Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1934 — Page 1

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VOL. II, No. XV

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September 21, 1934

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Interesting Facts of Interesting Jews By Leonard Rothschild

BiMv Rose, prominent Broadway producer, recently quit the Casino de Paree (because he had not received any salary sinc e June. Rose is the husband of Fannie Brice, commedienne^ MALA, th.? star of the 'motion picture, “Eskimo/* is one of us. His real name is ,Ray Wise.

Harry O’Toole, the scoUi. for the D troit Tigers baseball team, is Jewish. He adapted this name some

years ago.

CANTOR GLASS HEADS ZIONISTS

YEAR’S FIRST MEETING HELD IN BETH EL TEMPLE

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JEW AND GENTILE

By Charles Edward Russell

SCORE OF MORRO CASTLE VICTIMS WERE JEWISH

Cantor Myro Glass was re-elected pref id nt of the Indianapolis Zionist District at th e year’s first meeting in the Beth El Zedeck Temple, Sunday night. He begins his second term. Other officers chosen include Rabbi Elias Charry, first vice president; Philip Grenwald, second vice presid 1 n't; Meyer Gallin, recording secretary; Bernard Stroyman, financial secretary; Abe H. Goldstein, treasurer, and Max Katz, chairman of the Jewish National Fund 1 .

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On Board Of Directors

Namedl ‘to the board of directors were Lester Budd, Aba Goodman of Shelbyville, Sam Barskin of Martinsville, Charles Medias, Max Sacks, Dr.

In the opinion of some, Phil Harris', ■ Philip Falender, Charle-s Brenner,

popular orchestra leader, looks like Harry Richman and sings like the late Bert Williams. “The Rabbi Without A Country”, is Rabbi Frankel of Berlin. After leaving Germany he settled in England, but was soon asked to leave. Enrico Glicenstein, noted Jewish sculptor, recently completed a bust of President Roosevelt. It is on exhibition at the Knoedler Art Galleries, New York. Joseph Jonas, born in Exeter, England was the first Jewish pioneer in the Ohio valley, arriving! in Cincinnati on March 8, 1817. RubinofTs “favorite hobby” is taking unemployed musicians home to

dinner.

The Baron Munchausen will complete his present series of broadcasts next week, and Mary Pickford and a stock company will take his place on the gelatine program. Paul Yawitz, cohimnist for the New York Daily Mirror, is making his vaudeville debut at the State Theatre, New York, this week. The Harry Joe Browns (she was Sally Filers) recently became parents of a pound son. The Mister is associate producer with Warner Brothers in Hollywood. Dr. John A. Kolmer, Professor of Medicine at Temple University, has developed a successful vaccine against infantile paralysis. He is now working on a serum against pneumonia. One of the Greatest American authorities on Italian art, Bernhard Berensohn, was a Russian Jew. David Sarnoff, head of the Radio Corporation of America, once lost a job as telegraph messenger when he refused to work on a Jewish holiday. Jackie H Her, of Ben Bernie Band fame, may go on the air with his own show soon. 0 Kaseff Orchestra To Broadcast Again Th e Russian Orchestra, directed by Louis Kaseff, will begin a series of broadcasts over station WFBM of this city early in October. Kaseff, singer and violinist, has been heard! over local stations on many occasions, and he has also played over radio station WGAU in Philadelphia. His present group is co nposed of leading musicians, and 1 thi new program will feature Jewish, Russian, Italian and Spanish comnosit ons. “The orchestra will offer some really beautiful music,” stated 1 Mr. Kaseff, “and will be one of the few groups of its kind to broadcast in this country.” The Russian Orchestra will play at least one Jewish number on each of its programs, and the variety will be most delightful and unusual. Kaseff studied' violin in this city with Nathan Davis, and! voice with Fred Jeffery. He is an honor grad^ uate of the .Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Rufus Isaacs, Dave Rosenberg, Daniel Stauber, Morris Strauss, Louis Talesnick, Nathan Toplin, Isaac Wolf, Lcuis Sakowitz, Harry Adler, Louis Frankovitz, Sol Solomon, Jacob Zier, Henry Blatt, Jacob Solbtken, Max M. Plesser and Jacob Weisst, Several hundred persons attended the meeting. Mrs. Sam Barskin spoke on observations and experiences in a recent visit to Palestine, and Mr. Toplin gave a report on the recent Zionist convention in Atlantic City. Music was provided by Miss Helen Kline, soprano, accompanied by Mrs. Isaac Marks. Rebecca Levy recited a Hebrew poem. Poland Defies League of Nations GENEVA—Shaking the League of Nations to its foumdations, Poland sensationally and unilaterally denounced the League’s 1919 minority treaty, announcing she would no longer accept the league council’s control over questions of racial minori-

ties.

