WHAT IS YOUR ANSWFI? By DR. A. GBEENBEi With the local Jewish Philantl '• campaign approaching, Omaha < tP |are undoubtedly deeply interest*. %. knowing something concerning thi stitutions which are the beneficial, of the annual drive. I am taking a vantage of this opportunity accordfc me by the Jewish Press to have an intimate weekly talk with you about the beneficiary institutions and important issues of the Jewish Philanthropies.
A THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The Jewish people in Omaha, I am convinced, will ;not. forget the great need of the day -when they think of the Philanthropies. When I contemplate that it is part of the Jewish heritage to give generously, I am reminded of the quotation from Deuteronomy: "If there be among you a needy man, .thou shalt not harden thy heart, but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, ana shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need."
FOREIGN RELIEF
Several million Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, fellow-beings to whom we have the deepest obligations of kinship of race and religion, are in the midst of Incredible suffering and are fighting for life under most intolerable conditions. Here in America, where the tales of tradegy cause us unspeakable sorrow, we are relatively in luxury. Our incomes may have tobogganed somewhat, but we are NOT going to allow Jews in Europe to perish because they are Jews.
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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14,1933
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ampaign OPEN BOYCOTT GIVES WAY TO CUNNING 4S THE NAZIS CONTINUE OPPRESSIONS Reports by Refugees of Atroo ities Being Committectby Hitlerites Unabated
B*nai Brith Dinner Meeting Is Postponed Due to a conflict with a previously-scheduled Jewish Philanthropies meeting, the B'nai Brith dinner-meeting, at which Harry Trustin—successful nominee for city commissioner—will be honor guest, has been postponed from next Wednesday. The date will be announced in a later issue of The Press.
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Vol. IX—No. 11
40*000
^Philanthropies Drive Starts Palestine Jews Gain in Numbers Jerusalem, (J.TJV.) — Palestine Jews Trill outnumber the Arabs of Palestine within 25 years, predicts the official report of the 1931 census which the government will publish this week. It declares that the Jews double their number every nine years, while the Arabs double their number only every 28 years. . I t estimates that as there •were 175,000 Jews in Palestine in 1931. they win reach 350,000 in 1940, 700,000 in 1949, and 1,400,000 in 1958The Arabs, however, will be le«s than 1,200,000 in 1958. The Palestine government's calculations are based on the figures of natural birth plus the present rate of immigration. The official census which analyzes the various classes of Jews actually establishes that there are 37 different types of Jews at present residing in Palestine.
Divisional Heads Thoroughly Preparing Preliminary Work
Eeports concerning the Jewish sit-1 suspending the payment of trade debts $40,000 was set as the goal for goal, since the great need of unforindividuals is so deeply felt by uation in Germany, emanating mostly to German firms until such time as the Jewish. Philanthropies cam- tunate the community at large. from refugees, indicate that the Jew-' the question of compensation for the paign this year at an executive General Solicitations ish people in Germany are still the destruction'of the-properties and busvictims of an atrocity campaign the iness of Polish citizens in Germany meeting held at the Jewish Com- The general solicitations committee, magnitude of which can only be shall have officialiy settled between munity Center Wednesday eve- one of the most important cogs in the guessed at behind the smoke screen of the German and Polish" governments. LONDON (J. T. A.)—Liberal and ning. ' A delegation of merchants called at Conservative circles buzzed -with exNazi propaganda and assurances.. Last year the campaign goal was PHILANTHROPIES MEETINGS the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw-to The open boycott has given way to cited comment here on the outspoken $40,050. cunning. For, apparently determined represent this point of. view, and to warning to the Nazis uttered at BirWednesday, April 19.—1 p. m., The 1933 campaign will officially to continue the effects of last week's urge the Polish government to incor- mingham Friday by Sir Austen Chamopen with an "Early Bird" breakfast executive committee meeting- of boycott without imparting to it the porate it in official representations to berlain,' former Foreign Secretary of women's division, J. C. C. on Monday morning, May 15. demonstrative character of the past, Germany. Great Britain, on the occasion of his Wednesday, April 19.—6 p. m., the Nazis have announced that henceelection as president of the ConservaIt is pointed oat (hat this year dinner and meeting of general solJOINT DISTRIBUTION forth all non-Jewish shops-are to bear tive association. the need is greater than ever beicitation division. COMMITTEE identifying placards •with the words ATROCITY DETAILS BY Sir Austen said, in effect, that the fore, with the income of the beneThursday April 20.