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cf)tcrrc,o Je(L)rsb blstoplcol soctexy socrcta nec/J/s DECEMBER LOCALREACTItlNS TO KRISTALLNACHTTOPIC OF DEC. I8 I,IIETING ]-,IINSKYFUND TO FIIIANCEPUBLICATIONS Speokerot EmonuelKnew Life Both ONCHICAGO JEWISH HISTORY In Nozi Germony,Here in Thirties List Detoils for Submissionof The eflect of the Kristallnacht out- rage upon the chicago Jewish community of flonuscripts;Mony Send Donotions 19lB y'lill be the topic of lhe Society's Plans have been finalized for the next meeting, Lo be he 1d Sunday afternoon, operation of the Doris Minsky 14emorial Fund np.pnhF. lA .t Fmrn,,Fl l^.n.rcd^tinn ThF q..iorv DOI'IATIOIISTOARCHIVES SHED LIGHT ONJE|{ISH LIFE DURING lgth CENTURY f,lementosBrins Activities 0f Buriol Societies,Lodges into Focus Ite-s recent ly do.a ted to lhe Society for the Chicago Jewish Archives bring to mi.rd sone inLeresting features of Chicago Je!,rish life in the nineteenth century. The donations recall the numerous sickness re- lief and burial societies urhich made earfy Jewish cemeteries a virtual patch!,lork of mini-burial grounds, the tendency of new Prrri qn.ioiw ^l le!,/ish orgd'izaLions to oe for-po by seced- awards donated ing from earlier ones and the lormer multi- for the Archives plicity of Jewish fraternal groups or Photo by Nor- lodges. manSchwartz ItemS given by Mrs, Henry Novy hiere lhree medal s a.d a r:obo^ baoge prese.reo German Jews Vllho found themselves unwelcome to her grandparents, Samuef and pauline in lhe larger fraternal orders such as the !^litkowsky, by the sick relief and burial Masons o. 0dd Fellol^ls. They i.n turn proved socieLy, ahebra Kadis^a Lbiaur Cho li-, L-aL initially un!aelcoming to Eastern European he helped to found in 1851. Jews, who then formed several fraternaf Society !ias Splinter croup groups of their oI^]n, The Knights of J.,eo ..", _n r-- ld t--en io-eo .aLegor). 'f3i srciet!, stiil iir as ieacers are urged to remember the Chi- the Chicago Hebrew Benevolent Society,-xisle,ic.. l/vas cago Jewish Archives !l]henever they consider itself a splinter qrouc lhal had seceded cisposinq of meterials urith local Jer,!ish froir :i- ealljer Hebre!1 Bene!olent Socjery. connections. Such j tems, although no long_ The earlier group l,!as in turn lormed by a er oi interest to the current olrtner, are groLrp of " Pol i sh-Pru s si an,' Jews afiiliated often of considerable value to students of with the city's second synagogue, Congrega- Jewisl- historV and s^ou lo oe preserved. The tion B'nai Sholom. Sociely r,,Ji11 be pleased to col.lect and Bolh of the societies established bur- evaluate such materiafs, --Norman Sch!,lartz i.l nr.,,nrle :l ihp em.l l .Fmpttrrw nn lhp southe"st co rrer o" Cl ar< street and T rvl-1g HinskyFund Aword (Cont,cJ) Park Road, knol/vn as Je!aish Graceland. Icontinued from previous pageJ f.lemento r Anyone 1s ellgtble tor the aiard includlog of EarlV FraternaL Lodqe non-Society nembers. AIso give- Lo the Archives recently 2. The subJect must deat Nith Chtcago Jerlsh Nls_ was a volune of by-. aws, pub I ished bo Lh in ,. It nus t be essentlally a nei contrlbuiton to V i.l.l iqh .^.1 Fn.l i(h nf fho parpt2 | nd.c the study of Chlcaqo Jerl sh history. 4. Ihe connlttee No. 99 of the 0rder of the Knights of Jos- NttI be rlexlble as to the sub_ Ject hatter and type or mate.tal subnttted. rhtle cnh Thc .1n^nr ic navid Ber.sLein. monographs sre preferred, the funds nay €lso be used The Knights of Joseph was one ol many for sp€c1al exhlblts, programs, school oaterials, ar- notated (a^o blbllogiaphles, etc. under the purvler or the fraternal o rders enrol I i1g Jedish men pr0crsms of the soclety. freqJenLly !