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This Week in History
From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
40 YEARS AGO: 1931
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels resigned under pressure as Nazi
leader in Berlin after Hitler wearied of the anti-Semitic rhetoric
that had gotten Goebbels fined three times.
Louis Costuma became New York City’s first Jewish police
inspector.
Dr. Lee Kaufer Frankel, 64, died in Paris eight days after
election as joint chairman of the Jewish Agency Council.
Dr. Ludwig Singer, MP and president of the Jewish Na
tional Council of Czechoslovakia, died in Prague at 55.
Canon Palmer of London, a Catholic priest, urged “a rigid
boycott against all movies until Jewish filth has been swept away.”
He said the cabaret and love scenes in “So Like a Woman” proved
“it is a Jewish endeavor to destroy the morality of our nation, be
cause most cinemas are owned by Jews.” He then admitted he
hadn’t seen the film.
The last Nazi provincial leader, Education Minister M. Franzen
of Brunswick, resigned after admitting perjury in connection with
anti-Jewish riots.
Russian translations of Sholom Aleichem sold half a million
copies in the USSR during 1925-30.
After the beating of a Jewish student, “investigation by the
school authorities revealed that the anti-Semitic pupils were di
rected from the outside by elements hostile to the Soviet gov
ernment.”
Jewish-born Soviet atheists urged Jews to work on Rosh Hash-
ana and Yom Kippur “in order to help carry out the 5-Year
Plan.”
- . ^ ... 10 YEARS AGO: 1961
Egypt’s Supreme Security Court sentenced to death four mem
bers of an alleged “Israeli spy ring.”
Erich Gnewoch, ex-SS officer, hanged himself after his arrest
on charges of murdering 4,000 Jews. Otto Bradfisch and Wilhelm
Schultz got 10 and 7 years for killing 19,000 Jews and other
“racially inferior persons.”
President Kennedy’s book “Strategy for Peace” was banned
in Iraq for “Israeli and Zionist propaganda.”
Adolf Eichmann ended his personal testimony in Jerusalem
after 25 years. His trial was adjourned for a week after 112 wit
nesses in 15 weeks.
Charles Schneur, co-founder of the Wilna Yiddish Theatre
in 1915, died in New York at 69.
Premier Ben-Gurion predicted that if the USSR opened its
gates, “1 million Jews will emigrate to Israel within one year.”
The Catholic press in Rome disclosed that Pope Pius XII had
tried to save Slovakian Jews from the Nazis and that “nothing was
left undone or untried to bring them to comfort."
Red Trial of Martyred
Recalled in NY Events
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jews
here, in Argentina and in Eng
land commemorated the 19th an
niversary of the execution by
the Stalin regime of 24 leading
Soviet Jewish writers and cul
tural leaders Aug. 12. The secret
trial of those Soviet Jews —
conducted July 11-18, 1952 —
marked the culmination of Sta
lin’s four-year anti-Jewish reign
of terror, which claimed the
lives of 443 Jewish writers, art
ists, actors, and musicians.
Among the 24 executed on
August 12, 1952, were Peretz
Markish, David Hofshtein David
Bergelson Leib Kvitko, and
Itzik Ferrer the poet who was
co-chairman of the Jewish Anti-
Faacist Committee, which was
outlawed in 1948. Shlomo Mik-
hoels, the famed actor and co-
chairman of the Jewish Anti-
Faacist Committee, was also exe
cuted in 1952.
The Workmen’s Circle and
the Jewish Labor Committee in
Jfew York recalled the yahrzeit
with a request to the Soviet
Union that Markish’s widow,
Esther, and son, David be al
lowed to leave for Israel.
The Workmen’s Circle, a fra
ternal organization of more than
60,000 members, and the Jewish
Labor Committtee a human
rights organization expressed
the hope that the growing
chorus of concern and protest
will induce the Russian rulers
to accord to Jews as well as
other Soviet citizens the rights
to full cultural, and religious
freedom and the right to emi
grate.
A meeting to mark the deaths
of the 24 martyrs was held in
England. And England’s Associ
ation of Jewish Writers and
Journalists requested the Soviet
Writers Union to intervene on
behalf of the Markish family.
An appeal by the Argentine
Jewry’s central ^political body,
the DAIA, asked the Soviet
government to grant its Jewish
citizens the same rights other
Soviet nationalities in the areas
of education, language and relig
ion. The DAIA protested the
continuation of Soviet persecu
tion of Jews who proclaim their
Jewish identity by expressing
their wish to migrate to Israel.
THI SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Touro College Preparing to Register
First Class for Fall '71 Semester
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Ber
nard Lander president of newly-
chartered Touro College, has
announced that the college is
now registering students for
the fall 1971 semester. To attract
competent students, Eug e n e
Hollander, chairman of the
Board of Trustees has estab
lished a program of liberal
scholarships and fellowships.
The college’s programs in the
Liberal Arts and Sciences lead
ing to the Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Science degrees,
have been approved by the
New York State Education De
partment.
In an almost unprecedented
act, the Middle States Associa
tion, the accrediting agency of
American colleges, awarded Cor
respondent Status to Touro Col
lege, Dr. Lander reported. He
noted that Touro College com
bines academic standards, per
sonalized education, and an em
phasis on Jewish studies and
values. Dr. Lander asserted that
Touro College was formed as
a reaction to two conditions
prevalent on American cam
puses: on the intellectual level,
most students never achieve
proper guidance on the maze of
formal, impersonal instruction
currently found in the multi-
segmented university; on the
social cultural level, students
from Hebrew High School and
yeshiva backgrounds find the
wide spread exposure to drug
abuse, permissive sex practices,
and violence alien to their her
itage and character.
