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Warsaw.—(J. Ty A.) ^Hopeless ;of the support of American/Jews due to the economic crLis, Polish T«wish reMoscow.—<J. T. A.)—In one of his lief organizations have opened a drive Tare newspaper' interviews, and the to save the' institutions that are on Zionists to Consider Nc-—*tan the first-he-has ever - granted on: a"JewvergV- of disaster. Among "the for Reclamation co-operating ' organizations are the ish question, Joseph Stalin, the virtual Question TOZ, a mediral aid society; the rule*, of Soviet Russia, characterized HI AS, the Immigrant ai«". society; i anti-Semitism -as "the most dangerous A national' Zionist conference, de- the Ort, the economic aid society, and ' survival of cannibalism/' in a statevoted to a consideration of new plans the Zentos. At a meeting of leaders j ment to the Jewish Telegraphic dealing with the central Jewish of 'all organizations under the chair- Agency. problem in Palestine, the problem of manship of Chief' EaK i Schorr, large } Stalin's vigorous indictment of Antiland acquisition and reclamation, will sums were subscribed. Semitism came in reply to a question be held-on February 7th and 8th, at addressed to him by the Jewish TeleWashington, D. C,, according' to a graphic- Agency in which'it was pointcall made public by Emanuel Neued out that he was being charged in mann, president of the Jewish Nathe anti-Soviet press with being an tional Fund of America. anti-Semitic. . Replying to this Stalin said: Five hundred delegates represent"National and racial chauvinism is ing-' Zionist districts, Hadassah chapa remnant of man-hating customs ters and Jewish National Fund comcharacteristic of-the- era of cannibalmittees in over 800 communities ism. Anti-Semitism is an extreme throughout the-United States are expected to attend the sessions at Report States That the Jewish expression of racial chauvinism and Communities Are Disinte- , as such is the most dangerous sur•which Menachem : Ussishkin, the grating 1 vival of. cannibalism. Anti-Semitism World. President of the Jewish Nais useful to the exploiter for it -serves tional Fund will be the main speaker. Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—The upper as a lightning rod enabling capitalism, "The efforts of the Jewish people for the rebuilding of the Jewish Na- class Jews of Persia are rapidly em- to evade the blows of the toilers. "Anti-Semitism is a danger to the tional Home in - Palestine have bracing the Bahai religion, and the reached a critical stage, the acute- Jewish communities are disintegrat- working people as a false path leadness and political repercussions of ing, according- to Dr. W. Fishel, lec- ing them into the jungle and away which; place the future of our entire turer in the Oriental Institute of the from the right road. Communists, work in .the balance," states the call Hebrew University, who has just re- therefore, as consistent internationalturned from a trip to Persia, Iraq and ists, cannot but ba irreconcilable and issued by Mr. Neumann. . avowed enemies of anti-Semitism. In" "The Palestine Jand problem has Kurdistan. Dr. Fishel stated to a representa-; been brought to the forefront in an hour and in a manner that require tive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency speedy* and decisive action on. the that English and American Christian part of_ American- Jewry, notwith- missions are making the most of the standing all present difficulties. The disintegration of Jewish communities,; mission which brought to us Mr. establishing missions ~ and schools! Menachem Ussishldn, that tower of among the poorer classes as the com-! Zionist strength and^ inspiration for munity leaders - turn to . Bahaism.; The concert for David Lazarus, nearly half a century, is of an ur- "The Persian Jews are. not only being baritone, being sponsored by the Tri• gent and historic character, paral- converted but are being used as in- angle Club of Omaha, is to be held leled .only by the dramatic .redem struments for converting Jews .of next Thursday evening at the Techsays Dr. tioiL of .the Valley of Jezreel in 1921 neighboring countries," Fishel.'-' ' •' -::' r'\ ' ; ' ) under his leadership." Hei. spoke of a "Marrano" commun- [ ^'6f'five'iAou^dVfamiliesJin''lU[esh-'':. ed,; who :secretly continued io : practice their Judaism and supported Jewish schools. In many cities^-Jje -said, Jews ' hadyOjeniy; 'apjiliedXto "^missions to •
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GersoriIsSpeaker Before Junior Forum
WARBURG SAYS PALESTINE IS IN CRITICAL STA1E
