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THE NAZI SCENE BELOW SURFACE
VOL. IX—No. 45
Belgian Queen at Yiddish Theater Brussels, (J.T.A.)—The visit which Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians, made to the Yiddish Theater to witness a performance by the celebrated Wilno troupe was hailed by the Belgian press as a demonstration by the ruling house of sympathy with the Jews and of protest against anti-Semitism. The papers pointed out that the Queen intended to express her feelings regarding persecution of the Jews and chose this visit to the Yiddish Theatre as an effective means of doing so. The Queen was enthusiastically received by the audience at the theatre. She stayed throughout the entire performance and at its conclusion received M. Slaso, director of the troupe, expressing her appreciation of the presentation.
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More and m^gs^t-^Jople are using the facilities Kfj-"'-^ local Jewish Community Ceir ,:>'%! Welfare Federation to tran..ULi*aooney to relaDorothy Thompson S t r e s s e s Two Ifundred Families to Try tives in Europe through the Hias. Nazi Use of "Propaganda In the year this service has been This Method of Beating By ALICE L. HAMILTON, M. D. and the Lie" offered, $699.55 have been sent Depression through the J. C. C. to Russia, Po(Reprinted From the* Survey Graphic) "The boycott of Nazi-made goods Latvia and other Eastern EuNew York, (J. T. A.)—Two hun- land, will not bring about the downfall ropean countries. dred families will /be settled on a of t h e H i t l e r Editor's Note; In this picture of up to eighteen months for repeating grandmother, both in the eighties, regime in Germany,1 large parcel of land in New Jersey This safe, efficient transmission of German was the imon tales of violence towards Jews. There impressions written in the had quietly taken their own lives, unmoney is gaming in popularity. ° P expressed by Dorin the near future by the Provisional Survey Graphic Dr. Hamilton gives is a little joke thfy tell of a man able to face this hideously altered othy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) Commission for the Establishment of first-hand testimony of what is go- with his" head aH Jbandaged who is world. who was enthusiastically received Jewish Farm Settlements as a measing on below the surface in Nazi accosted by a frien|L by a capacity audience Monday eveI think of two couples, one of my ure against the economic depression. Germany, as contradistinguished from "What on earth*has happened to own generation, the other their son ning at the Jewish Community CenThe families will be selected from the orderliness which appears to preter where she opened the Commuyou?" ' and his young wife, with whom we among thousands,of unemployed neevail on the surface. Herein Dr. Ham- "What has happened to me nity Forum series with a lecture on spent a Sunday in a university city dle -workers -who at the present time ilton illustrates the same power of "The Crisis in Germany." "Howwhat we are told is not true." in the Rhineland. The older man is are facing serious hardships. discernment which has characterized The country is fpll of spies—hotel a physician, an internationally known ever," she continued, "I favor the Plans, and details of the movement, her fair but thorough investigations waiters, hotel guests, one's own ser- authority in his field, but—he had a boycott because public opinion is which is the first of a series of simiof wide areas of American industry, vants. In some houses conversation Jewish mother. He took me over his thus mobilized against tactics such lar efforts which together have been Europe in wartime, and Russia after kept on when the^servant came in, beloved institute, his clinic •which he as are employed by the Nazis." designated a "back to the farm move- Mr. Harry Friedman was honored the revolution.—The Editor. but usually there? was a sudden sibuilt up himself, and I had to linger Miss Thompson, a noted authoress, ment," were outlined at a meeting on the occasion of his 88th birthday lence or change of subject. Once in each room and listen to all that is one of the most famous women luncheon held by the Commission. at a stag sponsored by the local It is less than a week since Clara when we were - bracking on the third had gone to the development of the newspaper correspondents in the Benjamin Brown, chairman of the lodge of the B'nai B'rith at the J. Landberg world. She spoke of conditions in and I came back from Ger- floor of a house ,«pe of the guests many sides of his work. I had the Commission, said that from each setC. Tuesday evening. got up and shut fee window nervous- feeling that I was assisting at the Germany from actual observation many after a ten weeks' journey that tler will be required a deposit of During the evening tribute was ly, saying one never knew if the long farewell of a condemned exile and investigation. 