^romen in a1 auxiliary) 'ormed 5. To be ellgjble fo! fundlfg, a. essenttally ri' rin^ '\F lellp- r-:lf of the nineLeenLh conpleted monogrEph nust be sub6l!ted Lo the codmtt_ cenlJrv. The lodge5 b,ere Iargely socia.l in 6. The monog!aph should be unde. l5,O0O ,orcrs nature although the solidarity thev e^gen- although exceptlons can be frade. 7. dered was also reflected in business, poli- lt ls antlclpated that one a,ard Ntll be nacte annually anountlng to about $1,?00. tn certatn sltua_ tical and charitable activities. tlons that amo!nt nay be increased by addltlonat funct_ lng fron outslde sources or fram the 5ociety itself. -heir development is a'r inLeresting 8. The arard slll be used .largely to pay for the rcflpr-l'nn of r.omm'rnilV relaLions at Lt-e cost of pLrbllcatlon of the nonoqraph. time. The first successful Jel,1]ish ones, 9. Ihe commlttee rlIl be solely r€sponslble Ior n.rf i.,rl:r-l v Rrnai Rrith and the free Sons selectlng the ann!al arard reclptenl. 10. Publlcatlons rill be copyrlghted by the Chl(a- Tcr:61 l-^.mo- h uy ^^.1 -dIIrvr g go Jerish Hlsto!lca-l 5oclety. -f ",4.o 'u, '-- TRACINGYOUR FAI+IILY ROOTS IS PROBABLYEASIER THAN YOU THINK OctoberSpeoker Tells CJHS MembersHow To Get Storted A fasclnated audience heaxd Judith Frazin expla jn that you don' t have to be a Daughter ol the American Revolution to know about your ancestry and learn about your f^milvic rnnf< Mr< Fr^-:^ c^vc I L rrl Jewish genealogy, gave a lecture-slide show presentatio'r aL the FaIl CJHS meetjng at Temple Sholom on 0ctober 7, A dynaF ic and interest ing speaker, she discussed the several I'Jays that children and grandchildren of Jewish imnigrants from Ce-tral and Eastern Europe could learJ. more about lheir ancestors. Using her own iami- 1y as an exanple, she described how she Judith Frazln spoke on tracing family roots at the made use of resources avallab1e lo the ama- 0ctober meeting tFrrr nFntalnnic.t uitn intFrFct i^. .n.l ,'n- Photo bY Moselle sch!'/artz iormative results. As she spoke of rele- possible. vant shtetls in Furope and ^amed ships carrying immigrants to the LJnited States lhe Soeaker uJas introduced by Society nearly a century ago, there were comments Program Chairman Burt Robin and the social of recognition and jde.rtification from mem- hour was hosted o/ Pospital ity Chair'nan bers of the audience, Shirley Sorkin. The Societyrs nel,1l presi- A teacher of Spanish |l'lho is eurrent denl, !,,alter Roth, presided over his first president of the Je!,/ish cenealogical Soci- nFnar.I moot i nn ety of Illinois, Mrs . Frazin has located a --I. J. Suloway number of available resources such as con- c..!l ar rF.nr.i< finm F,,rnr^ vPc or ru >,rP Pdr>c,,- "society News"}lill Be RevornPed, ger lists !,rhich may be used by persons in- 'Fr os'Fd in tr-,n.i-n thair roots. She aISo AcquireNel,{ Nome Next Yeor commented on the importance of intervie!4ing nl.lFr f:hilv mpmhAr< .n.i ro.^r.lind thair This is the 'inaI issue of societv reminiscences while such a.tivitv rcmai^c NeV]ls. The Chicago Je!,lish Historical Socie- tv . ra.ont h^.r'l mpFfinn .iF.i.lFl.i tn rename ano revamp Lhe appearance of Society }'lelcornesNew ltlembers the pubfication, which it started when the Society |,,las lormed j.o 19/7. The chi cago Jewish Historica.I society Beginning !,/ith its llrst 1989 issue, 'dp1.nmF. fh. fal lnwinn members Who have '^_ th6 c^-i6fr ."..1-orlv h'i_r dPPcd! dr Lr'rLo- in:nFrl .rrrin^ thr n^st few ,lonths. Their qo JeI^lish History. It will a1so, it is mpmhFrsh:n ic nrnnf cf in their i.ltereSt hoped, present a more professional forfilat preserving the history of Je!,lish chicago and appearance. I1 will continue Lo oub- part thaL a^d t'reir des.ire to become a of l.is''] botn articLes on chicago Jewish his- ef f ort. tory and ne!,rs of Society activities. Steve Earnett Dorls & Fred Lubet "changing the name of our quarterly llchael F. Bellors Thonas R. Meltes hill r...ani7- rnF fe.t that it is nuch rerllyn Natatle Pelser Gerald d Epsteln qive C. EsJersteln Cordon Lee Pollock more than a newsletter and a clearer Lynn Se!