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Vnluim; XVII—No. 28
COLUMBUS, OHIO, July 13, i.j^4
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Strictly Confidential
Tid-Bit8        From       EverywheM nr PiiiNBAB J. BinoN
Entire World Jewry Mourns
Death of Bialik, Its
Greatest Poet
On the Boardwalk
At the Atlantic City Zionist Convention wc managed to get the real scoops of the J^Ioiiist front, which, strictly speaking, we confess, have little to do with the Pales¬ tine development.. .Well, we learned that Morris MarguHes, the re-elected secre¬ tary of the ZOA, will shortly be married to a charming young lady by the name of Riesa Halpcrin...And fascinating Mrs. Ezra Shapiro, wife of the acting mayor of Cleveland and daughter of So! Lam¬ port of New York, will move in the fall to a larger apartment with a sunny nur-, scry ...That the Biron report of some months ago to the effect that the Ludwig Lewisohns are preparing another bassinet were ill-founded.. .Jjudwig is beginning a weekly column, In the New York Ameri¬ can, which will deal primarily with liter¬ ary matters.. .That the report of the Zionist Organization of America, which the printer sliipped directly to Atlantic City, arrived wrapped In circulars an¬ nouncing a meeting led by William Dud- Icy Pellcy, chief and foundeir of the Amer¬ ican Silver Shirts. ..That Dr. Stcplieii S. Wise.did not attend the coiivciuiou, in order to punish the Zionists fpr their dis¬ loyal rejection of the Jewish World Con¬ gress plan.:.That, vindicating, our prog¬ nostication, Jimmy Wise came back from the Soviet Uriion very, ehtlmsiastic about . that country and the Jewish status there, aud intent on building an ideological bridge between Tel Aviv and Moscow... To this Jacob de Haas commented to Jimmy: "You will be hanging in mid¬ air between Palestine and Russia"... That Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky, who happened to be In Atlantic City 01: the first day of the convention, was very much tempted to attend a session... More Ocean Breezes Ludwig Lewlsohn's new fall book, "Toward Religion," will npt contain any mention of.the words "Jew" or "Jewish" ...That Louis Lipsky was, so bored.at the convention that he went to the rail¬ road station on'the morning of the sec¬ ond day to leave for New York, and was finally persuaded to return to Convention Hall... Morris Rothenbcrg watched the sunrise from the boardwalk on the morn after the convention, too weary to go to bed and ready to resign.. .Maurice Sam¬ uel won and then lost the Zionist bridge cliampionship, with Harry Glucksman as hjs partner...The most elegant woman at the Convention: Anita Case of Chicago and New York. ..The most interesting- looking woman: Mrs. Louis Goldring of New York...The best-dressed man at the press table: Meyer P. Steinglass of the Seven Arts.. .The busiest man at the con¬ vention: Abraham Goldberg, the Zionist ,leader...
And Salt Spray
The young man who .escorted Felix M. Warburg to the convention platform was his del Io-playing son Gerald...It may be an open secret, but few Zionists will ad mit that, the majority of the delegates were revislonistlcally tinted.. .When Berl Locker,. the labor leader, addressed the convention for two hours and was still ¦going strong, Nathan Straus, Jr.,. who was scheduled to speak next and who was getting fidgety about missing his train, remarked to his neighbor: "I kiiow that Locker lost his watch, biit I hope he has a calendar"...
About People Alessandro de Fano, Chief Rabbi ofj Milan, who just celebrated his STtli birth¬ day, was the Hebrew" teachi;r of Pope, Pins XI... We're told by St. John' Ervine, the British scribe, that Miss Evangeline Booth, the Salvation Army leader, Is of Jewish stock, according to her own, father, William Booth., , , .Dr. Samuel Margoshes, who when command¬ ing the propaganda activities of the American Jewish Congress knew better than any one else how to fight Goebbels, was urged by a delegation of eminent statesmen and judges to come back to the American Jewish Congress and put it back on the map...Congressman Samuel Dickstein's hunger for publicity is going to land him and some other gentlemen in trouble before long unless he puts a mute on his voice.. .Rabbi Sidney E, Goldstein of the Free Synagogue wants to have at least fifteen minutes elapse be¬ tween the issuance of the marriage li¬ cense and the marriage ceremony, to avoid future matrimonial trouble,,, A rather naive proposal, for the trouble starts after the ceremony, no matter when it takes place...There are rumors to the effect that Max Baer will not fight till the fall of 1935...The other day he expressed his intention of joining the Zionist Or¬ ganization of America membership.,, Herman Bernstein, the editor, may enter the political arena this fall as a candidate (pontintted on page 2)
VIENNA (WNS)—Not since the death of the immortal Dr, Theodor Herzl thirty years ago has the Jewish world: mourned the loss of one of its notable figures as It i.s now lamenting the sudden and untimely death of Chaim Nachman Bialik,'[)oet laureate of the Jewish peo¬ ple.,.^ Hailed as the greatest Hebrew poet of modern limes and regarded as the c()ual,of Ibh Gablrol and Jehudah Halevi, Bialik succumbed here to a heart attack, at the. age of (il. From every corner of the world messages of sympathy are pouring In on Biallk's family, while has¬ tily-organized memorial meetings arc be¬ ing held wherever Jews live. The body of the man whose impassioned poetry did so much to galvanize the struggle for Jewish emancipation and the return to Palestine, and who was called "the Jewish Wordsworth," will be transferred to Palestine for permanent burial.