—8 p, m., When we contribute to the Philan- "German Shop." It -will thus be left internal war on a racial minority ficiaries of the Philanthropies despeakers committee, J. C. C. thropies, part of our contribution to all purchasers to infer that all TWO AMERICANS which is being carried out by Hitler creasing and the dependency corgoes to the Joint Distribution Com- shops without labels are Jewish and ParisyFrance-^-Two American Jews, justifies in deed, the worst that the respondingly increasing. mittee, purely and exclusively a re- are to be avoided. Alexander Adler of 3920 Eighteenth campaign machinery of the Jewish nations could say against Gerlief organization, which is doing its According to tales from refugees, avenue, Brooklyn, and Maurice Son- Allied At the executive committee meet- Philanthropies, is rapidly perfecting man barbarity and frightfulness. In utmost to alleviate; the misery and the anti-Jewish boycott has also taken ders, of 556 East iFburth street, Brook- informed circles it is felt that Sir ing, detailed reports were rendered by the organizational details, so as to be suffering of the Jewish people in another turn, Nazis urging non-Jews lyn, who have just' come from Ger- Austen's speech was not prepared Dr. A. Greenberg, general chairman, able to get off to a flying- start when Central and Eastern Europe. and the following divisional heads: the drive officially opens. not only to refrain from buying from many, where they arrived on the Eur- without the knowledge, if not without Every visitor and observer of the Jews or in Jewish establishments, but opa, have related terrifying' experi- the approval, of the present British Dave Goldman, initial gifts; Max Max M- Barish, chairman of the Eastern European scene can recount from selling to Jews. Barish, general solicitation; Mrs. general solicitations, has called a ences to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency ministry. Sir Austsn's speech follows innumerable incidents of suffernig Arnstein, women; Justin meeting of his aides for Wednesday, representative. in part: To Be Presented at Community Jeanette Suicides and privation, the sum total of tfblf, youths; Ben Kazlowsky, South April 19, in the form of a 6 o'clock Sonders tells that he went to the "I want the German government to Center April 25 which defies credibility. Omaha; Milton Abrahams, speakers; dinner at the Hill hotel. The toll of suicides of German Kurfuerstendamm to visit a friend at think of the impression which its attiand 26 Frank Ackerman, publicity. These stories are not propaganda. Jews, men of professions and servants a boarding house. Not finding his tude toward felloe-citizens within its The following are the majors who It is sober, conscientious news when of the State who face starvation and friend All were enthusiastic about the will work under Barish in the general at home, he asked a maid to power must gave the world of what its Rehearsals . for " I I Were You" the headquarters of the TOZ, Jewish disgrace as a result of the, Nazis' eca message, whereupon the maid, attitude to other -nations would be if it <Shver tei zein a Yid) are Iseing held prospects of reaching the campaign solicitations: health society, tells of Jewish child- onomic proscription, continues una- take F. J. Alberts, Julius Bisno, Eugene . noticing Sonder&oholding an English were in a pqsitiro to force its wHL regularly under ike-direction of John r e n actually starving _ and relates j^g^T bd Blazer, Simon Bordy, Abe H. Brodkeyy paper;"raTsec* 'an'aTarm, vilifyingT.fiie Germany met'her fete in 191S"because, McGee. This poptilar play fey Sholom that five or six children faint in ev- A Jewish industrialist who arrived Arthur A. Cohn, David Cohn, Max foreign press as blackmailers of Gerin overweening pride and egocentric Aleichem will be presented by the ery classroom daily. The J. D. C. es- in Xattawitz, Poland, states that the Crounse, Morris Friedel, Jacob J. tablished soup kitchens which sup- German authorities have forbidden many. When Sonders called the fol- vanity, she was unwilling to allow Center Players at the Jewish ComFriedman, Dave Greenberg-, Dr. Mayplied them with one. meal daily, but those in charge of burials in Jewish lowing day to see his friend, he was other people to live as they wished, munity Center, Tuesday and Wednesnard M. Greenberg, Abner Kaiman, their funds were not sufficient to communities to display or divulge lists met by a plainclothes detective who but was determined to dominate and day evenings, April 25 and 26. Ben Kazlowsky, Jack Marer, William asked to see his passport, which Son- impose her will on the remainder of take care of all of the children. One of the most realistic scenes is Milder, W. A. Eacusin, Isadore Shafof the dead. . ders refused to show, demanding the the world, and we see again kindling the Seder service in the second act. er, David Sherman, Hy Shrier, Harry HELP IN GERMANY Boycott . detective's authorization and creden- in her internal affairs the same spirit Especial effort is being made to carry Silverman, Nathan Yaffe, and Sam The Jewry of Germany had pre- Many Jewish communities through- tials. The plainclothes man then called at a moment when she is asking the the Seder out in detail as it would viously needed no assistance" from out the world continue in their boycott in the police who arrested both Son Disarmament Conference — and other have been enacted, in the small Rus- Jerusalem, (J.T.A.