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The Southern Israelite
mvald, the Jonases. The crash
root is said to have affected so
’1 Jewish investors that it has
the greatest historical calamity
Instruction of Jerusalem,
n is highly cherished among
The percentages in the College
v of New York, in Columbia
and in New York University
20 to over 90 per cent, of the
h ut body. Charges have been
attempts to restrict them by
K -al and nationality tests. There
andal about that at Harvard Uni
que years ago. Over a hundred
there was a Jewish professor
:iI i',,]iiml)ia University.
1928 American Jews spent for
■pic purposes no less than
*55. Close to 4,000 organiza-
age in philanthropic work for
i.niic aid of the needy. There
msands of others that provide
aid, support for the aged and for
ii, etc There are over 500 free
irtics. Out of one and a quarter
i if .liars lent out to 12,000 people
stu b society the surprisingly small
of $952 was the only loss sus-
Federations of Charities are or-
1 in most of the large communities
i which eleven cities have Jewish popu-
^ over 50,000. A new form of or-
wized relief has been the industrial
. chest, which collects its funds
i the members of one organized in-
hi'try, by assessment of profits and an
nual incomes.
What's in a name? Yet the change of
gaining momentum. The “trans
in last names is met with a cor
iding change in given names. The
Tpelations, the Moes and Abies and
are being discarded in favor of the
hettoish: Mortons and Alvins and
Fast year Justice Levy permitted
r Levy to change his name after
cting hint to a scathing lecture. The
- action evoked a flood of attacks,
hundred and eleven Jewish periodi-
arc published. Over half of them
N iddish; yet Americanization is
"ii rapidly. The old established
h"h papers are losing circulations;
"hk-st one recently went out of busi-
ln general the Yiddish language
"erica seems to be doomed. The
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periodicals published in English rarely
make money.
1 here are twenty-four Jewish theatres.
Last year they presented eighty-six plays
with an average of seven performances
per play.
1 he songs of the nations, the language
ot its people, both of these and many
other things besides are affected by this
integrizing group of slightly over four
million. Sime Silverman, publisher of
\ ariety, has coined many new words that
have become part and parcel of the lan
guage. Irving Berlin is the king of jazz
with Lew Brown and George Gershwin
as his vice regents. They have a horde
of followers. Samuel Gompers was
founder of the American Federation of
Labor and its president for forty-one
years until his death in 1924.
Joe Leblang is cut-rate king. He has
made it possible for the large majority
of the theatre-goers to see Broadway's
offerings. Theda Bara is one of the
Chosen people. So was Broncho Billy of
Western thriller fame. Abie’s Irish Rose
set the high mark for continuous dramatic
production of the Nation’s famous the
atrical street. Sydney Franklin, of Brook
lyn, New York, is the only American
matador, now appearing on a tour of
Mexico and Spain. There is more social
anti-Semitism in the United States than
in England, visitors tell us. James Rus
sell Lowell once said that every man of
genius had some Jewish blood in his veins.
Negroes celebrate Rosenwald day in
honor of the Chicago merchant who has
contributed millions to their education
and well-being. The most heavily in
sured person in the world is William Fox,
who, thirty years ago, was a not-so-
wealthy furrier.
Mazuma, kibbitzer, are only two of
the many Yiddish words that have crept
into the English language. Who was the
first airplane passenger across the At
lantic? Who, but Charles A. Levine!
Edward L. Bernays engineered the
Nation-wide publicity in connection with
the Edison light jubilee. Another famed
publicity man is Harry Reichenbach, who
claims that in a week or so he can force
a change of government in any of the
lesser European countries. More than
one operation on the Semitic nose has
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