PAGE EIGHT

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

ARE THE JEWS A RACE?

Zionism and World Reconstruction

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League of Nations.

I have done my best to allow for the
morbid psychology of the British
Jews, for the shell-shock that our un-
happy history has produced on their
nervous system. But if Palestine
comes under Britain, what becomes
of their apprehensions? Why the
Palestine Jews can come into their
very League of British Jews! And if
Palestine is neutralized or internation-
alized, it can never develop those mili-
tary possibilities which alone make a
people suspicious to its neighbors.
But the most important consideration
which our friends of the Right have
overlooked is that everything is in the
inciting pot; that the had OM world
we have known is not the world we
shall live in after the war; that there
may even be a league of nations. For
think to what this old system of mu-
tually hostile states has brought our
planet. Saul slew his thousands and
David his' ten thousands, but today
the Angel of Death does not suffice
for the volume of destruction. He
has commandeered all the other
angels into his service—the angels of
fire and the angels of air—he has con-
scripted the very cherubim. There is
death in the heavens above and the
earth beneath, and in the waters under
the earth. The scions of civilization
shrivel up one another with spirited
flames or boiling oil. Millions wan-
der and perish—in Poland no child
tinder seven has been left alive—one
Serbian in every four is dead, one of
every two Armenians. Thousands of
women have been dishonored, the
camps of captives, the hospitals of the
wounded, are numbered by the
myriad; plagues, famine and civil war
ravage the peoples; the cities arc full
of the crippled and blinded, the whole
earth groaneth and travaileth.

love and justice. Why then should
we Jews, the people of Isaiah, at such
a turning point in history, nourish that
crude and cynical view of nationality
which regards every nation as neces-
sarily the enemy of every other? Le'
us rather make a great act of faith
and instead of disavowing the broth-
erhood of Israel let us proclaim—from
our Jerusalem center—the brother
hood of man.

Palestine a Barren Soil.

But this spiritual work is not all
that calls to us. For Palestine is not
like those rich Southern plains on
which the Hun is again descending.
It is a place full of stones and fever.
It is a land whose main bulk lies
almost as desolate as the plains of
Flanders; ruined not by German war
but by Turkish peace, by centuries of
neglect and misgovernment. With the
depletion of the world's resources,
and especially of the world's man-
mover, by this terrible war, who is to
will this country for civilization if not
we Jews? Even if we had no historic
connection with it. that would be a
worthy mission for a people. Let me
appeal therefore to the British Jews
to work with us and to work loyally.
For even at the best the goal is far.
Palestine is not yet ours, and even
When it is, our work—despite the pio-
neers we shall always honor—will
only begin. But eagerly as our young
men have sacrificed themselves in
Palestine for war, still more eagerly
will they offer themselves there for
the labors and sacrifices of peace.
That will be the true Jewish regi-
ment.

