10 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Morris Rosenfeld Writes Poem to Stimulate War Relief Campaign Morris Rosenfeld, the noted Yiddish "sweatshop" poet, whose fiftieth birthday recently was celebrated by Jews throughout the United States, especially the Jews of the working classes, of which he himself is a prod- uct, having toiled for many years at a machine, has written a poem dedi- cated to the Jewish War Sufferers in Europe and which has been sent broadcast throughout the country as part of an appeal of the Central Jew- ish Relief Conimittcc) in connection with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which occurs September 17. Mr. Rosenfeld is regarded by Jews generally as being the typical poet of their race in America, and his poem, which is entitled "Pity, 0 Israel," has the advantage of the fact that he knows the conditions affecting the Jews on both sides of the Atlantic, having been born in Russian Poland, where he received his early education and from where he emigrated to America in 1882. The poem is as fol- lows: PITY, 0 ISRAEL. Mine eyes are dimmed with terrors black and red, And grimly disappear The sun and moonlight clear— For pity in the Jewish heart lies dead! The feeling heart, the grieving heart is dead— Mine eyes are dimmed with terrors black and red. Oh, bring a shroud, wherein with sad disdain I shall enwrap the heart so early slain, That feels no more its nation's bitter pain! From lands laid waste by war has vanished Sweet love and pity has been ban- ished; Compassion in the Jewish heart lies (lead— My soul is gripped by terrors black and red. Did God in vain bring us across the sea To these blest shores of blood and ravage free? • Has He not at all His gifts before us laid That we, like Joseph, be our people's aid? Did Providence in vain transport us here, Removed the ancient curse and dried the olden tear? Oh, no; it was the Heavens lofty thought That happiness shall be for others also wrought— For God made us not happy, free and well; Nor has He blessed us with His bounteous hand For us alone to thrive in Freedom's land— Remember them who starve, remem- ber, Israel! I I ow can thy Jewish heart remain so cold and dead To sufferers who writhe in pain and groan, While fathers sell their cherished flesh and hone To still their hunger pains with crusts of bread? Oh, will my words, like winds upon a sandy dune, Wow forth aunt die forever, And reach my brethren never, And will not gentle, soothing help come soon? I feel, I see compassion's sweet emotion— The Jewish heart is waking, The spirit's dawn is breaking, And pity surges up—a sweeping, boundless ocean! She waves her hand, And through the land 1 hear her song, 1 see a throng Of Jews who give and strive Their brethren to revive. I hear the Lord rejoice, I hear His Mighty voice: " "l'is good and well "With Israel— "His future's clear— "HI inscribe "For his tribe "A HAPPY YEAR." Major Dr. Leon Zadoc Kahn, the son of the late chief rabbi of France, has received the Knighthood of the Order of the Legion of Honor. Major Kahn was chief physician at the Rothschild Ilospital in Paris before the war. The same honor has also been conferred on Major Dr. B. Weill- allem, the son-in-law of Rabbi Emanuel Weill, of the Portuguese Synagogue in Paris. NO. Thanking You Grand River Aye. 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