November 15, 1929

Scanning the Jewish Horizon

Interesting ' and: Entertaining

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By David Schwartz

LA^GHITOFF ';As thisjs being penned the stock. excjiariger^r-, as, it is being caL »•*- Entered as second-class mail matter on January 27, l'ja., nt OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929 VOL. ML—No. 44 '"JtoS&r ~J^<f- fstuck*' exchange—is ^t ^jP o s t o ^ at Omaha.-Jfeb«*ta«. under the^ct of March 3. 1S7U. prime topic of cohversation. Happii ^ for Jewry, .Wall Street has Its oro, synagogue to-day. And, judging by, Charge Discrimination the talk of the amounts lost in Jewish in Medical Schools driies, the Wall Street synagogue should do a rushing business by way New York—Race prejudice is of furnishing spiritual balm. Vienna. (J.T.A.) Anti-Semitic riots Compensation to the robbing; thousands of Jewish Among the heaviest losers, it is in Austria universities have grown students for damages suffered has students of the opportunity to said, are Eddi Cantor, famous comeso frequent as to be almost daily oc- been promised by the authorities. obtain a medical education, deNationally Known Educator to curences. dian, and George Gershwin, famous Zionists to Launch Local Drive The outbreaks at the Unclared Dr. A-M. SchwiteUa, dean The Board has introduced compui- I Some Laws Force Them to Speak on "Widening composer. JOIR Cooperatives; Others of National- "Roll Call" of the St. Louis University iversity of Vienna were so vehement sory identification for all students The World" Oust Them Campaign Cantor, it is said, dropped no less School of Medicine, before the that authorities were forced to entering the Universities. Many of than a <raarter of a million in the Association of American Medclose the school. the rioters who were arrested were MEETING AT J.C.C. Moscow (J.T.A.) Thousands of LEVENSON CHAHtMAN market and Gershwin has suffered a ical Colleges' sessions at the Jewish students have been con- proven to be members of the Anti- Jewish artisans in Soviet Eussia are IOBS o f a c o u p l e o f y e a r s o f h i s r o y a l Medical Center. • Omahans will have an opportunity tinually beaten and thrown out of Semitic organization but not mem- in danger of losing their bread cardB The local campaign in the national ties.. • . . ' . ' . • • • : . • . ••••••... On pretexts of personality and . of hearing a national leader in peace the classrooms. The Hakenkreuders bers of the University. as a result of Soviet legeslation. Zionist "roll, call^ drive will be ofAccording to Cantor, when one goes scholarship, authorities are able The Jewish students in the ITnmovements when:Mrs. Julia B. Mayer move in groups, attacking individual ficially inaugurated at a gigantic mass Although bread can be obtained to a New York hotel these days and to conceal their real reason for of Des Moines comes "here November Jews. ivtrsities voiced their protests against only vrith the greatest, difficulty asks for a room on one of the top meeting to be held at the Jewish Comdenying admittance to Jews, he No let-up in the persecution was the riots, and the Vienna Kehillali without bread cards, e. law has been 25. :;.•{ •• • munity Ceuter' auditorium Monday floors, t i e clerk askas: A asserted. The combination is On that evening Mrs. Mayer will be seen, even after the Minister of and a number of other Jewish organ- promulgated that only artisans who evening, November' 18. The meeting "Do you want the room for living unfair,. he said, and makes ~for the principal speaker at the meeting Education requested the University izations sre planning to intervene are members of co-operatives will be has been called by .MJY Levenson, or jumping?" rejection where there is no hint of the Omaha Council of Jewish Wo- authorities to demand of the national- the government in behalf of the entitled to bread cards. If an arthead of the local Zionists. of lack of ability. " / men at the Jewish Community Center. istic student association leaders abso- Jewish students. ONE ON DR. KRASS The principle speaker' of the evening isan pays more than 24 roubles