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VOL. XI—NO. 39
Italian Jewry
Renounces Ties
Milan Leader of Community
Declares Loyalty To
Mussolini
Rome (WNS)—Alarmed by the
sudden outburst of anti-Semitic
utterances in the Fascist press, the
Jewish community of Milan has
announced that it formally severs
all ties with the rest of the Jews
of the world. In a letter to Regime
Fascista, official organ of the Fas
cist Party, the leaders of the Milan
community publicly declare that
they have no links with world Jew
ry. In an almost slavish tone the
communication asserts that Italian
Jews regard themselves as a reli
gious group only and have no con
nections with world Jewry other
than a common religious faith. The
letter also says that Italian Jews
are thoroughly impregnated with
Fascism and are uncompromisingly
opposed to Bolshevism, and will
forever remain grateful to Musso
lini.
Commenting on this letter, the
Regime Fascista expresses jubila
tion and calls on the other Jewish
communities in Italy to issue simi
lar declarations. The action of the
Milan community is a direct result
of two attacks on the Jews by Ro
berto Farinacci, former general
secretary of the Fascist Party, in
Regime Fascista. In one of them
he demanded that Italian Jews
prove their loyalty to Italy by sev
ering ties with world Jewry.
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1936
PRICE FIVE CENTS
askssuppokt NAZI CONQRESS FLAYED
AS WORLD PEACE THREAT
William Rosenwald
Leaders Urge
Overseas
Help
New York (WNS)—The sensa
tional attack on the Jews as a sub
versive element by Roberto Farin
acci, former secretary-general of
the Fascist party, in Regime Fas
cista, official organ of the Fascist
party, “represents his personal
views and certainly does not in any
way reflect the government’s,” it
is declared in a Rome dispatch. The
dispatch, which gives no authority
for the statement, says that “what
feeling there is against the Jews
(in Italy) springs from the fact
that they are believed to be among
the most active elements in the
world Communist movement and
therefore as a body opposed to Fas-
Rabbi Released
After Arrest
Three Held in Custody by
Third Reich; Charges
Still Unknown
New York.—The overwhelming
need for the continued support by
American Jewry of overseas co-re
ligionists and educational institu
tions was stressed in the Day of
Atonement program broadcast over
the coast to coast network of the
National Broadcasting Company
and the Columbia Broadcasting
System here by prominent Jewish
leaders.
The speakers were Dr. Cyrus
Adler, Rabbi Leo Yung, Isidor
Coons, William Rosenwald, Alex
ander Kahn, and William Weiss.
Rabbi William Margolis and Max
Drop gave the benedictions.
Jewish existence overseas de
pends upon the generous aid of
American Jewry, it was pointed out
by William Rosenwald, son of the
late philanthropist, Julius Rosen
wald, in an address over N. B. C.
“We Jews who are more fortun
ate,” he said, “we Jews who have
never experienced the mental and
spiritual anguish that is the lot
of our co-religionists abroad, we
gladly assume this task.”
Dr. Cyrus Adler, foremost edu
cator, urged support of centers of
learning and culture overseas.
“I can think of no way,” he de
clared, “in which the Jewish peo
ple could better take out an insur
ance for their good name than by
supporting the work of Jewish
“ Who's Who” Lists
Albert Einstein
Chicago (WNS)—Professor Al
bert Einstein moved another step
forward toward becoming an Amer
ican when the 1936-37 edition of
“Who’s Who in America” included
his name for the first time. Pro
fessor Einstein, who has lived in
this country since 1933, has taken
out his first citizenship papers.
Polish Party
Loses Majority
Political Setback of Endeks,
Agitators, Achieved in
Election
Warsaw (WNS)—Forces opposed
to the anti-Semitic National Demo
crats (Endeks) gained an absolute
majority in the Lodz City Council,
complete returns in the special
election show. The anti-Endek ma
jority was achieved through the
election of 34 Socialists and six
Jewish Socialists. Together these
40 councilmen will be able to out
vote the 32 Endeks. The election
campaign was fought out on the is
sue of anti-Semitism and its result
is widely regarded as a setback for
the anti-Jewish forces. The special
election was called because the j
Warsaw government had suspend
ed the council elected at the last
previous election because of its an
ti-Jewish policy. Since the suspen
sion Lodz had been governed by a
federal government commission.
New York—The peace of the world ia defied by the proc
lamation of Chancellor Hitler to the Nazi Congress at Nurem
berg, it was declared here by Samuel Untermyer, president
of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League of America and of the
World Council of the organization. A glorification of Ger
many’s military growth was the keynote of the proclamation
as seen by the noted Jewish leader.
