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jr ioO,000 IS SOUGHT ^      FOR JEWISH SCHOOL SYSTElVnN EUROPE
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EDUCATION OF 250,000
CHILDREN UNDERTAKEN
The Central Relief Committee for the Relief  of  Jews  Sifffcring Through the
• War lias issued the following appeal for if.'iOO.iKli) for Jewish .schools abroad:
"111 America, where education is uni¬ versal and compulsory, people form no adciiuatc idea what an educational drive means. Education of the young forms part and parcel of each city's govern¬ mental program and is taken as a mat-- ter of Courdc, and 'drives' and .igitations for il arc things scarcely to be* imagined.
"But there are' countries—in Kastern Europe and Asia, for instance—where conditions arc entirely different. Edu¬ cation in those lands has not been made compulsory as yet, nor arc those few schools that arc in being free to all, without distinction of 'race or creed.
Facilities Rudimontary
"In Poland, Lithuania, parts of Rus¬ sia and Palestine, the educational facili¬ ties at the command of the people are but rudimentary, and still less so are they to.the Jewish portion of the popu¬ lation. The Jewish children are, as a rule, discriminated against and denied even that little which is at the service of their non-Jewish brothers and sisters.
"There is, also, the specifically Jewish education of the young and growing generation of Jews and Jewesses which we cannot possibly expect the state to take cognizance of and make its own.
¦ If we want to see the coming generation of Jews in those lands that harbor the great majority of our people remain faithful to the traditions of their fathers as well as' l?e loyal citizens of their re¬ spective countries of birth and rearing, we must implant in them the time-tested tenets of their faith and the traditions that have proven so dependable in time of need for centuries past.
"The Central Relief Committee has undertaken the burden of educating ,-. 250,(HK>Achitdten. in,.„the . war-strlcfcen lands, in addition to its liberal contribu¬ tion^ to the Jewish schools of Palestine. Of these quarter of a million children who are dependent for their education— general as well as specifically Jewish— upon the munificence of the Central Re¬ lief Committee, the're are about 25,000 orphans whose education and rearing must be made its concern if we do not want them to grow up as a thorn in the side of their own people, as .well as of
• the country of their birth.   ,
Nativea  Contribute   Share
"The valorous men and women at the head of these various schools have not by any means depended wholly upon the assistance of the more fortunate Amer¬ ican brothers and sisters. They have made a valiant effort.to-maintain them¬ selves as far as possible for them to do so. Of the annual budgets of these' in¬ stitutions, the natives contribute 60 per cent, while 30 per cent is furnished by the Central Relief Committee, still leav¬ ing a deficit of 10 per cent.
"But even this 30 per cent contribu¬ tion is now seriously threatened by the lack of response and the general spirit of indifference vvhich the Jews of Amer¬ ica are of late displaying towards this grejit cause. So far, the funds allotted us by the J. D. C. out of the proceeds of the last drive have sufficed to run these institutions. But these funds w.ill soon be exhausted.
"For nine long years, thei Jews of Amerijca have shown the quality of mercy. They gave unstintedly to all funds for the relief of their less for¬ tunate brethren abroad. Over $60,000,- 000 havei been poured out upon the work qf relief by American Jews.    Shall all
¦ these efforts be in vain and all this work undone now, when it is about tp
. be crowned with success, and' the Jews of these lands are about to enter the promised land of self-support and self-.
. .respect? ; „     ¦' .,/
' "Onie-half million dollars will work this magic; will keep all these institu¬ tions of learning and trades open until
. such a:,time when there will be no fur¬ ther call: upon us for aid. They will then be able to keep going by their own momentum."
NFAV YORK (J. T. A.)—East Side inercbaiits will have to keep their places i)f business.closed one day a week. The East Side lousiness Men's Association itself is seeing lo it that Ihcy do so. At llic quest of the Association, suiiimonses during llic jiast two weeks have been served on more than 2TA) merchants who kept their places of business open on Suiiday. Those who do business on Stiiiday but close Saturday arc not be¬ ing prosecuted. The Business Men's Association is up 'in arms against those who never close ctcept at night.
