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VOL. VII.—No. 11
OMAHA, NEBRASKA., FRIDAY, MARCH 29,1929t
ISRAEL ZANGWILL,
Charity Dividends
EUROPEAN DI MEASURES REPORTED BY DAVID A. BROWN
Charity^ dividends i n t h e form o£ good news about = t h e accomplishj n e n t s of t h e Jewish Welfare Federation a n d t h e . J e w i s h CommTihity Center in 1928 will b e Various Sections of East Europissued a t t h e annual meeting of ean Jewry Face Famine -the t w o organizations i n t h e Ceni » r , Thursday evening, April 4. Ali w h o have invested jgaod will in local Jewish achievement a r e FROM 30 TO 75 PER CENT By JOSEPH LEFTWICH JEWS APPLYING FOR AID summoned to attend. Zangwill .did not ejer this. Zangwill it implies, for-, thesake of. quaintAs soon/-as- you t r y to. arrive' at - T h e audience will not only -reStejs •alresdy taken by the Joint he grew ceive cumulative interest i n pride*, an estimate of Zangwill's place in ness, a . f ew ; specifically. Yiddish -was boTxi: Distribution Committee to relieve the literature; you? -mill.at once, find some idioms, or ^writing, with an assump- iip inVWWteehapeir; obtained his on i t s investment, b u t •will be acste -distress of lajrgc BUfflbers t>f people, especially Yiddish writers, tion of easy sop4Eciority and detach- education:- atrthe Jewp' Free. School entertained. with a novel dramatic J«ws in LBesaar«bia, Lithuania *tid in the^Lane", where he later became ; screwing, up their faces into a sneer, ment about purdy Jewish customs feature in which the Spirit of part spf Poland due to exttftordinery and obje^ng'that Zangwill'made his and traditions; so that the non-Jews a school ;t«j»cher. He was quite a .the: Federation, extends a helping vjgo'rs. of last winter, said to.liave ? youngster when he started -writing name among non-Jews, by trading jn marvel at. these "strange, Jews. ' •been the severest from wWch and l i e all young writers he began hand to the pony the crippled, the Europe has . suffered in »%•«• » cenJewishness* by writing >piqtta,nt Jewimmigrant, and all who are iiv by drawing on" the. life around him. ish storie^—a sort': of Jewish, corner tu*y, were, detailed yesterday by . .. . s He started'with'an" aiiaiysis of the troubled dian oh the English stage. There is National Chairnmn .David A, Brc-w Officers, of bo&i' organizations position of Jews an3 Jewishness in some truth' in the. complaint,' but \\ of the rUnited Jewisli eannwsign. be elected. '" England. He published a long essay ";is: in' no way"just. Yiddish^writers, Quoting cabled reports from Dn in,- the "Jewish Quarterjy Eeyiew", on too/ write of Jewish, lifei: that is,' of Benfliard Kahn, Ewropesm lirt this ; subject, tracing Wnitecnapel:<! the life they know and.'.,belong'to, of the Joint' Distribution lirocesK" of - "adaptation to BngKsh but; because" they -write in Yiddish, Mi» Brown said that' 455,008 life. This article was the germ of their types^are not so obviously Jewar« in dir^ need jn Sduth Zangwill's famous •'Children of the iish. It sounds^ as. if they1 were w i t Of th« 650,000 Jews dwelling in Ghetto." It must be remembered; tha^. ing abou^ ordinary, every-day life, Middle BessaraWa, excluding Kish-Zangwill was only 27 when tiie without- label or adjective, because inoff, about one-tliird are in serioo;-"Children of the Ghetto" appeared; the language fits in and "comes pstr ' In 'Kishinoff itself, the gen-
Paris (J. T. A.)—Credit for Great Jewish'Authors Devotion To His People Caused Him To -Fail having originate^ monotheism beTo Attain The Pinnacle of Literary Success longs to the Egyptians and- not His Talents Destined For Him .the Jews, was the contention of Christian Minister Predicts Suc- Dr. James Breasted* archaeologist, cess t>f Zionism After Visit •who is , accompanying John D. ANGLQ.JEWISH GENIUS DIED BROKEN-Hl^RTED to Palestine Rockefeller, Jr., on: his tour which included- Palestine. . URGES BOTH GENTILES • In a statement' he made before AND JEWS TO AD3 WORK his departure. wiW: Mr. Rockefeller for AmerfcJL rabpfnrd''the. Be • de : New York (J. T. A.)