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The Canadian English-Jewish Weekly
VOL. XLVIII
GARDENVALE, QUEBEC, JANUARY 14, 1966
American Jewish Committee Charges 50 N. Y. Banks Bar Jews From Top Jobs
The American Jewish Committee has charged that fifty mutual savings banks in New York City had "systematically excluded" Jews from top-management and policy-making positions. Theodore Kllenoff, chairman of the Civil Rights Committee of the agency's New York chapter, says the New York Times, said the charge was based on a four-month survey of more than 400 executives and staff officers and 750 trustees of the banks.
A report, released at a news conference at the agency's Institute of Human Relations, 165 East 66th Street, said that less than three per cent of those surveyed had been identified as Jewish, "although Jews make up one-quarter of New York's city population and are obviously prominent in the city's life."
Austin S. Murphy, managing director of the Savings Banks Association of New York State, sharply repudiated the charge, asserting that there was no basis "for an accusation that savings banks have policies of discrimination on the basis of racial or religious background."
Savings banks, he said, "have Jewish trustees and employes at all levels, including officers. We, of course, do not know how many Jewish employes the banks have," he added, "nor how many of any other particular background, be-� cause banks, in accordance with law, do not hire or;keep records 'based on race, creed, color, or national origin.' "
Dr. Murphy said that the New York State savings banks hire and promote "the most competent people that can, be obtained without regard to religious affiliation."
The American JeSvish Committee, in breaking down the three per cent figure in its report, said that less than 2.5 per cent of the more
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than 400 officers were identified as Jewish while the parallel figure for 760 trustees was less than 3.5 .per cent.
A team of eight researchers, who made the survey, reported that no Jewish executive officers had been found in 82 per cent of the banks, reports the New York Times, while no Jewish trustees had been represented in GO per cent of the banks surveyed.
The report contended that the "evidence suggests that insensitivi-ty and indifference, if not deliberate exclusion, have hardened over the years into de facto discrimination."
Mr. Ellcnoff, in reply to a question, said the banks had been unaware that the survey was being made, adding that it was now being made public to "attract the attention of the many good men on the boards of the banks, who, when they realize the broad-scale nature of the discrimination, will proceed to make changes."
Mr. EHenoff, a New York lawyer and a member of the firm of Gartenberg & Ellenoff, said that Jews made up 25 per cent of the city's population and accounted for 50 per cent of the college graduates. The American Jewish Year Book recently 'listed a population of 5,566,000 Jews in the United States, including 1,836,000 who live in the city's five boroughs.
He said that his agency did not suggest the establishment of a quota system, adding that "on the contrary, recruitment and promotion on the basis of individual merit is the solution."
Mr. Ellenoff said the savings bank survey was "illustrative of the restrictive patterns" that his organization found "to exist in many financial institutions and among the nation's leading corporations."
In 1963, the Committee made public a report that dealt with discrimination against Jews in top-management ppsitions among the nation's leading fifty public, utilities corporations.
In 1964, it issued another report that dealt with the same theme in a variety of industries in the Philadelphia area. It has also released studies _ that dealt with religious discrimination in various other fields, says the New York Times. Mr. Ellenoff said that the savings bank report was "illustrative of the restrictive patterns" that his agency found "to exist in many American financial institutions and among the nation's leading corporations."
British Officer Calls Belsen A Horror Matchless, Urges "Never Forget"
One thousand survivors of Nazi death camps, most of them from the notorious Bergen-Belsen, marked the twentieth anniversary of their freedom with a dinner at thc..Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York. The guest of honor was the former chief medical officer of the Second British Army, Brig, fien. H. L. Glyn Hughes, says the New York Times, who played a major role in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945.
General Hughes, who came from London for the occasion, termed the Belsen camp as "the worst horror story of the war." Nothing in his experience in World War I and World War II could "match the horror of Belsen," he said.
In the last few months before the liberation, General Hughes said, fifty thousand Jewish men, women, and children died, and thirteen thousand more died from malnutrition and disease after the liberation. The former British medical officer strongly pleaded for "the =world never to forget" the crimes of the Nazi regime.