€ Frrckman Gsyle E. Rlley indica Lion of the quality of histotical ar- r,4arton & Earl Rosenstein Seleste F. Ge!sten t i.lF<. i n i l " c,ei ri P"p<,ident I'Jalter Rott-. lli & Mrs Harry Heller Herbert L. Roth Seymour S, flolleb Barbara & Edrard stone The ne!! chicaqo Je!,vish Historv, like Irs (ersh Andy & Claudla Z|elq its predecessor, ,^relcomes ma'uscripts d-d --l"larian Cutler nemoirs of 1ocal Jeiaish hislory !,thlch !,rould .^nA.I t^ r mamhar Congregotion0bserves 70th Yeor The history of Congregation B.nai As Areoond fYlembershipChonge Zion, here retold in connection rith its seventieth anniversary, is necessarily a by Nathan Hoffman bittersreet one. It relates hor a smal1, optimistic group of nen created a nei, suc- Congregation B'nai Zion, a Conserva- cessful synagogue in a ner neighborhood for tive conorenei inn in thF Rnnp r< P^ rk npi nh- Jeis and even helDed to hnrhnn'j i< lw create a ner branch -^_r':^^ ''rrrant of Judaism. But, like life in general, the tleth anniversary, |/JhiIe an area synagogue life of a synagogue is not rithout prob- marks a new decade oi existence just about Iens, perils and ineyitable change. lha .nni vor.^rv f.. Rrn.i ./idn Nathan Hoffman, the conqregation,s unofficial his- merits attention of those interested in torian, has ritnessed firsthand much of local Jewish history for three reasons .in rhat he recounts. parlicular. tistory B 'nai Zion -ade by bei-lg the airplane had successfully fIo!,rn lhe Atlan- l-i rci .^nc..u:f i\,6 cv^.^^6,'a in .hi^..n. il Lic 0cean For the first time. Ihe prohibi- ic a nn^-r.nat I on ahi^a was established and tion amendment had j ust become effective. ne pre- has rema ined in d iqhbor"ood never Jack Dempsey had defeated Jess l./illard to dominantly Jewish despite a sizabfe con- become the heavyweight champion of the tingenl of Jeu/s; ano it is a synaqogue world and inauguraLe the golden decade of whieh has adapted successfully, so far, to This ther das the backdrop of demographic change oi the sort that has de- those times. feated congregations. other Its history is Three men aifectionately kno!,!n as the thus both interestlng and instructive. three muskeleers, Herman Spivak, Edward :rOwth oi Roqers Park Steii and JoseFh Fr.iedman, met at the home o' tr.e Iast d^o p lanced t1e organ izat ion of B'nai Zion's home has alyJays oeen.in a congregation. At that time services |t',ere Rogers Park, lhe northernmosl cityrs neigh- being conducted at the home oi Joseph borhood along the leke, approximately Friedman on Saturday mornings. l,llth Herman a nile f d-d one-haI souare a-d lm-eoiatelT Spivak as iLs first president and Joseph south of Evanston. The grel/,J area slo!a1y c r iedman as vice p,ceside.t (he Later became until f907, !1hen the efevated lines were lhe seco-d pfesioent), the congregat ion was extended to it from the Loop and the Jesu- started with a menbership of sixteen fami- iLs shortlv a ftc ru{ards established _oyola University there. Al that time Rabbi Abraham L. Lassen 0ccupied originally persons by of cer- !,ras in Chicago to present a speech at a nan and lr.ish backg rounc, Roge rs pa r, !1as Zionist convention. He !,Jas a rabbi in fiain.Ly an area of single-family homes with Evansville, lndiana, where he had been for o.ly a handful oF Jel^s LrnLil ao apartrne.t- a ']Limber of years. Born in Russ ia, he had building boom during the period 19l-O-1"920. atLe-ded l*e Je$rish Theo.Iogjcal Seminary In that decaoe it5 pooulation gre,/r fron and !!as ordained. The three musketeers 7,000 to 27,OOA, Among the 1e!! drriva.Is orevailed upon hin to become the g.roup's were socially mob.ile Eaet European Jews a1- first rabbi, a decision immensefy important +-lte ready moving frorn !iest Side into other to the new organization. ahi.