Born in the town of Rady, in Volhynia, liussia, In 187^, Biahk was the son of an *« . . -..-..
THE GENIUS OF A PEOPLE
Recollections of Chaim Nachman Bialik
By MAURICE SAMUEL
The Jczaish zvorld is nwurni7ig the death of Chaim Nachman Bialik, greatest Ilebrczo poet of modern times, generally regarded as one of the outstanding fig¬ ures in the Hebrczv Renaissance move¬ ment of the first quarter of the tzvcHtieih ccnlury. This article has been zvritten exclusively for the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate and The Ohio Jezvish Chronicle by    Maurice    Samuel,    eminent    author
•hose English translations of Bialik's poetry are knozvn to the English-Jewish reading public tlie zvorld over. — The Editor.
Local Memorial Meeting to he Held Tuesday Eve,
A memorial meeting under the joint auspices of all Zionist or- ffanizatiom^ of Columbus, will he held Tuesday evening, July 17, nt 8 :!.'>, at the Schonthal Center. Rabl>i Leopold Greenwald, will speak on the life and work qf Chaim Nachman Bialik, and Dr. B. W. Abramson on Theodore Herzl.
The entire community is, in¬ vited to attend this meeting. Roy J. Stone. President of the local Zionist district,' will he chairman.
Once or twice I complained to hiiti that I was weary of making Zionist addresses, since, I said, "Ickach vert oich nimiis." He said to me; "Do you ever davcn?" My reply was: "No." He answered "Your father and grandfather and great¬ grandfather used to davcn every day, Maybe they too were weary of tt. But it was their dally exercise hi Judaism, For them too ij Ickach gevorcn niiinis. But they kept it up, and for the same reason you keep up your Zionist ad dresses." ¦
At the meetings at which I introduced
him, in English, he would sit listening
On   the   hundreds   of   thousands   who! stolidly.     He    understood   no    English.
knew him through his work or by re-[ Therefore the introduction was to bim a
pute, and still more to the thousands who 1 long wilderness of syllables dotted with
knew   him   personally,   the  news   of  the  the sound of his name, something like
passing of Bialik has produced the effect not of ,the disappearance of a human be
impoverished but learned storekeeper, Entrusted to his grandfather's keeping in 1S80, Bialik was early attracted by the Cabala and Chassidic literature. When he was 13 he entered the Volozhin Ye^ shIva, where he was exposed to the Ideas of Achad Ha'am and Yehuda Leib Gor¬ don. At this time he wrote hiS first poem. "To the Spring Bird." In 1905, when he had, already gained considerable note as a poet in' Hebrew literary circles, he settled in Odessa, where he helped to establish the Moriah Publishing House, an important factor in the Hebrew Renais¬ sance. He also contributed to Achad Ha'am's famous Hashlloach.
Bialik became an international Jewish; figure with the publication of his historic "In the City of Slaughter," an impas-i sioned poetic story of the Kishinev po-: groni of 1903. In that epic work he castigated the Jews for their submission and inspired them to self-defense and to a renewed and intensified yearning, for the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Bialik's writings were a major factor in the Hebrew revival. In 1021 he left Russia for Germany and three years later settled permanently in Palestine. There he reorganized the Dyir Publishing House. An unyielding Jewish nationalist, Bialik became the spiritual leader of the Hebraists. Most of his poetry was writ¬ ten before the war, for he felt that the terrors of that conflict had made a poet an anomaly in the modern world. In IDiid he visited the United States and was received by President CooUdge and given honorary degrees by the Jewish Institute of Religion and Jewish Theo¬ logical  Seminary.
