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Fcofdc GENTILES " The employment manager was very.kind about the matter and, •what made the whole thing even Entered aa Second Class Mall Hatter on January 31. 1931. at less, painful, he looked at the. sitOMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1939 Postbfflce. of Omaha. Nebraska, onder the Act of March 3. 1879 uation with a most refreshing sense o£ humor. ".You have written on your application that you are Jewish," lie said. "Yea." % 3 ^'Do you have to say you're Jewish? Can't you be Unitarian or somethnlg? You know I can't hire you if you are Jewish and I should like to hire you. You don't loot Jewish and your name isn't particularly Jewish and you could pass as a Gentile.-. You know our executives . are- very particular about hot having Jews here." The young applicant replied that lie had been born Jewish, JL N JL*aaiL.3.ii had- been brought up- Jewish and should'-he be. anything else for the* sake. of. a §20 job? He'd Passover, the holiday observing ligious center of Judaism, the have a-job but would lose his selfthe liberation from the Egyptian Passover holiday has become prirespect. (He is still so young marily a holiday observed in the anby full of untarnished ideals.. Some Desire International bondage, will open with Seder home. Nazis Shut Down Charityservices at sundown, Monday, "vyell, said the employment The food of the Seder is symInstitutions; Bank Situation Cleared Up April 3, in the homes -f all Jews. manager,-.he didn't blame the boy Variously referred to as the Feast bolic of the-Exodus from Egypt. -Accounts Held Before Change lor^not wanting to masquerade as of Unleavened Bread, the Season The unleavened bread cciaraemoa Gentile.. . . "Betweencyou and rates the manner in which the me,' I'm rather' ashamed of being SLAY TERROR LEADER of Liberty, it is the oldest holiday bread was baked when the Chil- MANY ARRESTS MADE Women's Division Wil a on the Jewish calendar. a Gentile. , Wny should any one of Israel started forth; the In the earliest times of Jewish dren care to masquerade as one?" root of the horseradish is the New Decrees Patterned Moderate Arabs Offering life, Passover was celebrated as 'JOh," said the applicant, "you symbol of the bitterness endured After Nuremberg Cooperation to the early spring festal celebration in can't blame a i r the Gentiles for Egypt. Other foods have sim- Regulations Britain of • an agricultural and pastoral ilar meanings. the sins of a few!" > people. Later, in addition to be- The following service schedule The employment manager said Prague (JTA) — Threat of London (JTA) — Strong dif- ing a feast of suplication for a that the , blameworthy Gentiles Determined to reach tlic be. ..observed in local houses starvation added this •week to the •weren't so few. They were mak- ferences ot opinion in Govern- good year, it was made an occa- •will panic prevailing among the esti- quota assigned to their diviing a horrible mess of the world ment circles are delaying declara- sion of thanksgiving for the re-of worship: TEMPLE mated 160,000 Jews of Bohemia- sion, women workers in tho j . . \ Hate, plain robbery, rapine, tion of the policy which Great demption of the Jewish people At Temple Israel the first serv- Moravia since its occupation by Philanthropies Campaign will j spoliation of human rights. Hit- Britain is to impose in Palestine, from slavery in Egypt. ice of Passover will be held Mon- the German army. The situation ler! Mussolini: . . . "They're Gen- it was reliably learned. Pood Symbolic this afterObservers jiote a growing senttiles." day afternoon at 5:30. The Tues- was acute in Prague, where the rallv their Though celebrated in the Temonly Jewish soup kitchen and all noon in preparation for a con- s iment among Government supday morning service will take He remembered when t h e porters in' Parliament against an ple when Jerusalem was the reJewish charity institutions have certed drive. j place at 11. world • used to 'je rather a good nnouncement of policy before The Congregational Seder is been shut down by the Nazis. Three hundred women are exj place to live in. Yes, people were there is some clarification of, the scheduled for Tuesday evening at Many Jews dependent upon relief j pected to attend the tea and pro- j even speaking of the heaven that eneral • international situation are facing starvation. I grain which Trill feature t»ie pre-1 ; 6:30. "was going to be " established on and see an increasing demand that Since all Jewish bank accounts campaign rally ?.t th- Jewish BETH Eli the earth. He never heard then Government whips be taken off have been stopped, wealthier Jews CcEiffinniiv Center this afternoon The Beth El synagogue will bethat Jews were undesirable peo- in any vote on Palestine policy, are prevented from aiding the at 3 o'clock. gin its observance of Passover oa ple . .