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December 31, 1948
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CHILDREN AT the Neu Freiman Camp in Munich, Germany,
wffer from a monotonous, starchy diet low in proteins. They need
foods rich in proteins and vitamins. The SOS (Supplies for Over*
sees Survivors) Collection of the Joint Distribution Committee has
made a special appeal for 3,000,900 cans of milk, fish, meats, fats
oils, juices, milk, fruit and cocoa to meet this need. JDC receives
its funds from the United Jewish Appeal, with which Phoenix
United Jewish Welfare Fund is affiliated.
Furrier Lured by Earth's Wealth
At the age of 78, Max Berman, retired Phoenix furrier,
is truly a young man in spirit, with the ever-optimistic
philosophy of the prospector.
Unfailingly captivated by the
lure of hidden riches beneath the
earth’s crust, Berman can be
found almost anytime driving over
tortuous roads to explore the min
eral prospects of land he may
have recently acquired.
Born in Russia and spending
his youth in England, he migrated
to Ottawa, Canada, 60 years ago.
At first his life was the back
breaking, confining toil of a tail
or of that day. Then he was drawn
out into the open by the attrac-
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tion of vast mineral resources in
Canada and Alaska.
Travels Far
Here was a totally new world.
He became identified with num
erous mining developments and
surveys, and traveled as far afield
as Australia and South Africa.
But Arizona proved to be the
real magnet. Few trails in this
state are unknown to Berman, and
he has followed many arduous
miles of them on foot.
In 1922, then past 50, he de
cided to “settle down” and start
ed a fur business on Adams Street
near Central Avenue. Jewish resi
dents in Phoenix then totaled 70 to
80 families. The temple had been
built the previous year. Only for
the high holidays was a rabbi
available, coming from El Paso
or San Francisco.
Helps the Sick
With no rabbi or organized
Jewish charities to appeal to, needy
health seekers coming to Phoenix
had to go to the doors of Jewish
residents, begging a place to stay,
or the price of a tire, or food for
their children.
Max Berman, as trasurer of
B’nai B’rith, undertook to find
rooms and collect charity for the
sick. The community raised $2,-
200 and purchased a home which
he selected for this purpose.
Last year Berman sold his fur
business to devote more time to
his real interest —mining.
He is gifted with a fine sense
of humor and posses a vast knowl
edge of the millions of years of
geological formations.
Among outstanding conductors
who went to Israel during the war
to conduct the Israel Orchestra
were Charles Munch, Izler Solo
mon and Leonard Bernstein.
THE PHOENIX JEWISH NEWS
South African Nationalists Refuse
To Lift Ban On Jewish Membership
By Edgar Bernstein
(South African Correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
(Copyright, 1948, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
South Africans are now critically reviewing the results
of the Transvaal Provincial Congress of the Nationalist
Party, which took place in Pretoria recently. The Congress
was generally regarded as an important sounding board
for Nationalist policy and opinion, since, next to the Cape
Province division, the Transvaal provincial division is the
most important section of the Nationalist Party.
In the past, it has often been
characterized by a more extreme
line than other provincial divisions
of the Party, and the country was
concerned to see whether, now
that the Nationalists shoulder the
responsibilities of government, the
moderate section could prevail up
on the Transvaal extremists to
modify their outlook. The country
was also concerned to see what at
titude the Congress would take up
on the so-called “Jewish question.”
The Transvaal section of the
Party, plone of the Nationalists’
provincial divisions, has in its con
stitution a clause banning Jews
from membership. That clause was
framed in the Hitler years, when
leading elements of the National
'ist Party were deeply influenced
by Nazi propaganda. When, how
ever, the Nationalists were re
turned to power last May, it was
generally thought that the Trans
vaal branch would take steps to
withdraw the clause. .
No Prejudice Pledged
This opinion was strengthened
by the fact that the new Prime
Minister, Dr. Malan, gave the
country the assurance that his
government would follow a policy
of non-discrimination against any
section of the European (white)
population, and reiterated that as
surance when he received a depu
tation from the S.A. Jewish Board
of Deputies.
In the Cape, where no equival
ent ban exists, certain Jews were
welcomed into membership of the
Nationalist Party and have start
ed a propaganda campaign to win
it Jewish support. The Transvaal
Nationalists therefore had every
thing to gain by withdrawing the
ban against Jews, and it was wide
ly rumored that they would do so.
In the result, however, the Con
gress did not even discuss this
clause. Apparently those who were
opposed to removal of the ban
prevailed upon the Party’s Execu
tive to keep the subject off the
agenda rather than risk an open
controversy at the Congress. The
position therefore is that (for the
present at least) the ban remains,
though there are reports that an
official statement may be made
on the subject shortly.
Press Is Critical
Current issues of the Jewish
press make critical comment on
the position. “Jewish Affairs,”
published by the S.A. Jewish
Board of Deputies, says the ques
tion is one on which South Afri
can Jews have a right to feel dis
quiet.
“It is a question of good faith
and of principle. They are en
titled to demand that their full
rights as citizens shall be unequi
vocally respected not only by the
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Government, but also by the major
party which has put the Govern
ment in power. The present am
biguous position, where Govern
ment declarations are inconsistent
with Provincial practice, is far
from satisfactory. If the Govern
ment and the Nationalists Party
are genuinely anxious to convince
South African Jews and the coun
try as a whole that they have
turned their backs on anti-Jewish
discrimination, they must find a
way out from the present equi
vocal situation and demonstrate
beyond any doubt where the Party
really stands.”
Ban Denounced
The “South African Times”
goes even further and states: “The
Transvaal Congress’s silence on
this issue is rendered the more
eloquent in the context of the
times. Though Jewish and indeed
all democratic elements were al
ways perturbed at this discrimina
tory clause, the extremism of the
war years set it in a perspective
less monstrous—though no less ob
jectionable in principle—than the
perspective of today, when Nazism
and anti-Semitism have long been
exposed in all their barbarity—
and when the Nationalist Party it
self, in the election campaign and
after, took steps publicly to dis
associate itself from the charge of
pro-Nazism. Nowhere else in the
world today is there a governing
party which has retained in the
constitution of even one of its re
gional branches, a clause banning
Jewish members. . . .
Ninety per cent of the Jews in
the U.S. Zone DP camps have ap
plied for Israel emigration.
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Book Reviews
Israel Music
By Mae B. Kessler
Scheduled* for publication early
in 1949 is “The Music of Israel,”
truly a labor of lovej and a work
of Herculean proportions. The au
thor is Dr. Peter Gradenwitz,
Palestinian composer and music
ologist, who attempts a survey of
Jewish music and performance
from the bibilical era to present
day Israel.
No less than 15 years of re
search went into the writing of
it. And the field has not been
completely covered yet.
This book commingles the cul
tural history of ancient and mod
ern society, both East and West.
More than the detailing of spirit
ual and physical life, one meets
here the interrelated problem of
heredity and environment and its
necessary effect upon art, learns
something of the intricacies of
Oriental and Occidental thought,
sees a manifestation of the cul
tural developments which age go
ing forward so vigorously in Pal
estine today, and senses what
further developments are yet to
come.
“The Music of Israel” favors the
development of a racial and na
tional art, which will doubtless
bring to the forefront two oppos
ing schools of thought: the one
wagging a prudish finger at the
narrow nationalistic outlook and
the other exclaiming with joy at
the boundless opportunity afford
ed the artist to release his ances
tral creative forces.
Strongly showing the effect of
environment upon art, Dr. Gra
denwitz tell how the Jewish re
ligious and ritual music grew out
of their long attending oppres
sion and danger.
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help of a fund of $2,500 raised in
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