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Honors for Plays STRONG of Mrs. Romonek IN PALES RIOTS CONMlE
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1933
VOL. IX—No. 40
Goebbels Firm in Anti-Jewish Stand
Berlin, (J.T.A.)—The German govWord; has been received that two ernment does not intend to proceed plays by Mrs. Philip Romonek will with any further anti-Jewish action, be entered in the "Jew in English but also has no intention of retreatDrama," an ambitious opus by Eding from what has been done, Paul Army of Workers Comb City to Moslems Create Disturbances as ward D. Coleman, librarian of the Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Raise Total of American Jewish Historical Society Protest Against Jewish Propaganda and Public Enlightenof New York City. The book is to $603,136 ment, declared in addressing an elecImmigration be a companion volume to Mr. Coletion meeting in Dresden. By John J. Smertenko man's, "The Bible in English Dra"As far as the Jewish problem is Omaha's army of workers, of all Jerusalem.—The situation in Pales- ma," which has been published by the (Reprinted From Harpers Magazine) concerned, we have solved what was nationalities and creeds, are combing fine continues to remain tense, ac- New York Public Library. "America has no right to criticize Jews have great difficulty in gaining its own logic It included the Cath- necessary and now we have laid the the city in a determined onslaught cording to latest dispatches from the Also, Temple Israel of Boston, us," Hitler declared to a group of admission to the institutions of high- olics and the Negroes as well as the problem aside," the Nazi pro- to raise $603,136 for the Community area in -which Arab rioting has oc- Mass., chose for the opening of its Berlin correspondents when the chor- er learning. and. that their opportu- Jews in its list of enemies to Nordic entire Chest to finance the welfare and repaganda minister declared. curred. lief needs of this city for the com"Little Theatre" season the produc- us of American disapproval of the nities for legal and medical training supremacy, and it found itself so Goebbels attacked the Jewish reEeinforced detachments of police tion of Mrs. Romonek's play, "Pass- atrocities perpetrated by the Nazi are limited to a miniaum. It fc thoroughly involved in a mass of who fled from Germany, say- ing year. and British troops were stationed in port." The play which won second government was made known to him. equally well known that the profes- contradictions and cross-purposes that fugees ing that they are giving a false The campaigners are well on the strategic points throughout the Holy prize in an international contest, "She is just like Germany. In her sions of banking, engineering, and it lost power and direction. More- picture road to success. By Thursday noon's of German events abroad. Land ready to cope with any dis- 'Love Cannot Make the Dead Dance," immigration laws, in her social re- teaching are closed to all but a few, over, the nonsensical mumbo-jumbo luncheon, a total of §236,205.01 had The German election on November turbances. was produced by this group last strictions and economic discrimina- and that the quasi-public-service cor- of its regalia and nomenclature and 12, a direct consequence of Germany's been reported in, forty per cont of the • Spasmodic attacks on the authori- season. tion she, too, persecutes the Jews." porations rigorously exclude them. In the cupidity of its leaders served to withdrawal from the League of Na- goal sought. The report luncheons ties by Arab mobs continued. Later, in a private interview with the mechanical trades the discrimina- make it ridiculous. Yet neither its tions has been called to place the show a spirited enthusiasm on the part of the workers. The rioting started on October 27. James G. McDonald, president of the tion is almost as widespread as in absurdity nor its viciousness but the German nation behind the Nazis, Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, High American Foreign Policy Association, the professions, and in «erical work, period of prosperity which came on Henry Monsky, past president of Commissioner of Palestine, nad warnthe Chancellor elaborated on this generally speaking-, it is^orst of all. the heels of that depression was rethe Community Chest and a member ed the Arabs not to march in a constatement. "What we are doing to According to the records compiled sponsible for its passing from the of the board of directors, a veteran templated demonstration against the the Jews," he informed Mr. McDon- from twenty-seven thousand cases by American scene. Good times need no campaigner for philanthropic causes, . immigration of Jews into Palestine. ald