World Press Digest

The Canadian Jewish Chronicle commenting on the fifty years of service to the Jewish community which Mr. Lyon Cohen, leader of Canadian Jewry, has attained this week, says:

Mr. Cohen is one of those rare Jews who belongs to his people and not to his community. His perspective is so sweeping and his range of Jewish interests so wide that it is small wonder that his name has become almost a household name wherever there is Jewish life in the Dominion. Unlike many of our modern leaders, Mr. Cohen has made no hobby of any specific branch of endeavor. Everything that is Jewish is sure to gain his sympathetic ear.

His philosophy of Jewish life is something of a challenge to those who feel that traditionalism cannot be compatible with modern Jewish life, and he is a striking exemplar of a Jew in whom the two forces have become synchronized.

HAMBURG POLICE MAKE NOVEL CHANGE

The London Times prints the following report from its Berlin correspondent:

An astounding and almost untranslatable announcement was made by the Hamburg police about the dissolution of a Protestant community. The community is the Evangelisch-Kirchliche Gemeinschaft of Hamburg, and the reason given for the action is that it has been “carrying on Jewish intrigues under the cloak of Christianity.”

The community has been proscribed and dissolved in the whole area of the Free City because the preacher, who had changed from the Jewish to the Evangelical Faith, had exercised under the cloak of Christianity, a calamitous, Talmudic-Jewish, indeed, even unwholesome (gesundheitsgefaehrdend, endangering to health) influence upon German fellow-citizens.

COMMENTS ON ARREST OF RETURNED EXILES

The London Daily Herald, writing on the German Jewish refugees who were arrested upon their return to Germany, says:

Depressed economic conditions in other countries and the difficulty in getting money from relatives within Germany, have forced the return of these Jews.

The number at present in custody throughout Germany is impossible to estimate, but a reliable source indicated that it would probably “run into hundreds.”

Government quarters refuse any information, but one quarter said that shortly there would be an official statement concerning the instruction course for “political opponents—naturally chiefly Communists”—who return to Germany desiring to resume their former life.

A WORD ON JEWS IN SPORT

The People, a London newspaper writing on Jews in sport, says:

Benny Leonard, the Fighting Lion of Judah, was the greatest boxer Jewry has ever produced. Out of 210 contests he lost but four, and held his world title against all challengers for fourteen years before he finally retired.

PAYS TRIBUTE TO BULLETIN

The Zionist Record of South Africa, commenting editorially on the Anglo-Jewish press, says:

The only American Jewish daily newspaper in English is the one published in New York, called the “Jewish Daily Bulletin.” This is issued through the offices of the J.T.A., and is an excellent little newspaper, presenting each day the latest cable news of Jewish events throughout the world.

Abraham Colorni, born in Mantua about 1530, held the position of engineer at the court of Alfonso d’Este, inventing a kind of ten-chambered revolver.

Mendes Cohen of Baltimore was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers for 1892-93.