“It clearly shows,” Mr. Untermyer declared at his home
in Yonkers, “that all of Germany’s accomplishments during
the three years of Nazi rule have been in’rearmament and in
preparation for war. The German masses are being regi
mented, drilled, and psychologized for war.
“Hitler has rejuvenated Germany
neither spiritually, economically,
nor intellectually. He has aroused
only the spirit of war. The cry for
colonies, for expansion, for sources
of raw material, for more military
expenditures, which comes from the
Nuremberg Congress, indicates to
some degree how desperate is the
economic situation of Nazi Ger
many, and the recklessness of the
Nazi war phobia which, in the ideal
ization of war, hopes to keep the
people chained to intolerable Nazi
conditions ...”
A permanent commercial air line
between Warsaw and Tel Aviv will
be inaugurated here on October 4th.
The planes of the line will fly by
way of Roumania and Greece, mak
ing stops at Bucharest and Ath
ens. The trip will require 24 hours
each way. The air line was first
proposed by the late Dr. Nahum
Sokolow.
Poland has 120,000 Jewish farm
ers who are organized in the Jew
ish Agricultural Society, which is
subsidized by the Jewish Coloniza-
academieiT and colleges and schools tion Association, according to a re
port in the Warsaw Yiddish press.
in all parts of the world.”
Berlin (WNS)—Rumors are cur
rent in Zionist circles here that the
as yet unexplained arrest of four
prominent Jewish leaders, three of
whom are active Zionists, was in
retaliation for criticism of Nazi
policies by Zionist spokesmen at
the World Jewish Congress in Ge
neva. The release of Rabbi Emil
Bernhard Cohn, one of the three
Zionists taken into custody by the
Gestapo shortly after Rosh Hasha-
nah, has weakened the strength of
these rumors, but the fact that
Rabbi Max Nussbaum, Benno Cohn
and Dr. Franz Meyer are still un
der arrest continues to give con
cern to the Jewish community. In
some quarters it is still believed
that they were arrested because of
allegedly indiscreet remarks in
Rosh Hashanah sermons.
Meanwhile the government took
three other steps directed against
the Jewish community. The Labor
Front announced that all Jewish la
bor exchanges must end their ac
tivities by January 1st, thus creat ‘
ing a new difficulty for unemployed
Jews as well as Jewish employers.
The former would be unable to ob
tain work because they are barred
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nswering Red Charges
l Significant Editorial)
>AGE 6 OF THIS ISSUE
Statistical Survey of World Jewry
Revealed by Jacob 'de iHass
Of 15,300,000 Jewish people in
the world, fifteen million suffer
disability, persecution, calumny, at
tack or legal persecution, it is
claimed by Jacob de Haas, noted
author, in an article, “The Jewish
Balance Sheet,” published by
|World Jewry.”
Setting up the dimensions of af
flictions in statistical form, de
Haas rates Alaska and al of the
smaller Islands as the only lands
in North America and West Indies
free from anti-Semitism in some
form. In South and Central Amer
ica, he finds that nothing in the
past year or two has affected the
Jewries of Guiana, Panama, Peru,
Surinam, Uruguay or Venezuela-
total 9,958. On the American con
tinent, from the Bering Straits to
Cape Horn, he claims that there are
thirteen thousand Jews out of more
than four and a half million free
from contamination. ,1"
Europe, where there are 9,494^63
Tews are Albania, Cyprus, Den
mark, Gibraltar, Irish Fr ® e ^ ,tat ®’
Italy Luxemburg, Malta, Portugal,
Finland, Norway and Sweden,
bringing the saving remainant to
131 765. Soviet Jewry, numbering
two and a half million, is included
in the total European population.
Free from the epidemic in the
Arabic part of North Africa are
Egypt, Libya and Tunis, in all 152,-
892 Jews.
“Ignoring the Falashas,” Jacob
de Haas points out,” there are
about three thousand free Jews in
South Africa, so that the African
continent gives us nearly 156,000.
On the whole Asian continent, in
cluding Palestine, there are not
over forty-two thousand Jews who
have not suffered some experience
of public prejudice during the past
year. This applies also to the 39,-
401 Jews in Australia.
“Here then we have a balance
sheet that shows an apaling def
icit. Credit 373,058 Jews in the
whole wide world. Debit 14,942,-
401.”
England, America, France, and
Holland, because of the spread of
prejudice, have been placed among
those countries suffering from the
anti - Jewish contamination, al
though fully one-third of the Jews
of the world live in English speak
ing countries.
“Until we grasp the problem as
a whole,” the well-known author
warns, “nothing can be done about,
nothing will be done about it. Nor
will we grasp the problem until we
individually identify ourself as one
Jew in the fifteen millions affected
by a plague which can be overcome
by aggressive measures.”
