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NA2IS'JLAST LEAP No reader of this column -will have failed to note the Associated Press report that the National Socialist givernment of Germany has cancelled the German citizenThe tnurosl ineeting of the M ship of Thomas Mann, seized his "The Significance of Hitler" to Jewish C0ESHKHs5fy Center und house, library and lurnituTe in Welfare Federation will be Be Subject Joint Foreign • .-es "is: tseld MoEfiay, FebrKsrj- 15. Project Calls for Settling 25,Munich and forbidden the manuTuesday d T 6 l 4 _ef._-<_/ facture and sale of hia books in 030 to 40,003 Jews All members of tbe Jewish Agitation the Reich. This.move seems to! Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Community Center and aJl the have been not wholly unforseen,, R e s l d e n t B i s h o p o f t h e O maha contrfbators to the Jewish Phil- London - (JTA)—The Jewish anthropies ere welcome. since the third volume of Mann's i a r e „a o f, t ..h e „, .. . , . - _ . ' • Havana (JTA) — position in Poland,: Rumania, asd epic novel "Joseph and Ms Breth-! Methodist Epxscopal At tfds time -there will be an the Free City of. DansiS' was re- election of officers and reports • here commented cautiously tillsern", which bears the sub-title church, will make his first apported increasingly ' .grave at a of the various activities of the weet oa Congressman VTi iliam "Joseph in Egypt", though iden- pearance before Omaha Jewry at conference of tha . Joint Foreign Jewish GoismixEJtjr Center snd Siroricli's project to settle betical in format and type with his a meeting of the B'nai B'rith. Committee, - representing the Welfare Federation for the tween 2o,0P0 and 40,COG Gerprevious works, no longer bears man Jewish refugees on Cnbar Tuesday, January Board of Deputies of British Jews j past year. 19, at 8:15. the imprint, now become a great To m soil within five years. In conand the Anglo-Jewish assoeiatioE. j His topic will be "The Signifimemory, of S. Fischer, Berlin, trast to. the reaction following Continued unchecked and vio- j but of a newly incorporated pub- cance of Adolph Hitler." annoGnceinent of the project sevlent anti-Jewish..propaganda by | lishing house in Vienna, "the Ber-j Bishop Oxnam who came to eral months ago, when the press the Endeks and Naras, an out-; mann-Fischer Company, and was! Omaha only recently is considerbitterly attacked it, editorials lawed party,, was blamed for the j ; ed one of the country's foremost neither criticized nor enthused mannfactured in Austria.. situation in Poland. -The propaover it. ' Doubtless many instructed rea- orators and has won a reputation ganda, it was" stated,' is leading ders felt a pang, a feeling of mor- of being one of America's great Following an interview vitfc to continuous, rioting ia nearly al discomfort at reading of this liberals. President Sru, Mr. Sirovich anall' the . country's_b.igher_ schools. piece of news. Such, too, was my Admission to the lecture" will nounced the new Cuban executive .'-.ttempts to exclude Jews from initial reaction. Second thoughts be by ticket only. Tickets may bad received his proposals "very Warsaw, Cracow and Ltsblis bar brought an entirely different at- be obtained free of charge from sympathetically." The American associations were reported to the titude and an entirely other train Max Baer, 609 - Brandeis Theater committee. Johannesburg (WXS) — The congressman also conferred with The entire Jewish of reasoning. " For this act, above Building. B/SftOP Q.BZaMLJ£i' cie Batista, Cuban die. The. Jewish position in Jewish population of the Union - :' all other acts, we must be grate- community is invited. though the conference has deteriorated , in every diree- ! South Africa is now approximateful. It writes the Nazis down in Eabbi David A. Goldstein, past it was reported aftertion; the conference was told. AM ; U*" 95,000 or