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The Southern Israelite
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. MAY. 13.
1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Atlanta Welcomes Noted Religious Leader
While 500 Atlantans were assembling for the opening of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund’s 1938
drive, Rabbi Ferdinand Myron Isserman (center) was welcomed by Meyer Regenstein (left), chair
man of the campaign, and Harold Hirsoh (right), president of the Welfare Fund. The trio are shown
studying the special Welfare Fund edition of The Southern Israelite.
REICH TO SPEED
EXODUS OF 30,000
VIENNA (WNS)—A program of mass emigration invol
ving the departure of a minimum of 30,000 Jews during 1938
and an increasing number in succeeding years is being plan
ned by the Reich government, according to reports in well-
informed quarters. By using funds expropriated from
wealthy Austrian Jews the author
ities expected to be able to finance
the enforced Jewish exodus up to
ports of emigration from which
points they believe South American
countries might be persuaded to
allow the refugees to emigrate as
agricultural colonists. It was re
ported by Frank Stein, Mexican
consul, that his government was
considering the applications of
some 5,000 young Austrian Jews
who want to go to Mexico as farm
ers.
The official policy of promoting
Jewish emigration was emphasized
by Herr Echeim, the Gestapo’s ex
pert on Zionism, who came here
from Berlin to address a meeting
of the reorganized Zionist Orguni-
GOGA, WOULD-BE
PREMIER, DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Aiianta Journal
Welfare Fund Drive Nears
Quota In Record Campaign
Enlisting over 300 Atlantans in city-wide activity, the
1938 campaign of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund neared
Vargas Expands
Brazils Quota
RIO DE JANEIRO (WNS) —
Brazil’s imm gration law of 1934,
the $61,000 quota fixed as Atlanta Jewry’s goal for the year, .incorporated in a constitutional
provision limiting the number of
immigrants from any country in a
given year to 2% of the total num
ber of natives of that country who
came to Brazil in 1884, was super
seded by a new law promulgated
by President Getulio Vargas which
will enable the entry of a substan
tial number of Jews from Eastern
and Central Europe. Under the
old law legal Jewish immigration
from East European lands was
virtually cut off because the settle
ment of Jews from Russia, Poland
and Rumania did not begin until
after 1886. The new law empow
ers each state to indicate what
immigrants it prefers, thus making
it possible for any state to promote
the colonization of large numbers
of Jews. The new law also au
thorizes the government to limit
or suspend the entry of immigrants.
with indications that the figure
ill be surpassed by a w de mar-
-iin. Meyer Regenstein, campaign
airman, in a statement issued at
r first report luncheon held today
Hotel Ansley, declared that
"ntmued response from Atlantans
'* a record in Atlanta Jewish
philanthropy.
Thniughout the city, following
" • pening of the drive Tuesday
volunteers in the men’s wo-
: ’ ;cn and youth div.sion collected
cards which swelled the
subscribed in the preliminary
of the campaign. The sub-
' iptiuns will cont nue until Wed-
aesday, when a victory dinner will
"ic close of the drive.
ISSERMAN opens drive
1 Ferdinand Myron Isser-
’ ' tod religious leader and
was principal speaker at
"i annual community dinner
! rmally launched the drive
an needs on Tuesday night.
,(l,) Atlantans assembled in
n ballroom of Hotel Bilt-
hear the St. Louis, Mo.
dramatically relate his per-
mvestigations in Germany,
Poland, Rumania and oth-
n Pean countries. Meyer
' in, I. M. Weinstein, cam-
v 1( e-chairmen, and Harold
president, preceded Rabi
w.th brief addresses.
■ us persecution will never
fhe United States, Rabbi
■ declared, because “seven,
nine generations of Ameri-
e thr lied to the inalien-
s granted them by the
llon - America’s tradition
' ra cy, he pointed out, is
-ost guarantee of the sur-
’lerance in the future.
Religions unite
'crman v.sited Europe in
1 a and 1937, arriving in
during his last sojourn at
1 ! ^ as t° r Martin Niemoel-
- st by the Nazis. In con-
s w.th Catholic and Pro-
prelates, he told the as-
e learned that the Neo-
conceived by the Na-
regime is slowly
M. WEINSTEIN
BUCHAREST (WNS)—Octav-
ian Goga, the man who dreamed
of becoming Rumania’s Hitler and
who, during a turbulent period of
six weeks as premier of an out and
out anti-Semitic government gave
Rumanian Jewry a taste of what nation. instructed the Zionist
leaders to concentrate their efforts
their co-religionsts in Germany
have to endure, is dead. He be
came ill immediately after he was
forced out of office by King Carol
heart attack. Later he had a stroke
from which he never recovered.
Well known in Rumania as a poet
and scientist, he was almost un
known beyond its borders before
December 28, 1937, when King
Carol startled the country by nam
ing Goga as prem er after an elec
tion in which the Christian National
Party, headed by Goga and Prof.
Alexander Cuza, had polled but
9% of the total vote. The Goga-
Cuza regime immediately insti
tuted drastic curbs on the Jews
and made ready to deport large 1
numbers of them and to disfran
chise and impoverish thousands of
others. His government, however,
was short-lived for on February
10th the King demanded his resig
nation when he realized the coun
try was being driven to bankrupt
cy and anarchy by the Goga poli
cies.
on furthering the emigration of as
large a number of Jews as possible.
He also named Julius Levi, editor
of the Zionist Welt in Herzl’s day,
_ 5 as editor of the Zionist Rundschau
on^^^*uatj^^Mi, the newly-established paper which
the Nazis have approved, approved
of the appointment of I)r. Roten-
berg as head of the reopened Zion
ist Bureau, and authorized Dr.