as the atrocity - records piled a Christian placement specialist, nine- scapegoat and high spirits leave no The chief .executive replied to. the re-r high in all the foreign embassies, "is ty out of each hundred Jewish appli- room for vague antipathies. cital of Arab grievances, pointing just what you would like to do in the cants to the employment agencies Ill out that legal immigration into PalUnited States. You ought to be are disqualified, by their Jewishnes." Today, however, we are undergoestine was regulated by the absorpTwo days, with a full program of grateful to us for showing you the without regard to their either qualifi- ing the worst economic crisis in the tive capacities of the country . cations. The' entire situation may be history of the United States. To parentertainment, has been arranged for way." However, the Arab Executive re- the Biennial Conference of- the NaThe twelfth annual Father and This insolent comparison is not summed up in the fact that during aphrase Voltaire, if there were no fused to heed the warnings of the tional Federation of Temple' Sister- merely another instance, of that char- this period of depression the Jew has Jews, it would be necessary to create Son Banquet will be held in the High Commissioner and deliberately hoods, to be held in Omaha, Novem- acteristic insensitivity to the mind been reduced to the status of a mar- them . in order to have a scapegoat j auditorium of the Jewish Community spread the rumor that the governand temper of another people which ginal worker even in the' ranks of for the desire of the masses to vent Center, Sunday, November 12, at 6 ment had partially allowed the dem- ber 14 and 15. Germany's war-time unskilled labor. an impotent rage against bad times. p.m. An overflow crowd is expected. Besides informal gatherings to be distinguished onstration. diplomacy. It is a tactless blunder And yet, however tragic the situa- And there are organizations already The number of reservations has arranged, a luncheon will be held at - In Jaffa last Thursday ten Arabs due to misinformation rather than may be for. the Jew, it proves seeking to exploit the situation and been definitely limited in order to and one native policeman were killed 1 pan. Tuesday in the Vestry Rooms misunderstanding, misinformation tion on analysis to be a normal develop- to found a new anti-Semitic move- insure the maximum enjoyment and of the Temple Israel. and hundreds were injured when ten which for two years the Nazi agita- ment in our economic and industrial ment. comfort to those attending the ban[ The" invocation will be given n; thousand followers of: the Palestine tors in the United States have been life. It is but the first blind and quet. Of these organizations, the IndusArab Executive disobeyed police or- Mrs. Frederick Cohn. Greeting talks sending back to their chief and which cruel reaction to a changed United There are no individual invitations ders to disperse. The Riot Act was will be made by Mrs. Carl Furth, the Nazi press has triumphantly - re- States, and it is less significant in trial Defense Association," Inc., and being sent for the event but Dr. the Khaki Shirts of America are the read to the demonstrators, "but in- President of the Temple Israel Sis- ported to the German people. For, what it. means to the Jew than in least potent and significant. The first, Sher, chairman of the Father and stead of disbanding they closed with terhood, by Mrs. Harry Kulakofsky, according to H i t l e r ' s American what it means to America. For priGentile assiciation," whose i Son Banquet Committee of the Sothe police, brandishing clubs and President of the Conservative Syna- agents, we are only a step or two marily it signalizes the end of an a-i "strictly t __ .i . «_ T-* I j i cial ^»i*il Service Q n r T i p o Committee f"!nTYirm+"fl-fio of rtf the t-TiP> Jewish TpTl'ic;Tl headquarters are in Boston, operates gogue Auxiliary and Mrs. L. Ncvdaggers, hurling stones and firing behind Germany in the march to- epoch. Our tremendous resources are Community Center and "Welfare Fedin the textile towns of New England. eleff, President of the Vaad Aux ward a disfranchised and dispossess- now all apportioned and approprioccasional revolver shots. eration, invites all who wish to atThe Khaki Shirts is a fascist organiliary. ." The response' will be made ed Jewry. Emphasizing their own ef- ated. Our vast country is settled The rioting continued for half an tend this community event to make hour, after which the wounded, both by Mrs. Meyer Shane of Kansas forts and achievements in this direc- from coast to coast. Our western ization modelled more closely on Ital- their reservations early in order to ian than on German lines. HENRY MONSKY