The Jews inithe Ukraine
By   ISAAC ,'pCHBERG
(Special   to   Ohio  ffcwisli   Chronicle)
IJEWS UNREPRESENTED
IN ESTHONIA ASSEMBLY
Lithuania's New Jewish Minister Announces Policy
To Strive for Peaceful Coopera¬ tion of All Nationalities in Country
PREMIER IS MINISTER
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- KOVNO, (J. T. A.')—The appoint¬ ment of Dr. S. Rosenbaum as Minister for Jewish Affairs is a source of grati¬ fication to Lithuanian Jewry, especially as there were sinister rumors in circu¬ lation recently that the Ministry for Jewish Affairs would be abolished and a ministry of all National Minorities es¬ tablished under a German minister.
The Jewish deputies and the Jewish National Council made vigorous repre¬ sentations to the Government against such a policy and on the establishment of the Coalitioh' Government, M. Gal- vanowsky invited Dr. Rosenbaum and asked him to take over the Ministry for Jewish Affairs.
In conversation with representatives of the Jewish Press, Dr. Rosenbaum said: "The relations between the Lith¬ uanian people and the Jews of the country haye recently been strained. My view is that there must be an improve¬ ment in this regard. This will be one of my principal aims as a member of the Government. I hope that the Gov¬ ernment will strive to make possible the peaceful cooperation of all the nationali¬ ties in Lithuania.    , -   ,"¦
"I, have- jiftver,!' he proceeded -!'had*^'Si- personal policy. I have always been and will remain subject to the Jewish Na¬ tional 'Council and the group of Jewish deputies. But I hold firmly that the highest national organ is the confer¬ ence of Jewish communities, and be¬ tween the conferences the Jewish Na¬ tional Council elected by them and its executive.
"Our aim must be to safeguard our national rights guaranteed in the con¬ stitution and for that purpose legalize the National Council as'the highest or¬ gan of our autonomy, and to realize our citizenship rights in the economic sphere."
The new government is au:oali^on of the Christian Democratic Party and the People's Socialist Party, under the Premiership of M. Galvanowski, the former premier. The People's Socialist Party holds the portfolios of the Inte¬ rior and of Communications. The rest of the pprtfolios are held by the Chris¬ tian Democrats.
The Premier is 'also Minister of For¬ eign Affairs and for White Russian Af¬ fairs. .
I'ycsidcutcd in the early part of thts^illi, junany orphans arc there today in 1 year, this resume of conditions by the j>[lusbia'. ll is impossible to say. Tiicrc ' representative in the Ukraine of f/it'fare no definite figures on the subject. Jcvjish IVnrld Relief Conference, has \V\ui wc count them iu hundreds of lost hut little of its tiinelincis. Jl/r. |;Ulou^aluls. Large numbers of tlicm arc Ochbern is prominent as a .'iocial workcitlpWnv!, in the goveriinieiit institutions, of South Africa. —Editor,    'i^upported by the Idgcskom.   But masses
When    the    Soviet    government   an-1/ "^<^'" ¦'""^''''^^ ^" ^'"^'^ "^^'" •¦'='^°"'-«^' nounccd its new economic policy (N. E. f"" ^'" ^''^ t'^^'" wandering about the
Tilrccls,   naked,   barefooted,   begging  or 'Stealing.    The   Jewish   relief   organiza-
nunibcr the
KICVAL, F.STFTOMA (J. T. A. ) — The new I'^tlioiiiaii parliament which lias jusi com cued, lias not a single Jewish rt'-prcsenlalive, despite the fact that the Jewish poplilation is in excess of ."i.ODO and the ratio of representation is about  1  for -l,00f).
The Parliament numbering 110 depu¬ ties has the following alliKiiment:
Rights, '_'•¦) ricputics; 1 Center, 'iS; So¬ cial Democrats, 20; Communists, 10. 'l"hc Russians and tlic Gernians have to- Uellier 7, forming a separate minority 1)1 oc.