5500, in return for which he will be paid to his charity work and the went from Cologne in the west to neighbors might foot catch some to his beloved home, and so it really The speaker excoriated Hitler and given a house and aero, in addition service he has rendered to the. com- Koenigsberg in the east and from words through the', window. We had proved to be, for on our way downMunich in the south up north to his Nazis, particularly attacking to whatever farm implements he munity in general and the B'nai Hamburg. Germany is an old stamp- an amusing but startling experience stairs we met ' a heavy, awkward Will Speak at J. C. C. Tuesday their use of false propaganda and finds necessary. B'rith in particular. A testimonial Evening, December 12, once in a restaurant. We had been man who was introduced to the utter abandon with which they The bulk of the money realized of appreciation was presented to him ing-ground of mine. I had a whole talking rather freely but felt safe young at 8 P. M. me as the second assistant and as told "colossal lies." year of student life there after my from the initial deposits will be used, by Dr. Philip.Sher. because we used the name "Lehmann" he passed us my friend said, "There She stated that. Germany has gone graduation from the medical school he said in purchasing or leasing land Leo Abramson, who was chairman for Hitler. My host's little son, a is my successor. My first assistant Dr. Jacob Singer, director of the and equipment. Products'raised by of the affair, read a message from and after I went into industrial med- charmer of four years, seemed ab- is a Jew, so it is this one who gets Hillel Foundation at Northwestern through the following: three stages the farmers will be used chiefly for Harry B. Zimman, praising Mr. icine I took every chance to slip in sorbed in his dinner and in the ex- my place." I burst out in anger University, will open the Jewish lec- since the advent of Hitler to power: subsistence. Surplusage may be sold Friedman's loyalty and unselfish again even if for only a few days, to citing surroundings^ but .suddenly he against the stupid cruelty of the uni- ture series at the Jewish Community 1. A short reign of terror. A systematic, cowardly and cruel terrorizvisit factories and talk to experts in turned to the waiter and said, "Do for a profit, he said. service. Mr. Zimman has been perversity and the meanness of a man Center this Tuesday evening, Decem- ing and phy?* beating of Jews, One of the chief objectives of the sonally acquainted with Mr. Fried- my field. pacifists, internationalists and comI thought I knew Germany inti- you know there is a wild man in who would consent to climb on the ber 12, starting at 8 p. m. movement, Mr. Brown explained, will man's work for 40 yeaTS. Sam mately but now I begin to think I Berlin? His name is Lehmann/' back of his own chief to take what Dr. Singer's subject is "Jewish munists. While this was going on, be to restore the needle worker to Beber gave a talk congratulating Mr. Really, we all had; cold chills when he had no right to. My friend shrug- Wit and Humor." His talk will inand his aids were telling the his trade. Through cooperative ef- Friedman on behalf of the B'nai did not. From the first day in Co- we realized what a ^narrow escape we ged his shoulders. "What would hap- volve both the humorous aspect and Hitler press and foreign correspondents that logne, which was still placarded with forts, manufacturers in the cities of B'rith. pen if he should refuse? Only that the philosophical basis of Jewish hu- there were no atrocities being perhate posters against the Jews, I had made. the country will be asked to give Mr. Friedman responded, express- found myself bewildered and aghast Therefore, the tourist who cannot he would lose a wonderful chance mor. petrated. On the very day Hitler work to the farmers, who are expect- ing his appreciation for the honors with the change that had come over get below the surface, who has no and somebody no better than he; The for the evening will I t ed to apportion their time between bestowed upon him. j be Dr. Victor E. Levine, of the o l d t n e Hearst papers by long disland. This feeling still remains intimate connections in Germany, would be put in over him." T. T _* ^ tance interviews to tell the American farming and duties to which they are Ab Kaiman was master of cere- that with me but after ten weeks there I cannot know the truth. He will get As we left the building we turned I University School of people that "not one hair of a .Jew* accustomed. Individuals will be ap- monies. Al Finkel, pianist, gave sev- know that the change is not univer- the