City, Missouri. tion — their pay-checks still come Arab-and Jewish, were treated at the frontier, where the less ahle ones disappointment. who delivered the inspirational adAt 4:30 p.m. on the opening day from tha Fatherland—these agents could escape the hand^aps of their Founded less than a year ago by avoid Hadassah hospital. Mrs. L. Neveleff, president of the Following the outbreak in Jaffa a personally conducted tour by Pro- cite every manifestation of anti-Jew- incompetence, is no more. Our indus- William Dudley Pelley, the Silver Jewish Women's Welfare Organiza- dress at the "early bird" breakfast of the Community Chest drive. Shirts is now the most important narioting broke out in various parts of fessor Grummann will be the pleas- ish prejudice in this country as proof trial system throws the descendants has appointed a telephone comure of the visitors at the Joslyn positive that an anti-Semitic move- of old stock into direct competition: tive anti-Semitic organization in the tion Palestine. ment, comparable in character and with the immigrants and the children United States. Its headquarters are mittee to call those who made res- delivered the inspirational address at Thp feeling of tension covered a Memorial. in previous years. The the "early bird" breakfast Monday Tuesday evening the official ban- purpose with the Nazi persecutions, of immigrants who were once called in Asheville, N. C, but in May it ervations wide area, "from the .^iprt cities of committee is composed of Mrs. J. M. morning, launching the campaign. reported organizers and solicitors in is actually in.-progress here. Jaffa and Haifa to Safed, in Galilee, quet of the convention will be held in to help conquer "the land. As Malashock, chairman, Mesdames H. He was the only speaker at the California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mary.„ .to, the.. north,_ and Hebron: and Jeru- in the ballroom wof^ the Blackstone Americans grew consd^?,.-of this sitA. Newman, Harry Malashock, Harry breakfast and thrilled his listeners there. Is at ^present any such land, Maine,. Utah, and Nebraska, as salem to the souttC" HbteL "The toastmaster "wilfTjer Afee* general anti - Semitic movement in uation they became alarmed for the Silverman and Jay "Wright. well as in the South. It claims a with his dynamic address. Jewish residents left their homes Goldstein, President of Temple Is-' is, of course, definitely un- future, and they struck out at the membership of fifty thousand. The It will aid the committee greatly "We are at war with the dein many parts of Palestine to seek raeL Following is the banquet pro- America most, obvious object of the many true. There is widespread anti-Jewish men work on a percentage basis: a if reservations are made immediatepression, Mr. Monsky declared, refuge in places deemed more secure. gram: ...... things which seemed to menace their but it must be rememberPhone or mail your reservations "and in this war the depression The Arabs spread false rumors Invocation, Mrs. J. Ogle, Lincoln, prejudice; existence. Against the Jew there was fifty-fifty split of the ten dollars re- ly. ed that there is an important differto Dr. Philip Sher, Jewish Comceived as original membership fee has taken a heavier toll than the concerning the attacks, and as a re- Nebraska; Welcome, Rabbi Frederick ence between anti-Jewish prejudice the smoldering antagonism of many and a twenty-five per cent commis- munity Center, or give them to the rrorld vrar over <3id—}VhsyclioIog« sult the discontent was spread to .Cohn; Response, Mrs. Bernard Littanti-Semitism. The first is a centuries and of many psychic causes. sion on all moneys extracted in the telephone committee "when you are ically, morally, physically. Transjordania and S y r i a . British inan, St Louis, Missouri; Address, and state of mind or an emotional cur- He thus became the victim of a sort form of dues, lessons, books, and called. troops were mobilized at Cairo, ready Henry Monsky. Mr. Monsky will rent "In this battle we have a 8aof reflex action and the discriminathat finds expression as occato proceed to the trouble areas at a discuss "The Jewish Woman in Com- sion arises. cred responsibility — we cannot tion against him was the issue of general contributions in response to j J. J. Greenberg, president of the the unceasing appeals for aid in Conservative Synagogue, will speak moment's notice. fail! If we do not get the most munal Life." Vocal Solo, Mrs. Moe Two thousand years and a thou- condition out of prejudice rather than spreading the gospel of hate. on behalf of the fathers, and Irvia that can possibly ba contributed, the creation of organized anti-SemThe early demonstrations, though Ettenson. sand things—from a personal grievthe