somewhat less tfcaa the eternal book of man's mem- president of the Omaha Lodge of economic boycott. against D&csfg j 4-75 per cent of the total Enro- ward that Col. Batista had promory. Perverse-, people in later B'nai B'rith, will introduce the - , Jews, it was stated, is being BUS- P e an population of a little over ised iiis aid. ject o? murh comment. ages may seek to defend them. speaker. Max Baer, program Mr. Sirorich revealed that he' 2,000,000' compared . -with 4.25 tained by Nazi threats against livPil or S?TP p r KfSdy ! p Subtle sophistries will be used; chairman of the local lodge, -will has beenasked, tog-ether -with , non-Jews who* attempt to fiesl ^ r cent is 1926, the South Africouncil will be darkened. "We preside. Several vocal selections American Jewish personal- j =^° Board of Jewish Deputies an'with Jews. A s a result. know those processes. There will will precede the lecture. An open to attend a Cabinet confer- i " aounced in reply to exaggerated be an answer. There will be< an forum will follow Bishop Oxnam's Rehearse.:- '.or "Petticoat Fev-: p o v e r t r i s • incl-easing and tlie en the project in the near amiNS.EE . answer to which there is no re- address. er" hav- been resumed by the 'community' is unable to meet tfce i n u r e s bandied about by 'e. o' thp ply. The answer will be the name Center rinyers. This play ori-igj-o-^mg demands : for relief, thai-Semitic speakers. His plan contemplated calls for In the violent anti-Jewish barBerlin (JTA'i—You can sesrcli of Thomas Mann. iginslly scheduled for 'production r e port declared. e introduction of the Jewg into high and low in the new telerage of oratory. sweeping over Izri rjonth has h e e n . postponed) - unchecked anti-Semitic agitaLet us regard the man and his over a five year period, ar.d phone 'directory sn£ you wor.'t iments. UE.Ul the evenings of February! Uon in Rumania has caused aaz- \ South Africa charges hare been His work. And first thj man. He is find -a rale. It's a "Keffepstiib?" 16 and 17. "'• . •'"• ';' iiety among the .Jews of ttstjmade that the-Jews comprise 7 an Aryan, a German of the North, 5v.'p.y5 been or "ICsffeehEii?'" now. rui* no "Petticoat Ferer" enjoyed a j country,' it w a s ' reported to 'the'-to Thi per cent of the European of Lubeck, where nis ancestors enterprises. Siro- longer by a enfetier. but ^r s long and successful run on Broad- - conference. Apprehension 'has \ population and number between constituted one of those families rants would "Kaffeewirt"' or. better ret, s. he has 8 rejuHptior beinj. The Omaha chapter of Hadas- way last season and was subse- ; a i s o been stimulated, it was de-| 130,000 and 140,000. of patrician merchants that were a scientists and true German 'Kaffephatisbesitzer.''. fine lerfurer. quently made into a movie starr- | clared, by the -government's re- j " The Board of Deputies also recharacteristic of the maritime cit- •sah'will present a series of four ing men who will Robert Montgomery. It is a part ol the Na-i drive ies of the Hanseatic League. Nor lectures by Rabbi David A. Goldof. Oms>It is a story of a wireless op- cent' order for revision of natural- \ plied to exaggerated assertions "make Cuba a chemicsl and cul- agrainst "foreJErnisms" in use in , is that all. Though in his1 first stein in which he will discuss erator who has been isolated at ization requirements which, if I regarding the imigr&tion of Jews, tural center of the world." ha, vil introduce the Getnan language ihp.t !I?F great novel "Buddenbrooks ' he "The Case History of the Jewish his lonely station on the coast of carried out,'may result in the loss ] pointing out that official statisprompted the-Central Keichsposi-. delineated the decay of just' such of Germany. The. first lecture Labrador for. two • years. His of Rumanian citizenship-for many j tics show that for the fire years siEt to clrop certain