-. "Jews had jobs In our of- thus permitting Government supMiss Sender to Speak needy. The coining of Passover Monday evening at 6. Immedi- makes the position especially fice and they were very good porters to speak and vote accordPrincipal speaker oT tbe meettraately after the service, members gic, since there are no facilities ing will be Jliss Tony Sender, workers, too." . . . He named a ing to their convictions. few . 1 : .' "Schlesinger and Levy Should : MacDonald succeed in To Initiate B'nai B'rith of the Congregation will return for provision of matzoth which is former member of the German to their homes for the Seder. The •were the best people we had." winning.the Cabinet to his viewusually brought in from Slovakia. Reichstag and one , of the outHead as Honorary Tuesday -morning service will be But, he said, the Gentiles had point, it is expected here that the standing figures of pre-Xazi GerInstitutions Closed Member held at 9 o'clock. changed'that happy situation, .had policy to be imposed will follow All Jewish institutions and many. Previous to her political wrecked the foundations • of the the final proposals" for an indeOn Wednesday morning at newspapers have been closed by career. Miss Sender was a noted James R. Katzman, supreme 9:45, earthly heaven and had made hell pendent Palestine state, with two the Junior Congregation the Nazis. Jewish leaders seized journalist. ; president of the Zeta Beta Tau . . . "We Gentiles." _ She first gained public notice | important changes. The changes, fraternity, will take charge of will conduct the service. shortly after the occupation are "Yet I,know some very decent eliminating concessions to both the initiation ceremonies to be B'NAI ISRAEL still under dentention. Marie when in 1814 she fearlessly pro- j Gentiles," argued the applicant. Arabs and Jews, would provide held Passover services at the B'nai Schmolka, head of the Refugee tested her country's invasion of i T<= \> Sunday, April 2, at the "You can't put all Gentiles in one fl) continued Jewish, immigraIsrael synagogue will begin with Belief Organization, and her Jew- Belgium, and in 1515 was one of bundle. So many o£ them are tion after the five-year interim Maariv Monday at 7. p. ra. Tues- ish assistants ivho were arrested the -vtititstandins participants In /rperiod would. not require Arab .horrified by what's" been soi day morning's service -will be held in the first days of the occupation the first international. anti-war Congress held in Switzerland. consent but would be dependent on." . at 8:30 and evening service at 7. and subsequently released were "But we shouldn't be claiming only upon British decision, and Wednesday morning services will re-arrested. (2) termination of the transition, any superiority and look down on F o r 1 4 years she w a s be held at 8:30. That preparations had been other ' people," the employmen' period and. establishment of the Cantor A. Schwaczkin "will lead made Ions before the occupation ber of t h e Reichstag . fir; rst repre- \ manager replied. "There are so state would not require Arabthe service. is indicated by the fact 'that the sen ting a Frankfort a n d later a ! Jewish consent but would depend u y Although many scoundrels among, us.Y. Do During the holidays Rabbi Carl Nazis are working from lists in Castle of Chicago will be guest making their arrests. They came re-elected to the "Reichstag in the you think I can be proud of be- upon British decision. • '; • Arab Offer rabbi. ing. a Gentile when Nazis are to arrest a Jewish editor named last legal election on March C, Nctef The British Government receivamong the Gentiles, whenMus' Lebenhart, who has been dead for 193", she was marked for arrest by the Nazis. solini is among the most promt ed an offer of