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May 1926
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T h e C h o s e n P e o p l e , t h e L a n d a n d t h e B o o k Jewish News Notes Compiled from Various Sources by David L. Cooper
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Tongue,” printed in Boston in 1735, and dedicated to Harvard Univeristy. Others were from the fifteenth and six teenth centuries, published in the gol den days of Jewish literature and scholarship in Spain, Italy, Turkey, Germany and other centers. The li brary is supported by the Palestine Foundation Fund and the Hebrew Uni versity Fund, which draw their chief support from American Jews. — Exchange. JEWS OF RUSSIA FACE EXTERMINATION Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, American agri cultural scientist, states the problem confronting Jews in Russia, and sug gests a possible solution, according to "The Scribe": Extermination threatens l a r g e masses of Jews in Russia unless they adapt themselves to farming as speed ily as possible, declares Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, noted American agricultural scientist, in a cablegram from Moscow yesterday to Felix M. Warburg, chair man of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, made public from the National Headquarters of the $16,000,000 United Jewish Campaign. Dr. Rosen is head of “ Agro-Joint,” the agency through which the Joint Distribution Committee is now extend ing financial and technical aid to over thirty thousand Jews who have already undertaken to adapt them selves to agricultural life on land as signed for that purpose by the Russian government. His cablegram was writ ten after he had completed an inspec tion and selection of additional land in the Odessa Kherson, Crimea, and Krivoirog districts totaling 230,000 acres, on which 15,000 more Jews will be settled this spring. "The saddest part of it all,” says Dr. Rosen, in his cablegram, "is that this 4s not a tem porary crisis such as faces the Jews in other countries, but it is a permanent situation. For the Jews of Russia, it is a case of extermination or soil adapr tation. The adaptation possibilities are very real, and every dollar that is spent here in aiding the Jews to adapt themselves to farming life brings im provement of conditions, yet, although some 60,000 have registered at our offices in the hope that they would get the opportunity to go on the land this spring, we are able with our limited means to take care of only 16,000. The rest we are compelled to leave behind to drown in an ocean of misery. The agony of these drowning people, who will do any kind of work, and who must look on helplessly while a real opportunity for salvation slips away from them because the little money that is needed is lacking, is heart breaking. In heaven’s name, see to it that their fortunate American friends do not fail them."
of 200,000 is expected to inhabit,— almost double the present population. The President of the Pro-Jerusalem Society, Sir Ronald Storrs, explained the scheme of the proposed develop ment to a group of Jewish notables. He was assisted by the Civic Adviser, who answered queries put to him by Colonel Kisch, Dr. Magnes, Dean of the Hebrew University, Dr. J. Thon of the Palestine Land Development Co., and Mr. Goldwater of the economic board for Palestine. EINSTEIN’S WRITINGS TRANS LATED INTO HEBREW The works of Prof. Albert Einstein will be translated into Hebrew, states a report from Vienna to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Prof.* Einstein has authorized Dr. Jacob Greenberg, well known mathematician, to under take the translation of his works on the theory of^ relativity. Dr. Green berg has published a number of books which were commented upon by Prof. Einstein. He is the author of the ar ticle on Einstein for the new Hebrew encyclopedia now being prepared in Berlin.-r—The New Palestine. NEW PUBLISHING FIRM! IN JERUSALEM O' Under the name “ Knesset a new publishing company has been formed in Jerusalem with the hope of issuing books on Palestine, Judaism and its aspects, as Cbassidism, etc. The new company will also act as distributors of books on these subjects. The lit erary committee of the Knesset is com posed of Messrs. Mordecai ben Yochiz- keil, A. M. Kifshitz, and Rabbi I. Sha piro. The first publications of the new company will be Ozer-Ha-aroty (the ideal of the up-building of Erez Israel in Judaica); Our Wall, On the Western Wall of the Temple; History of Chassidic Movements, etc. Included in the rare and ancient books added to the library was the first Hebrew book published in Amer ica, "The Grammar of the Hebrew
USING AMERICAN AUTOS The United States is tbe principal country exporting automobiles to Pal estine, the number of which amounted to 656 during the first ten months of 1925. The majority of these were im ported from the United States, it is declared. SIR HERBERT SAMUEL TO BECOME EARL Sir Herbert Samuel, former High Commissioner of Palestine, will be come an Earl after the British Coal Commission, of which he is chairman, concludes its present investigation, ac cording to the London Jewish World. MANY BOOKS ACQUIRED BY JEWISH LIBRARY Jerusalem.—The Jewish National Library of the Hebrew University, de signed to house the world’s greatest collection of Hebrew books and manu scripts, now contains 125,688 volumes, 40,890 of which were obtained during the last year, says a report of Dr. Hugo Bergman, chief librarian. MANY JEWS ENTERING PALESTINE 33,801 Jewish immigrants •entered Palestine during the year 1925, ac cording to the official figures of the British Colonial Office made known in London on Feb. 24th. 2,141 Jewish people emigrated from Palestine dur ing the same period. The national in crease ip the Jewish population for the year 1925 was 31,660. — News Item. DR. WEIZMANN GOING TO PALES TINE SHORTLY Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, will go to Palestine soon, according to an announcement of the Zionist Execu tive in London. On his return, Dr. Weizmann will visit a number of European countries in connection with Iyar month campaign for the Zionist Organization. In the autumn, Dr. Weizmann will come to the United States, it is reported. PLANS FOR A GREATER JERUSALEM At present there are plans for the enlargement of the city of Jerusalem in order to accommodate the great influx of population which is flowing steadily, and with increasing volume, into the Holy Land, as is seen from an article in “ The New Palestine” of March 5. from which we quote: The Pro-Jerusalem Society has pre pared a plan of Jerusalem develop ment which provides for a large ex pansion of the city. Numerous new roads are projected; certain areas are marked for reconstruction, and the sites of new suburbs indicated. The plan covers an area which a population
Every thinking person must be impressed with events of recent years as they relate to changes affecting the Jewish, people. The question may very properly be asked: “ Has the present homeward trend of the chosen race to the land of their fathers any prophetic significance?*' Dr. Matthews undertakes to answer the question on page 261. Other articles of equal interest on important themes will appear in The King’s Busi ness during succeeding months.
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