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column is copyright cy ttta Savea Arts Feature Syndicate. Roproacctlon In whole or la part strictly forbidden. Any Infringement da t h i a copyright Trill b'a proseented. " THE QUESTION Another annpal speaking trip coming luckily to an end. Thousands of miles through this country which is a continent; cities of and mountain, a few majestic, many busy but dull. Everyr where, whether I was officially invited by Jewish or non-Jewish organizations, Jews, Jews. The same Jews, • North, South, East, West, with the same . countenances, characters, 'preoccupations, troubles, perplexities. The same Jews that I have" seen in other days from Berlin 'to Bou-Saada on the edge of the Sahara desert and - from . London to "Warsaw. Members of one people In one situation which varies not in kind but in degree according- to the civilization'.and the nature of the state under which they live.

Entered ES Second'Class Mall-Matter on January 21. 1321, at PQ3tofflco of Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act ot MarcJi S, 1S73

01IAHA, 1CL5B-ASKA, FRIDAY, 'MARCH 19, 1937

CzecheslovcMzni /rcnr?'! By Han Agekist Jew Praha (JTA) Intense Lnclig-1 nation has been aroused, in Czech- | oslovakian circles by the latest at-.I tempts to stir up anti-Jewish fee*' ings in .one of the few outposta c liberalism and ' tolerance in- Ceatral Europe..

Noted;. Educator to Speak_at J._C.;C. . on

district- Ifo. 6 To" Be Held At Elinneapolis

Attempts by Nazi students at the German University c£ Prague to demonstrate against the noted Jewish' Jurist, Dr. Hans Kelsen, which resulted in the closing of the university, have evofted a storm of protest in all circles. A German student was arrested recently for a death threat to Dr. Kelsen.

Philip •member of the Supreme Advisory Council of A. Z. A. will be the representative of the Council at the annual convention cj A. Z. Leo Schwarz, author and ediA. District S to tor, will appear as fourth speak20-22 at .Minneapolis. er on the • Jewish Concert and Mr. Klutznick will speak at a Lecture Series on Tuesday March welcoming luncheon Sunday r.ocn March 23. Mr. Schwarz will and at'the convention banquet j speak on "Proposed : Hoads for which will -be held that evening j American Jewry." . . : at the Hotel Xicollet. Mr. Schwarz is particularly X.These degrees" in the sharpness well-known for his "Jewish CarAt the convention the tournaof the Jewish problem evoke, of avan" one of the most complete of ment finals in basketball, oratory course, varying psychological anthologies, of Jewish literature and debate will be held. phases of inner response and out- ever to be published. The popsentatives from the Cornbelt, er adjustment. Todai" in the Uni- ularity. Qf this, book has made Great Lakes, and Northwest relarge ted States there is a definite and Mr. S c h w a r z internationally g number of woiaen turn- gions will compete in the events. 3Irs. spontaneous movement among famous.. . . . - . . • . - • ed out-for the luncheon meeting Minneapolis- as the sponsoring of the Women's Women's Division Chairman 1 Jews toward concentration, toward j ^ j chapter • will also have an entry However he' had previously Jewish Community Center a more vivid Judaism, toward re- been well-known", for his outin each competition. Monday noon. Mrs. Harry A. 