tax, This meeting arranged by the Peace lute guarantee tbat order will be Dean Miller of the Long IsThe Heimwehr Organization meet- he will be considered in the class of - Btit that ihe famous comedian is will be Louis lapskyyheadof the ZionDepartment of the ; Council, will be maintained. Otherwise, the Minis- ing was disrupted by a clash which traders. land College Hospital, and Dean managing to laugh off his huge losses ist Organization of- America. Mendel open to the public. Mrs. Mayer's sub- try declares, it will call in the police necessitated the calling of the police, A.S. Begg of Boston University was evidenced at the Jewish Theatri- Norman Fisher, executive director of A ruling was also just passed to School of Medicine,. who have" ject will be, "Widening the World." cal Guild the other night, where Eddie to reestablish normal conditions. when the gToup held a stormy meet- the effect that those in the catmade an investigation simular to served as toastmaster; Personally, I Thus far, the police have inter- ing to discuss the Heimehr attitude egory of the "declassed" who receive that of Dean Schwitella, concurliked best his reply to Dr. Krass. The intervened only when attacks occurr- toward the Jews. machinery from their relatives in red in his views. Both declared' famous Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El At the meeting were present America will not be able to make use ed outside the university grounds. that many students of recognize • •was called upon, and lie gave the ThesThe government has evinced con- students, members of the He"Tnehr of the machinery unless they enter ed ability often had to seek adpians a. gentle laying out. All of the cern : over the affair, fearing that Organization who participated in the the cooperative collectives. mittance to twenty schools begags, Dr. Krass said, were old. Somethe rioting will redound to the dis- anti-Semitic student riots at the This plan of the Soviets to push the fore they were successful in bebody, ;he added, should recite Kaddish Vienna University. The Heimehr enrollment of all artisans in the cocredit of Austria abroad. ing accepted. over them. membership openly condemned the operatives comes in direct conflict After Krass had finished Eddie rose action of these students and appealed with another of their projects, a sort and, among other things, mentioned to the membership to avoid anti- of "house cleaning," to expel from the that occasionally he had visited synaSemitic attacks. cooperatives all former traders and gogues, temples and churches, "and The members who supported the members of the '"declassed" category. the rabbis and preachers are still Hackenkreuzer in their excesses The Jews are thus caught in the preaching" frbinthe Bible." against the Jewish students, on be- vise of these two contradictory proWhich, I take it, is not a bad comeing refused the floor shouted "Out jects, one to enroll, the other to oust, back, when actors are charged with London, (J.T.A.) The oppression with the Jewish mob. We fight the Conflicting Plans Dr. Cyrus Adler of Philadelphia , pulling off ancient wit. laws against religious education in Socialists and the Jews." Tumule was unanimously elected President The "Ernes," Communist Yiddish Eastern Europe may be effectively resulting in the clash between the daily, continues unabated in its propJUST THE XTRST OFFER to succeed the late Louis Marshall, modified, it "was announced at a Heimwehr members who opposed aganda and demands the expulsion and Judge Irving Lehman of New The. dinner -was given in honor of meeting of the Board of Jewish anti-Semitic students and ths from the artisan cooperatives of ail York and Julius Eosenwald- if ChiGeorge Jessel, and Jessel delivered a Deputies. The steps for modifica- this policy, then broke out. cago were elected Vice-Presidents, rather ' fervent Jewish panegyric former traders who are now artisans. tion in Soviet Eussia were taken conand Colonel Isaac M. "Oilman of New which included even a recital of the German Reaction Opposite Mrs. Jolia. B. Mayer Many of the Russian Jews who are Haven, Treasurer, at the 