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January 28, 1938
The Southern Israelite
Page Three
HEADLINE NAMES OF 1937
Birmingham Woman Selected As Newcomer
JOACHIM PRINZ
Limelight Held
By 21 Leaders
BY BERNARD POSTAL
In a year studded with events
of such major import that they are
certain to loom large in history
•circumstances contrived to elevate
many people previously unknown
to fame to the status of national
.and international headliners. Life
moves at such a dizzy pace in these
•exciting times that yesterday’s
headline has become only less
stale than yesterday’s headliner.
Ail too often those momentarily
catapulted to fame or notoriety
through a single event or achieve
ment or chain of them cannot sur
vive the public’s jaded appetite
for new heroes and villains. Only
a few of those who emerge from
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obscurity retain their hold on pub
lic interest so as to establish them
selves permanently as makers of
news.
During the last twelve months
there were of course many Jewish
names that crashed into the head
lines for the first time. Some have
already been forgotten, but a few
have assured themselves of a fair
ly constant place in the head
lines for the coming year, at any
rate. In the opinion of the writer
the following are the Jewish new
comers to the front page of 1937:
PICKED GALLERY
Daniel Austcr, George Backer,
Mrs. Herman Beck, Arnold Bern
stein, Maurice B i s g y e r, David
Croll, Harry Danning, Mrs. Moses
Ep tein, Jerome Frank, Isador
Gennett, Robert Goldman, Hel-
muth Hirsch, Bronislaw Huber-
man, Stanley Isaacs, Sidney Luck-
man, J. Moshkovsky, David Prato,
Leo Pressman, Joachim Prinz, Vic
tor Rothschild, Allan Tomlich.
The best test of how well you
have followed the Jews in the news
during 1937 is to try and identify
the 21 names listed above before
reading why they have been se
lected as 1937’s new Jewish faces.
Quite a few of these names were
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no strangers to the news, if not to
the headlines, in 1936, but almost
without exception they achieved
front page prominence, at least in
the eyes of Jews, only in 1937.
Daniel Auster had been vice
mayor of Jerusalem and one of
the leading figures in Palestine for
several years but not until the
British authorities ordered the ar
rest and exile of the Arab mayor
of the Holy City did Auster’s name
make the headlines as the first
Jewish chief executive of Jerusa
lem in 2,000 years. As the Jewish
mayor of a city constantly in the
news he seems likely to be a per
manent addition to the front page
headliners. George Backer had
achieved a reputation as one of the
ablest of the younger crop of men
identified with Jewish communal
and relief problems through his
activities in the Joint Distribution
Committee. But in 1937 he crashed
the headlines as the millionaire
candidate of the American Labor
Party for a seat in Congress from
a New York district.
TIIE SOUTH’S OWN
Mrs. Herman Beck is the per
fect example of a woman who
became a headliner for a brief
moment and then lapsed into ob
scurity. When Supreme Court
Justice Hugo L. Black, speaking
to the nation in his famous radio
address concerning his former Ku
Klux Klan affiliations, referred to
an un-named Jew as his most in
timate friend, the newspapers
quickly located Mrs. Beck as the
widow of Justice Black’s friend.
For a few days she was the center
of interest but now not a dozen
people could identify her merely
by her name. Before the advent of
Nazism in Germany Arnold Bern
stein’s name was well known in
Germany but nowhere else. Only
when the Nazis arrested this Jew
ish shipping magnate and former
World War hero on the alleged
charge of economic treason for
which he recently escaped the
death penalty, did world interest
focus on him. Maurice Bisgyer
was one of several hundred Jewish
community center executives be
fore fame came to him through his
appointment as executive secretary
of the B’nai B'rith.
CROLL NAMED
Until a year ago few people
outside of Canada had ever heard
of David Croll. Then came the
automobile strike in Ontario Pro
vince and Minister of Labor Croll
invaded the headlines by his de
fense of the strikers and opposition
to Provincial Premier Hepburn.
Baseball fans knew all about Harry
Danning before 1937 when he was
the second-string catcher of the
New York Giants. But his phe
nomenal back-stopping and hitting
while he was substituting for the
regular catcher during the closing
weeks of the pennant race, con
tributed so much to the winning
of the National League champion
ship by the Giants that he became
the hero of New York and a natural
for our 1937 Jewish hall of fame,
Mrs. Epstein, like George Backer,
is hardly a new face in Jewish cir
cles, but her election to the presi
dency of Hadassah entitles her to
inclusion among 1937’s news head
liners. The same applies to Jerome
Frank. One of the original New
Deal braintrusters, he had been
out of the news for several years
until he bounced back to the front
page through his appointment as
a member of the Federal Securities
and Exchange Commission.
The case of Isador Gannett af
fords the most striking illustration
of a headliner plucked from total
ROBERT GOLDMAN
obscurity to worldwide fame by o
single deed. Apart from his family,
his comrades in various veterans
organizations and the people who
patronized his newsstand, Isador
Gennett was Just another name in
New York’s telephone directory.
Then this Jewish war veteran de
cided to place a wreath on Ger
many’s monument to her World
War Dead in Berlin. And over
night he was front page news. In
a few weeks, however, perhaps
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sooner, he’ll be as forgotten m
yesterday’s front page sensation.
Robert Goldman of Cincinnati
wins a place among the new Jew
ish headliners by virtue of his elec
tion to the presidency of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega
tions, a post which had long been
vacant. Through death to fame
might well be the epitaph of the
late Helmuth Hirsch, the young
American Jew who was beheaded
by the Nazis on an alleged charge
of espionage. The world had never
heard of Hirsch until the Nazis ar
rested him and sentenced him to
die. Even then he might havn
died without attracting a ripple o1
notice, had it not been discovered
that although boro In Germany and
a resident of Czechoslavakia, he
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