impression that all Germany is ish person was hurt in Germany," pointed to find a market for monu- eral selections, and Bill Baron en- sal, that there are many, many Ger- enthusiastically back of Hitler, for f o r a ,,] o o k ^b a c k a t i t a n d m y f r i e n dj _ lecturer is recognized as an 167 foreign Jews (this naturally exsaid lt the idIeness the e m p t factured products placed on sale by the people most opposed to him ^l\ that I mind most. I am only j authority on literature and is said cluding the German Jews) filed ofthe farmers. be a forceful speaker. be the last *© fey anything. Of in that distracted land with dismay, ficial protests with the consuls in fifty, I cannot sit at home all day to Rabbi Mr. Brown pointed, out that this eluding many old-timers who had with shame, sometimes with despair. course, I cannot fiazard a guess as Frederick Colin has known Berlin that they had been beaten like a decrepit old man. If even I movement in no way will compete worked side-by-side with Mr. Fried- It seems important to make this to how great Iris majority really is; might write, but my last article has Dr. Singer for a long time, and in up by the Nazis. with other similar back-tp-the-farm man and many younger men who clear nobody can possibly know. He has just come back, the first time such commenting on him states: "Dr. to Americans because though 2. A period of "cold cleansing." A movements. It is to be an independ- had not yet been born .when.-Mr. we find you better informed on many dissolved all other existing. parties, Singer is a fluent and interesting series of laws were enacted, disa thing, has happened to me. Evi• ent, self-governing, non-profit-making Friedman was active in philanthropic speaker and a man who is intensely franchising the Jews, depriving them he controls the press and the trades, dently that outlet is barred too!" grpup, .except insofar as the hitherto there is no possible way in which rights and mak"We went to his house for a mid- earnest. He is thoroughly Jewish and of their citizenship •unemployed needle workers will ben- had permanently settled in Omaha April first than we are, because you be voiced. But day dinner and I met his wife. She has a great deal of artistic ability t h e m alieRS _ ffitler,s c a m p a ign .have had full andjfearlese reports in dissent efit from their labors. \ _ _ . in the year .,1886 7 and., became j e r y in various^fields. I feel,certain .that, -passionatea g a i n s t t h e J e w s w a s n o t o ne m ; was"far less "calin than neF'husbanci, ~ :: :"PefsoiS -Selected- fotf the ^enterprise aeHve" in! "communal workT "He lias his talk here will be well worth a s d e v a s t a t i n g a P his battle against pudiation of the whole movement, onlv a censored press-filled with fanshe was half distracted with misery •will be chosen provided they meet the been a B'nai B'rith member for the it is not confined to the Jews, and with a helpless anger which was •while. . , . the Gennan working classes. requirements, which include physical past 43 years and in June of this tastic and vicious propaganda, still and who are the victims of specially reThe Jewish lecture series is being attempted there seem to be two impressions exactly what I should have felt in g Totalitarian s t atus ability, mental fitness and a desire year was unanimously elected by the presented at the Jewish Community f o r a l l G e r m a n y . A state in which over here that to us seem mistaken, lentless persecution; it is felt by the to do the work. B'nai B'rith as treasurer for life plight of her husband to think of Center, under the auspices of the a l l s c i e n c e - a r t r e i i g i o n , love, ideas, "I would like to point out," con- after having served faithfully in that namely that all Germans are united Gentiles, too. As all the world knows, it is the 'or Hitler and that, after all, everybut still more that of her son, and Junior \ a a d organizations and m- > u l i f e ^ . m b e d e d d e d b v Mr _ H i t tinued Mr. Brown, "that this kindof post for 30 years. ;hing is going on much as usual in Jews who are singled out as scape- after dinner "when she had a few eluded five numbers during the com- I ,„„ work will constitute not only an imgoats and who bear the chief brunt minutes alone with me she told me ing season. The project is for the Miss Thompson pointed out that Germany. portant contribution toward the soluIt is true that an intelligent tour- of the Nazi rage against all that has with a quiet desperation that she community at large. Tickets can be in this latter phase Hitler made his tion of some of the grave problems ist can spend some time in Germany happened in Germany since 1914. It knew he was thinking of suicide and procured at the Community Center, first slip when he attempted to which