' -
,.^^^a\____of cmhzation. The German cast them aside ai
Time next month, When gaiety ^^^jj^ ^^^^^ -—
marks the holiday celebrating """J"^ fW T T JT
the defeat of HaU a^^^^^^^^^ levlTshl^hfe Three Jews Lead Itt
Persian persecutor of the Jews. {^^^ q^,^^^^ i^te, but which
They had Ration of America; Louis Lip-as v/ortliless; s&y, American member of the Zionist World Executive and Leon Gellman, Acting President of the American Mizrachi. ? Rabbi Berlin, an outstand-«• Tfe 1 • world leader in the Zion-
KadlO FopUlanty ist movement, arrived in this
r7FrH<5 PROTEST NAZIS themselves detest even * ' Sm^y ^ast week aboard the
i^^tj^tih Jr'KUln.bi JNA^ib j^ore. For this precisely is the Recent radio popularity poll Si S. Berengaria especially to PRAGTJE—It has been an- tragedy of German Jewry, conducted by 239 newspaper attend the Jubilee Convention nounced here that the Czech namely, that the overgreat ma- radio editors shows that Jew- of the American organization Sports Clubs have decided not jority considers itself not Jew- ish entertainers and artists which he helped found 25 years to participate in the winter ish at all. The German Jews have carried off a large per- ago.
sports games in Germany, fore- had long ago broken with Jewr centage of the honors once _
runner of the Berlin Olympics, ish traditions. They had be-more. -RTJiTWivrTMr tm -RnQTrnvr
as a protest against the Nazi come assimilated. They had For the second successive '^^^^^^^^ isuaiUJM regime. absorbed and were completely year Jack Benny heads the list BOSTON — Former Chan-
- absorbed in and by German of best liked entertainer and cellor, Dr. Heinrich Bruening,
$35,000 FOR YOUTH culture. Today they are per- comedian. In the realm of con- a noted Catholic as well, is in ALIYAH secuted because they are Jews, ducting Leopold Stokowsky the United States incognito,
LONDON — A theatrical when they had given up their takes the lead while Albert ""der the name of "Ian Ander-performance here sponsored by Jewishness. Much more pain- Spalding, violinist, tops all son." His mission here is said the Women's Zionist Feder- ful than the physical hounding others as most popular instru- to be the organization of an ation netted the Youth Aliyah by the persecutors is their mentalist. Jascha Heifitz, also Anti-l^azi front in America.
DR. J. MOSCOVICH, DELEGATE
cause over $35,000 in one night, spiritual tragedy. They can- a Jew takes _ second ,place,^
- not live a Jewish life—(there Rubinoff and Mischa Elman, WARSAW—All sports clubs A ^ r\1 • aim ^ociimiu oiivcrstcm, v^sk-
DESCENT MUST DATE they would find some consola- fourth and fifth respectively. in the Lodz district this week Antl-iJlVmplC UameS land; M H Lerner, Riverside;
To serve on the advisory group, which will be in full charge of arrangements for the gathering of lay and profes siona! Jewish leaders from the Western states. Judge Sloss has named Dr. J. Moscoyich to represent Vancouver Jewry, while Harold B. Kahn has been appointed a member of the program committee. At the last meeting of the Administrative Council Dr. Moscovich was appointed Vancouver's official delegate to the Convention.
Personnel of the advisory and program committees for the regional conference reads like a directory of the West's outstanding Jews, the announcement reveals.
In addition to Dr. Moscovich, the advisory body consists of Mrs. S. H. Berch, Judge Harry Hollzer, Marco R. Newmark, Judge Isaac Pacht, J. A. Rosen-cranz and Judge Lester Roth, all of Los Angeles; Leon I. Diamond, Fresno; I. Sukman, Long Beach; Harry J. Sapper and Bernard Silverstein, Oak-
TO 1800
BERLIN—"Only those who
___________1:^'^^Movement Is Startedi;^^^^^^^^^^^
can prove their Aryan descent them know as much about Jew- Gracie Allen, third place; Phil Lodz Y.M.C.A. because it has back to 1800 are entitled to ish religion as their tormen- Baker, fourth; and Eddie Can- adopted the "Aryan" law, banning Jews.
publish newspapers in the tors. They remain puzzled, tor, fifth. Reich," reads a recent German flabbergasted, thunderstruck in order. This new ruling ex- the presence of the calamity eludes numbers of "Aryans" that has smitten them. They who, while they have not lost do not know what it is all their citizenship, cannot meas- about: this howling m the ure up to the latest require- market-place against them. For nients. they are not sconscious of hav-
_ ing committed any wrong.
