nOVINCIAL L13RARY
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"The Only Jewish Weekly West of Winnipeg"
Vol. V. No. 24 VANCOUVER, B. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934 $1 Per Year
Who can appraise Bialik as a j higher sense-poet, as an author, as a thinker, 1^ leave the as an intellectual promeneur in the - with the source.
the true realist. Not organic, to remain the juiciness of
A campaign for the relief of East European and German Jewry will be held in Vancouver as in all Canada this year. Vancouver will make a sincere attempt to raise its quota of $7,500 as set down for it by the Montreal headquarters of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
Such was the decision of a conference of leading citizens who met in the Centre on Wednesday. Though a smaU percentage fiews of linguistic philosophy, as a;the roots, the humidity of original of the men and women invited to attend were actually present, pedagogue, as an essayist, as a ^causes—that was the line of his the feeling of the meeting was very decidedly for the holding critic? Who can conceive the whole llife, formulated or not. of the campaign. The Congress executive through its president, ^" breadth and cathoii-l This frequently led him to para-
Zimmerman, and its vice-president, A. Rothstein, outlined ^""^ ?' mourniug? ^|doxleal situations, to caprices, to
j£ci ix- -x x J • ■ X X- • 1 1- . We all know without any form-:$lovable exaggerations. I remember
inedifficuUies it encountered m mterestmg various bodies m what Bialik was for us andltelling him Le of new attempts the campaign. It is undeniable that there is an inexplicable what he still is, and what he wiulbeing made by German philoso-apathy to the campaign that is a very unhealthy sign of our continue to be, not because lyefbhers in gnoseology. He "lost his
lack of national consciousness and sohdarity. Vancouver Jewry were acquainted with him but ber^iemper" suddenly, and I knew from Talmud Torah is Rabbi Bender,
should lay aside all differences and work in this time of need ^'^"^^ ^® "^^^ ^ nb^^revious experience that I was
. • t.' t. ij t 1 j • ^1 TTT scale and no criterion to measure "about to witness a caprice that
in the same manner in which world Jewry worked m the War « „^«ot o^fic,* n-r.„iA k v, . \
„ „ objectively a great artist. It often ;-,%ould be memorable m its charm.
y^ars for the Peoples Campaign to reheve East European seems to me that the terms great;^What is truth? I don't believe Jewry, if Vancouver Jews do not do their share for the national genius, giant, are taken from an- they know a thing about it. It Canadian Campaign their reputation as a highly organized other plane and life, and should fs^ems they are "weaving ropes and educated community in Jewry will go down considerably. ^® applied at all to the field of ^^rom bran." The warm hand of a
art and mental creativenesa. I woman, of a smiling child, of any The Campaign in Canada has been unaccountably delayed, have a purely subjective scale, man is truth. A kitten warming In the past year only six communities in Canada made any Bialik was so dear and significant |tself in the sun is truth.'
CANADA
Hooligans desecreated ish cemetery at Toronto.
When I. Steinblum of Montreal arranged for an exhibition of his paintings, H. M. (Congress) Cais-erman wrote a special article in the Eagle in honor of the occasion.
In Winnipeg arrangements are complete for the campaign for the relief of German Jews.
The successor to Rabbi J. L. Zlotnick as director of Montreal's
effort to raise funds for the victims of the Nazi Government. "'Vancouver was one of them. The amount raised last year, some $2,200, will be deducted from their quota of $7,500. The balance must be raised. -Such was the decision of the meeting.
A mass meeting will be held soon, in the middle of Sucoth, and it will be addressed by Rabbis J. L. Zlotnick and S. Cass.
Rabbi of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue, and editor of the Canadian Jewish Chronicle.
