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Volume VI — No. 26
MOB OF 30,000 ATTACKS JEWS IN cm OF BERLIN
Many  Jews  Injured,  Numerous
Shops Sacked as Mob Stages
Pogrom
ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS
WERE PREMEDITATED
Machine Guns and^ Tanks Guard
Devastated Jeiwish Quarter
of Berlin
JEWISH WAR HERO
DEEPLY HUMILIATED
BIERLIN, (J. T. A.). —The German nationalists' furious agitation against the Jews came to a head yesterday, when a mob of 30,000 strong invaded the Jewish sections of the'city and carried out the first pogrom in the history of Berlin.
'Anti-Jewish riots commencing in the afternoon in Grenadierstrasse, and Drag- onerstrasse, inhabited largely by East- European Jews, spread by the evening to all quarters of the city housing Jewish residents. The mob took advantage of the darkness enveloping the Jewish sec¬ tion to strike .additional terror in the hearts of the already horror-rstricken Jews. Unspeakable noises filled the narrow streets, for hours. The pogrom¬ ists -were not daunted by the presence of the police, who remained strikingly in¬ active arid ineffective throughout.
Austrian Premier and Ai^chbishoii Fight Anti-Semitism
'VIENNA, (J. T. A.).—The support of i'j'imc Minister Seipel and of Car¬ dinal Piffcl has been pledged to Rector Ddcljer, in his attempt to eradicate aivti-Semitism from the University.
Rector Doeller in restoring Order on the. canipus, insisted that Professor Kappplmacher, who was recently p]ut to night- by anti-Semitic rowdies, resume his'lectures.
Tlic retiring Rector Diener, declared, whilc't he was taking leave, that the "numcrus clausus" was essential, apd c.'cprr.Vsed the conviction that eventually it v.ill be enforced.,
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JEWISH CONGRESS MOVES
TO CHECK GERMAN
POGROM
State
iDepartment    Concerned Over Bavaria
New York, November 9 (J. T. A.) —Oflicers of the American Jewish Congress together with members of the Administrative Coinmittee met at noon yester¬ day under the chairmanship af Dr. Stephen S. Wise, at the Hotel Pennsylvania, to take ac¬ tion with regard to the anti- Jewish riots which are taking place in Berlin and other, sec-
A number of steps were de¬ cided upon, aiming at preven¬ tion of' further outrages and a special sub-cbmimittee was ap¬ pointed, consisting of the fol¬ lowing: Judge Aaron J.' Levy, Joseph 3arondess, Congressman Nathan D., Perlman, Judge Louis b. Gibbs, George I. Fox, and Dr. Stephen  S.  Wise, ex-
officio;.    ,
The Committee will present a report oh its efforts at the meeting of tbe Executive Com¬ mittee which will be held No¬ vember'18 and which will con¬ sider also ' the future activities of the Congress.
The concern of the State Der partment oyer the Jewish situa¬ tion in Bavaria has beeii com-, municated to the offices'of the Jewish Congress, it is learned. Correspondeiice with regard to the situation of. the Jews in Ba¬ varia which developed when the expulsion of Jews was begiin, was initiated by the Jewish Congress with the Statia De¬ partment and it is understood ' that the sympathy of the United States Government had been assured;
"Jewish Leader" Protests Reception to General Haller
Open Letter to Mayor Curley of Boston Exposes Polish Army' w,'^       Commander
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Has Jewish Scll^larship a
Futurl! 1:Si America?
An Interview with f?ro\\ Louis Ginzberg. By A. H. i?R0H/IENSON
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HALLER IS BRANDED
AS A COLD CRIMINAL
dtcrcpit   desk   and   two   time-ravaged chairs which left us'bare elbow room.