confront the Jews, but that i and come back to report that all is is true that tens of thousands of she could have no peaceful moment and are §1.50 for the season or fifty change the church. The churches will also be in line with the general cents for individual lectures. well in Berlin and Dresden; the Gentiles are in concentration camps rose bravely to refuse the Nazi orpolicy of our present administration he was out of her sight. The committee on the Forum in- der to throw out the Old Testament because of their political faith, and streets are orderly, the discipline of at Washington, which aims, among young people took us for a clude Dave Slobodinsky and Sara Ma- and all Jewish converts. ;he young Nazis is perfect, the tales it is true too that the Jews who are other things, at decentralization, that lashock, co-chairmen, Louis Eichlin, of Jewish atrocities were absurdly in those camps are imprisoned for 'Hitler has written in his book, aftemoon coffe^ is, the moving out of thousands of Sam White, Arthur Cohen, Dave ] My Struggle," and has inculcated the same cause, not because of their exaggerated, and now no Jew is even Opening a series ' of eight "book people from the congested industrial t h a t h a d f a I ] f i n Hahn, Joe Saks, Joe Kricsfeld, Joe into his Nazi followers the princicenters into the free and healthy at- evenings," Rabbi David A. Goldstein molested; they are carrying on their race. But what makes the Jewish sitH e i n t h e , Feldman, Eudy Mittleman, Sol Kri- ple that 'in the extent of a lie, lies uation so hideous is that it is inbusiness as usual, the whole country will review Hervey Allen's "Anthmosphere of rural life." until May 1^ and his wife| j Esther Goldware, Dora its power. If you tell a small lies ony Adverse" Monday evening, De- is back of Hitler; if there were an escapable, one can hide one's opin- university had taken her doctorate in his sub- z e m a I l j cember 11, at 8 p. m., at the Jew- election tomorrow he would poll 100 ions but not one's race; it involves ject, Freshman, B l a n c h e Eothenberg, it will be detected; if you tell a so the two had a gorgeous time Blanche Binstein, Anne Green, Mar- collosal lie, the people will believo Temple Father, Son ish Community Center. A much per cent of the votes; he is after all, people who have never concerned making out his courses together. novel and already widely a fine fellow and just what Germany- themselves with politics as much as They showed us their two studies ion Weinberg, Bess Kirschenbaum, it because they can't believe you Dinner Wednesday discussed read, it is one of the year's best needed. That is the impression most the most ardent Democrats and it which took up most of the little flat, and Bess Eubenstein. would be so impudent'! Consequentourists will bring back this summer strikes with special cruelty the chil- they showed us the prospectus of the The advisory committee is com- ly, the Hitlerites do not make even sellers. The vestry rooms ol Temple Israel posed of Mrs. Leon Mendelson, Mrs. the slightest attempt to give rea dren whose only crime is to have will be the scene of the Temple's an- This is the only public series that but it is largely false. new courses they had prepared for f ^ been born. Mrs. N. H. Green- sons for what they believe or do." nual father and son dinner, given un- Rabbi Goldstein is giving this year. I am ready to admit that during this semester, and then their hands It is open to non-members of the The first call I made in Germany dropped and they sat silent while we all my stay there I saw no sign of der the auspices of- the Brotherhood to the Nazi making sweeping on Wednesday evening, December 13, Conservative Synagogue at the nomi- disorder, but then I lived twenty-five gave me a feeling of passionate sym- wondered what one could say to merman, M nal fee of $1.50 the series, or 50 years in. Chicago and in a poor, im- pathy mixed with anger which did young things stopped so suddenly and eralities which are false and reat 6:30 p. m. Members migrant neighborhood at that, and so not leave me while I was there ex- cruelly at the beginning of their capeating these generalities over and An elaborate program, of entertain- cents for each review. 1 over again. far as I knew I never saw a boot- cept for brief periods of happy for- reers. I asked if there were not ment has been scheduled,'' according may procure.