July 13, 1934

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In the Interests of the Jewish People

Entered ag Second Cln l'ostofflce ot Omaha, Ne

Dedicated to the Ideals of Judaism

tter on Janunry 21, 1921, ut under the Act of March 3, 1S79

NAMEROTHENB

OMAHA, NEBRASKA,

, JULY 13, 1934

A Renaissance in Yiddish MONSKY GIVEN Soviet Culture —Bleicher * AT CONVENTION

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Vol. X—No. 24

Local Memorial Meetini For Chaim Bialik Sunday

"A renaissance of the Yiddish lan- ulation is dense," Bleicher states, guage and Yiddish culture is being 'signs are printed in Yiddish at the He and Beber Elected Delegates fostered in Soviet Russia," was the stations to direct the people. to International Conclave; observation made by David Bleicher, "I found that the Jewishness of Greenberg Also Honored who Twith his wife, Rachel Bleicher, an individual in no way affects his has just returned from a six-weeks status in the industrial, economic or The Omaha delegation to the sixtyAtlantic City, (WNS).—Complete visit in Russia and a two-week stay social life of the country." Many of sixth annual eoniention of the-Dis. satisfaction at the re-election of in England. his relatives held high official posts. trict Grand Lodge of the B'nai Brith The first annual track and field Morris Rothenberg and his entire "Anti-Semitism," he found, "has He told of a novel experience in held in Grand' "Rapids last week play- meet, under the direction of the Jewadministration, approval of his pro-been practically eliminated in the the penal system. He visited a Jew- ed a prominent part in the delibera- ish Community Center physical degrom for enlarging Zionist activi- present Russia. I t is considered ish court in Kiev, in which the offi- tions of the conclave. partment, will be held August 5. ties and of Louis Iipsky's proposal counter-revolutionary, and in the few cial language was Yiddish. In con- Henry Monsfcy^ Ewho is a member This classic will be open t both A community-wide memorial meet- don. At this time he wrote his first for convening an emergency confer- instances' where anti-Jewish incidents versing with the judge, he learned of the executive 'eoinmittee of the members and non-members the ing by the Jewry of Omaha in mem- poem, "To the Spring Bird." In 1905^ ence in the fall to persuade, Eng- occur "the anti-Semites are severely that the defendant has the choice of international oroer, received the Center. punished." " . '-'[' courts. In other words, if a Ukranian highest number if votes for deleA team prize will be given to the ory of Chaim Nachman Bialik, the in- when he had already gained considHebrew poet erable note as a poet in Hebrew liter* In regard to Biro Bidjan, which accuses a Jew, - the- accused has a gates to represent the district at the organization scoring the most points ternationally-famed laureate who died in Vienna last ary circles, he settled in Odessa, the Soviet government has recently right to have ths hearing in a court convention^ of the Constitutional in the competition. proclaimed as an autonomous Jewish where he can best express himself — Grand Lodge which will be held" in The athletic managers of the var- week, will be held at the Jewish Com- where he helped to establish the Morrepublic, Bleicher found opinion some- in this instance, in the Jewish court. Washington, D. <£, in April 1935. ious groups are asked to communi- munity Center nest Sunday evening, iah publishing house, an important July 15, at 8 p. m. factor in the Hebrew renaissance. Ho what divided. The Jewish youth fa- The Ukranian, then, wpuld have to Sam Beber "iny also elected ah of- cate with Lee Grossman, physical diDetails for the memorial meeting also contributed to Achad Ha'am's vor the project, especially since the hire an attorney who could speak ficial delegate,~Teceiving one of the rector, for information regarding were arranged Monday at a well-at- j famous Hashiloach. government offers such inducements Yiddish and a Ukranian for transla- highest number: of votes cast. There team events. tended preliminary meeting, to -which j Bialik became an international Jewfor the settlers in Biro Bidjan, but, tion purposes. Irrin C. Levin is chairman of the was a field of B^teteeh nominees. representatives from