Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1928-08-03

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Vol. XI —No. 31
COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUtJU.ST 3. 1928
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Misunderstanding of Religious Bodies Figures Clarified By Dr. Linfield
Figures of 4,087,357 Not Tatal Jewish Population Nor Is It Membership of Congre¬ gations
PULLER REPORT TO BE
MADE PUBLIC AT A
LATER DATE
"The Island Within"
A Review of Ludwig Lewisohn*s Recent Book BY ELMA EHRLICH LEVINGER
NEW YORK.-A few-of the misim- dcfstandings which have arisen with re¬ gard .to the figures of the Jewish popu¬ lation in the United States, in connection with the report of the United States "De¬ partment of Commerce giving a prelimi¬ nary result of the Census of Religious Bodies in 1926, were, cleared up yester¬ day in a statement made to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Dr. H. S. Lin¬ field, Director of the Statistical Depart¬ ment of the. American Jewish Committee. The original release of the Department of Commerce, giving the number of 2,948   permanent   Jewish   congregations
, Jocatcd in urban and rural areas where a population of .4,087,357 Jewish men, women and children is to be found, was greatly misunderstood by, some of the Jewish newspapers. The impression wias gained that the report; of the Department
: <*fCo^mcrc^ conveys the thought that the 2,048 congregations have a member' ship of 4,087,357 persons. This is not the. case.'..
An Inquiry The  Jewish  Telegraphic  Agency has directed an inquiry to Dr. T, F. Murphy, in charge of the Division, of Census of
. Religious Bodies, as to O) what is, ac¬ cording to the census of religious bodies, the   actual   membership   of , all   Jewish,
, congregations in the United States, and (2) what method was employed to as¬ certain the number of ¦ 4,<t87i357,' men¬ tioned in the Department's report. :t)r'.
.Murphy suggested to the Jewish Tele¬ graphic .Agency to direct) this inquiry to Dr.. Linfield, who acted as special-agent foi-' the .Government in the collectidii, of statistics of the Jewish congregations. No
¦; reply to. these two questions was madie but the Jewish Telegraphic Agency leariiS that complete data, .answering these questions,, will :be , made available in a subsequent report which' will be' made public in the fall; "The informa¬ tion contained in the report of the De¬ partment of Commerce is based upon re¬ ports received from the individual con¬ gregations, Vabbis, social workers and irepresentative Jews ,in the cities, towns and villages all over the' country," Dr. Linfield stated..
Dr. Lihfield's Statement
Dr.  Linfield,  in ' his  statement to. the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, declared:
."In the issues of July 20 and 23, 1928', you published :the\report of the United States Department of Commerce on the census of the Jewish congregations which was made-as part of the United States decennial census" of religious i)odies. I acted as the government's. agent in the collection, of the statisticsof the Jewish . congregations and beg to make the fbl- '   lowing explanation;
, "The canvass of the Je.wish congrega , tions shows that there are 2,948 perma nent congregations in the country: 2855 congregations are located in urban places (incorporated places pf 2,500 inhabitants or more) and 93 in rural areas. The figure of 2,948 congregations does not include the, so-called High Holidays con¬ gregations.. Ten years ago, the census of Jewish congregations showed 1,901 congregations.        .
Combined Number "The urban places and the rural areas in which the 2,948 congregations are lo¬ cated contain a combined number of 4,- 087,357 Jewish men, women and children. The above statement does not mean that so many Jews are corporate members of 3,000 odd congregations. In former years reports were published of the number ¦ of persons on,the membership books of the Jewish congregations; the present . preliminary report of, the Department of Commerce does, not deal with this mat¬ ter. Nor does the statement, intend to convey to the reader that the total num¬ ber of Jews in the country is 4,087,337 . persons. All that the report eays is this: In the cities, towns and villages in which the 2,948 congregations are located there reside 4,087,357 Jewish men, women and .children. There are, of course, Jews scattered all over the country in groups too small to maintain a congregation in the places where they reside, but th^ preliminary report of the Department of Commerce does not deal with the num¬ ber of sitch persons.