In his audience were many who still bore on their arms tattooed numbers, grim reminders of their imprisonment.
Josef Rosensaft, president of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, which sponsored the event, announced the establishment of an annual "Remembrance Award" for the best creation in literature, art, music, and research dealing with the Nazi terror.
Mr. Rosensaft, a survivor of the Belsen and the Auschwitz camps, said each award would carry with it a premium of $2,500. A fund of $50,000 has been made available for the awards.
Sam E. Bloch, general secretary of the Belsen Associations, announced the publication of a monumental documentary album entitled "Holocaust And Rebirth" that depicts the story of the liberation of Belsen and the rehabilitation of its survivors.
The 500-page book, with texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English,
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The $10-million Albert Einstein College of Medicine, air-conditioned throughout jts twelve stories, has opened in the Bronx. The hospital's first patient was thirteen-year-old Barbara Patterson, of Framingham, Mass., who was admitted to the diagnostic center for examination and . possible treatment, writes'John C. � Devlin, in the New York Times. She received a bouquet of flowers and greetings from Mrs. John V. Lindsay, wife of the city's new Mayor.
Mrs. Lindsay, making her first appearance as the city's First Lady, wore a bright red topcoat ovdr a semi-fitted, pale blue sheath dress. She appeared poised but said:
"You know I have felt slightly nervous about this,. Does one congratulate somebody upon being a patient in a hospital � even one as beautiful as this one? All I can say is that this pretty little girl looks much too healthy to be a patient in a hospital. And she is also as bright as a button."
Then the Mayor's, wife gave the bouquet to the girl and wished her, "the very best of luck."
The hospital, which was begun three years ago, will not be ready for full occupancy for about two months.
It is a brick-finished, reinforced-cdncre.tp structure that stands on a knoll adjacent to the Albert Einstein College. The hospital's formal title is the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Ultimately it will have three hundred and seventy-five beds.
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Rabbi Defends Humaneness Of Jewish Ritual Slaughter
Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the Rabbinical Council of America, took sharp issue with Friends of Animals, Inc., supporters of the Hausbeck Slaughter bill now before the New York State Legislature. Last December 27, the organization ran an advertisement in The New York Times urging .support for the bill, which .attempts to eliminate the shackling and hoisting of animals in kosher slaughter.
Preaching at the Kingsbridge .Jewish Center, 124 Eames Place, the Bronx, Rabbi Miller charged that the ad was "inflammatory" and implied that "<hochita" (Jewish ritual slaughter* was inhumane, says the Ne\v York Times, writer. George Dugan. Friends of Animals, Inc.. the rabbi said, "would lead the unwary reader to believe that the roligiou-ly prescribed method of slaughter is inhumane and that the hill they advocate is the only legislation concerned with the humane treatment of animals.
"They, and particularly the-ir leader, Mrs. Alice Schmid. are well aware that the Xew York State Humane Association, which includes nearly all the humane groups in the stnte. have offered a bill which has. the approval of all the national Jewish croups and which more than adequately covers the problem of huir.ane slaughter.
"\\"e nv.ist c-ur.diHe that this small croup which is <v.;t-Me the mainstream of the h;;:~.'.;v.o movement has displayed an ir.-er.-itivitv to the religious cc-mmitrr.er.ts ar.il practice* of the Jewi-h i-ommr.r.ity ar.il is more interested ir. sc.uiv.^ the seeds of disharmony :.r.d religious, dissension among the people
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Editor Of Au Influential German Weekly Of New York, Left Loyal Readers Among Uprooted People All Over The World
Dr. Manfred George, editor of Aufbau, a German language weekly newspaper published in New York, died in the University Hospital. He was seventy-two years old and lived at 785 West End Avenue. Dr. George, a biographer and novelist, who was known as a liberal editor In Germany before the rise of Hitler, reports the New York Times/became editor of Aufbau in 1939, after arriving in New York as a penniless refugee.
