February 19, 1937

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OMAHA, NEBKASZA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1937

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NOBLESSE OBLIGE lily observations on Mr. Robert Gessner's book "Some of my Best Friends are Jews" aroused a little tempest of controversy here and there. Me. Gessner and his publisher, Mr. John Farrar, replied quietly but bitterly. One or IEWS SEUN UNIVERSITY i IT! two editors or editorial writers ,L thought I had gone pretty far; EBBCMIQE M several others arose to, state their agreement with me. It cannot- be said that Sir. Gessner's book has had a 'good- pre?3' In. Jewish pubrri Salonski (WNS) —Tfce strangre situatioa of Jewish yo'eng men lications. 1 have no. doubt that- it I .. . ' j refusing a ucirersitj- education has.been or will be favorably re: viewed in those pseudo-liberal Palestinian Singer and Nachmn Story of Esther to Be Read! presents' itself here where the papers" which nurse the fond \ • Wednesday -Evening in University of salociki, which Nardi Win Praise of EflDiits Jews without any res'a ic hopes" that the Jews will disappear Local Synagogts'es Large Audience tions, has but one, Jewish c i in Russia and trouble them no _ , . , _ , j - ! dent. inabilitr of university gr-J.more. (That this is one of the What proved a rare treat to Beginning t0 - utu f ze t h e i r e d u c a t i o r ,worst varieties of Jew-hatred, the- large audience that filled the | February 24,Wednesday the Jews eveamg of the ;u a t g sreason for Jews not going to masking itself as even-handed Center auditorium, T u e.s d a y rl i world will celebrate Purim, tfee !j the * University, Eleven Jev icr , """ justice, ought gradually, to he ob- night, was the unusual perform: Feast of Lots. In Persia, the lo- graduates of the law school r~e vious to any one able to use his 'ance of the celebrated singer of ] cale of the events of the' Book of still jobless. mind at: all.) Hebrew folk-songs, Brachah Zfi; Esther, an extra day is observed. The local B'nai B'rith ha* e Of what I said of Mr. Gessner rah. Accompanied by her hus! The story of Purim is one of fund which provides scholarsL.ps and his book I have nothing to band, Nachuni >7ardit one of the ! the best-known of "the Biblical for university students. ' cer retract. B u t I should like to make foremost Palestinian i composers, I stories. Esther, a beautiful and j i it-clear that I did not, as tia; Brachah Zfirah sang the old * CT' j wise Jewess^ had replaced the] , T T r ^ r - ^ _— t~f* been sillily suggested make dis- songs of the Oriental Jews. i proud Queen. VasMi as tfie con- ijf^, j,,, [ ,\[ j {'{' | it agreeable remarks about his fam- While possessing a singularly ! tort of the King of Persia, the Lt±*~i L.L*.~-.~^~*.-\ *, V ily. I took an- anecdote, concern- expressive voice trained ' for Orj powerful Ahasueris. ITS ] J f i \ ZVZi ing his" childhood which he re- iental music, Brachah Zfirah deI Hainan, the grand vizier of the lates and quoted the words which pends to a large degree on her fa! king, gained the permission of he had written and analysed the cial expressions and the move| Ahasueris to slay a part of the anecdote and the manner of its ments of her hands for the telli population whom he accused of telling. In brief, I'did not go be- ing of her story. Her extremely j being unworthy subjects. This ni L. Hdlzzz hind his book or his statements mobile features - respond readily Dr. Philip Shcr I clement, unnamed, was to . meet Sectioss.1 eld President ot-the-Jewish and hence-did not overstep the to her emotions as she portrays .Honorary President of death on a day chosen by the Liscols Diiring'the critic's obvious rights. grief or whimsy, utilizing eyes Community .Center and ."Welfare nity Crater-'aiid -.Welfare FcSers- casting of lots. • Week-End There was in my article an