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SOUTHERN ISRAELITE A MAGAZINE PERPETUATING JEWISH IDEALS VOLUME VIII. MAY 31, 1933. NUMBER 4. Uniform Determination Needed Atlanta was the mecca of some of the most prominent figures in American Jewish life who came to attend Georgia’s first state-wide B’nai B’rith conference. The organization, through the Gate City Lodge, deserves high mention in carrying out one of the most im posing conferences the South has ever staged in Jewish activities. The success of the conference which purpose was to increase the ranks and the usefulness of the order—is characteristic of the manner in which B’nai B’rith has promoted its principles throughout the world. In the organizing of a B’nai B’rith council for the State of Georgia the Jews of the State are given further opportunity to avail them selves of this organization to help carry out their work in a manner that each member is proud of( just as has been done since its organi zation in New York in 1842. B’nai B’rith is not the type of organiza tion that carries the air of ballyhoo about its accomplishments; in a simple, unaffected manner it goes about its duties and carries out its work without shouting it to the skies. The Atlanta Lodge for seventy- five years has been carrying out in a most noteworthy fashion tin* key words of B’nai B’rith, “Benevolence, Brotherly Love and Harmony.” In combating the problems that confront the Jews of today, Gov ernor Lehman’s message to the conference, that there is a need for uniform determination among the Jews to render service in “the af fairs of the State, nation and our own faith,” carries a significant interpretation that is embodied in the very principles of B’nai B’rith. Shabuoth Shabouth as a holiday is identified with Confirmation Day, when our young generation steps from childhood into adolescence. It is in this sense a holiday of rejoicing. World Jewry is becoming enriched by legions of young men and women eager to take their place as full-fledged members of our family. And this additional strength, mental as well as physical, which Shabouth, through Confirmation Day, brings us is most wel come. Now, more than ever. We want a straight-thinking, healthy youth to help us carry the burden of the manifold prob lems which beset the Jewish community. We do not agree with those who paint a dark picture of our youth, describing it as unfit to take over the reins of Jewish leadership when the hour will come for it to do so. We believe that the Jewish youth is well-equipped to take over the torch from its elders, in this eternal re lay race toward a better and more hu mane world. Our young people, if statis tics count for anything, are thirsty to learn, capable of acquiring knowledge of life. To tell the continuants of the South, THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE extends hearty wishes for a successful manhood and womanhood. CONTENTS • Another Straus Makes History By Robert Stone _ PAGE __ 5 Two Hundred Years in Georgia By Judith I. Stein 6 Looking at the Past By Pirginia Hersch _ „ 7 The Reality of Hitlerism By Pierre van Paassen __ _ __ 8 Are We Modern Barbarians? By Lion Feuehtwanger __ 9 The German Situation __11 Southern Notes _ _ .__12 Review of the Jewish Week ...15 July Third More than three thousand Jewish men and women, including t chorus of more than a thousand trained voices and an orchestra of gigantic proportions, will depict “The Romance of a People” at Sol diers’ Field, Chicago, on July 3rd. The day on which this tremendom spectacle will be presented, will be known as Jewish Day. On tkat day American Jewry will gather in Chicago to partake in this Jewi>k super-festival which, in addition to the grandiose pageant, will also present a Jewish exposition as well as a Jewish Olympiad of sport None can question that July 3rd will see at Chicago the greatest gatk ering of Jewish people in the history of the country. The clarion call issued by the National Committee of the Jewish-Day to America® Jewry to make this day, July 3rd, an extraordinary and epochal <*• casion will be answered by hundreds of thousands of Jews from coast to coast. July 3, 1933, will become known as the date when Ainerieai Jewry met to express their faith in the future. It is appropriate that the guest of honor of the Jewish Day will be Dr, Chaim Weizmann, who is making a special trip from London to Chicago. What They Say “The works of Feuehtwanger and Remarque, of Einstein and Lieb kneeht, of Marx and Wasserman and Heine will live long after th*- Hitler movement has run its course.”—William Soskin, Literary Edi tor Evening Post, New York. “Let us open our arms to the refugees; let us bow our heads before the victims. The blood of martyrs never flows in vain. It will suffocate the killers. The cause for which they fell we hold sacred. It will win —Romanin Holland, Geneva, Switzerland. Michael Williams, editor of the Com monweal a New York weekly Catholic review, made public his findings after an investigation of conditions in German} His conclusion says: “Unless the present rulers of the Great German people are ca>' aside by the civilized Germans they now oppress, Jews and Christians will be sub ject to scandalous persecutions. Plans for world dominance of the Nazi system are a menace to the institutions of free men of Europe and America.” Mr. Williams pro poses a plan of allowing a number of ref ugees to settle in various countries and - need be to enlarge the quota for that pur pose. The Executive Committe of tin* Fed eral Council of Churches of Christ ic America issued a statement that on < hrn tian grounds its protests against racial and religious intolerance, and expresses deep sympathy for the victims. Such sen timents by the leaders of the Christian de nominations in America are evidence th«- the Christian Church in this country i* fully aware that Christianity as such is on trial on the crooked cross of the Hitlerites Entered at second-class matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta, Ga., under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Southern Ivaelita invitca correspondence and literary contributions, but the editor it not to I92S. M. S. Miller, Editor; M. Stephen Schiffer, Publisher; Nathan Upton, Business Manager. 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