The step, announced in a bombastic address to the league assembly by Col. Joseph Beck, Polish foreign minister, indirectly revealed Poland’s desertoin of the ranks of France’s followers to join Germany in a new line-up of European nations. League circles, electrified, took a grave view of the startling action, pointing out that if Poland’s attitude persisted it might lead to a complete breach wth the league. Recall Liberation League quarters pointed out Poland’s independence was granted only on condition of her signature to the 1919 treaty she so dramatically denounced. CoL Beck said Poland demands immediate recognition of the necessity for a general convention for the protection of minorities and convocation of an international confer an ce to deal with the matter. The issue is one of vital concern to millions of Jews in Poland, and Col. Beck’s sensational speech brought out into daylight some of the inner workings of the recently concluded secret German-Polish pact.

CITY BOASTS COUNTRY’S YOUNGEST SHAMMUS

“I am the country's youngest shammus,” so stated Max L. Adelman, “sexton” of the Central Hebrew Congregation, 21st street and Central avenue. Age 15, he is right, as far as w-e

know.

Young Adelman, who is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Philip Adelman, 1731 College avenue, is a student at Shortridge High School. He was recently appointed to the position as sexof the Synagogue, where father is in charge of the

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Max is at the schule each morning and evening and his duties are: distributing prayer books, asisst persons in obtaining seats, care of the sacramenwines, and general manager the building. He has an assistant, and receives a regular

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Editor’s Note:—Charles Edward Russell is Haym Salomon's non Jewish biographer, and he is at the head of the Pro-Palestine Federation. TTIOR my part, I cannot see that the iprcb’.em of Jewish Gentile harmony is so complicated or so delicate as it is said to be. Like most other human difficulties, it fades upon closer acquaintance'. If there is indeed an obstacle here, it is because we look at tb; matter unilaterally. Men do not wrangle much when each puts himself for a moment in the other man’s place. G- ntiles- that sincerely wifih to abolish the stupid, footless prejudices that have separated these peoples, sometimes complain to me that the open hand they hold out to their Jewish acquaintances is received! with a chilly mistrust, showing the Jews to be so hcp.lessly hostile that it is useless to try to make friends with them. Hostile, is it? Well, what would one expect? For centuries, almost the only Gentiles who with glad hand and genial smile approached the Jews have been persons with an ulterior (and sinister) purpose, something to sell, or some advantage to snatch. Gentiles who have made an honest effort to understand the Jew and his peculiar problems, and have desired to treat with him upon terms of fraternity, have seemed to belong chiefly: to our latter days. Otherwise than in trying to outwit the Jew and! separate him from hLs substance, the achievement of the Gentile toward his Jewish brother has 'been twenty centuries oi atrocious wrong. We may as well admit, this. Being stamped Into history in Wood and tears, there is no way to evade it. Philosophy Of Human Tolerance What, then, may we expect from the Jews but mistrust? As a matter of fact, I wonder that they are not ten times more mistrustful It speaks for their excellent philosophy of human tolerance that they ever believe anything a Gentile tells them. If I had no other reason to respect their religion, I shoilld learn from this a profound deference for it, that It saves them so largely from the vulgarity of the instinct of vengeance. It seems to have taught them in general the vital uneconomy of this particular heritage of the jungle. Suppose there were a city of, for and by Jews, say ten thousand 1 of them, and in it dwelt five hundred Gentiles. Would the ten thousand persecute, annoy, insult or torture the five hundred? They might not wish to maintain an intimate blood brotherhood with the minority but they would make no effort to practice upon it the barbarities Gentile majorities have since time out of rrJind perpetrated upon undefended and helpless Jews. But an error Gentiles sometimes make, even Gentiles who wish to be friendly and to heal the absurd old

