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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Some East Side Characters
H. S. STOLLNITZ
"Who had not owned, with rapture
smitten fame,
77w power of grace, the magic of
.a Hamer
1lf attes Fischer and his family es-
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soothing to his restless soul than all
the entertainment he could find else-
where. "Habit will reconcile its to
everything but change." I know men
who, ever since their arrival in this
country, live in a progressive atmos-
phere, enjoy an abundance of earthly
possessions and are members of ultra-
reform congregations or of the So-
ciety of Ethical Culture and "Swell
Clubs." Yet, not only do they embrace
but seek occasional opportunity to
listen to a good "Chazan," to indulge
in "Gefuellte" fish and "Matzoyloese"
in a kosher restaurant and to steal
away and go incognito to visit a Yid-
dish play,
'fry as he would, Dr. Kalomino
Fischaro could not accustom Dr. Kal-
man Fischer to the Italian cuisine or
ways and customs. ‘Vhenever he
felt the need of a good meal, espe-
cially Friday night, we could find hint
in the ghetto. Nowhere as on the
eastside could Dr. Kalomino Fischaro
find adequate relief for his craving
after "Turkey trotting."
In no language did a Socialistic ad-
dress impress hint so well as in Yid-
dish. No one like an eastside tailor
could meet his fastidious taste in
clothes. Consequently the doctor's
time was, despite himself, divided
equally between the Ghetto and the
Italian colony. The torturing fear
lest he be discovered on the eastside
as Dr. Kalomino Fischaro—or among
the Italians as Dr. Kalman Fischer
very nigh brought him nervous pros-
tration.
But a short time after opening his
office a young lady came to consult
our man of duplicity7who immediate-
ly fell a prey to her charming per-
sonality. Soon their acquaintance
grew into close friendship. Although
the young woman spoke Italian
fluently and was quite Roman in her
ways, the doctor could not overcome
a feeling of doubt as to her national-
ity.
Dr. Kalomino Fischaro to assuage
his love for the Terpsichorean art
went to a ball given by the Maly-
stoker Chevra at Clinton Hall. Great
was his astonishment to find there
Signorina Melina Spaghety who also
for reasons of her own, had ex-
changed the ghetto for the Italian
quarter. To cap the climax a mutual
friend of theirs approached and said:
"Dr. Fischer let me introduce you
to Miss Malkeh I3oroslasky."
They danced most of the numbers
as partners. There was not a single
word of Italian exchanged between
Dr. Kalomino Fishcharo and Miss
Melina Spaghety.
A month later I read in the Yid-
dish papers an account of the wedding
at Clinton Hall of Miss Malkeh Boro-
slaysky to Dr. Kalman Fischer, a
prominent eastside physician, whose
office is—Broome street.
caped the Muscovitz fury of the
Bialystok Pogrom by hiding in a
cellar. Through the aid of benevo-
lent people, they were enabled to
make their way to Paris where many
years before a cousin of Mattes had
settled down and of whose prosperity
Fischer had often heard. Great was
the disappointment of the sorefooted
and half-starved refugees on arriving
at the French capital to learn of the
relative's demise and the dispersion
of his family to unknown quarters.
Thanks to the innate Jewish sense of
solidarity the new arrivals soon were
provided with food and shelter.
Fischer soon found employment.
He sent his oldest boy, Kalman, to
school and rejoiced over the progress
the boy was making in his studies.
During vacation Kalman absented
himself from home a number of times,
returning at night with several francs
in his pocket. After close question-
ing the father learned Kalman earned
the money by singing Yiddish and
Russian ditties in the courtyards of
Quartier du Grenelle. Ile remon-
strated and reasoned with the boy
that such mode of earning money
would lead hint to the life of a vaga-
bond and exacted front him the prom-
ise never to do it again. The next
morning Kalman disappeared as
though the earth had swallowed
him. Three months later a letter
was received front him telling that his
passion and love for song drove him
to Italy, where he hoped to study and
become a celebrated opera singer.
After two years full of deprivations
and untold hardships the youth be-
came convinced that besides the want
of means he absolutely lacked talent
and the voice.
Too crestfallen to return to the
parental hearth, he went to England
and after one year's sojourn there
came to New York. Ile found em-
ployment as a soda dispenser in a
drugstore. Ile wormed himself into
the confidence of his employer. He
utilized exery moment of his leisure
time for study. He rose from
strength to strength until at the age
of twenty-one he graduated as full
fledged pharmacist. His aspirations,
however, did not end there. Fischer
looked upon his graduation as drug-
gist but as a stepping stone to the
height of his ambition to become a
medical doctor. Working overtime,
strict economy and application
brought Kalman to his goal. Ott his
twenty-fifth birthday, he became an
interne at a hospital on the eastside.
After two years diligent work Dr.
Kalman Fischer felt himself well YOUNG JUDEANS PREPARE
equipped with surgical and medical
FOR PASSOVER WEEK
knowledge to open up an office. "But
where? Yes—where?" he asked him-
The
Seder is a week off, and with
self. Like a chain of high mountains
it conic the old hopes, the old dreams
loomed up before the new Esculap
and aspiration of a new Exodus and
his future. He was to begin a new
a new migration to some spot on the
leaf in his life's history. He wished
globe that the Jew can call his own.
to begin his new role with„a definite
With the ushering in of the new sea-
programme and carry it out with pre-
son in the Jewish year, the Young
cision. Not only theoretically, i. e.,
Judaeans bestir themselves. The
with the view to earning a name as a
girls have their share of the work
medicus among his colleagues, but
in helping to transform the home
also in a practical way, mindful of
into a symbol of holiness, and the
the power money lauds. He hoped
boys have their share of the work
that the enchanting hue and aspect
in the preparations.