Mr. Untermyer labeled the proc
lamation a “malicious diatribe of
hate and boastfulness,” and de
plored the vilification of Germany’s
Jews “to whom the Reich owes so
disproportionately large a share of
its former greatness.” The at
tempts of the Nazi government to
destroy both Catholic and Protest
ant religions in Germany by forc
ing them under the control of the
state were omitted from the speech,
he pointed out.
The insistent repitition of the
gross libel linking Jews and Com
munism (see editorial, page 6) was
stressed by the Anti-Nazi League
leader as being deeply resented by
Jewry.
Everyone who knows anything
about world affairs,” Mr. Untermy
er said, “repels and resents these
attempts to link the Jews with
Communism as a series of impu
dent falsehoods without the slight
est bases in fact. It is known, on
the contrary, that in every country
in which Communism exists, the
proportion of Jews in that com
munity to the Communists is far
less than of other people.
"Nothing could so accurately in
dicate the Hitler psychology in its
false estimate of 20th century civi
lization as the attempt of its vast
world-wide propaganda service to
boastfully spread the history of its
shame throughout the world. What
ever may be said of its brutal, un
civilized persecutions of the Jews,
the broadcasting throughout the
world of this history of its ever
lasting shame, is perhaps the most
amazing piece of self condemnatory
publicity ever encountered. An
equally varying assortment of
falsehood was never inflicted upon
any community.”
A letter showing that the Ger
man government has instructed its
exporters who ship goods to the
United States on a large scale to
keep their actual prices down to
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Education Week
Set In October
Designed To Arouse Interest
in Need of Religious
Education
New York (WNS)—Acting on
the recommendations of the last
annual conference of the National
Council for Jewish Education and
the Jewish Welfare Board, hun
dreds of Jewish schools and com
munity centers throughout the
country have proclaimed the month
of Tishri as Jewish Education En
rollment Month and have set aside
the week of October 10-16 as Na
tional Jewish Education Week.
During this period special commit
tees will undertake a comprehen
sive program designed to convey
the message of Jewish education to
the Jews of the United States.
Jewish Education Enrollment
Month and National Jewish Educa
tion Week are an outgrowth of a
report submitted to the conference
of the National Council of Jewish
Education by Dr. Mordecai M.
Soltes. In this report Dr. Soltes
called attention to the fact that
“the disintegrating tendencies and
forces in Jewish education which
were set in motion by the devastat
ing economic debacle of 1929 have
not yet abated. With the illuminat
ing example of the bankruptcy of
assimilation in Germany before
them, American Jews nevertheless
continue to curtail drastically their
support of Jewish cultural enter
prises. Most of the Jewish educa
tional institutions manage to eke
out a bare existence. Their stand
ards of instruction and administra
tion are being lowered.”
Directing this nation-wide cam
paign for Jewish education is the
committee on Jewish Education
Week of the National Council for
Jewish Education. Dr. Mordecai
Saltes, educational director of the
Jewish Welfare Board, is chair
man. Serving with him is Israel
Chipkin of the Jewish Education
Association of New York.
Britain Moves K
To End Strike
Order-in-Council Seen As Vir
tual Declaration of Mar
tial Law
London (WNS-Palcor Agency)—
An order-in-council authorizing Sir
Arthur Wauchope, High Commis
sioner for Palestine, to delegate his
powers to Lieutenant-General John
Greer Dill, Supreme Military Com
mander of the British forces in
Palestine, was published in the Of
ficial Gazette as the first step to
ward the proclamation of martial
law in Palestine, designed to end
the lawlessness that has gripped
the country for almost 24 weeks.
The publication states that a new
order has been brought into force
by a proclamation of the High
Commissioner, enabling him to
delegate to Lieut.-Gen. Dill the
power to make regulations for se
curing the public safety and defense
of Palestine.
A further proclamation delegat
ing power to Lieut.-Gen. Dill will
be necessary, the order states, add
ing that the date of its issue will
be decided by the High Commis
sioner in consultation with Lieut. -
Gen. Dill. When the second procla
mation is issued the Supreme Mili
tary Commander will have the wid
est possible powers, the order
points out. The holding in abey
ance of the second proclamation,
which will be virtually the declara
tion of martial law, is said in un
official circles here to be due to
negotiations still pending with the
Arab leaders in Palestine.
Jerusalem (WNS-Palcor Agency)
.—Sarah Ita Fellman, oldest Jewish
woman pioneer in Palestine, who
became the first feminine planter
in the Jewish homeland, is dead
here at the age of 85 after more
than fifty years’ residence in the
country. Coming from Poland 52
years ago as one of the Biluim, the
predecessors of the present Zionist
movement, Mrs. Fellman took over
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