M. J. Finkelstein received the Tau Delta Phi Fraternity award for the Jew who did most for Manitoba Jews.
Canada is astir with the Congress campaign for the relief of
to each of us because he stimu- p, That is why he was so attracted German Jewry, lated us, because he awakensjf-im- itb children, and to those "Truths,"
portant faculties in us, because he eternal and true, that children Montreal papers, piqued because
made our blood circulate more know and forgot. And the longer Rabbi Zlotnick left for Vancouver,
powerfully and passionately tha,n'fe and the more deeply he saying that he intends to ac-
UBual, because he bestowed upon;,the injustice done him of not ^^P*^ ^^^^^ rabbinate of Man-
us the great gift of the pleasure of seeing his flesh and blood in the Chester, Eng.
gnashing our teeth with pain and .mischievous form of a child the--
sorrow, because he convinced us jnore he sought contact with babes,
Afterwards canvassers will visit every home in Vancouver, that the very feeling of the piain with the little children under tbo They expect every Jew to do his share for this campaign. Fur- powerfully aitid intensely is in green trees, the more clearly he ther details will be announced in our next issue. ^ consolation, a re^^^aw in them and their penny tools
•affirmation of our reality, of;Our,;/and toys the greatest artists, the vitality, of our rootedness in llfe.v iicreatures near to world root. His And he 'stimulated us'always:^iV.hildren's songs are not accidents; both his rekders and those whoi^^no mere attempts to pass time, met him in real life because we^.>?ot^:^^ others with
always-fofifnd truth and sincerity .^em'but he" enjoyed them himself, in his work, sincerity as perhaps as il childhood is the one and only in no other man in his generation root of the soul, and all that goes of Jews. I do not believe that there from it is torn from the root. That was another man in the Jev/ish lit- is why he loved Jewish folklore,
childhood" of a
Memorial Day
September 23rd
The'^ Cdimtmnity is particuliarly reminded that Memorial Day will be observed at the New Schara-Tzedeck Cemetery, Bast Marine Drive, on Sunday, September 16th at 2:30 p.m.
The Cemetery Board particularly appeals to all who have cars to be at the Synagogue (Heatley and Pender) at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16th, to take out to the cemetery all who wish to attend.
It Is the duty of everyone to visit the cemetery a week before Yom
BETH ISRAEL SUNDAY SCHOOL
Registration
Parents are notified that registration of pupils in the Congregation Beth Isreal Sunday School
will take place this Sunday morn- erary world who was such a gen- for folklore is the
UNITED STATES
When the Rev. Murphy, J.S., spoke on Jews at a convention, the Jewish Daily Bulletin reported it as pro-Jewish and the Jewish Daily Forward came out with screaming headlines that "American Priest Makes Scurrilous Attack on Jews at Convention." .
ing, September 16, between the hours of ten and twelve in the morning, at the Community Centre. Sessions will begin the following week.
The Sunday School is open to all children in the Community at
erous spiritual Macenas as he; he race, of a people, of a cultural
l» wujr
PALESTINE
One of the most pressing problems of world Jewry is the proposed formation of a legislative council for Palestine. It is believed that immigration and land sale
Kipper to honor the memory of our a nominal fee for registration and dear departed ones. tuition.
A New Year Message
By ABRAHAM HERMAN,
President Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, Hias, New York
always eneouragsd everybouy in epoeli? That
his work, he had a genuine and years he was so attracted by those sincere compliment for everybody simple, charming men, in all truth will not be wtihin the jurisdiction our people, because he found in every man the deeply rooted, who take theirof the Council, latent; the unrealized part, the "childishness," their native simpli-part of the man in search of per- city with them their whole lives— fection, for he saw in every man to whom he dedicated one of his that additional reality that the ex- deepest poems, "Let My Fact Be ternal and superficial accounting With Yours," that reads like a so seldom fails to register. Never- prayer, that is in truth a pious theless in his presence one was prayer.
careful to avoid those so frequent He was genuine and very well mannerisms aftd artistic poses to grounded when he sang of our which Bialik was so sensitive, from past, the Beth Hemedrash, the
which he suffered physically. plastic figures of the devoted schol- ings dating from the Hasmoneans. I remember that period of the ars. He yearned, together with his _
Needs of European Jfewry Greater Than Ability To Meet
The Jews of America cannot relax in their efforts to raise funds for the relief of their distressed brethren in Germany and Eastern Europe, declares Rabbi Jonah B. Wise in a New Year's letter to the Joint Distribution Committee.