^d. .^mm,nitioc Start ol Conservative Judaism A Time for 0ptlmism Charlie 0liff and his famity had moved I t !!as at the close o f this decade to Rogers Park in 1921. They joined the yl,hen a refatively small number of Jel^,s liv- ne!,] Conserval.ive synagogue even though parL irg in a still sparsely sett Ieo Rogers Charliers father l/.las an 0rthodox rabbi. rtr.^.ni,cd thF noF.l fnr 'e- d Prdrc ru wu!5,,rp. After all, Conservative Judaisn was a Generally, 1919 llras an optimistic time for struggling new movemeot and the points of those Jews lliho ltJere able to leave the l,flest di fferences betuieen it and 0rthodoxy were qn^eI S' ic Anrl rFl n.afF in S paIk. not definitely dra!,1n. 0riginally these 191,9 l/.las a good year. differences |''jere just a question of treaty to end the "!,/ar to end all wars!' !!as speaking English rather than yiddish in the rati"ied by iajor oarLies and s i gneo. A'r synagogue and erercisj ng great er control ....1.''. ffi r? lrfr I li''i:t;t over the decorum of the congregants during |/.lhen there were enough children to services. lhjs included an attempt to read f^rF . +F. ',^, -r^,,^ becaqle director of rrio ...vor< tndFthar r:ihor th.n the J.D.C. ( Jewish Dillgent Children) and eac-l congreganL cha.ting his ow.r praye r in- suoervised the ir dttenda.ce at f r iday .ighr dependenlly. services. 14eanwhile Rogers Park's Jewlsh Rabbi Lassec noL only set Lhe stan- population cont inLed to grow oy and darcs for Conservalive prac Lice aL B'.aL -teaps bounds, reaching 10,000 by 19 r0 and about / io^; he a lso estao t jsheo the central body to reach toward 20,000 by 1945- for the Conservative movement in the Mid- w-"1 rhc firqi ^16 Kristollnocht Outroge Culminction A sfudy of 1oca1 headlines for the 0f Terrible YeorHere ond Abrood yed r 19fB reveals a string oF events Iead- -19 to Krisrallndchr in a mancer that can hc u,'u- r daJr,,9 '^+^nsification events of 19J8 from the ne!,lspape!s and firag- ' of the a.,ines circ.ilaLi^g in cnicago ano 1ow he boycott of German goods, this last a con- rp..ttrrl Al' thrt t imo lho .i l-v ..niiinp.l troversial issue. the second largest Jewisr commJn.ity in Individual acts of assistance were Am6.i.r. it h..c rl AFliaf F,v n.n-rrh l- I !ncl..ll. l^roro .ro a"r Rrnthcrqr KpFnpr<"--ThF p,,hli^ eF ChicosoJews' Reoctions to Terrible yeor lgJg (Cont,cl) [Continued from previous page] preoccupled Chicago Jell.ls. In 193/ the Re- emigration to Palestine and other coun- port of the British Royal Commission for tries." (l'4adagascar was a destination la- Palestine recommended partltion of the vored by the Poles. ) Tne press carried country. The immediate eflect !.ras to di- storles of special benches" for Jetxs at- " vide all e.lements in Palestine into parti- tending Polish colleges and of the boycott tition and non-partition camps. This also of Je, ish bus i^esses o rder ed by the oolish occurred among Chicago Jewry. Numerous ar- authorities, At that time there were near- ticles and editorials spoke on the issue. 