—Enthusiastic. France,'.. Proif,; P'reasteff said^that over the Zionist work in Palestine, according W latest- discoveriesDr. John Haynes Holmes, minister made, in -Egypt, the1. Egyptians -o£ the New York Community Church, were monotheists-800 . years bereturned last week on the steamer fore the Hebrews. The Jews, he Aquitania, after spending three said, only began worshipping one weeks' in Palestine, -where he -went God at ,a later date, monotheismas' the representative of Nathan -having been imposed! upon them -StrauBS. "I think ,it is one of the by the; Prophets.: - / ' greatest" things: I : ever saw," Dr. Btolmes said of the rebuilding .work. Difficulties are. being encountered^ because ,of the faet:-that-the,land, has been devastated forr thousands of years, but these difficulties, can be - :overcome if the Jews of 'the world, especially American Jews, continue to contribute ,toward the upbuilding work.- Contributions should not come Mrs; Charles Dietrich Tells Local froth Jews alone, Dr. Holmes deBut if they wrote; in .Yiddish about Chapter About To my mind it was the amazing View Expressed by Whiting e»l: poverty of abourt &0(000 clared. Support for this cause should, English life, it would sound exotic, JBU1 ,fead'been' greatly' agjpnaVBted by tiie siiccesi of :the "Chikireh of the Williams in Lecture also come" from liberal non-Jews, too. Zangwill wrote' of a particulw Severe . winter condttioiis. Ghetto" which was, Zangwill's unAt J. C C. persons interested in social experir' COUNCIL MOVIE SHOWN type of Jewish life, not in Yiddish, t .Mr.'.'Brcwn said that tl\e governdoing and- his tragedy/ for he was ment. ' ; . but in English, and therefore it apinsmt and: the Koumanian Bed Ooss IS INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY neVer' afterwards ailowed to escape The most serious problem, in ; Pal-, It is difficult to gain the" ratifica- pears'exotic He'was; brought up In hud undertake certain relief mmhfrom Jewish subjects, although he estine is the relation . between: the tion' of theV ChiW. labor, amendment a home where his parents spoke was struggling hard'to get out into: "The problem of industry is to yres, *nd thst in Jamifuy the J l H Jews and the Arabs, Dr. Holmes by the Nebraska legislature' because Yiddish, outside in the streets, in tiie the; greaf' sea of general literatiire. prende regular employment fop the,Di«tributiQTJ Committee had pointed out,: declaring that he : metchild labor conditions here are very "Lane,? people, spoke Yiddish or He followed it up with three books workers and to teach the owjiiers to 4120,000 for food, clothing ant! sanall the Zionist leaders, talked • with good and Nebraskans.- do 'not: realize' •Yiddishised English* and^ he Jhad t which had, nothing to do with Jewish share the glory of their exploits with itary aid for the distressed populathe chief of- the Arabs; was in con-what conditions ex|st in many states", render all this in a different lancharacters ' Or Jewish atmosphere; those' who have, actually performed tion. ference twice with the High Com- Mrs. Charles Dietrich, of- Hastings; guage/ in English; andL,the Tesult theny* declared Whiting Williams, In addition, he added, the Ameri"Merely Mary Ann,""The Master," industrial missioner and • interviewed the Com-president of the Nebraska League; of was quaint and it tickled' the palate M the' Jewish can Joint Reconstruction Foundation, and "The Mantle of Elijah"; but.the Communityaathority, ies. "It is my impression that the Women Voters, said in a' talk to theof the English reader. Cente?,. Tuesday eve- which derives it* fund* from the r critics demanded more' Jewish books ning, March 26. The lecture was thewhich d missionerV secretary and two deput- Omaha Council of Jewish Women at d fc Distribution Committee and tfce and he listened to them. He wrote sevenths of t h e See&il Service Course j Joint But Heine> too, did something of Monr j_ gQvernment considers the interests the JewisH-KJommunity Center (Jewish Colonization j ; his "Dreamers of the Ghetto." Tbit, There is too much of this harping on • "'."