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i THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 29 NO. 3
PLAIN TALK
BY ALFRED SEGAL
REINCARNATION
I had a dream the other night
and that's practically nothing
new to report in this column; for
I am dreaming all the time, day
and night, you might say."
But this dream was something
special: I dreamed I was dead.
My funeral had taken place at
Weil’s which is the favorite fun
eral home of all the Jewish popu
lation in our town. I lay at the
south wall at Weil’s—the same
spot where, through many years,
I had seen many of my friends
when they were all set to be car
ried toward their graves.
The rabbi said the usual tri
bute but I didn't give much at
tention to what he was saying
about me because it was the
same I had heard said for others
many times before. Yet I caught
enough of his words to cause me
to wonder whether he really
• knew the guy he was burying.
My few virtues certainly hadn't
measured up to his praises.
Finally, the time came for me
to /be carried off and the pall
bearers took hold. Then a pleas
ant ride through our suburbs to
the graveyard where I could hear
the symbolic dust in the rabbi’s
hand falling on me.
"Thank goodness," I thought,
"it's all over." I never had liked
to mix in crowds and there had
been quite a gang at the funeral
home to see me off. Anyway, it
was good to be laid to rest, away
from the awful travails of the
world as I had known it.
My hands rested comfortably
on my chest. Peace, I said, it’s
wonderful. But shortly I was to
learn that I really hadn’t come to
peace. There was a rude awaken
ing, in fact.
After aWhile I became aware of
a distant voice that was saying,
“Up with you, Segal!"
I protested: “I thought rest was
guaranteed me for eternity.
What’s the idea of waking me up
after I had scarcely shut my
eyes?”.
The voice replied that it was
my time to be up and doing
again, to start living all over.
“Please let me sleep,” I peaded.
“Just to sleep!”
'Segal, you've already been
steeping 100 years and now the
time for your reincarnation has
arrived. It means you've got to
live again."
As I told you in the beginning,
this was all a dream. Looking
back at the incident, I can well
guess that my dream of being
summoned to reincarnation had
to do with a review I had read
the same evening of a new play
by George Kaufman, titled
“Fancy Meeting You Here!”. It
was all about a person who, after
being buried, is reincamationed
to start living all over again on
this earth.
"I don't want to do it all pvar
again." 1 protested. "One time on
earth is enough."
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EDDIE CANTOR IS AWARDED CITATION
BY NEW YORK’S MAYOR IMPELLITTERI
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Eddie Cantor, whose sixtieth birthday was celebrated by 1,700 leaders from
all parts of the country at an Israel Bond dinner in New York, is shown receiv
ing a citation from Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri for “his unflagging support
of humanitarian causes.” In accordance with Cantor’s wishes, admission to the
dinner was on the basis of a purchase of SI,OOO or more in State of Israel Bonds.
As-a result, the-men and-women who attended the birthday tribute invested
$2,616,000 in Israel’s Independence Bond Issue. The State of Israel $500,000,000
Bond drive is the key to Israel’s historic program of economic development
and the absorption of hundreds of thousands of homeless immigrants.
llcnerable Abba Eban
To Launch Israel Institute
The Honorable Abba Eban, Is
raeli Ambassador to the United
States, will officially inaugurate
the newly-established Seminary
Israel Institute at ceremonies to
take place at The Jewish Theo
logical Seminary of America,
3080 Broadway, New York City,
at 8 P. M. on Thursday, February
21, according to Doctor Louis
Finkelstein, Chancellor of the
Seminary.
Ambassador Eban, who will
speak on “Nationalism and Inter
nationalism in Our Day” on Feb
ruary 21, will launch this major
project which has been under
taken jointly by the Seminary
and the Jewish Agency for Pales
tine. An anticipated audience of
over 500 American and Israeli
personalities will hear talks by
Doctor Hayim Greenberg, a
member of the Executive of the
Jewish Agency, and Doctor Fink
elstein. Doctor Moshe Davis, Pro
vost of the Seminary, will deliver
the Invocation.
The Seminary Israel Institute,
CONGRESS GETS
RESOLUTION OF CONCERN
OVER FLORIDA BOMBINGS
WASHINGTON, (JTA) A
resolution expressing Con
gress’ concern over the recent
series of anti-minority bomb
ings in Florida was introduced
into the House of Representa
tives last week by Congress
man John F. Kennedy. It was
referred to the House Judici
ary Committee.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1952
which has been founded to
strengthen the bonds of spiritual
and cultural cooperation between
the Sthte of Israel and America
will hold subsequent sessions at
luncheons to be held at the
Seminary on six consecutive
Tuesdays,* beginning on February
26. These luncheons will be ad
dressed by eminent Americans
and Israelis, who will lecture on
various facets of Israeli life and
culture. Leaders of all faiths are
expected to participate in these
sessions.