1y I , 000 Jews in Poland. ,000 At the Jewish Agency meet.ing held in London Conference on Refugees Fails in [4arch, 19JB, the majority ol American non-Zio. ist s represenreo oy Feli" 14. har- The papers recalled thal in June, burg ooposed oartitio^. vr. bJaroJrg de- 19r7, Rabbi Stephen !Jise and olher Jewish clared, I'r{e believe L^aL ro la5Li,g oeace leaders had met !'rilh Cordell Hul1, Sec.et- in Palestine can be obtained until the par- ary of State, to seek American assislance tiF< .il.p.llv n.mal\, tho lo"c .n.l in protesting the anti-semitic actions ol ^ffp.rFd the Arabs, have been given a fu 1l opportun- the PoLish governme^t, but despi te that, .iLv to enoeavor to arrive at a peacer-I artl-semitic acLS vieTe becoming dorse. As understandi ng. " an indicalion of this Polish policy, at the tv:an-les-Ba jns refugee conference in France during June, f938, cal1ed by the The opposing positions attracted a Jni ied States and other govern-e-ts Lo help great deal of attention in the Jeurish pub- the refugees of Europe find haven after the lications. An anguished editorial by Lud- Austrian invasion, the Polish governfltent !,rig LeL',1isohn appeared jn The Senlinel insistec on t^e r e s e t i .1e fn e n : ol 3t leasi " " an varci fl, atlack.ing lhe anti-Zionists tC, CC0 ol its ie!!s a year. for opposing tne Zionist leader Chaim bte.iz- The Evian conference for which the fnann. The editorial attacked the anti-Zi- -".cd.'c ore): c. :-:':dI-. '"d q-ea. rooe. o is: ".: - l, i.-i,t -orc-,, lmpedi.lg t-r-eo .-Lo a o:,.si:r Country aiter "5 the creatlon of a Je!1lish state urhich country, .including the U.S.A,, whose quota could serve as a haven for Je|^1s. He wrote, for all immigrants from Poland remained a "Do you !,tant to l,liait ti11 a ne!,1 l,,lorld t,.]ar mere 5,000 per year, indicated that rs on us and you cannot rescLte the Jel,11lsh lhey we re not |xilling to c-ange Lheir im--- youth of cermany, Austria, poland, Rumania? gration .La!,rs to help t.he refuEees. 0r don't you want to rescue that youth at It should be noted that the Nazis later of- all?" The final resolution of the Jewislr ten cited with glee the Evian con fetence as Agenc y meet:-g v!d, a compro-ise des igned to prooi that the l/vorld did not want the Jews seek further negotiations yrith the British. of Germany. In any event, by the early months of Rumanian Je!,ls Also Threatened IqlS t-ere h,ere reoorts o' widespreac fighllng in Palestine between the British Rumania l,llas also often in the nev]ls in and the Arabs and increased the early part of 19fB, In December ol the tension between the Arabs arrd the Jews. The papers orevious yea r 0ctavian Coga had taken over report_ ed that in June, t9fB, the (Ben as premier oF Rumania, heading a rpgj-'1e first Je!,/ Joseph ) to be executed by the whose avowed purpose was the destruction or British was hanged in Acre prison for expUlsion of the Jel,1ls. In early 19lB the shooting at an Arab bus. The pattern was a.Lso oress reoorted o^ the lighLning rapidity of evolving in Palestine. his anti-Jewish 1a!,ls during his six See End ol Eu.opean llieeks in power. King Carol linally dis- Jewr, missed Goga in February, but for the Je|lvs The macabre world seene |llas concisely of Rumania pattern the had been set for the summed up in an editorial by Itilliam Zuck_ f ror Rumania, jl.e r.e!!'' uture. I oLher erman published in The Sentinel on April 5, countries such as Hungary and Czechoslo- 1938, headlined, i'Is European Je!,rry Fin- vakia, there l^Jas under U.S. lal/i virtually is hed?'r Zuckerman |t'lrote, ',Thus there is no immigration allotment at all. not nol,^ra Jeu/ish community in Europe that palestine The Jewish community 1n llias can come to the succor of the Austrian a.Lso under s iege in 938, a.d i rs problems JeVvs. Perhaps salvation lies with American Je!rry. European Je,{ry cannot stand up to the ne$ tragedy.,' Beginning in June , 1918, The Chicaqo Tribune carried almost daily front-page articles about attacks on Jews in Berlin and other cerman cities. -fhe Tribune,s coverage of events 1n Germany during this perrod was remarkable in its clarity as it revea.led in graphic detail the fury being unleashed at the Jews of Germany. Consid- ering the lact that Robert R. McCormick, the