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VOL. 15 No. 6
I Week In Review
By MILTON BROWN, J.T.A.
I Last week 20,000 persons jam
loed New York’s Madison Square
Eftrden in a protest against the
annihilation 0 f Poland, but the
■"story” was not the condemnation
|of Germany and Russia voiced by
t r i. notables as Herbert Hoover,
■Alfred M. Landon, William Green
End Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
Et was the spectacle of thousands
Breaking into unashamed tears as
L chorus of cantors chanted “El
Kfole Rachamim” for the victims
■n Poland.
I Over the ocean of faces, dis
■turbed whitecaps suddenly began
■to appear as the memorial prayer
Began. They were the handker
chiefs of men and women who had
■relatives and loved ones among
■the 3,500,000 Jews of Poland.
■These people bore in their hearts
Lot only their sorrow and their
■hatred for Germany, but also bit-
Hemess against Soviet Russia,
■which, in the words of one of the
■speakers, had “paved the road”
■or the Nazi invasion. A Com
munist in the audience who shout
led a protest against one speaker’s
■denunciation of Stalin had to be
■escorted to the street by police;
be crowd assumed a distinctly
menacing attitude towards him.
I More and more Soviet Russia
Las emerged as a dominant fig
fcre in the consolidation of the
prown and Red partition.
I Last week Polish official circles
In Paris received information that
we Lublin Jewish “reservation”
bight pass into Soviet hands. It
bas said that the Nazis felt it
Iwould be advantageous for them
to revise their boundaries with
F e U. S. S. R. and offer the
[Soviet more Polish territory—in
pluding the “reservation”—in com
pensation for food.
I I* will be recalled that the Lub-
P area had first been occupied
ff the Soviet and then returned
F° Germany in the “final” delimi
tation of the partition boundaries,
pe reasons for this alteration of
l»e frontiers had been a subject
r speculation at the time, and
pome light was thrown on it when
[t was reported that Soviet Pre-
Ner Wyasceslav Molotov and
Brennan Foreign Minister Joachim
pan Ribbentrop had agreed to the
[establishment of a Jewish “reser-
Wnon” in this area.
Moscow also made her influence
II in Lithuania. Polish Gov
circles in France learned
t Russia had brought pressure
Lithuania to expel refugees
JJ® k red harmful to Soviet inter
tn v Many Jewis h refugees known
“ be to the Soviets,
Particularly Socialists, are affect
the demand, with which it
forp fl H J l Pected Ka unaa would be
reed to comply.
IN NAZI POLAND
D j.. portß from the German-occu
4fa-, ? rea °I Poland continued to
It•»« atroclties and persecution,
of ini re P° rte d that in the town
somL k ° V ’ 0,1 the pretext that
at n o De . bad from a window
Jewirff 8 * 11 ®’ ** erman soldiers, all
mark!LT en Were Uned «P In the
down K laCe were mowed
Sb, ilai . Dy machine-gun bullets.
Undred Parcels containing
receivAnl ° f mur dered Jews were
Srdin by families In Lodz,
also ani J PoUs h sources, which
had a^ d *** °>e Nazis in Lodz
W aji 12,000 Jews, indud
manv nf ab u iS 411,1 Jewish leaders,
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Judges In AZA’s Annual Essay Contest
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LEFT TO RIGHT: Louis Kraft, executive director of the Jewish
Welfare Board; Mrs. Judith Epstein, former national president of
Hadassah; and Sholem Asch. world-famous novelist, who comprise
the national board of judges for the 13th annual English essay
contest of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai B'rith’s youth organization.
The subject of this year’s contest is “The Jewish Community of
Today and Tomorrow in North America.”
Sholem Asch Heads Board Os Judges
For B’nai B’rith Youth Contest
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Sholem
Asch, world famous Jewish novel
ist, whose most recent book, “The
Nazarene,” has created an inter
national stir, has agreed to serve
as a member of the national board
of judges for the thirteenth an
nual English essay contest spon
sored by Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai
B’rith’s youth organization, ac
cording to an announcement here
by Sam Beber, president of the
Supreme Advisory Council of
....Institution of the Warsaw ghet
to, the final steps of which have
been delayed because of the spread
of disease, will be completed on
January 1, Paris heard. There
stiU remains 160,000 Jews outside
the ghetto and their removal into
the narrow segregated area is
deemed virtually impossible in
view of the unimaginable over
crowding that already exists.
What Is Propaganda?
WASHINGTON —American Jewry is urged to advocate
the scientific analysis of all propaganda as the best method
of dealing with it, in an article in the January issue of The
National Jewish Monthly.
The author of the article is Dr. Clyde R. Miller, Director
of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis and a professor at
Columbia University. His four-point program for meeting
“the danger of false and emotionalized propaganda, is as
follows: ......
