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Died. Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties...
...strictly speaking, sermons. They used 15 N. B. C. stations. But their interest was irregular. Jews lack a strong cooperating, representative organization in the U. S. That lack is the presumptive explanation of Jewry's abandonment since last September of broadcasting over N. B. C. However, The Day (Yiddish daily) now sponsors a Jewish Art Program Sundays (12:00-12:30 p.m.) over 29 Columbia stations...
...Yiddish Dostoyevsky...
Sholom Asch, No. 1 Yiddish novelist, was born (1880) in Kutno, near Poland's Warsaw. In 1910 he came to the U. S., lived for five years on Manhattan's Staten Island. Few of his novels (Uncle Moses, Kiddush Ha-Shem) have been translated; one of his plays (God of Vengeance), though several have been produced by the Yiddish Art Theatre, Manhattan. In 1919 Sholom Asch returned to Europe, lives in Paris. Son Nathan (The Office, Love in Chartres), now in Paris, lives in Manhattan, writes in English...
...Henry J. Allen . . . has 'sold himself down the river.' [The Beacon] has fallen into the hands of a young man with a Yiddish name, given and family, who came out of the sticks with a million and a half and picked it up. . . . The new pub lisher is filling the paper with pictures and complimentary references to himself. He seems to be quite a guy and frankly admits it. But we doubt if he ever learns to speak the Kansas language as Henry speaks...