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Southern
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The Southern Israelite
VOL. XI—NO. 9
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1986
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Southern
Observations
The serenity of Charleston, S. C.,
was slightly ruffled this week,
when three of Broadway’s ablest
dispensers of vinegary wit, Mr. and
Mrs. George S. Kaufman and Miss
Edna Ferber visited the histoi*ic
Mty en route to New York from
Miami, Fla.
It was the first visit for George
S. Kaufman, who is related to Mrs.
Julian V. Boehm, and for Beatrice
Kaufman, fiction editor of Har
per’s Bazaar and co-author with
Margaret Leech of “Divided By
Three.”
In Miami, satirist George S.
Kaufman and best-seller Edna
Ferber, whose collaborations include
“Dinner At Eight,” “The Royal
Family” and “Minick,” drew up
plans for a new fall production.
Irked by bad weather in Charles
ton, the distinguished visitors pro
ceeded to toss bon mots at a fast
and furious pace, insisted upon in
terviewing reporters.
Denying vigorously that he had
come to witness a little theatre
production of “The Dark Tower,”
which he wrote in collaboration with
Alexander Woollcott, Mr. Kauf
man said of the three year periods
which separate each Kaufman-
Ferber opus:
“In between the plays, Miss Fer
ber does nothing but turn out a
few novels and short stories while
I collaborate with anybody.”
World Peace Urged Non-Aryan Doctors
By Dr. Jones At Forbidden By New
B’nai B’rith MeetGerman Ruling
In Atlanta last week, the Jewish
Progressive Club basketball team
earned the title of Southern cham
pions, annexed all city honors,
emerged from the most gruelling
schedule of their entire history with
flying colors.
To Shep Lauter, coach, must go
a large share of the credit for the
precision, the amazing skill of the
team that won nineteen successive
carries. The mainstay of the or
ganization, Athletic Director Lau
ter, with an amazing insight into
the prowess of each player, turned
out one of the strongest teams ever
seen in Atlanta.
Living and breathing the spirit
of conquest, the Progressives, all
of them working boys, displayed a
rare coordination, thrust jealousy
and envy out of the picture in or
der to maintain their prestige as a
team.
Southern Jewry is proud of these
players and the men who guided
them to the basketball champion
'hip of the South.
Guest Speaker Makes Impassioned
Plea For Tolerance At Monthly
Meeting of B’nai B’rith
Dr. Ashby Jones, noted religious
leader made an impassioned plea
for social righteousness and world
peace at the monthly meeting of
Gate City Lodge No. 144 B’nai
B’rith, at the Standard Club Tues
day evening.
Introduced by Dr. David Marx as
a champion of liberty and religious
freedom, Dr. Jones deplored the in
tolerance which has gripped the
world, and referred to “groups of
nations like bloodhounds in leash."
“Under all the differences that
separate mankind around the
world,” Dr. Jones said, “there are
things common to all humanity,
and they are greater and bigger
than all the differences that sep
arate us.”
Pointing out that literature,
sculpture, and music are not hem
med in by nationalism, but belong
to the world, Dr. Jones said, “All
mankind has some inalienable
rights—and out of that deathless
creed, America was born.”
It was announced by Joseph M.
Brown, president, that a mass
meeting would be held March 8 at
the Temple, signalizing the 75th
anniversary of B’nai B’rith in this
city and climaxing the membership
drive.
Committee appointments made
public at the meeting of Gate City
Lodge, No. 144, were as follows:
Anti-defamation, Dr. L. C. Rough-
lin, chairman, Julian V. Boehm, A.
L. Feldman, L. J. Haas, L. J. Levi-
tas, L. H. Moss; Hillel Foundation,
H. A. Alexander, chairman, J. S.
Brail, Sam Epian, Herman Hey-
man, Harold Hirsch, A. L. Loeb,
Max Michael, Sam Rothberg, Dr. J.