Human Race To Be Reconstructed.
This is no time, my friends, for re-
joicing. Jewish legend rebukes the
Israelites for rejoicing even over the
drowning of the Egyptians in the Red
Sea. "[low can you sing," God asks
The Larger Human Vision.
I the angels, "when my people are per-
If we thought that all this was only ishing?" And today not only our ene-
to end in the same old world, life mies are perishing but our friends
would hardly be worth living. Where and brothers. But though we may not
there is no vision, says the Biblical rejoice, yet amid all the unparalleled
sage, the people perish. I say that destruction, when the sea is strewn
without the vision of a league of na- with murdered leviathans, when
lions the whole world will perish. ghastly shell-holes gape where once
And this vision is no mere dream of were pleasant pastures, when unsight-
poets or diletti-nti. It is the sober ly rubbish heaps are all that is left of
aspiration of statesmen like Mr. ancient beautiful cities, it is a happy
Asquith, like Lord Bryce, like Presi- change to look forward to our work
dent Wilson, like Lord Lansdowne, of reconstruction, of regeneration, to
like the greatest personality the war our task of making the wilderness
has revealed, I mean General Smuts. blossom as the rose, and the desert
But this aspiration was not originated flow again with milk and honey.
by General Smuts or his fellow-states-
And though our goal be yet far, yet
- men. It is the vision of our own already when I recall how our sinall
tvs(sb• •
-• lion sustained the mailed might of
the great empires of ant'quity, how
saw our temple in flames and were
altered like its ashes, how We ell-
, red the long night of the Middle
• _es, illumined by the glare of our
rtyrs' fires, how lint yesterday we
mitered ill our millions. torn be-
'twit the ruthless Press an and the
unless Russian. yet have lived to sir
Jewish fraternity, like every link that tmlay the bloody eniMre of the czars
drew the lands together, seas a bless- dissolved, and the mountains of Zion
big and not a curse. And though the glimmer on the horizon. already I feel
new world we dream of may delay to . we may say to the nations: Comfort
come, yet the bad old world can never ye, comfort ye, too, poor suffering
quite return.
peoples. Learn from the long pa-
Seven crusades to the Holy Land ' tience of Israel that the spirit is
have all meant massacre for the Jews ;1 mightier than the sword, and that the
if the eighth crusade is to mean Pales- seer who foretold his people's resur-
tine for the Jews, it is to he truly a rection was not less prophetic when
Christian crusade, then that very fact he proclaimed also for all peoples the
is a proof of a new world-order o f . peace of Jerusalem.

Dr. Max Nordau Weeps
With Joy Over
British Declaration

ership, but gave way to David Wolff-
sohn. Born ill Austria, he was living
in Paris when the war broke out and
left for Spain in order to avoid intern-
ment as an enemy. alien. I his home is
New \'ork.—Dr. Max Nonfat' was now in :Madrid and several times dur-
so overwhelmed with joy when final ing the past three years he has given
information reached him in his exile utterance of his great grief that the
that the British government had de- fortunes of war have deprived him of
clared in favor of establishing a Jew- closer contact with the other leaders