breach, is to imagine that, because the- average Jew will not descend to cave man tactics, he does not care, or that his nerves are so different from other men’s that he does not suffer, or that oppression has bowed his spirit so that he unmurmuringly accepts it. Only those who have fathomed the Jewish nature can fully understand how far all this misses the mark. The typical Jew is extremely sensitive. Unless Jews had be:n so endowed, they could never have accomplished the fine and noble things with which they have rightly b:en credited!. The self respect that has kept the Jewish head erect hreugh all these cycles of injustice could not be operative in any but a sensitive spirit. The Jew is as liable as another to be hurt, but he keeps his wounds to himself; his pride of ace and consciousness of his religion tutor him not to show them'. But it is therefore the more remarkable hat he allows them not to rankle within him. No, nor to obscure or weaken his sense of hi® civic obligation's. Let the insanity of anti Semitism rage high in a community and some movement for the common good he- launched there, it will be the Jews who will give the readiest and most generous support, even when they know that they will be excluded from recognition in its management and perhaps even from its benefits. Nevertheless, the hurt is there and sometimes the Gentile blunders upon it to hi® astonishment. A rabbi friend once angrily accused me of insinuating an inferiority complex because I had written that the Jews had been horribly wronged “But you have been, haven’t you?” said I, wonderingly. “You needn’t remind us of it,” replied my friend; and. after some reflection', I saw and rather admired his point of view. Patronage For, another error the friendly Gentile sometime® makes is in permitting in his attitude a suggestion of patronage. Above everything else, the self respecting Jew will not be patronized. He knows what his people have given to the world and what they have received in return, and he would) not be human, were he wiUing to acc:pt a gesture of condescension. If yiou are to get on with him toward the goal of mutual understanding and cooperation, more desirable now than ever before, you must meet him on even terms'. His democracy is more than political: it includes manners and communications. pOSSIBLY, a somewhat long and varied experience in efforts toward reconciliation and harmony justifies me in venturing upon these I words of warning. At least, I shall j assume that it does. And I have ®ome suggestions for the Jewish people. Do not believe that every Gentile who

approaches you seeking friendship comes with his sleeve stuffed full of schemes for his own advantage. There are Gentiles who care not a hoot for the Jewish vote, who do not want you to advertise in their newspapers, whe have nothing to sell you. and seek not to use you to their own profit. They are Gentiles who, knowing history, are overwhelmed with the Meak horrors of the past and with all their souls revolt against any continuance of those horrors. Ye®, revolt against the least manifestation by word or look or stupid hotel regation or idiotic real estate restriction, the least manifestaton of the neanderthal spirit that burned, tortured, maimed and harried. For they know the miserable origin of that spirit; they know the hypocrisy that sought to disguise it; they know the dark stain it has left upon their civilization and their faith; and they not only desire honestly, but they yearn passionately to see all these sanguinary stains obliterated in kindliness, good wiM and mutual esteem. “To know all is to forgive all,” says the French adage. It is still more. To know all is to share all. I have, for example, met many Gentiles who could at first net see that Palestine is a® much a Gentile as a Jewish project. I have known few who did not heartily accede to the proposition when they came to consider what Palestine means as reparation, what it means as a great and noble sign of justice and advancing civilization. Solidarity Among Peoples The sobering events in Germany in the last eighteen months should teach us all the immanent demand for complete solidarity among all peoples to whom justice, liberty, equality, decency arc not empty wordlsi but the most precious things of life. The vast retrogressive plunge of Germany has inaugurated a backward procession all over the world. We are threatened, not figuratively' but actually, with an inundation of revived primitive instincts which threaten everything that has (been gained for the sanctity of human dignity and human rights. All the forward straining and struggling of so many centuries has been toward the better protection of the weak against the strong. If a minority can be persecuted in Germany, persecuted to extermination, merely because of a religious belief, there is no security for minorities anywhere and no standard of ethics left but the supremacy of bruts force. It is not the foundation® of Jewry that are menaced', but the world wide foundations of a structure reared through generations of sacrifice and conflict. Such an issue ought to wring from our hearts the last traces of any lingering racial division and bring us into one front, Jew and Gentile together, one body of invincible opposition.