Yamipolsky, Edward M. Kahn; so
cial service, Hyman S. Jacobs,
chairman, Rabbi Joseph I. Cohen,
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, Dr. David
Marx, Samuel Geffen,; A. Z. A.,
Leon Kletzky, chairman, Samuel
Rothberg, Charles’ Bergman, David
Gerson, Arthur Gottesman, Sidney
Parks, Melvin Pazol, H. A. Alexan
der.
Program and entertainment, Dr.
I. H. Goldstein, chairman, Joseph
Cuba, F. A. Constangy, Max Feld
man; publicity, Melvin Pazol, chair
man. Nathan Lipton, Nathan Co
hen, M. Stephen Schiffer; member
ship, Berry Rittenbaum, chairman,
Jack Lichtenstein, vice chairman,
Harry Abelson, Arthur Altmayer,
Edward Fagelson, Milton Klein,
David Marx, Jr., Edward Vajda,
Martin Romanoff, Sidney Rose, Da
vid Ajouelo, Victor Franco, A. L.
Meyers, Rabbi Joseph I. Cohen, Hy
man S. Jacobs, Harry Gershon.
Extension of Nuremberg Laws Into
Trade and Commerce Seen in
New Ruling
Polish Senate Prepared to Launch
Emigration of Million Refugees
Executive Director
With denominations throughout
the country joining hands to ob-
-erve Brotherhood Day last week,
the unity established between
Catholics, Jews and Protestants
grew stronger, resulted in a vast
exchange of pulpits between minis
ters and rabbis.
In Chattanooga, Tenn., Dr. James
E. Clark, pastor of the Northside
Bresbyterian Church, denounced
trom his pulpit the religious intol
erance that has geared its head in
the world, deplored the prejudice
which blinds humanity.
Said Dr. Clark: “The first great
' tru ggle and the first great liberty
tor religious freedom was gained
by the Jews when Antiochus Ephi-
phones, who was an early apostle
of the creed of nationalism, and
the Hitler of his day, early attempt
ed to bind in the Jews by religious
bigotry.”
‘But they rebelled and gained the
world’s first great fight for reli
gious liberty. On down through the
centuries, the Jewish love for reli
gious liberty has manifested itself.
The membership committee of
the Gate City Lodge, No. 144, B nai
B’rith, will meet with the program
and executive committee of the
lodge Monday evening, March 2, at
8:00 P. M. at the Jewish Educa
tional Alliance
The progress of the membership
drive will be discussed at this meet
ing, and plans will be laid for the
public meeting to be held at the
Temple on March 8.
All committee members are re
quested to attend.
Athens Rabbi To Be
Principal Speaker At
Sisterhood Meeting
Rabbi and Mrs. Lawrence Block,
of Athens, Ga„ will be guests of the
Temple Sisterhood at r e fy lar
monthly meeting to be held Mon
day, March 2, at the Temple.
Rabbi Block will be the principal
speaker of the meeting, which be
gins at 11 o’clock. Formerly a re
ligious leader in Mason City, Iowa,
Rabbi Block has now taken over the
duties of Rabbi Abraham Shuster-
man at Congregation Children of
Israel in Athens.
Following his talk, a short busi
ness session will be held and lunch
eon will be served at 1 o clock
All members of the Sisterhood
are asked to attend and to person
ally meet Rabbi and Mrs. Block.
Berlin (WNS)—A far-reaching
extension of the rigorous Nurem
berg ghetto laws to bar from the
medical profession Jews, Jewish
hybrids,” and Germans married to
Jews or Jewish “hybrids” was an
nounced in a decree made ptiblic by
Dr. Gerhard Wagner, Nazi medi
cal leader, and the Nazi Physicians
Association. The significant fea
ture of the new decree is that it
applies not only to new practition
ers but to those who have been
practicing medicine for years. The
decree also forbids non-Jewish doc
tors to represent Jewish physi
cians and vice-versa and bans non-
Jewish doctors from working with
Jewish doctors.