Samuel Gerson spoke at the fourth of the Junior Forum lectures at the J. C C. Monday evening before a the' Soviet Union, anti-Semitism is gathering of some one hundred pe«£ rigidly prosecuted as" a phehomeonj profoundly hostile to' the Soviet re-f Montreal.—(J. T. A.)—The fight of pie on *The Soul of a People." All - Important Conference t© gime. Militant anti-Semites are, un- j alderman Bruno Charbonneau to pre- Mr. Gerson stated that the soul of Lay Plans Is 1 der the laws of the Soviet Union, vent the erection of a. Jewish hospi- the Jewish people was expressed in Called punishable by death." ' j tal in his ward became the latest; in- their music and particularly in thenDuring the last•'few . years there, cident in a series of open anti-Sem- folk songs. He sang several folk! New York (J T A.)—The cans* have-been frequent reports that Stalin' itic manifestations that have alarmed songs to- iDustrate his theory, and of Palestine has never been fa Z was using anti-Semitism against his the Jewish population of Montreal. carried the audienos from the "cradle; critical a state as it is today, acJew" till his death. political foes. These reports became cording to Felix M. Warburg, 'until Vitriolic attacks upon the Jews are particularly frequent since the exiling made in "Goglu" and other antirecently chairman -of the Adminisof Leon Trotsky and the removal of Semitic pamphlets freely circulated trative Committee of the Jewish Radek, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Joffe, here. Recently, many city-owned Agency for Palestine, in a message leading Jewish Communists from high newspaper kiosks carried signs charg- i addressed to American Jewry in conposts in the Soviet government. i ing the public to boycott Jewish news-' nection with the emergency national On the other hand, there were other paper sellers. Mayor Houde's exploinday reports that anti-Semitism was being tation of the Jewish schools question, severely punished in Russia, a number and his spoken advice to the Jews to' V I l U f l l l l / i l l L i . T h e message apears in this week's of anti-Senrities being executed and "go to Palestine," are regarded as issue of The New Palestine. other signs of unfriendliness. others sentenced to long prison terms. Jerusalem (J. T. A.)-The aWbew of In a comprehensive review of Pal PalAnti-Semitic manifestations in the The hospital question arose through tion of the Mandate, the withdrawal esfcine e v e n t s > M r . Warburg refers the promise of the previous municipal , ., _ . . Red army -were quickly crushed. _. . .. , ,. ^«> ^tne negotiations that are now got i i e administration, made to the Hebrew of the Balfour Declaration and the , ._ ., ~ ... , Consumptive Aid Society, of a grant ment responsible to an elected par- ment and the representatives of the . ,,. , , , „ , ,. ing-on between the British govern^of city-owned land for the erection by liament Agency and gives the first are demanded by thegovernArab • Jewish establishment of a Palestine . the society of a home for Jewish in- Executive in its reply to the White indications that satisfactory conclucurables, sufferers from cancer, para- Paper submitted to High Commis- sions may be expected from the conlysis and other incurable non-contag- sioner Chancellor with the request ference to adjust differences of opinious diseases. The promises were af- that he forward it to London and ion respecting the White Paper. Berlin (J. T. 9.)—The introduc- firmed by the present civic regime, Geneva. The national conference next Suntion of a government-sponsored anti- which offered three available sites for day, which is regarded as the most The Executive finds that the Balschechita bill ^n the Thuringian par- the building. important meeting for the upbuildliament has created a first class govMany obstacles suddenly appeared four Declaration is contrary to Ar- ing i P l i held in the history off Palestine ernment crisis in this Fascist-con- in the way of the construction of the tide 22 of the Mandate and the of American Jewry, has been called trolled state. A majority of the mem- building. The Jewish Aldermen Jo- promises made to the Arabs. to meet the critical situation which bers of parliament have formed a seph Schubert and Max Seigler suc- The Mandate contravenes the na- e~i.5ts in Palestine today. tional and natural rights of the coalition against the' National So- ceeded in overcoming them. To Gain Friends cialists and the" government party A site was decided upon in the ward Arabs, the Executive claims. ConIn describing the steps that have and announce* that they will vote of alderman Bruno Charboncau. Im- sidering that the first duty of Great to secure a- withdrawal against, the bill. mediately the alderman came forward Britain is to prevent the transfer of o £ the policies enunciated in the In the event the-ban on schechita and declared "that hospital will not Arab lands to non-Arabs and to pro-' White Paper, Mr. Warburg is rejected the Nazi leaders are pre- be built in my ward." , hibit definitely Jewish immigration, says: the Executive points out that Under pared to dissolve parliament and call "We must and do believe that out Turkish rule the Arabs enjoyed a a new- election. '. of the negotiations which the Prime wide measure of