In New York "Thus in the State of. New York, for example, the report states that there are a number of cities and villages having It coinbiiwd number of 1,120 congrega¬ tions and these cities and villages, in which those congregations are located, (Continued on page 4)
"The Island Within," Ludwig Lewi- Bobn's latest contribution to solving thc Jewish problem in America is a good book; it ought to be a better one. Jt is well written, holds the interest, is packed with charnii But—and it's a big "but", —it often limps when it should soar; it is commonplace when it should be flam¬ ing.
Anyone who has followed the birth and growth of-Mr. Lewisohn's Jewish soul in his two masterly, studies, "Up Stream" and "Jsrael" cannot help be¬ lieving that his, return to Judaism is sincere. And yet there is.something un¬ convincing in "The Island Within," the story of a young New York Jew, who largely through,the anti-Semhism which meets him on every turn, largely be¬ cause of his unhappy intermarriage and his own soul yearnings,. returns to the belief of his ancestors.
We canjiot help feeling that the story is thinly veiled autobiography; although, Mr. Lewisohn suffered from that all too common complaint; "rishus," while a col¬ lege professor, while the hero of "The Island: Within" is shown as a medical student and later as a rising, young psy¬ chiatrist in New York City. .Mr. Ludwig Lewisohn's personal interest ,in this problem of the Jew making his waj in America should add to the truth and deptih of his narrative;, mstead we feel that like the authors ofso many auto¬ biographical works he is unable,to stann off and impersonally dissect and judge what he cannot' help feeling is his own problem.
VVe liked the. sections of the book dealing with life among tbe Eui"opean anccstoi-s of our American hero;, this was, impersonal,' detached; authentic and at tinies eloquent. Mr..; Lewisohn has never written with more beauty . and truth tlian in his account of the Geritiaii Jew who wills to be a Jew no longer yet dies with'the Shema upon his lips. Our aiuhor is far more convincing when he clothes his ideas thus, ih pictures than in the pages of historical,resume with which he began the divisions of his novel. Al¬ though these very passages should prove
of miich inspiration to Jews who kno\V so painfully little of thc history of their peculiar people.
On the other, hand, the least convinc* ing portions of "The. Island Within" were those picturing the evils attendant upon intermarriage. The hero is a lib^ era! Jew; his wife is anything but an orthbtlox Christian; the relatives on either side mercifully allow them tO work out their own destiny. And'ye! they arc unhappy. Mr. Lewisohn woiild have us believe that the inborn Jewish* ness of the young husband cannot allow him to be at peace with his gentile wife { but he does not prove his boint.
Given a normal young Jew with the normal man's desire for a home and family, marry him to a thoroughly "emancipated" , young woman , (in this case a Gentile) who hates domesticity and is willing to sacrifice' husband and child for a career, ahd there is bound to be a "smash-up,'' whether the unhappy coui>le are of the same! or diverse, re¬ ligions. If Mr. Lewisohn wished to prove-T-and it seems certain that he did -r-that the blodd call is too strong in the Jew to allow him to remain a happy husband when wedded to a noii-Jewish wife, he should riot have chosen: for his horrible example a woman who could never satisfy'the average husband. The fact that, she caime from a Christian home and was reared in the- Christian faith which, incidentally, she : had, al¬ ready left far behind her at the time of her marriage, had nothing ivhatever to do with the case. If Mr. Lewisohn had wanted to show, the difTic.ulties of inter¬ marriage, it would have been wiser for hiiii to have depicted a;situation such as Tohcnkin gives vVS in "God of-Might," where an otherwise ideally matched couple realize that a barrier, due, to their religious differeiices, is growing up between theni...
But-the book like the other works of Ludwig Lewisohn is always adequately and :often brilliantly written. And he from the first page until the, last fulfills ;the prime requisite of any novelist by telling an interesting story. ;¦     .
