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OMAHA, NEBRASEA^RIDAY, APRIL 29,1932
Lozowick Lecture Brings Education Program to End
on May 8 to Be
" Forty thousand and fifty dpllarslias been set by the budget committee as the goal of the campaign for the Jewish Philanthropies, "fahich. will' open Sun-. day r May 8. This figure -was arrived at after the; committee had spent weeks carefully checking each agency and* analyzing the needs and wants of all beneficiaries. It represents, the .minimum, rer quirements of the local, national and international, groups supported by the Philanthropies, at the same time guaranteeing the maximum benefits. •
COME ONE,COME ALL A Big Stag for all men workers including the general solicitation, initial gifts and youth divisions will' be held in the Jewish Community Center Thursday, May 5, at 8 p. m. Some outstanding radio and* stage stars have been secured to entertain the two hundred men who. are expected to attend. There will be food and few speeches. Those who attended last year's stag can have" some small idea of the great time that is in store for those who attend this year. Don't forget Thursday, May 5, at 8 p. m.
which is scheduled for next Friday. Mrs. J. J. Greenberg, chairman of the women's division, states that all of the women's organizations have pledged their support. A sizeable group of women workers has already enrolled, but more volunteers are welcome. All organizations and congregations are being visited by speakers from the committee headed by Milton ~~R. Abrahams. Increases The Council of Jewish Women and the Bifcur Cholim Society have both announced a 100 per cent increase in their pledge to the Philanthropies. The ..Temple Israel Sunday School also announced a 100 per cent increase. William L. Holzman, chairman of the initial gifts, reports that the pledges in his Tjroup are continuing to be turned in most encouragingly. Many have increased their previous pledges. Active solicitation of the youth division was scheduled .to get'under. way, last night, when a rally was" held for •club menabers at the J. C..C. under %Sa& sponsorship of the Senior Council ofciubsi^- *•••":•i; : ' ' ^ • "j~~:-~ f ^ f j p > chairman of .a committee to evolve a plan for the solicitation' of the Jewish children in the city.
Louis Lozowick, internationallyknown artist and critic, gave an illustrated lecture on "The Jew in Modern Art" at the Jewish Community Center Monday evening, bringing to a close the adult educational program sponsored by the Center. "While there is a question as to whether there is a distinct Jewish art," the speaker stated, "there is no doubt • but that the -contributions the Jews have made. ±o international art have been most iKuable." Lozowick tracedTfce various schools in art, and bis.slicKS portrayed outstanding paintings py Jewish, artists in each period. He discussed the Nazarene school, the impressionists, expressionists^ consbructivists, cubists and neq-realists; The speaker asserted that though the Jewish people have had a part in art for over three thousand years, Jewish artists produced their significant works since tiie latter part of the 19th. century. Jewish art, he explained, had played a prominent role in Germany in the Nazarene school, -though the main purpose of that school was for Christian idealism. But. the Jewish artists reached new heights in the impressionist school, which appeared in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. An exhibition of the works of art of Lozowick was viewed in the lounge room.
POLISH VERDICT ACCUSES JEWS OFPOGROMING
"The budget of $40,050," stated Harry A. Wolf, chairman of the budget committee, "was arrived at as the one at last year's stag, has after pruning and slicing every sup- been arranged and will include some erfluous item. Every agency was outstanding radio and stage stars. carefully checked and discussed, so There will be food, while the speeches that we could place the total at as will be few and short All who are interested in joining low a figure as possible without shirking onr duty to the agencies the army of workers are urged to attend. aided by the Philanthropies." Beneficiaries. He pointed out that the greatest amount of good possible was being deThe list of agencies who will benerived from the $40,050 because of fit from the raising of the7$40yQ5O of Receipts economy of operation by the Phjlan- budget—which is $2,100 less thanlast thr6pies,~due~"to" the extremely' low cost of rflisingand collecting the funds LOCAL able and a systematicjriiethod of distribut* Jewish Education New York. <J. T. A.)—That the ing them." .