all the Jewish i ish figure -with the publication of hia on the other hand, ihe older folks In discussing the Yiddish renaisDr. A. Greenberg was re-elected a Center athletic committee, which is organizations in the city were invited, j historic "In the City of Slaughter," are not eager to tackle the many sance, Bleicher found that vast re- member of the general committee. sponsoring the event At Sunday evening's meeting Judah an impassioned poetic storj of the difficulties coincident with settlement search is being made into the Yiddish The local delegation included Mon"Wolfson and L Morgenstern will Kishinev pogrom of 1903. In that there and are. unable to withstand language and Yiddish culture. In the iky, Beber, Greenberg, Max Barish, speak in Yiddish, and Ben Kazlowsky epic work he castigated the Jew's for the -vicissitudes of pioneering life re- new republic of Biro Bidjan, it is ex- Philip Klutznick, and Irvin Stalmaswill eulogize Biallk in English. Elihu their submission and inspired them to quired in Biro Bidjan. pected, Yiddish culture will be foster- ter. ; ? • Bloch will preside as chairman. self-defense and to a renewed and Despite the prevalent belief here ed and developed in every way posDistrict No. 6 will participate in El Maleh Rachamin will be chant- J intensified yearning for the establishthat religion is strictly prohibited in sible. the world-wide B'cai Brith membered by Cantor E. Sellz. jment of the Jewish homeland in Palthe Soviet, Bleicher noted that no . "Jewish speculators in Russia," ship campaign, to be held this fall in One of the speakers, Judah Wolf-I estine. ban was placed on attendance at the Bleicher explained, "are, of course, honor of the seventy-fifth birthday Bialik's writings were a major fac« son, was well acquainted with Bialik synagogues and churches. He per- summarily dealt with. The govern- of Dr. Alfred Ml Coheri,~ president New York, (WNS).—A national and is considered an authority on tor in the Hebrew revival. In 1921 sonally saw the synagogue in Lenin- ment is pursuing a policy of liqui- of the B'nai Brith. mobilization committee of Jewish he left Russia for Germany and three works. grad attended by many for services. dating speculators,' and those caught, Arthur " Brin of Minneapolis was communal leaders has been appointed ijBialik's preliminary meeting Monday years later settled permanently in. A t tise and' declares that while he was in Jewish and others, are punished elected president of the District. to make plans for a Jewish welfare L M o r g e n s t e m presided. He was as- Palestine. There he reorganized the Russia on Easter Sunday, all the equally." The convention was atteuded by mobilization which will sponsor joint sisted in calling the meeting - -by a Dvir Publishing House. An unyieldchurches were full.- However, it is In speaking of general conditions, delegates from' four Canadian pro- fund-raising appeals for national, in- committee including H. Levinson, Morris Rothenberg. S. ing Jewish nationalist, Bialik became the older people who attend the syna- Bleicher pointed out that Russia has vinces, North and South Dakota, Neb- ternational and regional Jewish rethe spiritual leader of the Hebraists. Morris Friedel and John Feldgogues and churches, and. the youth not yet even closely approached t i e raska, Wisconsin, ffinois, Iowa, Mich- lief and welfare agencies, it was anMost of his poetry was written before land to open, wider the gates of man. stay • away. In the meantime, the American standard of living. But igan and Minnesota. nounced here by William J. Shroder, the war, for he felt that the terrors Palestine to Jewish immigration were Mourn Death chairman of the National Council expressed by the delegates to the Soviet government continues its Con- the Russians he spoke to stated that Not since the death of the immor- of that conflict had made a poet an. this year conditions are much imof Jewish Federations and Welfare tal Dr. Theodor Herzl thirty years anomaly in the modern world. In 37th annual convention- of the Zion- stant anti-religion propaganda. "In sections where the Jewish pop- proved over the past — the country funds. ist Organization of America. Shortly ago has the Jewish world mourned 1926 he visited the United States and being industrially and economically The mobilization plan envisages a the loss of one of its notable figures •was received by President Coolidge before adjournment. the convention more stabilized. There is no such Berlin, (JTA).