ish homeland in Palestine, that he of the Zionist movement.
broke down and wept. When lie was
able to compose himself, 1)r. Nordau
made the following statement:
"The declaration by the British
Government that it looks with favor
ht . siih er fitr i,. the Minister of Jew-
upon the Zionist movement and that
ish Affairs for the Ukraine Republic.
it will lend its best endeavors to the
announced that all crown rabbis in th..
establishment of a Iewish homeland
province of Ukraine are deposed front
in Palestine, is no idle word. It syn-
their positions and that the office of
chronizes with the advance of the
tiro,. II rabbi will henceforth be abol-
British army. ill the Holy Land. Never
ished. Ile also called upon all•Jewish
before has any army advanced there
communities to begin elections for
with such rapidity. This speed will no
immicipal officers in the community - .
doubt save the Jewish settlements in
The institution of the crown rabbi,
Palestine.
who was the responsible person to the
"I 1 .2w good it would be if we who government ill all matters
devAleft to the re-establishment of to Jews, was a remnant of the old re-
the Jewish people in Palestine, could gime in Russia. Although an elective
be near the scene of these miraculous office, it was usually occupied by per-
operations. It is terrible that our sons who had very little sympathy
blood has been spilled like water on with the great masses of the Jewish
all the fronts of this great war, and people and they were therefore re-
that in the one place where our future
garded with distrust by the Jews gen-
is being decided we could not be on
erally.
hand. What greater national tragedy
could befall any people? I earnestly
JEWISH AVIATOR KILLED.
pray that this shall be the end of our
Lieutenant-Observer Nissim he Ca
sufferings and that it will be granted
mondo, a French aeronaut, has fallen
his soon to lead a dignified existence
in aerial combat. He had been eliarg”il
on the soil of our forefathers. I am
with the delicate mission of (Mote
ready to go at once."
graphing the German positions, and
Dr. Max Nordau is one of the fore-
while engaged In this operation, h--
most world figures in the Zionist
w as attacked by a group of enemy avi
movement. He was elected vice-presi-
aloes. Ile destroyed one of their ma
dent of the international organization
chines, but Was mortally wounded by
at the first international congress in
a bullet. Lieutenant de Camodo had
Basle, Switzerland, in 1897. His ora-
frequently been mentioned In
tions at the opening of each succes-
patzhes In exceptionally iudogIsUr
sive Zionist Congress constituted the
terms for his courage and coolness.
most remarkable series of utterances
The deceased was twenty-five years In
on the Jewish problem that had ever
age, was the son of Count Molse de
been made. Ile has brought to these
Camondo, member of the Jewish con
orations his remarkable political vis-
sltory of Paris.
ion, philosophy, and rare literary skill,
which have made him famous through-
The Louisville I Ky.1 Federation o.
out the world, and they constitute the
most important literature of the move- •Jewish Charities has become affiliated
ment. When Dr. Herz) died in 1904, with the recently organized Fed, ra•
:Nordau was urged to assume the lead- lion of Social Ageucie.