'frsfrn, rememberance, reconcilia- standing work in the field of Omaha Chapter 1, winner of Wolf, retiring chairman of the tion. The very stubborness of the adult education. He . is the orthe- Cornbelt: Region basketball Leo Schwartz Family Welfare Committee, was isolated die-hards of minimum ganizer and the director of the To Appear Here Tuesday honored for her many years o* tournament will play against 1 Judaism serves only to set the School f or. Adult Jewish Educa-' South Side Chapter 64 of Chiservice. • "general trend into sharper relief. tion and has done considerable cago, Superior Chapter 251 of Mr. William Holzman showed Superior, Wisconsin and Dr. DeiLet ns not for the moment .in- experimental work in education, j The Konnd Table of Jewish motion pictures of the South Sea nard Chapter S of Minneapolis. quire tod closely into the caused For several years he has been Youth Oratorical and Debate conIslands. of this trend and direction. It ex- the leader of student groups on Hy Polsky and Sam KirshenCommittee reports were given bauna of Lincoln will be Cornbelt test will be held on Monday, ists; it exists • everywhere. In re- tourg of Europe and Palestine.. by the various chairmen. Ap- representatives in the Debate | March CS, in conjunction with mote small communities where Mrs. Sam "Wolf is chairman of proximately, one thousand dollars tournament and William Pearl- ; the local lodge of the B'nai Brith. fewness makes for a brief respite, the" educational committee of the was spent by the Women's Divi- stein of Rick Island, Illinois, will j The subject of this year's conas it has done and will again, Women's Division, of. the Jewish sion on the Center building. Mon- be Cornbelt Oratory representa- test is "The Future of the Synafrom the total Jewish problem, Community Center, sponsors of gogue in American Life." Each ey was raised by a -formal dance tive. where therefore, there is a strong the Jewish Concert and Lecture .. I contestant will be given seven ' human temptation toward volun- series under whose auspices Mr. Annual Recognition by PM given last fall - and by a bridge The winner of the oratory con- : minutes to give a constructive luncheon. These funds were tary forgetfulness, " even there Schwartz is- appearing. Beta Spsilon test will be entered in the inter- speech, on some phases of the spent for a new canvas for the men and women can no more for• Fraternity The lecture is free to all memauditorium floor, new equipment national finals to be held in New ; subject. Later in the evening get; even there they stretch out, bers of the Jewish Community York City. j each of the contestants will be as it were, antennae of yearning Center. ' Tickets, for non-mem-j The fifth annual award given for the stage, a paint job for the given four minutes to either auditorium and a new service of toward a source of fortitude-and ers are thirty-five cents and may i by the Phi Beta Epsilon fraterbuild tip his case or refute the arhealing which they themselves do be procured at the Center or ! nity to - honor "Omaha's ' out- milk dishes for the Center kitguments of his opponents. not understand. ; from members of the committee j standing Jewish citizen for' the chen. Two committees, one repreThe next general meeting of the year," will be announced at the To need with an immense and in charge. senting the Round Table and one Women's Division will be beld in Previous speakers on this ser- annual banquet at the Jewish May, at which time an election cf the B'nai .Brith, will be in charge. tragic need of which so often 1 Ernie Nogg is chairman of the only, a faint and far, memory re- ies have been Mrs. Avis Schul- Community Center on Thursday, officers will take place. New York (WNS) — Alleged : Round Table committee. Ee will mains—what a perplexing and man, JKlias Newman and A. W. March 25, at 6:30. Plans are also being formulat- misappropriation of party funds '< Dr. A. C. Fellman, an active difficult situation. The luckier Binder:' ed for a Mother's and Daughter's by Fritz Kuhn, chief of the Ger- : be'assisted by Haroia Banm, Moralumni of the fraternity, will act Mr. Schwarz will be the guest ris Arbitman, and Isadore Mittlepeople, still strongly allied to the banquet to take place on Slay S man-American Bund, the Nazi or- ; man. r-l great, tradition, still unalienated speaker at an open meeting of as toastmaster. In addition ot the ganization, is the real reason for: Ma Eaer, from knowledge, method, faith, the! Council-Bluffs- B'nai