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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
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A Friend's Appreciation of
Sholem Aleichem
Louis J. Rosenberg Pays Fine Tribute to Dead Writer
"IIis stories depict the family re-
Commenting upon the death of
lationships
of the Jews, they tell of
Sholem Aleichem, the noted Yiddish
Hebrew boys at school, how they
author, Air. Louis J. Rosenberg of
are
treated by their teacher, or of
this city, who is himself a writer
the
relationship of children to am-
and a member of the NI ichigan Au-
thors' Club, said "Sholem Aleichem mals. i read not long before his
death a remarkably clever story of
Nvas the last of the really great
'The
Jewish Re-
Yiddish wrifers." One of the in- his. It is called
frequent masters of Yiddish who
are in a position to devote them-
selves to literary criticism, NI r. Ro-
senberg has made a study of the
work of Sholem Aleichem. .\t the
time of the visit of the "Jewish
Nlark Twain," as he was known, to
Detroit a year ago, when he read
selections of his writings in the De-
troit opera house, NIr. Rosenberg
was among those to meet him.
Aleichem, whose real name was
Sholem Pen Nlenachem Rabinowitz.
died in New York last week. "Silo-
lent Aleichem" means "how do vou
do."
"There is none to take his place,"
N1r. Rosenberg continued. "In de-
picting the life of the poorer ele-
ment of Jews he was without an
equal. I lis humor was deliciously
quaint, and altogether inimitable. I
am afraid there are very few in-
LOUIS J. RO3ENBERG
deed who call fully appreciate it.
But Sholem Aleichem's humor was
poignant with an intense pathos and public,' and tells the story of 13
it presents to the reader, better than Jews marooned on an island. Each
any epic of tragedy, the misery, one represents a type and they cover
poverty and suffering of the Jewish every class of Jew in a remarkably
people in the ghettos and in the astute and penetrating way.
small cities of Europe. I make the
"Porn in 1859, he was known all
assertion that, in a certain psycho- over Europe. A few of his stories
logical insight, he was superior to have been translated into English
Ileinrich Ileine.
by I I den Frank. Those that T think
"I am familiar with the .best in
of are 'The Clock,"Fishel, the
European literature, and I make
Teacher,' and 'The Passover ( ;nest.'
this statement critically, Aleichem
"ITnderstanding the poor Jews as
Wati not more widely recognized be-
cause those who understand Yid- he did, he was lionized and beloved
dish are people of a social stratum by the masses of his people wher-
where they have little time to con- ever he went. Particularly the
' cep themselves with literary ap- poorer classes made up his follow-
preciations, and to compare authori- ing, for the majority of the edu-
tatively his quality as a writer with cated Jews in public life do not Un-
derstand Yiddish."
other authors.
TURKS MAY SELL PALES- said \1r. Nlorgenthau. "They ar-
gued as to whether it should be an
TINE.
international state or a republic."
Whether Russian and German
Ambassador Morgenthau Thinks
would allow the Jews to
Christians
That Jews May Buy
possess
Palestine
was thoroughly
Holy Land.
discussed.
"I told the ministry that if a har-
Cincinnati, NI ay 21.—I leery NI or- bor was built at Jaffa, Jerusalem
genthau, recently resigned ambassa- would yearly attract 500,000 visit-
dor to Turkey, told the Wise Cen-
ors, who would spend at least 5100
ter Forum here today that the sale
of Palestine after the war, so that each.
"Seeing that there was a way for
the Ottoman empire might secure
money, had been discussed by him. the Jews to pay for Palestine, the
lie said he broached the matter to Ottoman government wanted to
the Turkish ministry, who eagerly make concessions immediately and
asked that the building of a harbor
discussed it.
•"We even got down to figures," and hot.:Is be started, he stated.
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