}—Exports from Zacharia. the rest of the world. But, with their of German goods. . Women's Division ders and his friend Adler, who had States expressed willingness to grant" sian villages just prior to the war. Poland to Palestine have increased economic lives uprooted through the Under the of Mrs. Jeanbeen waiting for him downstairs. it to her—equality of status. This is central characters of Mr; and by 500 per cent since the end of ette Arnstein, direction Nazi persecutions and with their This boycott by the Jewish com- Both Sonders and Adler relate that not the moment to make concessions Mrs.TheDavid the women's division's Shapiro are being portray1927, according to a statement made joining the East European victims munities is especially strong in Poland they were both roughly searched a1 to Germany. •, _ ed by Isadore Dansky anl Martha here by Dr. Bernard Hausner, Polish committees have started their work x of special disabilities arising from where the boycott is now embracing the police station and their papers, "Germany is asking reconsideration Himmelstein. Russell Blumenthal has Consul General, to the special repre- for the campaign. oppression and discrimination, they the entire country. The committees on organization, adwatches and' valuables taken from of any portion of the Versailles Treaty sentative of the Jewish Telegraphic vance too need assistance. And the Joint That the American Jewish Congress them. From here they were taken to which is shown to be unduly harsh. the juvenile lead. gifts, rally, motor corps, and The .prologue is another b ight spot Agency. Exports from Palestine to may yet be compelled to declare itself Distribution Committee is answering telephone, have already begun functhe police presidium and thrown into a Before you can revise those treaties, in the play, depicting a lively scene in Poland have doubled during the same tioning. These in favor of an economic boycott the call. committees were apwhere they found about seventy before you can reconsider them, you hich a group of students make merry period. Thus, the Joint Distribution Com- against Germany, was the statement cellar, pointed at the executive meeting of others, half naked, some covered with must be quite certain that that domin one of the Russian inns. "The articles which Poland is ex- the women last week. mittee finds that its work of succor made Friday by Babbi Stephen S. blood, with crushed ribs and with in- ineering spirit has departed from the Irvin Levin, in charge of porting to Palestine and the neighand assistance is greater today than Wise, honorary president, and Ber- juries to legs and heads- They describ Germans. Before we can return to Mrs. Youth Division tickets, reports an excellent advance boring countries," Dr. Hausner statwhen it was organized in 1914 as the nard S. Deutch, president of the Amthe prisoners as being in a terribl their level, we must be sure they seek Preliminary arrangements for the ed, "consists chiefly of timber, rye erican Jewish Congress. agency of the Jews of America for sale. • and rye flour, iron tubing, glass- conducting of the campaign among the bringing relief to stricken Jews over- Dr. Wise declared that the reassur- condition, lying on the floor, and in equality for their own security and to McGee, the director of the play, is - seas. As a new emergency arises, ing statements made by leading or- agony from their injuries. Among th maintain peace and not to threaten co-author of "Brigham Young," and ware, paper, textiles, chemical ap- Jewish youth of the1 city were formuthe J. D. C. seeks to meet it. . ganizations in Germany were due to prisoners was also a Catholic who was the security of other nations, and I for six years was director of the Pur- paratus, fancy goods and machinery ieted at a meeting of the executive married to a Jewess. He claimed to say, with the sense of responsibility due University Theatre. _ of all kinds. The articles which committee of the Youth division at coercion. THE ORT have been arrested because he had de- which must attach to a person who Abner Kaiman is chairman of the Palestine ships to Poland consists the Jewish Community Center, ThursRelaxation? ; • The Ort, another beneficiary of the clared that his wife was as good as has held the position I have, that it ill Center Players. Justin Wolf is chair- chiefly of oranges, tobacco, wine, day evening. Philanthropies, also l e n d s aid in However, a sign that the Nazis any German woman. He was there- becomes