The Sentinel, v.082 no. 10, 1931

              June 5, 1931 THE SENTINEL
REPORTS 4,228,000 JEWS IN
UNITED STATES
New York (W. N. S.)-There were
4,228,000 Jews in the United States
at the end of 1927, according to
figures published in "Statistics of
Jews, 1931," compiled by Dr. Harry
S. Linfield, of the statistical depart-ment
of the American Jewish Commit-tee.
Approximately 85 per cent of
this population was located in cities
of 100,000 or more.- Although Dr.
Linfield emphasizes that the bulk of
the Jewish population is to be found
in larger cities, Jews live in every
State and in nearly 10,000 urban and
rural communities.
The report shows that 11,526 Jews
were admitted to the United States
in 1930, 96 per cent of them coming
to join relatives. In citing figures to
show the relation of Jewish groups
to the total population in various
States, Dr. Linfield says that Jews
constitute 16.67 per cent of the popu-lation
in New York State, 6.01 in New
Jersey, 5.59 in Connecticut, 5.32 in
Massachusetts, 4.74 in Illinois, 4.44
in Maryland, 4.16 in Pennsylvania.
The smallest percentage is found in
Idaho, where the Jews are 0.21 per
cent of the residents.
Between 1881 and 1930, 2,438,994
Jews entered the United States of a
total of 27,567,583 immigrants ad-mitted
to the country. During the
same period 113,099 Jews left the
United States. The largest percent-age
of Jews in any country is in
Palestine, where they constitute 18
per cent of the population.
JEWISH CHORUS REPLACES GEN-TILE
QUARTET AT CLEVE-LAND
TEMPLE
Cleveland (J. T. A.)-James H.
Rogers, organist and musical director
of the Euclid Avenue Temple for
fifty years, has been succeeded by
Griffiths Jones. He is now organizing
a large Jewish chorus to take the
place of the Gentile quartet.
The chorus will specialize in mod-ern
arrangements of traditional Jew-ish
music. The plan is aimed. to af-ford
a mode of self-expression to a
large number of young Jewish people
who have trained in voice. Mr. Jones
will endeavor to build up this chorus
so that in time it may be able to give
Jewish cantatas as well as render
synagogual music.
The Jewish chorus is part of a pro-gram
by Rabbi B. R. Brickner, spir-itual
leader of the Euclid Avenue
Temple, to reintroduce into the re-form
temple much of the elements
of Jewish tradition. In line with this
policy, Rabbi Brickner has brought
back the Kol Nidre, the Yizkor Serv-ice
on the last day of Passover, has
introduced the Consecration Service
for the children who commence the
religious school on the last day of
Succoth, and also the teaching of
Hebrew in all the classes of the Sun-day
school.
The Euclid Avenue Temple is the
oldest congregation in Cleveland.
GERMAN MAYOR ASKS GUARAN-TEE
OF TWO JEWISH CORPSES
WEEKLY BEFORE SANCTION-ING
CEMETERY
Berlin (J. T. A.)-If the Jewish
community will guarantee him at least
two Jewish corpses a week, he will
gladly grant it the requsite permis-sion
to buy a piece of ground for
a cemetery. This statement was made
by the mayor of a small town in the
province of Hesse, to a delegation of
Jews that waited on him, according
to a report in a recent issue of the
Welt am Montag.
The report states that only thirty
Jewish families live in the town, and
that the Jews there must carry their
dead a distance of twelve kilometers
to the cemetery of another Jewish
community. A delegation of the Jew-ish
community in the Hessian town
therefore asked the mayor to give
them permission to buy a plot for.
their own cemetery.
CORN'S OPENS NEW BAKERY IN
EDGEWATER
The formal opening of Corn's Bryn
Mawr Bakery, Edgewater's most beau-tiful
bakery, took place on Saturday,
May 16. The bakery is located at
1126 Bryn Mawr avenue.
For more than 25 years Corn's
name has stood for Quality and Serv-ice,
striving to maintain this standard
and giving credit to Edgewater for
having one of the finest bakeries in
the city. Every piece of baking is
done on the premises.
Corn's specialize in wedding and
birthday cakes. Nothing would be
more appropriate than a special order
of Corn's delicious party cakes made
in all sizes, shapes and colors for your
next party. If you are entertaining
at Bridge, Luncheon, Club or Social
function just phone Edgewater 3938,
3939 and place your order today.
Six neat uniformed clerks, alert and
solicitious to your every bakery need,
are ready to serve you. Mr. Corn's
two daughters are cashiers; Mrs. Corn
is on hand to show you through this
new, sanitary modern bakery equipped
with electrical refrigeration through-out;
Al. A. Corn is the advertising
director of the Corn Bakeries.
The well deserved slogan of this
fine baking organization is: "For Ex-clusive
Purity Our Name Is Your
Security."
Corn's other Bakeries are the Craw-ford
Bakery, 315 South Crawford
avenue; Roosevelt Bakery, 2856 West
Roosevelt road, and the Maywood
Bakery, Maywood, Ill.
GETTING THE RIGHT TYPE-WRITER
People who want to save themselves
a lot of trouble have learned that it is
as important to select typewriter serv-ice
as it is professional service of any
kind. Getting a typewriter and hav-ing
a typewriter that works are two
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The Sommer Typewriter Exchange,
332 South La Salle street, is proud of
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Nine years of practical typewriter
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The firm sells, exchanges, buys, re-builds
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ribbons and carbons of all kinds. All
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The firm employs no salesmen or
repairmen, all work being done per-sonally
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exchange.
Webster tells you how to write.
Phone Webster 4972 if you want to be
able to typewrite.
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF
ZOHAR NOW IN PREPARATION
London (J. T. A.)-The initial two
volumes of the first English transla-tion
of the Zohar, the chief source
book of Cabbalistic literature, will
be published in November by the
Soncino Press. The work will be is-sued
in five volumes of about 400
pages each. The edition will be lim-ited
to 1,250 numbered sets. The orig-inal
of the Zohar is written in He-brew
and Aramaic.
The translator, Harry Sperling, has
for many years made a special study
of the Cabbala and the Zohar, and
has written a number of monographs
on the subject. He has worked in col-laboration
with Maurice Simon, who is
the author of several studies in Jew-ish
literature and has had the assist-ance
of a number of scholars intimately
acquainted with English and Jewish
literature.
The Rev. Dr. J. Abelson has con-tributed
an introduction to the trans-lation
in which he traces the develop-ment
of the Zohar from the earliest
times, and shows the conspicuous
place which it occupies in the Jewish
as well as in the general literature
of mysticism.
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