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THE JEWISH-OTSTERNBULI^
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1935
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on "Jewish Names." Make Friday night, Congregation Night.
The Output of Hebrew CONGREGATION
Books BETH ISRAEL
Four hundftedawd.eighty-eight Services boolcs were pubHshedin Palestine Services ori-Friday begin at 8:00 during the-past year,^as compared ^f'-fS?: ^t^^. with 479 in the previous year and 431 in the year before. In the 5690 the number of books in Hebrew Congregation
•u,, ^ ^ . ^ , At a recent meeting of the newly
published in Palestine was 469, farmed Student Council of the while in the subsequent year it Sunday School, all arrangements dropped to 427. Of the 488 books were completed for the inaugura-published during the last year, 46 a, Junior Congregation
were original works of the belles which will begin;holding services , , , . , on' Saturday morning, January 26.
lettres class, as compared with 41 ^^^ch the Bulletin for further an-in the preceding year, while 36 nouncements.
were translations of the same class.---
There were 85 new books for young people and children; 10 volumes of essays and criticism; 15 collected
Sub-Juniors
Growing Pain$ in Tel Aviv
By RACHAEL COHEN
On the face of the matter it may appear strange tha:t current events in Biro Bidjan are not receiving the warm reception that the adherents of Jewish settlement in that district expect.
The government of the U.S.S.R. has shown itself to fee seriously interested in the settlement of Jews in the far eastern territory. It is even willing to run the danger of a "nationalist deviation" and to give the territory a definite Jewish character,' legally and in ethnic composition. It has proclaimed and called
a Jewish Biro Bidjan conference, and it is not too much to Running back from the Blue Mediterranean, just north of increase^orH^jr^^^ puWish^ expect that under the stimulus of economic conditions in East- Jaffa, spreads the city of Tel AViv. Both on the ground and ing in Germany, due to the demand em Europe and in Russia itself and undef the pressure of the higher up where its skylme spreads inland towards the hills, it ^^^""^"^ educational works.
hiinger for a Jewish territory. Biro Bidjan may be the centre is distinct from the rest of the country. In this land, Tel Aviv__ -
pf a tangible Jewish immigration. is "something new, a new face, ^ew buildings. Towards the ~~" \
" • . °. *» » . • _ the steps necessary for an orderly
Yet all this has not recieved the acclaim that might appear south struggling'Jaffa with a few minarets of mosques has its purchase of lands in Palestine, their
due to a Stalin-Balfour Declaration. It is true that the profes- own skylinfe, so that when you look upwards, away towards the settlement, and the need for secur-
, , . ■ 1 X, i> 1 -i . 1.. 1. .lt- them, against alienation. For-
sional pro-Russian press has renewed the call of Biro-Bidjan, south,'y6u can see even by the rc^fs and the designs which the ^^^^^ly jj had^o^ early forseen
and Communist groups have taken some advantage to recruit two dities make in the upper air where Tel Aviv begins and the importance ot;3^I A^yiv,and had
gullible members for their organization under the pretext of Jaffa ends. Two distinct conditions of Ufe, two distinct rates of ^^^^ ^^^^f^^^^^^^^^
the Biro-Bidjan construction, but on the whole the response progress and movement. i far as the financial support of the -
has been very meagre." Come into Tel Aviv by the road leading up from Jerusalem Jewish public had permitted them.
For this there is some justification. If ihe colonization project and yd'ii will pass first through & Sicrrf'theL^^"^"^ tol to^
of the Far East stood on its own feet as a'natiorial or even Jaffa,-its litter and its general ah: of conia. But suddenlyjvery- fiuence they have exercised on .Tel
economic measure the sympathy of the Jewish people would thing <=Kariges, sound and movement, and. hurrying, of high- ^^^^^ ^d w"whi'^^^^^^
undoubtedly have been forthcoming to a very fuU degree. Powered motor cars, a multitude^ of youfig;i)eople,;;^^^^ Jews National Fund has put into the
„ , .v J t TD- -Dj' u t- • 4.-1,1 bearded and shaven, dark-skirtned^ Yemenites, fair^skinned hands of the Jewish people.
, But the propaganda for Biro Bidjan has been inextricably _ ^ ... ;>i^iu„._: t_____ _____ One of the estates of the Jewish
1 J -xt- ^ £ ' T ^-L £ ^1 T • 1 i< . r Lrerman jews out OX tne iNazi uatauij'aiii,.i-i:/jLioii f/ewo, Avwii^ *• i w j x j j i
coupled with a hate for; Jewlshness, for the Jewish religion, for ' ^ ,. i - . National Fund to come under devel-
the Jewish historical traditions, for the Zionist moyement, and ^'^^ ''"'"'"S- unloading timW, stacking tec^^ ......~- —.....—
for Judaism in every sense of the word. . . ''"'""S' ^"^^^ "^"^
The anti-Judaic inovemeht has set out to save Jews, and
Jews are very suspicious of the motives and the men who are engaged in such inconsistent activities.