RABBIS OF OLD REGIME
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Jaffa From the Sea.

PTElt being In the undisputed virtnally a Christian city. It had been
control of the Moslems for
pagan mid Jewish by turns, but Dolt
673 years, Jerusalem once
It was raised to n bishopric. Fides was
again has
come into the pos- the bishop, and he was present at the
session of the tercel; of civilization and s ,
yowl of Lydda in 415 and at the
the rule of the Turk is ended. The de- Council of Ephesus In 431.
eisive event of this "ninth crusade,"
It now became u place for pilgrims
made by the British forces under Gen- from Europe. For centuries they ar-
eral Allenby, was the capture of Jaffa.
rived and made their way to the Holy
the chief port of Palestine.
City. Many of them landed at Ces-
;Tara, vthlrh is also written Tara and urea, further up the coast, but the
Joppa, and which Is supposed to have biblical tritilitiens of Jaffa caused al-
been named the city beautiful, as Its most all Of them to visit Its pictur-
Hebrew name Implies, has a history esdue walls.
So ancient that Its foundation anti Its
in the seventh century of our era the
early history are entirely lost In the Arabs invaded the country and then
mists of the past, writes Joseph Jack- began the reign of the Saracens and
son In the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Turks, which has continued, with occu-
lt Is linked with the legends of llo- clonal periods of other occupation, un-
mer, with the commerce of the Phoeni- 111 the present day.
cians, with the mythology of the
In all of the eight Crusades, which
Greeks as well as with the story of the began In the eleventh century nail con-
New and Old Testaments. Lying so tinued Intermittently for 300 years,
close to Jerusalem, and for many years Jaffa was a prominent figure in the sic-
the real port of entry to that Inland counts. The Crusades were begun un-
city, It has In recent years established der the missionary work of l'eter the
a very modern reputation for business, Hermit, a French monk, who, having
which has nothing to do with Its sto- visited Jerusalem, found that the pil-
ried past.
grims were unjustly treated by being
Even the country In which the old taxed highly for admission to the city
city Is situated has had Its name of their dreams, and that they were
changed many times. The Greeks long otherwise unjustly treated by the goy-
before the time of Christ alluded to ernment.
it ns Ethiopia, Inter It was Canaan, and
It was custmnary for most of the
finally Palestine.
Crusaders to land at Acre, which, while
It has been ruled by Phoenicians, by further away from Jerusalem, seemed
Greeks, by Egyptian Pharaohs, by As- to offer a more direct route and a saf-
syrian kings, by the Romans, the Sara- er landing for the ships and galleys
cens, the Jews, the Arab caliphs and which brought the Knights Templar
the Turks, to say nothing of the tem- and llospitullers.
porary occupation by Christian eloper-
Jaffa became the advanced base for
era from Germany, France and Eng- most of the operations against the Sa-
land.
racens and later the Turks at Jeru-
The city of Jaffa has been besieged salem.
and taken by every newcomer for the
Taken by Napoleon.
last forty centuries who has made the
Napoleon in his Egyptian campaign
Jerusalem, , beuetdetshretitse
took the city of Jaffa, and It w as there
scene
n has
ilitc t
7that
i on it
that it was declared that he heft Ills
of hostilities and that more than once coddlers to die of the plague, but he
Its block-paved streets have run with
human blood, and that once, at least, had his eye on posterity and had a
p
It was almost destroyed by an earth,icture painted depicting him in the
convent of the Armenians going sym-
pathetically among his stricken sol-
be beautiful, With Its hills surround-
tilers, whom his enemies declared he
Mg it to the southwest covered with
poisoned When he was about to leave.
fruit trees, and with its man quaint
felletnet Ali tank the town in 1832,
stone buildings, churches and mosques.
and the Arabs were evicted by the
Was Held by the Pharaohs.
Turks, who took the town eight years
The Pharaohs of Egypt for n time later, although in the meantime it had
Included this ancient land in their em- been laid partly waste by an earth-
pire, during the reigns of Thothtues III quake in 1838.
and Amenhotem say from about 1000
The guide books will tell the modern
to 1400 B. C., although the Egyptian pilgrim that he may still see the ruins
occupation seems to halve lasted for of the house of Simon the tanner, now
quite three centuries.
covered by a mosqque, and the pious
On the porch on the great temple at may make the Journey to that part
Karnak there has been discovered ref- of the town where the worthy Tallitha
erences to the town of Ja-pu, and else- was raised by St. Peter. Ile may read
where in the land of Egypt there Is a
on a signboard, "Tabitha's Quarter,"
reference to Ya-pu, both being inter- but the exact spot where her house
preted to mean Jaffa. It appears to Stood
has not been transmitted to this
have been the Promised Land of bibli- time.
cal times, and when this was distrib-
From a small town of alout 10,000
uted under Joshua, ithe country border- population, the completion of the rail-
ing the 31editerrantian, in which Jaffa
road to Jerusalem about twenty years
lies. was awaraded ill the tribe of Dan.
ago caused the city to become Impor-
But the territory continued in the pos-
tant enough to boast of more than
Session of the PlillistineS moll the
three thees that number of inhabitants.
reign of David, when the Israelites
The treacherous character of the en-
Mlle Into their °syn.
trance by sea to the town Is likely to
During the time of Solomon, Jaffa
stand in the way of Its future great-
playml an impertant part, for it WIIS
ness, bat its one of the oldest cities in
there that the precious Wench; and met-
the world It must always have a fasci-
als which were brought from afar to
nation for the curious.
make his temple the wonder of the
world were unloaded felon the puny
vessels that plied the Nletilt•rranean. BOY OF 11 FLEES RUSSIA
All of the materials that were brought AND COMES TO NEW YORK
from sitar entered Palestine at Jaffa
and were transported overland to the
New York.—\Vithin the week there
hills on which the Holy City lies,
arrived at the Hebrew Shelter and
where his great edifice was erected.