Germany to be so narrow or man books and souvenirs. Recently Pal- Justin R. Wolf is chairman of the of production. Eastern Europe. It was founded in may be calming down is seen upon carried off by Nazis, had his overbearing or exclusive. estine edible oils have also found a Youth division. The Senior Council of 1880 by very prominent personages in the decree of Minister of Justice skull broken, and was also otherwise "That spirit is rampant. To come Clubs of the J. C. C. will co-oper&ts ,. market in Poland. of the European Jewish world, who Kerrl that Jewish notaries and law- maltreated. : •;• . ~:. • asking favors and concessions from with the Youth division in securing "It may perhaps be interesting to realized that the Jewish population yers may now again apply for admisThe Catholic prisoner, they relate, other nations is useless unless a better know," Dr. Hausner continued, "that the division quota. had been removed from the soil and sion to the courts, since special cases begged spirit prevails, unless she gives the seThe following are the members of them to reveal to the world while Polish exports to the United its occupations and in overwhelming require special treatment. Appli- what was happening, as soon as they curity to Europe regarding her intenthe executive committee of the Youth States amount to only 10 per cent of numbers were drifting to non-pro- cants, in their written applications, tion which European nations have a A large turnout attended the first what America exports to Poland, the i division: ductive fields such as petty trading. must declare their loyalty to the were released. right to expect." They also tell of another prisoner, a spring basket ball practice Wednes- contrary is the case with regard to Bess Bernstein, Ida Blacker, Morris Grasping the danger of such a government. young -Jew from Kalisz, whose home day at the Jewish Community Center, Polish-Palestine trade. Palestine and R. Blacker, Morris Fallc, Sam Firikel, trend and the instability in the ec- present A dispatch from Berlin calculates was broken into by Nazis who forced under the direction of Coach Morris the neighboring countries export to Dora Freshman, Joe Goldware, Hvonomic status of the Jews resulting that twenty thousand non-Jewish em-1 him and his father to beat each other. H. Sogolow. This innovation has met Poland less than 10 per cent of their man Goodbinder, Mrs. Rose Katleman, therefrom, they determined to revert ployees were dismissed from the ofThe young Jew described how, when with popular approval among the imports from Poland. Exports from Bess Kirshenbaum, Ephraim L. Marks, the Jewish people to agriculture and fices of Jewish lawyers who are unPoland to these countries amounted Helen Merritt, Sally Morgan, Ralph they refused to comply, they were players. industrial pursuits. able to continue their practice. Earl Sieg-al, Joseph Solomonow, beaten up by the Nazis until the blood The next session will be held next this year to 6,154,000 zlotys, while Nogg, During the fifty-odd years of the Mrs. Fanny Gladstone Simon, pioRobert Stiefler, Ervin Wezelman, »n<? Polish imports from Palestine flowed and were then forced to lick Baid in Grenadierstrasse existence of the Ort, the wisdom of neer Omaha resident, died at her Wednesday evening. Adele Wilinskv. amounted to 438,000 zlotys. its founders has been proven. During A refugee informant tells that the their own blood. They were subse- home, 3260 Francis street, Tuesday The award night of the physical edthese years, the economic life of a raid in the Jewish quarter in Berlin, quently arrested and thrown into the night, after a year's illness. She ucation department, held at the CenteT "In comparing exports from Polgood part of our people has been the Grenadierstrasse, resulted not cellar at the police presidium. would have been 90 years old Satur- a week Ego Wednesday, was a color- and to the United States with those The Americans further describe how day. gradually and steadily developing. merely in the beating of more than • ful event; and is acting as a stimulus to Palestine, it may also he worth while pointing out that during 1932 Colonies were founded which are set- several scores of Jews and the raid- individual prisoners are taken out of Mrs. Simon's parents were charter for athletics at the Center. _ tled by J e w i s h farmers. Trade ing of the Polish synagogue in that the cellar at night and subjected to members of Temple Israel. She beIrvin Levin presided. William L. Polish exports to the United States schools were established in Russia, section, as reported in the general excruciating cruelty. longed to the Sisterhood. Since the Holzman presented the awards. Shori including Canada, amounted to only Several Omaha Jewish students Both Americans, who were released death of her husband in 1900, Mrs. talks were made by Physical Directoi 10,517,000 zlotys. Polish exports to Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, in press, but that it developed into a which the young and adults of both pogrom, in which more than 300 were. on the following