Foreign Language Press Survey

M. Salmonsen died last Thursday in his home on Newgard Avenue after a few days illness, at the age of seventy. He came to Chicago forty-two years ago, and for the last thirty years held the job of clerk at the marriage license bureau of Cook County. Besides assisting young

Mr. Jonah Spivak, associate editor of the Jewish Record, has made a dramatization of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda. Several Yiddish dramatic companies are contracting for the purchase of the play, and it will be performed on the Jewish stage in the near future. Mr. Spivak has also e

The Jewish National Workmen's Verband of America, together with the Puela Zionist, have established many Jewish Folk Schools, (among them the free school at the John Smyth School of our city), whose Jewish children are taught Jewish in a new light or method. The National Workmen's Verband has

The members of the Shuchrie Shopas Ever gathered this Simchas Torah at their club rooms to celebrate this truly Jewish holiday in the good old fashioned Jewish way. They spoke of the Torah which is the greatest pride of the Jew. They are therefore jolliest on this day. One could feel strongly

Chicago has a very welcome guest in the person of the famous teacher and master, Mr. Schmoel Isaacs, of New York, father of that active Jewish Chicago community worker, Mrs. Benjamin Davis, and the late Dr. Isaacs. Mr. Schmoel Hillel Isaacs, was born 88 years ago in Rutsk, Subalker

The Cesko-Americka Tiskova Kancelar (Bohemian-American Press Bureau) corrected the printing and publishing firm of Rand McNally on the subject of the erroneous marking of the area and location of the Cesky Narodni Hrbitov (Bohemian National Cemetery), on Chicago maps, and the omission of Bohe

Anyone interested in Jewish literature, having an understanding of the profound value hidden in it or being impressed by its beauty and clearness, can see the approach of new stars on our literary heaven dispersing dense, dark clouds and illuminating Jewish life, now depicted by the pens of t

At one time the effective literature originated with the classical drama or with the great lyrical poem. That time has long since passed. Today, as we become more "developed" and more "educated," such literature does not begin with the poem. But with the newspaper advertisements. Today, the p

In the course of the last two weeks the Jews of America have lost two great men who have, for a couple of decades, brought laughter to Jews; one through his acting on the stage, the other through his playing with words, through his epigrams and witticism. But whereas the people have accompani

Mr. I. K. Friedman, author of By Bread Alone, and the Autobiography of a Beggar, has written a play entitled Your Uncle Sam's Money, which is to produced this spring in Chicago.

Dr. A. Levinson will leave for Vienna to study under Dr. Finkelstein, a specialist in pediatrics. Dr. Levinson has gained great distinction in different fields of endeavor. As a physician, he is known for his work on the staff of the Maimonides Hospital, the West Side Dispensary, th

Chicago countrymen, who with greater or smaller success have, in prose and verse, contributed to the preservation of our mother tongue on foreign soil, were last Saturday invited to a festive gathering, which included the visiting Danish author and poet L. C. Nielsen, in the Wahl-Henius Insti

Chicago countrymen, who with greater or smaller success have, in prose and verse, contributed to the preservation of our mother tongue on foreign soil, were last Saturday invited to a festive gathering, which included the visiting Danish author and poet L. C. Nielsen, in the Wahl-Henius Insti

The celebration of the dedication of the Goethe Statue which took place yesterday with such extraordinary success, has been the result of the gradual development of German cooperation in the history of Chicago. A great deal of cultural work has been done by our predecessors. The first settler

We quote the Record Herald: "Like the students at the University of Copenhagen on November 3, 1871, we need to turn to Dr. Georg Brandes to open our vision. Whether they be near at hand or far away, the great contemporary influences and ideas of the Old World. "He has writ

We quote the Record Herald: "Like the students at the University of Copenhagen on November 3, 1871, we need to turn to Dr. Georg Brandes to open our vision. Whether they be near at hand or far away, the great contemporary influences and ideas of the Old World. "He has writ

President Wilson nominated Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago as United States Minister to Sweden today. The President submitted the nomination immediately to the Senate, where it was asserted that the nomination will be approved. With the appointment of Mr. Morris as American envoy to Sw

The directors of the Chicago Public Library inaugurated a new foreign-language section last Monday night. It is true there were books in foreign languages in the Library before, but they were not arranged in a separate section. Many of the languages were poorly represented. For instance, it w

"The Love of Death" (La Morte Amoureuse). Written by T. Gautier. Translated by J. Laukis. An M.G. Valaskas publication. Chicago, Illinois, 1914. Forty-five pages. Price, fifteen cents. "The Changing of Materials in Organisms". (A Lecture.) Written by L. Vailionis. Katalikas Press. C

Within the last few weeks a Jewish Literary and Art Society has been founded in Chicago, which has undertaken the task of organizing and uniting all the Jewish national progressive elements willing to devote their time to developing and distributing Jewish literature, music and drama. It is h