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5689 EDITION OF AMERICAN JEWISH YEARBOOK ISOUT
SOLDIERS ATTACK JEWS IN SLOYAKIAN TOWN Budapest (J. T. A.)—Anti-Jewish riots were perpetrated in the Slovakian town, Vagujhely, by Czechoslovak army officers during military maneuvers there, states a dispatch to the "Pester Lloyd," The officers molested Jewish guests at the cafes. Shouting, "Shut up, you Jews," they fell upon the Jewish persons and beat them. An investigation was ordered by the authorities at Pressburg.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1928
JEWS IN DANGER DUE TO RITUAL MURDER STORIES
JEWS PROVIDED FOR IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
ZIONIST BODY TO BE HEADED BY DR. M. M. KAPLAN
VOL. VII.—No. 3G PALESTINE BANKS PLAN INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE
N A I U R A L GAS IS
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Prague (J. T. A.)—The amount Jerusalem (J. T. A.)—The creaof 1,900,000 Czech Tn-onen (approxtion of an Industrial Bank in Palesimately $57,000) is provided in the tine may be the result of efforts now 1929 budget of the Czechoslovak govundertaken by leading financial inernment for Jewish reHgious needs. stitutions in the country. The same budget contains an allotOn the initiative of several JewHarry Schneiderman Is Editor Prompt Government Investi- ment of 88,000,000 kronen for the Noted Rabbi Becomes Chair- ish banks and other institutions ex- C T. Kountze Sees Industrial man of Ruling Body of minorities' schools. No specification Opportunities in the tending industrial eredit, a meetgations Prevent Serious of Annual Publication \ Organization. is made as to how much of this Proposed Fuel. ing was held, where it was decided Results. for This Year. amount will be allotted for Hebrew to co-ordinate their activities. The FEATURES INTERESTING Z. O. A. IS LAUDED action is regarded as a prelude to BOND VOTE ON SEPT. 25 TROOPS PROTECT JEWS or Yiddish schools. the establishment of an industrial The 1928 budget contained an apDr. Mordecal M. Kaplan, noted bank. The American Jewish Tear Boot, "The introduction of natural gas Warsaw (J. T. A.)—A second proximation of only 80,000 kronen rabbi and Jewish communal leader, edited for the American Jewish in Omaha would be the most imporMendel Beilis case was prevented by for Jewish religious needs. was elected Chairman of the AdCommittee by Harry Schneiderman, tant opportunity for the developa prompt investigation made by the ministrative Committee of the Zionhas just been published by the Jewment of Omaha since the coming of Polish police in Zaklikow, disprovist Organization of America by the ish publication society. The presthe Union Pacific K&ilroad," C. T. ing a ritual murder tale which unanimous vote of that body at its ent volume represents the thirtieth Kountze, Vice-President of the First spread among the villagers. meeting on September 12 at the 01yearly publication since its first isNational Bank, said today. The peasants who assembled in_ cott Hotel. The Administrative sue of 1899. It opens with an exHundreds of other Omaha men the village on market day suddenly Committee, composed of forty memhaustive review of the year 5688 and women are volunteering to the Teacher Who Visited Palestine discovered that a three-year-old son bers, is the ruling body of the nai (1927-1928) by the editor. The reof one of the villagers named Smoto Speak at October Almanac Describes Palestinian Citizens Natural Gas Committee tional Zionist Organization. view gives the most significant statements of their experience with lach was missing. Immediately wit- $3,500,000 Needed to Carry 24 Meeting. Work During Past events of interest to Jews during As founder and leader of the Sonatural gas in other cities and on nesses were found who swore that Year. On Relief Program the period from April 1, 1927, to the ciety for the Advancement of Judainformation written to them by they saw a Jew named Mendel, the PLAN BENEFIT FUND This Year. middle of July, 1928. This period, ism and as Professor at the Jewish friends or relatives now using this son of Belly, kidnap the boy. - The BOOKLET COPIES FREE fuel. Through these statements the the editor states, was in a general Theological Seminary, Dr. Kaplan tale spread among the mob, causing Mrs. Joseph Rosenberg, president way a fairly normal one insofar as SUMMER TOTAL LOW has been an outstanding champion of committee has accumulated a mass wide excitement and instilling fear Continuing a custom inaugurated Jewish life is concerned. With the of the local chapter of Hadassah, the Zionist ideal and has been idenof evidence that is available to perin the hearts of the Jewish populaexception of those of Hungary, Lith- and the board of directors met last The sum of $3,500,000 will be tified for many years with the some years'ago, the Jewish National sons remaining in doubt about the tion. A search of Mendel's house Wednesday evening and formulated uania, Turkey and for a time Kouneeded by the Joint Distribution movement for the rebuilding df Pal- Fund of America has just issued its efficiency, cleanliness and cheapness was immediately undertaken by the mania, the governments in power in plans for