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Pres. Hoover to Address Late Jewish Scientist's 'DYBBUK' GUMAXL^ Brotherhood HEBREW UNIVERSITY Convention RABBI MAXIMILIAN Wife Pensioned by U. S. WORKOFpiTER HELLER, REFORM AND FRIENDS ORGANIZE ^ GUILD ZIONIST LEADER, DIES
:'-What's in a Name? Not much except that if your name happens to be similar' to that of some famous _ person, you're Jiable to come in for some unexpected but nevertheless enjoyable publicity. Glancing down the "What's News'on the Rialto?" •column of the. Sunday, March, 31, dramatic section of the New York Times-, we find the following statement: : "An' actor - named George' M. Gohen is playing in "The Dybbuk" out-in Omaha at present." .--."•: Such is fame. -You see..Broad> way has a-fellow by the name of. George M. , Cohan wha is - also somewhat of an actor. But you
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preparatron,^the;. presentation of a great;. Jewish play ..in \. a. manner worthy.- of- tbe; play-itself. -.As; th curtain'rose*? one was carried back ldng: ago; and far away to a village synagogue of eastern Europe, where wondrous tales of miracle-working rabbis were told. In the dim flicker of candle light, they disputed over the law and laid a firm traditional background for the tragedy to come. Here Channon, the doomed young scholar- brooded over the love that was slipping through his long thin fingers, and in the agonized cry in which merged victory and defeat, fell dead. ' Sam Greenberg. played the scholar with a sense of tragic melancholy which only the triumph "of the final union could wipe out. Then came the street scene with its sudden climax at the grave- of the murdered pair and the unearthly voice of the messenger, ""Into the maiden has. entered a dybbuk." The two final-acts were dominated by the work of Miss Faye Klein, as Leah, and George.M. Cohen as Rabbi Azrael.' Miss Klein brought-to the part of,the possessed maiden a dramatic .- power which was clean-cut and..authentic. Lovely in. her white wedding gown and' golden plaits as a Juliet or a Marguerite, she managed to' contrast' sharply the terror of a lost soul and the pity of a lost love. Her final scene in which the dybbuk gone from her body, it enters her soul and is united with- her •in death," lingered in the minds of (Continued on Page, 2)
OMAHA HEBREW CLUB TO HOLD PROGRAM SUNDAY
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The-Omaha Hebrew Club meeting for Sunday, April 7, will be. featured by a musical and educational program. Vocal selections will be given by Mrs. Margaret Bellman, accompanied by Margaret • Hurwitz, and Minne Yaffee will, play several piano solos. William L. Holzman will show mov*n8" pictures taken in Central America during his recent trip there. '
BRODKEY CONSTRUCTION AWARDED NAPIER JOB The Napier Shoe Store is to be remodelled at a cost of about $40,000. The job is to be done by the A...-H. Brcdkey Construction, and includes the enlarging of the first floor of the ^store to accomodate all the departments previously occupying both the firsthand' second floors of the building, and the building of a new store.'fronts which is-expected to-be one of the finest in. the midwest.
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;SCENERY AND COSTUMES ADD ARTISTIC TOUCHES ' By Mrs. Samuel Gerson The -largest and most discriminating • audiences of the season saw and approved the performances of ."The. Dybbuk" by the.Center Players Guild at the Jewish Community ter Tuesday and Wednesday, nings. : T?6urliundrea and fifty •' guests, representing the leading cultural interests'- of the" city, attended the opening performance.' The production saw also. the realization of a long cherished. dream toward which" all previous work of - the Center Players Guild had been a
110th Anniversary of Isaac M. Wise Observed
Washington, D.:c:(—sJ.. T/ A . ) - i A pension of $125" a month was voted by . the United States senate for Mrs. Mary Goldberger, widow* of the late Dr. Joseph <JoIdberger, Was One of First Graduates discoverer of- t i e cause and cure of Six N«*ds for Hebrew Univerof Hebrew Union sity in Palestine Are pellagra. Announcement of • the College Outlined senate's action lii-grantiag. the pension was made; by Senator Heed TAUGHT HEBREW AT ',: Smoot of Utah^ JAftlES MARSHALL HEADS ,
Faye JKleinand George Cohen - Star in Leading : ' Roles IF. -
VOL. VII.—No. 12
TULANE UNIVERSITY
President Herbert C. Hoover. Among r the speakers on the grogrpm of the third-biennial convention of the National Federation- of Temple Brotherhoods at Washington, D. C. Sunday and Monday, April 7 and S, are President Herbert C. Hoover Ludwig Vogelstein, New York,: N. Y., chairman of th& Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations ; Mrs.-Maurice. Steinfield St. I^ouisj-Mo., president-o£ the. National Federation > of Temple Sisterhoods; Roger W. -Straus, New York N. Y., president of the "Brotherhoods and' Rabbi Isaac- Landman, New York, N. Y.? editor of The American Hebrew.