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-t-lic  one  window  admitting  a  little
/jtiis'iino   into   that  room   on   the  top
i^fftirof a Wasliington Heights - apart-
tricnf house was; closed in a vain effort
tn  shut  out  the noises . of the  street,
Somcwhurc  a  phonograph   insisted,-on
tii'forming   the  world   that   there   is  a
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very    tiny    mechanical;    playCr.    was
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3h  scboiarsliip a  luture >R ^ i^j^ j - . ,
Is   it   worth   while   for J.^^ . 1 wondered what his life would have
(For the first tiine in all the yearX', he 1ms, been in America,, Prof. Lomw' Ginsberg, tlie greatest Jewish scholar »»' this country has yielded to an intcrvicvk Molding such views as are set forth^ below, he has felt ihat silence is th^ betler course. l.f is a very dark ^'irfHri, he paints the present status of Jewisli culture in this country, Imt'ifis a piti hire with which everyone who is com ccrned about the future of his pcopU^ should . be acquainted.)—Editor. -C
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Frankfurt Kehilliah Appeals^ For
Starving Polish arid Native
Jews
Hundreds of Jews were taken' into custody by the police ostensibly as. a means of protecting them from their as¬ sailants. Some were arrested on the charge of disturbing the peace. The maltreated prisoners include Dr. Hugo Bernhardt, a physician with a record of four years' service in the trenches, who has not completely recovered from the war wounds, whose arm was broken by his   assailants. .
A report in the Vossische Zeitung says Jewish prisoners were being maltreated by the police.    '    ' .
Police Chief Kaupisch, denying the charges of brutality or partiality against his men, issued an order of the day di¬ recting the police to protect the lives and property of the citizens, regardless of religious dififerences.
No Jew was safe on Berlin streets yes¬ terday and it is too early to say that greater security prevails today. Jewish passengers were stopped at every turn, were searched, maltreated, robbed of thir possessions and stripped of their clothes, some being left only in their undergarments.
Homes of Jews were searched for food and money, owners offering the least resistance being severely beaten.
Shops owned by Jews were plundered of their contents which were hurled through the windows smashed by the (,Concluded on page 5,)
BOSTON, (J. T. A.). —In ah open letter addressed to Mayor Curley, the Jewish Leader, a local newspaper, charges that General Josef Hallcr, Polish commander-in-chief,.who is soon to visit this city, is a notorious anti- Semitic having been proved guilty of numerous atrocities against the Jev\rs of Poland, and as such is not fit to be re¬ ceived as an official guest of the city of Boston.
The letter quotes official Polish docu¬ ments to prove that General Haller was guilty of perpetrating excesses upon Jews, and says that any official recogni¬ tion accorded to the general would be an affront to the Jews of this city as well as all other decent and fair-minded citizens."'
.Addressed to the mayor, the letter reads as follows:
"It has been reported that General Josef Haller, the Polish military com¬ mander-in-chief, who has been invited to this country by the American Legion, is to be the guest of this city. Wc wish to express our deep sense of regret that the city sho\ild sponsor the,visit of this no-
that you deny to General Haller any offi¬ cial reception or honors that may in any way be construed as a manifestation of esteem toward him on the gart of the city of Boston..        .        . '  .      .   '
"Such hotlors should be reserved for- men and womeri of distinction, for such as have earned universal fame and the admiration of their fellow men.- General Haller cannot by any stretch of imagina¬ tion be included in this category. .Noth¬ ing that he has done entitled him to dis¬ tinction and recognition, but, on the other hand; what he has done entitled him to a niche in the Hall of Hamaris.
"General Haller ,js condemned in the eyes of the civilized world as the man wh6 is guilty of those bloody outrages against the Jewish population in Poland, which occasioned world-wide protest in 1919. His soldiers, the notorious "Hal- "lerites," who, strange to say, were legion¬ naire's brought from America, committed the most dastardly crimes against inno¬ cent and defenseless nien and women, whose sons were dying on the battlefields for the'sake of Poland's liberty. Gen¬ eral Haller was branded as a criminal by his own government.
"Captain Peter Wright, a member of the British'mission to Poland, in his re¬ port to the British government, in. 1920, made the following statement regarding anti-Jewish excesses in Poland:
" 'The worst offenders : are soldiers, and the worst soldiers in this respect are those of General Haller's army, which was largely recruited in America.'"