fore-irn-cler-ip-' nationals of 'Hun-'ending .December,. .1935 »<;wisb. a family, in reality of his own will take place at the home of tranquil existence is upset by the j g a r y a formerly Tickets tor thr Ifo ure ir>?.r n d Russia, nstions from tlie directory ; immigration- from all countires. family, he never cut himself loose Mrs. John Tarber, 104 South Ehn- arrival of a British flyer and his be obtRiperi ff. ihc ' *- * The "Tanripk?,!" hns blopsornpfl average 907 per year. There was from the traditions of his folk wood Road on Wednesday Janu- fiancee who are forced down near j out as E "Tanzraitir!." if yon ETC of ihr Coninuiniiy jan increase" in* Jewish immigra-• and fathers. On the contrary. In ary 27. the station. The ensuing excitepeeking- s dance hall, or a. "Tanzitlon. ia' 1936 du 3 to the arival of his essays and discourses he The lecture period will consume ment is the basis for the amusing New York (JTA)—Economic cimmer" (dance room). Siirillarj German. Jewish; refugees in the state again, and again that he is forty-five minutes and will be fol- situation. # , depression in Chile, now Eppar- ly," the "WciRkotal" has lieconse i -|& " i months up to-aadincluding Ncv.-!>* a child of the European bourge- lowed by a discussion by those Charles Rachman will taksthe tO- ©irO^ j ember Tsrhea new immigration re- t ently drawing to a close, has re- E, "Weinstnbe." Tbe "EraMiF!?. • o r n m . aisle of the nineteenth .century present.. Tea will be served fol- leading role-of Daseom j suited in the absorption sr-Z IREEJ «infl that he regards that Burger- lowing the discussion. - ' • . . . . _ •the lonely wireless operator--The. L.: Moscow (JTA}—A -ca'lectJGaTo? Igulatioais Ifecaiae effective. \ i Since t t o . South Africa sr-i^civisx. j<eca.jers isto nsore pro- er ct the worci'. 13 tumy with all Its faults upon its The committee '•. In charge con-part of Sir J a m e s Fenton, t h e 300. • paintings, *T8*Tsrpttire3 -and j migration as i ductive occupations, HIAS re- er te foKnfi. iead, as the adequate sustainer sists of Mesdame3, Jack Bramson, British flyer, will be. played, .by etchis^srcoatributed 1)y more taan-j frees •'•firtually nea-existent. : ported. As far EE "Ar T =• r n of the civilization of his age. AsJules Shapiro, Abe. Solomon, Milton Frohm, Rosalie Alberts; 200 American lartiits was on exr n Chile's'Jewish population EUIE- cerr ed,. t h ere is BP i" r a mid-European bougeois of the James Corenman, Ben Tehodore, will be Ethel, Sir J a m e s'i hibltibn-liere-.-last- week' preliminbers about 20,000, icclufiir.g ap-1 lection," or store v twentieth century he considered Sylvan Bloch, Dave Brodkey, Ar- fiancee who is flying with him, • r y to -being sent "to the Jewish j a prosimately 3,000 immigrants in! bny ready-made d~e it his duty to give his moral sup- thur Romm, Archi-* Jacobs, and and Bertha Gus• be- Clara',! autonomous territory of Biro-^ the past five years. Of tee recect \ riff, orgran of Prr port to the right wing5 let-us say, Julius Bisno. Mrs. M. Levenson i Bidjan in Soviet Siberia, Dascom's fiancee. . . • | immigrants, about 1,0 00 are Ger-• ter Paul Joseph i. oof the German Social Democracy is chairman. xhe -srorks were sent by the Others in the cast are: George and to declare in unmistakable Because of her splendid work j man refugees. Shafer^ an Eskimo servant; and; American artists, Including Jews for many years in behalf of the j The HIAS-ICA Emigration As- that this word i -• and public terms his allegiance to stricten from use •> Rita Mantel and Martha Hinimeland non-Jews, In response to an Talmud Torah, Mrs. K. Tatle was ; sociation has established a local cUistry and "Gerrrr- 1 the "Weimar Republic In other stein, Eskimo women. words, Thomas Mann is psycholoappeal- .for. ex hibit s to be placed elected honorary president of the Jewish immigrant-aid committee • Helen Merritt is directing the In the Biro-Bidjan