day, declare that they Simon has lived with her sisters, the Sogblow, Jack Marer, and Coacr Palestine and the neighboring coun- were honored at the Honors Convocasexes are trained for various trades. injured, scores of them dangerously,' immediately called on the United Misses Eva and Rose Gladstone. She Drummond of Tech. Movies and a box- tries during the same year amounted tion of the University of Nebraska $t Guardian bureaus were organized to and more than one hundred were kid- States Consul in Berlin in order to is also sur-rived by two brothers, Vic- ing match entertained the large crowc to as much as 6,154,000 zlotys. Pal- Lincoln, Monday. support orphans and give them voca- napped, their whereabouts being still make an affidavit describing their ex- tor of Omaha, and Max of Venice cresent. estine, with its small population has, Arthur M. Greene and Dr. Meyor tional training. periences and treatment. They assert California. therefore, in proportion, imported Beber, seniors in the University of unknown. that the Consul declined to accept from Poland a greater amount of Nebraska College of Medicine, with SUPPLY MACHINERY The German government has set Funeral sen-ices were held Thurs- Plans for Mother, goods than the United States and grades in the upper three per cent ft? In the United States an Ort Tool May 1 as the date on which the kosher their affidavit, although his assistant day, with Rabbi Frederick Cohn offithe graduating class, were cited for appeared willing to do so. They decombined. Supply was formed to enable Ameri- killing of animals and fowl intended ciating-. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Daughter Banquet Canada clare that the attitude of the Consul cemetery. Mrs. Simon's mother was "The Jews of Poland," Dr. Haus- superior scholarship throughout thr<ir can Jews to supply their needy rela- for food must cease. was unfriendly. Mrs. F. Alberts and her committe n«r explained, "when they come to entire university career. tives abroad with machinery and PALESTINE IMMIGRATION the first person to be buried in PleasBoth Adler and Sonders assert that ant Hill cemetery. have started preparations for the an- Palestine retain their preference for Both were last month elected to ths raw material. the outside world is unaware of the nual community-wide Mother-Daugh- Polish goods. This sentiment they medical scholastic honor society, AlAs the economic upheaval contin- CERTIFICATES Jerusalem—The Jewish Telegraphic real extent of the atrocities still proter banquet under the auspices of the display here, not only because they pha Omega Alpha. Arthur is the SOT, ues, we find more and more the Center to Close Jewish Women's Welfare Federation, are accustomed to articles of Polish of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Greene. great need for getting as many of Agency learns that the Palestine gov- ceeding in Germany. Other Jewish students from Omah* The Jewish Community Center wil to be held at the Jewish Commuiiity manufacture, but because of their our people to participate in labor, ernment has granted 1,000 immigrabe closed from Sunday, 6 p. m., untO Center, Sunday, May 7, at 6 p. in. desire to maintain close relations who are not graduating this semestrtindustry and agriculture—i. e., in tion certificates here for German Jews DOORS OP FRANCE Tuesday, 6 p. m., because of the Pass The committee includes the Mes- with friends and relatives in Poland. were cited for high scholarship, rankthose economic pursuits which are planning to emigrate to Palestine. OPEN dames Louis Neveleff, J. Malashock, ,"In view of the present wave of ing in the upper 10 per cent of their now developing with prospects of a This number is in advance of the usual Paris, France—In answer to a ques- over holydays. immigration schedule issued by the tion put on the floor of the Chamber Munich. — The Bavarian Financ Henry Newman, B. A. Simon, Irvin anti-Jewish feeling in Germany, one class. These include: substantial future. government. of Deputies, Minister of the Interior Minister, Siebert, states that thewsb Levin, Dave Sherman, H. A. Wolf, may say that the position of the Jack Epstein, sophomore in business Halt Debt Payments Chautemps, declared, amidst thunder- sidy, which until now fiafi been A. Greenberg and Miss Blanche Zim- Jews in Poland today is the best in administration; Sol Feliman, j i Eastern Europe. True, they suffer in engineering; Joseph A dispatch from Warsaw tells how ous applause, that the doors of granted to the Bavarian Jewish com man. economically, bet this is due to the sophomore in medicine; Rose The charge wiil be fifty cents per munity, will be withdrawn for th< France are always open for those sufnon-Jewish and Jewish merchants are eeneral economic position in Poland. ,berg, freshman in fine arts. future. plate. organizing there with the purpose of fering oppression in foreign land&e
CENTER PLAYERS REHEARSING FOR IF T WERE YOB"
WflSMESK TRADE IS SHOWING MARKED INCREASE
LARGE TURNOUT FOR SPRING BASKETBALL
MRS. SIMON, PIONEER OMABAN, PASSES AWAY
Honor Students for High Scholarship