Has Jewish scholarship America? Is it v/orth wiiiit ««i m,|| young -man, fresh fr|Om school and col;( lege,- with the world before him, witK a score of^ lucrative professions tffi choose as his career, with the avenucjg of trade and commerce inviting his fee-'' to tread them to -financial success, tq select as his life's vocation, the jmrsuil of Jewish knowledge? ,15
I asked these questions of Dr. Louk'f Ginzberg, who is completing twent.i years as professor of Talmud at thi Jewish Theological Seminary. " ;.
"It may have—but certain condition.'' of to-day imperil itl" declared this maiil who at fifty years of age is considcrtea; by those who ought to know, the grcafss est living Jewish scholar. '^;
It was one of those mean sticky da^i of early September when the humldi: is   so> thick; you   could   mold   it   ini briquettes that I listened to this pcss^. mism concerning his own life's work h*' Prof. Ginzberg who was an ilui .in hi^ youth; (wonder-child or infant prodigyji ahd   some  twenty  years  later  won  £ doctorate in Philosophy at Heidelberj^ The perspiration rolled from under skiill-cap as we talked in his study—p little bit of a room hardly eight ic^ wide  and twelve  feet  long,  narrowest and shortened by the rude book-stacto^l^
WARSAW, (J. T. A.),—The Kehil¬ lah here is in receipt of an appeal from tlic Kehillah of Frankfurt-ani-Main urging that potatoes, flour and other articles of food be dispatched immedi¬ ately for the starving Polish Jews of Frankfurt, as well as for German Jews, who arc also in,desperate ncc(l.
A committee has been formed here by the Kehillah to provide relief for Polisli Jc>vs in Germany who will endeavor to comcto the aid of those of Frankfurt.
Iieen   if,   like   somany  other   Jewish young men from his own Lithuania,! he fed chosen, after leaving Heidelberg, to Wftii his back on.fiis people and seek fame and fortune in the secular world. <)r, if like so many thpusanjls of others he had shunned the scholar's life and MOne in for success in cloaks and suits or knee pants.' Would life then have given so little to this man had he "taken :the cash  and let the credit go," as it ¦has been given him; knew that he is in fns fiftieth year, because he  chose to devote himself to the increase tif Jewish knowledge. Small  wonder at this  doubt bn the j^ij-part of a man who so remarkably com¬ bines the culture of the Occident .with thecultureof the Orient—who is at once an authority on history, on languages, !.whose English and German diction are fits clear as the crystal waters of an un¬ sullied brook, and, on the other hand knows  the complete Jewish  literature, writing  his   "Responsas"  with  all  the flavor of the Rabbis of old, who is a towering authority on Jewish law, at¬ taining to the ancient ideal of the Gaon. As I looked around that study which the pampered son of a nouveau-riche (Continued on page 4.)
Semihary Million Dollar Campaign Begins Successfully
Nearly $350,000.00 Already Raised
Toward One Million Dollar
Endowment Fimd
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT URGES DEPORTATION OF ALL "ALIEN JEWS"
Because   of  Their  Objection   to
Anti-Semitic Polish General,
Jews Are Condemned
RECEPTION TO HALLER
PRACTICALLY ASSURED
600 LEADING MEN OF
N. Y: ATTEND RALLY
of 0. S. U. Holds Successfpi Meetini^
Judge Wanamaker and Julius
Zeckhauser Deliver Splendid
Addresses
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TWO MORE OPEN MTGS. SCHEDULED FOR SEASON
WEIZMANN HINTS AT
REPLY TO ZANGWILL
LONDON, (J. T. A.)—Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President. of the World Zionist Organization, due to sail for New York November 24, hinted in an interview with the J. T. A. that he would reply in America to criticisms of Israel Zangwill with regard to the Zion¬ ist Movement.
Although the Zionist leader did not single out Mr. Zangwill by name, he said, he would reply to recent criticism arid deal with the present situation.