• " - Old Peoples' Home interest in the upbuilding of PalesSachar- Guest Speaker Social Service Commission tine ,as the Jewish .National Home is Henry Monaky* general ^ Conference to so deeply rooted amofag American INTERNATIONAL, of the drive, stated at the executive Jews that their willingness to support Joint; Distribution Committee. meetmg Sunday. moraing-ftjtaJjjA. L. Discuss World. the work is effectively withstanding Peoples Tool Campaign Sachar of the University of Illinois Jewish Congress the-effects of the third year of the American: Palestine Campaign will be the guest speaker at the economic depression, is strikingly National Jewish Fund launching of .the campaign with a out in the semi-annual, report gigantic mass meeting to be held at New York.—(J. T. A.)—The con- brought Mizrachi. Nelson Ruttenberg, Deputy Police the Jewish Community. Center .on vening of a world Jewish conference of * Palestine Labor Campaign of the City of New Sunday evening,; May 8. | in Geneva next July for the purpose Commissioner Hebrew'University .and President of the "Jewish Professor* Saehar is much sought NATIONAL : : . • of discussing the advisability of con- York after as a speaker. He headed the stituting: -a World Jewish Congress National Fund of America. Child'Care h '"'r\ The report covers the period from Community Chest campaign in^the was decided upon Sunday afternoon at Jewish Orphan Home< October 1, 1931, to April 1, 1932, and cities of Urbana and CKampaigh/Illia conference called by the American - National Home-Jewish" Children shows a total of receipts during this nois, last December. Jewish Congress. Health L i ; '• The resolution calling for the con- period amounting to $162,525.31. The He taught history at the University Ex-SRatients, vening of such a conference states receipts for the corresponding period of Illinois, and is the director of the " Denver' ; >: !•;;JK:i:i^ >; that the American Jewish Congress is in the previous year were larger only B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation at the an amount of $36,948. University. He has appeared in Jewish Consumptives Relief So- willing to submit to the. will of the byThe changed economic conditions majority in the matter, but that it is Omaha on several occasions. ciety, Denver., . ., throughout the country caused the persuaded that "a world Jewish Con"I Belong" Buttons. Jewish Consumptives and Exdecline of receipts derived principally The campaign slogan of lfI Belong" Patients'Home, Los Angeles. f gress" is'an indispensable requisite for from the middle classes. The Fund's has captivated the imagination of lo^Leo N. Leyi Memorial Hcispital : the-defense of Jewish rights and the income derived from mass collections cal Jewry.-.-Every man, woman and National Jewish Hospital ':''\ '\V-maintenance of the Jewish morale in were but slightly affected, the report child of the Jewish faith Will "beEducational • ' • ^ ,^ alt countries, and we accordingly shows. It was stated, however, that long" ere "the drive is finished, cam- r JewMijiTheoIogical Seminary, v pledge ourselves to promote the cause on account of leap year, the bulk of '•• ; • I T ^ T . - • , •; : • { ; : f! *: \ : r r : : . r ; . ; . pf such a Congress in anticipation as the receipts from the Purim collecpaign, leaders-predict. ".'•' well as during the course of the proNational Farm School , A celluloid campaign button will be tions and from the semi-annual box posed conference." Training School J.fS. W, " given to each •'contributor. This butclearance during the week of PassYeshivah College • too will attractively boast "I Belong," over, occurring this year a month American. Jewish-Committee being white on blue print. later than usual, were not included B'nai Brith Wider Scope Workers' Stag. in the report for the six months pe•••:Hv.E A ; S . riod. These amounts which will be A large share of ^belonging'', lies Jewish Telegraphic Agency • received during the second half of in aidmg.-^e organisational end of The •women workers will tiaeei for the year may help to swell the rethe drive. "Workers and many of-them a final summing-up of plans at a tea ceipts for the entire year. are needed. Every Jewishiindividual vrho is physically able is urgea to enPulpiteer and Author to Be Mother* * list "immediately so that a thorough Immigration to Bira : canvass of all prospects -can be e£- and^Daughter Affair Guest of Local fectedi; Bidjan to Be Resumed Brotherhood PlannedforMayr7 A large stag is being "planned for all men; workers included in" the genMoscow. (J. T. A.)