NEW YORK (WNS) —Nation-wide memorial meetings and exercises were held throughout the country on July 12 to honor the memory of Chaim Nachman Bialik, whose sudden death in Vienna came as a shock to world Jewry in gen¬ eral and the Zionist movement in par tlcnlar.. The principal memorial meeting was held at Carnegie HaU under the au¬ spices of the Zionist Organization of America, Morris Rdthenberg, president of the Z. O. A., sent the condolences of Ainerican Jewry to the Jewish National Council of Palestine, where Bialik made his home.
Agudath  Achim  Sisterhood  to
Hold Picnic at Olentangy
Sunday, July 29th
The Sisterhood of the Agudath Achim Congregation wishes to remind again the Jewish community of Cohimbus that their annual picnic will be an event of Sunday, July 29, and will be held at Olentangy Park. Many attractive prizes will be given away. Remember to reserve Sun^ day. July 29.
Chaim Nachnian Bialik
ing from our midst, but rather that of some extraordinary natural cataclysm, like the suddcii and incomprehensible ex¬ tinction of a volcano. Even personal grief is overshadowed by a sort of aston¬ ishment. How could that which waa .Chaim Nachman Bialik cease to be?  '
For Bialik was a poet of immense and unique significance precisely because he was so much more than that. The re¬ motest fringes of his readers—even those who liad never come in contact with friends and acquaintances of his—felt it. Never was a man so little the litterateur and deliberate esthete; never was there such complete absence of *'art for art's sake"—that decorative attitude which transmutes the living experience Into,the graceful utterance.- , Life was so turbu¬ lent in him that It compcHcd him to utter himself, He was almost a poet against his will—as so many prophets have taken on the prophetic role against their will.
He had an immense, an almost fanati¬ cal love of life. He loved a thousand things and processes, and literature and poetry were for him one method of con-' ccntrating and repeating his enjoyment. He loved daily affairs, the management of matters, business, books, persons, or¬ ganization, conversation, and above all he loved his people, which was for him the matrix of all his forms of love and en¬ joyment. In fact, he loved life so much that he had to be, personally, something of an ascetic in order to restrain his boundless appetite. Bialik, who wrote such rebellions verse (in The Mathmid aud ill A Freiliclis) in favor of the un- trammeled, or at least the.joyously mun¬ dane life, was himself as simple as a her¬ mit. And even so, he always made the impression of living more furiously and more intensely than the most ardent self- conscious pursuer of "the full life."
All things fascinated him, and to all things he brought the happy and pene¬ trating insight of his joyous mind. Nor was anything so trivial that it did not elicit from him an illuminating comment of general value. I traveled fairly often with him during his first visit to America, speaking from the same platform, gen¬ erally to introduce him. I did my best, at that time, to give him some sort of sight into the nature of this American civilization, and one day I brought him a copy of the Saturday Evening Post. He asked me how much this two hundred page magazine sold for, I said, "The emuvalent of a piastre." He looked through the advertisements and said: "In Palestine, when we publish a magazine, we ask: How much dare we charge for it without losing readers? In America, when you publish a magazine, you ask: How little dare we charge for it without loshig advertisers? We live in opposite worlds."
"Mumble-nmmblc-mumble Bialik miwible' mumble Chaim Nachman Bialik mumble- mumble:.'." Once, in acknowledging the introduction, he said.; "I heard the speak¬ er leading me through unillumlticd cor¬ ridors." . And on another similar occa¬ sion he said: 'T felt like"a cat in a sack which a boy was belaboring." ! These pdd, delightful remarks of his peppered his ordinary conversation. , He Lould not make commonplace remarks. Once, at a Congress, he passed an arm chair In which a massive delegate, had wedged himself and fallen asleep. He said: "Look at that chairful of Jew Then he continued the conversation. He talked interminably, hours at a stretch. And he never uttered a dull remark. If one .interrupted him it was not for the purpose of arresting the flow of talk, was only in order to redirect it toward some particularly fascinating topic or which he had touched all too briefly. ¦ I recall deliberately these homely re¬ marks of his because they are of the man, and the man in this case explains ¦ the poet. When, by quite natural and, as it. were, unconscious transition, he passed from discussion of'homely things to the more ''exaUed" subjects of litera¬ ture and philosophy, he was seized by an Infectious enthusiasm; which converted his listeners to his own likes. At an Actions Conmiittee meeting in London some years ago he talked between sessions to a group of iis about an extraordinary .find he had made In the British Museum, a medieval Hebrew translation of that medieval chiinson dc geste. "Amadis of Gaul." He said, his face blazing: "If I would be left alone, with enough bread and water to keep me alive, in the British Muscimi, I would know vvhat happiness is."
He meant- it, so much so that he made us feel that this could be our ideal too. I i-epeat that he meant it, and yet his boundless delight In things made it jusl as untrue as it was true. ' He could be happy with anything, •for he could find in anything some universal principle which linked it with everything else.