self-government,(MmTster lias* so promptly and so Meanwhile ^he. Thuringian champossessing administrative, municipal, f s , i r l y i l l n d e r t a k e n ' ber, .of commerce has•. gone..on resomething will and parliamentary councils. cord -as being'; oposed to schechita come which may possibly result in The reply concludes with a proprohibition because of its baneful efa restoration of the faith of thouposal that dispossessed fects on -commercial interests. , Mrs. Joe Sherman was elected given land near Huleh. Arabs be sands and hundreds of thousands of Jews who, since the White Paper, president .of the Daughters ,of Zion Warsaw—A plan to limit the iium- at "the election - ofv officers held have lost confidence so completely ber of animals slaughtered under Wednesday afternoon at the J. C. C. that from the financial standpoint the schechita Jritaal to a total used - Other • officers chosen are 'Mrs. S. and from the moral standpoint a de-
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PLAN OF RADICALS « i i s t policy -prevails;"'•"•;i^,*^•*m^sf»M».. 'MAY COMPEL MANY / e'^ftie most important" ietfon itr "IS* by the conference is the TO LEAVE FRANCE taken launching of an intensive campaign
announced here today. The advocates] vice; president; Mrs. -ML •EG they found the establishments .<' of the' projet prcopose not to per- Linda, financial- secretary; Mrs. M. the'Alliance Israelite and of the Ang: mit- more animals to 1>e killed ac- Braude, recording secretary; Mrs. I. lo-Jewish Association inadequate. for cording1 to the Jewish- ritual than Kulakofsky, treasurer, immediate funds to maintain 1 Paris, <J. T. A.)-Great anxiety ; One-third of the Jewish children of Late Figures Set Number of J s the-needs" of the Orthodox Jews deTh2 organization will sponsor a is being manifested in Jewish circles ^ ^ . «<*^ies ™ ™eStme, many Teheran were attending the mission p Jews There" at mand. : because of the proposed new re-I*? ***** * 1S, reported have been schools, said. Dr. Fishel, and the free entertainment a t the J. C. C. ., 120,000 , . . No "limits on the number of anstrictions introduced by radical mem- , curtailed or altogether stopped beChurch of England has decided to imais that could be slaughtered ac- on February 1 for :Chamisha Oser bers of the government and designed j «•"?• o f the .lack of funds open a new school within the ghetto.: S B*Sheyat, with members and their cording- to Jewish -ritual existed[ f r i e n d s invited. An excellent "pro- to lessen unemployment, which may!^ ™ » ^ Paris.—(J. T. A.)—The latest sta-j The same condition's"are prevalent inj ^Jhe first independent hitherto.. It is understood, however, j giam i s ^ i n g arranged: and Pal- compel many Jews to leave France, i fand-raismg offort or Palestine unfastacs ;which have been gathered Amadan and Isphahan, he asserted,! that the minister of commerce is op- estinian fruit-, consonant with this about-thejews.of Morocco, shpwthat. ^ «,«. Jews of Amadan having The restrictions which will prob- dertaken since the formation of the posed to the plan. • 12,000 Jews are now living^anL^Jadopted an oriental faith. '. , I agricultural festival will be served. ably be adopted, recommend that no Jewish Agency in August, 1929. North _African country. Not until A raffle will also be theld at this labor permits be issued to immi1912, when France took over the JTOCtime. grants who have resided in France Professor Sapir Is to tectorate over Morocco, did the Jews for - less than- five years; • that • no Transfer to_ Yale of thkt. country, receive equal rights. change in profession be permitted Until then a Morocco Jew was not althose who already possess labor perNew Haven.—(J. TV A.)—Prof. Ed- B'nai Abraham Install 1 lowed ;to wear; shoes or. other "than that the French borders be New Officers Sunday mits; ward" Sapir of the University of Chiblack ;dothes or ride on horseback. closed altogether to all except tourLondon, (J. T. A.)—The book of cago is to come to Yale" university The Jewish ghetto, the so-called ists, and that all irregularly admit- Daniel, whose authenticity has often _ ^ About seventy-five members attend-] as -professor in the department of anJerusalem, (J. T. A.)