$1 tickets. _„. The ticket sale has been brisk, legger or a high-jacker and certainly getfulness soon destroyed by a fresh something he could do temporarily, "The worst thing inherited from to Morris E. Jacobs, who will be Mrs. Mose Yousem and Mrs. Irving never a gangster murder. Yet no- experience as pitiful and iijs sadden- till the madness passed, but he shook the world war," Miss Thompson do toastmaster of the evening. clared, "is the development of the Unique prizes will be given to the Levin, chairman and co-chairman, re- body would take such negative evi- ing as the first. Social workers" do his head. spectively,- announce, and - a •capacity dence as conclusive nor should I think not need to be told what it must technique of poisoning the public fathers and sons. "I have been everywhere," he said. mind—propaganda. In propaganda, The dinner, which will be served attendance is predicted. "The Con- of offering it. In 1924 I was in Rus- mean when a government sets out "I have offered to take any kind of tmcer the direction of Mrs. Mollie servative Synagogue Auxiliary is sia and had I not been a guest of the with a deliberate plan to make life work, no matter how unskilled, but A national campaign tinder the the 'lie' is made an art." Colin, is to be open to women as well sponsoring the affair as a benefit Quakers I should have come back intolerable for some two or three they all say the same thing: 'My leadership of Mrs. Herman Shulman The speaker also forcibly discov- •• full of unqualified admiration for the millions of its people, to drive them ns fathers and sons, it was announced. for the Sunday School. of New York City is to be conducted ered the generally believed idea In addition to the opening novel, Bolsheviks. But the Quakers saw be- out of business, finance, the arts and dear boy, we would gladly take you, during the month of December that Hitler and his Nazis came to make a place for you, but there is a other "books to be reviewed and dates neath the surface and they knew the professions. The problem of phythroughout the United States in be- power legally. He cited the steps Nazi spy in the office, a stenograContributions to are! as follows: "Little Man, What what went on in the cellar as well as sical want that faces them is stagof the Palestine School Lunch- by which he illegally gained the powNow?" by Hans Fallada, on Decem- the part of the house which strang- gering to contemplate. But there is pher or an office boy, or maybe it half er he has as dictator. The method Memorial eon Fund. is the janitor or the scrubwoman, ber 27; "Return of the Native," by ers see. also the other aspect, the mental and we should be denounced in the betrayal and broken word," she The purpose of the Fund is to "of Fund Thomas Hardy/' January 15; "Hear To know what is happening in Ger- suffering, the shock of suddenly findstated, was used. Brown House, a band of thugs would check the prevalence of malnutrition Ye, Sons!" by Irving Fineman, Jantoday you must go to friends ing oneself passing from a position visit us, you would be thrown out among school children in Palestine "Mr, Hitler wants a military Contributions to the "Memorial uary 29; "Of Human Bondage," Feb- many of old know and trust you. of respect, even honor, to that of a and who knows what would happen by providing them with well bal- renaissance in Germany—-a Germany Fund" of the Jewish Community Cen- ruary 12; "Three Cities," Scholem Through who these you meet oth- hated interloper, of being thrust in to us, anyway.' So there is no use anced, nourishing meals which they purged of all opposition to militarter and Welfare Federation form an Asch, February 26,: and two others ers and they, friends accept you on their a single day froi-i one's beloved work trying for work anywhere." themselves prepare. A luncheon fund ism, and he then wants to go on « important item in the : Federation yet to be selected. into complete idleness without hope. friends' word and in turn pass you We were at one of those abundant makes possible also an intensive ed- crusade. The Hitler theme is that "budget in caring for the indigent on to people in another city, the cir- I think of a spirited young wo- German afternoon coffee parties in ucational program which puts into the German people must have more sick and needy. cle widening all the time. These peo- man, who all her life has had the the house of an old professor whom practice the newest findings in the space, and he wants that space not This Flower Fund serves the three- Installation Service ple wfll talk freely, but only in their background given by an old and hon- I knew in my student days. As I look science of nutrition, which show that to be colonial but right in continfold purpose of honoring the departat Temple Tonight own homes or in small groups in a ored famfly name (her people have back on it, I feel again the surge of in the proper choice and use of sim- ental Europe. His theme is based ed, consoling the bereaved, and aidhotel or restaurant where a corner been in Upper Silesia since 1520) everyday articles of food is found on 'blood and earth.' This is acing the needy. The installation of the newly-elected can be found