ele- eyebrows, eyelids, and lips.. Federation. '.' . The plot of H a s a n was revealT""-r ment of_ invective, of denuncia- In true Oriental style she graceed to Esther by her cousin, Mor- Ban Miller of Omaha was e ^ c tion. Right. There was. It's -ra- fully moves her long, -well-shap•decai, and Esther told her hus- ed president fo the A. Z. A ther a pity that we have no more ed hand in an exceedingly expres{AMATEUR BOHR TO band that it was i e r people wbo Cornbelt region at the three C'l •k of that in America. One can have sive manner. were to bs massacred. Unable to tourcament held .In Lincoln ' r r ' BE .HELD BY ' too much of it. One can have too The songs, except fq? two v or recall the edict he gace the Jew eEd. He succfeeds r-^V ECul tiff : little.' There is -an element of three which' were sung in YidHADASSAH ' right to protect themselves and j Merlin of Sioax City. moral laxness in that over-much dish were the melodies of the the villainous Hainan, his mach- j The Lincoln team of Sam K.rpoliteness in that positively swee- Jews of Persia, Yemen, Greece, The Hadassah Medical Fund- ications frustrated, met' an ig- i shenbaum and Hy Polsky v rr tish spirit of concession which and Turkey. One set was composYouth Aliyah will spocsor an noble' end. The day of sorrow j the regional debating' event v V ' c irn. tends to obliterate all moral and ed entirely of songs of the moAmateur Hour on Sunday, April i Sioux City a s runnerup. The c ="Intellectual boundaries. Let us dern Palestinian pioneers. t e T r nc L P T " 4, at the Jewish Coraniucity Cen- was turned.to one of Purim has become a festival of' subject have done with it for a little . The melodies, based on ancient Revisionist. Leader Attacks t e r . , Contestant may register for .-* fr t h e Principle 1 the Sa~ Mandatory at Koyal Com- • try-outs at the' Center or call great joy. Gifts a r e exchanged A -1! -Marks-Bearsted •while. Let us follow the moni- liturgical and folk music, were n~ v*r r Plan fcr tions of our conscience. Let us composed "by Mr. Nardl. C T mission - Hearing Mrs.;. Julius .Stein,. GL. 19 4.S. or members of the community, tbe Enjigrfetion. of Jews from collection is taken u p fcr appeal to the not entirely callous? Mrs. Irvin Levin, GL. 2515. Brachah Zfirah is a Yeminite ed conscience of manldnd. First-prize wjll be Jewess. However she was raised . London (WNS-Palcor Agency) p Here is the Jewish people of in Palestine and received her —The Royal Commission, at a dollars;, second prize, fifteen dolerryinaking _ . _ . . . . sixteen millions. Let us suppose training with the Habimah Thea- hearing in a small room in the lars, and third prize, fivn dollars. < for the sake of the. stupid: ration- ter in Jerusalem. House of Lords, heard from Vlad- , Mrs. :• Phlneas. ."VTIntroub is tic of the'day and In many coia-| Eook Island for the subject alisms of a purblind world that especially.' -those of! b •uOEaaSs. i l d s Palestine." She and her husband appeared imir Jabotinsky, president-of the chairman .of.arrangements a a d i s caarter Nc. 1 recthis people is just like any other in Omaha under the auspices of New Zionist Organiaation^ a de- being,;assisted'!by. Kiltoa Rieok. Italy, the day is narked by a I basketball honors. . Tbe v-iv ; great isassjtiersde. people, no more, no less, no oth- the local branch of th&; Jewish mand-- that . "if . Great Britain - Is Debate Since the dispersion the sigm- : i a t S e E e t fcr ee eve unable to fulfill the Mandate" It er- except for the^ - accident . (a ; Worker's Alliance. -. ficasce of .P.uris : • luas .feecoiae! 2-tory, E.E.-,^ £^&IJ-.-C, •hsa.. .It..ju'p-r-after. ..consula-Word .-w-hicjh.^. gets you j_nojvhere, Eaore pronounced. Mar tlon with the Jewish -people. Jtr. but I "am talking.after =th~e7iaai.m-unities hare &• special Jabotinsky, th© first public wit7 : ner o f lime . and .the ..v- marketOver. 