—The labor r . David Lazarus "Mellan" was even as : late as 1920 thropology and . languages, according ed, the installation of officers of the ! ted and illegal residents of France been doubted by Biblical authorities, locked up every night and Jews were group stood highest in the final re- nical high school auditorium. Dr. to an official announcement by the' B'nai Abraham lodge at 1ihe South ] be expelled. may be proven to be one of the most then forbidden outside the ghetto turns of the votes cast for the Ase- Michael J. Ford is chairman for the university. . • -• j Omaha Community hall, last Sunday.j Passage of these rulings would historically valid of Biblical docufath Haniycharim, the Jewish Electaffair, and Mrs. Max Fromkin .is cowalls.: Prof. Sapir, who is regarded as one The officers installed were -Ben Gere- make further Jewish immigration im- ments through the latest archeology By abolishing all these restrictions, ed Assembly of Palestine, receiving chairman. of the foremost anthropologists of the lick, president; M. Tatleman, secre- possible. At present about 1,000 ical. investigations in Ur of the the French government earned the almost half the total. number of Young Lazarus, who has won nu- world, has occupied a chair in the de- tary; A. Jacobsen, treasurer; A. Jews from Poland enter France Chaldees, it . was revealed by Sir sympathy of Moroccan Jewry. But at votes cast. The 22£000 votes polled merous contests through his extraorWeiner, inner guard; A. Perlman, G.'w<**ly- Many Jews now in France Charles Marston, industrialist and "the same time this led to an increase b y the labor group will entitle it dinary singing ability, has been partment .of anthropology and gen- Meyerson and M. Sefkowitz, trustee, j would be forced to leave, being un- scholar, "who has financed many exin the hatred of the Arabs toward the to 32 seats in the assembly, which awarded a three-year scholarship to eral linguistics at the University of peditions to Biblical sites. S. Wolf son, retiring president, de- able to obtain work permits. Chicago since 1927. From 1925 to has a total of 71 members. Jews. the Cincinnati Conservatory of Mu- 1927" he was assistant in the depart- livered a farewell address. Refresh- The introduction of these restricSir Charles has received the re' The question of naturalizing Moroc- The Revisionists were' second in sic. Thursday's proceeds will go* to» ment of anthropology at the Univer- ments were served, following the tions by the radical members is a ports of C Leonard Wooley, direccan Jews as French citizens, which strength, receiving abcit 1Q,OOO ward defraying his expenses at the sity of Chicago. blow to the Jews -as in the past the tor of a joint expedition of the Unimeeting. -has troubled Moroccan Jewry for a votes, •which will entitle them to conservatory.' " former have usually "been friendly to versity of Pennsylvania and of the long time, has recently been discussed fourteen representatives. The Orienforeigners and influential with the At his concert Lazarus will sing museum, excavating neat by the representative of the French tal Jewish groups will have fifteen three groups of songs. He will be ac.government. Babylon. representatives. There is a possibilpresident in Morocco, M. Ourbachcompanied at the piano bv Jean P. The expedition has uncovered the Blon, in an interview with a repre- ity of union between the Revisionist Duffield. ; y site of the palace of Princess Be and Oriental groups, which'. would sentative ofthe "Israelitische FamilAssisting-on the program will be Shalti Nanna, sister of King Bel form a strong opposition faction to" ienblau." M. Blon expressed the opinOscar Weinstein, celloist,* in two shazzar, whose feast, according t< the labor block. [' . ' • > people who were formerly well-to-do. Berlin.—(J. T. A.)— The growing I ion that it is prem&ture as yet to isgroups of solos. Eloise West McNichthe Book of Daniel, was interruptec Old people who always lived more The general Zionist ticket, headed impoverishment of German Jewry is sue such a decree, since most of Morolds will accompany him.. ., • by the Hebrew prophet's reading ol or less comfortable, having provided by Menachem Ussishkin, president of fast assuming catastrophic dimenoccan Jewry still live under terrible Mrs. L. Neyelbff, sponsor of the the celebrated "writing on the wall." in youth for their old age have, bethe Jewish National Fund, won four sions. Things have gone so far that hygienic and cultural conditions in Sunday matinee dances being given at not only the workers and the middle- cause of the war and the post-war the J, C. C. under the supervision of Previous archeological discoveries the country-old houses of the ghetto. seats in the assembly, while the Mizr College Men class, but even the wealthiest Jews periods, found themselves penniless. the Psi Mu, has given high praise to have confirmed the sack of Jerusalem Moroccan Jews have a limited right rachi Orthodox party gained a like Can't Get Cleaner Jobs by Belshazzar's grandfather, NebuchAmong the young there "is a tre- the affairs. have been reduced ' to poverty and number, with a possible fifth seat. of self-government in their ghettos. adnezzar. mendous amount of unemployment their once stately homes in the finest The United Women's ticket, headed A council of 6 members presided over At the second dance of the series Cuneiform -writings of the sixth J Warsaw.—(J. T. A.)