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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
No. 8
THE WILL OF RABBI
J. LEONARD LEVY
2t
Dr. J. Leonard Levy, rabbi of Ro-
deph Shalom Temple of Pittsburgh,
Pa., who died recently at the height
of his career left his last will and test-
ament in the form of a letter to his
wife prior to his departure for the
Orient in 1909. It is a document,
beautiful in its simplicity and expres-
sion of devotion and love for his fam-
ily, and is worthy of the great and
hind soul that he was:
"NI y darling wife.
"Before leaving home for Europe,
I feel it my duty to pen the follow-
ing lines in the hope that you will
follow my wishes and in the perfect
faith that you will fulfill them to the
best of your ability.
"If it be God's will that we never
meet again on earth, you may feel
;issued that I (lie in the faith of Is-
rael, in perfect trust in the God re-
vealed to mankind by our ancestors.
Into His hands I deliver my spirit,
hoping and trusting that we may
meet again never to be parted. I
should like to meet iny end here
bravely, in the assurance that the
divine arms are about inc here and
hereafter.
"After all my lawful debts arc dis-
charged by you, I leave to you all of
which 1 ant possessed in trust in equal
shares for our darling children, Edna
and Ruth. M y little estate is too
small to make appropriation for char-
itable institutions, but I hope you will
continue my memberships in such in-
stitutions as you can afford, to that,
though I am gone, the various char-
itable institutions to which I have
contributed will not suffer.
"Do all in your power to keep our
daughters in the faith of Israel, for
therein lies, I ant convinced, their
peace of mind and soul. Though
hardships may be encountered in this
way, the sacrifice is worthy of their
effort. Some day Israel will come into
its own, and our children may help to
speed the day of universal peace and
liberty for mankind. I trust you so
completely that I have no further re-
quests to make of you, except that
you make a donation of sonic of my
hooks to the Temple library.
"I go away to help the cause of Is-
rael, to spread the gospel of Rodef
Shalom, the kindest and most indul-
TAKES PARLIAMENT
RUMANIAN
KES UP QUEST ON OF
JEWISH RIGHTS.
The Petrograd correspondent of the
Jewish Daily Forward cabled yesterday
that throughout Russia, and even in Ru-
mania, efforts were being made to pro-
vide equal rights for Jews. The dis-
patch says in part:
"The Socialist newspapers are warn-
ing against the agitation for separate
peace and against the anti-Semitic agi-
tation in the South. They say that both
are a hindrance to the unity of the
revolution and threaten the normal de-
velopment of the new order.
"The Rumanian Consul at Odessa has
declared that the Rumanian Parliament
has already taken un the question of
abolishing all restrictions against the
Jews and granting them all civil and
political rights.
"The new Russian Government is
planning a huge pension fund for old
revolutionists who have been freed from
prison and exile They have already
been declared free from any taxes."
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THE STORY OF ISREAL, by Addie
Richman Altman, 136 pages, $1.00.
Bloch Publishing Co., 40 E. 14th St.,
New York, N. Y.
A text-book for children, written in
simple language, which contains glimpses
gent of congregations in the whole of both Biblical and post-Biblical his-
world. God speed the humble effort. tory. It opens with a comprehensive
"And now, goodby. God bless the sketch of Bible history and then gives in
girls and yourself and keep you ever broad outline a history of the Jews
under the gracious protection of His from the time of the Babylonian Cap-
tivity to the present day.
love.
"With assurance of my devoted love,
The author, who has been a teacher
Your affectionate husband,
for many years, recognizes the fact that
history is but too often a confusion
"J. LEONARD LEVY."
of words and dates in a child's memory,
"P. S. If my dead body is brought and that dry historical data is distaste-
back to Pittsburg, I desire it to be in- ful to him. She has, therefore, omitted
terred in the cemetery of our congre- much and has sought to make this his-
gation. 1 direct that the grave be lined tory interesting and within the mental
with quicklime; that my body be placed grasp of the child. Numerous anecdotes
in the lime, covered with a coffin and and legends are also introduced.
then covered by the earth. I desire
only a modest stone marking my rest-
ing place and bearing my name, date of "LESSING'S NATHAN THE WISE,"
translated from the German by Pat-
birth and death, and these words : 'He
rick Maxwell, edited with an intro-
strove to be a teacher of God's word
duction by George Alexander Kohut,
and to live it.'
388 pages, $1.50. Bloch Publishing Co.,
"I hope that neither you nor the girls
New York.
will wear black garments after my
death, and you will not indulge in.the
Lessing's immortal drama, written
pagan and heathenish mourning custom
nearly one hundred and thirty years ago,
so prevalent in our day. Let there is indeed a masterful plea for human
be no eulogy pronounced over my body tolerance, whose message will never
at the funeral or after. Let the funeral grow old. He was the first free-thinker of
service consist only of the recital of Germany and the powerful lay-sermon
Psalms xliv, lxxiii, xc, Kaddish and he preached from his stage-pulpit on
Psalm xxiii, In memory of me help behalf of civic freedom and religious
whosoever you can on the highway to a tolerance, conies most opportunely at
better and holier life.
this time, when all enlightened peoples
"I have nothing to add to the above are battling in the cause of world
except that such estate as I have left democracy.
to you, in the event of the death of our
The story of Nathan, the merchant-
children without heirs, it is to go, after prince of Jerusalem, is well-known. In
your death, to the heirs of my sister. If it, Lessing gives a stirring picture of
our daughters marry, the interest on the the period of the Crusades. The urge
estate, after your death, is to be used of truth and human brotherhood was
by them and principal to go to their so strongly in his soul that he dared
children, if any, under such condition defy orthodox Christianity by contrast-
as they impose. If one of our daugh- ing the magnanimous, unselfish and
ters marries and the other does not, then high-minded Jew, with an unscrupulous,
I hope that the unmarried sister will fanatical and creed-bound churchman,
be cared for by the married sister, and who is ready to slay to gratify his lust
that the unmarried sister will do all she
for vengeance.
can for the married sister whenever ne-
The translation of Maxwell is used
cessity demands.
"If the married sister has issue I hope in this edition, because of its faithful
the unmarried sister will bequeath to rendering and copious notes. But it
her issue her share of my estate which is the Editor's Introduction of nearly
she receives. If both our daughters mar- 120 pages which gives the book a pecu-
ry and (lie without issue, I hope they liar distinctiveness and value. It makes
will leave their estate derived from you it virtually a new book to those already
to their husbands, the interest only to familiar with it. Unlike other editions,
be used by them for life and the princi- it gives the complete story of the rare
pal after the death of such husbands, to friendship between Lessing and Moses
Mendelssohn, from whom the character
the children or heirs of my sisters."
of Nathan was drawn.
JOE."
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