His primary object in making this trip to America was the enlargement of the Jewish Agency, Dr. Weizmann said. He added that he would confer for that purpose with leaders of American Jewry and with the heads of the vari¬ ous organizations. He will also attend the Keren Hayesod conference which has been called for December where he will outline the plan for the formation of the'Agency. .
Dr. Arthur Rupin, noted Zionist eco¬ nomist, who is accompanying Dr. Weiz¬ mann, -will endeavor during his.visit to America, to stimulate private investnient in Palestine.    '
"Three men in the history of the world have possessed that peculiar: quality of. Impersonal personality—the ability to subordinate selfisih interest to the interest of the group—and because of it have attained their prominence in history," . decl3.red> Judge R.N. Wana¬ maker, of the Ohio Supreme Court, who addressed, the Ohio State Menorah So¬ ciety Sunday afternoon. ¦ "These three, were Moses, Jesus, and .\braham .Lincoln," he continued, "Moses,, the Egyptian—Jewisb prince, who forsook his own interest to lead a race of slaves! out of bondage; Jesus, the Man of Galilee, a humble carpen¬ ter who evolved a profound philosophy; and Lincoln, who seeing another race of slaves in bondage, became another liberator."       *
"I am glad to sec," he added, that the great'rabbis ^ot your faith have ac¬ claimed Jesus, the man,"
Echoes of Armistice Day were heard in the short, address given by Julius N. Zeckhauser, president I. O. B, B., and who was an officer iri the World War.
"Five years ago pandemonium ex¬ isted in Europe. It stiU exists. We haven't gotten away from preaching the doctrine of hate. Armistice Day should be dedicated to spreading the gospel of brotherly love founded qn mutual un¬ derstanding."
"The Jew today is misunderstood. He is a sort of universal caricature, pictured in the, minds of the world, and laughed at and sneered at. It is up to you memijcrs of'Meiiorah, with su¬ perior advantages, to clear up the mis¬ understandings and to alter and erase the objectionable features of that car; toon." .
Miss Hilda Bell, violin cellist, presi¬ dent of the University orchestra, played two solcfs. Greatly applauded, she re¬ sponded with a very pretty encore.
More than one hundred students heard the interesting talks. The. pro¬ gram ended with the singing of "America" by the audience.
Menorah study-.circles in Hebrew, Bible study ajnd criticism and Jewish history are in full swing, witji many stu<lents interested. But two more open meetings are scheduled for this quarter.
Hears Stirring Messages at St. Louis
Ability of American Jewish Wo- mainhood Is Effectively Reflected    ,
OFFICERS REPORT C)N
WORK IN COLLEGES
(Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle)
ST. LOUIS. —The ability of Ameri¬ can Jevvish womanhood was vCry effec¬ tively reflected throughout the sessions of the Council of Jewish Womeri, meet¬ ing at St. Louis in Tenth Triennial' Conyention,. during the week of. No¬ vember llth. In- the absence of. the National 'President, Miss Rose Brennei-, Mrs. Israel;Cowen of Chicago, the First; Vice-President,, presided at the varioiis' sessions, with the assistance of the Second 'Vice-iPrcsident, Mrs. S. Pisko, and the Third Vice-PreSideiU, Mrs. S. M. Blumauer.
In the various reports that recounted the achievements of the Council during the past three years, several facts were emphasized. It was reported that 34 Sections report 24 Study Circles; 87 Sections conducted 126 religious schools, with ian enrollment of 8,236 children; 14 institutions, including 4 homes for girls and 8 Community. Centres,' are main¬ tained; 07,551 immigrants were wel¬ comed at the port of Ellis Island and other ports, 14,679 men and women were enrolled in 729 Americanization classes and classes in citizenship. The growing spirit of Community co-opera¬ tion was indicated by the repo,rt that there are now 29 Federations <Jf Jewish" Women's Organizations in various com¬ munities throughout the country which make it possible for the lar^e number of local organizations to eliminate all duplication-and conflicting efforts. • The large work that the Council of Jewish Women is doing in college cen¬ tres was evidenced by the following in¬ teresting facts of. service rendered in some of the various communities:
Baltimore, Md.: Establishes 'City Mother" plan to provide friend and counsellor for every girl at local col¬ lege.
