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Page Tllree Thursday, August 3, 1961 THE JEWISH POST Thursday, August 3, 1961 , THE JEWISH POST Sandwiched in between a visit to I certgebeow in Amsterdam, private lock the box door £01' a tip. During Page Two Versaillle Palace to see where: sitting room-bathroom for each box. the Faust intermission, I accident­ • Jacqueline Kennedy dined ( I think' as at La Scala in Milan and, what' ally locked myself out and was "ltn Jewish ~istory Tangents that's what it's famous for), a ride ~ is eVl'n better, to have tlw ushers contemplating what to do next when Geneva London. Dunant, who had believed in the retm:n on the Seine and a network of: take orders for coffee, lemol1ndp I -realized that I was not alone. The By JOSEF FRAENKEL of the .T ews to Eretz Israel, wro~e ~o Dr. DaVId museums and sightseeing, was a 'I and pastry when she issues prO-I man in the next box was litl~rally Farbstein a day after the first ZlOl1lst qongress, The Oldest Anglo-Jewish Weekly in Western Canada performance of Faust and a ballet grams, to be passM to your sent trying to pry the door open with a Basle and Geneva are two towns, which are (Issued weekb in the inter~ts of Jewish Community activitiea at the Paris Opera House. The ! dllrin~ intermissions so you don't makeshift screwdriver b pen use on Septe~ber the 1st. 1897: "~may say. It ope~ly in Winnipeg and Western Canada) impoltant stepping-stones 'in Jewi~h history. opera was erratic, considerably have to get up, as in London. At there wasn't an W:iher in sight and now _ it is many years - 50 III all, dunng which Member of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Basle marked the beginning of the Zionist Or~a­ I have waited for the Zionist Congress. , ." lower than the standards of the "The ~firm:le WO['ker" in London nnywny, aftC'r paying for a program nization and Geneva that of the World Jewish IVletropolitan or Milan's La Scala the second act started and Ollt' (you hn\'(\ no idea who i~ in the Jewish students in freedom-loving Switzer­ Published every Thursday by Congress. EMPmE PRINTERS LTD. DATELINE EUROPE: and the ballet threatened to become th('atregOl'r was forced to balance , cast and often whal till' programme The name of Theodor Herzl, who called the land discussed the anti-Semitic te~dencies of Printers and publishers mediocre after Bizet's Symphony a tiny tray with four empty cups is unless you do), washroom faedi­ first Zionist Congress together in 1897, is closely various Universities, and eventually III the year RUPERT SImIAR, Ph.D. LEO J. LEZACK No.1 until a surrealist interprcta- until the nexl intf'rmistiion - a rC<11 ties to check your coal (tllI.:-'rc nrc Editor Advertising Manager A Few Franc Words Abouf France connected with Basle; Geneva recalls the names 1902, an office was established, ul'!der the lead~r­ tion of a shipwreck turned the case of Tea And Sympathy, plPnty of hooks in the box but the Head Office: 1244 Main St., Winnipeg, Canada Paris, France - If you ever' in- are idealists and Iranc-pinchcrs, of Nahum Goldmann and of Stephen S. Wise, ship of Martin Buber, Berthold Felwll;1 an~ ChalI~ event into an exciting evening. . The most .C'xWorld Jewish Congress there lin the year 1936. versity." Th office published a brochure, Die ,Phone JU 9-73:tl - 2 - 3 Eve. Phone lID 9-2989 Winnipeg for plans to build a con- box seat at the Paris Opera. Each in addition to the initial co.sl of two Authoorized as second class mail. Post Office De1)arlment. Ottawa of Bastille Day unless you are wm-I aristocracy but never fail to name­ Both Geneva and Basle have become symbols Juedische chschule," but the writers did not cert hall in 1984, I must remind the box contain!:> eight seab:> and Olll' ticket.s, \\'ho wants to sit out the last s a e that the University was to be a Hebrew ing to have a Frenchman take your drop about some blue - blooded for Jewry. architects to include provision for can gain entrance tf. the -box only thl'C'c acts. The next. liml' I (.!:O to one and in Jerusalem. Theodor Herzl, who was life in his hands. Whoever built the friend. The adage, however, that Geneva has an old Jewish community and it London Paris New }"ork and Jerusalem often I an elaborate dining hall for lengthy by calling an usher ;{dressed rather P""is, I must remember 10 take a keen on the idea of a Hebrew University in Pales­ air terminal depot near Napoleon's Paris denies description is one that can be aRsumed that Jews were there and in the arrived' in G~neva, this town of i~ternational intermission meals as at the Con- like a fortune teller) who