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THE DETROIT JEWISh CHRONICLE

"SINCE 1887"

Jewish Caucasian
Highlanders Have
Quaint Customs

Are a Pure Jewish Tribe—
Physically Large—Have No
Religious Head — Marriage
Customs Unusual.

Of all the scattered tribes and rem-
nants of the Jewish people, none is
less known to the world at large, and
certainly none presents a more strik-
ing contrast to the common concep-
tion of the modern Children of Israel
than the Jewish Highlanders of the
Eastern Caucasus. Yet there are prob-

• w.
years of usefulness, have Furs promised to plays°
fever, in
important a part in the annuls of Fashion as in the approaching season.

ably none in all the world who. have
kept the Jewish blood more pure and
free from Gentile admixture, nor any
who have more faithfully preserved
the traditions, beliefs and customs of
the times before the Exile.
Indeed, they hold themselves quite
aloof from the other Jews of the Cau-
casus region, refusing to intermarry
with them, to worship with them, or
even to have social or commercial in-

tercourse with them beyond the lim-
its of the barest necessity. No Scot-
ish Highlander ever scorned the Low-
lander one-half so much as these
Highland Jews scorn their kinsmen
of the plains and of the titian ghetto.

Date of Settlement Unknown.

Never has 1111' 11T11,1 of style encouraged and dez•eloped it more fasci-

nating i•nsenible of Fur models than will be wititessed during the com-

ing late _lithium and Winter periods,

ll'hieh compels us to say--

There are more opportunities for deceit in Furs than in any other
line of apparel. For illustration: There are 01011g11 grades of genuine
mink to force an expert la pause before making 11 SCIell1011.:-4401sity

nothing of the many substitutes. The long, lustrous overitairs,
than the soft under fur, forms the beauty of the mill

"FURS that are
forever faithful"

ary, possess greater brilliance and density' than those taken any other

tune or

place.

Unfortunately, it is possible to darken, or blend, inferior Southern

The date and the circumstances of
their settlement in the Caucasus High-
lands are unknown, even in their own
traditions; but it is certain that they
have been there for nearly a thousand
years. In that time their physical

and II'estern skins and sell them as the best; to lengthen small skins by
piecing-in, or slitting the edges, and then pulling them together; or to

sell you imiskrat that has been carefully darkened.

if
Fur i.e plainly marked os to its nature, and quota .
Every
you choose, you may come into our store and select your own Ants,
having 11S make them up fur you right here in our 1171'11 factory.

characteristics have been materially
. modified by their environment and
mode of life, With characteristic Jew-
ish faces and complexion, they have
tall, stalwart, muscular bodies, re-
sembling the best of the IliII men of
India, or some of the giant Highland-
ers of Scotland. Their life is of course

—1'

Furs purchased from .Innis are always bought with our

tioned guarantee of satisfaction

and sve

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offer and sell them on that

basis only.

purely rural, since they have no con-
siderable towns, and they devote
themselves to agriculture and the
growing of grapes and tobacco. From
the grapes they make both wine and

brandy.
They are also great fighters. That
is generally the characteristic of
mountaineers, and in these Highland
Jews a is highly developed. They al-
ways go armed, as do the Monte-
negrans, and are never backward in
using their weapons for defense. They
do not, however, share in any of the
blood feuds of the Circassian tribes-
Women go un-
men, nor do they join in their raids or hibited to guests. W
veiled, and speak to men as freely as
quarrels.
Their language is neither Hebrew in western lands. A man is permitted
nor that of the country in which they to have as many as three wives at
live, but rather what philologists term once, though by no means all of them
Farsi-Tartar, or a mingling of Ohl avail themselves of the privilege. Di-
Persian and Tartar. From this cir- vorce is seldom, if ever, practiced. At
cumstance it is inferred that their an- death the body is not encoflined, but
cestors went to the Caucasus from is merely wrapped in a shroud and