Boston, Mass: Thorough plan of service, through Junior Council, cover¬ ing all universities and colleges in this vicinity.
. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Adelphi College; address by National ; President, Miss Rose Brenner,
University of Chicago: National sdiolarship for student in Jewish social service provided.
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NEW YORK. — Nearly m%W has. already been raised toward themillioin dollar endowment fund for the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,! for which -a nation-wide campaign was launched last Sunday.
This annourtcemerit was ¦ made by Rabbi Max Drob, national chairman of the campaign during 3 great banquet of campaign workers at the Hotel Astor to¬ night. Among the contributions an¬ nounced were $25,000 from the New England Zone, including $10,000 from Edward M. Chase of Manchester, N. Hi'; New York, state $40,000 including $25,000 raised in Buffalo; $10,000 raised in Rochester and $5,000 in Syracuse.'
New York City reported'-$175,000 raised toward its quota of $500,000, in¬ cluding $25,000 from Louis' Marshall, $10,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lou- rie, $5,000 from Samuel Untermyer and $.5,000 from Louis Stroock, Congrega¬ tion Anschei Chesed reported .$30,000 and B'nai Jeshurun $10,000. •
Philadelphia reported $40,00 toward its quota of .$150,t)00 and announced that its campaiga would begin with a 'big dinner fon NJ)v. -iCiL; rJtt.sbiTT<;Vi5?::;;<l,thal;,^t:; had already raised $35,000 including $2&,- 000 from Sol -Rosenbloom, $5,000 from Frank & Seder and $1,000 from Mrs. Benjamin David.
New Jersey, whose campaign does not begin !until the 20th already has §10)000 from Felix Fuld of Newark, $5,000 from Atlantic City, .$2,500 from Perth Amboy, $1,000 from Red Bank and $3,000 from Camden..!    ' "        . ,      ¦   .
William Levy and Julius Levy tele¬ graphed from Baltimore that they would give $1,000 for every $10,000 raised in that city toward its quota o'f $50,000. This means $60,000 from Baltimore if the local eflEort goes over the top/ .Over 600! leading riien and women of Greater New York's Jewish communities participated in the rally,, which was ad- 'dressed by Louis Marshall, former Su- preriie Court Justice. Samuel M. Green- baum, Sol M. Stroock, New York chair- inan, and Rabbi !Max Drob. Forty-five synagogues, numerous trade .and sec¬ tional divisions and sisterhoods affiliated with the United; Synagogue of America, other women's organizations, the Young People's League; of the United Syna¬ gogue, had any -Where from 'three to ten tables each, while at other tables were specially invited guests whose hosts were Felix M. Warburg, Loui^ Marshall, Ben¬ jamin' Altheimcr, David M. Breshler, Nathan J. Miller, Henry A. Dix, Col. H. A. Guinzberg, Arthur M. Lamport, Hon. Irving Lehman, Hon. Otto A. Rosalsky, Hon. Samuel D. Levy, Louis J. Vorhaus, Max D. Steuer, Sol M. Stroock, Rabbi Max Drob, Reuben Sadowsky, Joseph J. Bach, Cyrus L. Sulzberger and ,Dr. Harold Korn. . ¦
BOSTON, (J. T. A.).— The hearing called by Mayor Curley to receive evi¬ dence as to the fitness of the Polish General Haller as the city's official guest has caused.General Edwards, Comman¬ der of the American Legion, to announce that the Polish General will be invited by the Legion and not by the Mayor.
¦Invitations to the hearing were ex¬ tended by the Mayor to representatives of the Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish pop-" ulation. The Mayor refiised the Jewish protest, however, on the ground that some of the. complainants are not resi¬ dents of the city of Boston, but of Lynn. The Polish General's pogrom record was submitted in writing the statement being signed by Elihu D. Stone, Assistant At¬ torney General for Massachusetts, a member of the National Ejcecuti\>e Com¬ mittee of the American Jewish Congress, dnd Robert Silverman, Secretary of the Jewish Congress Committee of Boston.
