Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1937 Page: 2 of 6
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tajo million in other surrounding
of Eastern and Central
THE TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
ilium vo aid in
Europe. As you
major orguuaa
overseas is the
But the work we are called
upon to aid in is not limited to
you know, the other
doing work
United Palestine
Appeal. The work that is being
d*ine in Palestine is, we are hap-
py to say. not of that relief na-
ture that is so necessary in
err i and Central Europe but one
that is definitely and almost ex-
clusively of a constructive na-
ture. Palestine today stands out
a* the only country that has of-
ed a haven to a greater num
b*r of refugees than any other
country. The United Palestine
Appeal, with a budgets of $4,500,-
idfe for the year, has asked that
wjr assist in raising our share to-
wpid this budget to enable them
Ui complete their work.”
Captains and workers are $
one organised to assist the local
M-chairmen. Mr. Simon Sekowitx
aOd Mr. Joe Weingarten, in rais-
ing the necessary Quota of $50,000
fQr Metropolitan Houseon toward
the $9,150,000 joint national fund
•I the J. D. C. and U. P. A,
Indications are that there will
bp a greater participation in the
local campaign than ever before
Mr. SakowiU and Mr. Weingar-
teti have announced that co-op-
• tatmg closely with them in the
aptive direction of the campaign
will be Mr. Ike L. Freed, Mr.
I$aurice Hirsch, Mr. Morris D.
Meyer. Mr Moae M. Feld. Mr
Jbe Fishman, Mr. Jake L. Zuber,
Mr. Irving W Alexander.
The success of the United
Jewish Campaign depends on
haa power.” stated Mr Lightman,
•executive director of the Jewish
immunity Council, whoee of-
fices are at 435 West Building.
It is confidently expected by
the co-chairmen. Mr. Simon Sak-
dwitx and Mr. Joe Weingarten,
that the Jewish people of Hous-
ton will this year, in view of the
i k reased needs, give liberally of
their time, their energy, their in-
• rest and of their generosity.
Why The Jew Is
Persecuted
i Continued from page 1)
Hut a Jew remains a Jew through
out the ages. He is just as much
i Hebrew today in his senti-
ment. in his pride, and in his
racial loyalties as he was when
l>e was driven from Palestine.
Dispersal has not disintegrat-
ed this national solidarity. It has
nsolidated it The Jews refuse
in be good mixers. When they
wore bondsmen in Egypt they
were not as other slaves. It was
m the days of their Assyrian ex-
ile. over 3909 years ago, that Ha-
inan said unto King Ahasuerus,
There is a certain people scat-
tered abroad and dispersed
•Tning the people in all the prov-
inces of thy kingdom; and their
laws are diverse from all people;
neither keep they the king's laws;
herefore it is not for the king's
profit to suffer them. If it pleaea
'he king, let it be written that
hey may be destroyed.”
This isolation has been at the
bottom of many a pogrom. The
Jews are not exclusively respon-
sible for M. The medieval ghetto
was not a Jewish device. It was
esorted to by the nations among
whom the Jews dwelt They were
nowhere allowed to hold or cul-
tivate the land or even to live in
he countryside. The medieval
guilds forbade them to learn or
practice any of the more honor -
<bie crafts. They were not even
permitted to fight for the coun-
try which gave them a grudging,
qualid. and not always a secure
Under these circumstances,
the calumny which imputes
owardiee to them is the basest
of all slanders. When their aid
was sought they have invariably
wrought and fought bravely for
the lands which accorded them
just treatment. The French Rev-
olution conferred equal rights
upon the Jews, and Napoleon
the revolutionary de-
in this respect. The result
was that no Frenchman fought
more gallantly for the tricolor
than the emancipated Jews af
France. For generations they
have enjoyed the full rights of
dtixanahip in the British Empire,
and they have requited this treat-
ment by a loyalty and patriotism
which never shone out more con-
spicuously than during the World
War. The mist brilliant and suc-
cessful general in the British
army during the Great War was
an Australian Jew—General Mo-
nash.