HUNGARY AND THE They had been more German NAZIS than the Germans in their ways
-TT^AAr ^r^i^r^ a * Herbert Ehrlich, Santa Moni-
NEW YORK-A movement ca; Mortimer Fleishhacker, to launch a Counter-Olympic Hyman Kaplan, Daniel Kosh-
BUDAPEST
Two acts of of ^ife/"^ they had been quite honest and sincere in their Ger-
friendship highly favorable to i-u^ ______ TvT„-,:o u^,r^ u^^„ manaom.
the made
Games either here or abroad i^nd, Samuel Lilienthal, Lloyd 'A''TA^rn^'^V.^ '^T"''^^ I^»"kelspiel, Leon Sloss. Jr., Good-Will Olympic Associ- j^sse Steinhart, George L. ation. An international body Levison, all of San Francisco; is now in formation, and it is g^m Aaron, Stockton; Rabbi hoped that 1,000,000 members Samuel Koch, P. Allan Rickles,
Nmay be obtained at a minimum Alfred Shemanski, all of hi^m C^^f^Vi^^^ ^^ n' . r"\Sm???»" Seattle, Wash.; Samuel Edel-dinCCi V^OnQrCSS P^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ WOOO, st^in, Spokane. wash.; Morris
_ ^ and would prove a serious ob- Kleiner, Tacoma, Wash.; Gov.
-;- stacle to the success of the juHus Meier, Roscoe Nelson
A full meeting of new Congress Executive includ- Olympic Games in BerUn. a^^j Joseph Shemanski, all of ing representatives of various organizations assembled Those interested in the move-Portland, Ore.; Samuel Piatt,
Tennporary Officers
government here is n5w apply- anti-JewTshfurorrof the"Nazi^ ating and reorganization committee headed by Dr. G. Broadway! New YoS"^^^^ ing the Nuremburg marriage are absolutely futile. There L. Plant.
laws to Hungarian Jews who will be no softening of the offi- fhe recommendations of this committee which were
witz, Pheonix, Ariz.
Representing cities other than Vancouver on the pro-
may wish" to°marry"Germans, cial attitude so long as Herr accepted by the meeting provide'for a temporar^^ Women's Ort Headed P"'^'''"''"'"^^ """^ The anti-Nazi publication Hitler remains in power. And L .pt ud for the next three months neriod ^^ VJrC Jneaoea i
"Pariser Tageblatt" edited by even if a satisfactory modus 5^ ^.i^luu:^^^ montns perioa
publication
G^eSg:^ BeTng^rd ' liffbeeS viV^ndT shoildTe^ wcik;r;ut of reorganization. Rabbi Sam- ___________
Sef all postll facilities. for the remnant of the Jews in "^1 Cass has^o"sente^ ^ . rj.
postal ^^.^^^ j^^.^^ problem ^s president for the three WeiZtnantl Goitlg To
CANTORS GO ON STRIKE remains entire. The main con- i^^f ^\ P^'^i^.^PP-S'!.!!.^?;
By Rebekah Kohut And Mrs. Einstein
WARSAW-Evidence^^o^^ ^'^^^ '^^Vos^^ "P°" the Jew Mrs. N. Brown, Hoiiorary WAKbAVy — evidence ot ^ g-oes is alwavs- to Secretary, Mr. Leo Mahrer,
the impoverished condition of ^c^rm to TssimilSr^^ Secretary, and Mr. J. Snider, the Jewish community here }^ assimilate, to De r^.^ '
came with the refusal of the like the others.^ But then ev^^^ ireasurer. Hazanim and all other employ-
assimilation and absolute con-
LONDON. — Dr. Rabbi Cass immediately took Weizman, President
ing: Lawrence Weill, Bakers-field; Hary Coffee, Fresno; Robert Koshland, Hillsborough; Michael Grodin, Piedmont; Dr. Nahum Kavinoky, Almost $10- Pasadena; Isidore Brown, Sac-»«o .w. the $500,000 ramento; Mrs. Louis Richards,
^afnii#>l_Mfcctm American ORT Campaign for San Jose; Mrs. William L. Hy-
damuel—mission constructive relief for Euro- "^an, Leo J. Rabinowitz, Mrs.
Chaini P^an Jewry at a bazaar con- M. C. Sloss, Harry K. Wolff, of the ducted here last week. Edward Zeisler, all of San
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NEW YORK-000 was raised for
eerorthrRefirm"^'^^^^^ formity are no guarantee the chair upon his election and Jewish Agency for Palestine, is Headed by Mrs. Albert Ein-J^^ancisco; Herbert C. Cob-
Tlomackie-once "the wealthi-a§^a"^st persecution, as Ger-threw the meeting open for shortly coming from Palestine stein as honorary President l^^tz, btockton; Nath^^^^^ Fck-
est Jewish institution in Po- ^^^^^ ^^ow now. suggestions lor anew v^ongress to London, it was learned by and Mrs. Rebekah Kohut as stem beattle, \\ ash Ben
land to participate profession- The emancipation of the set up. Several plans were the Palcor Agency, w.--. chairman of the Arlvmorv'-ouc.i, opu.vc.»^, A.