23rd An"Sh^mfc Israel/' "Mrs. Mayer is nationally known as fidentially, as a result of a cor-Louis Lipsby . receiving machines from their relaBerlin—Disavowing antiSemitisrn nual Meeting of the American Jew- an educational worker, a speaker of respondence carried on by O-E. But Jessel found time to tell a story as a part of their program, a con- tives abroad are former traders. of a Jewish member of the cloak and the. southwest region, will^also speak, ish Committee;:>which was*b.eld last merit, and as one of the country's D' Avigdor Goldsmith, president of ference of German Volkspartei Their ability to malce use of the suit trade who* succeeded in being ad- in addition to a-number'of |ocal lead- Sunday in New York City; "With Dr. strongest advocates of world peace," the Board, and the late Louis students, in sessions here •with rep- machines depends on the outcome of ers, Mrs. Margaret BelMan will give Adler, Vice-Pfesident, in the chair.; said Mrs.-Samuel Gerson, chairman of Marshall. mitted ;intp- a swanky golf dub. resentatives from 15 universities at- the controversy -which has arisen. 1 ""After ^her."fea6^faesn~in* jt "ror-st^wbile, .several Yocal.s6los.._^-_':J::^^. ,•-,-:h :.^ Tiie_. Nominating. Committear recom- the local Peace Committee. The negotiations are. jstill_mcon- tending, decided-to secede-from the •At the Bame time, it was atratjtmemended ,' also that Judge Horace The plan of the "rplL .callT is ffie however, the other members decided Mrs. Mayer has held numerous na- fidential, but a definite announce- anti-Semitic German Student's As- ed by the Yevsektzia, Jewish section Sferri of Philadelphia should be that ' he W a s ~- "impossible," as the enrollment of 250^000 American Jews tional positions. During the war she ment by the leaders" is expected sociation. of the Communist party, that Jews, who are not at present members of the elected Chairman of the Executive was a lecturer for the food administra- shortly . phrase goes. • < The step was determined upon when former traders who e.ve now in the Committee. tion under President Hoover. She So a committee of members went to various Zionist organizations. Each Eeports were given on conditions the Association declined to eliminate category of the "declassed" and have one signh ; the "roll call" pays a nomUnder immigration, the Executive was at one time National President of in Palestine and East European him. "We don't "want to hurt your anti-Semitism from its progress. no voting rights in the Soviet elec"feelings," they told him, "but you inal sum. The drive is not being con- Committee report stated that what the National "Service Star Legion and countries. Lncien Wolf, secretary of j It was declared that the purpose of tions, will henceforth, be excluded won't be happy here. We will return ducted to raise money, but to show it believed was a great step forward is now National Educational Director the Joint Foreign Committee, report- i the German Volkspartei student from membership in small town loan your .initiation fee, buy you a new tet the world that American Jewry is still was the bill enacted March 2, 1929, of this organization. ed that negotiations with the groups in this stand is to obtain oi- Kassas. of golf clubs and give you a hundred firm in its determination to proceed which legalized the admission of Along educational lines Mrs. Mayer Norwegian Premier to repeal the ficial recognition from the state. with the upbuilding of the Jewish nat- Aliens who had arrived in the counts has established a worthwhile record These loan organizations are for dollars "bonus if you will get out." ional homeland. ry before June 3, 1921, and "who for herself. For three years she anti-Sb.ech.ita law were unsuccessful, mutual relief of the inhabitants. That night the cloaw and suiter told In lieu of the recent excesses in the were not able to produce proof of served as assistant in the Department but that the Premier had promised hiswifeabout.it,; to aid the Jewish community in se- Million Dollar Legacy Holy Land, Zionist leaders desire the legal admission. The report ex"You're not going to take it, are creation of a great source of energy pressed regret that the repeal of the of Social Welfare of the Extension curing Kosher meat. Drives Beggar Insane Division of the University of Iowa. you ?'