I'.)   all  of  us  abroad   thought  that  it.j|;;; would  bring about  an  iniprovemcnt  in
the condition of the Jewish population;,;'""\ '" I^"«s'=i '^•'^•'-- °P'-'"'--d ? »""''^'= Trading which would  to a certain ex-'l'^^   <"l<^'"="'' "'/'"= Ukraine to  feed th'
t,.nt 1,P nnrn,;.!,.,!    vvr.,,!,!  ,riv. I>r.tfpr on,   l'"l'lians   but    the   kltchcns    are    few    11
tent be pcrmilted, would give better op   , ,   ,    .,
portunilies for the Jews in the country,;''."'"''f ^   ""^l   ''"¦^''^s-   ""=y   "'^
in
only
to   obtain   their   livelihood.     Unfortu-i^''^'*^ "'<= °';"'^-"'.^ ""=""¦•"'•''''='>•¦  ^licy
last visit'   '"'""^ '¦' ' "^'^"' •"'"«<='¦•    But il is all
'ive can  do  to   save  them   from  actual
death   from   starvation.    Wc   must  in-
rcase the number of these kitchens, we
a network of
nately I have seen during my
to Russia that the facts arc the reverse'!'
of what we thought.    I was astoundedT
to sec the Jewish masses in the prov-1-" ,   ,
inces   of   Kiev,   Nikolai   and   Charkov f^"'^* ^I"",^''^' ''^'^ °"l-
in a terrible plight even now.   They are
|;ihein — throughout   the   whole   of 'the
starving,  they, walk about wrapped  in'-   ^'^'l?"^- . _ ,  .    ^
rags, they have lost all hope that things I. ;^<;'""; °" "^<^ ""tructions of the Jew- will ever be better. Vf"  Orphanage  in  Cape  Town,  I  con- „,          ,     ,           ,      ^.        .     „      .  5,ducted negotiations with the Soviet Gov' The only hope  the Jews  in  Russia i,'„„„^„j ^^ p^^,,,;^ „,^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^^^j^
possess today--is a food parcel They|„„,^,,^^ ^f ^^p,,_^,^^ ^^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^^ ,„ wait or days for a food parcel to ar-is„„j,, ^j^;^^ J^^^ ^ rive from abroad to save them from death. If it were not for the food par¬ cels it is impossible to say how many more ten of thousands of Jews would' have perished in Russia and the' Ukraine. In thq. middle of 1022 the rate; of mortality among the Jews in the Ukraine as a result of hunger and disease was, appalling. The number of dead in the old Jewish cemetery of Odessa rose last year from 7,721 to 20,380. In Cherson more than half the Jewish population died out. It is only due to the work of the foreign relief institutions that some stop has been put to this terrible rate of mortality. The help which these institutions are giving, on a much smaller scale now, is the only thing that is keeping the Jews SkUvfe in Russia. ;,''
FELIX WARBURG JOINS
COMMUNITY TRUST
ARAB DELEGATION
REACHES LONDON
LONDON (J. t. A.)—The delega¬ tion of Palestine Arabs has already ar¬ rived here. Represehting the delega¬ tion Musa Kazim Pasha has applied for a hearing before the committee of Lords which is studying the Palestine question. No answer has yet been given by the comtnittee, which is headed,by the Duke of Devonshire.
NEW YORK (J. T. A|)—The Com¬ munity Trust idea is gaining ground in New York, Felix Warburg and other prominent bankers having joined in sponsoring the Trust to administer funds in small or large amounts for general or specific educational and philanthropic   objects.
Regarding the opening of the organi¬ zation, Mr. .Warburg said:
"Experience in Cleveland; Boston atid elsewhere has indicated that the Com¬ munity Trust plan can decrease obsoles¬ cence and reduce the waste involved in bequests that have ceased to serve use¬ ful purposes. It will tend to make benefactions inorie effective and less hap¬ hazard."
,,,,,  ..,,,.>,..'.     ¦ ...    j».^dangerous to go about in the streets
ButJ.h.§^h^lp,^annpt^hrmg ft^y radi^^Jg^n; bt-.Tvearinff am solution of the problemof-ttie Jews-Jrf';„„    v«..  „«.   foiw   ..„„r " j  ....„..'