1£5 jerscas from On ; - Koran• in Htebrew that eosnaetaorates- a. similar-deness at the sessions held by the place) — no other except for tHe liverance of their own Jewish i Lincoln, Dcs MciEes,. " i^c-cl "' Royal Commission since its reaccident of its deracination and jland, OLtumva, SIOUE City, ,-t u r n ' t o England from Palestine " • Jerusalem (JTA) — Much, ia- community. dispersal. This people cannot j Council.' Bluffs irere represe" "^ interest in , Moslem world, in and emphasized the position taken by commit suicide by biological asJulius Bis30 o£ Omaha, csec - outside of Palestine, . has been Jerusalem (JTA),— The fishthe Revisionists with regard.;-to similation, as many peoples have secretary of t t e • A. E,. A, TT'\D by the' Heb-ew transladone, or else is .not permitted to ing industry, which thrived in the both the mandatory government aroused the awards. Rabbi Tfeeodore- X of the Koran prepared by do so. The two statements ancient Holy Land, is experienc- and ths. Jewish Agency for Pales- tion L.evis of Sioux City spoke a; t r e * , Dr. Joseph Rivlin, staff-, member ing, a revival. The two fishin tine. During his testimony, the amount to the same thing. Here, ' • Ffrllv" Ox tinsX banquet, c s "Je-K-isi Obof the Hebrew University School at all events it is, sixteen millions companies formed in r e c e n Revisionist leader asked for the of Oriental'Studies, aad publishjectives." months report the year 193S o liquidation of the Jewsih Agency of men and women and children by the University. The local Jewish Nations.1 F u n d ! Besides JJUler other new r : >-as being unrepresentative. The ed 1 no better and no worse, no wiser the whole favorable. The translation 'is • termed a Council is meeting, regularly, on | e.rs £?e; sej-mour Golden o£ . -' The two companies are the Pal- room in which the hearing was and no stupider, neither more the first Tuesday of every month. I Island, Tics presicScnt: PEIU- 7 - , nor less gifted than any other estine Fishing Co., of Haifa an being held was packed..as_itr._Ja? Three "persons represent each j cbonsfcy of COUBCH Bluffs, ^"- *~ accompanied by a num- ship "toward Islam by The Light, similar group of people. Take -i.t- the National Fishing Co., or Jaf botinsky, of his associates representing a Moslem weekly in. English •pub- Zionist organization, and each j retary; Joe Rufcinson of ^— r on that simplest and moaf reason- a. In addition, a "group of Ha: ber New Zionist Organization, be- lished;-In Lahore, India, which synagogue. At present the "local i Moines, treasurer; Jerry r - n *• ,i able bas^is. And this people is fa fishermen have built a sma the ;an his testimony. comments appreciatively in a organization Is Eponsorins: a i of Ottumwa, .senior serges -?.- ,motor trawler which they have persecuted from age to age beleading article on the- fact Dr. speakers bureau which, -will send | arms; Harry Rubin of ~/?^ .. ( yond all measure and beyond all been operating with a certain deAt the opening of his remarks, Hivlin spent: twenty years oa the speakers to any organisatioa de-} Moines, junior- sergeaEt-at-f ^ E the Revisionist leader declared belief. There is no form of dis- Tee of success. siring to hear cf the work cf the j lack Merlin o£ Sioux City, u One handicap Is that industrial that he wished to avoid misun- translation.- . crimination or exclusion or huiln; acd Morris Arbitmar c" Jewish. National Fund. The editorialcontrasts t i e developments on the coast of derstanding -with regard • to. the miliation or cruelty that is not F. Omaha No. 1. reporter. Much of the.'work of J. N. of:TisIpn of the''modern Haifa, Jaffa and Tel Aviv have terrinology that he would use. used against it. The foulest and with the frequently narrow is now being directed toward re- I The BUEinier sports prcr r ~ the stupidest accusations, explod- led. to the closing of considerable By "Jewish State", he said he Jew and sectarian