• queried his wife. which could stimulate public opinion National Origins Provision, of the In this capacity Mrs. Mayer addressed Jews in Croatia are finding it "Of course not,", he replied. ' I t toward Palestinian reconstruction. Immigration Law, which had been more than 25,000 persons in the difficult to obtain nationality certWarsaw.—(J. T. A.)—Moses Feinwas only* the first offer." : The roll call pledge is as follows: so strongly urged by President Hoo- schools of citizenship throughout Iowa. ificates from Jugoslvania. Under gold, 70 years old, -went insane -when "I hereby register my faith in Jew- ver, had not been offered by Con- She is an active clubwoman and held the new nationality law no account is he received word frmo the United A CHANGED ish. Palestine and indorse the efforts gress. Contributions totalling $1,866.50 ENCYCLOPEDIA the first vice-presidency of the Iowa taken of the minorities treaties sign- States Consulate that his brother. were reported at a meeting of the We believe it was not so many to secure a more effective administraThe report of the Executive Com- Federation of Women's Clubs. ed by Serbia in 1919. If the govern- John, had left Mm $1,000,000. years ago that both. the American tion of that country by Great Britain mittee which had taken place with • At the present time she is an active ment fails to satisfy the claims of John parted from his brother nearly Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery Jewish Committee and the American in accordance with the provisions of the American Jewish Congress fol- director of the Jewish Community the Jews under the treaty, action 65 years agro, going to America and Improvement society meeting Monday afternoon at: the synagogue. Jewish Congress took exception to the the Mandate and the Belfour Declara- lowing the adoption by the latter Center, a neighborhood house in Des will be taken with the League of settling in Texas. The report was made by Mrs. E. Encycloepdia Brittanica on the tion; body of a resolution recommending "Monies, which administers to Jew and Nations, Mr. Wolf declared. Meyer, chairman of the finance comI herewith attach one dollar ($1.00) the appointment of a committee to Gentile alike and which is a forceful grounds of certain articles contained He also stated that due to inmittee, (Continued' oh Page 2.) therein which were deemed obnoxious arrange for an early conference of (Continued on Page 2.) tervention of the Joint Foreign ComEeportE on the progress on the and unjust to Jewry. representatives of the American Jewmittee in Romania, the anti-Jewish project to gravel the road in Sarpy ish Committee and the American: The new edition of the Encyclopedia situation in the universities was county, and expenditures for beautiJewish Congress "to end that sorely seems to be quite another story. The remedied. fying the cemetery, laying walks and needed unity of action with respect number of its Jewish contributors is to Jewish life be thus averted." Sain Beber, president of the Con- installing marker!:- were made by particlarly significant Albert Einservative Synagogue, announced the committee chairmen. stein writes on Space-Time, Max BeinSuch a. conference was to have For the eighth year, fathers and appointment of the new committees More than 140 paid up members hardt on the Theatre, Julius EosenThe social service department of taken place early in the fall of this sons will gather for their annual dinfor the coining term at a meeting of are in the group, according to Mrs. wald. on Philanthropy,' Dr. Joshua the Omaha Council of Jewish Women year, but owing to the death of Mr. ner at the Jewish Community Center, the newly-elected Board of Trustees A. Katskec, chairman of memberBloch on Hebrew literature, Xee Si- •mil sponsor several classes of in- Marshall, it has not yet been posSunday, Nov. 17, at 6 p.m. J. L. Rolast week. ship. Sixteen new membero were monson on Stage Design, Prank