SUCCESSFULLY PASSES STATE BAR EXAMI¬ NATION
Hadassah Is Laying Plans For A Summer Emergency
Women's Branch of Zionist Or¬ ganization Must Raise $142^- 000 To Cover Its Budget Fof 3 Summer Months
, NEW YORK—For the second time in its history, Hadassah, ^ the Women's Zionist Organization of America Is lay¬ ing plans , for a Summer Emergency Campaign.: There is a great atid crying need for hospital, ¦ school hygiene and infant welfairc work at alltimes in PaU estine, biit the 'summer months arc the most trying of the year. The cHinate of Palestine is-subrtropical in many sec¬ tions ai^d unless Haidassah finds the means to carry, on its scheduled work, untold hardship arid suffering.will'result. The \yomen of Hadassah have, woi-ked earnestly all year and have.looked fo'r- ward to q much iieeded iand well-earned vacation. But it is impossible for Ha¬ dassah groups in this country to rest froni their labors when an emergency siich as the present, one arises.
Hadassah's specific task in Palestine is health Vvork and sanitation. In addi¬ tion to the five hospitals which it main¬ tains, it also,has established 18 infant welfare stations and an equal number of clinics.
¦ Hadassah must raise $I42f,O00 to cover its budget for the, three summer months. Jewish womeii. in this country cannot rest while the needs of Palestine are not met. Difficult as summer work isj trying as is the solicitation of funds during the summer-^the work must and will go on.
Greater New York has just, perfected plans for the raffling of an automobile to be donated by Mrs. Charles Werbe- lowsky of  Brooklyn,'
Other Chapters throughout the coun¬ try are devising ways and means to reach those members who,are away at the resorts and watering places. En¬ thusiasm and devotion to Palestine will find a way. .
SADIA   MAZE   ARRIVES   IN
BERLIN FROM PALES-
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BERLIN—Sadia Maze, son of the late Moscow Chief Rabbi Jacob. Maze, arrived  here  yesterday  from .Palestine.
: Sadia Maze was expelled from Sov¬ iet Russia following his .arrest on the charge that he was active in the illegal Zionist movement. He was permitted to cmigraite to Palestine instead of be¬ ing exiled. ¦ ,'
' Miss Cohen, daughter, of Mr. and Mrs, Wm^ Cohen, of Cairo, Illinois, ahd for¬ merly of this city, successfully passed the, June state bar examination. She is a graduate of Ohio State University arid was actively identified with various campus activities.
Others who passed the bar examina¬ tion arc: Max Edwin Arons, 960 Car¬ penter street; Samuel Guerevitz, 05-^ East Moiind street, Samuel D. Luchs, 15Q4'Bryden Road, arid Oliver H. Roth 100 tibet.Road.
ONLY TWO RADICAL ZIONISTS AND TWO
REVISIONISTS VOTE AGAINST AGENCY
COMMISSION'S REPORT
Jewish Movement For Rebuilding Palestine Has Tui'iied Corner, Is Berlin View, As Jewish Agency Commis¬ sion's Report Is Accepted By Non-Zionists-^ Final Text of Adopted Resolution Introduces Several Changes
COUNCIL MEMBERS CONGRATULATE DR. CHAIM WEIZ¬ MANN ON OUTCOME OF BIG MEETING HELD IN BERLIN
JUDGE   DANNENBAUM   EE-
SIGNS FROM Z. O. A. AS
PROTEST
NEW YORK—Judge J. Dannenhaum of Hou5ton,„Tex., once^romitient in the fight against the Brandeis group, has withdrawn from membership in the Zioiv ist Organization .of America, the New York Conimittee for Z. 6. A.'s reorgan- fizatibii announced.
