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The Southern Israelite
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After the disappointing results of last
year’s Allied Jewish Campaign drive,
which was supposed to produce six
million dollars for Palestine and East
ern European relief, campaign chair
men became a rare species. One could
not blame them. They had done their
best and appealed with all the might
and prestige at their command, but the
response had not come forward.
This year it was decided to start
anew, but o na different basis. The
Palestine appeal was to he made by
thhe Jewish Agency and the call to
help our European brethren was to be
issued by the Joint Distribution Com
mittee. The big difficulty lay in getting
a personality to assume the responsibil
ity to lead the Palestine campaign. Mr.
Felix Warburg, whom last year’s cam
paign—so it is whispered—cost in the
neighborhood of a million, looked
around frantically. Who would be the
leader to satisfy the fervent Zionists
and the fervent non-Zionists as well?
Who would command respect and he
able to carry the burden, not merely
nominally but in actuality?
Few leaders like the prospect of lead
ing a money-raising drive in times of
unemployment and retrenchment. War
burg and his associates looked around
and picked Morris Rothnberg, who,
Warburg said, “has gained the affec
tion and respect of Zionists and non-
Zionists." A good friend of his warned
him: “Times arc bad; it will he an
unthankful job.’’ Rothenberg knew
that himself. He struggled against it;
hut the idealist in him accepted.
Rathr touching, and almost sounds
like publicity. It actually happened.
It will explain to our readers why
Rothenberg accepted the burden of
leading a campaign for Palestine at a
time when the financial and political
horizon looked dark.
Rothenberg has specialized as an at
torney in the field of labor law. For
many years he has been counsel for
well-known labor unions, particularly
those operating in the needle trades.
The student of labor injunctions in New
\ ork will discover that Rothenberg
has successfully appeared in some of
thhe outstanding injunction eases in
that jurisdiction. We mention this be
cause people who have listened to
Rothenberg at Zionist meetings and
conventions, and have watched him
work restlessly and untiringly for
Palestine, are inclined to overlook the
fact that he is one of New York's dis
tinguished attorneys, who, it must be
confessed, also remains an idealist in
his profession.
The late Louis Marshall, who is
placing his stamp of approval upon
human character was perhaps the most
exacting individual, once, at a public
function, characterized Morris Rothen
berg as follows:
There is no man for whom I have
a higher regsard than Morris Rothen
berg. I have found him uniformly just,
fair, upright and honorable. He
posesses that reasonableness which in
spires confidence and gives v
rare faculty of recognizing t!
question has two sides and
he never sacrifices a principle t
what he says and does. He
is attached he respects the
those who honestly differ fr
entertained by him.”
Strong words for so severe a
critic as the lamented leader of
can Jewry.
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In reviewing Morris Roth,
record as a Jewish leader it cam-
us that his popularity—a result
deeds and not of a well-oiled pm 0 j ty
machine—is easily explainable,
years ago he was one of the founders
of the Joint Distribution Conn ntee
For some time he was Chairman
Executive Committee of the Am. rican
Jewish Congress, in which capacity he
carried out many important ami deli-
cate missions aiming at the ameliora
tion of persecution of and discrimina
tion against Jews in European lands.
Quite a varied sideline for an attorney
who, in addition to his communal
activities, insists on keeping au courant
with literature, the drama and music.
But on closer inspection yon will
realize that we have left out the vital
part of Rothenberg’s career; his work
in the Zionist movement. There he has
achieved an international importance,
frequently serving as one of the
American representatives at the World
Zionist Congress, and, for many years
now, having assumed the burden of
leading the Keren Hayesod and United
Palestine Appeal campaigns in this
country to victory.
One of the most notable services
rendered by Morris Rothenberg was in
connection with the enlargement of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine and the
framing of the Constitution therefor.
It is little known that Dr. Chaim Weiz-
tnann appointed Mr. Rothenberg as the
special representative of the World
Zionist Organization to carry on the
negotiations with the non-Zionist
groups in this country and to aid in
the framing of a document for the
Agency which would unite the two
forces. This was a task from which
Rothenberg emerged with flying colors.
Thus we have in his record the as
surance that genuine work is eventually
as much appreciated as publicity home
made. Rather a bad piece of news lor
press agents, if Rothenberg were not
the rare exception. We cannot think
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