Zalo- struction this season* All classes will silbe to arrange it. senthal, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo RoEphraim Marks and Louis E. Lipp, witz on the Yiddish language, Isaac be held at the Jewish Community CenThe Committee had cooperated" senthal, will speak on behalf of the According to President Beber, the obtained by Mrs. E. Jacobs on & retwo Jewish students, will appear on Husik on Jewish Philosophy, Leonard ter and -will be in charge of teachers with other organizations in prevent-: congregation now numbers 269 mem- cent visit to Norfolk, Nebraska. sons, and Dr. Meyer Beber, one of the three-man team which will repStein on Zionism, and so on. Mrs. Harry Trustin reported that supplied by the Omaha Board of Edu- inr the summary expulsion, last the youngest of the Center's dads, will resent Creighton University against bers and is expecting a most successto date §1,155.85 have been expended February, of 1500 Russian refugees cation. These classes are open to the DIB YOU KNOW? speak for the fathers. Harry A. Wolf Oxford University of England in' ful season. The officers of the Syna- in improvements of the cemetery. in Constantinople, of whom 800 were gogue will be installed at the annual That Amy Schechter, one of those public and registration for them is Jews. The situation of the Jews of will be toastmaster. W. L. Holzman, Creighton's first international debate, Contributions to the fund, were Congregational Dinner to be given V first held and then acquitted in the now in order. the Yemen, which had been brought president of the Center, will present to be held at the Tech high audi- under the auspices of the Ladies' made by: Gastonia murder case, is the daughter Mrs. William Albers, a member of to the attention of the Committee by a surprise feature. torium on Friday evening, November Auxiliary on Wednesday evening, Messrs. J. m. J. A. Gross, H. Wilinoky, of fhelate Professor Solomon Schech- the social service committee, is spon3-. the articles in the Hebrew press in A program of light entertainment 22. The locals will defend the "talk- Dec 4, at the J. C. C. 5'ein. L?o .HmviroK, BrarJuliusij. Harris. L. lUuinenilini,Hnrry ter. Miss Schechter is said to be one oring the three classes in cooking. Palestine, was thoroughly investigat- has been planned to follow the brief ies" against Oxford. 3TOU. V.4. Gilbert. M. I*vi!iHOn, H. Woiiistein. J. HimelMrfu, The new committees: of the few genuinely idealistic Com- Two of these are for beginners and ed by the Executive Committee. AJirahiimsort. Clifirlp* Nnthnn, Sam Kaplwi, talks. Orchestra music and communiBoth men are seasoned veterans in EDUCATIONAL—Dr. Philip Sher, Afauev E. FiltMBclnrifni, ArttH!t_Kntmuists; she lives up to her ideals in one is an advanced classl Instruction ty singing, and a number of novelty forensics. Marks, who is captain of chairman, Louis Eulakofsky, A.B. BUV, H.Ivsiimui. KatBky, Abe Levy, E. Meyer, her private life, sharing what she has will start on 'November 20. Miss MaSiiiion. B. A. Simon, R. Kulakofsky, acts will be features of the program. this year' team, is in his third year Alpirin . Harry A. Wolf, J J . Lincoln. Abe Somberp. Harry Malnftho with others less fortunate. deline Marr, wiU be the teacher in H. liubenscein, 15. Noipberg, Mnx Kaplmi, Rabbi Abraham Bengis will give the of varsity debating. He was a mem- Friedman, Eabbi A. Bengis, ex M. Arkin. K. Gross, 11. Kiilokafsky, H. That her brother, Prank Schechter, charge. ' '; invocation and Rabbi Frederick Cohn ber of the trio which defeated officio. AiiTbauh, Sol JUoss. H. I^npirtus, l>v. V. is as conservative as Amy is radical, liomonek, Dr. E. Kuliy mx! Mealtimes K. the benediction. Mrs. Alberts, is also sponsor for the Harvard University last year, and .TaoohB. Manip Kranue. SI. Frieden. W. SERVICE—Dr. A. Greenberg r and that Prank, while yet in law jborig. Abe Katoky, Ktotaky, Mrs. F. J. Alberts, and Mrs. J. M. was on the state championship high chairman, J. H. Kulak of sky, J J . BonFl>erp. 1/fHiiK 7.ier, 3. Kieman, nli of OnmlMu school, wrote -a volume on copyright class in mental hygiene. Mrs. Eva "Yiskor," an extraordinary Yiddish Halashock are co-chairmen in charge Morse is supervising this course. school term at Technical high. He is Messrs, H. Prie<l, Hnrry Knbhjr, B*« Greenberg, Samuel Cohen, Jack W. law which is regarded as a standard attraction featuring the internation- of the dinner. Under them, a comTvnWiy, B. Kooler. Mnx Simon, gntn Bahb, Mrs. Joseph Bonoff, another member also prominent in scholarship and Marer, Rabbi A. Bengis, ex officio. 