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The Southern Israelite
Weekly Newspaper
Vol. XV. No. 45
6,000 Books
Seized in Vichy
Bias Measures
By Abraham Herenroth
Vichy, France — (JTA) — All
Jews in occupied France must
have their passports and other
identity papers stamped with the j
word "Juif” (Jew) in capital, red-
ink letters, it was reported here.!
Foreign Jews are also affected.
(Three lines were censored at
this point).
Shechita (kosher slaughter) has |
been banned in occupied France
The German authorities have
demanded that Chief Rabbi Julien
Weill constitute a “responsible
Jewish board" to represent and
bear the responsibility for the
Jewish population. Dr. Weill re
fused, declaring that French Jew
ry was not a national minority
but purely a religious community
and not entitled to handle any
matters outside religious affairs.
More than 60,000 volumes have
been confiscated by the Germans
in Paris from the libraries of the
Alliance Israelite and rabbinical
seminary, including the historic
original protocols of the “Sanhe
drin" (Jewish assembly) convok
ed by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806.
Judaica Bookshop Sacked
The well-known Judaica book
shop owned by Lipschutz in Paris
has been sacked by the occupa
tion authorities and many precious
volumes carried off, The Paris
liberal synagogue has been raided.
A large exhbition of paintings has
been oponed in Paris under the
title “Autumn Salon” to which
works of Jewish artists are not
admitted.
In unoccupied France, a new
recruiting law published in the
official journal banned a 11 .Tew*
from the permanent French army.
No exceptions were provided. An
other decree excluded Jews from
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1940
Price, Ten Cents
Rome Predicts New
Curbs in Spain
Lisbon — (JTA) — New antl-
Jewish legislation in Spain will be
one of the results of the recent
Spanish-Axis talks, an Italian
broadcast in Spanish predicted.
The broadcast referred to a pos
sible measure forbidding mar
riages between Jews and Chris
tians and concluded with a state
ment blaming Jews “for the most
terrible war the world has ever
seen."
given many of the Jews on their
arrival following their long jour
ney in unabated trucks amid de
plorable conditions. The intern-
ess are mostly from hospitals and
homes for the aged in Baden.
Three men and one woman died
on the journey to the Gers camp.
France May Take
Jews From Reich
London — (JTA)—One of the
hitherto undisclosed clauses of the
Franco - German armistice pro
vides that France take over a
large proportion of Jews in Ger- i
many. Exchange Telegraph Agen
cy reports.
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It was under this proviso that
the Nazis recently arrested 9,000
Jews in Baden, Germany, and de
ported them to France, where they
were placed in the Gers concen
tration camp, Exchange Telegraph
said. Several thousands more
were expected to arrive there
shortly from Berlin and elsewhere
it was said.
Medical attention had to be
Draws Poppy Poster
Detroit—(JTA) — Shirley Sch-
widkey, 17-year-old commercial
art student at Cass High School,
won first prizes in the city, state
and national Poppy Poster con
tests of the American Legion. The
winning poster will be used in
1941 in publicizing tjie annual
Poppy drive.
New York Protests
Vichy Abrogation
New York — (JTA)—A public
meeting “in solemn protest against
the abrogation by the Vichy Gov
ernment of 150 years of religious
and racial equality in France"
will take place Wednesday No
vember 13 in Carnegie Hall, Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress, an
nounced. The meeting Ls also be
ing sponsored by the American
Federation of Labor, the Ameri
can Committee on Religious
Rights and Minorities and the
Hadassah Adopts Budget of
$1,500,000 for 1940 Program
Cincinnati—(JTA)—Closing its twenty-sixth annual convention
attended by nearly 1,000 delegates, Hadassah re-elected Mrs. David
de Sola Pool of New York as president, adopted resolutions calling
for aid to Britain and to the Palestine Jewish homeland and imple
mented the resolutions by approving budgets totaling $1,500,000 to
finance intensified medical, Youth Aliy ah and other work in the
Holy Land.
Resolutions pledging full sup
port for Britain and reminding
thnt in the fight for survival of
the democratic ideal it must rec
ognize the rights of the Jewish
national home were adopted The
delegates also expressed de*er
voted $80,000 as a special birth
day gift for Miss Henrietta Szold,
founder of Hadassah and head of
its Youth Aliyah bureau in Jeru
salem.
Hadassah sent $383,000 for nor
mal and emergency services to
ir-ination to stand behind the Yis-! Palestine in the past year. The
Southeastern Zionists Assemble
Nov. 30-Dec. 1 in Birmingham
Girding for a new era in Palestinian support, Southern Zionists
are preparing for the Southeastern Regional Conference called at
Birmingham November 30 and December 1.
The event will gather hundreds
of delegates in the “magic city”
for the two-day occasion. Had ns
that elaborate preparations are be-
irg made and on account of the
location, an unusually
sah units and other youth groups, iaigo number of delegates is ex
will also participate. | pected.
Rabbi Abraham J. Mesch, chair-I Exigencies of the current crisis
man of the conference, announced
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«»e also expected to boost at-
I tendance. The Birmingham Dis-
| trict numbers 369, of whom 94
I alone were secured dur:rg the
past fiscal year. Atlanta, the larg-
jest district in the region, will send
18 delegates.
