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New Year's Edition—THE JEWISH PRESS—Wednesday, September 20, 1933
Mirror of
—The Tragic Year
head of the Palestine Federation of Labor, the Revisionists have tried to introduce "brown-shirt" philosophy in all the lands where they are organized. The emergence of the Revisionists as a powerful force in Zionist life has been synchronous with a change that has come about in the attitude toward Palestine. Formerly the Jewish homeland was the goal of poor men and women who were ready to pour their sweat and blood into the upbuilding of the country. Now, capnation to the wheels of concrete ac- italists and pseudo-capitalists, fearful of the prospects in their present lands tion. ' f Jewish life in America during: 5693 of residence, feel that Palestine should expressed itself through the German be made safe for capital and not an situation. The decline in standardized outpost for experimenting with new Jewish life, which started in 1929, has forms of Jewish social justice. The regone on. Synagogues continue to besults of this conflict between money closed. Rabbis are dismissed. Jewish and labor will determine the future educational institutions suffer from of the Jewish national home. depleted or non-existent funds. ViIn comparison with Germany, Pocious, racketeering arising out of kosh- land has been an ideal country during er food products has reached a point the past year. In the first place, Powhere in many communities the stand- lish statesmen have given their full ing of the entire Jewish population is to efforts to obtain justice for consequences as those •which have Jewish assimilationists tried to fright- confused with the thievery and vil- support Jews in Germany. In the second place, transpired during the past twelve en and outwit Jewish nationalists. lainy surrounding kashruth. Philan- the Polish government has made sinmonths. Germany has demonstrated that the thropy, not so many years ago a mark cere efforts to stamp out organized Eosh Hashanah, in the Jewish tra- Jew is still to prove his right to that of distinction on which Jews prided and hooligan anti-Semitic activities. dition, is the beginning of the period equality which the post-Napoleonic themselves, is virtually a memory, ex- The Rumanian government has made when man asks forgiveness for hisera proclaimed all men entitled to. (A cept for minor gifts (compared to the similar attempts. sins. Jews will be hard put to it this chronological review of the German munificence bestowed by Jews on But the growth of Fascism has been year to understand what enormous Jewish situation appears separately in Jewish and non-Jewish enterprises in sin weighs over their collective conyears gone by). Such great funds as the most distressing development of science that the Supreme Being should this issue.) the Joiiit.Distribution Committee and the year. Reaching even into Canada, have so ruthlessly withheld His mercy In America, as throughout the the ' American Palestine Campaign it has tried to reawaken all the latent world, the events in Germany have which should have been the recipient and moribund forces of Jew-hatred infrom them. " Germany is the keynote to any re- dominated thought and action of the of quick millions during the past year, to a virulent and active moment. The view of the year that has passed. So leadership and the rank and file. The have been plodding along on a routine menace of Hitlerite Fascism has penawesome are the reverberations of crisis should have been the occasion pace, as Jews have preferred to wring etrated England, always the least ferthat word that the sound of tragedy for co-ordination. It merely served to their hands in sympathy instead of tile ground for anti-Semitism, and has in other lands, insistent and loud in illumine the pitiful weakness of thedigging down in their pockets for sup- created a tension that has not existed for years. The problem of how to meet other years, has been muffled* almost American Jewish leadership, the dom- port. the challenge of Fascism—effectively, stilled. For what are economic,handi- inance of personal motives and fricThe most important developments tions. dignifiedly and unhysterically—is the caps in Poland, alleged religious prohibitions in Russia, isolated peasant The past year offered an unparalled in Jewish life, outside of Germany, major problem confronting those conattacks in • Rumania, fanatic royalist opportunity for the emergence of a occurred -in Palestine. Slight evi-. cerned with Jewish life in 5694. sorties in France-—compared to thesingle personality wfcoss breadth of dences of prosperity have been hailed vast funeral pyre that had been erect- vision and keenness of understanding as the sign for an influx of tens of ed in the Reich to set flame to themight have merged all forces. With ionsands of Jews. Palestine has been held out as the hope for a substantial Jewish body and soul ? the exception of Samuel Untermyer, number of t>"e Jews who must leave 1932 there was no American Jew who 1933 in Germany marks the end of Germany. B&if the outlook in PalesOttawa, August 15—Census reveals an epoch in Jewish life. It strikes a seemed to appreciate the enormity of tine has been improving, the condi- Canada has 155,000 Jews. the problem and who had the courage death blow to a century-old illusion. tions withvv the Zionist movement Boston, August 18—Lewis Goldberg Emancipation was a word with which and the intelligence to harness indig- have grown progressively worse. Stimulated b%'''^hrs^gadocio of Vladimir Jaboiinsky, their leader, the Revisionist Zionists have spent the past year attacking the Laborite Zionists. Called "Fascists" by no less devoted a Zionist than David Ben Gurion, the