New Orleans.—(«L T.r A.)—Rabbi Maximilian -Heller, > -outstanding leader in the Reform Babbinate. for nearly half a century, scholar and educator and champion of the Zion-: ist-cause from an early date;. died here at 8:30: Saturday:'morning following .a short illness. Rabbi' Heller was 69 years old. He is "survived by his wife, Ida Annie (Marts); his son, Rabbi James . Heller1 of ~ Cincinnati, and other children. _ : . . Rabbi Heller, one . of_ theT earliest graduates of.the Hebrew Union college at Cincinnati, was a.' ^ leading spirit in" the- history of American Jewry at the close of the'nineteenth' and beginning of the twentieth cpntury and" exercised a decisive 'influence in shaping-the character of the American Jewish., communityf As a scholar and orator, he was a; great factor in presenting; -the" cause of Judaism, and' in championing,-Jewish conceptions' and' ideals both in the pulpit and in the ^ In the Zionist movement - in the
TAKES RABBI SILVER'S '.. ' LECTURE COURSE PLACE
NBWLY.FOilMED SOCIETY
' Senator-' Ran§dell introduced' the bill for the-grafting of the'pension. Senator ^ Smoot j made the announcement' to counteract misap'prehension on the'-'part -of certain newspapers throughput' the5 country%wh1cH; published' editorials ^ voicing ' critidsi» that the senate ; had - pot granted "the pension to'MrsV Goldberger. ;. "Mrs. Mary Goldberger, the widow of- Dr. Joseph Goldberger, has been granted a perisioti of ?125 per month. The bill wa& • reported to the senate favorably, and|; when the calendar was called the^;Avas no- committee report; andfor f that reason, and for that only, I asked that the bill go over. The very! next time ih& calendar was called : the bill was passed Without a objection," Senator
Smoot declared.
BESSARABIAN RELIEF FOND ^ $500,000 IS t AUGUST!
"United: States Rabbi Hetlec was, one
of the leading figures from an early RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS date. He embraced the Zionist cause IN EASTERN EUROPE Reform.Rabbinate at a time when the- majority of the in. bitter op; iNMNffiRlSCLAffl position to it. Hiswasappearance at
Subject to Br "On. Religion Ever Be . Liberal?"
All Am«ricaii\Jewry Urged to Aid
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the Pittsburgh convention" of the 40,000 FAMILIES IN NEED Dr. H. Sliosberg Warns That Zionist Organization of America last New York.-—(J. T. A.")—The raissummer was a notable event, in. view ^mihediate Aid Must ing-of a fund ©f $500,000 for emer.the attitude he took at a juncture Be Rendered gency,, relief work in Bessarabia for when the convention was torn by
New York.—(J. T. A.)—A New York Society of Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine was organised following a. luncheon held last wpekT at the Harmonic club, attended), by ; fifty New York. Jewish leaders-,, James Marshall w»s chosen chairman of the society which will have for its purpose to enrolL all those interested in Palestine as a Jewish cultural center and especially in furthering; tbi developing of the Hebrew University. Jtn effort will be made to enroll at least one thousand active' Friends during- the month of April, during which* the fourth anniversary of the dedication of the university "«yill be observed. Mr. Marshall outlined six needs which the university-meets. "In the first place," he said, "the local demand for facilities for higher education is insistent. Scores of pioneers have come prepared for univereityr instruction from secondary sehoolg in countries of their origin. Furthermore, thousands- of children are - growing op . in •- .Palestine with Hebrew as t3jeir native tongue, and they will neeS; a university to complete their education. Secondly! the introduction of modern agriculture and c»ttle breeding into a new region creates problems' of coil and climate, water gupply, chemistry, and physics, whicb can best be solved on the spot, in the laboratories of a modern university. • Third,' a place to study
Dr. Isaac M. Wise. The 110th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Isaac M. Wise, leader of Reform Judaism,, was observed Saturday, March' 30, at Founder's Day exercises in Hebrew Union* College chapel at Cincinnati,, This picture was taken by the late Isaac Benjamin/ internationally famous photogTapher, anft was found': during a search of bJra files for another picture. The cane seen here is of olive wood and was; brought from Jerusalem. by one of his-admirers, to Dr. Wise; trho traveled in the Holy Land when' such joarneys -were infrequent.
