Some of the outstanding Jewish leaders in England, France, Germany and other European countries, who are readers of the “Jewish Daily Bulletin,” have been unstinting in their praise of the universal, impartial and objective news service rendered by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the “Bulletin” in their congratulatory messages on the occasion of the one thousandth issue of the “Jewish Daily Bulletin.”
PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN, declared: “I value the Jewish Telegraphic Agency because of the objectivity and speed of its news service and because of its being a symptom and support for Jewish unity.”
RABBI J. H. HERTZ, Chief Rabbi of England. “By your daily record of Jewish avhievement and tragedy, you strengthen the sense of Jewish Brotherhood among the leaders of Jewry throughout the world. This is a moral achievement which deserves fullest recognition and encouragement.”
RABBI ISRAEL LEVI, Chief Rabbi of France. “The news service established by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the ‘Bulletins’ which it publishes and which are tilized by the entire Jewish press, together render a signal service to our co-religionists who wish to be informed of all that is of interest to Judaism. This anniversary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency merits our recognition and encouragement.”
O. E. d’AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID, President, Jewish Board of Deputies, England. “It affords me great pleasure to offer you my sincerest congratulations on the ninth anniversary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The valuable news circulated by you has been much appreciated by me and has done considerable service to the Jewish communities both here and abroad. You have always kept the publications of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency up to the highest standards of journalism, and I trust that many more years of usefulness and success may lie ahead of you and your colleagues.”
LUCIEN WOLF, Secretary, Joint Foreign Committee of the Jewish Board of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association, London. “I am very happy to offer you my sincere congratulations on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The usefulness of your work is thoroughly appreciated by my Committee, and this is testified by the considerable use it has made of your ‘Daily Bulletins’ in its official publications.”
HON. LILLIAN HELEN MONTAGU, Leader in Liberal Judaism, London. “May I congratulate you on the 1,000th anniversary of the issue of the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin.’
“In so far as it has given an accurate record of Jewish life in different parts of the world, it has served a very useful purpose. All prejudices are founded on ignorance, and your paper does something to dispel ignorance.”
PROF. SIMON S. DUBNOV, Russian Jewish Historian, Berlin. “If I would have had at my disposal a publication such as the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin’ and its index with regard to Jewish developments in previous centuries, it would have saved me a great deal of effort and work when writing the history of the Jewish people.”
COL. F. H. KISCH, Member of the Palestine Zionist Executive, Jerusalem. “Since my entry into public life in Palestine five years ago, I have had constantly recurring opportunity of appreciating the value of the work of your Agency. The prejudices from which our people still suffer in so many countries are to a great extent due to ignorance of the intellectual, constructive and humanitarian activities of Jews throughout the world, while no such ignorance is allowed to prevail in regard to even a petty crime committed by an individual Jew however slender may be his connection with the life of the community. The greatest enemy of prejudice is truth, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in spreading throughout the world true information of the developments and incidents of Jewish life, is performing a task of the first importance. Although this is of general application, the argument applies with special force to the work of Jewish cultural and economic revival now in progress in Palestine.
“I therefore welcome the opportunity to express the hope that each succeeding year will find the Jewish Telegraphic Agency engaged with ever-increasing success in the pursuit of the task which it has undertaken.”
VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY, leader of the Zionist Revisionists, Paris. “I remember times when in Petrograd the telegraph and cable hardly ever registered any Jewish events except pogroms or some especially prominent deaths; and to get a few lines of news about the current spiritual or material life of distant communities one had to hunt through a score of newspapers in half a dozen languages, many of which were unfamiliar.
“The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has changed the situation completely, bringing the corners of the Jewish world into daily contact. Nonpartisan as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is and must be, the educational value of its work, from the Jewish point of view, is inestimable. A friend of mine, a typical French assimilationist whom I converted into a reader of your ‘Bulletin,’ told me after a month of that exercise, ‘Of course I don’t consider the Jews a nation, but I begin to see why so many Jews do. I had never realized what a wealth of life and thought there is within Jewry, how uniform the essence of our problems, no matter how far apart we live.’ It needs no comment, except this old one: vivat, crescat, floreat!”
LEONARD STEIN, Political Secretary of the World Zionist Organization, London. “It is with great pleasure that I learn from your letter of the approach of the ninth anniversary of the foundation of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which will coincide with the one thousandth issue of the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin.’ I am happy to associate myself on this occasion with the numerous and well-deserved expressions of congratulation and goodwill which will be reaching the Agency from all quarters of the Jewish world. The increasing circulation of the ‘Bulletin,’ as well as of the other publications of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, is ample evidence, if such were needed, alike of the popularity and usefulness of these papers, and of the fact that the Agency, by the prompt supply of news items not otherwise accessible, fills-and fills with credit-an important place in the life of the Jewish community.”