the activities of the comCommittee to continue its program estine as the Jewish National Home- Jewish, almanac and calendar for of the gas that would be supplied to police. Later the child was found the year 5689, beginning with Septhe various countries with which ing season. of relief and constructive work land. Omaha under the arrangement to be wandering near the railway station tember 15th, the first day of Bosh Under the leadership of Mrs. B. the Jewish question in an acute form abroad up to the end of the year, several miles from the village. No In commenting upon Ms election Hashonah. The announcement of voted tipon September 25. - has. been associated, were liberal in A. Simon, each member of the board and the collection of this fund must action was taken against the witat the meeting of the Administrative publication of the almanac invites Jflany of those supplying the statecharacter and there was no official decided to pledge herself to raise be made immediately, according to a nesses who swore falsely. Committee, Dr. Kaplan referred to all Jews to obtain copies of the book- ments have said they are so deeply oppression or discrimination. Also twenty-five dollars for activities in call issued on the eve of Bosh Hashthe recent controversy in the Zion- let, which are free, either from the interested in obtaining natural gas unofficial anti-Jewish propaganda Palestine. The money is to be onah by Mr. David A. Brown, Naist movement and declared that the national offiees, 3LJ.1 Fifth Avenue, for Omaha that they will gladly give Belgrade (J. T. A.)—Forty per- tional Chairman of the United Jewand outbreaks of a violent nature raised by a series of chain parties Zionist Organization was now mak- New York City, *or from local their time to answering telephoned sons accused of'spreading anti-Seagainst Jews dwindled in number to be given by the individual memish Campaign. ing every effort to create peace and inquiries regarding their knowledge and intensity. The Jewish commun bers of the board and their friends mitic propaganda, inciting the popEarly in May of this year Mr. unity among the various factions. branches of the Jewish National ulation in connection with the ritual Brown made an appeal for the colFund, -which are located in every of the fuel. The committee points ities were free to—turn their atten Mrs. Herman Silverman is chairDr. Kaplan said, in part: community with any substantial out that under these conditions notion and to apply their energies to man of the rummage sale, which murder tale, were arrested by the lection of an emergency fund of "I have always been a loyal mem- Jewish population throughout the body need go to the special election communal problems, religious, cul- will be held during the hitter part Jugoslavian authorities in the Prov- $3,000,000 to cover the work of the polls without definite information tural and educational interests and of October. The sale of the kosher ince of Banat. Joint Distribution Committee dur- ber of the Organization. I have al- country. on every phase of the natural gas ways believed in the Zionist Organto international Jewish, questions cookbook, gotten out by the organThe arrests followed the events in ing the summer months. This apThe almanac contains a compresuch as immigration, economic re- ization last spring, is being super- Zentar, where the rumor was spread peal was the result of an Emergency ization. If now and then I have ex- hensive account of the objects of the proposition. construction and the restoration of vised by Mrs. A. Eomm. Among those who are urging their that "in every Jewish synagogue a Conference held in New York City pressed myself in criticism of some Jewish National Fund in Palestine, Palestine. After an exhaustive reChristian child is immured." follow- on April 30th, and its purpose was of its men and measures, it has al- as well as a snecinct story of what neighbors to vote for natural gas is Mrs. A. S. Bubnitz is still acceptview of the most significant events ing the temporary disappearance of to safeguard the Committee against ways been in a spirit of constructive the National Fund has already ac- Mrs. Mary Swarrz, 2050 North Nineing checks for one dollar, due from of Jewish interest in the United Marguerite Takatch, fifteen-year-old the experience of former years when conciliation. If I ever had any complished toward the reconstruc- teenth Street, whose eon, Arthur States, the review takes up happen- each member, for the summer emer- servant girl, who was found in a the slowing up of collections during doubts as to the capacity of the Or- tion of the Jewish National Home- Swartz, has been a natural gas conings in other western countries, in gency fund. neighboring village suffering from the summer months ..threatened the ganization to rise to higher levels land. The booklet also contains va- sumer at Laredo. Tex., for several The organization of sewing cireastern countries and in Palestine. exhaustion- The court authorities collapse of the most vital recon- than those of a looney-eollec-ting rious items of interesting informa- years. A daughter formerly used cles is again in the hands of Mrs. There is appended to the Review of yesterday published the