‘l. Understand what propaganda is--that it is an ex
pression of opinion or action intended to influence opinions
and actions of others. .
“2 Know that the chief danger of propaganda is emo
tion, which can make us lose our heads and thereby lose our
selves in mass hysteria.
“3. Learn, therefore, to recognize propaganda when we
see ;♦ as expression of opinion which may cause us to hate
dSpise or "espect groups of our fellows who
may differ from us or conform to our beliefs in religion, m
culture, in economics or political fields. .
“4 Subject these opinions or propagandas to analysis
U see whether they conform to the humane teachings of the
prophets of Israel, to the Golden Rule of Jesus, to the ex
nressions of democracy as set forth in such concrete docu
ment as the BiU of Rights of the United States Constitu
tion.”
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1939
A. Z. A.
“The Jewish Community of
Today and Tomorrow in North
America” is the subject on which
the 10,000 members of Aleph
Zadik Aleph in 350 chapters
throughout the United States and
Canada will write, in competition
for regional, district and national
honors in the most widely partici
pated-in Jewish essay contest un
der national direction.
The other members of the board
of judges will be Mrs. Judith Ep
stein, former national president of
Hadassah, the women’s Zionist or
ganization of America; and Louis
Kraft, executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Board, the parent
organization of the Jewish commu
nity center movement.
Last year’s winner was Stanley
G. Kirsch, of Fidelity Chapter.
Los Angeles. “What Jewish Dig
nity Means to Me” was the sub
ject of the 1938 contest.
250,000 Jews Are Murdered
In Nazi-Controlled Poland
BY BORIS SMOLAR
Chief European Correspondent
PARIS (JTA) —An estimated 250,000 Jews have been
wiped out by military operations, executions, disease and
starvation in Nazi Poland, the World Jewish Congress charg
ed in a “Jewish White Book.” The document, which re
cords anti-Jewish barbarism since the outbreak of the war,
is accompanied by five pages of documentary evidence. The
15-page record contains the darkest narration ever known in
Jewish history.
The White Book reveals for the
first time, among other things,
that after the Munich bomb at
tempt on Chancellor Hitler’s life
the Nazi leaders completed plans
for large-scale anti-Jewish po-
Distinguished
Guest Coming
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DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, universal
ly regarded as one of the foremost
Jews of modern times, who holds
the post of President of the Jew
ish Agency for Palestine, will fly
from London to be the guest of
honor at the National Conference
for Palestine which the United
Palestine Appeal is sponsoring at
the Hotel Mayflower in Washing
ton, D. C., on January 6th and
7th, 1940.
Among the posts held by Dr.
Weizmann as leader, scholar and
internationally famous chemist,
are the following: Chairman of
the Board of Governors of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Director of the Daniel Sieff Chem
ical Research Institute of Reho
both, Chairman of the Central Bu
reau for the Settlement of German
Jews, member of the Council for
German Jewry.
Outstanding Jews throughout the South are receiv
ing the following invitation:
The Officers of the Southern Region
of the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Cordially invite you to a
Regional Conference
to consider the problems of
Overseas Aid Under War Conditions
Sunday, January 14, 1940, at 10 A. M.
at the
Hotel Tutwiler
Birmingham, Alabama
Your presence is urgently requested
groms throughout the Reich but
suddenly cancelled them upon the
advice of the Soviet Ambassador.
Other charges contained in the
document are:
(1) More than 500 Jews are
still under arrest in Germany in
connection with the Munich blast.
(2) Numerous Jews in the old
Reich have been imprisoned in
concentration camps and executed
since hostilities began
(3) All Palestinian citizens in
Germany have been imprisoned
and their families interned in a
Berlin hotel, where they are be
ing provided with food by the
American Embassy;
(4) Jews are prohibited from
appearing in the streets after
eight p. m.;
(5) The food situation for
Jews in Germany has become cat
astrophic as they are forbidden to
acquire certain foods which may
still be bought without ration
cards by non-Jews;
(6) Danzig Jews are forbidden
to appear on the streets after
midday and have been ordered to
leave the city by Jan. 1, 1940.
Jewish Calender
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5700-1939
Fast of Tebet Dec. 22
1940—5700
*Rosh Chodesh Adar I Feb. 10
♦Rosh Chodesh Adar II Mar. 11
Fast of Esther March 21
Rosh Chodesh Nisan April 9
Purim March 24
Passover (Ist day) April 23
Passover (7th day) April 29
Passover (Bth day) April 30
Rosh Chodesh Iyar May 9
Lag B’Omer May 26
Rosh Chodesh Sivan June 7
Shebouth (Ist day) June 12
♦Rosh Chodesh Tamuz July 7
Fast of Tamuz July 23
Erev Rosh Hashonah 5701 Oct. 2
♦Observed previous day as
well. All holidays begin at sun
down of day preceding that
listed above.
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