of the mo- habilitating the refugees from i will be b-e* in Cocseli Bluffed as folly and malice a thousand areas of valuable fishing- grounds meant a "commonwealth- with dern Moslem, outlook holding the latter Jaffa, who.were forced to flee ! to fishing. Haifa was once the self-government in P a l e s t i ne, times, re-arise from age to age greatly different from tbe flays their homes at the beginning of j M S - d s S S richest fishing ground on the meaning the a r e a including as the whip3 and scorpions ZS when Islam welcomed both Jews the uprising last spring. After | alestine coast. Now grounds Transjordan." Mr. Jabotinsky eswherewith to smite, to murder, to sup and,Christians as the other "peo- the disturbances the leaders of j have been discovered, however, timated that Palestine and Transstarve, to crush this people. Now,, Palestine sought to prevent these | rj> ples of-the book." 0 E notably between Caeseria and ark the Twentieth jordan, "with a favorable politin what we' thought some years Jaffa Jews.froia-'returning to the j r e r g a r y of Kafiassah, "War Tantoura. ical regime," would have room ago the very noon-tide of history •narrow alleyways wfeere they | i o a Tort, and the I for many millions of Jews and and humanity. and justice, this lived under trying, conditions. } ice Islands will be linked millions of Arabs. "No one immitigable persecution rearisea AT-TEMPLE ISRAEL • The J. K . F . has allocated some j kup of tbe dreams of displacing the Arabs," in Germany, Poland^ '-• Roumania, • A n n u a. I . . Brotherhood Day, of the lands in its possession and j tioaal Broadcasting Cc-mpaj Mr. Jabotinsky asserted, saying the Baltics States, in- Yemen and that "Zionism represents human- w-hich is cale) rated- Eationally. on acquired ESW areas for the per- j February £5 from 10:30 to Iraq;.it threatens in Latin Ameritarianism though it does not ex- the Sabbath,, preceding -Washing- pose of building cottages for jst Eastern Standard' Tijue." ica; it sprouts- Into poisonous ton's birthday under the auspices these people. The cost will, be j • Mrs. - Frasfelin D. Roo*-"' '•' bloom in Italian Libya; it spurts The second annual Purim carn- clude cultural. and. spiritual!aspiof the National"* Conference of repaid by ths refugees in easy in-j ' • now and then in French North ival sponsored by the Round Ta- rations." Jews and Christians, -will be ob- stallments over a lengthy peri-03 i itcl. Miss Kae E. Lasdr wV ~ The witness described what-he . Africa; it is heard of In Harbin ble of Jewish Youth will be held served Friday evening at'Temple of years. .• ! oae of tbe first two ncrses *" •: in- the uttermost-East and is not Sunday evening, F-sbruary 28, at called the dlstastrous, position of Israel.' . T . the, Jewish people throughout the .The Rotary^Club of'Omaha-will " George Soref is in charge o£ t t e jKadassah sect to Palesti-f E •unknown — powerless, but of evil the Jewish Community Center. sj'nagogiie collections for tbe j will-speak from Ksn; - '~. intention — in the democracies The carnival will be held in the Diaspora. At this point -he -' re- attend.-services • at the Temple in Jewish. National • Fund. Mrs. II. ;1913 I., where she is s. first lieut" of the West. , Center gymnasium which, will be marked that: "I risk; unpopular- a body. Rabbi Frederick Cohn F. Levenson* • is president of the jin tfe-a Nurses Corps, I r And now this innocent and in- festivally decorated for the oc- ity with the Jews, but I am com- will deliver a-'sermon' entitled local Jewish National Fund. Coun-1 ct^f^s-A"mv pelled to say. that the governtolerably harried people has one casion. Each organization that is •"'What ,the World • Needs T-Iost". c i l . , • • ' • , ' ' ' " TB. . Edvs acchs plan, one hope, one gleam of a memberVof the Round Table ments of certain countries/ are light, in its incomparable dark- 'will have its own booth In the