wilt un- mastel' k('y. tine, as proposed by Prof. H. Schapir~, supported tomb and Place de la Concorde, applies more after midnight than vicinity aR far back as the sixth century. Jews meetings, in order to protect the IllterestB of in Geneva, like their coreligionists :in German the Geneva office but would have hke to haye Jewry. While the second Assembly of the World where Marie Antoinette met her before, and this because of impro­ and Frenc'h towns, had both "good" and "bad" this University in Jerusalem. Naturally WelZ­ Jewish Congress met in Montreux in 1948, the Waterloo, certainly didn't have the priety rather than lack of vocabu­ times. They were often driven out, but later mann and the others agreed. third took place lin Geneva in 1953, and the fourth occasion in m,ind. It was a tran~ lary. Now that I think about it, I Israel Bonds Leader Honoured Geneva again opened her doors to persecuted After the first World War, Jews often directed in Stockholm in 1959. Among the delegates from sient's nightmare. If the tiny objects spent one day watclring the models Jews from France (1182). There was once a rule their gaze towards Geneva. Here w~s the seat all over the world were many who spent their that passed as automobiles were at Jacques Heim put on the most that Jews were not allowed to reside in Geneva. of the League of Nations, as well as of. the M~n­ student years there. The poet, Edmond Fleg, loaded, the pedestrians were even impressive labels and then finished But if a Jew did reach Geneva, he had to pay a date Commission and the Jews awaited With from Paris, who was born in Geneva, was also more so and the combination of the evening at Le Boule Noir in certain sum of money to the church authorities. close attention th~ir reports and decisions. Both there. firewater and fireworks gave me a Pigalle place watching them take One Jew had to pay four Denarii and a pregnant Zionists and Arabs sent their complaints to Gen­ Today there are approximately 20,000 Jews pretty fair indlcation of what the it off ... woman twice as much. Even then anti-Semitism eva and the Zionist Organization had a special in Switzerland, 3,000 of whom live in Geneva. French Revolution must have been Nothing beats Paris for shopping knew no frontiers. AccuRatons against Jews 'in office there under the leadership of Victor Jacob­ The Jewish community in Geneva belongs to the like. To top it all, I became involved -especially for perfumes and eve­ with a tze-hitzter, brake-crazy(cab- ning bags. 1£ you're going to Paris, Germany and France were, of course, repeated son later under Julius Becker and then under "Schweitzerischen Israe~itischen Gemeindebund," in Geneva .. Jews on the lake of Geneva were Nahum Goldmann. The good name of William which was established in 1904 and is affiliated to driver over the fare, brought the Sagil on the chic Rue de Rivoli, 242 accused of well-poisoning, tortured and burned S. RappaI'd, Professor at the University of Gen­ the World Jewish Congress. Jews all over the concierge at the Hotel du Louvre is a must. Where else can you get at the stake in the year 1348. eva and Swiss Representative in the Mandate world follow with great interest the social, cul­ running and nearly started a civil the best brands at 40 per cent off During the stormy years, of the Middle Ages Commission, will always be remembered in Zion­ tural and political activit'ies of the Gemeindebund, war of my own. How was I to the French price, and where else Jews wandered from land to land and from town ist history. whose representatives together with members know that the 1000 francs the driver will the congenial blonde sales to town. They again reached Geneva, lived in a Not only the concern and anxiety for a Jew­ of the Executive of the World Jewish Congress wanted were old francs and not clerk, Yvette Lattire, indlcate her $20.33 in new francs! appreciation for your patronage by Ghetto (today Rue des Granges aJl(~ Place du ish Palestine but also the sad conditions of Jews of sixty other countries will at Geneva this Grand Mozel), suffered pogroms (1461) and were in the Diaspora, brought many Jewish leaders month, discuss Jewish problems in the Jewish No one, I was told, completely giving you a small bottle of fine once more driven out (1490). For a long time to Geneva. Here was the seat of the "Comite ParJiiament of the Diaspora. understandsthelFrenchpeopl~they champagne as she did in our case. Geneva remained "Judenrein" (clear of Jews). pour la Protection de~ Drdits de~ Mi!lorites Montreal Dateline During the s:ixteenth century, Geneva was under Juives" and