This new attack on the Jews co
incided with the reorganization of
the anti-Jewish boycott organiza
tion under the name of the Federal
Bureau for Commerce and Artisan-
ship and a speech by Propaganda
Minister Goebbels blaming “Jewish
world enmity” for the recent out
breaks in Spain and South Ameri
ca. The new anti-Jewish boycott
agency, announced by Robert Ley,
leader of the Nazi Labor Front, is
designed to extend the anti-Jewish
laws to the field of trade and com
merce in violation of Economics
Minister Schacht’s explicit instruc
tions that Nazi anti-Semitism was
not to be applied to industry and
commerce. In a speech at Madge-
burg Goebbels asserted that events
in Spain and South America demon
strated what “toleration of Jewish
propaganda” leads to.
Toscanini To Direct
Concert of Palestine
Symphony Orchestra
New York (WNS)—The first
concert of the newly - organized
Palestine Symphony Orchestra will
be conducted in Tel Aviv on Octo
ber 24th by Arturo Toscanini,
world-famous conductor, it was an
nounced here by Bronislaw Huber-
man, eminent violinist and founder
of the Orchestra. Mr. Toscanini,
who recently announced his resig
nation as conductor of the New
York Philharmonic Symphony Or
chestra, accepted the invitation to
conduct in Palestine because “it is
the duty of every one to fight and
help in this sort of cause accord
ing to one’s means.” The Palestine
Symphony is composed of Jewish
and non-Jewish refugee musicians
from Germany. The first concert
will be broadcast throughout the
world over the new Palestine radio
station arid will be heard in this
country over the National Broad
casting System.
In deciding to conduct in Pales
tine Mr. Toscanini, father-in-law
of the famous Jewish musician,
Vladimir Horowitz, gave another
striking demonstration of his hat
red of Nazism. He had previously
cancelled all engagements except
two concerts in Paris to raise funds
for a monument to Camille Saint-
Saens and his appearance in the
Salzburg music festival in the
summer. Two years ago he joined
10 other world-famous musicians in
sending a cable of protest to Hitler
against the persecution of German
art-ists because of race and politics.
He also declined to conduct the
Wagner musical festival at Bair-
euth because “of painful events
which have wounded my feelings
as a man and as an artist.”
BELGIUM MOVES TO CURB
REFUGEES FROM GERMANY
Brussels (WNS) —Because the
MRS. MARION M. MILLER
National Council
Director Visits
Atlanta Section
Executive Director Resumes South
eastern Tour at Meeting of At
lanta Council of Jewish Women
Forty Injured As New Riots Break
Out in Jewish Quarter; Gov
ernment Warnings Issued
number of impoverished Jewish re
fugees from Germany entering
Belgium has increased in the last
few weeks, the Belgian govern
ment has taken steps to control
more rigorously the conditions un
der which these emigres may live.
A decree issued by the ministry of
the interior makes it mandatory
for all refugees to register with
fhe Belgian authorities eight days
after their arrival.
The relation of the National
Council of Jewish Women to its 200
sections throughout the United
States and Canuda was vividly
drawn by Mrs. Marion Monteser
Miller, executive director of the
National Council, at the monthly
meeting of the Atlanta Section
here Wednesday.
Mrs. Miller, whose appearance in
Atlanta marked the resumption of
her Southeastern tour, attended a
Board Meeting in the morning, and
delivered an address at the after
noon sessions. During the interrup
tion of her tour, Miss Shoshana
Garber, who was scheduled to
speak here this week, visited
Southeastern sections in Mrs. Mil
ler’s stead.
Pointing out that “as the woman
goes, so goes the home,” Mrs. Mil
ler traced the influence of the
Council’s program upon the opin
ions and thought of the 40,000
women who are a part of the Na
tional Council of Jewish Women.
'‘German refugee children,” Mrs.
Miller said in speaking of the emi
gration phase of the Council’s pro
gram, “must not be looked upon as
objects of charity. They are not
underprivileged children, but un
fortunate victims of conditions. By
every right of birth and environ
ment they are the same as our own
children.”
An outstanding authority on
child study problems, Mrs. Miller
was formerly associate director of
the Child Study Association, and
is now a member of the Child
Study Association’s board of direc
tors.
Mrs. Miller’s career in the edu
cational field began in 1912 when
she became instructor in German
at Hunter College in New York
City, a post she held since 1915.