unable to .control the situation, prss ilt Ct CIS. 22. -who orgr • although I must admit that, they ness, a plan, a hope, a gleam as gym Bert.ha l,an! tte could do more fbr'the protection , -^ chil 6. W€:lIS.Ti • ancient as itself and as new as Freddie Ebener's orchestra will rice •wi n sp ea.k tr cin. T'•Tew " —' the twentieth century — the sal- furnlsh: the..mur:ic for dancing in of Jews." Mr. Jabotinsky paid vation of a portio'n of the people the Center auditorium. The fea- tribute to the Polish government «^-,f; R ? through t h e in the land of the fathers, the ture of the evening will be the for attempting, p building there of a good society drawing for a small radio, : Memof a Jewish society, of a society bers of the committee in charge League of Nations, to find ? The:. three day Institute conthat will shed its healing rays of the affair are anticipating a home for the Jews. "The Revis- ducted by ; Dr. Abrani L. Sachar Dr. Sachar wlil conclude t-s rcrMr. Jabotinolcy' 'said, ies with a talk oa "Socie Les^or^ upon them that must walk and much greater success than even ionists," "are accused of asking for, too [ under the auspices of tfee Beth of Jewish.-History." suffer in the darkness of the ex- last year. much. We only ask for. our. na- El Auxiliary-will begin tonight at Ssehar-,. a fenaer prcrcs-c ile. And even there, In that smal Dan Miller is general chairman. tural and normal rights. Our. re- the Jewish . Community _Center at of Dr. European. History at C-- 7 ' and barren land of" Its ancient quest for a Jewish majority is a 9^o'clock. In. a series of five lec- verslty of: Illineit," is E T1 "•--1 •*" hope and sole refuge, this peominimum and not,a maximum de- tures and discussions Hi. Sachar rector cf the B'nai B'r.! " I". . ple is beset by the enmity o ? mand." The witness said that he will'cover the: subject, ' "Jewish Foandatic-ss. He is the c^.L^ those whom t has benefited and had the profoundest feeling- of History and Jewish Problems". of afcoc.5-:',."A History ci ' by the treachery of those who The number sympathy for the Arabs but "the . At" the.first lecture the subject Jews"'and bs.s written r r T c . Berlin (JTA) have sworn to protect it; and its condition of the Jews cannot. be will be "Five Patterns of Jewish noble work and its incomparably of Jews emi; rating to the Holy compared with that of the Arabs, i Life", Harry silverssaa will pre- articles. fine moral beaming are not safe Land from Germany reached 7,- The: first are; starving; the-second I side. ;: " " • Oa previous occasions ' ! r - IT" ' •-*• from the jeers and the hostility 896 last year, the Palestine Of- merely'have a greater appetite, j 'Saturday- afternoon at ,3:30 Dr. Sachar has aispeared I- C~ "' ' : fice reported, making a total of a corrupt an', cruel world. a minority will not be- a i Sachar- will speak -on" "Daraaged Ms lecture have'been a ' c r - c l - ' • Is that a correct statement. o Jewish emigration' of 38,500 in Being for ihe.Arabs who have ! Souls in Jewish History" and-Sat- record crowds. the case? Are these things true the years " between 1933 and hardship many Arab states." ' urday. evening at S, he will dis1936. AnQ now comes a young Jew—cuss. "The'Present Jewish Crisis". Last year's emigrants includI care not If "Is name be Gessner ed 5,088 Tews of German nationIsaac Nathan was instriictor'-in j.Juliiis.Bisno. TrHI .preside at tScsa f or any other name — and '.. thl ality, 1,3S5 Polish nationals, 178 music" to Princess Charlotte of | meetings. cr young Jews • knows all thes of other nationalities and the re- Wales. He,..i3 the musician -who .A'Round Table discussion things and has seen many mainder comprising G c r m a n s set Byron's 'Hebrew Melodies.':, to be; held'Sunday nsoniiisg st :10:-30 | inusic» . "' o-a-at £:S00 ] andd Sunday " abroad. (Continued on page 8.)

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