cooperation from the past tea years. By esca/ping over the border to the Palestine Arab moderates if it nent Gentiles in the world?" Large numbers of Jews were • (He had just been reading oi announces a policy following the being rounded, up nightly and Czecho-Slovakia, she escaped the Jews exiled from Italy wander- lines of its last proposals at the committed-to concentration carap. fate of many of her fellow meming i n the snow-filled • passes ot Palestine "conference —- w h i c h Jews in the vicinity- of the Altneu bers of the Re'ch^Tg the Alps.: The newspapers were were rejected by : the Palestine Synagogue were afraid to remain i t a J " •« ra r r p ™ 7 ^ - -reporting ;-the i-^rape-v ot- Czecho- & ftp" in their tonies at night because of The proposals called for ultimslovakia . . .• Hitierjnarching into reports that wholesale arrests o* ate establishment of an. indepenPrague... .Czechs weeping at the Jews in that district would soon dent Palestine state in which the be launched. Many Jews released . desolation of "their liberties ; Jew would be limited to a oneafter detention by the Gestapo Czechs in Prague; seized by their third proportion in the population conquerors and shipped oft to after a transitional period during Germans Lose Jobs as bear the marks of brutal maltreatment. Some have come back concentration camps in Germany which self-governing organs domJewish Property with their features almost unre. . .'Like the ancient Romans car inated by Arabs would be set up y-Jw cognizable. lying the vanquished off into and Jewish immigration and land Liquidated The_ Nazi authorities prohibited slavery.) Kaunas (JTA) — The Nazi buying restricted. Budapest fJTA)—Wearing the James B. Hatzman "We Gentlies! We should h authorities this week intensified the disposal of Jewish realty, by eight highest v a r decorations Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, head of ashamed instead of proud and ar- the Arab National Defense Party, Blackstone hotel, wb/en Henry the anti-Semitic drive in. the new- sale, lease or outright gift. All gees rogant, instead of trying to . pu declared before the departure Monsky will be made an honor- ly-acquired Memel territory, spur- Jewish shops in Prague have been awarded them by the Hungarian Arnei Jewish eniploj-es rf government, a number of Jewish other people in their places." ring Jewish refugees to seek new closed and all London of his party's dele- ary member of the society. <; shops have been dis- ex-officers staged a silent and imBut you shouldn't condemn- a from The initiation ceremonies will homes in the United States. Pal- non-Jewish gation to the conference that such missed. Jewish employes of the pressive demonstration in the whole people,." protested the Jew a policy would be supported by begin at 4:30. A regular pledge estine and European countries. (Continued on page S.) Parliament' house gallery coring ish applicant. (Continued on page's.) . class will also be initiated at the A group of Mernel Jews who the debate on the drastic anti"Well, I can't divorce' mysel crossed the frontier into Lithuansecret session. Jewish bill, which passed its sec• from them. We-Gentiles are the ia after being released by the NaFollowing the ceremony a banond reading. great majority. We run the world quet will be served with Dr. zis from 'protective custody' were The Dill was denounced «y for"We have 1all but ruined it. The found to be in pitiable condition. Meyer Beber acting as toastmasmer Justice Minister Tibor Zsitarrogance of us Gentiles!-^ Qu Many of them were injured and ter. Mr. Monsky will be prinvay, on behalf cf the Independent greed!" . - - • ' . . cipal speaker. Others giving ad- a number had broken arms and Christian party. He declared the He said there were sins of Gen dresses will be Mr. Katzman; legs. One family, which had settltiles far closer to home than Nathan E. Jacobs, supreme vice- ed in Memel recently after emi- Dr. Michael Ginsburg, Associate bill w-as obsolete in view of the Czechoslovakia is . . . "Thi3 in president; Loyal Kaplan, repre- grating from Germany, attempted professor of classics at the Uni-international developments. Other . • dijstry,.. for instance." senting the Omaha Alumni club; to escape to Latvia but was halt- versity of Nebraska, has been leaders of opposition. parties joined ia