Rabbi • Soloman Freehof will deliver the final lecture in the series sponsored jointly by the Jewish Community Center and the Council of Jewish Women, Monday evening., ApriS' ?V Rt the ,]ev-ish Community Center. Eabbi FreehoF*. lecture will smp plant'the announced lecture In Rabbi Abb? Hjlle! Silver who v>as pre-
RUSSIAN MONARCHISTS PREJUDICING CHINESE PEOPLE AGAINST JEWS Jewish Experts Refused In Factory Due to Instigation of Russians
. Babbi Soloman Freehof,
vented by illness from fulfilling hi; SAY JEWS BOLSHEVIKS the purpose q£/tiding over 40,000 engagement. Rabbi Freehof's repbitter controversy in the fight - of TELLS OF BUSIAN JEWS the opposition group against the ad- Jewish, families,- victims . of the Hartan.—- (J. T. A.) — Anti-Semi- utation, as a speaker ie such that famine, until JLpgust 1, was set as mu&t be provided fcr the hounded tism is penetrating into China due tha sponsors of the course fee} fully ^ r S c - A.—Unless. ministration..hjaaded J>y_ L^qjg Ljpjlcy; **goal' at'-a justified in recommending him in immediate aid ir-Tendered to- exist- By his calming influence' during", an conference- Ticld "Sunday afternoon at and -disappointed j-octh of ..the- cwin- to the propaganda spread by the BtbbT'Silver's-pluce. which limit refugee monarchists from Russia. tries of Eastern acrimoneous debate. Rabbi Heller, ing religious institutions in Eastern Pythian Temple* New York City. Be if_the spiritual leader of Kehithe number of Jew* who may enter Four members of Koltshakin and Europe, particularly: in "Russia and -who Was one of; the chairmen.: of the The conference was called nnder lath Anghe Mayriv eongi^egation, thr Semionov's armies, now serving in their universities '«s students and; Poland, Judaism rin i East Europe i s convention, contributed, largely tooldest. reform congregation in Chi • the joint auspices, of the American Chinese institutions, are stirring up give them no opportunity for inward steering the assembly into endangered and with" it the Judaism Jewish Congress, • the Roumaiuah- telligent scholarly research. Fourth, hatred against the Jews among the capo. Until three years age whets of the world, This opinion was ex- more peaceful waters. „ he was -called to this post, Rabbi Bom in Prague, Bohemia, January Bessarabian Belief Committee • and Palestine is a logical place for theo- Chinese. pressed by Dr. Heinrich Sliosberg, Freehof 'war on the pteff of ththe United Roumanian Jews of A recent case in a Harbin factory logical students to do post-graduate noted Russian Jewish leader, now 31, 1860, the son of Simon and Hebrew "Union college, Cincinnati, America. Although representatives the - propaganda being wort. Fifth,' the Jews who have revealed a resident of Paris, who arrived last Mathilda (Kassowitz) Heller, Maxiof many Landsmanschaften and so•Rabbi Freehof's lecture subject spread by the Russian monarchists. benefited for centuries from the -uniweek on- the "Hie de Prance." milian Heller came to.America at an •will be "Can Religion Ever He Libcieties were invited, a small -number The factory Sonchosin, the largest versities of the_ western vorld ought The grave economic position of the early age. He was educated at JIc- of delegates was present. in retrjrn to contribute to the world Chinese leather factory in Harbin, ersl ?" R^bbi Freehof hat-- pive?> Micken university and at the Hebrew Jew which threatens his existence Disappointment and indignation- at a place of higher learning.. In fact, recently invited European experts to much of his time and thought t«-. in Russia and the bars on religious Union college.; In 1889 he married the lack of response to the emer- we are anxious that" our new uni- make a study of and prepare a plan the problems of Hberal rpligion nn«l propaganda, enforced by the Soviet Ida Annie Marks. gency" call was a recurring: Tiote in versity become an sgency for en- of. improving the factory, system. is well qualified to speak on a mibSince 1887 Dr. Heller was rabbi government are further complicated The announcement that the factory jeet of such vital concern to modem by the penury of all religious institu- of Sinai Temple, New Organs, He the; addresses delivered by Dr. riching all culture sndjbenefitting all desired the services of experts ap- Judaism. mankind. . The. research which our Stephen S. Wise, Jacob Fishman and tions, Dr. Sliosberg stated. It would was professor of Hebrew and Her be ridiculous, in the opinion of Dr. brew; literature at Tulane' university Abraham Goldberg..' Inefficiency on scientists have already carried on in peared in the local papers. When the' part