NEW YORK—Reports from here lave stated that almost a score of the victims of the ill fated Morro Castle, whose beautiful prominade deck was urned into a funeral pyre off the New Jersey coast, were Jewish. Death by; fire and water was de:reed as the fate of these Jews who ve e hurrying home for the high holidays. Only Five Bodies Found Although only five bodies of the J wish victims have been accounted ‘or, it is believed that at least ten r fifteen more diedi in the flames or were drowned. The dead arc: Milton Klein, Patterson, N. J. Charles Elias, Passaic, N. J. Charles Fitzer, New York. Eva Hoffman, London, Ontario. Bessie Pearlman, New York. Klein was to dedicate the new Odd bellows cemetery in Patterson on his return homo. Instead he was the irst to b; buried in th e new graveyard. A heroic tale of courage was revealed when Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Cohen, of Hartford, Conn., were taken from the water after swimming for six hour®. Both were exhausted). A ashing boat rescued thenn four miles from the burning Morro C^tle. Mrs. Charles Fitzer, who was separated from her husband during the excitement, wa® savedc

“ABIE AND IRISH ROSE” SAVED FROM SHIP FIRE

NEW YORK-An Abie’s Irish Rose romance which had 'been confronted with parental religious objections ended happily' for all concerned as the result of the Morro Castle disaster. Sidney David&on and his Irish wife, Dolly, who had been married over the objections of their parents, won the blessing of their Jewish and Catholic families in a Rosh Hashanah reunion which followed the miraculous rescue if the younger Davidsons from death on the ill-fated liner on which they were returning from a belated honeymoon. The senior Davidson and lohn McTigue, father of Dolly, celebrated the rescue of their children and the Jewish New Year by shaking hands.

WINS YALE SCHOLARSHIP FORT WAYNE, Ind.—Felix Zweig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Zweig, won the Jack Merillet Griffen scholarship to Yale University and passed enrance examination® with high grades. Zweig was president of the Achduth Veshoiom Congregation and active in the young people’s miovement here. O Previn, Noted Musician, Attends Holy Services At Beth El Zedeck

ST. LOUIS RABBI FINDS GERMANY WORSE TODAY THAN A YEAR AGO

(J.. D. B.) ST. LOUIS—The situation of German Jewry is even worse than last year, in the opinion of Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman, who returned 1 from his second trip to investigate Jewish conditiohiS' in Germany!. Rabbi Isserman visited Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, the Saar, France and Austria, and conferred with many journalists and League of Nations representative®. Rabbi Is®erman reports varying conditions in Germany, depending largely on the caprice of local Nazi leaders. In Berlin, Je wish merchants reported unusually good business', due to heavy purchasing in anticipation of inflation and raw material shortage. But he declares no Jew's arebeing reinstated in their old positions and no Jewish unemployed receive work. In any case the terror and suspense i® so great that even the

wealthy prefer to emigrate no matter what their prospects abroad, he says. One Man’s Story “In Holland,” iRabbi Isserman relate®, “I met a former Jewish manufacturer, now- living, wretchedly as a salesman, happy and relived because he could live unafraid and his wife no longer had to become hysterical whenever the doorbell rang. “In Paris, I met a former German millionaire, a wounded war veteran, who left more than a million gold marks in Germany, struggling to support himself and his family, yet happy and relieved to be out of Germany. He was compelled by Nazi leaders to post copies of Der Stuermer, which printed attacks on him and his factory. He could get no service in restaurants nor take hi® children to the park. The pupils in school wiped the bench after his

daughter had sat on it.” The lot of the restourceless German Jew®, Rabbi Isserman reports, is infinitely worse. The border na tions were at first exceedingly hospitable, but as refugees kept pouring in where unemployment was already bad, h'lp became more and more thinly distributed, he says. Despite the generosity of the Dutch Jew's, 1,000 Jewish refugees were about to be thrown on the streets of Amsteraam when a check arrived from the Joint Distribution Committee. French Burden Heavy In Antwerp, the bankrupt refugee committee was about to stop its allowance.. The French Jew's, Rabbi Isserman find®, though they have been exceedingly generous, already having prepared 12,000 refugees for futures in other countries, are finding their burden difficult. Young intellectuals can make a certain adjustment, but the middle aged find themselves in an almost hopeless position, he says.

A distinguished personage who sat practically unnoticed at the Rosh Hashonah services in Beth El Zedeck Temple, last week, was Charles Previn, prominent orchestra leader and director of the Silken Strings Orchestra, which is featured each Sunday night on the Real Silk program.. Mr. Previn was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Goodbian during the holidays. He stated that he enjoyed the B:th El services exceedingly and w r as especially touched with the Hebrew melodies and chants which were innovated by Cantor Myro Glass-. In an interview with a Jewish Post reporter Previn said that his father was a chazan and th e tune® sung by Cantor Glass brought back many fond memories-. Previn plays the piano, and he direct d the Leo Reisman orchestra when it appeared in Indianapolis last winter on a program featuring George Gershwin. When the Real Silk program went on the air, Previn w r as selected as' the organizer and leader of the orchestra.

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