means of collecting money are Sherman will respond for the sons, we are doing: an injustice to ourdirected against Jewish immigration One of the features of the Tues- ance to the story of Calvary—have itism. War Chest, the League for the Abnsr Kaiman will again lead the selves and to the families in into Palestine, were not against the day program will be* a symposium to gone into its making. Psychic needs But in the event that the present the Liberation, the Foundation for Chris- community singing. Rabbi Frederick need—whom we represent. Jews but against the British author- be presented at 2:30 p.m., in the and social maladjustments, fear and depression reaches that acute stagn tian the Galahad Exten- Cohn will give the invocation, Rabbi ities governing Palestine under the Temple Israel Auditorium. Follow- ignorance and desire have given it when a scapegoat becomes both a sion Economics, "It is shameful to call this a Fellowship, and the Galahad Nathan Feldman will deliver the League of Nations mandate. charity drive. What we are doing is the program: life. Our savage past still nourishes political and a psychological necessi- Press, which sells preferred stock at ing is merely justice to our felNot all the Arabs were in sym- Welcome talk by Rabbi Frederick it; our competitive civilization main- ty we may anticipate more than a ten dollars a share "bearing a six benediction. Rabbi Uri Miller will pathy with the rioting. In fact, most Cohn; "The Jewish Woman of Yes- tains it in full vigor. But it is not subconscious reaction. There will be a per cent cumulative interest" that is serve as toastmaster and Rabbi Da- low citizens." Mr. Monsky pointed out that the of the older Arabs not only refrained terday," by Rabbi David Goldstein; anti-Semitism any more than electri- movement which will serve as the being: allowed to accumulate; Thus vid Wice will deliver the main address for the evening. Community Chest campaign brought from participation but even sent mes- "The Jewish Woman of Today," by city is the electric chair. outlet for all of the irritation and prejudice can be made expensive by Mr. Jay Malashock, chairman of all the peoples of the city together. sengers to the various parts of the Rabbi Uri N. Miller; "The Jewish hatred developed by the economic proper manipulation. the entertainment committee for ths 'This one great annual effort," he country telling the Moslems not to •Woman of- Tomorrow," by Rabbi For anti - Semitism is a political crisis. It it Hitler's belief that this movement, as artificial as prejudice .some to Jerusalem and not to create David Wice. Mr. Pelley is a former newspaper banquet, promises some novelties stated, "is a time when we forget is instinctive, as deliberate as the movement in the United States, as in man, a former Y. M. C. A. secretary, which have never before been part creeds and races and unite in taking any disturbances. An organ prelude will be given by other s spontaneous. In its general Germany, will be anti-Semitic. And a Father and Son Banquet pro- care of the less fortunate. To me Mrs. Joseph Rosenfield and music aspect it is the oldest political strat- his emissaries, along with native a former scenario writer in Holly- of gram, and other worthwhile enter- this is a spiritual revival of the enwood, and a former spiritualist. He agem known to mankind, the expedi- American agitators* subsidized by tire community." tainment will be provided. of Central High with Mrs. Carol M. ent of establishing a popular scape- Nazi funds, are now striving with all founded Liberation as a "monthly The price for the banquet is the The depression of the past year, magazine of prophecy and inspiration their might to convert the longPitts, directing. goat for mass discontent. In its presSources Behind or Above Mor- same as that of last year, sixty-five Mr. Monsky pointed out, is a psyThe public is cordially invited to ent German phase it is more than standing anti-Jewish prejudice into from i tality" and soon thereafter organized cents per plate. | chological aid to the workers, since attend the symposium and program. that simply because it has got be- such an anti-Semitic movement. the various foundations, leagues, anJ The following reservation blank |I-manv have recently learned what it There is no charge of admission. yond Hitler's control. He, too, reinstitutes to serve as profitable sub- may be filled out and mailed in: n means to sacrifice something. The Wednesday entertainment will garded anti-Semitism only as the sidiaries to the publishing business. Dr. Philip Sher, chairman The number of families on relief America has known two previous start with a luncheon to be held at means to an end; he merely intended Pelley was in great danger