criticizing' the measure, •The employment m a n a g e Stanley.Slosburg, presidentof the ed at the border by Latvian, fron- named a recipient ot a Guggen- pointing out that Jewish soldiers loathed his economic • situation The sixth annual Congregation- University of Nebraska chapter, tier guards and vras barred by the heim Foundation fellowship. were among those that had fallen that made him the instrument.o al Seder will be held at Temple and Joseph Kirshenbaum, presi- Nazis from returning to Metael. •| in the occupation oT the CarpathoAfter spending 24 hours in the the injustice of his employers . Israel on Tuesday evening, the dentof the pledge class. York (JTA) — A study land-" the h isband. Ukraine. "Are ,these Gentiles who are mysecond night of Passover. .Included in the pledge class "no-man's and three children received of the revived Hebrew language employers much _ different from Government leaders, however, Rabbi David H. Wice will con- which is to be initiated at the wife in Palestine by a Philadelphia Hitler?. They, too, say that Jew; duct the service with various same time as Mr. Monsky, will be permission from the Lithuanian scholar and an. analysis of dicta- anxious to hasten adoption of the shall have no opportunities fo: g u e s t s assisting. William L. Hubert Monsky, his son. Other authorities to remain here for two torships by a refugee professor bill, enforced the cioture • rule, employment. Jews, for all -they Holzman \. ill lead the grace after members of the class are: Edwin weeks." of political science are among ending the debate and preventing Fine Imposed care, may'starve. We Gentiles 1 libers of the opposition I <^:n n-rr^rtr"! the Seder. Milder, Joe Kirshenbaum, James the 69 projects for which the other The population of the territory "$ut you aren't all like that,' Lipsey, Leonard Goldstein and was forbidden by the authorities John Simon Guggenheim Founda- fror Following the Seder a group of ! the applicant said. dances will be presented Bernard Lashinsky, all of Oma- to buy or sell Jewish property. tion has allotted $150,000 in fel- ! us i n "Well, try to get into other bij religious ! .i° by six girls from the University of ha; Lawrence Cohn of Cheyenne, The order was aimed at prevent- lowships for this year. Gentile offices in this, town Omaha. The "Dr. Zellig S. Harris, assistant j enactme dances to be given Wyo., and Lawrence Gavenman ing Germans from purchasing You'll -'get the same turn-doWn are: Miriam, David, of Hastings. Lullaby, and Jewish property a t low prices. professor oj Kebrew, University law in 1 Only they won't be as hones Cradle Hymn. The Memel radio station announc- of Pennsylvania, will tell the The law about 'it as I'atn. I hate, it ])u Mary Harkness, Dorothy Sheped that Memel Jews would ~l>e story of the revived new Hebrew j by one i I've got to take if because I am forced to contribute to the $200,- spoken in Palestine by about a i itations part, of the Gentile scheme io herd, Marjorie Disbrow, Jane 000,000 "fine" imposed on the half million persons and which ] eeonom: Cook, Evelyn Glad and Constance things. I need my job." is now the mother tongue of j provide* Jews of German last December. Sheets will dance. Ruth Kassal He thought-there ought to :b< about a fifth of that number,'' j 500 dur M. Bertulait, former President ia accompanist. The dances are a, Gentile Defense League . . . "i of Memel, stated that the Jewish the announcement said. The ref- j league of us Gentiles who an under the direction cf Miss Ruth population of the territory had ugee is Dr. Karl Loewenstein, I j i»r Diamond, head of the physical ed' really Christians" . . . Bfe wonl professor of political science in j A I ucation department at the univerThe Layman's Tour, sponsored numbered 6,000 and Jews had Amherst college, who fled from | ti% Li have the Gentile Defense Leagu owned 330 factories and indussity. -' ; by the Union of American Hebrew trial enterprises employing 70 per Germany in 18 33 following a disfight, in defense of tho good n&m "f Congregations, "will be in Omaha of Gentiles whose honor has been of Memel's German workers. tinguished career at Munich union Sunday, April 23. A prominent cent traduced by the actions an Three thousand German workers versity and as a lawyer. He "-will rabbi and layman will be present. have