They are accused in Germany
of conspiring to establish a Com-
munist state. It is true that the
fundamental principles of Rus-
sian Bolshevism are derived from
the writings of a great Jewish
economist—Karl Marx—and that
probably the Bolshevik Revolu-
tion would have been crushed
but for the genius of a Jew—
Trotsky—who is the greatest im-
proviser of revolutionary armies
since Dan ton and Carnot But
these critics of Judah forget that
the Jew has in the past endured
more in countries like Russia,
Germany and even Britian (be-
fore anti-sweating legislation was
introduced) from social inequal-
ities and industrial bondage than
any other race. No country is en
titled to claim loyalty unto death
from a people to whom it denies
the elementary rights of human-
ity. A Jew fairly treated is a loy-
al citizen in all lands.
Many devout Jews maintain
that Israel is a separate religion
and not a separate nation. The
greatest statesman raised by Ju-
dah in modern times. Dr. Weiz-
mann. has realized the difficulty
and endeavored to handle it with
a courage, skill, and wisdom the
results of which will be enduring
and will enable the Jews once
more to make a contribution to
the work of civilization as a sep-
arate community dwelling in
their own national home. His so-
lution finds a precedent and a
justification in the case of an-
other oppressed race—the Irish.
Ireland is now free to fashion its
own destiny. Its sons and daugh-
ters have full liberty and oppor-
tunity to build up an Irish state.
Here their special Qualities, char-
acteristics, and genius will yn
the special contribution of
Irish race to the civilization of
the world.
This is how I understand the
idea at a national home for the
Jews in the country which they
made holy ground.
C#)m(b 19J7 Arts Feature Syndic**
HARVARD GETS SMS ITEMS
. OF HEBRAIC S FROM
LITTACER
New York (WNS)—A copy of
the first edition of a book of
Proverbs to be printed in He-
brew and containing a commen-
tary by Immanuel of Rome, fore-
most Jewish poet of Italy, who
was a contemporary of Dante, is
among the rare items included in
the 2283 volumes from the H. G.
Enelow Collection of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of Amer-
ica which have been acquired by
Lucius N. Littauer lor presenta-
tion to the Littauer Collection at
Harvard University. Under the
terms of a special gift by Mr.
Littauer, these rare works of
early Hebrew literature, which
are from the library bequeathed
to the Seminary by the late Dr.
H. G. Enelow, for many years
rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in
New York, go to Harvard while
the Seminary gets $10,000 from
Mr. Littauer to add to its world
famous collection of early books
and manuscripts which it now
lacks. The Seminary will retain
such volumes from the Enelow
Collection as are not duplicated
in its other collections.
The Hebraica which go to
Harvard also include a volume of
the first printed edition of
Maimonides’ Code, 38 volumes of
the early editions of the Talmud
produced in Venice with the per-
mission of the Pope and a num-
ber of books published in Con-
stantinople from a private press
established by the widow of the
Duke of Naxos in her palace.
The gift will establish the pre-
eminence of Harvard's library in
the department of post-Biblical
literature and greatly increase
the effectiveness of the Nathan
Littauer Professorship of Jewish
literature and philosophy.
Hadassah Celebrates
Its 25th Anniversary
New York. — Hadassah, the
Women’s Zionist Organization of
America, entered its silver jubi-
kc year on Purim with a nation-
wide celebration, with broadcasts
by the three major radio net-
works as the main feature. Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, James G.
McDonald, former League of Na-
tions High Commissioner for
Refugees (Jewish and other)
coining from Germany; Mrs.
Felix M. Warburg. Mrs. Herbert
H. Lehman, wife of New York’s
governor, and Miss Rae D. Lan
dy, who was one of the two
nurses Hadassah sent to Pales-
tine in 1913, were among the
speakers on the various broad
casting programs.