. Judge Dannenhaum, who presided over the Cleveland, Zionist conventioii in 1921 and later . became the chairman of the Keren Hayesod, campaign, stated isrio.r to this year's annual Zionist convention that he Would withdraw from the organ: ization if. Mr., Lipsky is rieelected. , ''My personal opinion, based on calm consideratioii 'of the facts, is that both Weizmann and Lipsky should retire and carry their retiriues with them: iiito re¬ tirement. Certainly I,cannot be accused of personal hostility to\yards either o! them. .But I have neither time, energy nor money for further services under their leadership. Nor shall I,by example or silence caiiseotliers to think that the present leaders have my continued sup¬ port," he then stated. *
FETE NEW PALESTINE HIGH COMMISSIONER
LONDON—Sir John Robert Cli&ncel- lor, newly appointed High Commissioner of Palestine, was the guest of honor at a reception given bim by Earl Meatb, founder of the British Empire movement.
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ADDRESS
BERLIN—The Jewish movjiment for the upbuilding of Palestine as the Jew¬ ish National Home, which has assumed considerable significance as practical up¬ building work after tlje issuance of the Balfour Declaration arid the formation of the Palestine Mandate by the League of Nations following the .close of the World: War, has turned a corner on the road to enlisting the cooperation.of all Jews,: Zionists and non-Zitinists, in the effort to rebuild the country of Jewry's origin. .
It is in this light that Zionists and non-Zionists in Europe view .the,decision adopted:: yesterday late in the afternoon by .the .General Council of the Zibnist World Organization to accept the rec-^ ommcndatibns oi the Joint Palestine Survey Commission in which American, British: and German non-Zionists atid Zionists cooperated for the formulation of the five-year program ;of Palestine work with, a minimum/budget of one millioii pounds sterling annually. ,1 Stormy DiscusBions Tlie: recommendations which were drafted Avith. a view of serviiig "as a guidance for the enlarged Jewish Agen¬ cy" were, the center of stormy discus¬ sions during the sessions of the Zionist General Council Which, lasted here all week. The acceptance o^ the rejection of these .recommendations ,was cbtisid. ered as es.<iciitial. in the decision as, to whether the enlarged Jewish- Agency, in¬ cluding Zionists: and. non-Zionists, and coritcmplated in Article 4 of the Pales¬ tine Mandate, is to: be corisilminated in accordance with an-agreement concluded between Dr. Ghaiiri; Weizmann, president of ;the World Zionist Organization, and Mr. Louis Marshall, pt-esident bf the American Jewish C:omiiiittee,repriesentV ing American: non-Zionists..    .
Recommendations Accepted The recommendations formulated, at the: recent London, conference by Felix M. Wa:rburg and Dr. Lee K, Frankel representing the non-Zjohists.in the Unit¬ ed States; Lord Melehett (Sir Alfred Mond) of London and Oscar Wasser¬ mann, director of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin with suggestions for slight modi¬ fications, were accepted by the, Zionist General .Council, by a majority of 41 against 4 votes.
The climax came late, Friday after¬ noon following .a prolonged, dieadlock during which the resignation of the Weizmann Executive was considered as imminent. At the plenary session of the General Council which was engrossed in discussion ;of organization .questions, the Political : Commission appeared in , the hall declaring fhat it is ready to report the resolytibii on the Jewish ,Ageiicy. Forty-eight members Of the Council were in attendance. Kurt Blumenfeld.of Ber¬ lin, German Zionist leader,, read the text of the .resolution. Minority reports were also submitted.