Rabbi Wise, national chairman of the fund raising committee of that organization, expresses the wish that he could assure the mem-r hers of the National Council of the Joint Distribution Committee "that conditions are such that our efforts in behalf of the Jews in Germany, those who are exiled from Germany, and the great masses of our distressed brethren in Eastern Europe, could be relaxed. Such, however, is not the case.
"While all the men and women connected with the Unitew Jewish Appeal have worked zealously for the cause, we find that the needs we are trying to meet are far greater than any means we have for meeting them.
"In the past few weeks returning ^travelers, competent to observe and comment, as well as our own fepresenta't^veV the' ground iii ' Europe, have brought us stories of suffering and sorrow which make it difficult for us to approach the New Year without the greatest feeling of concern for the present and future of untold thousands of
In a "touching" article, Jabot-insky tells how his love for Rabbi Cook was awakened when the Rabbi signed a petition for his release from prison (1921) on Sabbath. The Rabbi denies any such desecration of the Sabbath day for the sake of the Revisionist leader.
The searchers of the Hebrew University have discovered writ-
Zlotnick Appointed
ENGLAND
The report of the B. B. shows that much was done by the order to aid German Jewish refugees.
SOUTH AFRICA
An effort to turn more Jews to agriculture and industry is being icially org purpose.
Mr. W. Zimmerman, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Vancouver Section, announced at a recent meeting of the Congress executive and invited leading citizens that Rabbi J. L, Zlotnick has been appointed on the Congress executive.
various modernistsic madnesses in whole generation, for the patriar-The year 5694 has been turbulent and full of tragic events in Russian poetry, the excesses and chal home from which he wan-Jewish life from its very beginning. foci of imagists, decadents, symbol- dered away, from which he ran
. ists, and whatever else they chose away. He yearned for it because it The persecutions in Germany have not abated in the least, to call themselves. When one of was genuine, because it drew its The Nazis are still determined to exterminate the Jews, root them once asked Bialik who his life from springs of untold age, be-and branch. They have been spreading their vicious propa- favorite Russian poet was, Bialik cause it was our own, and by virtue ganda not alone throughout Europe but all over America as ^'>t ^^e^Itate but mentioned of that very fact, original, true
1 X xi- t.i. -T-i XT-- X- X Pushkin. "Is Pushkin the greatest Jews are not gifted plastically?
well, on a scale never before thought possible on this contment. .„„ ^,.o» ut a^^>t-1___„"tho -wn.^ „^<> r>„„„«9 rr„:„^9 rn,^,, -
' . - ^, . f r 1- X A ■ Russian poet?" "I don't know, Bia- Who said so? Renan? Tame? They ^^de by a specially organized com-
Nevertheless, m spite of this gospel of hate, we, American replied, "but I do know that did not understand the concept of mittee for the purpose.
Jews, must remember that we are still, the continued depres- Pushkin is sincere, that he never plasticity. Instead of statues and
sion notwithstanding, one of the happiest and most prosperous dresses himself in feathers of paintings the Jewish collective breath and suspense of the ancient
sections of World Jewry. other birds, of non-existent, imag- sculptor formed one of the most Greeks tragedy, the figure of the
ined birds." monumental sculputres and one of tragic hero who knows his fate,
All our activities, therefore, all our energy and all our resour- Once he spoke to me of a well- the broadest panoramas the world who knows he will be destroyed,
ces, as Jews, in addition to extending social service to our peo- known author who thinks that ever saw—The Sabbath; formed it but who nevertheless appears brav-
lAe here, must be directed toward planned, constructive and schemerz" is his pathos, and of our own material, not of marble ely on life's battle scene. He did
oroperly superx'ised migration of our brethren abroad. The "^^^ ^^^'^ ^^'^ *° ^^^^ "^^^^ °' ''^''"'^^ P^^"*' ''^ ""^^ "^'"^ ^^"^^^^
p.operiy bupeiMseu iiii&La..jii ui uui uicuuczi duiudu. iiie ..^^^^^^y j^jg profession." Bialik of time, experience, of nature material a Talmudic legend.