The suspicion may be too deep, but it exists, a very definite hampering force in the construction of Biro Bidjan, and another result of the lack of understanding of Jewish life by those who wish to build it anew in new territories.
The Sub-Junior Council takes great pleasure in presenting for works, 64 books of science, 114 edu- the first time in Western Canada cat^onal works, 24 religious works a "Night Court," to take place at and 94 miscellaneous. Of the orig- Big Broadcast, January 20, at inal works 13 were verse, 28 novels ^"^^ P-™-» Peter Pan iBall-
and short stories, and nine dramas, room.
As might be expected, Tel Aviv is the publishing centre. Of the total, no less than 380 were published in the first Jewish City; Jerusalem follows with . 100. The rest were published in Half ah and in one or two of the colonies.
Outside of the Holyland, the number of Hebrew books published during the same period was 294. Of this number 170 were published in Poland, 60 in the United States, 20 in Germany, 20 in Rumania and five in Lithuania. There was an
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The pressure of millions of hungry Jews in Poland, of dejuda-ised Jews in Russia, of insulted Jews in Germany, of threat-
Here endi the old -and the new biggins.
Now in Td Aviv the main sub- ■—■ ject is the progress of the city. Day by day pepole remark every, new building. They count the city's, growth with pride and exultation. In the spick-and-span cafe they discuss day by day the population of Aviv. Everyone has his own calculations. One counts the houses, estimates two and a half persons per room and arrives at the splendid figure of 125,000; another is more conservative: he aiiows only 100,000. And so on.
by Uie already settled population added to the. value of the land which still remained vacant. .It .meant in.simple words that while 'the .conunuiiity as a whole had raised the value of the land, that increased value was harvested not by.the community but by the purchasers and sellers of the land that ^till.remained to be developed. {Here was a problem of the first magnitude!
Obviously if the commimity had taken the precaution of buying up
opment is an area abutting on north-em Tel Aviv. In this section, the J. N. F. owns a total area of somie 96,000 square metres. Here there are worker's quarters, business sections sections and the ordinary middle-class villas which you will find .< in any European suburb. The whole section is a sort of model of what is being done by the Jewish National Fund in the field of town settlement. In this area Jewish life can be seen growing up literally out of the sauid, larger and smaller dwellings nestle close together. Close by the roadside a little Synagogue is already up. Tlie road itself specially finished for the Levant Fair, already leads to the next stretch, the next tract which
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But whatever the exact population,
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ened Jews m Austria, of pogromised Jews m Roumama—had ^^^.^ ^p^ading, covermg difficulty and no problem. Every- houses, schools and workshops nung-
hitherto been relieved only by the relatively small immigration ^^e sands with asphalt roads and one would have welcomed tiie rapid Ung unperceptibly with the city of
into Palestine. modem verandah houses, little gar- and ahnost nrnractdoiy growtii of Tel Tel Aviv.
, 1 , . T f u 11 1. 4. u dens with green shrubs and bright Ayiv. There would not be today an
Not only has this rehef been small, but the pressure has ^^^^^ synagogues, schools, work- unsavory land speculation, no rapid
brought into Palestine elements that threatened the further g^ops and everythmg that goes to the passmg from hand to hand with a
absorptive capacity of the country by undermining the princi- buildmg of a modem city. rise at every successive transaction,
pies of Jewish labor, by indulging in land speculation, and by in all this buildmgvand growmg. Unfortunately no such wise precau-
ignoring the needs of a country in the state of becoming Jewish, apparently scattered and without or- tlon has operated here generally. Al-
__ ■ , . . , ganization, there is a definite plan and though the instrument stood ready to
Under these circumstances it comes as a welcome message system. No soil is turned and no hand for the prevention of specula-
that the government of Syria has allowed Jews to enter and to fovmdation laid except with the ap- tfon and for a wise control of land
buy land there. The fact that the land bought is on the Pales- proval of the Town Planning Depart- vialues, that instnmient was, owing to tine border wiU ensure the safety of the Jewish population and °^ Q"^''" lethargy of the pubUc, not used
will help to relieve the speculation with real estate that has ''Tf^.f a^v ^^uno^ *^
, .« , . , , , <. , eagle eye of the Tel Aviv Council
threatened and is still threatemng the sohd foundations of the before any building is commenced.
national upbuilding in the Jewish homeland. There was a time when buildmgs
From Biro Bidjan. too, reports indicate that Jewish coloni.a- r^rn^^TrnrrUrt
tion may be increased and that immigration of Jews from cap- elementary faciUties. But that tune
italist lands may be allowed to a degree. has passed. The pressure of life, the
It is to be hoped that the reUef thus provided, small and in- °" °% population, have
, .£ . .f . J X ^ J J i: X, compeUed a definite system and
significant as it is compared to the tremendous need of the o^der. Henceforth the population of
millions of stricken Jewry, will not drive us into a frenzy of Tel Aviv is assured that its houses
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