The Reader’s Forum

The editors reserve the right to excerpt all letters exceeding 250 words in length. All letters must bear the name and address of the writer, although not necessarily for publication.

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

I was much amused by the story from Warsaw that appeared in a recent issue of your paper. The tale recounted the dilemma confronting the good rabbis of the city because Golde Soloveitchik wanted unto herself a spouse.

Well, Golde didn’t have any money of her own, but she did have an uncle in Leipzig, which is in Germany, who, while unable to send her currency, was willing to dispatch a shipment of goods. The idea was that the poor girl who would be wed could sell the goods and keep the proceeds for her dowry.

The dispatch says the rabbis, to whom Golde virtuously appealed for permission to sell the German articles despite the boycott, are divided.

For my own part, I do not see how it could be anything but a grave injustice to the poor girl if the legalistic coterie in the Warsaw rabbinate has its way, because, just between you and me, it is plenty tough to catch a husband—or even a boy friend—these days.

Therefore, say I, though the boycott is undoubtedly a very serious matter and not to be taken in vain, nevertheless it must not be used to wreck Golde’s future.

Theodore Hoberman.

Stamford, Conn.,

Jan. 16, 1935.

YIDDISH THEATRE

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

There is one deficiency in your publication that I should like to see remedied.

You have a column three times weekly on the theatre and the cinema. In those columns there is rarely if ever mention of the activities in the Yiddish theatre. At this time, the Yiddish stage seems to be unusually active and it seems to me that it would be interesting to your readers to be informed fully about the plays and the actors.

I notice that several of the general dailies devote considerable space to this particular branch of the theatre. Why don’t you?

Abraham Cobinsky.

New York City,

Jan. 17, 1935.

WANTS HAUPTMANN NEWS

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

Although I by no means approve of the flood of publicity that has characterized the Hauptmann trial, I am curious to know just why it is that the case has received no attention whatever in your estimable publication.

I am sure there are many of your readers who would be interested in seeing brief stories on the trial in your columns. With the Isidore Fisch shadow that is continually hovering over the Flemington Courthouse, and the arrival of the late furrier’s family from Germany, it seems to me that you would be justified in running the story.

Herman Alkus.

Yonkers, N. Y.,

Jan. 17, 1935.