Brith, active members and alumni the 1 Frohm, the shake-up in the movement i Ephraira Mark's' are on the com-: often jeer mildly at those thous- 3Ionday evening,. "March 22, at following members of the advis1 ory committee will be guests: | which resulted in the dismissal : S:30y6'clock at the Eagle Hall in ands groping in a mist after that, Eittee representing ths E'r.Ei, (ti Walter Kappe and his supper- ; whfclf they-~Treed -'in ore -and more? Council iBluffa,^ iTMs- meeting -is Miss- Ruth-Alien; Mr..Pan!.Gold-[ S t j ters from; the staff of the Deuts- ; Trophies will he ETrsraed. byfor their lives and the Iive3 of open to all members of the B'nai blatt, Mrs. L. Neveleff, Mr. Frank j cher Weckruf and Beobachter, i t ' the. B'nai Brith. .The contest is Wice, their children.-Yet it is to be re- Brith, their families, and friends. Ackerman, Kabbi David The Spring book list carries as i is disclosed in the Tolksecho, an- open to the public. Rabbi David A. Goldstein, Rabbi membered that all these troubled Frederick Cohn, and Rabbi Mil-j usual a large number of books of ti-Nazi German weekly. and Jewishly vacant souls didn't ton A. Kopstein. The Volksecho presents docu- ; Jewish interest. Jacob de Haas, desire this- condition to come As in the past the person nam- j famous Zionist leader, has writ- raentarj- proof that Kuhn ousted about. It was there unhappy hered as outstanding citizen will be j ten, "East of- Amman." Ludwig the Kappe faction'because Kappe j itage from several preceding gen' A!Isn.&i£lXg: U . S . presented with a gold pin and a Lewisohn is the author of "A accused Kuhn of pocketing $70 0 erations of men who themselves certificate. Trumphet of Jubilee." Meyer Le- of the $3,000 collected by Ger-] did not will it, who themselves . The outstanding citizens cho- vin has written, of 'the Jews of macs here- as a gift to Hitler by j only consented.to it under a pres^sen for the past four years have Chicago in his "The Old Bunch." German-Americans visiting their _ New York (JTA) — Poland sure which they forgot and wantbeen: Mr, William Holzman, Mr. .Among the non-fiction are: homeland during the Olympic] cannot afford to alienate the ed and needed to forget in order Henry Monsky, Dr. Philip Sher, "The Dreyfus Case" by Dreyfus ( Games. Reports in the Nazi; sympathies of America by yieldto be able to forget the sterner Shertock Calls It a "Life and Rabbi Frederick Cohn. and his son; "The Guggenneims" j press in Germany snow that only i ing-. to "the barbarous agitation ultimate truth, that. minorities and Death" by Harvey O'Connor; and "Leon j $2,300 was turned over while the of anti-»SeniitiEm," according to divorced from speech and soil do Issue Blum" by Richard L. Stokes. | Weckrnf had been boasting that; an editorial published in the New ; not even co-determine their desIsaac da Costa Is the author of ! $3000 was raised. j York American and 1? other; tiny and are the objects and nevLondon {JTA) — Immigration an expensive but highly inforaaWhen Kappe asked Kuan on [ Hearst newspapers through! the • er the subjects of the historic ' j tive volume, "Noble Families the latter's returned from' Ger-, country. process—that, primarily that, is of as many Jews into Palestine as Recalling the aid of the United j possible was termed a "life and Among the Sephardie Jews." Salo! many what happened to the other; Sam Altsehuler 3711 N. 22, died of course, tho fundamental reason 700, Kuhn kicked Kappe out of States in establishing the Polish j for the Jcw'.'v renaissance and' death" issue by Moshe Sfiertok, suddenly Wednesday morning at W. Baron, has written, "A Social Republic, the editorials said: ! head of the polifical department and Religious History of the his home. Mr. Altschuler, who the organization. Zionist mov —?