DR. HEINRICH SLIOSBERG, Russian Jewish leader, Paris. “The J. T. A. and especially the ‘Daily Bulletin’ rendered and continues to render great services to the Jewish people by informing public opinion all over the world on the events concerning Jewry; it has become a powerful instrument in the struggle against anti-Semitic misrepresentations and agitation.”
LT. COL. H. J. SOLOMON, former Director of Commerce and Industry, Palestine Civil Service. “The fact that the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has reached its ninth anniversary and the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin’ its 1,000th issue, together with the fact of their enormous circulation are sufficient proofs of their immense importance and value to the Jews throughout the world. I wish them both every success.”
LEONARD ROSENTHAL, Paris. “Security has always led to lessening of the sentiments of piety of the Jews in the great civilized countries. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency accomplished a wonderful task in reawakening the sentiments which Jews unfortunately permit to slumber in their hearts.”
DR. JAMES SIMON, prominent German Jewish leader, Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden, Berlin. “The ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin’ has won high esteem and appreciation through its extensive news service concerning the important events in Jewish life and its constant championship of right and progress in the manifold problems which are of great importance to our co-religionists. I take this occasion to express my best wishes for the continuation of a similar fruitful activity.”
JACOB MICHAEL, Berlin. “The ninth anniversary of the foundation of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency gives me a welcome opportunity to present you my heartiest congratulations. During this period and especially during the war and the first post-war years you have drawn repeatedly the attention of the world to Jewish sufferings in various countries, and you have collected valuable information about the extraordinary achievements of Jews in the service of civilization and humanity. By doing this for Jewry you have acquired great merit inasmuch as this has caused regular and unbiased reports in the daily papers, which fact in turn has contributed considerably to the enlightment of the general public and has even enhanced the interest for questions touching Jewry.
“May you continue unwavering in your meritorious work and may you succeed to contribute to the welfare of the Jewish people by spreading the knowledge of its ideals and achievements farther and farther.”
DR. LION FEUCHTWANGER, author of “Power,” Berlin. “Among the many points of view, according to which the world events are classified, the Jewish point of view seems to me to be one of the most fruitful. The function, therefore, which the Jewish Telegraphic Agency is filling is a good and important one.”
JOSEPH L. COWEN. Zionist leader, London, England. “I think the dissemination of correct news about Jews is good from every point of view, both for Jews and non-Jews.
“I take this opportunity of congratulating you upon the thousandth issue.”
F. CORCOS, French Jewish leader, Paris. “At the beginning I would say to myself. ‘What, I am going to receive this paper every day? But this is both extravagant and needless!’ And then, little by little, I contracted the habit of reading the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin.’
“The publication in itself is extraordinarily living and varied. No man who is awake and cultured, who wishes to keep abreast of the great currents of events and thoughts, can afford to ignore it. You are ‘greater than yourselves,’ since what you say of Jews, about the Jews, for the Jews, transcends Judaism, is even universal. And, for a French Jew these are things so new, so unknown, I wish indeed that your effort may awaken my co-religionists.”
RABBI M. EISENSTADT, former Chief Rabbi of Petrograd, Paris. “The ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin’ which gives in a most impartial way complete information on Jewish life in the whole world is indispensable to every Jew interested in Jewish problems.”
LEONARD COHEN, communal leader, London. “The Jewish Daily Bulletin’ has rendered valuable services in spreading amongst Jews all over the world reliable news of events, which touch their interests, social and political, as well as religious and educational.
“The impartiality with which it is conducted is a tribute to the wise direction of its editor, and has gained for the ‘Bulletin’ the confidence of those who look to it for a trustworthy record of events.
“It has filled a void, and will I am sure continue to receive increased support.”
E. N. ADLER, London. “I congratulate you very much on the useful work you have done during the last nine years. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the ‘Jewish Daily Bulletin’ have been of much value to our people. They have proved a formidable weapon of defence against anti-Semitism and religious oppression.”
LOUIS GOLDING, novelist. “I have been too much of a wanderer to receive the ‘Bulletin’ at all regularly, but it has always graced the desks of the most engaging and significant people I encountered between China and Peru, between Manhattan and Madagascar. The publication seems to me indispensable not only to the severe publicist but to the reckless artist also. He begins-the artist, I mean-to realize something of the wealth and color provided for him by the Jewish palette.”
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