51. Bernstein. H. Moyerscm. Siim MeyerTOB, now ? ally-known tragedian, Mr. Maurics I'oSiest, Snm Grfss. Krnsne Bros., anfi BUILDING AND GROUNDS— Max That the story goes—though we of the social service committee, is Schwartz ,wffl be shown continuously mittee of the Jewish Women's Wel- journalism. Last year he -was presMrs. M. tJrosBTnsn, nil of Council BlnB*. Messrs. H. E. r.eJmont. l^yons. Nebr.; Harry H. Lapidus, chairman, Joe L. Wlche! •canaot vouch for its exactitude—that sponsoring a^coursp in home art. This from 2 p. m. to 11 p. m., Sunday, fare organization are making arrange- ident of the Oratorical Society. 1'rnthPfK, iChk-npo: E. Sainwliwti, ments for the affair. It is sponsored class will be directed by* Miss Becker Lipp is beginning his fifth year ! N * *w YoTk i M. IvCsiRisn, vinptiWfKHl, Iowa; Wolf, I. Moskowitz, Louis Sommer, of tiie five-thousand young men who Nov.i7, at the Brandeis Theatre. Harry Knvieh, LOP Ans;p!«>fi; AVill JtSp», by the social service committee of the of intercollegiate debating. He AL Wohlner. constitute -this year's freshman class and will be a six weeks course, meetHntton, Texns: Rml Mexilnmes BJrtnk •£ Schwartz will be supported by a Dps MOSJWS; rriiisner of T>e» M<rin#«: Jewish Welfare Federation. Dr. Phiilp captained the 1928 squad, won the at • the College of the City of New ing each Wednesday morning at the cast of over 100 people, coming from MEMBERSHIP—Mose Yousem, Ijijiney o£ Lot-; Anireles. Cnltt.: filotky *f 1 Sher is chairman of the committee, Community Center. • ;' • McShane mesial for extemporaneous York only one hundred and seven are Fremont: A. Brod" ' of Korth Flstte. HIM! the New York Art Theatre. *Y«kor, n which includes Rabbi Abraham Bengis, speaking, and was twice winner of chairman, M.F. Levenson, Julias Mrs. B. Rlniijrninii of Kl Pnnn. non-Jewish? And of these hundred The members of the social service Altman, Ben Glazer, Julius Stein. fo~mer!r KisK Bnylin Fveiden of and seven Goyim eighty-four are said committee will act as hostesses at the or "Thou Shalt Remember," is known Rabbi Frederick Cohn, Harry Mala- the international debate tournament FINANCE—Dr. Morris Margolin, for its depicting of Jewish life in Poshock, Henry Monsky, Harry Silver- of the A.2LA. to be Negroes. - As some of the re- various classes and meetings menA JEW chairman, William Alberts, Paul land. maining youths doubtless are Italiens tioned above. man, Mrs. Philip Sher, Irvin Stalmaslipp, who is one of the most per- Bernstein, Dave Greenberg, B.A. Vienna, (J.T.A. Franz Werfel, and Irish, only an infinitesimal fraced dramatist, is a member of the Zernowitz.—(J. T. A.) — Hanna ter, Mrs. Harry A. Wolf, Mrs. Reuben suasive speakers Creighton ever had, Simon, and John Feldman, ex-offido. tion is left for the "white, Protestant" Paris.—(J. T. A.)—A gift of 120,000 Sheri, 116 years old died, here. She Eulakofsky, and Mrs. M. Grodinsky. will be third speaker against Oxford. Jewish faith. A statement to tills element. Samuel Gerson will be in charge of He is also outstanding in activities. francs was made_to_fhe Paris Infants was the oldest Jewess in Roumania Warsaw.—(J. T. A.) — Stanislaw effect "was made to contradi (Copyright" 1929 by Seven Arts Association by Mrs. Michael Wiriburo, and believed to be the oldest woman community singing. Miss Anne Ru- Lyle O'Rourke, another veteran de- Natansolin, •weS. known Jewish phil-to the contrary which were Feature Syndicate.) bater, is third man on the team. an American. in the world back will be accompanist. anthropist, died here at the are of 72. ins due to a misunderstanding.

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