land to oarticioate protession- -lxic cumxicipctuuu m uic -i- -.v-^-. ^.^..^ .....cue x ^.i^ui agency. Dr. Weiz-chairman of the Advisory ^ouc.i, opoKane, ,, as...;
X in Friday ni^^^ J^ws in Europe, ushered in by presented by Rabbi Zlotnik, mann, who is also Chairman of Board, the new committee in- I^obblns, Tacoma, Wash ; Mil-
day ZrnintLr^^^^^^^^ Soskin, Mr. E. R. the Central Bureau for the eludes: Mrs. Arthur Brin of ton, Markew.tz and Samue
fuJal Swefa rSuctio^ _ Sugarman, and Mr. WilHam Settlement of German Jews in Minneapolis, national president Wemstein, Portland^ Ore and
thfwa^es^f an emoloyees of - Levin, all of which were tabled Palestine, intends to meet with of the Council of Jewish Wo- (Continued on Page 2)
the synagogue - a procedure Henrietta Szold ^""^ consideration Sir Herbert ^Samuel, Lord men; Mrs Estelle M. Stern- -
believed unique in Jewish con- ^ 1. D I ^- ^u"^ ^^f^'f ^T" ^^^^^^^^ ^"^ ^imon Marks on berger of New York, executive _ _ ^ _ ^
gregational history. To justify ReacheS Palestine mittee to be headed by Mr. their return to London from ^IV^ctor of World Peaceways; Jewish Poet ExpeCted
their stand the Hazanim have Soskin. America, where as represent- Miss Rose Schneiderman of r
stated, "Hungry men cannot ^ ^,^^^"1 ~" ^i'-^ Henrietta ^ committee to investigate atives of the Central British New York president of the ^he Poalei Zeirei Zion are =;t,o-" Szold, veteran Zionist worker ^^e posibility of absorbing a Fund they have been confer-Women s Trade Umon Lea-,,r,raiiizinjr f„ Vanmnvpr th^
sing.
organizing in Vancouver the
Dates Endorsed By Endorsation Bureau
Queen Esther Ball—Poale Zeiri Zion , Organization—Sat., March, 7.
Monte Carlo Night —. Beth Israel Congregation—Sat., April 4.
Annual Hadassah Bazaar —Sunday, May 3.
whose 75th birthday was re- f^^^ German families into the ""g ^or two weeks on plans to gue; Mrs Richard Gottheil of ^isit of the Jewish poet and jcently celebrated throughout ^^^^^^^j^j jj^^ Vancouver, solve the Jewish problem in New York wife of Professor translator, I. I. Schwartz, Mr. the world and who nas just re- ^o be headed by Mr. L. Ten- Germany. Gottheil of the Semitics De- Schwartz is the author of a
turned from a trip to her Am- enbaum. Work on the occupa- Dr. Weizmann is also plan- P^^tment of Columbia Uni- ,e„gthy poetic work, "Ken-encan home, received an en- tional survey of British Colum- nng o engri^^^^ ^^.f ' ^Vf^ ^"^'^f,"' ^^^J^^'" ^''^ the translator of
thusiastic ovation on her ar- ^ ^as formed vties ^ IV^' v ^fSf rf f'^ several volumes of Hebrew
rival at Haiia Among xnose ^h^ undertakings __ ^"^^^ ^^/P" poetry into Yiddish; among
who greeted her was a dele- throughout Canada of the Con- ^^crrcT ^x,r^^^x> ^'^"^ '. ^ v• ^^'f ^^'^^^ ^ entitled "The
gation of four ten-year-old chi - \ ^^^^ community will ^ FASCIST GROUP ner of New York, niece of Hebrew Poetry of Spain." His dren from Ben Shemen. chil- undertaken by Mr. E. R. NEW YORK-Dedicated to o Senator Robert F. Wagner; j^t^st works is a volume of dren s village representing the gugarman and his committee. J two-point program, America Mrs. Solomon toster of New- Yiddish translations of Chaim youth of Palestine, on whose for Americans, and elimination ark, wife of Kabbi roster; Mrs. Nachman Bialik
behalf Miss Szold has been par- Completed plans for public of aliens from all fields of in- Howard S. Gans of New York,
ticularly active. Miss Szold de- participation in the B. C. Con- dustry," the American Nation- Mrs. Stella Nahum of New He is scheduled to be in clared: "I am happy to return gress which will aim to con- alists Inc. was launched this Haven, Mrs. Joseph M. Pros- Vancouver March 10th and to my beloved land." solidate the entire community week. Dudley Pierpont Gil- kauer of New York, Mrs. Em- 11th and will lecture Wednes-
Mrs. Israel Goldstein of New in Congress work will be an- bert, descendant from an old estine S. Prager of Boston and day evening, March 11th on York City arrived on the same nounced following the next American family is the organ- Mrs. Philip Lewisohn of New the life and poetry of Chaim boat with Miss Szold. Executive. izer. York. Nachman Bia ik.