... th> kind. Heine brought into the of the Arabs first and keeps aloof day afternoon. • , of the. Council of Sil Social Agencies. Ai , jj nation) bed made $27,000' from the i Jewish movement, because "Work for the' amendment has. German language-words1 like'''Shah- the Jews as a "peculiar people." done, Zangwill returned to Englislv Williams described in an entertain special ccredits to in- -inm ^„.„ form form ooff special literature, and wrote "The Grey; ing manner some of his personal it is not yet convinced,in the future been hampered-by- a. great deal;, of bos" and' 'fkiddish," and lie; wrote,- a Such writers are truly the parasites J«-vdsh co-opcmtiv^s in Bess: Wig," a collection of short storiesj experiences . the ':. _. : y ' ; j t ^ / " S T h Rabbi Rbbi of literature. misrepresentation" T of the law by wonderfuljjeyish: of this work." sto^y/ p ^ . he worked as a at&bis. and-r "Italian .Fantasies;" perhaps the "-• A man-.-may wJrite whatsow^Tr Notwithstanding the., complaints of southern- nianufacturers," M ' D i of Bacharach,*'': and Jewish; ' poems, lbb Th,e emergency in , JBess»tabi«i, cottmion labbrfer ''in' various parts of the. ..Arabs*'ihe: general Sloslem-popr %^i4^::oi: the brrt^tfce p , is? p put, paralleled % He -partdexflariy- -^enoonsjed poin 1 must- be its artistic ; value, and^ not has given us. That was . in ulation feels" that Ither are "benefiting; n o t ; prevent " cluldreji from • doing" Jewish, soul* siderable measure of stiffening; in the-usual view that a wOTkmgrnan by tlje Jewish work iri_ Palestine.1 The'wholesome^: home-and farm work.; I t i I have no liking myselfr'f or ;writers the-writer's funny stories about the when Zangwill was "87. Qiljtei thinks «f nothing besides, the money Moldavia, due alsc to tiie i Jews are! also: trying to cooperate is meant-to. give; the federal govern^ whxi in English, French;; Russian or peculiarities of his people. I t is not from hjs Jewish storjesi Zangwill had he gets out of the job. "He likes to consequent to-the cold weather with the' Arabs by opening public ment power to. protect children em- any other'~lfterature; devote them- Jews alone who offend in) this respect already, achieved a great place in feel that he is important," the speak- the failure ef crops, d similar iil institutions- to. Arabs as well as ployed in gainful' occupations under selves to; Jewish themes and.,whose There are'Welshmen, and Scotchmen, English literature. He had early er said. The laborer was compared fering. is prevalent" iir many comJews, andseeking cooperation. ' ; unwholesome, conditions,''' ... .'..•' ','-,.entire^valufe in these literatures; con- and Irishmen^ too, who - commit the attracted the attention of some of to one of the: musicians hi an or- munities of Lithuania and Poland. •One of1 the things; that gave; Dr. -.: Mrs. Dietrich itpld,how work, from sists of- diihinig up; a little shallow same breach of good manners, asy for the best young writers of the time, chestra, who JalthoSgn he is not the ' Over aiwl above these older ftpHolmes the* greatest ••confidence wasNew York and Pennsylvania^garment refeired to, Mr. Bi Jewish life,, .made spicy to; suit the instance, M*. Caradoc Evans — and they were, proud to enroll him orchestra, is a vital part of it. the manner, in. which the newer; arr factories •' is... i tsentr tto:! New ti;Je ;, Jersey taste^of^the non-Jewish reader, pep people-whose name;', in literature' is as one of theic number. In the nineRefuting the argument usually ad- «tRtfld,' the Join! Distribution Oinrivals in . Palestine deal with t b i where child laboij is -at presentv per- pered with some Jewish; j6kes, gen- obtained almost entirely by writing ties 'Zangwill was a dazzling figutti vanced that the - modern worker who mittee, recognising the ssvious sitArabs. He said that, the lately mitted. She also; told;'; ofi- the high erally in" poor taste, and translating books in which they laugh and scoff in English literature. Together with merely" handles ' a machine becomes uation, bad determined to eel "aflUlp only an automaton, Williams told »n additional emergency .llotr.ieiu established communities, insist on fair injury - and- death rate^ where chil- verbally with, all the faulty, syntax at their own folk. '(Continued on Page 2> . of how even* in'the. handlings of a of $310,000 to meet the present dealing and- equal opportunity and dren are employed :in. hazardous oc7 .