been thrown ont of work by prepare a treatise on the relationwords of the Gentile majority;'. . The Union is sponsoring the the liquidation of Jewish enter- ship of constitutional jurisprud" I t ' s getting to be shameful" t ence and government in modern he a. Gentile. I am ashamed." Tour as part of its 10-year pro- prises, he said. •The . employment manager-; re Louis Hartz, 19-year-old son Of gram of service to democracy xa Storm troopers raided and dictatorships." Among other recipients of felturned "-to the matter of. his'.em Mrs. F. -Hartz, has been elected Judaism. Nebraska Is part of the wrecked Jewish homes, beating ployers. What. wa3 their merit to Phi' Beta Kappa, scholastic North East Tour region of which .up many aged Jews. Nazi frontier lowsiiias are Howard Wolf, asso- j t r * j ' anjrway, that they should:! se honor society. Hartz, a junior at E. P. Adler of Davenport, la., is guards were reported to have ciate editor of ths themselves up as gods to judg< Harvard, is one of eight in his chairman. stopped several cars, arresting News; Herschel Brickeli, literary 1 ^ i : other - people and to direct the! class thus honored. Jewish occupants who were bound critic; Dr. Leo Gershoy, cf Sarah • """ ' During the Tour, April 5 to destinies, to say. No, . au sha_ In 1936 upon his. graduation May 24, outstanding American for Lithuania. In most cases, tbe Lawrence college, Bronxviile. X. iore not. have a chance to earn a liy' from Technical High school, lie Jewish leaders, members of the Nazis confiscated the luggage of Y.; Dr. Alfred G. Marshall, Eos-i me ing in our place, "hey used t was awarded the World-Herald Union's National "Committee of Jewish refugees. - At the J.Iemol ton physiologist: Dr. Isidore i be little fellows who struggle- scholarship.. Since then he ha: 100" will visit more than 300 railway station, no lepartins Jew Gersh, anatomist of Johns Hop- j themselves . . . Big shots now ; . ; been the recipient of several Har- cities In the United States and was permitted to take with him kins Medical school, Baltimore; one pillars of the church . . . one o: vard scholarships. than one suitcase. The sta- Dr. Oscar Zariski. Johns Hopkins j , Canada to address mass meetings more them rgave a swell marble alta: tion was occupied by Storm mathematics professor; Er. Wil-to the on definite ways in which individ- Troopers and Hitler Youths who liam Schumann, chorus •director bs'hac . . . another a stained glass winuals can contribute service to shouted farewell insults and oaths of Sarah Lawrence college; Dr. 2261. dow . . . $5i000. it.cost . . .j;fo~ their fellow men. |1 Earl-H. Myers; zoology instructor at Jewish refugees. the-glory of Jesus the Jew. '''•: of Ccmpton Junior college, CaliThe older generation of Memel i'And I have to sit here doin fornia; David Fredeuthal, Frank- EETt : Germans for the most part receivAfter its debating team had NAMED HEAD OF "•. - . their dirty work. I must say t ed the news of the surrender of lin (Mich.) painter, and Dr. you that you can't work for u won in Des Moines.the week be- ' ..SCHOOL .ENROLLMENT Menielland without enthusiasm. Meyer Schapiro, of Columbia unifore, the Omaha Junior A. Z. A. becaase-you are a Jew though Many of them helped, Jews escape versity. CJ lifiow you .aro an . \blo and rlecen team, was defeated (last Sunday Mrs. Leo Abramson was named from the city, in some instances bath b©$~. You came from the univer- ; in -a return match. In the basketball game played chairman of the enrollment com- even transporting them out of the SON BORN TO WICES Bity with honors, but we can between the two clubs, Des mittee of tbe Beth El Talmud district in their own cars and in -Rabbi and Mrs. David H. Wice fiay. employ you. Yot-."re a : 'Jew j ; . Torah. others providing poor Jev^s with became, the parents of a son Moines' won, 22 to 20. .We Gentiles!" : ii All applications are now being railv>ay fare to Lithuasiia and Tuesday afternoon at the ImThe Des Moines Junior A. Z. applicant kept on argiiin A. was the guest, of the local accepted for the new terra which promising to forward their belong- raah'acl hospital. ' ro: (Continued on page S.) • is to start in September. ings at the first opportunity. This is the TVice's second cfciic group all day last Sunday.
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