of be- Father and Son Banquet Committee. rolls in 1P29 was 800 to 1,100, he attempts to establish anti-Semitism 1 p.m. at the Jewish Comunity Cen- to focus and exploit the hatred in said, which was regarded as normal. a political movement. It is impos- coming a "former" editor and pub- Jewish Community Center. ter. Invocation will be given by Mrs. order to gain" popularity. It is com- as lisher when he held a conference with Please reserve . . . . plates at the 12th In 1030 the number was 1,324; in sible to judge how much stimulus to A lecture on "The Psychology of Sam Abramson of Des Moines. Mrs. mon knowledge in Germany that af- hate was furnished by the first and a Nazi official. Immediately there- Annual Father and Son Banquet to 19G1. it was 1.SS4: in 1932. 4.144, Anti-Semitism" by Dr. Edward N. Eugene Mannheimer of Des Moines ter the "revolution" he was prepared greatest of these campaigns, con- after he announced that the "Great be held at the Jewish Community and in 1933, 6.200. Last winter's Schoolman of Chicago on Sunday will discuss "The Jewish Woman and to declare that the agitation had ducted by Henry Ford's paper, the Pyramid Prophecy" referred to HitCenter, November 12, 1933. peak relief load was 7.112 families. evening, November 26, will open the Her Obligations." served its purpose and could be elim- Dearborn Independent; yet there can ler and the Jews, and that the call EnclosedSunday, He also pointed out that when the please find ? for Jewish lecture series sponsored by Other informal gatherings to be inated from the political program- be no doubt that hundreds of thou- •was upon him to join Hitler in the Chest took over the joint emergency plates at 65c per plate. the Junior Vaad groups. The lecture held will be announced at a later but that the "hate-trust"—Goering sands of American men and women work of liberation of the world from relief investigation many families "will be held in the B'nai Israel syn- date. and Frick. Rosenberg and Goebbels— still -cling tenaciously to the beliefs Jewish rule. Along with the proph- Name not eligible to relief were removed Address ~ agogue. Committee on arrangements is pounded the council table and threat- then inculcated. Neither the retrac- ecy Pelley is said to have received a from the rolls, saving S7.980 at a Dr. Schoolman has been a prac- composed of Mrs. Harry Wolf, Mrs. ened an inner revolt of the Nazis if tion and apology nor the proof that sufficient sum of money from an un- Tel. No cost for investigation of $240. ticing psychiatrist for many years Charles Schimmel, Mrs. Mollie Cohen, the slogan, "Perish the Jew," were "The' Protocols of the Wise Men of known source to forestall bankruptey Mr. Monsky declared that the fednot carried out in concrete measures. Zion" on which the calumnies were proceedings and an investigation into Annual Talmud Tor ah , eral and is a deep student of psychology. and Mrs. Abe Goldstein. aid would only be forthcoming He is a fellow of the American Med- Headquarters of the convention Hitler was forced to convert the based were the fantastic forgeries of the interest-bearing stock which had Meeting on Tuesday j provided tire city* raises its fun ical Association and has lectured be- will be at the Blackstone Hotel. shibboleths and catch-words of poli- of Russian agent-provocateur, Sergei paid no interest. fore leading American •universities | share. tical propaganda into discriminatory: Niius, have dispelled the titillating He also praised the wo-rk of the and noted scientific assemblies. legislation. And thus he has illus-: delusion that somewhere a Great Although the identity of this fi- The annual meeting of the City character building1 agencies helped nancial backer has been disclosed by Talmud Torah will be held Tuesday, trated clearly the" difference between Conspiracy for the conquest of the Dr. Philip Seman, director of the by the Chest. <;You cannot feed the the general prejudice, whose effects world is being hatched hy the hodge- Pelley only by implication, there is November 7, at 8:30 p.m., at the body and starve the soul. RehabiliJewish Peoples Institute of Chicago, are diffuse, unorganized, and per- podge Sanhedrin of fabulously weal- no secret at all about the source of Jewish Comunity Center auditorium. tation is as necessary as food, and in commenting on Dr. Schoolman, sonal, and the machiavellian move- thy financiers and blood - dripping his propaganda material and the Seven members to the Talmud Torah we must keep up our morale at all states: "Dr. Schoolman is the finment with its concrete, co-ordinated radicals which mysteriously rules the model of his organization. The en- board are to be elected at this meet- costs. We must think in terms of est public forum