representatives of the Comlte des the influence of John Calvin, the fanatic reformer, Delegations Juives" appeared regularly in Gen­ A Canadian Look.s and inhabitants were cross-questioned on their eva, especially Leo Motzkin. H~ was !l- co~~ageous In JJ#y View outiook and religion. But Geneva was also the fighter for the rights of JeWish romontles and Af Hisfadruf abode of Jean Rousseau, who so greatly influenced believed 'in an international tribunal to promote By ARTHUR TURNER, M.L.A. By CHARLES J. LAZARUS Obviously the Rasminskys, Gold­ understanding and friendship among the nations. the liberal development of the 19th century. Not British Columbia Let them say what they will; let bergs, Goldenbergs, Ribikoffs, Crolls He also encouraged the foundation of Jewish and Crestohls have been able to , until the year 1780 was there any marked change. them tell me that the "full" Jewish The number of Jews in Geneva was small - not Associations to pl'opagate t'he idea of the League reach the prominence they have life - whatever that means - is MAITLAND STEINKOPF, Q.C.. right, accepts Manitoba's highest tribute for distinguished ser­ even a Minyan. Centuries passed, until in 1838 of Nations. < "Is Israel over-organized 1" is a question I achieved" not only without having possible only in ~srael; let them vice in the cause of the province, The Order of the Buffalo Hunt, from Hon. Gurney Evans, Minister Geneva had at last a Synagogue. Since 1850 Anti-Semitism in Germany infected Europe asked myself after a week of inquiry and visits to Anglicise their names or com­ !proclaim in their strongest terms of Industry and Commerce, at the annual meeting of the Manitoba Travel and Convention Association there has been an active, organized community and J~ws were once again forced to wander and to some of the many institutions and divisions promise their 'Jewish heritage, but that true \Jewish identification is last month in Brandon. The award, comprising a Certificate and bronze buffalo statuette, was made as and they appointed Josef Wertheimer as their they hoped that the "High Commissioner for of the economy associated with the Histadrut in fact, by being encouraged to play restricted to that hallowed ground Mr. Steinkopf stepped down from the association presidency after making it a byword for enthusiastic nefugee~" in G,eneva would help them. (Federation of Labour). One soon realizes that a an equivalent role of leadership Rabbi. at the western end of the Medi­ promotion of the province during his two-year term. It was during his office that tbe association pro­ For some time, the Jews had realized that a comparison with Canada cannot give the answer. within the periphery of the Jewish The struggle of Jews for equa'] rights in terranean. moted the Van Gogh Exhibition, among other events designed to project the province as a major tourist Switzerland was not easy. Even if the date 1863 united organization would be the best, the most The major difference between Israel and other community. As '1 say, let them say all these attraction. effective, weapon for the safeguarding of th!"ir countries is one of background. Histadrut began If this is not being able to live is given - real equality did not exist until 1874. things and I'm willing to listen with rights. To carry out this wan a World JeWish 40 years ago in a country with little but sand. a "full" Jewish life within the A young man with a family record I Bonds. His talent for communicat- 'ity exlends back to 1937 when he Genenl was known all over the world as a one ear until . . . until the delight Conference ,vas held in August 1932, in Geneva. swamps and malaria, and where co-operation was needs of the individual, then of communal leadership and indus- : ing his enthusiasm has already headed the United Jewish Appeal. IJ]ace of refuge for the persecuted. Here, in this and pride wears off my smiling There were also some delegates from Geneva essential to survival. That was 28 years before what is? trial development' going back for I drawn new strength to the Israel Laler he served as ch~irman of a hospitable town, political, religious and other face because of the fact that a man such as Zvi Aberson, Adolf Adler, Dr. N. Fein- the present State of Israel was born. That co­ Having settled that minor point half a century in Winnipeg, and a Bond sales force, and he is currently Youth Aliyah dinner, was co­ refugees found shelter and here too the Red I have never met named Louis berg and Henri de Toledo, as well as representa- operation and pioneering is reflected in the com­ in my own minor fashion, let DJc