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PAGE SEVEN

THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

HUNGARY—AN HISTORIC SURVEY

By Dr. Gotthard Deutsch

The Talmud is a storehouse of phil-
osophy of history. Most Jews have
heard the beautiful anecdote of R.
Akiba and Pappus. The rabbi was
studying the Torah, and l'appus won-
dered why he should risk his life
since the study of the Torah was
prohibited by Roman law under pen-
alty of death. The rabbi replied with
the following parable: The fox walked
by the shore of a lake and saw the
Ile asked for the
fishes restless.
cause of their excitement.
They
answered that they had to be in con-
stant fear of the man who with
angles and nets was plotting against
their lives. Well, said the fox, come
to the shore, and I shall protect you.
The fishes replied: Art thou indeed
the wisest of animals? Why should
we prefer certain death to the chance
of life which we have here in our
clement?

heavy penalties on the Jews as a
class. They were to pay over two
millions of gulden as a tine. The sum
was afterwards reduced to one mil-
lion by the emperor who besides de-
voted this sum to Jewish educational
purposes, and part of it serves to
maintain the rabbinical seminary,
established in 1877.
The Jews wert by 110 means as
prominent then as they were during
the recent revolution. One of the
advisors of the government was a
Yeshibah Bahur from l'resburg, Ignaz
(I3isock) Einhorn, afterwards Edward
Horn, assistant secretary of state. A
prominent advocate of Magyar inde-
pendence was Leopold Locw, rabbi
of Szegedin (1811-1875), alyho 'nar-
rowly, escaped front the gallows.
Loew, by the way, was a native of
Moravia, and his brother was quite an
enthusiastic Cech.

This is the secret of the crowding
of Jews into countries with uncertain
political conditions, like Poland, Tur-
key and Hungary. There were plenty
of traps, sews and hooks, but you
could take a chance, while in Italy,
Austria and Germany there was little
chance, and in France, England, Spain,
etc., none at all. In a country with a
loose form of government, part of it
constantly disputed between the sultan
and the kaiser, where the nobles natur-
ally had a great power, being almost
sovereign on their estates, where the
power and the will to inforce laws
were usually for sale, a Jew could al-
ways find a corner where he could
crouch. So we have in Hungary,
roughly speaking, 1,0(10,000 Jews in a
population of 20,000,000, nearly 5%.
A great part of this population is of
recent immigration. Up to 1848 the
neighboring Austrian provinces, Bo-
hemia and Moravia, furnished immi-
grants who wished to escape from the
pressure of conditions at home, espe-
cially front the restrictions on mar-
riage, and in northern Hungary the
adjoining province of Galicia with its
crowded Jewish population furnished
another set of immigrants.

Internal Difficulties.

Hungary never recognized Austria's
right to dictate to her. She, there-
fore, did not send any delegates to
the parliament of Vienna, nor did she
recognize the Austrian Law which
gave to the Jews political rights. It
was not until after the defeat of Aus-
tria in 1866, when Hungary gained
her autonomy that a law was passed
in December, 1867, which gave the
Jews full political and civic equality.
A year later Moritz Wahrmann, the
grandson of a rabbi of Post, became
the first Jewish member of the Hun-
garian parliament. The Jews slid not
consider their fight as completely won.
They wanted to be recognized as a
church. This had hardly any signifi-
cance for the individual except insofar
that under the existing law conver-
sion to Judaism was not permitted,
and marriage between Jews and non-
Jews was prohibited.

The difficulty was largely, though
not entirely, due to the Jews. The
government had called a congress of
Jews in 1866 for the purpose of estab-
lishing an organization of all Jews of
the country, largely, I suppose, be-
cause it wanted them to become Mag-
Mixture of Nationalities.
y
Another reason for the laxity of the pars, while most of them still spoke
Yiddish. The orthodox and the re-
central authorities was the mixture of formers could not agree, and so two

nationalities. The Magyars, the rul- different organizations had to be ere-
ing element, form only one-half of ated which, however, did not satisfy
the population. It is reasonably cer- everybody. Some congregations would
twin that the census figures were not join either organization, and so
somewhat manipulated, and with that chaos became greater than ever be-
they claim for the Magyars only 51 fore. Perhaps in no other country

per cent. The Rumanians come next the courts and authorities had so
with 15, the Germans and the Slovaks much trouble with internal Jewish
with about 10 each, the Jugo-Slays, affairs than in Hungary. A story

as the Croations and Serbs are now which sounds like a joke, but is liter-
called, with a little less, and the Ruth- ally true, happened in 1872 in the city
enians with about five per cent. Most of Preystadt1 (Calgocz.) Two par-
of these nationalities live in compact ties went into court, and the judge
territories where the Magyars are settled their difficulty by a comprom-
only found among government offici- ise, declaring which party had the
als. Equally mixed are the religous right to appoint the reader (Baal Te-
figures, though the decided majority fina ...
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The Hudson Has a
Patented Motor