-^A line of demar- program for organizing local com- as it is now lamenting the sudden and given honorary degrees by the adopted a resolution to'permit group thing as unemployment. Je-vrish Institute of Religion and Jewmembership and to reorganize Zionmunities in a united effort in behalf and untimely death of Bialik. cation between "Aryans" and ist regional units. Prices are much lower than a year Aryans' in the matter of their names of the more than 100 appeals made Bialik had made his home in Pal- ish Theological Seminary. or two ago, and there is more buy- was decreed in antorder of the Pras- annually for welfare, relief, educa- estine for the past ten years, but the Much discussion centered on a tional and cultural agencies. A plan heart attack -which caused his death ing. A prime difficulty at the mo-sian Minister of the Interior. resolution .;. to reaffirm the soverment is the severe drouth which af- The decree prohibits in principle has been developed to organize lo- occurred in Vienna. The body is beeignty of."'$}l% ZjoQist. congress., and fecied many sections, making food the changing of names by Jews to cal communities for these appeals ing transferred to Palestine for percondemning 'any party or 'faction •witjjin-: the Zionist /movements tfiat a pressing problem; To meet this, "Ayran-sonnding" | appellations. It through co-operation : between the manent burial. contravened th6rautiy>rity of the conthe government raised the lower cat- provides that Jews} wishing to change agencies and the communities. Memorial meetings are being orgress. -This Tesbhit|pn '• waS. adopted egory of wages. "obscene-sounding names may do so The plan-will result in ^reat eco- ganized throughout the world. In Special Bulletin efficiency with- Palestine all Jewish institutions were \ LDespite the dictatorship, BMchejr only if they; a d s t another Jewish noniies and increased A.bulletin has been, received that c e £ h came. ••• 1 * ' • • ' •• • ' • ! — : << 3 BPOR news oS. Bialik's death. contrary to -earlier reports that no noted that the -newspapeis freely criout sr*frfl fneL ^ «atonomy, vo£ the «Iosed Black, flags were flying everywhere ish NationarH5m& in Palestine. The Jews were hurt in the "Nazi' "second ticize the carrying out of government agencies. Members of the committee Seek Amends for convention instructed the incoming revolution" in Germany, the Jewish plans, and many Yiddish jokes are sessirrg: Jewish^ssrandtog-^Sutmes* are were appointed as individuals and in the Jewish homeland. ter of Thousands Prom Thousands of Jewish school chilentitled to ^Aryanize" them. -_.-'• [ Administration to take steps to en- Telegraphic Agency has definitely told about Stalin and Kalinin. not on behalf of -organizations. Thrace dren mourned the death of Bialik, able Russian Jewry l o carry on established that at least. nine Jews who was their great hero. Zionist activities. Other resolutions were slain, five while in the custody Istanbul, (WNS).—Moving to According to plans being formulatendorsed the ' boycott of German of police or S. S. detachments, during make speedy and effective amends ed, the poet will be buried near the foods, urged the opening up of the disorders. grave of Achad Haam, noted Hebrew to the thousands of Jews who were Transjordania to Jewish settlement, thinker, who was buried in Tel Aviv. forcibly removed from their homes emphasized the priority of Palestine Berlin, (WNS).—German Jewry in Thrace and the Dardanelles reover temporary relief measures in now finds itself perplexed by two History gion because of a sudden outbreak of relief appeals, and voted thanks to conflicting situations. One deals with """. Born in the town of Rady, in Volhy- j official anti-Semitism, the Turkish James G. MacDonald, League of Na- a series of reports from the provinnia, Russia, In 1873, Bialit •was the; government has suspended the govtions High Commissioner for Ger- cial districts indicating that the tense son of an impoverished but learned e r n o r o f Adrianople, removed several and uncertain political conditions creman refugees. storekeeper. Entrusted to his grand- other officials in Thrace and ordered The new Z. 0. A. administration is ated by the ruthless crushing of the By MAURICE SAMUEL father's keeping in 1880, Bialik was the annulment of all sales of propheaded by Morris Rothenberg, presi- storm troop rebellion gave rise to early attracted by the Cabala and erty by Jews who disposed of their dent, Mori is Margulies, secretary, new violence against the Jews. The dred page magazine sold •for.