penchant for getting things done, revamping the Bond organization chairman of the Israel Bond Drive CrosR waH founded by Henry Dunant. Interna­ tives of the "League des Femmes Juives" Mes- plex and efficient organizations functioning here Rasminsky, has acquired the title now step forward to another area has assumed office as 1961 chairman along lines of trade and professions I last year, n member of the First tional organizations often chose Geneva for con­ of Governor of the lBank of Can­ dames Rosa Aberson, Lebach, Sonja Soskine and in 1961. Histadrut is not only a powerful labor of pleasure derived from Mr. of the Israel Bond Drive, it was: divisions to bring a vast new mar- Canudian National Leadership Mis­ ferences and assemblies. R. Zivi. Four years later, the World Jewish Con- body d.etermining wages, etc., but actually is the ada. Rasminsky's appointment: announced week by Rabbi S.; ket to the fore for the 1961 effort. ! sion to Israel in 1960, and was re­ Geneva'was also once a centre of Jewish stu­ I and ll1any of my coreligion­ thi~ gress was at last founded. The first Assembly most Important factor in the economy of the Quite obviously, Mr. Rasminsky H. Epstein, regIOnal manager of the Recently honored upon comple-I cently named a director of the Can­ dents from Ea;;tern Europe. Hundreds studied ists in Canada often like to think took place in August, 1936, and Stephen S. Wise country. is a man of considerable qualifica­ Israel Bond Organization. I tion of two years of se:vice as first I ada Israel Develop"",,,t Co. Ltd . here, later Occupy'ing leading positions in almost . of ourselves as too sophisticated, called Geneva "The town of freedom, hope and of/ Embracing Unions to Ganks tions although, quite frankly, I per­ MaItland Stemkopf, Q,C" M.B,E., preSIdent of the Mamtoba Travel He is a member o~ the board of all Jewish parties. 'l'he students themselves en­ too advanced in the relationships human rights." Ther.e we.re 27~ deleg~tes pres- If I could describe it in terms of Canadian sonally have never dealt with him takes the helm of the organization and Convention Association, Mr. ~overnors of the YMHA, and con­ riched the J ewi;;h cultural life of Switzerland with our non-Jewish compatriots, .ent, from 33 ~ountl'l~s, mcl~dmg S~ltzerland: equivalents, I would say that Histadrut is a since my banking problems have after the most successful year in Steinkopf is perhaps best known tributed the old Albert street build­ and founded many institutions. There was a too self-confident of our ability to Paul GuggenheIm, ~mll LudWIg, Henn de Toledo, Federation of Labor plus Credit Unions, a Work­ al ways revolved around the basic its history which saw Bond sales as the pioneer of shoe manufacrur- ing to the 'Y' in memory of his close contact between the Rtudents of Berne and continue playing our part in the ArTI?and Brunschvlg, Saly Mayer and B. B. ers Bank, an Industrial Development Bank, Work­ issue as to whether I was entitled spiral upward by 40 per cent over ing in western Canada. He is cur- father. Geneva - they often met in Geneva's Cafe Lan­ rapport of equality existing be­ an overdraft. previous totals to $425,000. He aims rently president of L. H. Packard Maitland Steinkopf's father, the dolt. where they held discussions for hours. In Sadmsky., ' . ers and Working Women's Councils, Student and tween the races and religions in to A few ~eeks before the estabhshment ?f the youth Organizations, Agricultural Settlements However, beyond his professional to bOO$t the total by 45 per cent in: Co. Ltd., J. Leckie Co. Ltd., R. S, Cafe Landolt. Zvi Aberson, S. Ansky, Julius Canada. to be particularly emo­ late Max Steinkopf, was Manitoba's World JeWish Congress, a sh?t rang out III the and Collectives, Producer, Retail and Marketing qualification is the very obvious a swift, aggressive campaign, to I Robinson Son & Co. Ltd., and Becker, Chaim Bogrotschew, Borochow, Ohwim tion-struck by the fact that a Jew first lawyer of Jewish descent, and palace of ~he Lea?,~e of NatlOns. Stephe~ Lux Co-operatives, a number of industries large and position Mr. Rasminsky must now attain the 1961 objective of $613,000. president of Polo Park Centre Ltd. played an active role in Zionist Chissin, Mathman-Cohen, M. Gluecksohn, Harari, has been given the most import­ I take in the overall picture of pro­ The figure has a double significance, A director of Tip Top THilors Ltd., David Joc'helmann, Jacob Lestschinsky, S. W. had committed SUICide to d~aw the attentl~n?f small, an immigration department, to assist set­ ant, and controversial, banking I affairs during the twenties and the world to th.e p~rsecutlOn of the J e~ s 111 tIers. This department is administered in co­ gress, which illustrates so dramatic­ .