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Old November 18th, 2013 #16
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Jacob Simon deBeer was born in Germany c.1853 and died in Albany in July 1951 aged 98; was of Dutch-German ancestry (read: Jewish); emigrated to the U.S. in 1885; was a tanner who started making baseballs soon after the game was popularised (the company he found still exists), and in 1937 was the honorary chairman of the Albany (New York) division of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC); an outfit which had been bewailing the peril of "6,000,000 Jews" since its founding in 1914 by the immensely powerful special interest group: the American Jewish Committee.
As part of yet another JDC fund raising drive, Morris Rothenberg of the Zionist Organisation of America was to speak before Albany Jewry in May 1937, and in preparation for his visit the local branch of the JDC, under the honorary chairmanship of deBeer, put out a statement which reads in part:
"The plight of six million Jews in Europe is an outstanding indictment against the ruthlessness of dictatorships that have seen fit to utilize uncivilized and thoroughly un-Christian methods in the persecution of minorities, in order to gain their personal and selfish attainments. It is our duty to try to alleviate the perilous conditions of the youth in Germany and Poland, and it is the duty of every Jew to assist in raising the quota that is allotted to use [sic, "us"?]."