opinion of structive activities abroad. Up to agency, T must admit that they were tion about ^Palestine, covering its the same fuel in Oklahoma. the Tear full lists of the most im- J. J. Friedman. These circles have the official physician that the girl September 12 the actual amount col- dissipated by what happened at the geography, population, customs, in"From what my children tell me portant anniversaries, appointments done splendid work for the past two was the victim of assault, which lected and turned over to the J. D. last Convention. I have become con- stitutions and colonies. about it. I believe natural gas would years. Mrs. Julius Stein and Mrs. and honors, special bequests and brought about her exhaustion. This C. was $1,454,888, less than half of vinced as a result of my reflections In a brief review of the past year be a fine thing for Omaha, and I tell upon what occurred (and I have had gifts and necrologies for the period E. E. Bleicher are planning a series fact was not made known before. the budget requirement. in Palestine, the almanac points out my belief to everybody who talks to a good deal of time to think since from April 1, 1927, to June 30, 1928. of affairs for the Infant Welfare Speedy steps were taken by the While the Joint Distribution Com- the Convention) that the Zionist Or- that "the Jewish National Fund ac- me about the election." she says. fund which supplies milk for the A special feature in this volume authorities to restore tranquility and mittee has tried during the summer ganization is exceptional among Jew- quired a further 18,000 dunams of Eighteen years of experience with is an article by Dr. H. S. Xdnfield Palestine babies. to bring about a pacification of the months to carry out its program with ish organizations in harboring with- land and entered into negotiations natural gas is the background on At the next meeting of the organ ' on the Jewish population of the minds of the villagers. Couriers the limited funds at its disposal, the in itself the power of self-criticism, for the purchase of a stretch of 50.- which Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. BeuUnited States, based upon informa- ization, which will take place Octo- with trumpets were sent by the Baoffices both here and in Europe have self-correction and self-purification. 000 dunams, the means for which are tell. 2304 North Fiftieth Street, base ber 24, Mrs. M. F. Levenson, chair tion gathered by; him as director of nat authorities to the villages of the been flooded with many new appeals In my opinion, the step that was being raised by the Jews of Canada, their approval of the fuel. Their the Statistical' Department of the man of the Cultural Committee, will province to proclaim to the entire for help from all parts of eastern taken in the reorganization of the following the visit there of Mr. Us- use of p«s was in Cleveland. Ohio, introduce Miss Marie Gordon, a loAmerican Jewish Committee. Dr. population that the tales of Jewish Europe. cal school teacher who visited Palesmovement is an evidence of an earn- sishkin. It carried out important whence they recently came to Omahn, Idnfield's study shows that there are ritual murder are a silly invention The United Jewish Campaign, est desire, on the part of both the amelioration works on its land, intine this summer and was very much ''We never used anything but gan now in the United States 4,228,000 and that every person responsible which in most communities was con- leaders and the rank and file of our cluding the drainage of the River in the furnace of the hot water plant Jews, widely distributed throughout impressed with the work of Hadas- for spreading anti-Jewish agitation ducted on a three-year collection organization to do whatever will re- Kishon area. Many water supply that heated our home." Mrs. Beutell the country in both urban and rural sah. She has an interesting mes- will be severely punished. basis, still has over seven million dound to the highest interests of the stations were installed in new vil- said. "The supply always wns plensage to deliver' to the members of places. There are Jews in all cities dollars outstanding in the form of movement, regardless of the sacri- lages and an additional 50.000 trees tiful, the price was low. and gus, of of the country having.a population the organization. Belgrade (J. T. A.)-T-Strong de- pledges. A great part of this money fices involved. No institution is per- planted." Mrs. Levenson will also announce course, is the cleanest and most of 25,000 or over. But it is interher plans for study circles for the tachments of police and gendarmerie is due by the end of the current year. fect, but as long as there is a desire The almanac also reveals that easily handled furnace fuel iu the (Continued on Page Five) were despatched by the Jugoslav disyear. to keep on improving and that desire nearly 8,000 people live in 42 villages world. 