—The Comzet, Garry August's appearance eral solicitation, initial gifts and The Mothers-Daughters program, of at Rabbi governmental department for settling Temple Israel tonight & causing youth divisions, to be held at the the Temple Israel Sisterhood will take Jews on the land and in industry, has a great amount of interest and is J. C. C. on Thursday evening, May 5, place. on Saturday* May 7, at 12 an order for the resumption, certain to attract one of the "largest issued at 8 p. m. . >-• .. o'clock. .-.__'. beginning May 10th, of immigration An outstanding program, as good „ Jane Rosenstock will speak for the audiences of the year, according to to Bira Bidjan, where a Jewish re^ Louis Sombergr, president of the daughters, and Mrs. Sam Gilinsky public is ultimately to be established. will talk for the "mothers. ' A piano Brotherhood, which is sponsoring Mother, Daughter On April 9th, the Comzet issued Rabbi August's visit. solo will be rendered by Jane Goeti; an order temporarily suspending im"From a Small Town Pulpit" is migration. The reason given for this Marjorie Robinson will give a Bridge on May 8 while recitation. . - . - - : " '--. \ • the subject of Rabbi August's lec- suspension was dearth of houses, the Over two hundred reservations have A feature will be a play, "Cinder- ture. Services will start at 8 o'clock. slowness with which houses were bebeen received for the Junior Hadassah Rabbi August is the author of ing erected, and bad roads. ella Married," "under the direction of Mother-Daughter bridge to be given It was also stated that the direcSunday afternoon, May 8, at 2:30 p. Milton Rieck, with the* following in- "God's Gentleman," a new novel m. at the Jewish Community Center cluded in the cast: Rosalie Alberts, which -4s stirring American Jewry. tors of the work of settling Bira Bidauditorium, according to Mrs. Sidney Peggy Friedman, Vivian Marr, Philip He has been preaching sermons in jan were experiencing difficulty in Berkowitz, Ruth Somberg, Edith Jean Topeka, Wichita, Kansas City and finding adequate housing facilities Katleman, chairman of the affair. other midwestern cities on a tour for the Jewish immigrants who arHeading an excellent program will Hemstrett. Reservations may be made with which he is now finishing. rived during the past two months. be.Miss Ida Gitlin, contralto, who Rabbi August has appeared in placed first in the district, city and Mrs. Sam1 Appleman or Mrs. Abe state contests last year. Miss Gitlin Greenberg , who, with their committee, Omaha twice, making numerous 400 Polish Jews to : friends and receiving many invita- Palestine sang before Madame Sigrid Onegin, are in charge of this affair. tions to return here. the noted contralto, Madame Onegin Warsaw. — A party consisting of He will be accompanied to Omaha four hundred Polish Jews departed saying. Miss Gitlin had a most re- Knighthood Conferred on Jew markable voice for a girl of her age. Amsterdam.—Queen Wilhelmina of by Mrs. August, and they will be for Palestine. • Refreshments will be served and Holland has bestowed Knighthood of the guests while here of Mr. and The group, which is enroute to Palbeautiful prizes awarded at each the Order, of Orange Nassau, upon Mrs. S. H. Singer, former parishion- estine, in connection with the" Jewish table. Eeservations may be made with Dr. L. Herzberger of this city. • ers in Gary, Indiana. Olympics and the Levant Fair, inthe committee \n charge or tfitfy any . Dr. Hertzberger is well known as The Brotherhood committee in cludes forty-five middle class repreJunio? Haflas'sah membei. An|i4viter a physician and?is prominently idenr charge' of Rabbi August's sermon sentatives who desire to investigate tion is;extended t» the ''public; to at- tified with Jewish communal activ- here is composed of Louis Somberg, the possibilities for Palestine, settletend tliia affair' • S. H. Singer and Nathan E. Jacobs. ment. ities.
RABBI AUGUST TO SPEAK AT TEMPLE ISRAEL TONIGHT
NATIONAL FUND NOTAFFE01D
Attacked Victims Made Into the Attackers By Decree
VoL IX—No. 13
Plays by Guild to Be Given at Center Tuesday Three one-act plays will be presented by members of the Center Players Guild at the J. C. C. auditorium on Tuesday evening, May 3. The, plays are "Copy," "The Undercurrent," and "In 1999." The casts include: In 1999: Abe Saltzman, Sophia Rosenstein and Rose Gilbert; Copy —Earl Siegel, Leo Brown, Max Weinstein, Harold Tuchman, Norman Green and Benny Effros; Undercurrent—Grace Levin, Abe Saltzman, Sylvia Falk, Ruth Bordy, Frances Kort, Isadore Bender. Also included on Tuesday evening's program will be Hermine Hirschmann, Lazar Kaplan, Lester Gordon and Jack Siegal. Hyman Shrier has general charge of the plays to be presented. The directors of the individual plays are: "Copy," Mrs. Sid Wintroub; "In 1999," Laura Berek; "Undercurrent," Haskell Cohn.