Julius Loewenherz to head the re
organized Vienna Jewish Com
munity with an executive com
mittee of ten representing all
Jewish parties.
Also indicative of the Reich’s
readiness to aid efforts for speed
ing up Jewish emigration was the
promise of assistance given by
Wilhelm Koppler, under-secretary
of the German foreign office, to M.
Van Gildemeester, Dutch philan-
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sem'c'
tional
De,
-m
-Socialist
and . tltu ted for Christianity,
mined" t r -r, . P art y is deter-
its : Us h Christianity because
„ mooted in Judaism and
fr eRdshin „ i/ e . *°ld the new
t’A-een ex ists today be-
sult of the P ri «ts as a re-
- widespread realization
that the foe of one religion is the
foe of all religions.
“Americans can not conceive of
the madness which has swept Ger
many,” Dr. Isserman declared. “It
is incredible that in the twentieth
century there has been spawned __ ^ _ „ , _
a movement which has as its ab- ! Creighton University there, where
solute end the quiet extirpation of ded h tt 3 degree
a gifted, useful part of the popu- i he was awarded h. LL. B. degree,
lation.” i cum laude, in 1912. He is the
Last September, after his visit sen j or member of the law firm of
to Austria, Dr. Isserman foretold | Mons ky Grodinsky, Maier, and
take^Austriarf ^ ; Cohen Omaha.
FORESAW ANSCHLUSS j £
“The sword of Damocles hung 1 tivities. He has been a member
“ThW A k U newThat J th7 y sword e would of B’nai B’rith’s national execu-
fall, but they did not when it five committee for the past 18
would fall.” j years. He is a past president of
Rumania’s anti-Semitic regime , B>nai g-nto's District No. 6 which,
came largely as a result of Ger- | the northern midwest
many’s role as the chief consumer l gtates and cen tral Canada, is the
of Rumanian wheat, the ch:et cus- j Q f the seven American
tomer, he pointed out and con-
sequently thousands of J . , The number of vice-presidents
lives were J eo Pf rd ^ e _ d CO un tr y was increased from two to three,
prejudice a lso giv- and the three unanimously elected
The Versailles treaty * ls ° g? h are j udge I. M. Golden, San Fran-
en Rumania new territories wm: Archibald A. Marx, New
increased her Jewish population, ; ^^ ns; and Fabricant, New
he -Tt d e ed mos, tragic aspect ofthe M ajLjJ •£*** ££§
Wh ° le ,C«S S « P«« 5) I as represenutives of their respec-
MONSKY SUCCEEDS COHEN
AS B’NAI B’RITH HEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Henry Monsky, Omaha attorney
| and outstanding communal and civic leader, was elected
international President of B’nai B’rith at the final session of
the Order’s 15th general conven- . ; “ “ ”
on the Executive
tion here. He succeeds Alfred M.
Cohen, of Cincinnati, the organi
zation’s leader for the past 13
year.
Mr. Monsky was born in Omaha
48 years ago, and graduated from
tive Districts
Committee.
Others elected to the Executive
Committee are Sidney G. Kus-
worm, Dayton, O.; Judge Joseph
L. Kun, Philadelphia; Sidney
Stern, Greensboro, N. C.; and Ben
jamin Samuels, Chicago.
The Anti-Defamation League
Commission elected was as follows:
Judge A. K. Cohen, Boston; Sam
uel I. Sievers, St. Louis; Abraham
Berkowitz, Philadelphia; Judge I.
M. Golden, San Francisco; Louis
Ottenberg, Washington, D. C.; Sig
mund Livington (chairman) Chi
cago; and A. B. Freyer, Shreve
port, La.
Harry K. Wolff of San Francisco
was re-elected chief justice of the
B’nai B’rith Court of Appeals.
Saloniki (WNS)—Prayer books
VIENNA PAYS
LOYALTY FINE
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VIENNA (WNS)—The Vienna
Jewish Community has succeeded
by hurculean efforts in raising the
800,000 schillings (160,000) de
manded of it by the Nazi authori
ties and has turned over the money.
The Nazis insisted on getting this
sum as a “token” of good will
because the Jewish Community
was charged with raising a similar
sum to finance the proposed pleb
iscite of former Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg.
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that
Jews leaving Austria must make
up their minds to leave behind vir
tually all of their property. Tech
nically, Jewish refugees are sup
posed to be allowed to take 75%
of their holdings with them but
in practice they are deprived of
their entire property. After a
prospective emigrant has paid a
25% flight tax the balance of his
assets are deposited in a blocked
account from which he can draw
only for payment of debts in Aus
tria but which he forfeits once he
leaves the country. Non-Jewish
Austrians who leave the country
are being told that once they go
abroad they may never return.
The ghetto classes recently in
troduced into the high schools have
now been extended to the gram
mar schools. All Jewish pupils in
Vienna’s elementary schools have
been ordered to register in special
Jewish schools. Rudolph Boer,
former director of the world-fa
mous Deutsche Theatre in Vienna,
committed suicide. He had been
ousted from his position a few days
after the Nazis came into power.
Santiago, Chile (WNS)—New
and other religious works used by Immigration regulations drafted by
Sephardic Jews throughout the
world will henceforth be published
from Saloniki instead of from
Vienna, according to a decision
reached here by a conference of
Sephardic rabbis. Vienna had been
the Sephardic publishing center
for more than 200 years.
the consular department of the
Foreign Office provide that in the
future only aliens who are farmers,
capitalists, agricultural colonists
or industrialists can be admitted
as permanent residents. The regu
lations would exclude small mer
chants and professional men.