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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

A Friend's Appreciation of
Sholem Aleichem

Louis J. Rosenberg Pays Fine Tribute to Dead Writer

"I I is stories depict the family re-
Commenting upon the death of
Sholem .\leicheni, the noted Yiddish lationships of the Jews, they tell of
author, Mr. Louis T. 16)senberg. of Hebrew boy:: at school, how they
this city, who is himself a writer are treated by their teacher, or of
and a member of the Michigan .\ii- the relationship of children to ani-
before his
tliors' (•lub, said "Sholent .\leichem mals. I read not long
death
a
remarkably
clever
story of
was the last of the really great
Yiddish •riters." One of the in- his. It is called 'The Jewish Re-
freqiient masters of Yiddish \\it ()
are in a position to devote them-
selves to literary criticism, NI r. Ro-
senherg has made a s tudy of t h e
work of Sholem .\leichem. .\t the
time of the visit of the "Jewish
Nlark •wain, - as he was known, to
Detroit a year ago, when he read .
selections of his writings ill the I )c-
troit opera. house, Nil . . Rosenberg
was among those to meet him.
Aleichem, whose real name was
Sholem Pen \ enachem RAinowitz,
died in New York last week. "Silo-
lent Aleichem" means "how do you
do."
"There is none to take his place,"
\lr. Rosenberg continued. "In de-
picting the life of the poorer ele-
ment of Jews he was Nvithout an
equal. I lis humor was deliciously
quaint, and altogether inimitable. I
•
am afraid there are very few in-
LOUIS J. ROSENBERG
deed who can fully appreciate it.
Ihtt Sholem Ileichem's humor was
story of 13
poignant with an intense pathos and public: and tells the
Vacli
it presents to the reader, better than Jews marooned on an
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
"I ors in I 8.5 1 ), he was known all
assertion that, in a certain psycho- over Furope. .\ few of his stories
logical insight, lie was superior to have been translated into F.nglish
I leinrich Heine.
by I Icicn Prank. Those that I think
familiar
with
the
best
in
am
"I
of are 'The 'Pishel, the
F.uropean literature, and I make
Teacher,' and 'The Passover ( ;nest.'
this statement critically, Aleichem
"1)1(1cl - standing the poor Jews as
was not more widely recognized be-
he did, lie was lionized and beloved
cause those who understand Yid-
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
cern themselves with literary ap- poorer classes made up his follow-
, for the majority of the edu-
preciations, and to compare authori- ing.
ews in public life do not un-
tatively his quality as a writer with cated j
derstand Yiddish."
other authors.

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TURKS MAY SELL PALES-
TINE.

Ambassador Morgenthau Thinks
That Jews May Buy
Holy Land.

Cincinnati, May 2 1.—I teary tor-
genthau, recently resigned ambassa-
dor to Turkey, told the \Vise ("en-
ter Forum here today that the sale
of Palestine after the war, so that
the Ottoman empire might secure
money, had been discussed by him.
1 is said he broached the matter to
the Turkish ministry, who eagerly
discussed it.
"We even got down to figures,"

Neer•IMMAN•01.

ILirgenthau. "They ar-
said
gued as to whether it should be an
international state or a republic. -

Whether Russian and rierman
Christians would allow the Jews to
possess Palestine was thoroughly
discussed.
"I told the ministry that if a har-
bor was built at Jaffa, Jerusalem
would yearly attract 5110,000 visit-
ors, who would spend at least S;1

each.
"Seeing that there was a way for
the lews to pay for Palestine, the
)ttoman government wanted to
stake concessions- immediately and
asked that the building of a harbor
and hotels be started," he stated.

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