Rallies under the auspices of
the Hadassah chapters were held
in many parts of the country to
hear the evening broadcast over
the.blue network of the National
Broadcasting Company. Miss
Landy, who is now a first lieu-
tenant in the U. S. Army Nurses'
Corps in the Philippine Islands,
spoke from Manila. Introduced
by Mrs. Edward Jacobs, national
president of Hadassah, as a "pio-
neer ready to go to far-flunng
corners to spread the benefits of
modern medical science,” Miss
Landy gave a vivid human in-
terest account of her experiences
in Palestine. She told of the
poverty, distress and insanitary
conditions she encountered in
Jerusalem, and of the trying
conditions under which she and
her companion nurse worked.
She told of their strenuous cam
paign to eliminate trachoma
among the school children, be-
ginning the rounds of the school
at 7 o’clock in the morning, and
ot the nursing and midwife ser-
vice in maternity cases. Then
came the World War and the lo-
custs, but the nurses continued
their work, “learning the true
spirit erf service.”
Miss Bertha Landsman of New
York who organized the Hadas-
sah child welfare service in Pal-
estine in 1912, portrayed a typical
day in a child health station in
the Holy Land. Mrs. Roosevelt
spoke from the White House on
“Public Health.” The half hour’s
program was closed by Mrs.
Alexander Lamport, Hadassah
membership chairman, with a
message in Hebrew. Mrs. Jacobs
was master of ceremonies and in-
troduced each speaker.
In an earlier broadcast on the
Columbia system, Mr. McDonald,
speaking on “The Challenge of
the Refugee Problem,” declared
that the Jewish question is as
much the concern of Christians
as of Jews.
“What have we who are Chris-
tians done,” he asked, “to miti-
gate the wrongs perpetrated
against Jews throughout the cen-
turies? The time has crane when
the Jewish problem can no long-
er be regarded the particular
problem of the Jewish group for
it alone to carry and to solve.
That is as injust as it is mani-
festly impossible. The Jewish
refugee problem has been created
by the non-Jewish world. The
countries to which exiled Jews
must go, no less than the ones
from which they come, are deep-
ly affected by the attitudes and
measures that determine large-
scale migrations. The world has
become too compact for any one
country to be able to act alone
and without regard to world in-
terest and opinion, except in lim-
ited fields.”
Referring to Palestine, Mr. Mc-
Donald declared that were there
no Jewish national home the task
of finding new homes for the
refugees from Germany would
have been almost hopeless. He
praised Henrietta Szold, founder
of Hadassah, for her directorship
of the Youth Aliyah movement
for the transfer of Jewish chil-
dren from Germany and Poland
to the agricultural colonies of
Palestine, pointing out that the
work was aiding in the solution
of the refugee proglem. Mr. Mc-
Donald was preceded on the Co-
lumbia network by Mrs. Felix
M. Warburg, who lauded Hadas-
sah for its persistent efforts dur-
ing the past quarter of a century
in “transporting advanced ideas
and practices in medical science
and popular health education to
Palestine for the benefit of Jews
and Arabs alike.”
In a broadcast over the WOR-
Mutual Network, Mrs. Herbert H.
Lehman surveyed the progress
made by women since 1912 in the
political, economic and social
fields. Individualism, she pointed
out, has given way to enlighten-
ed cooperation, and the philos-
ophy of pity has been replaced
by the philosophy of rehabilita-
tion and building.
“The time has passed,” she said
“when woman is satisfied to sit
supinely by, accepting situations
as they come, rejoicing if they
are pleasant and looking on them
as inevitable if they are not She
now asks herself, ‘What can I do
about itT And she proceeds to
Mrs. Lehman was introduced
by Mrs. Moses P. Epstein of New
York, national vice president of
Hadassah, who announced that
the organization, which was
founded in 1912 with 36 members,
now has an enrollment of 55,-
000 women.
The Hadassah silver jubilee
celebration, coinciding with
Purim, was given the flavor of
the holiday by the creation of a
Megillath Hadassah, a parchment
scroll which will eventually be
signed by all the Hadassah mem-
bers. When completed, the scroll
will be sent to Palestine to be
placed in the reception hall of the
Rothschild- Hadassah - University
Hospital and Medical School,
which is under construction in
Jerusalem.
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