—Polish Jews -streets of Berlin's West End are now and suffering. The Jewish doctor by Henrietta Szold, won two seats. by an Arab Basha ,has the right to of the intellectual class are unable to haunted by misery and despair. and the Jewish lawyer and the Jew- held last Sunday a Girls' Popularity century B. C, found on the scene of levy fences upon the community. contest was begun with the following the excavations, are said to give "reobtain . employment even as street People who once were directors of ish professional man generally, who Among Moroccan Jews themselves sweepers or snowdeaners, a survey banks and of big insurance companies, were at one time in good financial girls in the lead after the first bal- markable confirmation to the fifth lot was counted: Misses Bertha Ban, there is much difference of opinion as by the newly formed Union of. Unem- important merchants, and profession- positions, are now starving. Dorothy Burroughs, Sophie Ferer, chapter of the Book of Daniel." to whether French citizenship is desirployed Intellectuals has revealed. The al men. of high standing, who were The Jewish capitalist in Germany Pearl Feldman, Ethel Hurwitz, Gladys able for them. Many Jewish leaders The first annual Purim ball to be municipality department for this city accustomed to give away large sums no longer exists. There may be still Kyte, Sarah Kaplan, Sarah Pollay, Comzet to Settle 6,000 feel that this would increase the hatis swamped with requests for emred of the Arabs toward the Jews and given by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the ployment from jobless Jewish teach- to charity, have been reduced to pau- one or two rich Jews left in Germany, Goldie Scharbraun, Sarah Solomon ow, Jews on the Land and to the level of the prole- but there is no longer any Jewish i Rose Stein, Bonnie Spiegal, Esther doubt whether the French will always Conservative Synagogue will be held ers, students, bookkeepers and secre- perism tariat, and would be glad to do any Weiner, Sarah Yaffee, and Mollie Moscow.—(J. T. A.)—Plans for the 6e able to protect the lives and prop- on Sunday evening, March. 8, at the taries, many with university degrees. manual labor or the humblest of wealth. 1931 campaign to settle city Jews on Jewish Community Center, for the Zornvill. erty of Moroccan Jews. land in Crimea and in Bira-Bidjan The survey of the Union admits menial tasks to be able to keep body benefit of the building fund of the The theme for the third dance next were formulated at a session df the that there is little hope of these and soul together, the Welfare Of- Omaha Hebrew Club Conservative Synagogue. Sunday -Rill be "Carrying On." The Comzet, the government department Staatenlose Jews Ousted " " '. The Auxiliary is hoping to make unemployed obtaining posts with the fice of the Berlin Jewish Community Smoker This Sunday Creightonians will furnish the music. London—A total, of 768 staaten- this ball the outstanding Jewish event government and n possibility of pri- has disclosed. Earl Siegal is master of ceremonies. to settle Jews on land, following the closing of the conference of the Ozet, The Omaha Hebrew Club will hold lose Jews, that is Jews who are citi- of the season in Omaha, with Ran- vate employment due to the present So many one-time wealthy men a society occupied with similar settlehave applied to the Berlin Jewish a smoker this Sunday afternoon at zens »f no country as. a result of dall's Royal orchestra furnishing the financial crisis. ment work. Not to Take Up Palestine The Union, the report states, is Community for help to obtain any the J. C. C. There will also be comthe post-war map shifting, have been dance music and entertainment. Issue The Comzet decided to transport kind of situation to enable them to mittee reports on the fortieth annibesieged by these penniless" Jews, who expelled from Czecho-Slovakia durMrs. Abner Kaiman of the Ways Geneva—The Palestine question 4,500 Jews to Crimea and 1,419 tc ing the last eight years, it was dis- and Means Committee, and Mrs. B. having failed to receive employment earn a livelihood, it was reported that versary celebration of the organizaclosed at a meeting of the Joint A. Simon of the social committee, are temporarily at least in the street the Community's Welfare Office has tion in the nature of a dance and con- will definitely not be discussed at Bira-Bidjan during the year. It also Fo reign Committee of the Board of the chairmen in charge. They will cleaning department, plead for a decided to open a special Labor Em- cert to be held at the city auditorium the meeting of the Council of the decided to rush the campaign in order Jewish Deputies and the Anglo-Jew- also conduct a drive to sell patrons' chance to do some work to keep j ployment Bureau in the fashionable on February 22. Harry Lapidus will League of Nations •which opened to enable the newcomers' participation in the spring sowing* IKurfuerstendaimm district^ solely for deliver an Monday tickets for the balL '. ' t tcemselves alive. .' ' : ' ' • -' .'. • .ish Association. ; j /. . j
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AUXILIARY PLANS TO HOLD PURM BALL