-.". "That the Polish people, so re-; of the Jewish Agency for Pales- has been a resident, of Omaha for Jews." ' I cestlr persecuted, should cot; I tell my questioners that. And tine, in an address at a Zionist over forty years, was 59 years of There are likewise a large num- j WICE 70 SPEAK - turn persecutors themselves is' they see it. But it is vague to conference. • • ^ age. . ber ot commentaries on the Bible, them, a mere intellectualistic 0M 'LEGS BWM' TGIHGHTlone of the incredible phenomena j IScr Mr. Shertok, here on a visit Surviving are his wife, Anna; including one book called "The of our times . . . " \ "c: c statement. They agree and the from Jerusalem,, declared there two sons, Edwin and Max of Psalms" by Mosss Buttenweiser. "T\*e cannot believe that, any; truth slips out of their grasp. could be no peace in the Holy Omaha; and one daughter, Tina Because of the great interest I ' Souls on the edge of conversion Land if Jewish development there of New York. that has been manifested in Leon ; responsible 'Polish Etniesnif.n or i THIRD IN LECTURE .need stronger or apparently stron- was forced into a "strait-jacket" Mr. Altschuler had for many Blum since Abbe Ernst Dimnet's •, any responsible Polish political ger nourishment. But they have made by^ the Grand Mufti, Mos- years been a member of the SERIES WEDNESDAYlecture at the Town Hall Forum : party will follow such a «. fatal so many inner obstacles to over- lem spiritual leader. He voiced Board of Trustees of the Omaha on March 7, Rabbi David H. Wice t path," the editorial ssid. "The; precarious position of the Repub- j come and one of the most stub- the conviction that enlightened Hebrew Club; a member of the For the third talk in his ser- at services tonight will speak on' born of these, especially for peo- world opinion would not concede B'nai B'rith, the Jewish Com- ies on the "Case History of tae "Leon Blum: A Twentieth Cen- i lie makes its OWE. survival aepen-s F 1 dent on the sympathy of the .- 1 " I ' ple over, Viet us say, forty-five, the Arab claim for exclusive dom- munity Center, and the Modern Jews of Germany," Rabbi David tury Disraeli." ; world." .; but also for many young people, ination^in Palestine. Woodmen. He was very active A. Goldstein will speak on "How Kabbi Wice will discuss Blum's | Prof. Selig Brodetsky, member in Zionist affairs. is that narcosis induced in them life, evaluate his work, and show j the Jews survived." T terrified at the notion of being of the executive of the W orld Funeral service were held This lecture, for the benefit of | his significance apen the present; duped by anything but; itself and Zionist Organization, asserted Thursday from the Jewish Fun- the Hadassah Youth Aliyah, will j day scene and his meaning for: roundtable conferences, as sugeral Home. Burial was in Gold- take place Wednesday, March 24, j Jews. its proponents. • | "But you don't mean," they gested by Vladimir Jabotinsky, en Hill cemetery. at the home of Mrs. Julius Abra- j Abbe Diramnet- spoke of Blum in j c say, "that we are to be religious? Revisionist leatler, were unneceshamson, 2521 N. 53rd street. ja commendatory fashion, shovr-; The Council Bluffs B'nai ±>rilh \ " Tour refuse the forbidden foods? sary since the Revisionists would POPULARITY CONTEST Anyone not holding a season j ing that he is the idol of the • Charity dance will be held next ; ^ You usher in the Sabbath? You be welcomed back to the W. Z. ticket but who wishes to attend : French Masses and that his re- Wednesday -night, March 2i, E.t:'«_' have a mezuzah on your door? O. at any time as long as they ,• BEING CONDUCTED^BY-• is asked to call Mrs. Abraham- ; forms have been of a liberal rath-; the Hotel Chieftain in Council j You dawen? You?" They have did not pursue a policy different Freddy Ebener's orch-! \ Bluffs. BETH EL MEN'S CLUB son or Mrs. M. -F. Levenson. ' j er than socalist nature. lost all touch with the higher fro mthe World Zionist Congress. estra . has been engaged to fur- ' "The Zionists wanted united humanities, Jewish and non-Jewnish. the music for this afi-ir ; A popularity contest to select which will he one of the out- , _^ ish. The imponderables, which are ranks," he declared. "The Revisthe "Sweetheart of the Men's ionists had a place in the Zionstanding events cf the - season. : the strongest things in the world, T!