-I said, Chassidic literature. When he was The Jewish world is mourning the Ezra Shapiro of Cleveland; chairman other, concerns a rumor that the Hit"The equivalent of a piastre." He 13 he entered the Volozhin Teshiva, belongings regaidless of value in ordeath of Chaim Nachman Bialik, der to escape. Similar action is pendof the National Executive Commit- er regime is preparing to halt, or at looked through the advertisements •where he was exposed to the ideas of . . , . . . , . , _ •I . tee, Harry P. Fierst, treasurer, and least to modify, its anti-Semitic pro- greatest Hebrew poet of modern and said: "In Palestine, when we Achad Ha'am and Yehuda Leib Gor- j v*g against officials m Smyrna. Louis Rocker, chairman of the fi- gram because every element of tha times, generally regarded as one of publish a magazine, we ask; How Sukrat Bay, minister of the interinance committee. Vice-Presidents population, regardless of racial ori- the ~ outstanding figures in the Hemuch dare we charge for it without or, and Inspector-General Tala Bey brew. Reniassance movement of the gin, is needed to meet the country's elected were Judge William M. losing readers t In American, when have gone to Thrace to make a firstfirst quarter of the twentieth cenLewis, Philadelphia; Nathan Straus, economic crisis. you publish a magazine, you ask: hand investigation of the" situation tury. This article has been written jr., and Robert Szold, New York, The basis for this rumor is the How little dare we charge for it that caused a panicky mass flight of Elihu D. Stone, Boston; Max Shul- enactment of an emergency decree exclusively for the Seven Arts Feawithout losing advertisers? We live (thousands of Jews. Ousted from their man and Rabbi Solomon Goldman, giving Economics Minister Schmidt ture Syndicate and The Jewish Press in opposite worlds." homes by local officials, Jews have Chicago; and Harry Friedberg, Kan- virtually dictatorial powers over the by Maurice Samuel, eminent author, whise English translations of BiaOnce or twice I complained to him been pouring- into Istanbul, where economics life of the country. He is sas City. A governing council also lik's poetry are known .to the Engthat I was weary of making Zionist they are being temporarily housed in was named, including the officers empowered to imprison or fine any- lish-Jewish reading public the world addresses, since, I said, "lekach vert synagogues, hotels and ptivate homes. and the following: Louis Lipsky, one disobeying any orders he con- o v e r . —THE EDITOR. oich nimus." He said to me: "Do The swarm of refugees is taxing the Abraham Goldberg, Carl Sherman, siders essential to improve business you ever daven?" My reply was: Jewish Inventor to Contribute capacity of the local Jewish comBernard G. Richards, Jacob de Haas, conditions. This law has been inter"No." He answered: "Your father His Discovery to munity. Several hundred Jewish refuDr. Stephen S. . Wise, Jacob - Fish- preted in some quarters as applicTo the hundreds of thousands who and grandfather and great-grandman, Dr. Israel Goldstein, Dr. Sam- able chiefly to racial fanatics whose knew him through his work or by gees from Istanbul crossed the borScience father used to daven every day. der into Greece, where they found uel Margoshes, Charles Cowan and tactics are held responsible for Ger-repute, and still more to the thouMaybe they too were weary of it. Toronto, OnU (JTA).