taken in the North .Itlantie roast district, in late Decentber and Janu-

Newton Annis

Main 3462

Woodward at Clifford

mipresentation
of
sre
Jews in Literature

time damned the individual who
dared to do so himself."
In concluding, Dr. Wolscy pleaded
for more earnest study and under-
standing of the Jew. "Calling a boy
a bad and helpless boy is the surest
Rabbi Louis Wolsey, in Lecture at way to make him one The state that
U. of M., Says Authoni Who calls the Jew a Barrabas, or a Shy-
Portray Jew Unfairly Do Not lock, is doing its best to keep him
down. But more toleration, more
Know Hirn.
faith and trust, will do the opposite,
and make the Jew a credit and a
Persia in the days of Cyrus the Great, buried, while the women wail a dirge.
That the Jew has been misrepre- pride to any country."
or Darius. Perhaps they were fugi-
Hidden Rooms for Women.
' seated in literature for the reason that
tives from Persian captivity; or else
One of the most curious of all their the authors did not know the chars MAJOR ADLER RECEIVES
they preferred going to the Caucasus customs is that of having the women act" about "II" they were writ-
ITALIAN WAR MEDAL
,eea c,i f Rabbi
contention
o
rather than back to Palestine. There of the household occupy rooms which i hnugot'uisw .ti lclee
Washington,
D. C.—Captain A. Sa-
is indeed one ancient legend which are accessible only through semi- if the lectures given in the Natural
tells that they wandered northward in circular holes at the bottom of the s c i en ce b u ilding at the University of pelli, commander of the Italian
troops in East Africa during the war
quest of Mount Ararat and the re- wall not more than two feet high, for Michigan recently.
•
r and at present attached to the Italian
said
In °T he Jew of Malta.
mains of Noah's Ark.
,all the world like the entrances to dog
ut- Embassy in Washington, conferred
Wolsey "Marlowe presented an itt-
'
the Italian War Cross for Merit on
'kennels. When a guest calls at a terly
Patriarchial Mode of Life.
ew y nintia rtssii,ble conception of the
Major Julius 0. Adler of the 306th
'flue patriarchial mode of life pre- house, he is welcomed in a spacious j
is ma
Infantry, a resident of Philadelphia.
nrlwa paint
nails among them. When a son mar- reception room, and then his most gets Jew. liowilacoa t:Id
Major Adler received the following
ries he Does not establish a home of down on hands and knees and crawls kind of Jew when he never had seen letter.
his own. He simply builds a wing on through a hole in the wall in searchone, when there were no Jews it,1
Italian Military Mission,
England at that time?
General Headquarters, A. E. F.,
his father's house and lives in it. In of his wife, or wives, as the case may'
painted aasnda h f, i i tent? .
i n atsf
i
"ll aarriila
Chaumont, June 8, 1919.
for bloodshed
on there are often three or be, and presently comes crawling with
i
this fash
four generations living in a single back, followed by the ladies of the life, and anyone who knows anything "
Italia Grace al Merito di Guerre.

•

house, which consists of a single story , household in the same undignified at-' about the Jew will know that this is
1 untrue. "The Jew has never cared for
spread over a large area of ground. litudell The women dress in jacket) and only fought when it was

POLISH MINISTER MAKES
APOLOGY TO RABBIS

the Jews indeed hoped to go to Pal-
estine some day by divine interven-
tion, but that until then they would
remain loyal citizens of the lands in
Recently Polish soldiers, on two
which they lived. He spoke itt mov-
occasions, attacked the deputy, Rabbi
ing terms and, in unit)! the
Halpern, who together with Rabbi
Poles.
Perlmutter, had gained the approval
The Jewish deputies have also suc-
even of the Polish statesmen for their
thorough loyalty to Poland. W'hen ceeded in persuading the ministry of
the war minister heard of the inci- war to issue a circular prohibiting
from
singing in
anti-Semitic
dents he invited Rabbi Halpern to the soldiers
songs while
marching
the streets.

war office also
std apologized
to him.
minister
informed him
that The
he They were not so successful, however,
had ordered the officers to adopt in their attempt to put a stop to at-
severe measures against soldiers at- tacks on Jews in trains and at railway
stations. The minister
ways
and
tacking Jews in the streets, especially communications,
to whom of they
turned
in connection with the latest outrages
the of
first
said Rabbi
that it Perl-
was
of cutting and tearing the beards and in out
his instance,
jurisdiction.

offending the religious feelings of mutter, who visited the minister of
aged Jews. The war minister also war, urged him to hasten the arrange-
requested the Rabbi to inform all ments for the conference of the chief
Jews offenses
that soldiers
participating
ministers
of state
the question
of
such
would
be tried by in
court
measures
to he on
taken
against the
martial and punished very severely. pogroms, which had been promised
Rabbi Halpern was also given per-
to him by General Pilsudsky. At
mission to express his complaint in such a conference, it is hoped. all
a speech in parliament. He said that these questions will receive full at-
on his greeted
way to with
Parliament
was to
tention and probably be remedied in
often
the cry he
of "Go
Palestine." The Rabbi explained that :hue.

Dear Sir: His Majesty King of
Italy, Victor Emmanuel Ill., has de-
signed to confer on you the Italian
war cross for merit, which I enclose.
The King of Italy has wished that
this decoration, which in Italy is
given those who most distinguished
themselves in action, should be
awarded to you in recognition of the
gallantry you have shown and of
the merit you have thereby acquired
for the common cause, even thought
you have not fought on Italian soil.
I. PERELLL
Brig. Gen., Chief of Mission.