publisher of The Chicaqo Tribune, sup- ported Hltler as a bastion against the "Communist menace,,, yvas an isolationist and detested the Brltish, these articles on the plight of the Je!,Js in cermany are astonish- ing. Tribune Correspondent Reports Fully They were lllritten by The Tribune's Bureau Chie f in Berlin, Sigrid Schultz, who though born in Chlcago had lived in Germany ior many years and had ]ong been a trusted reporter for the Trlbune. She was openly critical of the Nazis in her articles, and her reporting of the events in cermany gave Chicagoans a most direct v.ie!^, of the German rampage. After American A Jel,llish entry into biorld War II in 1941, Sch!1tz shopkeeDerin Berlin sweepsuD DIOKEN after Kristallnacht returned to America and in her book GermanV llill Try Aqain, published in 1944, urged Flqht a Sourqe of Pride, Conllict the total dlsmantling ol the country, The unrelenling ^el^ of overseas trag- The agony of German Je!1ry lllas spelled edies was interrupted by one great not out on an almost daily basis on the 1i truly significd.r rnome.t, a seer i^g Lriumph page s oi The Chicaqo Tribune. For example, of good over evil, which next to the ne|,.rs that Johnny Vander l"teer occurred on June 22, 19JB, in Yankee Stadium, york: had pitched his second succes sive no-hit Nel/,i the second Louis-Schmeling fight. This fight gaflre in five days for the Clncinnati Reds also illustrates the conflicting on June I6, 1,9i8, |Iras Schultz' column about views af- fectirg Chi cago Jel,|lry t,lljth respecr to the the lerrorizing of the Jews of Berlin. anti-German boycott, one of the few Naz i ganQS wer e roaming the sLreeLs, at- !,/eapons ava.ilable to those Americans tacking Je!,rs and Je!,/ish businesses. Je|/.ls |,llishing to light Nazism. yllere driven out of movie theaters and some 0n January 5, 1938, The were arrested. There were reports of Sentinel's I hpn en^ri. , rrv deportations to Buchen|,1iald, 'ia concentra- ^^l"hnr'c+ ^upL tlon camp,I' column 'i0ur Sport |/llorld,' !,trote about l"Jichael Strauss Jacobs (a Jew and 0n JJne lB and 19, 1918, front-page boxing bigwig at the time ) and the staging of the headlines spoke of the "Berlin lJar on second fight bet!,reen f.1ax Schmeling and Jevis". Schultz reported thaL fifLy Jeuiish Joe L ouis. T're Jer!ish boyco LL organizatio|.s stores had been smashed in Berlin and tl,'llo !,rere urging hc", .^n.anir:fi^n .rmn< io. h,ri I I a boycott of the fight, which Chicago i i h^ + + h6 lo-,c q.^h',1 i 7 was then trying to 1and, but Kup- ^--^-uorvo r(.lir^^ o9orrrJ L -d^ cinel questioned the u,/isdom of such a !!rote, was someho|t'Jsaid to have been pro- boy- cott, s.ince sports had little lo do with voked by the Czechs. The American Jewish politics. t'I am for it," he wrote, i!ex- Yearbook for I9tB-1939 sJggests that the cept in sports.,' disorders lllere a Nazi device to impress Had a Jel^jish Manager nrr I i. i nent rhc Fvian confereoce that schmelino " ^f L'ie Nazis !!ere serious about rl-eir policV 0n lvay Kup reported that Mike of driving the Je!^/s out of Germany. lcontinued on next page] 10 ChicosoJews' Reoctions to Terribleyeor 1938(Cont,d) IContinued from previous page] elections were being hetd in Chicago, the Jacobs had scheduled the fight for Ner,/ york Kristallnacht riots were beginning in Cer_ and stated that he y,/as not {orried over the many. Under The lribune's banner headtine of boycott. I n hi s col umn on Vay 1? , Kup electicn results on Novenber l0 carne a uJrote that Joe iYossel', Jacobs (a Jew |/,/ho secondary headline, ,'Mobs U,Jreck Je|1lish had been and t4as Schmelingrs manager but no Stores in Berlin,,' over a story by Sigrid relation to Mike ) had just returned from Schultz, 0n November Il under a banner Germany and i'Jas spreading the "hooey" that front-page head.Iine 'rHitler Seizes 20, OO0 Jet'!ls were not being mistreated there. 