6^7 RUSSIAN JEWS
COMING HERE
MOSCOW (J. :T. A.)—AlfRough the flow of emigration from Russia will be at a standstill for more than a month, a total of 8,316 of Jewish would-be emi¬ grants have registered at "Yidgescom" offices throughout Russia.
Of this number 6,237 are of the first category, having both affidavits" from Anierican relatives and steamship tick¬ ets. They are expected to leave Russia some tittie before October 1.
A home for transient emigrants In Moscow will be opened by the Yidges¬ com August 1, to serve as shelter for women and children only. ;
problem of' Hie Jirws Russia. The food parcel which saves a starving family from death cannot re¬ store the position of the Jews in the Ukraine. The only thing which could improve the position there and recon¬ struct the economic life of the Jewish population is the establishment of credit cooperatives for artisans, small traders and merchants, to enable them to buy materials and tools. The new economic policy in Russia gives us an opportunity to raise these loan funds. A beginning has -.already been made. Almost' in every town in the Ukraine small credit cooperatives are being established un¬ der the control of Jewish communal workers. It is our duty to support these cooperatives in order to put a stop to the begging system and to place our work on a more solid foundation. It is not necessary to have a great deal of money to help a family to regain its po¬ sition. Five pounds which is in Russia at the present rate of exchange about a million rubles, could make a Jewish family self-supporting. I have seen while I was in Russia, that two or three pounds given to a Jewish family which was reduced to begging in the streets have enabled it to reestablish itself and become self-supporting.
At the same time I want to tmpha- size that relief to individuals in the form of food and clothing must not under an/circumstances be stopped at present The stoppage of relief even for one day means the loss of a large number of the Jewish population. If the Jewish popu lation in the Ukraine is to remain alive it must have its food every day until the cooperatives will be working and will have sufficient means at their dis¬ posal to restore the ruins of Russian and Ukrainian Jewry." It must be real¬ ized that there are in Russia today large numbers of the intellectual classes whd have no means of earning a livelihood and are entirely dependent on the food, parcels. These intellectuals who will ope.day be the leaders of Russian Jewry must now be supported by all the means at our disposal. Then there are a large number of widows and pogrom orphans. The widows would work, no matter how hard the work, to keep their .children' alive. But there is nothing for them to do. There are no openings of any kind. So you find them in the streets selling matches or ncivspapers,
I would say that the best Jewish ele¬ ments in Russia, the intellectuals, are living on the streets on whatever hap¬ pens to coine to hand. Therefore, in addjtion to our constructive work, we must go on with the ordinary relief Wprk of sending out food parcels, prin- tirttlly for the relief of the Jewish in¬ tellectuals.
Gov. Smith Urges Religious Education For Jewish Children
Declares  Problem   Important  to
Community as Care of Sick
and Poor
ENDORSES THE JEWISH EDUCATION  ASSOCIATION
to overnment cate¬ gorically refused. The Soviet Govern¬ ment docs not wish to allow any chil¬ dren to leave Russia. Communism is being implanted into the younger gen- iration and the Government hopes that the rising generations will carry.on and .spread its Communist teachings. This is the point of view from which the question of the orphans is at present be¬ ing regarded by the Government. They are not thinking of the fact that mean¬ while large numbers of them are dying of starvation.   ¦
There is also an alarming lack of clothing in Russia. The population and largely the Jewish population is walk¬ ing about in rags. It is impossible to describe how essential it is to send large quantities of clothing to the Ukraine. It
ing. You are fallen upon and your clothes are stripped from you. The Government is doing all it can to stop this banditism but it is helpless against it.
I have found in many of the chil¬ dren's homes large numbers of child.ren lying naked on their beds in the middle of the day because they have no clothes in which to go out. The clothes are worn by the children in turn and it is necessary for one lot to wait until the others have been in the street before they can dress themselves and go out. It was a very important event, therefore, when I received the clothing transport sent out to me by the London Federation of Ukrainian Jews. As soon as the news was spread abroad that the clothes had arrived, I was simply overwhelmed with requests and petitions from com¬ mittees, communal organizations, widows and students. Ambng the many appeals I received was one from a rabbi of Kmitrowki. His whole family had per-*["f ishcd in a pogrom, together with all the Jewish population of the town. He, too, had been shot through the stomach. He showed me that he possessed nothing more in the world than the shirt he was wearing.