--. --. machine, there was a great deal of needs and to provide for other iw;that even. the nurses who go into cupations. - •-> - • '-: -. At the conclusion of Mr. Diethe personal element. - "This is tjrjgencies during the yea*., of vrfciVi the hinterland are instructed to give Icor Sends Toots ; ;/.;. shown in, the way some men can Sum $U0>000 has alveady been KC t as careful attention to the "Arabs as trich's talk, the Council passed a Shipment fo Russia get so much more production oat ofabroad, $60,000 ^oing for emevpeiiry to rhe Jews. Gradually > he thinks, resolution favoring' the • ratification a machine than any. others,"' he aid in Bessarabia, Lithuania, \UiWthe' fear of the Arabs is being broken of the amendment ":'m \ : •, New York (J. T. A.)—A transpointed out. , trvia and Poland, and S50.OOO for' ai« down. <• • •'' 1 ' A second feature of the meeting port of tractors, machines, motors Referring to the effect of monotony to distressed city <lv-cllerss in Ens*-;*. If the investments already made in was. the showing^of- a film* of. camp and tools worth $55,000 was-sent Palestine .are to bring full returns, •work done' by the National Council First Night to Be Gflest Per-! via the steamer "Eastern BeHe" Women's' Organization Holds on laborers»v William& told his aud- In Poland, he added. thCiT hfn> ienee that the fear of the worker already been allotted toward tlw Special Observance at formance; Second Open \ for the Jewish colonists in Bira the gift already; made must be con-of Jewish Women*; W;~L. Holzmai for too steady work, was nothing at Credit co-operatives for the ye«v -.. : toPnblic tinued and 'even increased, he said. exhibited the.Tfilpr. •> • , Temple Bidjan. The shipment was made all compared to their fear of inter- X82P the sum of $350,000 and further At the request of the Jewish^ WelAt present, Dr. Holmes, ..said, adeby the Icor, American organizamittent work, bringing its periods of Bums are to be allotted to the workfare Federation,* tw_d members of the GIRLS' CHOIR SINGS VETERANS FEATURE CAST tion for aiding Jewish colonists quate funds are not" available, and unelnployment.: The fear of un- ers' co-opevatives. to the strengthenr much of ' the work already " begun Council were appointed, to serve, on in Russia. . the social service committee of the -A large cast of the Center Players Loyalty to Judaism was the key-employment* though, he insisted, ing ' of the position of tch Centra! has been curtailed!. . Another shipment will be made note Federation • and the *B'nai B'rith, the Guild, containing several youpg men of the appeal made- at. the Comir was not so, much in the financial Co-operative. Bank and other institu"I have the feeling that.this Zionwithin a month, the Icor an>_ cil Sabbath, committee' which .has charge .of and. women who have made note-i service which was held loss .it "entailed* but was in the tions. ist cause must succeed,"' Dr. Holmes nounced. The "Eastern Bene",is; declared. "Nothing impressed me sovisitation of Jewish inmates, of state worthy succiessea in previous plays,; bound for Vladivostok, where the under the auspices of the Council -o£ moral'effect it. caused by leaving a ' The report indicates that in most much as the devotion, sacrifice 'and- institutions^ They .-are Mrs; Reuben will present; "The Dybbuk" in Eng-; tractors and V machines will be- Jewish women at Temple Israel Sat- man who had grown used to working of the communities about SO per idle. cent of the'Jewish population hav«< labor for *he cause which I have Kulakofsky, chairman of the social lish translation at the; Jewish. Com-; forvvarded to Bira Bidjan ii* urday morning. applied for help svnd m vsome oi tbr "The preserving and handing'down seen all the way from the high of- ser\ice committee of thS Council and munity Center "Tuesday and Wednes- Siberia. ;, Manuel Grodinskyy day evenings, April 2 aijd 3. In-, small communities as many as .