When the Ten Tribes revolted Jaffa
regained Its independence, which had
been denied it for centuries, but this
freedom was scarcely enjoyed before
Itammanicar III, the king of Assyria,
fell upon It and once more it felt the
yoke of foreign authority.
If It were renowned for no other
event, Julia must always be famed as
the port from which Jonah sailed When
he tried to hide from the Lord and
attempted to neglect the Lord's bush-
ness.
The town was once fired by the Ro-
man governor of Syria, and its destruc-
tion, Invited by the insurreetion of the
Jess- is, caused many of the latter to re-
sort to thievery, piracy end brigandage.
More than 8,000 of them had been put
to the sword, end the remainder be-
nme outlaws.
Mecca for Pilgrims.

Yesposian put G slop to this sort of
thing by attacking a band of the
thieves, and massacring more than
4,000 of them. Then lit built a font
and around this it new city sprang up.
Later fur the first time Jolla became

Immigrant .Aid Society' in East Broad-

way an II-year-old Russian bray who
had traveled alone all the way from a
village near Petrograd to New York.
His father died of starvation during
the flight of the family from his native
place, in Russian Poland. and his
mother died on a railroad train at the
very beginning of what was to have
been the journey of herself and her.
son to America. The lad is Leiba
Noach, and he is now with his sister,
Mrs. Freda NVilenskv, at 2183 \Vasil-
ington avenue, the Bronx.
"Fortunate for me, when my mother
died of cholera, that she had made
arrangements for our going away, and
had managed to get 200 roubles," he
said. "I have a brother who was in
the Russian army the last time we
heard from hint \\*hen the war be-
gan we lived at Mitau, but we were
driven out. That tvas three years ago,
but I shall never forget the terrible
time we had on the road without food,
with ne•mle dying along the way.
My father died before we reached the
and of the journey."

cept religion, in which the Jew has , Jewish women for every one that
through the entire course of history went wrong ill their mothers' lifetime.
adhered to the same mental disposi-
\Viten the average standard of cour-
tion.
age and chastity changes either up-
If the Jew Is Not a Race—What Is ward or downward in so short a space
He?
of time, it must be clear that these
In this country. after the breaking standards, and the temperament that
of the roots grounded in the older produces them, are not fixed by hered-
soil of Europe, and under the influence ity, are not inborn or due to race, but
if general leveling, loosening, and re- are the result of changing and variable
casting, the character and spirit of the social conditions,
hew have changed even in a single
lf, then, the Jew is not a race, what
lifetime.
The 5 audcyille stage still is lie? For over two thousand years
cherishes jokes about the Jew' who he has not formed a nation in the
got into a fight with an Irishman, and politica! sense. Fur nearly as long he
with the aid of his father, his broth- has not been a geographical unit. For
ers, his cousin. his uncle, and his the same period he has not even pos-
brothers-in-law, nearly succeeded in sessed the unifying bond of a coin-
"licking" his opponent. Such humor , mon language, except for ritual pur-
survives because to a large clement of poses. Only one thing is common to
the public subtleties are perplexing, ! Jews of the past and present and to
and only a joke that has aged for all levvs of today—their faith.
thirty or forty years, and has been
"I'lle _fe•, then, is a group, a caste.
trodden under countless feet, is suffi-
the better sense of the word, held
ciently familiar ho appeal. Such cari- together by religion. Hence the em-
cautre. of course, is not representative phasis is justified which the Jew' al-
but misrepresentative of the Jew of . ways has laid and still lays on his
today, as the long list of Jewish faith. The Jews were the first people
names in the pugilistic columns of
the world to actively nationalize
our newspapers' sporting pages proves their religion; and ever since, they
proves for better or for worse, but have been religionizing their nation-
proves. The same may be said with ality. Their future as Jews, therefore,
reference to professional baseball. is clearly and indissolubly bound up
And it is a more serious, though no •with Jewish belief and worship; but
doubt related phenomenon, noted with !their future as human beings is ill no
grave concern especially by Jews sense limited or predestined by any
themselves, that a less reputable pro- bonds of race, but lies in themselves
fession than prize-fighting is being as individual Men, and in their ideals
entered and followed by hundreds of and character.

A PAIR OF SILK STOCK-
INGS AT THE ADAMS

"IF YOU ARE DESTINED FOR

AN ARTISTIC CAREER NOTH-

ING CAN STOP YOU," SAYS

Given

a half-dozen attractive young
women, each as a matter of course,
wearing a pair of silk stockings:
Thrust upon a nice young man pos-
session of just one lovely paid of silk
stockings that he does not want, that
he does not know how to restore to
the owner• even if be was certain they
belonged to her:
Let the young man in his despera-
tion import a perfectly good burglar
as a means of accounting for both
loss and return of the fragile silky
things:
Allow all these events to transpire
at a house party of smart society
folk, and surely the ingredients of a
clever comedy'are at hand.
"A Pair of Silk Stockings" at the
Adanis next week is a delicious sa-
tire on the ultra society folk whose
Chief aim in life is their ow• amuse-
ment.
Good natured but keen, witty, fun is
developed from their attitude toward
divorce, the clay idols of the rich
idler, and the selfish, charmed circle
into which a certain class withdraw
protected by money they make stren-
units efforts to avoid the discomfort
of facing a new idea, or a disturbing
personality.
'While the scene is laid in England
and titles adorn the cast, the human
nature of the comedy is so thortioghly
cosmopolitan that New York and
Chicago had no difficulty in recogniz-
ing themselves• and acknowledging
the merry indictment. Boston and
Philadelphit instantly identified New-
port and Lennox circles and sat back
to enjoy accordingly.
Mr. Glaser has been giving Detroit
a most remarkable run of plays dur-
ing his Adams season and "A Pair of
Silk Stockings" is evidence of his abil-
ity to secure about• anything he
wants front the authors and agents of
the recent New York successes.

