The Sentinel, v.088 no. 04, 1932

              October 28, 1932
Finds Great Men Free Fromn Anti-Semitism
-Emil Ludwig, world renowned biographer
who knows more about great historical per-sonalities,
living and dead, than any one
else, declares in an article contributed by
him to a new Jewish monthly that has made
its appearance in Geneva, Switzerland, the
"Revue Juive de Geneve", that the world's
greatest leaders are uniformly free from
anti-Semitism. "I have studied many of the
great men of the past and the present",
writes the brilliant Jewish author who in
protest against the anti-Semitic activities of
the Hitlerites in Germany, some months
ago renounced his German citizenship and
applied for naturalization in Germany, "and
I have never found an anti-Semite amongst
them. What Bismarck said in 1892 is known
to everybody. In addition, for five years
he had a Jew as his doctor, and for 30
years a Jew as his banker, so that he en-trusted
both his health and his fortune to
Jews. From Mussolini, Masaryk, Briand,
Nansen, Edison, I have never heard any-thing
but respect for the gifts and the
character of the Jews. It is only in Ger-many
that this pest dominates." Compar-ing
the cultural contributions of Jews and
Germans, the latter, he says, "must put a
spurt on to attain equality."
Reveals Timely Help To European Jews-
Dr. Bernhard Kahn, managing director of
the American Joint Reconstruction Founda-tion,
reports that during 1921-31, co-opera-tive
loan societies (kassas) maintained by
the Foundation in 13 European countries,
granted 2,902,116 loans totaling $278,152,-
221, making it possible to weather condi-tions
that have caused the collapse of
numerous banking institutions.
Gives His Personal Law Library To College
-Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the U. S.
Supreme Court, has presented practically
his entire personal law library to the School
of Law of St. John's College, Brooklyn,
from which he received the honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws at its initial commence-ment
four years ago. The College also
possesses the robe worn by the eminent
jurist while serving as Chief Justice of the
N. Y. Court of Appeals, which is to be
placed in a glass case in the "Cardozo
Alcove" where the collection will be housed.
Fifty of the one thousand volumes pre-sented,
dating as far back as 1730, are out
of print, and there is also a two-volume set
containing the complete shorthand report
of the trial for treason of Aaron Burr be-fore
Chief Justice John Marshall. Seventy
bound volumes contain briefs of cases on
appeal written by Justice Cardozo while on
the N. Y. Appellate bench as well as briefs
written by him in his private practise. His
personal notes are on the margins of many
of the books presented.
Directs Mammoth Chanukah Festival-Meyer
W. Weisgal, executive director of the Mid-west
Zionist Region, is the driving force
behind a mammoth All-Chicago Chanukah
Festival at the Chicago Stadium, Sunday
night, Dec. 25. All organizations are being
urged to give up their separate Chanukah
celebrations and join in a united observance
of the Maccabean deliverance that will
surpass anything ever locally attempted. A
chorus of 500 voices is being trained for
the ceremonies incident to the lighting of
the Chanukah candles. An attendance of
25,000 is anticipated.
Eulogized At 70th Birthday Dinner-Dr.
David Philipson, of Cincinnati, the only sur-vivor
of the first graduating class of the
Hebrew Union College, was accorded high
praise for' his service to American Jewry,
at a dinner given him and Mrs. Philipson
last Tuesday by his congregation on the
occasion of his 70th birthday anniversary.
Ludwig Vogelstein, Chairman of the Ex-ecutive
Board of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, in his message of
tribute, hailed Dr. Philipson as an outstand-ing
scholar, a painstaking teacher and peer-less
Jewish leader. Mr. Vogelstein recalled
the address delivered by Dr. Philipson in
1888, the year he assumed the spiritual
leadership of Bene Israel Congregation of
Cincinnati with which he has been continu-ously
identified ever since, on the occasion
of the 70th birthday celebration of Dr. Isaac
Mayer Wise in which he revealed his deep
devotion for his beloved teacher and his
unbounded loyalty to the movement he
initiated in this country. He also stressed
Dr. Philipson's zeal in organizing in 1891
committees in every city to receive Jewish
refugees and offer them facilities for learn-ing
English.
To Preside At Michigan State Zionist Con-ference-
Max Shulman, president of the
Midwest Zionist Region, will preside at a
conference of Michigan Zionists which will
be held at the Statler Hotel, Detroit, be-ginning
Saturday night, Oct. 29, and con-tinuing
all day Sunday. The conference will
be addressed by Morris Rothenberg, presi-dent
of the Zionist Organization of America,
and will give consideration to plans for the
formation of a strong state Zionist organiza-tion
to be submitted by Meyer W. Weisgal,
executive director of the Midwest Zionist
Region. Similar organization is to be ef-fected
under Mr. Shulman's leadership in
each of the seven states comprised in the
Region.
Contrasts His Student Days With Present
Conditions-Solomon Levitan, picturesque
state treasurer of Wisconsin, impressed upon
Jewish students at the University of Wis-consin,
the advantages they enjoy which
were denied him, in an address he made
last Sunday night at the Hillel Foundation
of that institution. Speaking of his expe-riences
as a student in the yeshivas of
Kovno and Slabodka where he was sent by
his mother who wanted him to be a rabbi,
he said: "There were no comfortable
dormitories in those schools; instead, the
students slept in the seminary. Our beds
were the benches, with straw for mattresses
and our overcoats for covering. Our food
was provided by the good people who were
able to donate food for one day a week.
If we were not so fortunate as to be pro-vided
with food every day in the week, we
had to be content with having meals three
or four days of the week." He wondered
"if Americans themselves love their coun-try
as much as do some of us who have
found it a haven from the oppression of
old country prejudice and poverty."
Speaker At Good Will Congress-Dr. Na-than
Krass of Temple Emanuel, New York
City, is scheduled to give one of the lead-ing
addresses at the International Good
Will Congress which will be held at the
Hotel Biltmore, New York, November 10-12.
Every faith will be represented at the Con-gress
which is being held under the auspices
of the World Alliance for International
Friendship.