Aufbau was then a small monthly newsletter published by the German Jewish Club of New York, which is now the New World Club, Inc. Dr. George marshaled a distinguished advisory board, including Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, and built the publication
Later he went to Silesia as a correspondent and to direct the .Ullstein office in Breslau. While reporting on the Upper Silesian plebiscite during the Kapp Putsch of. 1920, he was arrested by right-wing insurgents and escaped a firing squad only after producing a certificate of military service.
He left Ullstein in 1923 to join the Mosse Verlag, for whose newspapers he was drama critic and a .correspondent. He returived to Ullstein in 1928 as chief editor of Tempo and was co-editor of the cultural .magazine, Marsyas.
In the nineteen-twenties and early nineteen-thirties, he wrote political articles for liberal journals, radio dramas, and a musical revue, "Oh, U.S.A.'' which had 50
into an influential weekly with a ^performances in Berlin in 1931.
circulation of 30,000.
In World War H^tha. Aufbau helped .thousands of refugees adjust to new homes and aided in the reunion of families and friends. It offered" subscribers English lessons, information about naturalization, jobs, and housing.
Aufbau changed with the times. Its search column, which assisted refugees in tracing families after the war, gave way to a supplement to help Jcv/s'U eJtabli;'. Bairns for restitution from the German Government. Today, it carries theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market and hobbies, as well as articles on world affairs.
"Aufbau," Dr. George once said, "never stressed the concept of collective guilt for Germany." This resulted in friendly relations with the German Government. In 1951, Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany, gave Aufbau an exclu-
He also .wrote short stories, novels, including "Eine Nacht In Kattowitz/' which was seized and' destroyed by thve Nazis before its scheduled publication; and brief biographies, including one of Mar-lene Dietrich. ; .
"The Case Of. Ivar Kreugcr," was the title of his study of the Swedish financier, which was translated into English and Italian. \
A member of tbc^f'ermnn Zion-
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i.st movement, Dr. George wrote an early popular biography of Theodor Herzl, the Zionist leader, with introductions by Mann and Einstein.
With the growth of Nazism, Dr. George became an active opponent, serving for several months as president of the Republican party of Germany. �
After the Nazis took control in 1933, he went on foot over the mountains inito Czechoslovakia and
sive story about the decision of his bccamc editor of:a Prague news
Government to pay Jews for loss of property under Hitler.
Dr. George to;je,dv as many as one hundred houiBpva week, aided by a staff'of thirty,:to get Aufbau
paper, says the New York Times. In 1935, helped to found the Ju-dische Revue.
He spent six months in' Spain during the Civil War, reporting
to its subscribers throughout the from the Loyalist side to Czechoslovak, -S'..\55, Austrian, Dutch, and Rumanian papers. �After the Munich pact of i&SSr Dr. George made his way to the U.S. through Hungary, Yugoslavia. Italy, Switzerland, and France. He started on the Aufbau at a salary of �15 a month.
At the celebration of the publication's 30th anniversary, March 21, at the Hunter College Assembly Hall; the speakers included Mayor Wanner; Dr. Heinrich Knappstein, who was the West German Ambassador, and diplomatic represent-
United States and many foreign countries. His rewa3$ was a loyal readership among unrooted people all over the world.
He was born in Berlin, the son of a businessman, and studied law at the Universities of Berlin, Groifswald, and Geneva. In World War I, he served in the German army and was discharged .in 1915. says the New York Time.-, after being severely wounded. In 1917, he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the of Berlin. . '.
While a student, he ^rAcred journalism. He served fof as mnnaping editor of the
atives of Israel and Austria. President Johr.son sent greetftigs. Dr. Georpe wrote thousands of
Deutsche Montngszeitufcg.^iJSlT articles for leading European and
he joined the U!l.-tein:-new.-paper publisher?. He ^.'cjrvvd as local editor of :-everal of\it*'B<*r-lin papers and then becarni-*chs�f editor of the Berliner
States publications and had interviewed, anmng others, the late Dr. Albert Schweitzer, David Ben-Gurion.� ar.d Mr. Johnson.
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