Vilna. (J. T. A.)—The sentence of two years' imprisonment has been formally imposed on Shmuel Wulfin, Jewish student, found guilty of responsibility for the death of the Christian student, Stanislaw Waclawski, killed in the anti-Semitic excesses last November. The official verdict accuses the Jews of hatred of the Christians and Jewish students of carrying out a pogrom in Vilna. "The Jews have been inspired with deep and strong hatred against Christians, particularly against the Christians of Poland, since the time of the Inquisition, when the Jews were burned," says the official verdict. "Article 22 of the Russian legal code concerning racial hatred was created for the protection of the Jews, but this time it is applicable against the Jews," the verdict asserts. The anti-Semitic excesses were extended from the university to the Anti-Semitic Party Makes Deep streets, the verdict charges. What Inroads in German the Jewish students did in the streets of Vilna can be called a pogrom, it Politics asserts. Berlin.—(J. T. A.)—President Paul Von Hindenburg's election over his Fire Hundred in Protest Nazi opponent, Adolph Hitler, on Paris.—Five hundred students 10th, was overshadowed by the idcipated in a meeting at Nancy to April results the Diet elections in the protest against the sentence imposed states ofofPrussia, Wuerttemon Shmuel Wulfin, Vilna student, berg, Hamburg andBavaria, Auhalt, the found guilty of responsibility in the Nazis polled 30 per cent ofwhere the total death of the Christian student, Stan- votes cast. islaw Waclawski, killed during the Of the 34,000,000 votes cast, 10,anti-Semitic • excesses in Vilna last 000j000 were received by Nazi candiNovember. The-"meeting went on record as dates. stating that the" allegations made ~~In Prussiartbe- Nazis WOTT162 managainst the Jewish people by the dates, an increase of 156, over their number in the last Diet, and wrested court were without foundation. control faro rathe Weimar three party coalition which had governed the state since 1919. Should the Nationalists and other groups identified with the National Opposition join the Nazis they could control the Prussian Diet* provided the Communists abstained from votrag. Charkov.—(J. T. A.)—Jewish workChancellor Bruening's Centre party ers in the Ukraine constitute thirty won 67 seats, as against 71 in the Old per cent of the total number of work- Diet; the Social Democrats 93 as ers there. against 71 in the Old Diet; the Social Jewish workers total four hundred Democrats 93 as against 137; the thousand, 50,000 of whom are engag- Communists 57 as against 56; the Naed as workers in metal industries as tionalists 31 as against &2; the Peocompared with only 16,000 in the tai- ple's Party, 7 as against 40, the loring industry which, until recently State's Party, 2 as against 21; the was regarded as one of the principal Christian Socialists 2 as against none; occupations of Jews. the Christian Hanoverian's, 1 as The concentration of Jewish masses against 4. in certain industries offers the possiThe Prussian Parliament is not to bility for extensive cultural work meet before the Middle of June. In among them in the Yiddish language, order to force the election of a new the Charkov "Stern" writes. Premier, the Nazis must have a clear The paper states that it is unfort- majority, possible only if the Comunate that professional unions as well munists do not vote. as individual leaders neglect this work on the ground that Jewish workers : are allegedly uninterested in Yiddish German Academy Honors culture and no longer even under- Scientist stand the Yiddish language. Zurich.—In connection with the This allegation is energetically re- Goethe celebrations throughout Gerjected by the "Stern" which urges many the ' German Academy of Nathat a conference be convened for the tural Science at Halle honored Propurpose of stimulating culture work fessor M. Minkovsky, a leading Jew among the Jews in the .Yiddish lang- of Switzerland, and an outstanding uage. The paper asserts that this is authority in the field of Anatomy not Yiddishism or national chauvinism and Physiology. but a means of drawing the Jewish Professor Minkovsky has just acworking classes into the political and cepted a special invitation from the social life of the Union of Soviet So- Hebrew University to be guest leccialist republics. turer.
