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Struggle of the Jews
Harry W. Watson Co.
For Civil Equalily
The Season's Greetings
SAMUEL L. KAVANAU
ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF A SALES ROOM
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By William Howard Taft
Wholesale Cigars
WITHIN the limits of this article
one can hope to give only the
merest sketch of the history
which the subject of the Jews
, the Temple destroyed. In the year
135 it was taken again by Hadrian's
generals and the city destroyed.
Thousands Sent in Bondage to Spain.
involves.
I need not pause to emphasize the
remarkable character of the Jewish ,
people. They are unique in that fors
eighteen hundred years they have had
no country, have been dispersed tg
the four quarters of the globe, and yet
have retained their religion, their
cohesion, their intellectual capacity,
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Hadrian rebuilt the city and substi- .=: .
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"diaspora," or second dispersion,
which sent the people of Israel to the
uttermost parts of the earth, some
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otters were sent to Spain, where they
found the Jewish communities which
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had nfoved on from Rome.
After the expulsion from Jerusalem
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the scribes and Pharisees established
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a school and Sanhedrin at Jamnia, in
Palestine, and somewhat later the cen-
ter of church authority became Tiber-
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ias, on the Sea of Galilee, and for
two hundred years an autonomous
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patriarchate under the Roman Em-
pire flourished there. Here the insti-
tutions of learning in which the rabbis
codified the traditions called the Oral
Law into the Palestinian Talmud.
The written law was the law of
Moses, contained in the Pentateuch
and known as the "Torah." The re-
mainder of the Old Testament was
divided into the "Prophets" and the
The Dispersion of the Jews Begins.
"Writing," so called.
During the three hundred years be-
Without Home or Country.
Christ, the Jews were under
Greek control and influence. Jerusa-
In the laws of Moses and the Tal-
lem was attacked many times and mud seas to he found a collection of
sacked, with the consequent disper- rules of conduct—physical, social, po-
sion into other countries of many of litical, religious, moral, and philo-
its people. They migrated into Syria, sophical—a strict and literal compli-
into Arabia, into Egypt. and became ance with which became the life of
numerous and prominent in Alexan- the Jew. They offered a field for his
dria. Indeed, there were, it is said, as study and mental occupation and dis-
many as a million Jews in Egypt be- cussion with his brethren which never
fore the Christian era.
ended. Ilis duties thus prescribed
When the Roman and the I'arthian were to be performed in the borne
empires constituted the world Jews and in the synagogue and in the
were to be found in every commer- academy. and these centers supplied
cial center, and in each there was a to him what the fatherland was to
Jewish community and synagogue others more fortunately situated.
and a relationship maintained wn
The Torah and the Talmud estab-
Jerusalem.
lished a direct relation to God on the
The Jews flocked to Rome. Tiber- part of each individual and an ac-
ius issued an order excluding them, countability for every minute of his
but it was only enforced for a short waking hours that absorbed his atten-
tt time and they returned in great num-
tion and his interest. With no borne, ZrEfErEEFGE10/012.1EIEIEINEKNERJEEMIETar
bers. Although the Emperor Claud- no country, no kindly sympathy from
ius announced his intention of ban- any one but his own kind, he found
ishing them again, they were so many his happiness within his own circle
that he gave it up.
and in the refuge front sorrow which
In the first and second centuries
0 after Christ, Nero. Vespasian, Titus. his life within the law gave him.
Their great historian says of the
0 Trajan, and Hadrian found Jews of
Jews:
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Palestine unruly and undisposed to
"In the vicissitudes of their fate for
yield to their authority and campaigns
a great many centuries they were
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it were waged against them. Jerusalem
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was taken in the year 70 by Titus and
equality of opportunity for them,
forged their way ahead into positions
of prominence, influence, and power
in business, professions, in philos-
ophy, in art, in literature, and in gov-
ernment.
They have at the same time made
loyal subjects of citizens of the coun-
tries in which they have lived when-
ever they have been accorded any
reasonable protection of civil rights.
No other people has ever been sub-
jected to such continuous persecution
in denial of opportunity to make a
living and pursuit of happiness, in
humiliating restriction upon their lib-
erty, in exclusion from education, and
indeed in actual physical cruelty and
massacre.
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