The Hudson Sup0r•Six is Its Own Creation and No Other Maker Can
Use, It. Adds 72 Per Cent to Power and Accounts for Hudson Endurance

Everyone knows the Iludfam SuPer-Six "'and
w ha t it has done in winning all worth while rec-
cribs for speed, acceleration, mountain climbing

ever made to establish 'motor ear endurance. The
return trip, too, was made in shorter time than any
other car has ever done it.

and endurance.

But many have overlooked the fact that those
records were made possible because of the Super-
Six motor, invented and patented by Hudson.
The first Super-Six quality to attract attention
was its power, a 72% increase without added
weight or cylinders.
But rivals Ivlien they saw that, said it could not
be relied upon to give long service.

Let Us See What
It Did

The makers did not know the full endurance
limit of the Super-Six motor. For that matter
they don't even now know its limit, although it
has beer put to longer, harder tests than is ever
asked of an automobile, even in the most famous
long distance raves.
This was shown in the 500-mile Indianapolis
race last :flay, for while faster cars were entered,
the privately owned and raced Super Sixshowed
a continuous performance of unrivaled endurance.

fhe first Super-Six endurance run was made
when it stock touring car carrying driver and pas-
senger was driven at top speed for one hour and
officially established the record. Then that same
ear was pushed to greater tests by driving it with
five passengers and with top and windshield up,
100 miles at 70.74 miles per hour, also making a
new official record.
That failing to reveal its endurance, a stock
Super-Six chassis was driven by one man 1819
miles in 24 hours. The best previous record, made
by it specially built racer, I•as 1127 miles short of
the distance covered by the Iludson.

Then the rum from San Francisco to New York
was made. It lowered the best previous time by
more than 14 hours. And to give further evidence
of its endurance, the car Was turned back and
reached Sall Francisco 10 (lays and 21 hours after
leav!flg there on 7,000 miles of the hardest driving

.

And 60,000 Users Added
Their E xperience
' ;.

LI

That is me' nonlife of Super-Six in use at the
time the present model was announced. Every,
test and every report of owners served us a kelp
in making a better Hudson.
The patented Super-Six motor called for a ear
that in every detail matched its quality. New
standards were made necessary. Each year has
seen a nearer approach to the ideal.
Mechanical perfection was not all that Hudson
engineers aimed at. They sought to make the
Hudson complete in every detail of convenience,
beauty and comfort.

For Four Years the Largest
Selling Fine Car

Merit is reflected in the way in which the public
views the Super-Six.
For four years it has been the largest selling
fine car. It is known in every community find on
every highway. Present deliveries exceed 100
IIndsons a day. Factory production w i ts never so
great and the were never so far behind orders.
'Alen have long known that to get it Hudson it is
necessary to make reservations in advance. On
some models and in some seasons thousands have
waited a month or more.

But They Know It Was
Worth Waiting For

No man can drive a Hudson without feeling is
growing respect for it. It grows out of the same
endurance the ear bias revealed in all those testa
made when the Super-Six was new. They know
the real meaning of motor satisfaction. Their
needs are fulfilled.
• If you plan to get a Hudson next year, now is
not too early to speak for it. Think of the thou-
sands disappointed this year.