A second petition I had' was from a student, a married man, who had to support his inother, who was a widow, and her three other children. His father had been killed in the pogroms. At night he acted as a watchman to guard the shops against thieves. For that he received a hundred million roubles a month — about 10 shillings (about $2.50) Besides that he gave three lessons daily for which he got'three million roubles. Naturally, he could not by any stretch of the imagination manage to clothe himself and his family. For twelve hours every night he, had. to stand in the streets in the frost, and for three hours during the day he was engaged at his lessons. The remaining nine hours he had free for stiidy and sleep. And yet he is an excellent student with a good academic future before him.
It was tp these'applicants whose case was similar to theirs that I distributed the clothing sent out by the London Federation of Ukrainian Jews,
ALBANY, N. Y. (J. T. A.)—Re¬ ligious training of 'the children of all faiths and all creeds is urged by Gov. Alfred Smith in a letter he has just sent to the Jewish Educational Association of. New York.
The governor says that the association vvhich is engaged in a campaign to take ten thousand Jewish children off the streets and, place them in religious schools this fall, is dealing with a fun¬ damental problem as important to the community as the care of the sick and the poor.
The campaign is headed by Nathan Stra'uss, Judge Otto Rosalsky, Judge Edward Luzansky, Israel Unterberg, Jacob Wener, Samuel Rottenberg and Bernard Semel.
Governor Smith's letter in part fol¬ lows :
"I have noted with deep interest in your communication to me that hun¬ dreds of thousands of children, both Christian and Jewish, are growing up in this state without any religious edu¬ cation. This fact must challenge the conscience of every rightminded man 'jani^i.W£>«!ar^v.«M^»is.- st^e?.--toe^ecriiMf-trf, his race or creed. No state or country can long endure which neglects to in¬ culcate the principles of morality and religion in the minds and hearts of its young people.
"I agree with you that the vast ma¬ jority of the 90 per cent of all offenders who come' before our criminal courts' could have been saved if they had come under the influence of a religious educa¬ tion in their childhood.
"The Jewish Education Association, of which you are the president, is deal¬ ing with a most fundamental problem in the only way it can be solved, and that is, by religious education. I sin¬ cerely hope that my fellow citizens of the Jewish faith will respond as gen¬ erously to this campaign to put ten thousand Jewish children into religious schools as they are accustomed to an¬ swer the' call for help to the poor,- the sick ^nd the delinquent."
FORD OUT WITH ANOTHER LIBEL AGAINST JEWS
DETROIT (J. T. A.)—The charge that English Jews have monopolized the wealth of Mexico, its natural re¬ sources and other treasures is the latest of the anti-Semitic accusations to be made by Henry Ford. He urges the recognition of-Mexico by the United States as a means of saving that coun¬ try from the clutches of the "grasping Jews."
The general organizations like the American Relief Administration, Dr. Nansen's Inte'rnational Committee and the Ukrainian Red Cross have op.ened a number pf kitchens, but of late their work is being reduced because of the lack of funds.
The Jewish relief organizations are divided in their vvork. The Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee supports the insti¬ tutions of the Idgeskom vvith consider- {Concluded on pagi 4.)
ARREST JEWS IN LODZ
TEXTILE STRIKE
LODZ (J. T. A.)—An attempt by the pplice authorities to discredit the textile workers' strike now going on in Lodz is seen in , the arrest'today of. thirty-one Jewish vvorkers, charged with throwing stones in strikei disorders.
The Jewish pirisoners absolutely deny the charge, and the general belief pre¬ vails iii informed circles that the ar¬ rests were made to make it appear that the strike is a Jewish movement rather than one of the textile workers gen¬ erally;
POLISH POLICE CHIEF
EMBRACES JUDAISM
WARSAW (J. T. A.)—Two promi¬ nent Poles in the town of Braslovo in the Vilna district, has embraced Judaism. Que is Jasozewski, chief of police of Braslovo, aiid the other is aii army of¬ ficer named Adamski.