Samuel Kalesky, chairttian of the Jew¬ ish Congress Committee and a Deputy Grandmaster 6f the L! O. B. A., refused at the last moment to sign the statement, although the Committee had decided to protest against the reception to the Po¬ lish :General.
GENERAL HAULER RESPON¬ SIBLE FOR MURIDiER OF JEWS,   WRITER   TO "NATION" AS- SERTS
ZION LODGE HOLDS
SPLENDID MEETING
NEW YORK (J. T. A.)—Gen. Haller, Poland's notorious anti- Semite, has been accorded a royal welcome to these shores by President Cooiidge, the American Legion, and  arious public officials, says Victor Gert- lin of Dorchester, Mass., in « letter to the "Nation" for No¬ vember M. ' ''pii'ectly resjpanscbte'for the ' jtortuire'^ariir triorder af iu'aocvt^- Jews, he is acclaimed a hero by men prominent in American af¬ fairs," Mr. Gertlin protests. "Are we to continue to Kotow to a man -whose hands are stained with the blood of a peo¬ ple who dared remain true to the faith of their fathers? We speak of the crucifixion of Christ, but what of the Jews -who were buried alive Tn Poland by soldiers commanded by Gen¬ eral Haller? A traitor to civili¬ zation, he should be treated as such by.the American people. Let us brand him as he de¬ serves." ,
One of the most interesting fneet- ings held by Zion Lodge No. 62, I. O. B. B., for a long time took place at Woodmen's Hall, East Main Street, last Monday evening. ,The feature of this meeting was a discussion of the ques-i tion "Should We as Jews Encourage the Open Door Immigration Policy?"
Rabbi I. Werne, Mark Feinknopf. Harry Kohn, and Jerome Kohn led the discussion which was participated in by E. J, Sehanfarber, Dr. Louis, Kahn and B. F. Levinson. The speakers evinced ^ fair grasp of the question, and cited statistics and coUitteral data of various kinds to reinforce their arguments. Everyone present enjoyed the meeting.
The feeling was expressed that the lodge should continue to conduct an open foriim for tlie discussion of con¬ temporary Jewish problems.
Mr. Kalesky's refusal is said to be due to the efforts of certain members of the Jewish Comriiunity who persuaded Mr. Kalesky and through him, the Mayor, to suppress the Jewish protest. A number of Jews are reported to have, taken it upon themselves to indicate to the Mayor they had no objection to the proposed reception to Haller. :
Herman Bernstein of New York, who was to. represent the American Jewish Congress at the Mayor's hearing, had no opportuhity tp present his case orally but filed a written memorandum.
The Haller incident evoked vicious anti-Setnitic editorials in the Boston Transcript, the latest one of which today says.: "These so-called' 'Jews' then, aliens though they are, are guilty of abusing the hospitality of an all too pa¬ tient and easy-going peoplci abusing a hospitality generously and all too widely extended. But there is a limit to pa¬ tience, even to the patience of the Ameri¬ can pebple. Aliens who tax American patience too far, aliens who repeatedly abuse American hospitality of which they are the greedy and ungrateful re¬ cipients, are fit subjects for deportation, regardless of the race they disgrace, the religion they pretend to avow, or the country from which they came."
This editorial has been characterized as 'the greatest anti-Semitic manifesta¬ tion ever seen in America.
WARSAW, (J. T. A.). —OBices of the Jewish newspapers here are besieged night and day by anxious crowds" de¬ manding information as to the state of affairs in Berlin. Jews having friends and realtives in Berlin are impatiently waiting to hear that all is well with their kinsmen in the German capital. As a large number of the Jews in Berlin are from Eastern Europe and since many are Polish citizens, numerous telegraphic inquiries are being sent from here to the Polish Minister in Berlin.
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