This sounds like mysticism, and per¬ haps it is. But at least Bialik was proof that mysticism and the severest common sense are not, as Is vulgarly supposed, contradictory. He was the proof, too, that a keen and sensitive intelligence, even when linked with the most fastidious es¬ thetic'perception, does not divide a man from the seeming grossiiesses of our earthly being. And this explains why he who wrote "The Dead of the Wilder¬ ness," a sublime, Mtltonic fantasy, could also write "Lazar Mendel the Melamed,' and he who wrote the furious denuncia¬ tion of "The Cily of Slaughter" could also write the tender and, affectionate "Songs of the People," And this, agalii, Is of a piece, with the fact that the sweet est sliiger and most powerful epic poet which the Jewish people has produced in centuries could also be a first-class printer and an excellent business man.
For Bialik was not simply a genius. He was the genius of his people. He was folk. Often I, have thought that if he had never written a line he would, by the power of his personality, have es¬ tablished himself as a legend. And in¬ deed, there Is something about his stand¬ ing in Jewish history (and this already!) which has the same legendary touch about it as attaches to Herzl. Hundreds of thousands who have never read him were aware of hi? presence, or of a presence, in our midst. And he will live on by the double virtue of his utterances and his unforgettable personality.' When the first shock of dismay at the news of his death had passed, there came back a re¬ action of Intense gratitude that such a man hatl ever lived.
Denver Jews May March from I
Synagogue to Polls to      I
Avoid Date Conflict j
DENVER (WNS)—Denver's Ortho-j rlox Jews who want to exercise their! franchise at the primary election on Sep- ¦ tember U, the second day of Rosh Ha¬ shanah, may march directly from their synagogues to the polls and thus aypid violation of the holiday. The polls close at 7:17 P, M, and tbe boliday ends at sun¬ set, 0:16 P, M. Under Colorado laws all iiersons In the ijolliiig place before the dosing lioiir may remain until they have voted. It is bcliovctl this plan may be employed to prevent tlie disfranchisement of some D,000 Jewish citizens.
¦ NEW YORK (WNS)—Following the protests of the Jewish Sabbath Alliance that Septem'ber 10, tbe date set for the opening of the schools. Is the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Supcrititcndent of Schools Campbell has changed the open¬ ing date to September 11, the second day of the Jewish New Year. This "conces¬ sion" has not satisfied the Sabbath Alli¬ ance, and a further protest Is to be made, CLEVELAND (WNS) — Because Rosh Hashanah begins on September 10, the customary date for the opening of Cleveland schools for the fall term, the Cleveland Board of Education has post¬ poned the resumption of classes to Sep tember 12th.
B'nai B'rith to Campaign (or
25,000 New Members in
U. S. and Canada
All   Seven   Districts   to  Honor
75th Birthday of Alfred M.
Cohen October 19th
A nation-wide campaign for 25,000 new members ivill soon be launched by B'nai B'rith in honor of the 75th birthday of President Alfred M. Cohen, which occurs on October W. All seven B'nai B'rith districts in the United States and Canada will participate.
.The campaign will be personally con¬ ducted by Joseph Herbach of Philadel¬ phia, secretary of District No. 3 for the past 16 years. He will make his head¬ quarters at the national offices of B'nai B'rith in Cincinnati, beginning next week.
Mr. Herbach, whti has been active in organization work for more than 40 years,' is a member of the Supreme Advisory Council of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B'nai B'rith's junior auxiliary for boys between 16 and 21. He was a member of the Directorate of the Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia for a decade, during which time he was chiiirman of the Bureau for Jewish Children. He has also been active in the work of the Home- wood School, formerly known as the He¬ brew Sheltering Home, an Institution for the care of children,, serving that institu¬ tion for 18 years as secretary and for five years as president. He is now its hon¬ orary president.
< Mr. Herbach is likewise honorary di¬ rector of the Federation of Jewish Char¬ ities In his city. He has contributed numerous articles on a variety of subjects to periodicals, and was the founder of the Anglo-Jewish weekly, "The Philadelphia Jewish Times," as well as its editor for five years.- Tn addition, he edited the "District No. 3 Chronicle" of B'nai B'rith for eight years. He is an able speaker ami noted for ¦ his ability to plan and organize.
