PAGE FIVE THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE PROGRESSIVE WORLD STRUGGLE OF THE JEWS FOR CIVIL EQUALITY YOUR COAL Order It Now! You Can Depend on Us to Supply you with Quality Coal and Coke PROMPT SERVICE East Side Coal Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Main Yard—Maple St. and G. T. R. R. v.141011111 Cherry 1731 We Wish Everybody a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR We made last year a prosperous one for hundreds of Jewish contractors and hope to include YOU this year. ANYBODY Can MAKE MONEY in building if they only deal with the Restrick Lumber Co. Main Yard, 990 to 1090 Vinewood Ave. Tel. West 500. East Side Yard, Russell St. bet. Boulevard and Clay Ave. Northway 8. Downtown Yard, Cor. Beaubien and Brewster Sts. Cadillac 4851. 1aJ ,1011a _RBIT T oom000 ■ 0400004•00 ■ 04100•0 ■ 00000•100041 ■ 0•=x HERBERT WEIL, Sec.-Treas. CHAS. COOMBS, Pres. • HERMAN LIEBERMAN Vice-Pres.-Gen. Mgr. CCo. Central Cigar Co. "Stores All Over Town" Everything for the Smoker The country toward which they (Continued Front Page Four.) Jews in 1254, treated than badly, and turned their eyes was Poland. Poland m as consolidated tinder then invited them back. Philip IV expelled them, and nine years after- Casimir III, the Great in the four- wards, in 1315, his successor, Louis X, teenth century and was made still recalled them. They were finally greater by the marriage of his grand. niece and heiress to Yagtiello, the expelled by Charles VI in 1394. Grand Duke of Lithuania, who there- Accused of Black-Death Sorcery. In 1.148 and 1.147 there Caine the upon became the King of Poland. and plague of the - black death" all over the founder of a dynasty which ruled from the latter part of the fourteenth Europe. Probably because of the hy- gienic effect of the Nlositic and Tal- to the latter part of the sixteenth mud law, to which the Jews con- century. \t the height of its expansion the formed with rigidity, they escaped Polish monarchy reached from the the nn ages of the epidemic. 'rids nas noted among the people, Baltic to the Black Sea and covered and at once the report spread that an urea which down to this day har- the plague had come from the wells bors the great bulk of the Jewish poisoned by the Jews, and another population of Europe. If we leave series of massacres of these pour out Prussian Poland and .\ ustrian Galicia. the Russian present Jewish pc0111t . followed everywhere. During the plague, Pope Clement VI issued pale of settlement neatly veintides ith the boundaries of !Ilk auckiit Ino hills in an attempt to protect Poland. the Jews. A "Jewish Judge" Appointed. The him, ill the course of the cen- In 1.1,14 Casimir the Great of Po- I turies, huw cycr, issued many hulls against the Jews. The 1111115 were land confirmed a charter of general enforced with much severity in other pritiinens to the Jews which had countries than by the Popes them- originally been given by a predeces- Selves, w h o in actual administration sor in 1204. The charter insured the often exhibited much leniency toward economic progress of the Jews and this unfortunate race (anon law had gave guaranties of their personal and forbidden the taking 451 interest or religious security. usury by Christians; but this did not They we re exempted from the apply to the Jews. and as the Jews jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical as had the money they. did the lending. well as the municipal law courts and They thus became objects of interest "lowish judge," so-called. was ap- to the kings of the various countries pointed to act in their cases, signifi- nlio had to borrow money, and they cant 14 the abuses to which they had were !Haile private Servants of the been subjected. I onarchs; servi CAMerie, a position Cassimir's liberality attracted Jews of apparent privilege which, however, from every quarter of Europe and in the end only subjected the Jews greatly increased their number in to greater persecution. Poland. Charged. With Human Sacrifice. After the Yaguello dynasty,. the An uncertain tolerance was the amore passed from the kings to the .,lily relief from constant persecution, Polish nobility, or Shlakta, and the w hich was their usual condition after protection to the Jews grew less and the crusades and the black plague. less. The burghers were hostile to 1.1 ■ cry excuse for attacking them was mein becatise of their competition, seized. Huss in Bohemia proclaimed and the nobility, while using them his adherence to the teachings of as agents to conduct their estates, 1Vycliffe in 1420. Ile was persecuted were arbitrary, cruel, and tyrannical. by the church—lint so, too, were the lhaos ensiled and the condition of Jews--for his agitation among Chris- the Jews grew worse. They were tians, with which they had naught forbidden to hold land. The nobility to do. manufactured the liquor, and they In 1481 the Inquisition was set on were willing and anxious to have the foot in Spain, and in 1492, alter Jews sell it, who thus, for lack of Gramla fell, the Jews were expelled. other occupation, became the inn- They were driven into northern keepers, the purveyors in the demor- Africa, into Turkey, and into Italy. \Vhenever bitterness or prejudice alizing The liquor reduction business. and elimination of er private motive prompted hostility the l'olish Kingdom during the to the Jens, a common form of ac- seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cusation was that of murder, and transferred the bulk of the Jews of offering of a sacrifice of a Gentile the world to the jurisdiction of Rus- child in their religious ceremonies sia, Germany, and Austria. Poland was charged. A trial was had and, lost many of its provinces to Russia whether conviction followed or not, before the three formal partitions in the eighteenth century. persecutions ran riot. Except in the part of her Empire This method of attack has, as we know continued down to the present which Russia acquired from Poland, generation in sonic countries. Lecky, Russia never had and has not now in his "History of Morals in Europe," but a very few Jews. Her eager points out that this form of charge acquisition of her share of Poland, was made against many different however, placed nearly half of the sects in pagan Route—against the Jews of the world within her juris- Christians as well as others. It has diction. They had not sought it survived only against the Jews. The Flight to Holland. Poland Once a Land of Refuge. ' The adoption of the Inquisition by The effect of the crusades, the Spain in the fourteenth and fifteenth black plague, the Inquisition in Spain, centuries led many of the Spanish the Huss persecutions in Bohemia, Jews to become baptized into the and the annual massacres in Austria Catholic Church and to go through in the time of Rudolph of Ilapsburg, the form of Christian worship, re- was to drive the Jews to seek refuge (Continued On Page Six.) in a country where life was possible. • Greetings of the Season 4 41 Ben Kramer Iron Co. Iron and Steel Scrap Howie Glass Co. 22 Catherine Street All Kinds of Glass for Building Purposes Rosh Hashonah Greetings *••••• ■ ••••••••• The Clementine Hotel Mt. Clemens, Mich. • r Mount Clemens Mineral Baths For Rheumatism, Nervousness and that run- "Finest Roadhouse in Michigan" Broadway and Gratiot down condition. Many Kosher hotels. 20 miles from Detroit. Frequent Interurban cars. 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