—Announcemany's economic crisis. sands who knew him. personally, the Leo Wolf son. But it was their daily exercise in ment of the Mirroscope Spectacle, an a temporary haven in Athens. ReIn further support of the report news of the passing of Bialik has Judaism. For them too is lekach optical device which increases visual ports from Bulgaria indicate that of an expected lessening of anti- produced the effect not of the disapgevoren nimus. But they kept it up, acuity by 250 per cent and employs many Turkish Jews have fled to SoSemitic restrictions is the fact that pearance of a human being from our and for the same reason you keep a new principle in optical science fia and border towns. Der Angriff, Propaganda Minister midst, but rather that of some exup your Zionist addresses." magnifying the vision of the parti- Premier Ismet Pasha took cognizGoebbel's organ, has not published traordinary natural cataclysm, like At the meetings at which I introally blind beyond that of any other ance of the plight of the Turkish Chaim Bialik an attack on the Jews for nearly the sudden and incomprehensible exduced him—in English—he would sit known device, was made here by Dr.Jews by informing parliament that ten days. The emergence of Prus- tinction of a volcano, Even personal sian Premier Goering as Hitter's grief is overshadowed by a sort of all he loved his people, which was listening stolidly. He understood no William Feinbloom of New York be- the officials responsible for the right-hand man is also regarded as astonishment. How could that which for him the matrix of all his forms English. Therefore the introduction fore the International congress of persecutions are in league with forthe American Optometric association. eign anti-Semites. He pointed out Moscow, (WNS).—Jewish students a good omen for the Jews, since was Chaim Nachman Bialik cease of love and enjoyment. In fact, he was to him a long wilderness loved life so much that lie had to syllables dotted with the sound Many people whose vision is nowthat anti-Semitism in not a Turkishh barred • from universities ' and other Goering is understood to favor to be? institutions of higher learning in leniency toward the Jews. For Bialik was a poet of immense be, personally, something • of an his name; something like "Mumble- limited to the recognition of news- product and promised quick relief to Bialik mumble- paper headlines can obtain distant I the Jews and speedy punishment for thfcir own lands by. numerous clauses Conflicting with this optimistic and and unique significance precisely ascetic in order to restrain his mumble-mumble Nachman Bialik vision at home, theatres, movies, |t h o s e w h o o u s t e d th"e J e w B # and other. anti-Semitic restrictions thus far entirely unverified rumor because he was so much more than boundless appetite. Bialik, who wrote mumble Chiam prewill be able to pursue their educa- are stories of renewed attacks on that. The remotest fringes of his such rebellious verse (in The Math- mumblemumble. . ." Once, in ac- church, athletic events and while ridmier also declared that the governknowledging the introduction he tion in v the universities of_ Soviet Jews in the rural areas. In Hirsch- readers—even those who had never mid and in A Frielichs) in favor of ing in trains and automobiles, Russia under the terms of a' decree berg five Jews were shot and nu- come • in contact with friends and the untrammeled, or at least the said: "I heard the speaker leading through the aid of the Mirroscope ment was rushing plans to return the deported Jews to their homes issued by the Soviet commissiar of merous Jewish homes wrecked. In acquaintances of his—felt it. "Never joyously mundane life, was himself me through unillumined corridors.' Spectacle, he stated. education. This decree Instructs all Silesia enraged storm troopers was a man so little the litterateur as" simple as a hermit. And even-so And on another similar occasion he For nine years, Dr. Feinbloom ex- and to facilitate a return of the they sold under comRussian universities to, open their wreaked vengeance on the Jewish and deliberate esthete; never, was he always made the impression of said: "I felt like a cat in a sack plained, he had been working on the J property which tl doors to foreign citizens. population. Similar news comes from there such complete absence of "art living more furiously and more : in- which a boy was belaboring." problem of achieving that maximum! pnlsion at sacrifice prices, Reports of an intensive anti-JewThese odd, delightful remarks of magnification of vision for the near The decree also permits foreign the Rhineland. The tight censorship for art's sake"—that decorative at- tensely than the . most ardent selfish