Heroism of Jewish Officers in World War Described in Memoirs of General Kuhn

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

A remarkable case of a Jewish officer’s heroism under fire of the German guns in France in 1918 has just come to light with the copyrighted publication in “The Evening Bulletin” of the memoirs of Major-General Joseph E. Kuhn, who commanded the 79th Division.

There probably were few veterans of the A. E. F. who returned to the United States entitled to wear as many wound stripes as Lieutenant Theodore Rosen, of this city, and still fewer, who, faced with his handicap, could have become so valuable a citizen to his native city as Rosen became after leaving the rehabilitation hospital.

General Kuhn relates the famous attack on what the doughboys called “Cornwillie Hill,” in the Grande Montague sector, on November 4, a short time before the armistice:

“The advance of the 1st Battalion, 315th Infantry,” writes General Kuhn, “lay through an almost impenetrable wood, thickly infested with machine gun nests. By infiltration of small combat groups the battalion advanced several hundred yards suffering heavy losses but capturing a number of machine guns. At 11 A.M. the advance came to a halt, the ground won being held. While reconnoitering the front line, Lieutenant Theodore Rosen, regimental gas officer, was twice severely wounded and, while lying helpless on the ground, was taken prisoner by the enemy. He recovered consciousness two days later in a German hospital in Belgium. On his liberation after the war he was brought to Walter Reed Hospital. Washington. While still there he entered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. He was made president of his class and was graduated in 1922. After two years at the law school he was admitted to the bar on the plea he had lost much time in the war. When he finished law school he formed a partnership with Charles Edwin Fox, and when the latter became District Attorney of Philadelphia recently, he named Lieutenant Rosen as one of his assistants.

“Lieutenant Rosen was one of the most remarkable casualties of the Division, in that he survived the terrible wounds inflicted upon him,” the “Evening Bulletin” remarks parenthetically in General Kuhn’s story.

PALESTINE HEBREW THEATRE REPRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL THEATRICAL EXHIBITION

The Palestine–Hebrew Gnesin Theatre, which is a part of the Moscow Hebrew theatre, Habimah, was represented at the International Theatrical Exposition, which was held in the Steinway Building, New York City, and in which more than 200 artists of thirteen countries participated.

Reproductions of the settings of “Jacob’s Dream,” the last production in Palestine of the Gnesin Theatre, exhibited the modern spirit of the Hebrew stage.

Capt. Van Friesland of Palestine, who is an executive member of the Gnesin Theatre, is now visiting the United States. He is endeavoring to raise in America a fund for the expansion of the theatre in Palestine.