of the temporary organi- the field p£ public health and in several Jewish experts applied, the NATUBALIZATION FEE TO Sliosberg, - to" speak of a national since 1912; BK INCRBASEP IN JULV zation was partly blamed for the >|oslera history and civilization is Chinese manager of the factory deRabbi Helle* was active in> Jewish existence if Judaism itself clared: "We cannot accept Jews bean earnest of wha»t we may accomsmall attendance. The speakers were to disappear. Europe, despite organizations, was honorary vice- frankly criticised American Jews of plish in this direction," concluded cause they are Bolsheviks." It was Mrs. I. Eosenthal, chairman of the poverty of its population, is still president of. the Jewish Publication Bessarabian descent for their lack of Mr. Marshall. the department of immigrant educarevealed that the factory employs ; the center of Jewry. The possibilities Society of America, president of the interest, as demonstrated in the'fact In addition-to New York, Societies many former monarchists who are tion of the Coun'cjl of Jewish Women of Palestine are still too remote and ientral'Conference of Ameritan Rab- that the delegates present announced of Friends; of .the University are conducting systematic propaganda h»e received "word that the America is too, young to take its bis, 1909-1911, a member of'the He- the raising of ?3)300 to date toward naturalization law has considerabl being established throughout the against the Jews. brew Union College Alumnf associaplace, Dr.'Sliosberg asserted. increased the cost of securing first Steps to dispel the false impresthe sum sought, which had-been deUnder these . circumstances •" it is tion, the-American Oriental Society, termined , upon and spoken of at a country, untie£ the, auspices of the sions created among the Chinese are and second naturalization imperative to render succor to Jew- and the American Association- for number of previous meetings and American A<jv!$ory-_ Committee,- of being undertaken by the Jewish ' After July 1, 1929, first which Felix M. Warburg is chairish religious institutions and their the Advancement of Science.: press, which plans to issue leaflets will cost.. $5 instead of $1. Those gatherings held • during the last man, i • . He was editor of the "Jewish leaders abroad; Jt is his hope while periodically to enlighten the Chinese who vrish to. take out papers am' month since the news of the sufferin the Uniied States to; form a gen- Ledger," New Orleans, from 1896* ing in Bessarabia reached America. and to show the falsity of the mon- wall do so before July 1 will eral comrjiittee -for the purpose of 1897 and at on time of the B'n&f the" increased cost. archists' propaganda. The conference unanimously deestablishing a fund and' a program Brith magazine. He was a cbn-^ tributor to the "American Israelite" cided that every avenue of- solicitafor religious, relief. and many journals on "religfoua sub- tion will be utilized. The opinion Short S tor if The position ••• of the Jews- in jects. : ; • • • . was expressed that while. BessaraEurope and . particularly in Russia Bv NI.XA KAYI; bian Jews in America should take is most disheartening. The economic the initiative in responding to the f status of the Russian Jew is daily LINCOLN MEN PARTNERS appeal the situation was such as to When Eachel Suskin ssw that mobiles in the gutter. Kis brown growing worse. This position is agIN SANITARY LAUNDRY command the interest of all Ameri- A meeting of the state executive after five daughters a son was born hung over his forehead, gravated "by the growth of antiserious brown eyes gazed owl can Jewry. In addition to a public committee of the United Jewish to her, she knew that he would be Charles, Joseph, and Harry Simon Semitism. There is today in Russia solicitation of funds, the conference campaign h&s been called for Mon- a genius. While her daughters were <OT S world which, pomehow, quietly a real danger" of pograms," declared of Lincoln, Nebr., have acquired day evening, April 15, at the Jewish at school, Rachel spent houre over end without effort, he commanded. in a resolution expressed its hope Dr. Sliosberg. "The Russian peasant partnerships in the Sanifairy> Laundry Community Center, fey W. L. Holz- the crib ITS the flat in Harlem Hanging ©ut of the window, Rachel^ that all Jewish organizations in does not hate "the Jew.: But he of Omaha. (Jen& Fitzgerald retains America, regardless of affiliation man, state chairman. This will be where the Suskins had lived for so to watch her precious hoy. She strikes at the Jew as a protest his interest in ;the firmi