She has since lectured for the Ex
tension Division of Columbia Uni
versity. Daughter of the late Pro
fessor Frederick Monteser of New
York University, Mrs. Miller began
her education in the public schools
of Yonkers, N. Y., and attended
Barnard College and Teachers Col
lege of Columbia University.
Mrs. Miller has written and lec
tured extensively on mental hy
giene, child guidance and related
subjects. She is editor of the De
partment of Child Training of the
Delineator and has contributed
chapters to “Guidance of Child
hood and Youth,” edited by Benja
min C. Gruenberg and “Our Chil
dren,” edited by Dorothy Canfield
Fischer and Sidonie M. Gruenberg.
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| Warsaw (WNS)—Poland is pre
pared to solve its Jewish problem
by facilitating the emigration of at
least 1,000,000 Jews, or a third of
its entire Jewish population, but
under existing world conditions the
possibilities for carrying out such
a plan are strictly limited, the Pol
ish senate was informed by Minis
ter of the Interior Ladislaw Rack-
iewicz. Replying to suggestions by
Prince Janusz Radziwell and Count
Michael Rostworowski during the
budget debate that the Polish gov
ernment should prevail upon Great
Britain and the World Zionist Or
ganization to provide largely in
creased emigration quotas fpr Pol
ish Jewry, Rackiewicz said the gov
ernment approved of such a project
in principle and “would be very
happy to get that problem settled,
but for the time being the possi
bilities are very limited.”
Prince Radziwell and Count Rost
worowski both urged Poland to co
operate with the Zionist Organiza
tion and commented on the plan for
transferring 100,000 German Jews
to Palestine and other countries
during the next four years. The
two senators emphasized that they
were opposed to Jew-baiting but
that in the interests of both Jews
and Poland a large Jewish emigra
tion was essential.
Meanwhile the anti-schechita bill
introduced in parliament by Mad
ame Janina Prystor passed its first
reading in the Sejm and was refer
red to the administrative commit
tee for further action. If this com
mittee, of which Dr. Emil Sommer-
stein, Jpwish deputy, . ijt ft. meqjher,
approves the project, it will almost
certainly be adopted by an over
whelming majdFity. Five schochtim
have been dismissed from the mu
nicipal slaughtering house in War
saw and 17 others have been re
quested to submit themselves for
an examination to determine their
fitness as slaughterers.
There is, however, good reason
to expect that the administrative
committee may bury the bill be
cause the government is not ready
to antagonize the Jews still further.
Exhaustive study of the bill indi
cated that its passage would not
only mean a tremendous economic
hardship to Jews and non-Jews
alike but would be a flagrant viola
tion of Poland’s constitutional guar
antees of religious freedom. Indica
tive of the government’s readiness
to drop the bill, despite the wide
spread public and official endorse
ment of it, is an article in the offi
cial Gazeta Polska declaring that it
is impossible to overturn in a day
or even a year traditional practices
and rituals of a people. The paper
suggests that only by a slow proc
ess of education can the objectives
of the anti-schechita bill be real
ized.
In Krushevitz, near Lodz, more
than two score Jews were injured
when an anti-Semitic mob raided
the Jewish quarter just after the
market opened. Armed with sticks
and stones, the anti - Semites
smashed Jewish shops, destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of mer
chandise and inflicted serious in
juries on all Jews they encountered.
Ironically enough this outbreak oc
curred at the very moment that the
minister of education was repeat
ing Premier Koscialowski’s warn
ing that the government would deal
rigorously with anti-Jewish rioters.
Prague (WNS) — Preparations
for sending large quantities of
kosher meat to Poland in the event
that country enacts an anti-schechi
ta law were made at a conference
of Jewish butchers from all sections
of Carpatho-Russia.
Paris (WNS)—The anti-schechita
bill pending in the Polish parlia
ment is not an anti-Semitic meas
ure, the Polish ambassador to
France informed the Polish-Jewish
Good Will Committee. The Commit
tee had submitted to the ambassa
dor a memorandum protesting
against the bill.