To combat these conditions,
Touro College has developed
what Dr. Lander termed a new,
meaningful, and relevant col
lege experience in which a
comprehensive program in Lib
eral Arts and Sciences is of
fered. In addition to its liberal
arts curriculum, studies in He
brew language and literature,
Talmud, Jewish history, Phil
osophy and Culture will be
available at various levels of
student achievement and are
included in the core program
for all students. Advanced Tal
mudic study is also available.
Touro College was chartered
by the Board of Regents of
New York State as a private
four-year college of Liberal
JEWISH QUIZ BOX
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
Arts and Science offering pro
grams leading to the Bachelor
of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of
Science (BS) degrees. It re
ceived the approval of the U S.
Secretary of Health, Eduoation
and Welfare, Elliot Richardson,
who made possible the deeding
to the college of its first facil
ity a 12-story building at 30
West 44 Street. During the aca
demic year of 1971-72 it will
have a library of over 20,000
volumes and gradually build up
to a collection of 100,000 vol
umes over the next few years.
Professors of graduate school
and advanced research experi
ence have been retained to ad
vise, counsel and teach.
. . In
Brief
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) —
The National Union of Councils
for Soviet Jews, representing 13
chapters across the country, ex
pressed its “dismay” over Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy’s not
having endorsed the Senate bill
for 30,000 emergency visas for
Jews, as 34 of his colleagues
already have.
QUESTION: Why is the bread
used for the Sabbath tradition
ally of a different nature and
texture than that used during
the rest of the week?
ANSWER: Generally speak
ing, it was traditional to make
everything done on the Sab
bath assume a different charac
ter than that which is done dur
ing the week, Ih this way one
displays his regard for the Sab
bath as an unusual day. Natur
ally, the course of the week-day
activity included the consump
tion of bread. Thus the bread of
the Sabbath was naturally one
which should be different. It
was therefore comparatively
richer, more decorative and of
course, therefore, more luxuri
ous. One of the ordinances which
Ezra the Scribe was said to have
initiated was that the housewife
was to rise early on Friday and
occupy herself with the prepa
ration of the bread for the Sab
bath. Thus, of course, the Sab
bath bread would usually be
fresher than that consumed dur
ing the week. Some would make
special markings on the Sab
bath bread for a different rea
son. Since the Sabbath bread
would at times be enriched with
animal fats, it could not be
eaten with milk foods. On the
Sabbath when the main meals
are meat meals this is no prob
lem. On the week days when
there are many dairy meals,
there might inadvertently be an
occasion when the bread left
over from the Sabbath might be
eaten with dairy foods. They
therefore made special markings
on the bread. The Sabbath bread
also reminds us of the show
bread placed on the special
table set aside for that purpose
in the temple. This was usually
placed there on Fridays.
QUESTION: Why is the Sab
bath bread called challah,
ANSWER: Most authorities
claim that this is done to serve
as a reminder to the housewife
to break off a piece of dough
before baking the bread. This
piece of dough is now burned.
Originally, it used to be one of
the’ gifts given to the priest.
Man, thus learns to share his
bread and to recognize that a
portion of all his earthly en
deavors belongs to the Almighty
—the source of life. Calling the
Sabbath bread challah brings all
this to mind, because this por
tion which was given to the
priest was called challah.
Copyright 1971, JTA
NEW YORK (JTA) — Four
Jews walked 1 out of the visa of
fice in Minsk, Belorussia, Aug.
2 after they concluded that they
were being trapped into partici
pating in the making of a prop
aganda film, Jewish sources
here reported. The Jews—iden
tified by the surnames Pikulin,
Gordin, Puchinski and Pseitlin
—were invited to the ovir and
received by a Maj. Jurinovich,
who questioned them on their
reasons for wanting to go to
Israel. The Jews noticed that
that the official’s tape recorder
and camera were turned on
only when he was speaking, and
refused to continue the conver
sation. After they left, the
four protested the official’s con
duct to the Belorussian Mini
stry of Internal Affairs.
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Jewish Conference on
Soviet Jewry reported the arrest
of a Leningrad Jew on the eve
of his departure to Israel. Ac
cording to Richard Maass, Con
ference chairman, Boris Azzern-
ikov, a 28-year-old dentist, was
recently arrested but only after
he had initiated the difficult
process of obtaining an exit per
mit for Israel. Azzerniko had al
ready received the required af
fidavit from aboard, and had
taken it to local authorities
when he was arrested and
charged under the provisions of
Articles 70 and 72 of the code
of the Russian Republic.
Jewish Calendar
*ROSH IIASHANA
Sept. 20-21,
Monday, Tuesday
*YOM KIPPUR
Sept. 29, Wednesday
•SUKKOT
Oct. 4-5,
Monday, Tuesday
•HOSHANA RABBA
Oct. 10, Sunday
•SHEMINI ATZERET
Oct. 11, Monday
•SIMHAT TORAH
Oct. 12, Tuesday
•HANUKA
Dec. 13-20
Monday-Monday
•HOLIDAY BEGINS
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