T&esume of Twelve Months of Disaster ~ In Perspective A. Chronological Calendar of The Highlights Making Jewish History The Jewish world is sick of words. Interpretations a n d commentaries. Events daring the past year nave spoken so clearly that it is sufficient to list them in chronological order to obtain a bird's-eye view of Jewish life in 5693. This review embraces Jewish history during 5693 in its entirety with the exception of the German Jewish situation abroad and here. A separate review covering the developments of the German-Jewish tragedy appears following this article. Mr. Salmark's authoritative and systematic survey in calendar form is a new step in succinct and modern journalism.—THE EDITOR. We are in the midst of history in the ferment and, therefore, barely realize that when our children read their textbooks in Sunday school a generation hence, they will regard the date 5693 (1932-33) with the awe and sense of humiliation with which they, memorize the date 1492. Not in the memory of any living Jew have the events within the Jewish world been so tragic in their implications, so overwhelming in their
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Paris, September 2—French foreign office announces there is no need to fear anti-Semitic propaganda in Syria. Bucharest, September 2—Alexander Vaida Voivod, new Roumanian preTwo nativist anti-Semitic organ- mier, cables League to combat antiizations, the Silver Shirts and the Semitism, that he will treat Jewish Khaki Shirts, sprang into being in minority with all solicitude f*nd will the United States during the last endeavor to check anti-Semitic stuyear to give Jewry here a slight dent movement. taste of Fascism. Antwerp, September 6—Jewish merThus far neither group has made chants hard hit by anti-Semitic boymuch of an impression, but the cott. programs of both are similar in apSept. 7 —Numerous clausus peal to that of the Ku Klux Klan in Rips, University of Latvia medical school of unlamented memory, although the Silver Shirts do not agitate results in matriculation of only one Jewish student. against Catholics. Vienna, September 7 — Revisionist Congress instructs Revisionists to appointed to Massachusetts Supreme abide by Revisionist Union discipline instead of that of World Zionist OrCourt. London, August 19—Board of Gov- ganization and frees Revisionists ernors of Hebrew University votes to from rulings of Zionist Actions Comestablish school of agriculture under mittee. supervision of Dr. Chaim Weizmann. Bucharest, September 8—Ministry Geneva, August 19 — Delegates of of Education modifies ruling that World Jewish Conference agree to call would have required all Jewish offiWorld Jewish Congress in 1934. cials to have secondary school educaBuenos Aires, August 22—Minister tion. of Interior orders police protection for Denver, Colo., September 8—Find Jewish quarters to suppress roving body of Boris Schatz, famous Jewish bands of anti-Semites. artist, still awaiting burial five months Berlin, August 25—Professor Ein- after death for lack of funds. stein accepts life appointment to staff Saloniki, September 8—Government of Institute of Advanced Study at abolishes separate electoral colleges Princeton, N. J. for all but Jews who are thus barred Bucharest, August 26—Deputy Mi- from voting for general candidates chael Landau, Jewish member of the but must ballot for slate of their own. Roumanian parliament, calls on gov- Jerusalem, September 9 — Rabbinternment to abolish Bessarabian re- cal Court of Appeals receives request gime responsible for torture of Jews. from Jewish leaders of Yemenite Jerusalem, August 30—High Com- Community for right of Yemenite missioner Wauchope agrees to demand Jews to practice polygamy. of Jewish Agency to re-examine govSeptember 9—Arab attacks ernment's budget for Jewish school onTunis, Jews spreading over country with system with a view to increasing it. many Jews seriously injured. Moscow, August 30—Samuel LamNew York, September 11—Zionist port, New York philanthropist, says Organization of America to defray Jews in Soviet Russia feel safer than cost of shipping Boris Schatz's body Jews in any country of Central Eur- to Palestine. ope. Harbin, September 13—Chinese banAlbany, September 1 — Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt urges Jews to dits extort money from Jews by turn to fanning as a means of stabil(Continued on Page Z *) izing their condition.
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