W. H. will consent to % voluntary tax on an extraordinary session of the com- many years. noted with pride how the other boys Bending tenderly against the .Bolshevist - regime. Ostenberg having sold out,.to the their membership for the purpose mittee to discuss matters of policy over him, she marked his high fore- did. him homage, brought him tops - , in connection "with the campaign. It head and bright eyes. Of course he and pieces of tile which they salChurches are "closed, religion is sup- Lincoln men. of swelling the fund. is called at the request of Mr. David was a genius! pressed, and to the simple ignorant N Charies Simon, with his,wife. and vaged in their haniy adventures. The first public appeal for funds A. Brown. peasant, it ap'peats^ only; a non- daughter, Martha Regina, wijl move When he was five Rachel bought Her husband, Benjamin, was deChristian could order such an act. to Omaha soon to tata 'carle of hie will be launched in New York at a Follqinng this meeting at which termined to hide his joy at the him & violin, e, beby violin it was, mass meeting to be held shortly. As V matter of ^course he blames and his brothers' interests* Sinion is the status of every pledge made to newcomer. He contributed only his and ever her husband's expostul*the Jew. ^The Soviet government is a former student at the University Philadelphia has pledged to raise the campaign will be reviewed, a word of warning at the supper table tiotus she engag-ed a teacher. "He'B powerless - to stem the tide, of an of Nebraska and is a- member of $25,000. report for Nebraska will be sent to when Rachel recounted the day's toe yeung, I tell you," her husband anti-Semitic wave which has its the. B'nai Jeshuren Temple r in Linthe New Y«rk office. The report wonders of the child. "You'll spoil objected. "Give him s chance to •••.-.•' source in this psychology. The fact coln. which can be made for the state him, Rachel," he cautioned. "It's pl«y like other boys." JAY MILLS TO APPEAR According to Simonj plans are bethat the Bolshevists: themselves will "Aaron's not like other boys/' will depend upon this meeting'. It enough he's got five sisters to make ON BENEFIT PROGRAM drown in- Jewish blood does not, int made for immediate-enlarging is planned to liquidate all possible a fuss over him. You'll spoil him, Rachel replied, e gleaming, protechowever, ameliorate ttr -Jewish sit- of the laundry. Several new departtive light in her eyes. "He doesnt Plans are being completed for the pledges by May 1. I tell you." ments are to be added to (the plant, concert to be given by the Daughters, uation," Dr. Sliosberg said. in the street, running and Officers of the Nebraska campaign Rachel pushed a wisp of stragp Conditions for the Jews in Poland, and those already in operation will of Zion on Sunday evening, April committee 6**: W. L. Holzman, gling hair from her eyes which screaming with the roughnecks. He's '. 28, at the Congregation of Israel on the other hand, indicate some be improved he said. - ' -\ chairman; George E, Brandeis, treas- burned with a deep light. "You so gentle, he sits on the stoop artri mprovement. While -their economic synagogue, for the benefit of the urer; Abe Goldstein; city chairman, can't spoil a genius, Ben. You wstches. His little hands are a status is .not good, he: stated, there City Talmad Torah. ROSEWALD AIDS JAPS musicians hands. He's » genius!" and Dr. Philip Sher, city treasurer. can't spoil a genius." The girls echoed their mother's seems to be a milder- attitude on Chicago;—(J. T. A-)—A gift of Among those who will appear on Additional members of the execuAn incredulous "Hah" was Benwords. "Aaron's e genius. AarohV the part ".of., the-t Pilsudski govern- |25,000 to the Kobe college }n Japan the program * will be Cantor A. tive committee are Rabbi Frederick jamin's reply. a little genius." ment to the Jewish minority. If the was made by Julius Rosenwald, it Schwaczkin, the Jewish Community Cohn, Harry Lspidcs, Harry MalaAs little Aaron grew he seemed, A tjuiet child, unresisting, AarOn Jews do not take •advantage pf this was learned here. A fund rof ?1,« Center symphony, orchestral and Jay. shock, Henry Monsky, Harry Rosen- indeed, different from the other opportunity it will be the fault of 000,000 is being raised for th« col- Mills, master of ceremonies at the feld, H. A- Wolf. H«rry B. Zhrnnan small boys who played about the gave hitnself into his mother's lege. their leaders and Morris Friend of Lincoln. stoop or ran shouting behind autoRiviera Theate* tContinued on Page 2>
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