Heorew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, the pioneer, thought little of him, always felt sky-colors; of the landscape of the Also genuine was his quiet and to this day the leading organization of its kind, together the counterfeit. "I don't like trag- Queen Sabbath horizon, of rhyth- unformulated disappointmnet in with its affiliates the world over, has since the World War edy that comes from anemia," he mic rest, of silence and of modesty, force, in pessimisitc heroism; and the life and significance of the succeeded in regulating the migration of Jews, and has now said. "Only powerful, full-blooded Yes. that old Jewish world was instead of heroism he began to j^^^ national poet. Mr. J. Youngson
will speak in Hebrew and Rev. N. M. Pastinsky will chant the memorial prayer. A representative selection of Bialik's poetry will be recited by Mr. M. Shore, Mr. M. Freedman and Miss Sarah Goldberg. Mr. A. Charkow, violinist, will render one of the many poems of Bialik, which has been set to music.
Mr. K. Katznelson, chairman of the Vancouver Zionist Council, will preside.
Bialik Memorial Meeting
The Memorial Meeting in honor of Chaim Nachman Bialik, will take place this Sunday night, September 16, at 8:30 p.m. sharp in the auditorium of the Jewish Community Cenrte.
A very interesting program has been arranged for this evening. Rabbi Samuel Cass and Rabbi J. L. Zlotnick will deliver addresses
men have a right to tragedy. Only genuine, but when Bialik felt that seek religious resignation, peace
when it comes from them does it have any significance. For you see, a tremendous tragedy such as "Faust" could have been written only by a solid man who had it in him to enjoy all the great pleasures of the world and finally to
the yearning had partly evaporated, because other motives matured within him and a new world attracted him, he shut that life and only once more returned to the symbol of that life, to the bookcase ("Before the Book case") to
extended its service to include the Jewish refugees from Germany. It is our sacred duty to keep calm and yet alert, and to continue doing our utmost to make it possbile for our destitute e-nd dispossessed to find new homes, to estabhsh themselves in new lands in peace and security.
Impenetrable as has been the night surrounding a great
majority of our people, there are rays of light to be discerned come against the iron wall of the pay it his last respect, to bid it
in the darkness. It is up to us, American Jews, united and cour- world—the veil behind which Is the farewell, and to go his new way.
ageous, by dint of unremitting efforts and sacrifices, by dint of unknown All or the unknown noth- His sturm und drang were genu-
contributing more generously than ever before, to help worthy '^^'J.^^ ^^^^ ^'^f ^'^^'y- J^^^
. 1.1 ^1 tr ^nn.^ i • anemic, can only lament, but
orgamzations make not alone the New Year 5695 a happier one lamenting and cowering are far
than its predecessor, but to inaugurate an era of truly happy from tragedy."
years in the history of our suffering people. And in life as in literature—in a
with the world and with God, confidence in eternity, "childhood," and sanctity.
ine; so were his yearning for power, his battle ardour against the world and fate. Without noting it. he—and no other Hebrew poet —introduced into our poetry the
Genuine in approach, sincere in form, true in pain, and real in sorrow, he was to us all the symbol of purity and of sincerity. In a world full of temptations, in a reality full of snares, in a generation of crumbled, fragmentary men, a whole man.
Was he a great poet? Yes, If not even more than that.
(Yiddisher Kaemfer)