0n Jews,'r Schultz wrote an eyewitness account May 26 Kup reported that there !,ras a fifty- nf ihp .ip But some of the reporting was strange. chairman of the House committee investigat- Henry Luce' s L i fe magazine o f November 28 , ing "un-American activities. " The Tribune l93A n^rr"iFri sFvpr.l nrnac nf ni.t,,rFe nf also editorialized that it did not favor the destruction in cermany. But on the changing immiqration restrictions, even in nFrt naoF fhprp ChicosoJews' Reoctions to Terrible Yeor 1938(Cont'd) lcontinued from Previous Page] for its cessation because the boycott was available lo tne masses--the boycoLt of .arr. i nn .lif lpr in l aqh out at Cerman Jews. German-made goods and services." Interest- l^lith qu iet diplomacy and pleadings, as in pn.lnh innlv fhF npnFnber issue made no the past, the Nazis flright not have acted so special reference to Krista I Lnacht . violently against the Jews, "Not only the ManV Local Je!.ls 0ppose BoVcott German Jews, but Jews all over the world h^vr hpFn ir.n^rri iTpd rr he wrote. Yet the boycott movement elicited op- .lrnps annr-Fnt rat i nn rl.S. posj tion fron many Chicago Je|/rs, as it did ^n Anti-SemitiSn from other Amerlcan Je!,/s and, initi.ally, It uiould be far oelter, he felt, if perhaos under duress, fron Cernany's Je!,rs the Jer{ish leaders concentrated on anti- the"rse.Ives. For example, the boycott issue semitism in the Uniled States rather than jts and impact on Lhe Louis-Schreling iight "heroically attackj ng Hitl er verDally from has already been discussed. Amer.ica." The A.erican Jewish Committee, In I9l9 Bernard Horwich, a beloved hrote Fo rw ich, was opposed to the boycoLt, elder of the Chicago Je!,/ry, publis.red hj s as was its great leader Dr. cyrus Ad1er. biography, f,1v EightV Years. Hor!,/ich had And it !aas the commlttee, !1hich vvas oxgan- been born in Russian Lithuania in 1861, ized in 1907 after the Kishinev pogroms, Iived for a fe!,t years as a young nan in that had direct connections with similar Fac' Pr,rqsie en.l ir.min.ated to the JniLed urqd,,rzdLru The B'nai Brith SLaLes ir 1880. He |,1las president of the and the American Jewish Joint Distribution ah i..nn qa.t i nn nf tha 7:^^r ur 9d fzaLfurl Comnittee also did not approve the boycott, of America from' 1898 to I901, hao been the according to Horr.lich. first president of the Federated Jev,lish n9o1 o, u o9dr'-^'- his ' '^-!,ric\ reiterated Charities of chicago and uras an active view that the boycott had been more leader in the Arrrerican Jewish Comrrrittee. He harmful Lo I're Je!1S of Gerrany than bene- hF..rro ha.r an inmancol v SUCCeSSfUI manUfaC_ ficial ThF n.t Hn-|r|ich con_ t-rer d-d balrer 6^0, wit' il, a ^oted c1!ded in his book, "shoLrld be one of de- philanthropist. fFn.iihn :n. n^t nifpniii.^ u- 9..,.wt u)L Icaor,l Active Antl-Nazi Steps criticized a demeanor and conduct that wi.11 unceasing- 1y appeal to the conscie.ce of the world. his pub- In the conclusion of oook, l,Je unceasi"gly drop aIl aggressiveness jch "nust Iished a fter f4u^ and Kristallnacht, Por- .n.l ToetnrF in itc .n .dp-^l.l n^l i- Dra|,1 a Few ^1..a wich added a chapter ca11ed "I cv nf rrli n'li fi p.l pnrlr'r'ancer . . . .our ain iS ann.l,r<.innc'r Amnnn ihe conclusions that rnf !^ des! rnv Hitrari<.m but to survive it. he drew !!as that some of our Jewish uF .an.nt 'lpcl rnv N^7ism. That is lhe Ieaders very unuJisely" t^rhen the "acted !,!orldrs job, and let us hope it !,ril1 be ac- regime suddenly and u.expectedly "Hitler ^nmnr icho., ,h-+ iS the sort of fell the Je!,Js like wild beast. He upon " fight to wl-ich we must devote our energies in f-.allF.l th:t thF nest whe- there Were r''^c .