Each house has its own allotment of and loose trousers, after the Oriental I necessary for self-defense. The Bible
land, comprising grain field, tobacco' fashion.--:Chicago Israelite. proves to us that the Jews were pri-
I marily agriculturists, and a peace-lov-
field, vegetable garden and vineyard,
1 ing People.
and all are kept in a high state of cod- CATS UNKNOWN TO THE
r wfarshfa n
o lm
d
e . i is \a‘l,lo
Sltlo c k, j ehw
1,:i' ,A
,g
s faor typical
ANCIENT HEBREWS '
tivation, though with primitive meth-
Shakespeare
take
it
upon
himself
to
ods. Each garden is enclosed within
That useful domestic animal, the criticize the practice of money-lend-
a wall of rubble and clay, about six
cat, seems to have been unknown to ing,. when he himself made a living
feet high.
at it?
rate, t
These Highland Jews have no Rab- the ancient Hebrews, at
"The trial of Shylock is a pure
tifn t ie tir sfor tiiea tn,
tilther rern
farce. In the first place, it was not
bis, and no religious head. They have
word
is o
at
all unnatural for the pound of
t ie
1111 y' y'Bible. Not even in the Ness Testa-
no synagogues and no liturgy. ' '1111
have a scroll of the Law, but it is meat is cat mentioned. The Talmud flesh clause to be inserted in bonds
JEWISH LAWYERS
at that day. And as for l'ortia's
used only for reference. 'They ob- has a name for it—Si—but that
allowing Shylock to have the flesh
ARRESTED
'hut
s not Hebrew, which
serve
ili nslrfethiriaetw swp•na isrea iltividnigi lia, lni t- but not the blood, any lawyer will
ry the Sabbath in the strictest Mn- word
g, rtillie
see that it is absurd. If the law gives
NVARSANV.—According to infor-
said fashion, doing no work and cook- that, w
in g no food, all requiring it being' know the cat. Yet we know that cats the right to do an act, it also gives mation which has reached lucre, near-
cooked on the preceding day. They were at home amongst the ancient the right to do all accessory to that ly all Jewish lawyers and a number
of Jewish notables have been arrested
ly they were put to a act.
keep the l'assover, not by eating tin- Egyptians, on
"Then Portia says that Shylock is at Piisen.
e,heytraneercel tunsetrl tf cohr
. T
ul puusrepos
catch
leavened bread, because all their bread wrorntrnf
g
guilty
of
an
offense
against
the
state,
sporting
by plotting a human life. But if he
is always unleavened, but my eating birds wounded by. the fowler's arrow
an evening meal in common in the from the thickets of the Nile. The is guilty, then Antonia is also guilty,
open air. The Feast of the Taber- sportsman had his dogs to hun the who entered into the bond. But he
hippopotamus; the is rewarded, and Shylock is beggared
haul
attes is similarly observed, and they crocodile
as k e. m bids and punished. This is all to show
oid e s
draan ie
in°"t1;';re his t
how inconsistent Shakespeare was
time edges
have a special ceremony of their own f
canals and of the Nile. It was, per- in his treatment."
at each new moon,
In discussing the Jew of Dickens,
haps, this very abuse of the animal
Bridegroom Gives Dowry.
' which created amongst the Hebrews Rabbi Wolsey took up two books.
Girls must always be bethrothed for an aversion to it. This, however, is "Oliver Twist," and "Our Mutual
six months before marriage, and the only a connection. which in the ab- Friend." In the one Dickens paints
the very blackest sort of Jew, and
bridegroom, instead of receiving a settee of any other explanation, must
' ter then in the other, as an atonement.
thoerrthw. il drio
eemnaifaosr trlahtatcaitt s iseiw
dowry with his bride, must pay her be tak
he paints a most beautiful picture of
tame, were not to he found amongst a saint, "so perfect as to be almost
father a price for her. This is usually fact
paid for in sheep, cattle or horses, but the Hebrews during Biblical times.— spineless."
"The Jew is not perfect, he has his
always in eighteents or some multiple Israelite.
faults like other men. He is simply
thereof, The price may be eighteen
Rabbi Wm. H. Fineshriber, Mitch- a normal human being, with normal
sheep, or thirty-six head of cattle, or ell H. Rosenthal and Milton S. Bins- feelings and normal imperfections.
And that is how he wishes to be
if the bridegroom is rich it may be
•anger have been appointed upon the looked upon by his fellow-beings."
seventy-t•o horses; but for some rea- charities committee of the Memphis
Dr. Wolsey was scatching in his
(Trim.) Chamber of Commerce.
son the origin must always be eight-
denunciation of those who charge
een or a multiple of eighteen. There
Newman Levy, deputy assistant the practice of usury to the Jew.
,hut
is no religious marriage ceremony,
district attorney of Manhattan for "The Jew is a money lender, no
i;.ishtar satendLrteodrnheiys doubt, but so are a great many other
stttha
re eyear
to
a civil contract is written and signed. trhepaaaio
ople. In m i ch-evt, al times the church
When a child is born it is laid upon resignation
same
peself practi ce d i
and at
it
platter, sprinkled with salt, and ex- Swann.

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