Art Museum. Deborah Society at '.he regular ,-.t Santiago, with a branch at Val-i forcefi. to recall +^" gically and intellectually, much Jews controlled t! ^ production. The exhibition here was opened I meeting held last Tuesday. Mrs. farther removed from radicalism Preparations for Dr. A, L. Sacby Frank Kirk, an American art- A. Wolf, also very active in the ! contact with the Chilean Foreign try." than the Nazis themselves. He is, har'0 institute on Jewish History ist, who left Russia 26 years ago organization, was elected an hon- Office and Labor Department and! in every respect, as he is fond of and Jewish Problems have been HIAS SETS DATE FOR Kea Kcz r~c". because of Tsarzist oppression. orary vice-president. saying, a man of the "middle", completed by the committee of j MATZOTH PACKKAGES to facilitate settlement of Jewish' The works will remain on exaverse from all extremes, embrac- the- Beth El Synagogue Auxiliary, j Mrs. J. Goldware is the new t r Berlin ( J T A ) — ~ ' ing that "golden mean" which is who-are the-sponsors of the ser- TO RUSSIA hibition here a month, after which!president; Mrs. J. Bernstein, vice• started • a new in' P<the collection will. be forwarded president; Mrs. C. Ross, Secreat the center of man's classical ies. The Institute will be held at | family records of . wisdom. the Jewish Community Center, The -Hias Immigrant Bank an- to the Jewish territory as the tary; and Mrs. H. E. 'Selmont, the capitEl convw treasurer. Such is the man. Now let us re- February 19, 20, 21. I nounces that orders • for Matzoth nucleus for the museum which , Esisity back to ifThe executive board will be apthe Government isconstructing. gard the writer. Nothing of what In the five lectures that will j packages for Russia must bs in I t h e Voelfeischer T "• 1 „! I pointed in a short time. the Nazis, call Kulturbolshevismus make up the series. Dr. Sachar the New York office not later Karry Fellman, 62, died Tues- j it, "every BerliK • « -c a ultra-modern disorganization of will speak on: "Five Patterns of than February- lz. The Jewish GUEST RABBI VSABLE TO day morning at his home after a ', to identify Aryan ecp style or substance, has ever so Jewish Life"; "Damaged Goods Community. Center is the official RECEPTION AND TEA long illness. Mr. Fellman was a four generations.*" much as touched him. His style in Jewish History;" "The Present agent for the Hias for Omaha and APPEAR TONIGHT resident of Omaha for over forty FOR RABBI KOPSTEIN is a' great and grave and shapely Jewish Crisis"; "Some Lessons of Nebraska. years and had been active in the At services tonight at the Bethstyle. It is not an ornate style. Jewish History"; and a Round Packages are including those •srork of the local B'nai B'rith Due to the inclement weather. lodge and the Omaha Eebrew It is rich by virtue, of the spirit- Table discussion. articles of which there is a short- El synagogue Rabbi David A. "Oal. splendor of its texture. Mann in Russia. Packages are sent jj Goldstein will speak on the "Life last Friday, the reception and tea cClub. Mrs." J. H. Blank announces the age He was was at at one one time time chsir chairge in R . P g He llib# is, moreover, one of the .most appointment of Mrs. Lawrence from the Riga and Warsaw of- and "Works off Eliezer Eli B YehuY h u | in i honor h R b b i Miltor. Milt A. AK Ben off Rabbi Kop- ;m&n o f t h e board and a charter learned of novelists in the pre- Finkel and Mrs. Sam Ste'.nberg as fices of the Hias and with orders dah." Rabbi DavidvPolish of Ce- ; stein was postponed until tonight. ' member of the B'nai Israel Concise sense in which Milton i3 one chairmen of the ticket sales. Mr. to reach Hussia in time for , the dar Rapids, Iowa, who was to This will be held at the B'nai Is- gregation. of the most learned poets. Music Harold Saks is in charge of the Passover, they must be put In im- have occupied the pulpit