1 can assure every Oinahft trict authorities at Osijek to Petrovo AFTER YOM KIPPUR is acted upon as earnestly and as on the soil of the Jewish National woman thnt natviral pas. properly Selo in connection with the antizealously as it was at the last Con- Fund. This land has been drained adjusted, does NOT blacken kitchen DANCE AT J. C. C Jewish agitation which arose there vention, I feel that the Zionist Or- of marshes by the Fund, which has utensils. I'm really so enthusiastic due to the spreading of a ritnal The first after-Yom Kippur dance ganization has a right to come be- also provided 34 villages with direct about it thnt I would like to be help-. murder tale. The troops were in- will be given by the Jewish Com- fore the Jewish people and demand water supply. A half million trees ful in aiding Omaha to pet its supstructed to keep watch over the Jew- munity Center" and Omaha Chapter of it that adherence which the cause have already been planted by the ply. I'm always glofl to answer By HILLEL, the Observer ish houses in the town day and night. No. 1 of the A. Z. A. on the evening it represents so well deserves. questions about my Cleveland expeFund. Simultaneously, Judge Novak of of Monday, September 24, in the rience with the gas." "By reason of the new situation Did you notice that President the Vacation State, thus comes in Novi Sad and the official psychiatrist ballroom of the Center. M. V. Schafer, 3018 Webster which we "will naturally have to Coolidge came home from his vaca- for a measure of praise from th Annan were sent to Petrovo Selo to Damon's Harmonians, rated as Street, a former resident of Kansas confront as a result of the negotiation just in time for Bosh Hash- newspaper considered most niggard complete the investigation. one of the best local orchestras, City, is another enthusiastic booster tions pending with regard to the onah? Truth to tell, his arrival in in praise. His latest name, by the A number of the rioters were ar- will furnish the necessary music for for natural gas. Jewish Agency, a new future is openthe Capital made much less impres- way, is Bimwewegijig. Did you rested. It is stated that they have the gala occasion. ' "I'll be very much disappointed," ing up before our Organization. I sion than ever before; but among know he was again made an Indian admitted that they had every intenAccording to present plans, this he said, "if Omnha passes up this think the time is coming when our Jews, with their minds fixed on the Chief and had the above name be- tion to murder all Jewish inhab- dance will be an anual event. Alopportunity to get the best domestic Organization will have the opporstowed on him—simple name, means New Tear festival of the next day, itants of Petrovo Selo. An official most every Jewish Community CenAmong the local organizations who fuel there is." the "wise crack" was frequently Soaring Sky. Sol was thus adopted announcement declares that during ter in the country sponsors similar tunity to demonstrate to our people Mrs. Thonms Spinus, 1424% Sherthat it can function as the chief reare doing much to dispel the idea by the Chippewas after having been the shooting Wednesday in Petrovo affairs every year. heard: generative influence in our life here that interest in serious endeavors | wood, is doing all she enn to make adopted by the Winnebagos three "Well, I see Calvin came back to Selo no one was injured. No tickets are being sold for this in America; that it has within its among young members of the com- votes for natural gns, she says. She us just in time for our Bosh Hash- months ago. We are sorry we did dance. Admission charges will be power to bring a new spirit into all munity is decreasing is the Center used it in Buffalo. N. T. not see the jolly little "yiddel" fitonah. We must give him a Sholom levied only at the door of the ballJewish institutions, insofar as it is Players' Guild. The members of this ted out with a cap of porcupine fur YOM KIPPUR SERVICES Aleichem." room on the night of the dance. served seats. the one institution which stands for organization produced a number of and a deer tail from which an €agle's AT TEMPLE ISRAEL The cast for the play, which is a conception of Jewish life that successful plays last season and have The primary elections in President feather stuck up. We hear he was rapidly rounding into the final stage* KOL NIDRE SERVICES insists upon that life being viewed mapped out for themselves an am- of preparation, is one of the best Services for the eve of Tom KipCoolidge's vacation state—Wiscon- also presented with two handsome and lived organically, steadily and bitious program for the coming year. sin—were watched with eager eyes woven bags and a birch bark bas- pur will be held Sunday evening, i ever assembled at the Center. In it. The Kol Nidre services at the in every part of • the country. It ket (to hold the state's money?). September 23, at 8 o'clock. Dr. Cohn Beth Hamedrosh Hagodel synagogue whole. With that opportunity be- An example of the excellent work Fnye Klein ift found portraying the fore us, and with men such as yon being done by the youthful Theswas a foregone conclusion that Washington is watchfully watching will speak on "The Perfect Life." will begin on Sunday evening, Sep- on the Administrative Committee. pians is the production of "Mam- role of a lass whose touching devoThe morning service for Tom Kip- tember 23, at 6:00 p. m. They will young Bob LaFollette would be suc- old Sol. tion to her mother, played by Bess pur