« HEART ATTACK FATAL of Judaism is the first duty of the ficials in the movement down to theMrs.A committee to nominate: two newterfest; in this production' is being T er cent. The conditioh of the chilTO MORRIS KULAKOFSKY Council of Jewish W omen," Mrs. humble workers on the land. In directors of tbi ^Council-to be elected ^_ is_ worst o f ' a l l , Mr. Brown J. H. Kulakofsky, president of the Jerusalem there are thousands of this year was "appointed. The com-expressed by leaders in cultural activity in Omaha. The Drama League emphasized, particularly the school jyiorris Kulakofsky, 75, died WedCouncil, said in her address. "The -Jews who are literally laying down mittee consists' of, MJ;S. M.,-LY. Cohen, has recommended the play; to its -children, and relatively little aid cat? nesday following a sadden heart responsibility of handing down our ''their lives on the altar; of this great chairman J V Mrs;- „ Harry,, Rachiran, members. -The first performance faith to our children rests with the attack. The funeral was held Thurs- be expected from the local populacause. '••• . . MTS. ' Samuel/^Gersoril" Mrsl Nathan will be a guest" night, to which ad- • . ? - . • . • mothers. Let us not think that we day, burial taking place in the Beth tions. Hunger committees have te«en ' "No one can understand. Zionism ManM^fld* Mrs." Louis \9pler .-•'.,; mission; will be by invitation only. formed in KJKhinoff where a jthtmare. depriving our children of some- Hamcdrosh Hagodel cemetery. if he" sees it only in Jewish- terms. Tickets for the Wednesday perform- • Before a crowd that overflowed the thing when; we do not permit them • He is survived by his wife; a son, sand dinners are being distributed v,-Tl?e^ hospital^committee: He must see it as a great human has;rsentf.out an'.^ppeal Councb has;rsefou ^pp for ance are on sale at the Jewish Com- Jewish Community Center auditorium, to celebrate Christian holidays. Jerome Kulakofsky; a daughter, Mrs. daily »nd many people have to be •adventure and heroic endeavor to •books; b k ; for. f r tthW: WisfiSemoriai hqsj- •munity Center and with members Rose Lazarus and Mrs. A. Romm won Rather, we are doing this when we Dave Eiseman; three brothers, M. turned *way. hW^: Wisf^iSemoriai prove that the social ideals of the pital. .Those who_have to-con- of the Jewish Women's Welfare'or- a two to one decision over Sybil Adler do not keep the beautiful Jewish Kulakofsky, Reuben Kulakofsky, and race can be 'made real 'on the earth. tribute may take them books, and Mrs. M. F. Levenson Wednesday- festivals." . to the IIOB- ganization. I. Kulakofsky; and two sisters, Mrs. WOMEN'S WELFARE GROUP ,The failure of Zionism would mean pital or call Mrs. Sam Wertheimer. • Faye Klein, night in the comic debate that featA. Muskin of this city, and Mrs. M. TO MEET TUESDAY AT I.C.G a failure for us. all, just as victory Mrs. Kulakofsky told the story of Adelson of Los Angeles, Cal. George M., Cohen, for Zionism is a victory for all," he * The-Jewish Women's Welfare OrEarl Sieged Max Weinstein and Sant on the subject, "Resolvedi that King Moses'' infancy and the part which stated. EsniERtion will hold a meeting on STAG GHLAND qCUB ST HIGHLAND Epstein will- have leading, parts in Solomon with his thousand wives had his mother and sister had in the "The present situation is critical," , APRIfc 4 AT BEAGKSTONE the production. Other members of an easier time than the man of today saving of:Israel. EARL LAPIDUS GOING Tuesday, April 2, at the Jewish Cdmthe minister pointed out. "Thing's Rabbi Cohn made an appeal for the cast.are: Hyman Riklin,~ Alfred has with his one." The victors upheld ON EUROPEAN CRUISE murnty Center. Mrs. Herman J*hr, The Highland r Country Oub will Fiedler, Hpskell Cohn, Harry Levih- the negative side. done, or not done