Bemb-Robinson Company, Detroit

is Roman Catholics, the .Jugo-Slays, the honors of being called up to the
however, are Greek Catholics, as are Torah and of opening the ark are to
the Ruthenians. Then both the Ger- he divided.
mans and the Slovaks, as well as the
Magyars have a considerable section
The Anti-Semite Movement.
(1077 ,
of Protestants, and finally there are a
Another obstacle in the way of rec-
number of Unitarians, some of whom ognition of the Jewish church came
in the course of sixteenth century be- from the clericals who opposed the
, ff
came Jews. They had, to conceal legalization of a conversion to Juda-
'
'at /
themselves, but occasionally they were ism and the intermarriage. The fight
discovered, and in 1638 one of thei r lasted nearly 30 years, being won in
number, John Torockai, was stoned to 1895.
Meantime, however, matters
death. Nevertheless they persisted, were not so rosy for the Jews. Hun-
THE STAGE AND THE JEW
History in the Making.
and in 1869 their last remnant became gar} had of all European parliaments
The
religious
life
of
the
Hungarian
officially Jews. The greater religious the first anti-Semitic party, and from
Do you know that most of the
liberty, not in a small part due to the it came the first official move to deal Jews is as complex as the situation
world's greatest actors and actresses
Turkish government, also helped to with the Jewish homeland. Victor de of the country. It had a radical re-
are Jews? Do you know that some
increase the number of Jews.
Istoczi, the leader of the anti-Semitic
named of the most famous playwrights, man-
before
by the
s tarted
form with
Sunday
service
1848, agers and producers are Jewish? If
Their situation was precarious as party, moved on July 12, 1878, while Ignaz
Einhorn,
who
by a in name-
afterwards
the
Congress
of
Berlin
was
in
session,
you doubt the above, read the follow-
everywhere, but anyhow better than
Eillhorn.
David
sake
in the neighboring states. They also that the sultan lie compelled to give rabbi of Bethel, Kew Pork. It ing list and be convinced that you
were excluded from some cities. up Palestine and that all Jews should has Nasidim of the most fanatic type will find the Jews leading in "char-
especially from mining states, where be deported there. It created at that in the northern section of the country, acter" work, comedy, tragedy, farce,
Jews always were treated as suspic- time merely amusement. Theodore especially the family of Moses Teitel- burlesque, musical comedy and vaude-
ville.
ions characters who would act as re- Ilerzl, then a student in Vienna, baum, who died in 1841, as rabbi of
There are the famous French
ceivers of stolen silver and gold; they would have laughed heartily, if any- Satoralya Ujhcly, and it had the
hodoxy, . oscs women, Sarah Bernhardt, Rachel,
could not hold land, and did not pas- one had prophecied that he was to leader of moredn orthodoxy, native Judith and Mme. Simone. Miss Min-
h.
rights. They
, same plan seriously less Soler (1762-1839), who, white, a na
. . could. take up the
any political.
nie Seligman, Mine. Nazimova and
trades
however, engage in mechanical
wad( s than twenty
. years
>ears later. The anti- of Frankfort, Me., spent most of his
Rose Eytinge. Miss Constance Col-
and had greater freedom of movement Semitic moveinnt was not a WI , " active life in Hungary. His Yesabi- lier, in "I'eter Ilabetson," and Clara
bah
in
Pre;burg
was
the
western
out-
joke.
It
resulted
in
a
ritual
murder
than in other states.
Lipman, wife of Louis Mann, are very
trial, the story of Tisza Eszlar, which post of old-fashioned orthodoxy. It capable actresses. Then there is aline.
Influence of French Revolution.
was far worse in some respect than remained for over a century in the Bertha Kalich; the fatuous vaudevil-
The French Revolution of 1830 gave the case of Ileitis. It lasted more than family. The cresent rabbi, Akiba lians. Nora Bayes and the Dolly Sis-
everywhere in Europe a new impetus a year, 1882-1883, and was followed by Schreiber, is his great grandson. The ters, "headliners." Hiss Fanny Brice,
to the Jewish question. Hungary had regular pogroms in various cities, this present situation is a serious menace Miss Natalie Alt, David \Varfield,