Weizmann Vindicated ' A resolution expressing lack of con¬ fidence in the Weizmann ExeoittLve and asking the General Cr.uncil to reject the recommendations of the Joint Palestine Survey Commission, introduced by Dep¬ uty Isiiac Gruenbaum of Warsaw and Dr. Soloveitschick in behalf of the rad¬ ical Zionists, was defeated by an over-' whehning majority. The representatives of the labor-party Poale Zion abstained from voting. This resolution received only the four votes of the two radical 2^ionists and two Zionist Revisionists,
^Richard Lichtheim of Berlin then in¬ troduced in behalf of the League of Zionist Rev'sionists a similar resolution of tack of Cl ifidence, which was defeat-^ ed by a similar overwhelming majority. A resolution introduced by the represen¬ tatives of the Poale Zion labor party, expressing the Laborites* objections to the Commissioners' recommendations against the comnnmal form of settle¬ ments, was rejected by a majority of 2(t against lil. M. M. Ussishkin, head of the Jewish National Fund, voted for the resolution of the' Poale Zion. A resolu¬ tion introduced by M. Kaplan in behalf of the Jewish Socialist party Hitach- duth, aslting that the Jewish National Fund be considered the only exclusive instrument for the purchase of Palestine
land was rejected by a majority, of.,24 against id.   Bar! Locker, speaking in be-' half of the' Poale Zion stated that they considered the; resolution of the majority' of the  Committee as a. minimum,  and after   their   resolution  had   failed: they would vote for the majority resolution. The vote was then taken oh the text of the resolution proposed by the majority of the Political Commission, which w.as passed by 41 against 4, the four being the Votes of the two radical Zionists and tWo Zionist Revisionists Members .of. the , Council then gave a long-lasting ovation to br. AVeizmann^ many in.the hall ap¬ proaching to,congratulate him. .  :    > Not  Entirely  Identical The filial text of the.resolution, which , dccla:res   the   recommendations   of,   the   , Joint Palestine Survey Commission to he a document which "can essentially serve for the: creation of a program of work for thc extended' Jewish Agency" is. not entirely identical with ;tlie text transmit¬ ted  by  cable  yesterday  by  the  Jewish Telegraphic Agency,    SeveraL important changes were made. One change affects tlie: function - of . the . Jewish .National. Fund, the land purchasing agency of the .- Zionist, Organization! . In the final text the Zionist General Cbimcil.declarep that    : the Jewish Natipnal Purid is to'be the only public: instrument" for la.hd policy,: but the, Jewish Agency, is authorized to lendits support by a" one-time investment to a special institution whose purpose it
RESERVE     SUNDAY,
AUGUST 19TH FOR THE
VOLINER SOCIETY
PICNIC
Preparations are now be¬ ing made by the oflicers of the local Voliner Society for an elaborate picnic on Sunday, August 19th, at Edgewater Park.
The affair will be open to all Chronicle readers. , A most en joy ab Ie day is promised to all.     :
Remember the time and p I a ce-r-Sunday, August 19thj at Edgewater Park.
would be tb aidsettters w'liowisb to acr quire the land as, tlieir private property. , The second change in the text of the resolution concerns, the iiistrUctions to the Zionist Executive with' regard tothe formation of the, extended Jewish Agen-': cy. The fmai text 9f the resolution iii- structs the Executive to continue the ne¬ gotiations, "in accordance With the reso¬ lutions of. thc Zionist Congress." The sentence specifying that the extended, Jewish Agency is to be created on a democratic basis and that representatives of organized Jewish labor arid of Jew¬ ish religious organizations are to he drawn in, is taken out. Similarly, the final text does not contain the paragraph directing the attention of the Zionist Executive to the decision of the Zionist Congress that the extended Jewish Agen¬ cy is to be created only for a peHod pf tliree years.
The general feeling, here is that'the large majority for the acceptance of the Jewish Agency Commission's report is an expression of the power of thc Zionist movement and that Dr. Weizmann has the support of the bulk of the Zionists in a program which is based on a plan to extend and strengthen. the Palestine upbuilding work.
LOCAL    AUTHOR    WINNER    OP
FIRST PRIZE AWARDED BY
"YOUNG ISRAEL"
A local author, Elma Ehrlich Levinger has just been announced as the winner: of the first prize awarded by the maga¬ zine, "Young Israel" for the best short story published in that periodical during the past year. Mrs. Levinger's story, "In Old Salonika" was a picture pf that Spanish-Jewish center directly after the World War. The contest was held un¬ der" the auspices of. the National Feder-^ ation of Temple Sisterhoods.     ¦ -*>