^e entire mezzanine floor c' the] ; mean nothing to them, /wh_lch is ist Organization. Their chairs at | Club" is^ being condjucted^by^the Men's Club" of "" the "'""" Beth **""- El " ' SynIlctel Chieftain has been reserv-iwhy they are so weak. And then the Congress are awaiting them." agogue."*""'The winner will be ane* for this a'r-.ir. : comes their final. troubled often nounced at the "Screeno-Casino explosive question: what, what yiT. Sircon Steinbergof Council *• Night" being sponsored by the SISTERHOOD SPONSORS do you believe? Bluff? is genersl chairman in : Men's Club at the Central Club, CONGREGATIONAL SEDER 21st and Dodge Streets, Saturday Members of the Executive f Character is fate, Each people and are: William Eclzmsn, pres- charge of this affair, s.ncl Mrs. j mittee of the Jewisu Community ident; Henry Monsky, first vice' at some moment, usually at that evening, April 3. Center and Welfare , Federation presideat;' Sam Bebe'r, second the ticket sal?. historic moment when it becomes \ The Sisterhot-.. of Temple IsMembers of the Men's'Club and a people, has an experience, pre- rael is sponsoring a Congrega- their wives are invited to send in for 1937 have been announced by vice-president; Mrs. David Green- • cisely that experience of becom- tional Seder at. the Temple on their nominations for the popu- the president, William L. Hols- berg, third vice-president, Harry ; ^ Silvernsan, secretary; Karry Mai-; ^ ' ing a people, which: it records in Saturday night, March 27, at larity contest to Hymen Shrier, man." Serving on this coraniittee.will asaock, treasurer;'" Dr. Philip ; ' in myth, in vision, in scripture— 6:45. All the traditional cere- 740 First National Bank Buildpresident, Mrs. J be: Milton Abrahams, Mas Ear- \ sher, hone in a creative structure which is monials wil be carried out at the ing. . the image of its soul and there-, Temple. Reservations are one dol- Persons attending "Screeno-Ca- Ish, Julius Bisno, Arthur A. Cohn, " fore* of its fate, which is true, lar for adults and seventy-five sino-Night" will be permitted to Dave Cohn, Mrs; M. L. Cohn, Da- --«? truer' than any other thing .that cents for children and may be cast their ballots for one of the vid Goldman, Dr. A. Qreenberg, i c David Greenberg, J. J. Greenhappened and can be proved, true made by calling the Temple of- individuals nominated. . Morris= Jacobs, PhiiiP not only for the tremendous mo-. fice. Everyone purchasing admission b e r j '.. ment in which the people was tickets at twenty-five cents .will Klutznick, Hobert Koop.tr," 3. H. born but for all ages and especialparticipate in the drawing for'the Kulaltofsliy, irvin Levin, Nathan j Lerinson, r Jack W. Harer, Dr. ly for the great recurrent ages of Eepert Ziosist Congress -. . fifty dollar cash door prize. rebirth. Lo eth avothenu kharTo Be-in'.Switzerland Several fine vaudeville sets Morris Margolin, Ephrais Maries, ath Adonai eth ha-brith ha-sothwill be presented in addition to Mrs. Louis Neveleff, Harry Trusnot with our fathers did; the EterPraha (JTA) — T h e twentieth the various games offered daring tln, Harry A. WoH, .and- Mrs. nal make his covenant; but with biennial World Zionist Congress the evening. The auditorium of Harry A. Wolf. u s , even with us who .are-here will be held the first week in Au- the Central CIUJ will be fiecorat- Officers of the Cemmnnliy ea/ • ' and alive today! How true it is! gust in Switzerland, the newspa- j ed to resemble the Monte Carlo ter and Welfare Federation -were f (Continued on page 8V) per Selbstwehr reported. elected at the annual : meeting 1 Casino.

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