a sort of parliament. It was in real- time partly in Magyar and partly in to this institution as well as to the Louis Mann, Lewis Morrison, Weber
terr it ory .
seminary of Budapest which depends and Fields, Sam Bernard, Bartley Ber-
ity only a representation of the large Sl ova k
estate owners, the high clergy and the E The political situation, nevertheless for funds partly on the state and for nard, the Howard Brothers, Robert
city councils, but at any rate auto- i mproved . \\ bile owing to the split students on sections of the country Warwick, "Al" Jolson, "Bobby"
North, Sir Herbert Tree, Florence
cracy was limited. This parliament between orthodox and reform it was which nill now become Slovak or
Reed, William Norris, Roger Broth-
began to discuss the Jewish question impossible to have a rabbi as repre- Polish. There is Jewish history in
ers, Julia Neilson, are all Jews.
the
making.
in 1840, and Is always is the case with sentatw e of the Jewish
church in the
w
Among some of the Jewish play-
such fossils, nothing came out of their upper house, two Jews were appointed
wrights we have Henri Bernstein,
deliberations except the usual phrases members in 1885, and others followed
Chas. Klein, Sydney Rosenfeld, Mau-
that the Jews must give up their aloof-
rice V. Samuels, Dr. Louis Anspacher,
si since. The number of members
mess, just as we are hearing it now elected to the lower house at one time
Israel Zangwill, Abraham Schomer,
front Paderewski, Pilsudski. Voice-
Max alarcin. Jules Eckert, Goodman.
2 the record number in any
3'
511S0-1910
and
many others.
chovski and all the Krapuelinskis and rose
to - parliament. Edward Horn,
European
A few Jewish managers and pro-
Waschlapskis. assistant secretary of state, was al- New Tette. Is
Wed., Sept. 24
•al. Oct. 4 ducers are Charles Erohman, Daniel
The great upheaval of 1848,.meant ready mentioned. Had he not died at 1 am
Thum, Oct.
Succoth IFIret Day)
Frohman, "Flo" Ziegfeld, Sam Harris,
in Hungary less popular freedom than the early age of 50 in 1875, he prob-
Sureolh Ilmat Day—Shemlnl
Al Woods, Eichler, Alfred Hayman,
national autonomy. Naturally the ably would have risen higher. Louis
'ikon., Oct. Ill
Atrereih
William
Harris, Marc Kla•, A. H.
Eel., Oct. 17
Shmehath Torah
Jews were sufferers. The Slovaks in Ducat, also a Magyar poet of note, Itoach-I Chem - an—Fri., Oct. 24 Erlanger, David Belasco, the Selwyns
northwestern Hungary organized reg- was assistant secretary of state and Itosch- • hodewh linden...Moe, Nov. 23
and Oscar Hammerstein.
triar armed forces, and their first vic- the right hand man of Count An- Chanukah (Fn.( of DedlentIon)..
VI ed., Der. 17
Where would the stage he today if
tims were the Jews. The Magyar Brassy' in the trying days of the tier-
Dec. 22 it were not for the Jewish actors,
Roach-Chodeoeh Tebeth
leader, Louis Kossuth, was an honest lin Congress of 1878, and in 1917 the
playwrights and managers?
6080-1020
liberal, but knowing how divided the first Jew, the son of the president of
country was, and what great power an orthodox congregation, William rant of Tebett
Thorn., Jon. 1
the immensely wealthy clergy, allied Vaszony, became minister of justice. lloach-Chodeack Shebat Med., Jan. 21 Budapest Placarded With
A4140.. .Thors, Fel, 111
with the equally wealthy nobles, poi• Hungary also had the first Jewish lloach-Chodeach
"Anti-Jewish" Manifesto
Purim 41, e4001 or r.oinort.Tnot... Mar. 4
seised, both of whom were hostile to general of the Austro-Hungarian Itooch-Chodrach NOnan...Mat., 01.0.. ao
3
the Jews, he postponed the emancipa- army in active service, Edward von Pnanol re t Pel ■ et%) ........ Sat., April
ril 10
a Da—sat.,
n
c ..
.... a h ::,mti.;:gat
Dispatches from the Asociated
tion of the Jews until the last moment Schweizer, a conforming Jew, who I Iloac-Chdench 1yar
Is
Sun.,
A
ril
Ap
Thum. May ft Press correspondent in Budapest
when he had no power any more and was a trustee of the congregation of
Is
Turm,
May
odenek SIvan
say that the city is placarded with
the Austrian army, supported by the Budapest. It may also be mentioned Rooch-Ch lonermalloa
Day)
e
an anti-Jewish manifesto signed "The
Sun.. May 23
czar's troops, put Hungary back under as noteworthy that lgnaz Goldziber, saaaaata
t aUnnet of the day Waking Hungarians." The mani-

