SEPTEMBER 1$, 1946
THE CANADIAN JEWISH REVIEW
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Anonymous lionor Revealed As J.D.C. Head Wins Award
The recent death in America of Enrico Garda, former Ambassador from San Marino to France, permits it to be revealed that it was he who contributed anonymously $60,000 to-Yeshiva University in 1940. The death of Mr. Garda closed a long career of philanthropy and international service.
The $50,000 contribution has been known as the Mordecai Ben David Foundation and Award. The Foundation was established for the purpose of presenting annually $1,000 "to the student or graduate of Y^-shiva University, or such other individual, who shall have achieved a most noteworthy record of success in the promotion and encouragement of self-respect, self-defense, independence and courage among members of the Jewish faith, and in the promotion and enhancement among American Jews of a deep and abiding sense of loyalty, devotion, and patriotism to the United States of America."
Winner of the 1946 award is Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, Chairman of the European Executive Council, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and distinguished alumnus of Yeshivs University. The awards for the three previous years were presented posthumously: 1945, to Jerome Robbins, Ye-' shiva student killed on a troop transport; 1944, to Lt. Louis Wer-fel, the "flying Rabbi", killed in a plane crash in North Africa; 1943, to Captain Jacob Joseph, son of New York City Comptroller, Lazarus Joseph, killed in action at Guadalcanal.
In making the announcement, Dr. Leo Jung, Rabbi of the Jewish Center of New York and Chairman of the Board of Awards, extolled Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz as an "indefatigable, self-sacrificing1 messenger of life and prophet of hope to millions of our people; impassion-ate pleader with kings, presidents and parliaments, whose matchless devotion snd extraordinary achievements have written a new and ' glorious chapter of Jewish charitable efforts, and have contributed
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immeasurably to Jewish self-respect and dignity, and to the enhancement of patriotism among American Jews." ,
The many-sided humanitarian services of Enrico Garda began long before his coming to America. In his native Italy, he contributed large sums to the schools, and for the promotion of the work of the Board of Education, especially among young children. He sponsored a contest for a book on famous Italians in all fields of knowledge; then established awards for children that came to an understanding of these contributions to culture.
As Ambassador to France from San Marino, the sphere of Enrico Garda's benefactions widened. He established several awards for improvements in aviation. He purchased and donated to the Royul Academy the correspondence and relics of the great composer, Gui-seppe Verdi.
During the First World War, although a captain in active fighting, and badly wounded in action, he founded the Committee for Relief of Soldiers' Families, and was a prominent sponsor of the Red Cross. By his intercession with Francis B. Sayre (President Wilson's brother-in-law), the American Y. M. C. A. extended its services to the Italian front. He did much to strengthen, and to interpret to the rest of the world, the Italian role in the First World War.
In the intervening years, the philanthropic and humanitarian activities of Enrico Garda continued unabated, selecting causes that would promote international understanding. Modest and unassuming, he insisted on the withholding of his name from his benefactions.
After his arrival in America, recognizing its role in world progress toward tolerance and peace, and especially its unfolded opportunities for the Jews dwelling within the United States. Enrico Garda established the Mordecai Ben David Foundation and Award at Yeshiva University, from which $1,000 is annually awarded for the promotion and enhancement among American Jews of abiding loyalty to the United States of America.
I r g u n Calls Paper Quisling
A false bomb threat forced the temporary evacuation of the Tel Aviv liberal newspaper Haaretz, which the Jewish underground organization Irgun Zvai Leumi has attacked lately as a "quisling newspaper."
Haaretz often mirrors the views of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Jewish Agency for Palestine. Recently Irgun Zvai Leumi has been waging a campaign against what it terms Dr. Weizmann's "conciliatory attitude" and describing him as the "Jewish Petain". The bomb warning came in an anonymous telephone call.
Wolfgang von Weisel, noted Austrian writer, has declared a twenty-eight-day hunger strike in the La-trun detention camp, the Palestine Government announced, as a protest against detention of himself and others whom he declared innocent of any terrorist activity or connections.
Dr. von Weisel, 50, is a Vienna-born journalist and author who was formerly a physican. He came to Palestine in 1922 to become correspondent for two then liberal papers, Neue Freie Presse of Vienna and Vossische Zeitung of Berlin.
He was seriously wounded during Jerusalem riots in 1929.
Dr. von Weisel originally was Socialist-minded and later became a member of the nationalist Jewish Revisionist party, but in recent years was reported politically less active while directing a small san-
Helps Select Refugees For U. S. Entry
Dr. Isaac Lewin, Rabbi and former alderman of the City Council of Lodz, Poland, left on the Clipper for Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee, 132 Nassau Street, New York, to work with the United States on a Vaad Hatzala corporate affidavit.
This is Dr. Lewin's second trip abroad for the Vaad Hatzala. He went in 1945 for the purpose of religious rehabilitation of Jews liberated in Europe in 1944 he served as a member of the Coordinating Committee for Fort Ontario to organize the religious life of the group of Jewish refugees brought to the. United States from Europe.
While Dr. Lewin was alderman of the City Council of Lodz, he was dn ardent opponent of the Polish anti-Semitic leader, Kowalski, the so-called Polish Hitler. He is an author of many books in Polish on history and Polish constitutional lnw. It was his book "The Right of the Dissolution of Parliament" published in 1933 that called the authorities' attention to a mistake in the Polish constitution, which was later corrected. In 1935, Dr. Lewin handled the case involving the defense of the Talmud against anti-Semitic accusations before an ecclesiastical court in Milan, Italy, at which the present Pope, then Cardinal Pacelli, was judge. Dr. Lew-
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Dr. Lewin is a member of the Polish Institute of Arts and Scien-
ces and of the Research Institute for Post-War Problems of Religious Jewry. He is also a lecturer in Yeshiva University, New York.
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"I have never yet heard of such wholesale desecration except perhaps in Nazi Germany," Mr. Nessanbaum said. Police Chief George Sedore said similar acts had been committed previously in the graveyard, but never before on such a scale. He said a check was being made to determine if any stones were re moved and to search for possible fingerprints. Apparently no one saw the vandals at work. A guard was placed at the cemetery
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