Rabbi Mesch, spiritual head of
, Temple Beth-El and president of
; the District, says his preparations
j committee are planning a joint
(congregation service, en Oneg
Shebat, luncheon and formal ses-
Isions, social functions and a kosh-
j er banquet to be addressed by a
national celebrity.
l.uv and agreed tc support a joint
Zionist youth commission to be
formed by the Zionist Organiza
tion of America and Hadassah to
train Zionist youth in leadership
and democracy.
An ambulance will be given to
the British-American Ambulance
Corps headquarters in New York
City and named the Balfour Unit
in honor of the twenty-third an
niversary of the Balfour Declara
tion. The ambulance will be sent
to the Near Eastern war zone.
The official membership of Sen
ior Hadassah body now is 74,000,
child welfare budget for the next
year is $100,000. Hadassah now
administers 38 child welfare sta
tions, 32 playgrounds and safety
isles for evacuated children. It
feeds 20,000 children, provides
school and hygiene for 70,000 and
nutrition study for 100,000.
The convention pledged in
creased aid to the British and
Jewish health authorities, > more
hospital beds, training of doctors
and nurses for wur service and
anti-malaria control.
Mrs. Alexander M. Lamport,
treasurer, reported that Hadassah
an increase of 4,000. With the had ,;,iso(1 $1-400,000 for all its
Junior Membership included, the P r °j ec t- S l as t year. This included
united organizations now number
94,000. The total budgets for all
projects for next year amount to
$1,150,000.
A message was read from the
British Embassy expressing grati
tude for Ifadassah’s work in Pal-
$603,000 which the Youth Aliyah
Committee raised, according to a
report by Mrs. Samuel J. Roeen-
sohn, finance committee chair
man. These funds will be used
for transfer, education and main
tenance of children now awaiting
L N entry into Palestine and for an
cstine. The message, sent byi . Z,. . .. ..
mJ.o. n ..*i« I extended youth conservation pro
gram benefitting Palestinian and
refugee adolescents.
Charge d’Affaires Nevile Butler
on behalf of Ambassador Lord
Lothian, voiced appreciatibtj to
Hadassah for helping “the British
Commonwealth of Nations in their
stnip^V to keep open 'for the
world the highways to peace, to
toleration and to the good life.”
The convention adopted a Jew
ish National Fund Budget of
$200,000. In the current year Ha
dassah raised $184,000 for the
J. N. F. A J. N. F. Golden Book
dedication in honor of Miss Hen
rietta Szoid’s eightieth birthday Rhodesia Celebration
was voted.
Mrs. David B. Greenberg,
Youth Aliyah chairman, reported
at a luncheon that 1,197 children
holding certificates entered Pal
estine since September, 1939. De
spite the war the Youth Aliyah is
now attempting to bring 1,200
children resident in warring and
neutral countries, plus 400 living
in England, via new routes to
Palestine.
The convention accepted a med
ical and war emergency budget
totaling $533,350. Of this sum
$109,000 will be used as a war
chest to meet unforeseen emer-
Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia—
(JTA)—The recent celebration by
the people of Southern Rhodesia
of the Golden Jubilee of the col
ony recalls that there was a good
ly sprinkling of Jews among the
gencies resulting from the spread early pioneers of Rhodesia. Long
of hostilities. The delegates ac- before the occupation of Mashona-
cepted a $250,000 goal for Youth land, Jews were among the traders
Aliyah for the next year and alsowho settle this country.
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Under the slogan of “Back to the Synagogue,” and “The Eternal
Light Shall Not Be Extinguished," was recently initiated a movement
for the revitalization of the traditional synagogue as center of Jewish
activity.
The movement received its main | themselves spiritually, and forti-
impetus at a conference of rabbis jfy themselves religiously to en-
and synagogue presidents recently dure the present crisis and await
held in New York City and ad- with courage the ultimate victory
dressed by the national leadership of humanity over the brute forces
of the Mizrachi Organization of! of barbaric peoples
America, sponsor, of the move-| A ttalemen , Usued to >u lradi _
mem. I
.... . ! tional synagogues throughout the
In their message to the con-|.. .. . _ a a
clave the Mizrachi leaders laid j Unlted States by the Miz-
emphasis on the realization that racb i leaders — Leon Gellman,
the chaos and destruction in the president; Gedalia Bublick, hon-
present era is greatly due to the orar y president; Rabbi Jacob Le-
estangement of people from re- v i ns °n, chairman of the Commit-
ligion, which made possible the tce for Strengthening Judaism in
rise to power of the godless Nazi- America; Rabbi Joseph H. Look-
civilization to whom technical stein - chairman of the Executive
progress is a mere means to de- Committee, and Rabbi Max Kirsh-
struetive and annihilating ends. blum * executive secretary—reads
Jews, however, the chief victims Partially as follows:
of Nazi brutality, must strengthen “A prominent refugee who has
recently escaped the lands of Nazi
bloodshed said: “All that Jews
in Europe considered of impor
tance to their happiness is gone.
The only thing that is left is the
synagogue. It is the only factor
that separates them from com
plete annihilation."
“Fellow American Jews! Shall
we m this land of freedom neg
lect the synagogue, the house
where the Jewish spirit is to be
forged, and settle our accounts
with Jewry by a mere visit on
festive occasions?"
“Fellow American Jews! Re
turn to the House of God, the ver
itable reservoir of courage in the
face of world crisis and hope de
spite unprecedented devastation!"
“Join ‘this synagogue! Become
an active and permanent worker
for the cause of keeping Jewry
alert and heartened!"