.The
day
begins
the yoke of the Hapsburgs. As we professor of Semitic languages in the
festo calls upon all Christian Hun-
preeedlar
see it now in the case of the Bolshe- University of Budapest, was elected lloach-Chodeach Tammuz wed.. Jon. If garians to oppose "the international
viki in Russia and in Hungary with degelate to a celebration of the
son, July I destructive activity of the Jewish
of Tarnmus
the government of Bela Run, the Jews Academy of St. Petersburg, and when vast
Frt., July 111 race in the interests of the peace of
An
were held responsible for the whole he declined because as a Jew he might ft...on-rhos...on
the world."
v■ at or Ah
517.,
5
" nag.
25
g. 14
for special permission, its.ek-clioseseli Ell ■ l
Vienna is full of reports of po-
trouble. Ilaynau, the commander of have to apply
541•1-11134
groms at Budapest, but these are not
the imperial troops, and Prince Win- no other member would accept the
Spa, Sept. IS con firmed.
Wow Yellen Eve
appointment.
dischgraetz, the dictator, imposed

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JEWISH CALENDAR.

Kolchak and His Cossacks.

(London Jewish World.)

The unsettled state of affairs that
prevails generally in the Fast must
chiefly account for the dire occur-
rences in Poland, which, however, has
not been the only scene of similar
outbreaks in that part of Europe.
There have been like outrages in the
Ukraine; while a correspondent at
Vladivostok, writing to the Daily bier-
ald, tells of a pamphlet which has
been issued broadcast by the leaders
of the Omsk Government, of which
Koltchak is virtually the head, and
which was a distinct incitement to
anti-Jewish violence. "Bolshevism is
created and sustained by the Jews
with a view to destroying religion,
civilization and the nation" is the bur-
den of this incitement. "This, of
course," observes the correspondent,
"is a revival on a huge scale of the
favorite tactics of the old regime—
when the people turn against the
authorities, distract their attention to
killing Jews, and when they are tired
of it, you will (a) have got rid of
a lot of Jews (b) be in control of the
situation once more."
The danger in which Jews stand
in consequence of this wicked agita-
tion is incalculable; and we have
more than once called attention to
the peril which Koltchak's advance
means to them. As the correspondent
quoted says:

propaganda. The sack of Peking
won't be in it. There will be lakes of
blood, and sickening carnage and
butchery. And when this hellish out-
rage is perpetrated the excuse, we
suppose, will be that the victims were
such not as Jews, but as Bolshevists
resisting that paragon of Democrat-
ic liberty, Admiral Koltchak..

MUSIC NOTES.

J. Frank liahr, for several years
connected with the Institute of Musi-
cal Art, of New York City, arrived
in this city Friday where lie will open
a studio shortly. Mr. Bahr has
studied with such well-known
teachers and educators as Stanistaus
Haschek, Jacques Friedberger, James
Frisker, Thomas 'Tapper, Henry
Krehbial and others. lie has ap-
peared as soloist with the Russian
Symphony orchestra and at Chau-
tauqua concerts and as accompanist
for !time. Freda Hemple and Mine.
Matzenour.

FAMOUS CHORISTERS TO

GIVE CONCERT SUNDAY

One of the most striking concert
tours arranged in this country through
the Wolfsohn Bureau of New York, Is
that of the tour choristers from the
Sistine Chapel choir in Rome, the most
ancient and famous choral organiza-
tion in the world. For centuries the
Description of the contents gives singing of the male choir in the Sis-
no idea of the spirit of the docu- tine Chapel In Borne has been the
ment's mystic fanaticism, a breath of never-forgotten delight of all lovers of
the Middle Ages, like a maddened
music, of every faith, who have visit-
Jesuit preaching a Crusade, or a Der-
vish denouncing the infidel. An of- ed the Eternal City. Four of the most
ficial order of Omsk Government puts famous soloists of that choir have
all Jews in the infantry, and forbids been permitted to make a tour of
any Jew to hold a commission.
America for a limited period, to bring
I have just found out that the their unusual and enchanting art to
Omsk propaganda department—which the very ears of American lovers of
is going to extend its activities to
fine vocal music. They will appear
the Far East shortly—is run by the
in Detroit at the Arcadia, Sunday aft-
Holy Synod at Omsk—or rather by
ernoon,
September 28.
the highest church authorities they
have in Siberia, a sort of temporary
acting Holy Synod—in conjunction 12-Year-Old Violinist
with the publicity bureau of the Gen-
Receives $2,000 Violin
eral Staff. You know the Jews were
not allowed in Moscow before the
Evelyn
Vitto-Levin, 12-year-old
revolution.
violinist, of Pittsburgh, is now the
Since then they have been going
happy owner of a new $2,000 violin,
there, and lately in the papers I read
the gift of S. E. Moist, manager of
that the Jewish population at Mos-
the Union Piano company, who beard
cow has increased greatly since the
the young prodigy play at the com-
Bolshevik regime. The present cry of
mencement exercises of the Chicago
the army is "On to Holy Moscow."
Musical College and was so impress-
All I say is—God help the wretched
ed that he offered her the violin as
Jews when the army does get there,
recognition and encoursgement of ex-
to its holy city, fired by this mad traordinary talent.

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