Is un- rael synagogue, 18th and ChicaSurviving: are his w two and medicine and now in these young people's committee. able to come on account of ill- go streets after the Friday night daughters, Mrs. Kobert mediately. last years the history of the early services. The. public is invited. and Miss Ar,n Fellman; two sons, Subscribers to ths JewisTi Press are being Arrangements may be made for ness. Semites have been the subjects of cable orders as late as February Dr. Lees Fellman and Saul Fell8J5 tTitTP^redT A. W. BINDER TO BE his studies. And he has made 28 although thia entails extra man; three brothers, Sam of himself a master of them. "With NEXT ARTIST ON costs. .. ' / Omaha, I. Fellman of Kew York Kixibs crip ticiii tc tls & *> £%'."isli Tress are now this equipment of art and culture, and Simon Felltaaa of Lynn, MasJEWISH SERIES c IMu &%. iiose v ho pa-7 bscri' assuming of course the original sachusetts; one sister, Jlrs. S. LARGE ATTENDANCE AT genius of the man, he has proirjgthf of tV, vill for RT, f 1 dvGuller of St. Louis; &nd three A. "W. Binder, considered the duced a body of work (from MRS. IDELSON ADDRESS fr-pT- of Br, Fhilip which jut out in grandeur the outstanding authority on Hebraic n. -T Services were T-.?W. ?f the l>om < . SftfIT'S 7<cr> >,. ',-1 -Uj "Win:lor roTT f'hf "The Arab kings iatervened in appearance of weakness ia Britdn6 three great narratives: "Budden- ana Yiddish music, -will appear d Efterprpp.. PUTS?! T ? F i Over 150 women attended the the Palestinian crisis to prevent isa administration, the Arabs (%,, •• -4"; ; is."' v ; brooks", "The Magic Mountain," at the Je-wish. Community Center "Joseph and His Brethren") that February 2 as the third speaker Pioneer Women's organization a total defeat of t i e Arabs," ac- thought that time had arrived. •in Golden Hill is, speaking very strictly, unique on the Jewish Lectura and con- luncheon at the Jewish Commun- cording to Ittamar Bea. Ari, Pal-But they met a wall." | oofe &lr VS F- \T07t"b etftc rcg< ity Center on January 6. Mrs. estinian publicist, who spoie in this age by all the qualities cert series. .. ° . "The Jews of Palestine were j Bebe Idelson," principal speaker, lie AT-, x.^^., By "Wednesday evening, at the Jew%;;H:< l a $2.00 that make literature of,the first Mr. Binder, who is making a more courageous and more stead- j jrner.t Of T-Ol order. As surely as Shakespeare tour of the country, plays the pi- was enthusiastically" received by ish Community ,Center, Ittamar fast than even the civilian armies - < • • • * -»£•'•»•>>.'1» yc-u Funeral services for Abraham . , ; Ben Avi, the son of the famous was the greatest writer _ In the ano and sings to illustrate his lec-those present. fcs-v Mrs. J . Raznicfc sang several Elearar Ben Yehuda, told an- of Loyalist Spain. The Jews have ; Ellis, 71, were held in Lincoln, i world while he lived, as surely as ture. last Sunday, at the Roberts mornot had to kill Arabs. It was j Palestinian numbers, accompan- ecdote after anecdote to an audJohn Milton was the first poet of I5i his s-Tid t h e oai fro ied on. the piano by Mrs. Herman ience that held on .'to every word. sufficient for them . to know we Ituary. Mr. Ellis, en OmshaE, died at a local hospital en Januwere there." When Arabs found I Cb-hn. . ' . / : csccptios&Ily ;CiB£ treatment of the great 'Europe while he'lived,-'so Burely "To understand Palestine of the is-an ary 7 Efter s. heart attack. Is Thomas Mann, quite'"hor8 conA reception for Krs.