NAZIS WIN IN DIET ELECTIONS
JEWISH WORKERS IN INDUSTRIES IN UKRAINE INCREASE
Excesses in Salonica "a Blot on Civilization," Yet Accused Free Salonica. ( J / T . A.)—The trial in connection with the burning of the Campbell quarter of Salonica, held at Verria, aroused the greatest interest in all sections of Salonica. As the tragic stories of the victoms were made public, the indifference which marked the beginning of the proceedings gave place to indignation against the authors of the outrage last summer. Despite the evidence of the victoms of the outrages, all the accused were acquitted by the court. And the public prosecutor who called the excesses a blot on civilization, himself asked but four months' imprisonment for two of the defendants and acquittal for the remainder. Eight persons were charged with having set fire to the Jewish quarter and mortally wounding some of the inhabitants, and M. N. Fardis, editor of the Makedonia and Mm. G. ;Cosmides and Haritopoulos, president and secretary of the patriotic organiza-
tion, the E. E. E., are also charged with having incited • the population against the Jews and being the indirect authors of the disturbances. According to the first Jewish victim to give testimony, the •community knew on the morning; of the 29th of June that the quarter would be set on fire that night, and had informed the police. The chief of police replied that all necessary precautions had been taken and there was no danger. On the same day a delegation went to M. Gonatas, the governorgeneral of the province, and demanded that measures should be taken to prevent disorder. M. Gonatas received the delegation in the presence of about ten members of the Nationalist party, but beyond commanding these latter to see that order was maintained among the members of their organizations, he refused, greatly to the disappointment and indignation of the delegation, to take any definite action-
ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSITY WILL BE H E P SUNDAY International Radio Forum to Be Broadcast Over N. R C. in Morning New York.—(J. T. A.)—The inter"-? national radio forum which, will feature the celebration of the seventh anniversary of the Hebrew Univer* sity on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem will be broadcast from coast to coast over the NBC network Sunday morning, May 1, at 10:30 a. m. Omaha time, or 12:30 Eastern Daylight Saving time. Dedication ceremonies of the J. Montague Lamport Botanical Garden as part of the University to take place in Jerusalem will coincide with the radio broadcast. Sir Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary for England; Herr Oscar Wassermann, head of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin; Dr. Thomas Mann, winner of the Nobel prize for 1929; Israel Levi, Chief Rabbi of France, and James A. de Rothschild, member of the British parliament, are scheduled to take part in the radio forum. "The Bridge Between the East and West" will be the subject of the address by Sir Herbert Samuel, who is a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University. Mr. Rothschild, who is also a member of the Board, will deliver a message from Baron Edmond de Rothschild, founder of early Jewish colonies in Palestme. "The Awakening of the Near East" is announced as the general subject of ten minute addresses by Dr. Wasserman, Chief Rabbi Levi, and Dr. Mann, who has delivered lectures at the He>, brew University on' visits to Pales- : tine. The achievements of the Hebrew-University in its seven years will be briefly touched on by one *>f the ^American members of the B d of Governors. . .• . . :
FRANCOIS COTY AGAIN ATTACKS ' JEWISH Blames Them for Russian Revolution, Troubles in China and Ireland Paris. <J. T. A.)—Francois Coty, of the perfume company by that name, has renewed" his campaignr against the Jews. . ....-, In a series of articles, he accuses American Jewish financiers of having financed the Russian revolution. The firmj oi; Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the late Jacob Schifl. are among those accused of nghtinp the czar. The Jewish Colonization Association j is charged with conducting sub•verave activity: among the Jews of Poland and Roumania. Turning from history to current events, M. Coty also accuses Kuhn,Loem & Go. of being responsible for the anti-British stand of Eamon De Valera, head of the Irish Free State, working through the Jewish Irish leader, Robert Briscoe. The Jews' are also responsible for the troubles of China, M. Coty says. The Jewish general in China, Cohen oishe^ is working in behalf of Jewish -capitalists for social revolution, in order to establish Israel's dynasty the world over, according to him. . Mrs. Otto Kahn, wife of the New York banker, during her visit to Russia last year was accorded military honors, asserts M. Coty, and this proves how leaders of the proletariat honor the wife of one of their sovereigns. The European press, including the French press, pays not the slightest attention to M. Coty's outbursts. The Jewish population of France, unaccustomed to such violent propagandaf is somewhat disturbed.
World Jewish Student Congress in Palestine Jerusalem. (J. T. A.)—A world Jewish student congress will be convened in Palestine in 1933, in accordance with the decision adopted at a Jewish students' conference here this week. The conference called for the Hebrew University to be converted into an educational institution with the full faculties of a college. The conference also went on record as desiring the creation of a national spirit in the university in accordance with the resolution adopted at the last World Zionist Congress.