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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE lor SOUTHERN JEWRY VOLUME VIII September, 1933 NUMBER 10 r he Year to Come? So year since 1492 lias given Jewry such anguish and heartaches L the twelve months to which now bid an unlamented adieu. Hit- •risin has spread a frightful blight of terror and fear over the Jewish •rid. The magnitude of the tragedy has overwhelmed and stunned e Jewish people and colored every phase of its existence. It has un- stakably exposed our weakness and impotence. It has shaken every bwish community to its very foundations. Wherever Jews are, there L uncertainty and doubt. Even those who have long since taken them- l.-lvcs out of the House of Israel have been given pause, and many r them have returned to Judaism. This blackest Rosh Hashanah in generations no one would dare to predict what the next year holds for Jewry. On the threshold of the ear 5694 no one can foresee what future trials are to be encountered '■y the Eternal People. We may, however, draw sustenance from the 'toric fact that we have always outlived our oppressors, but at the anie time we must give serious thought to practical and immediate measures in these critical times. Hut above all, we must understand hat as Jews there is no salvation except to remain Jews. If the fate f tin* German-Jews will teach Jewry that bitter lesson their suffer* :urs may not have been entirely in vain. And if the New Year will bring nie to all Jews everywhere the realization that only as Jews can we -■pc to survive and to defeat the ever-recurring Hamans, then we can ">k forward to the future with unlimited courage and undiminished ope. | Tiro J etrish Pioneers The demise of Israel Rokeaeh and Ezekiel Sarasohn further de pletes the fast-thinning ranks of the pioneer Russian Jewish settlers America who have done so much both for America and Jewry. Mr. Rokeaeh, who earned a fortune by furnishing the Jewish housewife ith kosher kitchen aids, and Air. Sarasohn, who with his father, was "Me of the founders of the Yiddish daily press in this country, were of the old school,—cultured, communal-minded and thoroughly Jewish. A great part of the Rokeaeh wealth, which came from Jews, returned to them in the form of philanthropy. Mr. Rokeaeh was not ble patron of the Jewish National Fund and his beneficence nabhd the Fund to establish three Palestinian colonies. He was also • liberal donor to the Yeshiva College and various Jewish philan thropes in Brooklyn. Mr. Sarasohn, who succeeded his father as and publisher of the Jewish Daily News, the first Yiddish daily '*riea, was more than a publisher. He encouraged and intro- to the public a great many of the now’ prominent A iddish •> and journalists. He was a Hebrew’ scholar of note and the *r of Ha Ivrith, an early Hebrew’ w’eekly. He also followed in her’s footsteps as an active worker in the activities of the HIAS fostering Zionism. The Sarasohn tradition in the \ iddish press carried on by the Jewish Morning Journal with which the News erged in 1928. The loss of Rokeaeh and Sarasohn is a severe '•w to American Jewrv because men of their type are not easy to re Pk e. Ai r ntr and t* no tr ae » * as Ia TV *2S On Cuard The latest step in the Nazi scheme to swamp the world with Hitlerite propaganda is an effort to subsidize influential American newspaper men and magazine writers who would be willing to write stuff calcu lated to convert hostile American public opinion. American journal ists in Berlin have been approached by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, with offers to subsidize them in exchange for pro-Nazi publicity in the United States where the press has been largely unfriendly and critical. Goebbels is also negotiating with a well- known public relations counsellor in the United States who is consider ing becoming the Nazi press agent here. At the same time it is learned that the Nazi chieftains in this country are planning to feed prepared pro-Hitlerite publicity to such newspapers as will accept it. This stuff is to be cleverly disguised so that its origin will not be suspected. Having failed to throttle the foreign press correspondents in Germany by threats, imprisonment and attempted bribes, the Nazi government is apparently determined to make inroads directly. It is well that we are forewarned. Readers of the American press will henceforth do well to keep a sharp eye open for such Nazi propaganda which in many instances will escape the keen surveillance of editors. We are convinced that no American newspaper will knowingly be a party to such a campaign of propaganda calculated to arouse anti-Semitism in this country and to justify it in Germany. Hut the American press, which has been so liberal and understanding during the German Jewish crisis, has been victimized before by clever press agents. Amer icans must be on guard and help their newspapers avoid the schem- ings of Nazi propagandists. The Uniteil Synagogue Leads We do not know whether the framers of the NBA program fore saw the tremendous impetus the realization of their program would give to the cultural and spiritual life of the land by affording the people vastly increased leisure. It is likely that they were prescient enough to understand that reduced hours of labor would mean more time for self-development and for additional spiritual interests. Far sighted persons are moving to take advantage of this situation. Among Jewish organizations the United Synagogue of America is the first major religious body to take concrete steps to meet the challenge presented to religion by the NRA. A national recovery assembly has been convened by the United Synagogue to consider the effect of the NRA upon the synagogue and Jewish religious life and to devise a national coordinated program of Jewish educational and cultural ac tivities designed to utilize the new leisure created. The action of the United Synagogue is not only important because it is the first of its kind but because it will be watched with a great deal of attention by other Jewish, and non-Jewish religious and educational agencies. If the program to be adopted by the national recovery assembly is sound and workable it will be followed by other programs. The United Synagogue deserves the thanks of all who are interested in the ad vancement of the cultural and spiritual level of America for its pioneer undertaking. jper Enterprises, lac. Subscription met: 12.00 per year ia advance, e writers except those enunciated ia the editorial columns- Established Atlanta, Ga. 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