Friday, May 17, 1940 THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY Page Seven BOOK REVIEW A Collection of Jewish Medals HISTORY OF THE : ”• ''' JEWS IN I JEWS IN COLOGNE Vi: x-v •. •• •. x. ; :v-: ;x x' x- ;- x: x x'x ; '

' ' > By ADOLPH KOBER /,,'X , •. ' ¦ Translated from the Ger- SPORTS man by Solomon Grayzel, MorrisWeiner 436 pp., map, 6 illustrations, , 2 1 A' Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of Amer- mvwa >via . _ E£_J a • DID YOU KNOW THAT? retains his head-coach job at C.C. ica, $2.25. . . The HISTORY OF THE Ira Hanford, the jockey who N.Y. . Which reminds us that JEWS if IN COLOGNE, the sixth rode Bold Venture to victory in the Friedman can do the excellent volume Kentucky Derby some four years job that Dolly Stark is doing in in the Jewish Communities Se- the ries, published by The Jewish Pub- ago, still remains the only Jewish major leagues of baseball or the lication Society of America, “tells rider ever to boot a winner down magnificent job that Dave To- homestretch of Churchill bey has been doing in the pro the story of one of the oldest Jew- the and ish communities in Europe, the Downs. . . Solly Schiff, who was amateur basketball circuits he one . oldest in Germany if considers recently dethroned as United will round out a perfect trio. . the of the States Table Tennis Champion, will Stark and Tobey are considered age documents in which mention of it is made. The history ho the number two man on the tops in their respective fields. . . squad that will tour Stark’s repute is international of this community reflects every ping-pong phase of history of all this summer. . . SchifFs de- while Tobey hasn’t been doing so the German Japan Jewry.” . These opening by an Italian some days ago badly for himself either. . His words, by feat Dr. Adolph the first time in eighteen histrionic and thespian antics at Kober, until recently marks the Chief years that a table tennis champ of a collegiate game have delighted Rabbi of Cologne, ac- curately . describe the contents of . U. S. has not been Jewish. . . the court fans for years. Not the his book. Inume Kashdan is rapidly replacing only does Tobey call ’em but he The HISTORY OF THE JEWS Beschevsky as the wizard of the acts out everything he calls. . . IN COLOGNE presents a moving chess boards wherever exponents “Slapsie” Max i e Rosenbloom and colorful summary of the life v• . : • - . who, the pawn mid knight gather. . believe it or not, once held of and Beschevsky has been set down but the world’s light-heavyweight vicissitudes of a Jewish com- munity along times in his long career and championship, is considered one of the Rhine River. five The Jews of the checkmates Were the the smartest business men in Hol- settled in Cologne and two .'• : . brilliant play by Kash- lywood. . . Maxie, however, has yyy'x?:;.: results of ; ; "S/!... : ’ • :y x : ..••• •' : v ' >x x ... ; : x-’:'!' '¦ * :: . been on ':. • ' •: •¦ ::'• .'¦ • . . x . v •. • .. . x x': . Incidentally, it might capitalizing his ‘dumb- ¦ ¦ be •: dan. • v. x ..•••• ¦ ¦:• :• • x ’: -xx'-:-x':: • x•x: • ’ • x • :'xxx: interesting to note that the top ness’ at his night club (which he ; :x ' • •:•••; .-:;:.x <: ’• '•' ranking ten men of the boards in owns outright), on the airwaves • ' < - ' / -I'- ' . ' • -• ¦ ' '

on . . . and the Medals, America are Jewish. . screen. The cauli- Four items from the Exhibition of Jewish 16th to 20th Harry Mendel, the man who suc- flowered young man is proud of BbT ' • Centuries, now in progress at the Museum of the Jewish Theological ceeded the late Joe Jacobs as man- his boxing record of some years Seminary of America. The collection of medals, the only one of its back. . . ‘Slapsie’ always ager of Tony Galento, is the same endea- kind in America, was made by Mr. Samuel Friedenberg. Top medal: vored to beat his rivals in the ring Mendel who promotes the six-day Dr. Paul Ehrlich. left: Commemorating the Edict of Tolera- over Middle, races country over. . . by the decision route and bike the tion issued by Emperor Joseph H in 1792. Middle right: Jacob’s Dream, was one of Yussel’s closest thirty-four fights always “slapped” Mendel a medal struck in 1544. Lower medal: Daniel Mendosa, holder of the friends. . . his opponents dizzy and invariably has been ad- was awarded the ‘duke’ ... In one pugilist championship of England from 1792 to 1795. mitted to the select fraternity of of his last fights—striving desper- arbiters who will officiate in the ately to maintain his record —Max- has gathered together a collection National League Professional ie ‘slapped’ a rival and was the Medals Preserve of over 300 items. Some 200 of Football Games come next Fall most surprised man in the arena these medals are now being dis- canvas Fame of Jews . . when his . The former All- rival fell to the played in a special exhibition at America thus becomes for the count. . . “Slapsie” even- the Jewish Theological Seminary. the first man in football to make tually lost his title to his stable- mk The field of Jewish medals is a a the grand swing. . . He was a pro mate Bob Olin, also Jewish ring new one to the United States, but player, owner of a professional warrior. . . Os course, the howl European communities for many football club (the Dodgers just a the boxing commission in forty- ADOLPH KOBER centuries have commemorated out- i The Sandbar I seven few years back) and now an um- states raised when they established a community there standing achievements and signal | FERNANDINA, FLA. | was a pire. . . Maestro Friedman still learned that Olin not only long before the Barbarians ar- events by issuing commemorative | Entertain Your Guests | mate of Rosenbloom’s but that rived and undermined the Roman coins. When a new synagogue was I Unique Oyster Dinners § also owned a considerable Rosey Empire, before even Christianity built in Vercelli, Italy, in 1878, a of Olin was heard throughout BETHEL part was established in the lands of the medal was struck. When the twen- the world. . I Eventually, though, ty-fifth anniversary of Henri Loeb VENETIAN BLIND West. What they have contributed CO. “Slapsie” was able to convince the to the growth of Cologne, what as Grand Rabbi of Belgium was MEET YOUR FRIENDS Manufacturing Refinishing moguls of the boxing associations reached in 1859, his likeness was they suffered at the hands of the AT and Repairing that the fight was on Crusaders, where they lived and preserved on a medal. When the light-heavy- 2022 Evergreen Ave. 5-7155 up and Olin held the how they managed their internal great statesman and diplomat, Ru- weight championship for one whole affairs is all told simply and lu- fus Daniel Isaacs, died in England, ERNIE’S year before he in turn was de- cidly in the pages of this volume. his memory was honored by a med- Bar and Grill throned by John Henry Lewis, the Even after bigotry combined with al designed by A. Lowenthal. In

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