boycott in Thrace and the circuconscious pursuer of *the full life." still prevents any accurate survey blind In a convenient form that could titude which transmutes' the living his peppered his ordinary conversastudents to take entrance examina-All things fascinated him—and to tion. He could not make common- be worn like ordinary spectacles. lation of tens of thousands of copies tions for admission to Russian uni- of what did or did not happen to experience into the graceful utterall things he brought the happy and place remarks. Once, at a congress, the Jews in the past fortnight, but of the anti-Semitic periodical MilH His discovery was made in reance, life was so turbulent in him versities in their own - mother there can be no doubt that the Jews that it compelled him to ntter him- penetrating insight of hi» joyous he passed an armchair in which a sponse to the need of those sub- Inkilap could not be verified. It is tongue. are fearful and worried. self. He was almost a poet against tnind. Nor was anything so trivial massive delegate had wedged him- normal vision patients who could not also reported that several members For Jewish students this decree his •will—as so many prophets have that it did not elicit from him an self and fallen asleep. He said: even recognize the faces about them. of the Turkish parliament have orMeanwhile a new Jewish paper is of inestimable value. .Thousands taken on the prophetic role against illuminating comment of general "Look at that chairful of Jew!" Then Coupled with the announcement of ganized an anti-Semitic bloc. called -'We German Jews" has apof German Jewish students, expelled value. I traveled fairly often with he continued the conversation. He this scientific discovery was Dr. their will. ' . peared. In its first issue it calls on from German universities, and who He had an immense, an almost him during Ms first visit to Ameri- talked interminably, hours at a Feinbloom's assertion that he was have found it increasingly : difficult the Jews to unite and stand by the London, (JTA).—Official denial fanatical love . of life. He - loved a ca, speaking .from the same plat- stretch. And he never uttered a dull contributing the Mirroscope Spectacle that legislation already has been Reich. I t declares that "we will '••fold to inarticulate at French, English form, generally to introduce him. I to science. secretly enacted restricting the imand Dutch universities, win now- be out Our suffering has made us hard thousand things and processes—and did my best at that time, to give remark. If one interrupted him it literature and poetry were for him as steel. We are prepared to help was not for the purpose of arrestmigration of Jewish physicians and able to study in Russian institutions. him some sort of insight into the Jewish students from, Hungary, build up Germany." The Jewish War one method of concentrating and re- nature of this American dvili2atioin ing the flow of talk; it was only in Buffalo, N. Y.—"Hitler's Reign of lawyers into Palestine was issued ill peating his enjoyment. He loved order to redirect it towaid some Rumania, Poland and. Austria,; where Veterans Union has disbanded.bej Terror," which opened in the Holly- the house of commons by Sir Philip iause; its leadeiy lieutenant Levin- daily affairs, the management of —and one day I brought him a copy particularly fascinating topic on anti-Semitij: restrictions are; in vogue {wood theatre, 3ias been withdrawn Cunliffe-Lister, secretary of state t ; 'steirr,s was a close friend', of the exe- matters, business, books, persons, or- of the Saturday Evening Post. He for colonwa also i are expected 'to* flock to:IKiis*«Jter two showings. asked me how much this two hun(Continued on Page 8.) i i conversation—and above cuted General Von Schleicher. sian universities. _ . _ '_ .

"Wider Program of Activities for Zionists Adopted at Conclave

Center to Sponsor Track, Field Meet

Community-Wide Gathering to Honor Memory of Hebrew Poet Laureate

PLAN UNITED DRIVES FOR AIL NATIONAL JEWISH

Reich Official Issues New Order on Names

GERMAN JEWRY PERPLEXED BY

TO REHABILITATE EVICTED JEWRY

BIALIK, GENIUS OF HIS

DR. FEINBLOOM DEVICE FOR THOSE PARTIALLY

RUSSIA OPENS HER flNIVERSITIES TO FOREIGN STUDENTS


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