will begin at 9:30 Monday, Sep- be conducted by Cantor S. Kahan- and with the backing that I am sure ma's Affair," a three-act comedy, Weinstein, is so great: that she has cessful and all of Washington rewe shall get from the membership which is to be presented October 3 joices in his newest achievement, Ernest Bamberger may come to tember 24. Dr. Cohn will speak on owitch,- accompanied by his trained almost ruined her health. Dr. Janbody of the Organization, we have and 4 at the Jewish Community Cenfor the youthful senator is extreme- Washington in the next Congress as "The Social Ideal." sen, in the person of Irving Perlchoir. good reason to believe that we are ter. The preparation of such plays meter, tries to cure the girl. He ly popular with politicians, writers senator from Utah if the Bepublican There will be a Children's Service According to estimates, over two and private persons alike. The race ticket is strong enough to oust Wilt on Tom Kippur at noon, conducted thousand persons visited the Beth headed for a year of unprecedented necessarily entails considerable sac- meets with marked success until she rifice of time and efforts. Not only contracts an affliction of the heart for the gubernatorial nomination, liam H. King from his seat in the by Mr. Wm. L. Holzman. The chil- Hamedrosh Hagodel on Bosh Hash- achievement." do the players deserve credit for that means his downfall. The rewas the most exciting in /Wisconsin north wing of the Capitol. dren of the Sunday School will at- onah to hear the services. Cantor Dr. Kaplan, who has gained a and LaFollette's candidate—BepreErnest is not the first Bamber- tend in a body and will be addressed Kahanowitch has aroused much fa- wide reputation as a Jewish edu- what they give to this worthy cause, luctant practitioner's succumbing sentative Bode—was decisively beat- ger to rise to prominence in the Salt by Mr. Holzman. The parents are vorable comment by his beautiful cator, received his training at the but also the director, Mrs. Herman to the pointed barbs of Cupid is en. . Lake State, Simon Bamberger hav- invited to remain for this service. rendition of traditional Hebrew College of the City of New York and Jahr. is deserving of a lion's share largely responsible to the efforts of The Memorial Service will be held melodies. at Columbia University. He gained of the glory that has so far sur- his housekeeper, a kindly sonl who The New Tork Times commented ing been governor and one of the his rabbinical degree from the Jew- rounded the activities of tbe Center is more commonly known as Mareditorially: "It remains a mystery, most notable figures in that province. Tom Kippur afternoon, Monday, Nor is this the present candidate's September 24, at 3:30 o'clock. Those ish Theological Seminary in 1902. Players' Guild. why the party selected as its candi| tha Himmelst'ern. All this proves CORRECTION Dr. Kaplan is noted for his advodate for Governor, Bepresentative first attempt, for he/was Republican desiring the names of loved ones The forthcoming production is be- rather satisfactory to all the charIn the New Tear greeting ad of the cacy of liberal Judaism,' and was ing sponsored by the Omaha Chap- acters mentioned so far. But George Bock, not -well \known in the State, nominee, for the same position six who have passed away during the and tried to force him on an un- years ago, and was beaten by the year to be mentioned at this service Union Pacific Assurance Co., in last the first rabbi to help establish and ter No. 1 of the A. Z. A. Tickets M. Cohen anfl Toby Flax, representwilling party. State Treasurer Le- "Jewish senator," who is really a will kindly hand in their names in week's JEWISH PRESS, the names himself headed the first Jewish cen- for the play are being put on sale j ing the girl's fiance and his mother, of Dave Sherman and L. Frank ter in the United States. Dr. Kap- this week by the members of the lo- respectively, are less satisfied, and vitan, whose department is a model Mormon. There are very few Jews writing to Rabbi Cohn. Members are requested to remain were omitted. They, too, on behalf lan founded the Society for the Ad- cal fraternity. The tickets, which very properly show their indignaof efficiency and economical admin- in Utah—too few to influence the istration and who is widely popular, election either way, but we will wa- for the short Memorial address fol- of the Union Pacific Assurance Co. vancement of Judaism for the pur- are fifty and seventy-five cents, may tion. Much of the comedy Is prowas not acceptable to the oligarchy." ger that King is better known among lowing the Kaddish. Dr. Cohn will 'and the H. A. Wolf Co., wish you a pose of reinterpreting Judaism as a be exchanged at the office of the vided by the bellboy, simulated by (Continued on Page Five) happy and prosperous New Tear. speak on "Sacred Seed." modern Teligious civilization. Jewish Community Center for re- Benny Blatt. Sol Levitan, most popular Jew in
HADASSAH PLANS FOR COMING YEAR ARE FORMULATED
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE ISSUES APPEAL FOR FUNDS
JEWISH NATIONAL FDND PUBLISHES ANNUAL CALENDAR
The Washington Jewish Alirror
CENTER PLAYERS PRODUCTION TO BE GIVEN OCT. 3, 4