Both are adopting the Jewish faith In order to marry Jewesses.'
THE GREATEST JEWISH LIBRARY NOW AT^SEMINARY
Makes New York Institution the
Jewish Cultural Centre
of World
INTERESTING HISTORY
REGARDING BOOKS
NICW YORK —The collection of 10,000 volumes and in hand on parch¬ ment, gathered from a score of coun¬ tries in years of patient search by Elkan Nathan Adler, British barrister and stu- deiu of Jewish history, has arrived safely and the work of unpacking, clas¬ sifying and estimating these indices to certain periods of Semitic history is well  under way.
This vvas disclosed on Wednesday by the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary, ,"i'!l West ]2.'W street, where the books and parchnieiils are being ar¬ ranged. .Mlhough the task of apprais¬ ing the historical value of the items has really nol yet begun, and will take years to complete, a preliminary survey caused professors at the seminary to declare the collection to be of great value.
'!I have no hesitation in saying," de¬ clared Professor Alexander Marx, an authority on Jevvish lore, "that these books and manuscripts constitute the greatest Jevvish library assembled in all history and its possession by the Jewish Theological Seminary makes that insti¬ tution the Jevvish cultural centre of the world."
The collections are the result of travels by Mr. Adler, son of the late Dr. Herman Adler, chief rabbi of London, in Egypt, Palestine, Algiers, Tripoli, Persia, Spain, South America, Turkey, ' the Balkans, Portugal and India, in the period between 1888 and IflOO. For years the treasure trove of ancient documents remained in a five-story house in Lon¬ don, where the items of the collection were catalogued and partly appraised by Mr. Adler.
Sold   to  Theological  Seminary
A short time ago, with Mortimer L. Schiff, taking the initiative, negotiations were begun to acquire the collections for American Jewry. The negotiations were conducted through Dr. A. S., W,
pliia,   well-knovvn   clealer, "wfi'o" volun-""'" teered his services.   Early in this year the collection was sold to the. Theologi¬ cal   Seminary   for   $125,000,   the   price making the collection a virtual gift.
In order that the sale might be made, Mr. Schiff contributed a sum said to have been more than 50 per cent of the total, while others who aided in bring¬ ing the collection to this country were: Louis Marshall, Felix M. Warburg, Daniel Guggenheim, Herbert Lehman, Jules E. Mastbaum, Jacob Epstein, Sol M. Stroock, Joseph Stroock, Nathan Miller, Feljjc Ful^l, Israel Unterberg and Henry S. Hendricks.
In scores of stout packing cases the books and the writings made the trip from London, arriving at intervals since the latter part of April, and even yes¬ terday eighteen of the packing boxes remained unpacked. What may be con¬ cealed in these, Dr. Marx this week would not even venture to guess, but the contents of other boxes piled high- on tables and overrunning the shelves in the seminary library have yielded many curious and rare shreds of Jewish history.
Some of the books dated back to 640 A. D., and the cowhide vellum pages of others span a wide range of interest from comments on the Jewish laws and elaborately illuminated and painstakingly written Bibles to astrology, bills of di¬ vorce, quitclaims and books throwing new light on the dark days of the Span¬ ish  Inquisition.
When Iiabella Reigned
The collections when they have finally been arranged and scholars have had opportunity to scan the pages of the past are expected to disclose new details of the tragic role of the Jew; in the in¬ tolerance of the Middle Ages. Especially rich are the collections in data on events in Spain and Portugal during the reign- of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. One of the documents is a list of Chris¬ tians suspected of having had cor¬ respondence with Jews ¦who had fled to Holland to escape persecution. Notes show that the suspected correspondents were liable to execution.
Royal decrees by the Spanish sover¬ eigns and dread orders;,issued'by the ¦ inquisition are in the collections, as are official records bound in souvenir form of autos da fe in the early seventeenth century, to which are attached carefully copied sermons preached by high digni¬ taries of the Catholic Cliurch on the oc¬ casions of execution, /
The plight of the Jew in Portugal in
the period from 1621 to 1640 when King
Philip  reigned  is outlined in  the 520
pages  of  180 documents,  virtually all
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