^.1 .d.i^ct outrages against the Jews in Russia, Jewish ^^f someone ef se. " leaders dere able to obtain relief by rri.l1in. Pre-Hit.Ler Roots of VarVi-rq Viewpoints lhinnc eJr'rrry.ilF1., wrLrr-r Lrrc dPPru- ^vor nri.tp f r'.i.lqI Unf ortunately, l^lhen ^f The bitterness that divided the Chi.ca- iliir6r .imo ta nnhpr "^d attacked the Jews go Jewish orga^ izations on the boycot t is- "several of the so-ca lled -teaders, acting sue is exemplified by a memo left by f4ax y,,iLhout proper authority, or due cor'sidera- Knnc'F i"'\ in his filps et the American Jeui- tion, became excited and made use of demon- ish congress (now housed in the chicago considered the leading proponenL of Lhe boycott and other anti-Nazi demonstratlons and protests. ln his memo, kopstein attacked those American Jewish organizations !,lhich !rere not democratically elected as !!as the Congress. he claimed that in Chicago the Congress had a tota I inoividual menber- shi p o f 5,000 and had 255 a ffi 1i ated Jel1lish organizat ions, co^gregaIions, ver- eins and I an ds ma n s c ha f t e n , thus having a total membership of some 40 , 000 Jews. Each i'lrnAniTelinn vnfcrl !. ChicosoJews' Reoctions to Terrible Yeor1938 (Cont'd) [Continued from Previous Pagel ed, Several incident s o f a sim ll ar nature occ,Jrring in \ew York yrere also reported Gro!,linq Anti-Sernitlsnr in America af ter Kristallnacht. 0n November 24 The Yiddish Courier The Jews who took on lhe Silvershirts n.rrip.r A l^nn <,tn-v on Krislallnacht on l,,Je11s Street after Kristallnacht most from lhe "Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily iec"ra.ll v .on.o Tha ahi.inn n.Fc< f .on, Fntl v rpnnrtc.l ed by a des i re to Leacr- us Lhat we m,rst not mooi i nn iha CongregctionB'noi Zion (Cont'd) List Benefitsof BelonsingAs lcontinued from page 5] ItlembershipRenewol Time Approoches in ill ing the forties Rabbi Lassen, As Society memoerships expi re wi th the hF: I ih cn"nFi rar'v r-tirement. The con- close of the calendar year, Membership gregation engaged Rabbi Jacob Siegel who ' Chairman Marian cutler reminds current mem- married the daughter ol Abraham Finkle- bers of the numerou s benefits they enjoy, a devoted member and five-term con- .du.nf.doc rr cho <.i.1 stein, "rhe gregational president. Holrever, Rabbi Sle- recently, "but I want to emphasize just a geI served onl y a short Lime beFore leaving fe!,/. " Then she went on to mention a sub- pulpit. for a Detroit scription to the Society quarterly, reduced Fisher came lrom In 1945 Rabbl Henry r,toe f^r nnn"l.. tn"re Ner^/York, to lead the congrega- Rochester, thF rinhi tn etfFnrl ihe annual membersr tion, ll'lhich he served until 1954 |t'lhen he brunch, advance notice of meetings, dis- became emerltus. By I948 membership reach- count s on purchases at the Spertus Museum ed 850 families and more space ulas nee0eo ' chAh .^.1 C.ao h,,c eorvi.o t^ moFt i nne .t primarj I y for classrooms- distant Locations, LarQe Addj.tion BuiIt This past year each member also re- wA.l . imant.rv tho enF.i.l The congregation was able to purchase ^ai ^^6hl ^^nv ^f tenth-anniversary publication, she added. property adj acent to the !iest and built the A net,,J addilion to menbersh ip benefits is !,loIberg Community center, !'ihich thereon the t.\F irv ^f nrrrr:ent members to re- the 01iff Auditorium, a large hall -1.^iril includes cei ve a f ree copy of each CJHS publication can seat 1100 worshippe!s on the high $,hich to be puoli shed by lhe Doris Minsky Menor- !,/eIl as nine classrooms. The holydays, as ial FLnd as it appears. The fund hopes to badly needed when it openeC ne!! space tias produce its first during 1989. reached 1l00 in 1957, for membership had n,,cc rF.F i nl c mr LF n^<