The Anderson Story
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BY NATHAN ZIPRIN
Marian Anderson, the great Negro singer whose artistic con
tribution to American life has matched her dauntless fight for
equality among the races, has again scored a victory for decency
miri basic Americanism—and in the very city of Miami which has
recently been the site of ugly racial manifestations.
According to press reports, over 2,000 people, sixty per cent
Negro and forty per cent white, turned out to listen to this great
product of American soil. There were no incidehts, for before the
audience was not a singer whose merits was to be judged by race
or color or religion but by a God-given talent which few are
privileged to possess. By turning out in droves to pay homage to the
artistry of Miss Anderson, Miami may not have cleared itself of
the shame and blot and crime of the recent series of incidents
directed against Jews, Negroes and Catholics. But it has definitely
demonstrated a facet other than the one displayed in the recent
series of bombings.
Wa have no Intention of minimising the recent events in Miami.
Yet we mu*t not overlook the other facet of the coin. When a huge
audience can turn out to hear a great Negro singer so shortly on
the heels of an ugly story, there is great hope that the forces of evil
will not long prevail.
Landau, Founder of JTA, First
World Jewish Press Service,
Passes Ai 59
NEW YORK CITY (AJP) A Viennese newsman who went
'on to make the world his "beat" and in so doing formed the first
world-wide news service, died here last week at the age of, 59.
Jacob Landau, who had been ill for several years, succumbed to a
heart attack.
Jewish Broadcast
. Slated for Sunday
On February 10th, the Eternal
Light, (12:30-1:00 P. M. EST,
NBC Network) will present a
drama entitled, “The Brave' Mrs.
Korngold,” written by Sylvia
Berger, according to an an
nouncement by the Jewish Theo
logical Seminary of America,
under whose auspices the pro
gram is conducted.
'Happy t>ay!'
Jew-Hater Rankin
Seeks Reelection,
Charges Big 'Plot'
WASHINGTON (AJP) The
uncrowned monarch of American
bigots, Cong. John Rankin, of
Mississippi, charged a Commu
nist-inspired plot was being
hatched this week to thwart his
seeking re-election.
“Sure I’m gonna run again,”
Rankin roared at newsmen who
checked a report that he would
not seek re-election.
Rankin was unsuccessful last
year in an attempt to have a
portrait of Maimonides —he re
ferred to the famed scholar as
“that rabbi”—removed from the
Halls of-Congress. In the fore of
Jew-baiting forces, Rankin also
attacked Assistant Defense Sec
retary Anna Rosenberg as “that
Yiddisha woman.”
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JACOB LANDAU
Founder of the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency, of which The
Southern Jewish Weekly is a
member, Mr. Landau was the
first to establish a modem inter
national Jewish press network.
Through the JTA he organized
branches in Paris, Warsaw, Ber
lin, New York and South Amer- »
ica.
Born in Vienna,, he entered
newspapering in his early twen
ties, gaining experience on maga
zines and papers throughout
Europe. With‘World War L Mr.
Landau, then in neutral Holland,
laid the groundwork for what
was later to become the JTA
with the foundation of the Jewish
Correspondence Bureau. The end
of the war saw the bureau
emerge as the JTA.
Though the director ,of a vast
news network, Mr. Landau never
relinquished his zeal for report
ing. Even as JTA bureaus the
world over covered happenings
of Jewish interest, at far-flung
points, Mr. Landau himself per
sonally reported such events as
the Paris Peace Conference and
other major happenings.
Probings inspired by Mr.
Landau which covarad anti-Jew
ish activities in Rumania and
Nasi Germany, cast the JTA its
bureaus in these dictatorships.
During World War XL ha served
with Urn War Refugee Board in
helping resettle displaced Jews.
Mr. Landau’s other journalistic
endeavors included the founding
of the Overseas News Agency
and the Jewish Daily Bulletin.
The Bulletin discontinued opera
tion in 1935 while the ONA, an
independent press service of gen
eral news, remains in operation.
Numbering among Mr. Land
au’s close friends was Albert
Einstein, after whom the news
man named p son.
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