speaker in my extire Nazi campaign of vilification is ing. perience. Not only -does he speak Mrs. Jewish people. It would be a mistake Anne Blotcky Fischer, 32, and statutory results. reproduced in this country Reports will be submitted by the spiritual and moral values of » with knowledge and good sense but passed away Tuesday afternoon fol- , In the United States prejudice to assume that this nonsense is be- being with the changes necessary to make Rabbi David A. Goldstein, chairman whole "neople. against the Jew has been markedly lieved only by the hill-billies of the with the gift that can make a sub- lowing a four-month illness. "We must bring the message it applicable the United States. of the education committee; Rabbi ject matter clear and his illustra- She is survived by her husband, noticeable for twenty-five years. At hinterland. Only recently iit was Indeed, such to of our war on depression to the is the ignorance and tions helpful in their aptness. I Sidney Fischer; her - mother, Mrs. first the manifestations of it were so voiced in the halls of Congress by stupidity of his readers that Pelley Uri Miller, chairman of the enroll- people. We must contribute not ment committee; Dr. Philip Sher, recommend him most highly." Bessie B. Blotcky; a daughter, Ar- trivial, that it seemed absurd to take Representative McFadden of Penn- does not trouble to omit or alter the least we can get by with, but president of the Talmud The series will probably be com- lene Joyce, 6; two sisters, Mrs. H. them seriously. That some exclusion sylvania, who accused both President those statements which favor Ger- honorary the most we can sacrifice." Torah and chairman of the Book of was practiced against the Jew seemHoover and ..President Roosevelt of many wherever her interests conflict pleted within the next week. Along Goldstein of Omaha and Mrs.* Aaron Exhibition. committee; Philip Klutznick, the projected lectures are "The Poe- Bergeda of- Nashville; six brothers, ed a ridiculous and un-American bit being the purchased tools of this con- with those of America; and the atti- life Prior to Monday's opening of the chairman of the finance committee: try of the Bible," by Dr. Julius Sie- Ben B. Blotcky of Minneapolis. and of snobbery more derogatory to the spiracy.. drive, an exhibition was held in the tude toward England and France, Aaron Katz, principal of the Talmud gal, and "Jewish Music," by Dr. Louis, Philip, Max, Fischer and Paul, institutions which indulged in it than Under the stimulus of the Dear- war debts and reparations is alto- Torah. The meeting will be pre- city auditorium at which each Comto the Jews, But gradually the blot born Independent's campaign and the Singer, director of the Northwest- all of Omaha. "Chest agency had a booth. of discrimination spread into an" depression, a n t i - Semitism entered gether German. Finally, encouraged sided over by M. M. Barish, presi- munity ern HQlel Foundation. Mrs. Fischer was a member of ever-widening One of the most popular and Inby the success of Hitler, Pelley and dent of the Talmud Torah. stain of ostracism — teresting booths was the one of the There will be at least five lectures many Jewish organizations. A grad- from Society to the school, from American politics through the me- his confederates have enlarged the All contributors to the Jewish Jewish Community Center and Welon this series- Tickets are one dol- uate of Ward-Belmont Girls* school at schools to offices, to shops and fac- dium of the ELu Klux Klan. From the objectives of their movement to an lar and a half and may be procured Nashville, Tenn., she was active in the tories. And there followed, as a mat- South this movement spread with ambitious program for gaining po- Philanthropies are urged to attend. fare Federation. The J. C. C. and Welfare Federation is a constituent from members of the Junior Vaad Ward-Belmont, Alumnae association. ter of course, exclusion from com- amazing rapidity over the land, dom- litical power. "The Silver Shirts will New York.—Dr. Nathan Kxass has agency cf the Chest, and the J. C. C organizations or at the office of the Burial was in "Beth Hamedrosh cem- mon privileges and communal enter- inating entires states and measurably •play an important part in American resigned as senior rabbi of Temple B'nai Israel synagogue, 18th and etery Thursday. Rabbi Miller offici- prises. . Today it is no secret that affecting the life-of the whole counEmanu-El on account of. Illness. _. try. But the Klan ; was a yictim of (Continued on Page 7.) Chicago. Continued on Page 2 ated. t
FULL PROGRAM FOR CONCLAVE OF SISTERHOOD
DR. SCHOOLMAN TO OPEN JEWISH LECTURE SERIES
Mrs. Anne Fischer Died Last Tuesday
FATHER AND SON BANQUET IS TO BE OUTSTANDING