- Idelson last six months,"- he saifi, "It is g of our people. Herein tlie wisdom of cours" quite unrl railed by any was held a t t h e home of Mrs. necessary' to understand':-tiie Eur- began.to cut the trees. "But we Survlvicg are three ECUS. BOB the s,?res is ros-dc- to -serve modern, needs of Lincoln, Lew End Sara of Omone,'! the greatest living writer In Herman Cohen during t h e even- ope of the last twenty years. Tne learned their -tricks." Rabbi David A. Goldstein will I n g . To illustrate the spirit of the aha, arig one daughter. Krs. Fhiiany language. • ' • - . • - . . .; sforce cur British have forgotten the idealcountry, Mr. Ben Avi told how ip Greenstone of Omaha. ArWell, if the Nazis repudiate review "The Biography of Anne ism that tools, them into the war. Sullivan-Macy" by Nella. Braddy rangements for the funeral were r in Omaha this great gentleman and great They have -deceived aiaa disillus- the port.of Tel Aviv was built in rmade by the .Tewisr Funeral OPENING CLASSES OF nine tours and when Sir Arthur! genius, what does their repudia- at the Jewish Community Center «ervsBt of ioned us. *In*many 'ways the BritHome of Omana. Burial WEE tion of anyone mean? Even the on Monday, January 18, at 8:15 JEWISH COLLEGE ish Empire is on the road to deca- .Wauchope, the High Commission- *in Lincoln. p. m. Czar left Tolstoi to his own deer, costing to Tel Aviv the morndence." This it-the fifth of the series Vices. Even those procurators of ~~~ ~ Mr. Ben Avi < told of the new ing after fee had authorized the! Opening classes of thV- College the holy synod of the Itusslan of Book Eyenljjgs being sponsorbuilding of the port, saw the fin-; RQUHB TMLE BAECE ansi school of English statesmen who of Jewish Studies ,were; held at church seemed to have some dim ed by the Beth El Synagogue ished.project, lie turned to Mayor i caa effer 1 tlie . Jewish Comunity , Center are followers of Colonel sense of the existence of Euro- Auxiliary. rence. They have corae to ro- DIzengoEf and said, "a nation The Round Table ol .Te-wishji Tickets may be secured pean standards and world opinion the 'j Tuesday.'•' evening, January 12. manticize about the Arabs and that ez-S 2a that ia a Eight will Touth -caiace feeifi e,t ttte Cer.ter 1 "The Nazis nave done things: Infin- .Box-Office* the night of the re- Those wishing to attend may still are enthvL. iastic 'ftir'the Arabic get' Palestine in & year." Sunday TTEF weU-sttenSefl. if itely more cruel than this; they view. Mr. Ben AVi prophesied that last register at the main-off ice of the civilization. "But the Arabs of TJie afele dances are provSlave spilt the blood of thousands 3-n epportraaty" tlutt the Royal Cosusissioa will stopj Roun to-day are not -what .they were. Jewish Community Center. of - innocent and rig&teous men, liqtddatuig Jewish Again they : are.'a. desert people.", 'But. we are just!ing increasingly popular with the!I ! : : SILOTSH set be evcrlookcd. Jews and German's, that trill not Employment Offices Classes are being held : every Mr. Ben Ave described s,a. in-1 begiaiifaig ia Tuesday evening. All members terview he had -with the Smir.Ab-' • "&ir. BEE .Avi came to Omasa orchestra fiirsislie-d tlie music. •cry out in vain against them. . They have invented new ingenu- Berlin —Employment exchange of the local. Jewish, community dullah of TraEsjotdaais st which under tfcs i uspices ol the Jevssli e next dan •€, a Purim Carities of moral and economic tor- offices of all Jewish communities are urged to-taie'-advantage of the.Etair made the statement "that., National Fs eld on Febrti be j nival, v: 1 tures. All their acts have been hi Germany were liquidated last- this fine opportunity of obtaining someday the Arabs -would chase! Ee vri is chairman of ii iatroduced by Henry l£S. Ds week. . • .. -•...„.: (Continued on page . 8.), a Jewish education. the-Jetra ^iato-the-sea.-- "With -the }-Moasky» tie Sance coi
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Players Resume Rehearsals for 'Petficoat Fever*
"Cafe" Change to Ka HewDrive
Rabbi Goldstein to Give Lectures ? Before Hadassah
Chile Depression Aided Economic Position of Jews
U.S. Artists •
Deborah Society Election
Plans Completed for Sachar Series
Harry Fellman, 62, Died Last Tuesday)
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