now may deterprogram chairman, has arranged for loyalty to the institution of Jewish Earl Lapidus, son of Mr. and Mrs.varied entertainment for the meetmine all the. future. I have' come hold a stag party Thursday evening, son, Benny. Blatt, Alfred Oruch, Sot The program, which wa&in celebra- faith, warning his congregation that Harry Lapidus, is one of two Omaha to feel intensely the pressing need April 4, at the Blackstpne Hotel, at Miroff, Robert Doririsori, Sybil Adler, tion of fee seventeenth anniversary of again the burden of responsibility ing. of certain things —• thus, the sup-.6:30 P, M." ' ' • ' ) - Ruth Friedman, Minda ''.Friedmanj the women's Zionist organization, was lies with the Jewish womanhood to men who will take the summer cruise meeting will be preceed*a b> port of Zionism in America and else- ' A membership drive with a goal of Mair Claire Shames, Mamie Teminj a joiHt. affair of both the Junior and keep alive the fires on the altars to Europe which is a part of the train- a The of the board short : ing at Annapolis, Mel,, where they are where niust be greatly increased in fifty mew .members as the objective Ann Lintzman. and Toby Flax. ltiembers are usrg%d to of faith. all bofird Senior chapters of Omaha. Mrs. Max Students. They will sail June 7 and everything that goes to making up will be inaugurated. The drive will This' service which was • held in obFromkin represented the older group •will visit Spain, Italy, and England, attend. a great [constructive enterprise, such continue no -longer than is necessary Mrs. Herman. Jalir, director bf.tht 1 1 de and Mrs. Henry Weisberg, the young- servance of- national Council Sabbath, Guild, has directed the play a* * * as knowledge, skill, labor, devotion. to fill the quota. • ATCACBTWORLD BANK signed, in collaboration with Harry 'ei"one. The former was chairman of was pljmned under the direction of I Bhali-plead with all men, Jews and Berlin.—(J. T. A.V—An MELCHETT'S SON Rl. P. the department of religion of which Cornell of. the Br^rideie Playersj the evening. Mrs. J. Rosenberg and Gentile^ to give to this cause as London.—(J. T. A.)—Henry Mond, against the proposed Mrs. Fredericfe Cohn' is chairman. ORose Fine, presidents of the Senior i h i ? PROM in the modernistic manner. never before." , bv the efc and Junior organizations gave snore "Members of the Council wcte u&hers. Hymie P/Milderj Boi]L of Mr. and Germsrj "Edelsbl&tt,", which »s«#rts GIVE BENEFIT CONCERT in the Parliamentary by elections Boys from the Sunday school read addresses on the work of their reAs at times a shoe, 'larger than Mrs. Harry R,. Milder, senior in the that the bank will M the inirtrutteTit A concert, will be given by the the service for the Sabbath before held recently at East Toxtetb. foot will cause Itsrqwner to spective bodies. Daughters of Zion for the benefit Commerce college.'"of, Creighton, unir the The new Parliament member was of "an mteraation*! Zionist: eon.versity, has been* elected one of the fall,, if too small, will gall hjm, so Another feature of the program was Purim. A choir of girls under the elected on the Conservative ticket, spisrey." The "EdelsbUtt" Ji tb« of the City Talmud Torah on Sundirection of Migs Laura Goetz sang. is with him whose business-is nat a tableau presented by members of day evening, April 28, at the Con-princes of the annual Junior-Senior if Miss Bertha Greenhouse also sang having entered the Conservative official organ of an association of in accordance with his inclinations* Prom to be held April 27 at the members of th* upp^r elass. gregation ,of- Israel synagogue at party when his father did. a sdlo. • —Horace. (Continued on Page 3) Eighteenth and Chicago streets. IFontenelle hotel.
COUNCIL OF p ENDORSE CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT
REGULAR EMPLOYMENT AND CREDIT FOR WORK CALtfD WORKER'S WANTS
LOYALTY TO JUDAISM STRESSED IN SABBATH SERVICE OF COUNCIL
CENTER PLAYERS GUILD Iff fiffiSENT "DYBBDK" H J C C . ON APRIL 2,3
HADASSAH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SUCCESS