Situation in Germany Tense with Rumors that New Pogroms Under Way
BERLIN (WNS)~While the political situation In Germany continues tense and- the status <)uo remains unchanged, with Hitler in complete control of a cowed country, the future of the Jews under the new conditions precipitated l>y the abor¬ tive revolt Is believed to rest in large measure on the outcome of thu emergency conference of Nazi party chieftains now being held at Flciisburg. .This conclave Is determining the immediate policies of the Nazi regime and is also said to be considering whether the Reich should continue Its uncompromising anti-SbmitIc campaign. Informed observers believe, however, that the government has no in¬ tention of abandoning its anti-Semitic stand but that, on the contrary, any in¬ tensification of Germany's economic and political difficulties will result in a new and more active wave of anti-Semitism.
Meanwhile, sensational and conflicting rumors concerning pogroms arc current here, with the ironclad censorship mak¬ ing it impossible to determine the com¬ plete truth.' From the provincial centers conic reports of a renewed anti-Semitic drive said to approach pogrom propor¬ tions. One dispatch said that four per¬ sons, believed to be Jews, were killed In Silesia "for attempting to escape while being transported." Other reports say there has been a wholesale slaughter of Jews in the provinces, while In Silesia a panicky flight ot Jews is said to be under way.
From sources generally regarded as re¬ liable It is learned that no Jews were implicated in the recent sensatlonaL po¬ litical developments, but the Deutsche Zcitung is attempting to stir up the popu¬ lace against the Jews by hinting that JeWs were mixed up in the Rochm^ Schleicher plot. Other Nazi jpapers carry huge headlines charging^ that Jewish money financed the suppressed storm troop rebellion. Calls to strengthen the boycott against Jews have been issued throughout the country. In^ Prussia the ministry of the interior'issued an order forbidding Jews to change their names without permission. Such permission will be granted only when present names are ridiculous and if the new names are dis¬ tinctly Jewish. The decree is aimed at preventing efforts to camouflage non- Aryan origin by the adoption of Aryan names.
In the belief that the situation of the Jews will be no better.under the purged Hitler regime, nineteen German textile factories, owned by Jews, are rushing preparations for moving to England. Permits to transfer these plants have been Issued by the British Home Secre-^ tary. These Jewish textile manufacturers , were engaged ^n an annual export busi¬ ness of $5,OQO,O00.
There are many people in. Germany, however, who believe that the alorm troop revolt actually prevented a nation¬ wide series of pogroms. Many of the executed storm troop commanders were responsible for a good deal of ant(- Semltic violence. It is also pointed out that the Nazis wilt now be too busy with other, more pressing problems to empha¬ size continued anti-Semitism.
Broad St. Temple Sisterhood Announces Program of Events
(Dn Monday, July 9, the Finance Com¬ mittee of the Broad Street Temple Sis¬ terhood met at the home of Mrs. Sam Fine, 8-11 Fairwood avenue, at which time ph-ins for the coming season were dis¬ cussed. Air organizations are asked to please take notice of the following an¬ nouncements: Sunday, October 7, Sim¬ chas Torah supper; October —, rummage sale; Sunday evening, Nov. .4, dance; Monday afternoon, Dec. 9,' Channukah supper.
Monthly luncheon bridge parties will also be included on the schedule of events for the coming season.
INFANTS* HOME OF OHIO
The officers and board niemt)ers wish to thank Mr. E, J. Goodman for the lovely outing at the Hughes Farm at Mouut Air which he planned for the kiddies; to Mrs. Dave Urade who enter¬ tained the children with a party in honor of her nephew, Gilbert Marshall, who celebrated his birthday anniversary,
The children a.re also grateful to Har¬ riette Jean Tobias fpr her kind treat, and
N. Y.  Rabbinate Joins War Against Indecent Films
NEW YORK (WNS)—New York's rabbinate, represented by Rabbis Sidney K. Goklstein and William F. Rosenblum, lined up with the Catholic and Protestant clergj- In voting to cooperate with the nation-wide Legion of Decency campaign, against unclean films. Following a con¬ ference attended by two ministers of each faith it was decided to create a permii- nent and larger inter-faith body to deal with all questions concerning public morals. The methods for cooperating with the Legion of Decency remain to be worked out. Rabbi Goldstein was del¬ egated to take steps to arrange a con¬ ference between the film producers and the clergymen.
Ladies' Free Loan Meeting
The Ladies Free Loan Society will hold their regular meeting Tuesday eve¬ ning, July 17th, at 7:30 o'clock in the meeting hall of the Agudath Achim Syna¬ gogue. All members are urged to be present.
Ezras Noshim Meets Sunday
The Ezras Noshim Society will hold their regular meeting Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, in the vestry rooms of the Agudatli Achim Synagogue. All menibers holding picnic tickets are urged to be present at this Sunday's meeting for final check-up.    At this time also a
to Mrs. Harry Frosh for the contribu- definite date will be [set for the broQch
tion of clothing. raffle.