Bialik Greeted by Enthusiastic Thousands on Arrival in New York

Famous Hebrew Poet Hopes to Make American Jews Appreciate High Values Being Created in Eretz Israel; Louis Lipsky and Schmarya Levin Arrive on Same Steamer

Thousands of New York Jews waited at Pier A, Battery, for many hours yesterday for the docking of the Mauretania on which Chaim Nachman Bialik arrived from Palestine on his first visit to the United States to assist in the raising of the $5,000,000 sought by the United Palestine Appeal this year.

Louis Lipsky, chairman of the Zionist Organization of America, who was on a short visit to England to confer with the Zionist Executive and Dr. Schmarya Levin of Tel Aviv, also arrived on the steamer.

An enthasiastic reception was accorded the great poet of the Hebrew remaissance and the celebrated leaders of he Zionist movement.

A committee of prominent New Yorkers, writers and Zionist workers, headed by Federal Judge Julian W. Mack and accompanied by city officials, left at nine o’clock in the morning on the Mayor’s boat to meet the guests at quarantine. The crowds gathered at the pier, cheered and applauded when the committee introduced Blalik to America.

Bialik, with a simplicity like that of Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet of India, with an un-affected and direct manner, the man who expressed the pain and hope of the Jewish people in a style reminiscent of the prophetic audacity, when interviewed by the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency upon his arrival laconically stated: “I am a man of books. I work for the everlasting things in Hebrew letters. I see my mission in that. However, when I saw the Jewish workmen in Eretz Israel, saw the labor and observed what sacrifices of body and spirit they make and how little support they receive from the Jewish people of the Diaspora, I could not rest among my beloved books without having a sense of guilt toward them.”

With a youthful appearance and peasantlike features, with inquisitive eyes, Bialik is a singularly attractive and charming personality who reminds one of a sage, of Ezra the Scribe.

“I come to America without any pretensions. I hope my simple words will reach the hearts of American Jews. I am not an orator. I am merely a man of letters. I hope, however, that in my own way I shall succeed in making my fellow Jews appreciate the high values which are being created in Eretz Israel. If they will appreciate the values as I describe them they will come to know the kind of sacrifices, they, who live under prosperous conditions, ought to make in order that those who labor at the laying of the foundations do not feel abandoned, but receive the strength to go on with their precious work for Eretz Israel,” he declared.

“No Jewish leader has ever carried so heavy a burden with such inadequate support as Dr. Weizmann carries upon his poor shoulders. I feel I, too, should be of help to him and our dear cause in this trying time,” he concluded.

The reception committee which went on the Mayor’s boat consisted of Judge Julian W. Mack, chairman, Professor M. M. Kaplan, Joseph Barondess, Reverend Z. H. Masliansky, Abraham Goldberg, Professor Harry Wolfsohn, Professor H. Chernowitz, Zevi Scharfstein, Maurice Samuel, Samuel Grossman, Joseph Achron, Hillel Bayli, Dr. S. Benderley, I. D. Berkovitch, Rabbi Meyer Berlin, Herman Berstein, John L. Bernstein, Dr. S. Bernstein, Dr. Joshuz Bloch, Max Blumberg, S. L Borowski, Meyer Brown, Dr. S. Buechler, Dr. P. Churgin, Herman Conheim, Dr. A. Coralnick, S. Dingol, S. A. Dorfman, Rabbi Max Drob, E. M. Edelstein, William Edlin, A. Almi, Dr. H. G. Enelow, Joseph Eron, Rabbi L. Finkelstein, Jacob Fishman, Solomon Friedland, L. Z. Frishberg, B. Gingold, Dr. A. Giusburg, Dr. S. Ginsburg.

Jacob Noel, Israel Goldberg, Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Professor Richard Gottheil, Bathsheva Grabelski, Chaim Greenberg, I. Hemlin, Dr. J. T. Hellman, Henry Hurwitz, Dr. I. Kaliski, Professor Horace M. Kallen, Ephraim Kaplan, Dr. Yehudah Kaufman, Israel Kanovitz, Dr. Joseph Krimsky, Mrs. Joseph Krimsky, Sol. Lamport, Jacob Landau, Professor A. Levin, Dr. Israel Levinthal, Abraham Levy, A. Liesin, Leo Liow, Dr. S. Margoshes, Jacob Marinoff, Professor Alexander Marx, Israel Matz, S. B. Maximon, Dr. S. M. Melamed, Emanuel Neumann, Dr. Joshua Neumann, A. S. Orlans, Daniel Persky, S. Yudson, David Piuski, H. Podolski, Dr. David de Sola Pool, Dr. Max Raisin, M. Ribalow, Bernard G. Richards, A. Rosenblatt, S. Rosenfeld, Morris Rothenberg, Z. H. Rubinstein, Harry Sackler, Rabbi Lazar Schoenfeld, Bernard Semel, Bernard Shelvin, Carl Sherman, B. N. Silkiner, Mrs. A. Solomon, Dr. M. Soltes, Dr. I. Sonderling, A. Spice handler, W. Z. Spiegelman. Solomon Suffrin, Henrietta Szold, S. Thau, Mrs. Bernard Traski, Phillip Wattenburg, Meyer W. Weisgal, Rabbi Harry Weis, K. Whiteman, Peter Wiernik, Benjamin Winter, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Leo Wolfsohn, Yehoash, M. A. Zeldin, Professor G. Zelikowitch, B, Zuckerman, Dr. A. E. Abramowitz.