The Phoenix Jewish news., 1953-11-27
Happy 10th Birthdoy!
DID YOU KNOW

before it was not unusual for to publish such
reports as morris Cohen, Russian Jew, was arrested
That respectable us. magazines published cartoons
rdcuing Jews in much the manner as did the Nazis
That Jews were caricatured in vaudeville and moves
That resorts, eschewing the euphemsms OF today
sve patronage-,no Jews and Hebrews, consumptves
And that, in World War l. an army Manual for Medical
Advisory Boards included section on Causes and mo mo
tves for mangering and Hereunder set forth the fol
apt to malinger than the native born? -.
Such offenses these against the good name of Jews
incredible in the light of modern times Yet they
happened and others like them And the fact that they
not happening today and that American Jews enjoy
degree of security greater than before is due IN
very substantial part organization called the Anti
Defamation League
THE LEAGUE, or ADJ we know it, is the Jewish
defense civil rights of Bnai Birth This week it
celebrating it's 40h anniversary In its four decades OF
splendid service Jewry and American democracy ADJ
has grown into imposing force and an Indispensable
In those four decades it's also has broadened its concept
nitialy ADJ devoted itself alone to combating what
Monthly rghtfuly calls the "backwoods idocy" that
spawned antsemtism. Fighting Jewish defamation kept
aspects of civil rights Theaers movies newspapers mag
aznes-whatever media served whiting or unwilling
channels for expressions of hatred against Jewhad to
be approached and persuaded to act like decent Amer
cans. . .
to power brought tremendous revival of antisemtsm
in America. It well financed and fanatically pro,
IL,
Jews faced threat to their EXISTENCE
deed before had American democracy witnessed
comparable peril
ADJ EXPANDED in all directions to meet the threat
compiled great storehouse of information Amerl
cas- fascss and furnished material to law enforcement
agencies to community groups and newspapers IN tire
less campaign M OF public exposure ts work took on
cloakand-dagger qualities Ross tells how Fritz Kuhn,
leader of the German-Amercan Bund, was vastly dis
offtherecord meetings he held with leading citizens who
did not to have their names linked with his He
did discover how the papers had gotten wind OF
his activities"
The fascist threat in America met and overcome,
and then in the postwar ADJ widened its horizons
It faced up to the realities of tmeto the fact that
the welfare of Jews indvsibly linked with the whole
structure of American democracy And SO the League
intensified it's efforts knock down discrimination against
all mnorities knowing that wellbeing as Jews is in
evtaby identified with the welbeing of Negros, Mel-
cans Catholic and whatever In other words democracy
does function for them it does not function for
either.
THUS WE HAVE ADJ active in the efforts Of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People to vanqush segregation in schools and in other
areas of life It has campagned to end Jim Crow in
Washington 1t is taking leading part in the attempt
to amend Americas oppressive immigration laws is
the forefront of the struggle to defend free public ed
cation against the campaign of the Allen Zols and his
reactionary cohorts.
And here Arizona the League has Joined with Negro
and interracal groups in the court fight to vanqulsn
school segregation An amcus curae brief was filed IN
the state court by ADJ shortly before % the he e
renewed ADJ be expected to appear again on the
firing line. - . -,
Irwin Ross expressed it well when he said in his article
Zone measure ADDS achievement is that it has long
since ougrown its 1t began life 40 years ago with
the aim defending the Jew against every form OF de-
famaton Today its work encompasses far broader field
nothing less than the defense of American democracy
in all it's phases For only setting of enlarged freedom
for all groups the Jew find real security.
Today therefore having attained large measure OF
that rea security because of the work OF the Anti
Defamation League join with Jews the nation over in
saluting the organization its 10th anniversary.
We say-happy birthday, ADJ, and many many more
of same!
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