MANY JEWS ELECTED.

Justice Cardoza Returned to Court of
Appeals—Panken a Judge.

New York.—The recent election
brought into office a number of Jews
who were candidates for judgeships,
the Assembly and the Board of Al-
dermen. The most important was
that of lion. Benjamin N. Cardoza,
who was re-elected to the New York
State Court of Appeals. Jacob Pan-
ken, Socialist candidate in the Sec-
ond district of Manhattan, was elect-
ed a Nlimicipal Court Justice, the
first Socialist to sit on a municipal
be licit.
.1niong the Jews elected to the As-
sembly are II. I Mims. S I irr. SA Mo l l
5. Evens, E. II. Mill, r. \V. NI. Feigen-
baum, \‘'. Fierman, \V. Karlin, E. Ito-
senberg. Ellenbogen, L. \Valdman.
NI. Goldberg. S. M. \lever, NI. Bloch,
M. Lei y and .Alorallani Shipalcolf.
.11olermen elected include B. C. VIA-
deck, II. \Vol', Alexander Bassett.
Clarence Y. Paletz, .A. )held, M.
Braunstein, I). Kalltnan, A. Becker-
man, J. Friedman.
Ilost of the soceessfill candidates
are members of the Socialist party.

ALMA GLUCK.

Alma Gluck, the soprano, believes
that wanting to accomplish a thing
and being destined to accomplish it
are two distinctly different matters.
" \Vlien I see the hundreds of singer.
who are striving for a career std
when as frequently happens I grant a
hearing to some aspirant for Concert
or operatic honors, the truth of the
old, old saying, 'artists are born and
not made,' impresses me more ;11011

MISS ALMA GLUCK

more," said the famous soprano in
recent interview. "Because you want
to be a singer or feel that a career
awaits you is no reason at all to be-
lieve your talents will make you M-
1110115," she continues. "Unless sing•
ing or playing is the greatest thing in
your life, whether that knowledge is
conscious or not, no amount of study
ma- ambition will avail. Oil the other
hand, I do not believe any obstacle can
interfere for very long in the achies e
inem of great success if a person li,
the 'divine spark of genius.' I bane
never yet seen an artist of mediocre
iibility Who did not blame a lack id .

opportunity or a lack of 'pia for her
failure to Will fame. And, also, 1 Imes
never met an unsuccessful artist veli.o
would admit that lie or she had sue
faults."
Miss. Gluck is an American sineo.7 .

who has climbed to the top of the
professional ladder in very few ,ca , -

an d h er wor d s are o f valu e t,, all lb-0

seek a place in the public eye. Her
success was not woo without a third
niggle and she is certainly qualified
to speak upon the subject of a career.
It is not sayMg too much to describe
her as the most successful American
singer of this generation. She counts
her friends by the thousands all I
wherever she appears ill concert . ■
capacity house is assured. She will
appear in concert at the Detroit
Armory, Tuesday evening, January
. Albert E. Schwabaelier of
San 8th, tinder the direction of the Devoe-
Francisco, a director in many large Detroit management.
commercial concerns of California, has
been appointed fuel administrator for
California by the National Fuel Ad-
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Alfred Rottman, former city solicitor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, is in Washington,
D. C., as special counsel of the War
Emergency Department in the Attor-
ney General's office, which interprets
and etifoices the trailing with the
enemy act, the eSpiOnage and alien in-
ternment act and the selective service
law Ile will remain in \Vashington
until the termination of the war. '

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