•• 613 being the traditional nwn- he is also one of Canada's few, Melumed, B. Mossinsohn, Daniel Pasmanik. M. " post in Canada. thirties up to the time of his pass- Germany. Lux. III hiS lette~. to Anthony Ed.en, operation with the government. They also oper­ ally that day by day, racial and ber of the Commandments (Taryag I Jewish industrialists to serve on the Pines, Jacob Robinson, S. Salkind, Stupnitsky, However, r must admit that it , ing. In 1925, when he headed the spoke of the great danger whH~h was threate~lllg ate a huge contracting business lin the buildin religious prejudice is being slowly Mitzvot) enjoined upon Jews . ; • directorate of a life insurance com- 'M 't b Zi . t C 'I h Nachman Syrkin, Chaim WC'izmann, Jizchak would be extremely difficult for • .'I anI 0 a onlS oune!, e rep- the whole world. Three years later, the 21st ZlOn- trades Added to all thl' l' h ,g conquered and strangled by govern­ and the 13 underscormg thc addl-I pany, the Monarch Life Assurance t d W" J 1 Wilkansky, Leo \Vohlmann, Chaim Zhitlowsky . t C . G b k ff' th' s s a compre enSlve me to look at the iRasminsky ap­ • • • I resen e Innlpcg cwry a ong IS. ongress III ~neva .was 1'0 en 0 111 e health plan run entirely by the Histadrut with ments of the western alliance who honal effort called forth m this, I Co. A trustee of Winnipeg General 'th D E G th' P h and manv others could be seen. There were pointment without a nibble of emO­ , IWI 1'.. U rle erry, at t c mIddle of the dehberatlOns. The d~nfl'er, the its own 950 clinics as well as hospitals and con­ are paying more than lip service Israel s 13th year of Independcnce., hospital, and one of the five gov-, d d' t' 'f h 'LI debates on Zionism and Socialism, on Yiddish tion which, in fact, triggers a chain . ' I e lca iOn ceremonws 0 t c ~ e- second World War, had now .materlalIzed .. In valescent homes. to this struggle. Mr. Stemkopf, who has built a: emors of the University of Mani- I bU' 't' J I H and Hebrew, on religion and literature, and on reaction of pride in the status ob­ . .., • l 'rew nlverSI y In erusa em. C Geneva were many representatives of orgamza- • nationally dlstlngUlshed career m' toba Foundation, he followed in 'I 1 'd t £ th T 1m d Bund and territorialism, and plans were s'haped tained by such as Leon Crestohl I am one of those who do not I was a so a preSl en 0 e a u tions working for the relief of persecuted Jewry. Fees According to Income industrial development and business' the footsteps of his late father by T h M St' k f h for the future of the Jewish people. and David Croll in parliamentary believe that anti-Jewish preju­ ..' ora. r ax eln op. W 0 was There was Richard Lichtheim of the Jewish About two-thirds of the population are cov-t ~ management, IS convmced that servong as Consul of Czech oslo- b ht t M 't b f P When Herzl made his appeal for a Jewish circles; H. Carl Goldenberg as pos­ dice which still, if infrequently, roug 0 anI 0 a rom rague Agency and Gerhard Riegner of the World Jew- ered in the health plan because membership lin ; Israel can benefit by the same recipe; vakia in western Canada from 1937 ,. , State he found understanding in Geneva, for here sibly Canada's outstanding econo­ manifests itself in virulent anti­ is~ Congre~s. Af.ter the war, Chai!ll Weizma~n Histadr~t is voluntary. When a person joins he' " of guided investment that has built until just weeks before the Com- as a chold In the 1880 s, subsequently lived Henry Dunant. the great friend of human­ Semitism, can be separated from said that Lichthelm deserved the ,highest of dls- automatically becomes a member of the apprO;. mist and labor mediator; and A:bra­ Manitoba and Canada. Thls ex-; munist takeover in 1948. His ser- served for many years as Consul of ity, who had published a proclamation for the ham Ribikoff and Arthur Goldberg the general problem of racial and tinctions for his valuable work in Geneva - priate union and is covered hy the plan. ' plains his original interest in Israel, vice record in the Jewish commun- Czechoslovakia in western Canada. "Oolonization of Palestine" decades -before the and Riegner, too. Fees are paid according to income and are in the cabjnet of President Kennedy. See IN MY VIEW, page 10 appearance of Henl. and had later founded the Leaders of the World Jewish Congress from See mSTADRUT, page 11 "Syrian and Palestine Colon'ization Society" in,

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