quite safe from eaves- the daughter of a famous scientist, pity that came over me when I lis- ple cording to his own words, and he In reminding the public to contri- officers of the Brotherhood will fea- droppers. There, in low voices, they with a city street named for him af- tened to some low words from the the key to the prevention of defi- further states that Germany's gain ciency diseases and the advancement wife of a judge who sat opposite us. bute to this fund, the Federation ture the services .at Temple Israe will tell you the truth. I remember ter his death, the granddaughter of a be at the expense of two 'destates: "The giving to charity in this evening, December 8, starting ai the sudden feeling of surprised re- man known as a generous patron -of He had just been expelled from of- of positive health and longevity. will cadent' countries, Russia and France. honor of the dead is in accordance 8 p. m. the arts, andyherself a more than fice and forbidden to practice as a Through the Palestine School Lunch- His purpose is to annex the Polish lief that came over me when I crosseon Fund the children are made the with' the Jewish tradition. Should any During the special ceremony Rabbi ed the.border into Holland for a day prominent educator. When I met her lawyer in the courts, even to take Latvia, Lithuania, etc. He of our members be so unfortunate David H. Wice will speak on "Leaders and found that none of my friends she had as yet hardly had time to charity cases. He was in a state of instruments of bringing this newer corridor, wants peace only if he can get what education into the home, thus influrestless excitement and his wife did as to suffer the loss of a friend or and Demagogues." -.,-'• glancing over their shoulders or catch her breath; she was bewilder- not have to tell me what it meant encing the nutrition of the family and he wants by peace." She predicted loved one, may we not ask that what Rabbi Wice will lead the • installa- were ed, she could not believe that her They were calling Hitler that he wouldn't go very far in his would ordinarily be spent for the tion, with President-elect Morris; E. whispering. own city could so hurt and insult to have him a t home all day long, community. by name and s a y i n g what they "crusade." This year, with the influx of the pacing the floor, unable to get away passing tribute of flowers be sent Jacobs giving the response. pleased about him in a crowded res- her. Work, which means most of life for an houT from his despair over harassed, driven, underfed children to our Federation and .placed in the taurant. The next day I was back in for her, was taken away, even though the hopeless fate that had overtaken from Germany and eastern Europe, Memorial Flower Fund, to aid us in Germany and the pall of fear drop- most of what she did was unpaid re- him, and coming back again and the work takes on special signifi- German Scholar Exile our work." search; her father's name was inForm Anti-Defamation ped over me again. Appointed to Yale sulted, she was of a sudden robbed again to thoughts of suicide as the cance. Groups This is no fancy. People are ar- of all her pride and confidence, her only way out. Their one joy and A committee headed by Mrs. J. New Haven, Conn.—Dr. Karl LoewRacial Eugenics Chair New Britain, Conn.—Special com rested constantly and for most triv- own city for which her family had comfort, their son, was gone; for Blank and Mrs. D. R. Cohen, assist- enstein, noted political scientist forDusted Off mittees are being organized in this ial things. Lese majeste under the done so much, had turned on her and they had sent him to "school i n Switz- ed by Mrs. L. Sogolow, J. Abraham- merly on the faculty of the University : Berlin.—The University of Berlin city, Hartford and MiddletQwn U Kaiser was nothing to what it is now. called her vDe names and hated her. erland feeling that for Mm to slay son, D. B. Epstein, Allen Kohan, Moe o£ Munich, but now a refugee from Inaugurated a chair for the study secure support for the activities of Daring my short stay five persons And the very night before she came at home would bring him u p in an Katleman, Harry Malashock, D. B. Germany has been appointed associof racial eugenics..- Professor Lud- the B'nai B'xith , Anti-Defamation were, reported in the papers .as nav- to see me, her grandfather and Cohen and David A. Finkel will con- ate professor of political science «t wig Glenz will occupy the chair. League and the Hellel Foundations, ing received prison sentences running duct the work in this city. Yale, it was announced cere. (Continned on Page 2).
HARRY FRIEDMAN HONORED FOR HIS UNSELFISH SERVICE
DR. J- SINGER TO OPEN JEWISH LECTURE SERIES
"BOOK EVENINGr BY RABBI GOLDSTEIN TO THIS MONDAY
LOCAL WOMEN TO ASSIST 1 NATIONAL HADASSAH