of the pictures reflecting his future
And with the end of the prelimi-
would overshadow those of his past,
nary preparations will come a period
the recollection of which brought
that has been marked with joys and
gloom to his soul. In his earnest
sorrows, with glories and failures for
temptation he arrived at the decision
the Jess'. Young Judaea is pre-
to cut loose front the past forever and
pared to share in all that may be-
begin the new structure with new
fall its people. It prefers the joyous
material entirely. Not a particle of
and the glorious in Jewish history
the old edifice shall be found in the
and in the Jewish future, but it is
palace designed to rise. "But not
alone shall the building consist of new ready to suffer all else that may be
in store for it.
stuff exclusively but it also shall be
For Young Judaea best exemplifies
erected on new ground. Yea, even my
the holiday of freedom and indepen-
entire hieing must undergo a change—
dence
by its youth, its inspiration,
outwardly as well as inwardly," he
its desire and willingness to help in
concluded. "I must be a Jew no
the New Exodus that is once more
longer. I'll sever all connections with
to free the Jewish people from moral
Jews and Judaism after following two
and physical slavery. Young Ju-
of the Jewish admonitions, namely:
daeans are essentially Young Zion-
change of place changes luck and the
ists, they are primarily working to
changing of a person's name in case
the end that their people may once
of precarious illness. 1 need a change
more be free and independent and
of luck sure enough. As to my name,
live a glorious existence on a soil
front the viewpoint of a race, I've
that they can call their oven.
ceased to be a Jew centuries ago;
As Young Judaea carries out its
there does not course a drop of Jew-
Passover program this week in com-
ish blood in my veins. Front a re-
memoration of the coming holiday,
ligious standpoint, I am surely not a
as Young Judaeans throughout the
Jew. I ant an iconoclast—a cosmo-
country stir and bustle in the home
politan in the broadest sense of its
and in the street to help usher in
meaning. 1 possess too much educa-
the I'esach period, they appreciate
tion, refinement and culture to identi-
that in Palestine, in free Eretz Yis-
fy myself with Jews. In fact, I've
reel, the Jew will be better able to
tarried too long among them. I'm
understand the significance of this
precariously sick of the Jews and of
holiday of liberty, the true symbol of
all that is Jewish which impels me
Passover. Pesach brings to the Jew
to change my name."
the message of regeneration on his
Dr. Fischer held the changing of
own
soil, and every Young Judaean,
his name in abeyance until he had
decided on a location. For a whole when he says "Leshana Ilabah B.
month he saunteringly traversed the Yerusholayim," will make this his
"swell" quarters of Greater New fervent prayer for the coming year.
York. Ile could not think of settling
among Germans for the Yiddish ac- ROUMANIAN PARLIAMENT
cent would at once expose hint. Then
HEARS LIBEL ON JEWS
too, during the 1'arisian life, he had
imbided sufficiently of the French
Bucharest—In the first speech in
hatred for the Germans to leave in the Rumanian Parliament which the
him no particular desire to dwell Deputy from Bukowina, Mororiu,
among the conquerors of France.. So held, he made a very scurrilous and
between the French and the Italian libelous attack upon the Jews of
quarters left to him, Dr. Kalman Fis- Bukowina. The Jews of his prov-
cher chose the latter. Ile reasoned ince, he stated, were still patriots of
that his oriental features, his Roman Austria. After him the floor was
nose and heavy black mustachios, in taken by the infamous anti-Semite,
the very particular, would easily Prof. Kuza. Not content with ordi-
stamp hint as an Italian. His many nary speech, this Jew-baiter used
years of tarrying in the United States such expressions about the Jews and
would serve as an excuse for his de- the Rumanian government which ice
ficiency in the Italian language. Dr. called a Jewish kitchen, that the
Kalman Fischer had the lease for his Parliament by vote decided not to al-
office made out to
low him to speak any further.
Dr. Kalomino Fischaro."
Dr. Fischaro did not find the hope
One of the most interesting and
for happiness in his new life. Why? momentous happenings in Anglo-
Kalomina himself was not able to Jewry at the present time is the grow-
define. But let us deduce front the ing interest evinced by the women
following obvious reasons that it was and girls in all that appertains to the
utterly impossible for him to play his educational, social and political bet-
new part satsifactorily to himself or terment of the community. In the
to the new element surrounding him. first place, all the educational, literary
In spite of saying adieu to Jewdom and artistic societies are thronged by
and to Dr. Kalman Fischer, Dr. Kal- Jewish women and girls, who are
omino Fischaro could not withstand among the keenest possible followers
the magnetic attractions of the east- of the debates and the closest listen-
side. They were ever so much more era to the addresses and papers read.
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Pisgah Lodge to Have
Traditional Seder at
Lodge Rooms Friday
H. Lapin-Cohen Will Conduct Serv-
ices—Lester Leopold Heads
Seder Committee.
Ever striving to live within the
tenets of an Order that seeks merely
to serve, Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, In-
dependent Order of Intai Brith is
this year instituting a custom that
bids well to become one of the most
prized communal activities of the
year.
On Friday evening, March 26, on
the eve of the l'assover, Pisgah Lodge '
will hold a Seder in its lodge rooms.
25 Broadway, for members and their
families who prefer to attend a com-
munity Seder instead of holding the
ceremony in their own Nonce, and for
their friends, visitors or transients
who desire to take part in a tradi-
tional Passover service.
The beautiful service arranged.'
while conforming faithfully with all
traditional laws, will he acceptable to
both Orthodox and Liberal Jews. The
lodge-rooms are hieing prepared for
the occasion and will present a festive
appearance. Mr. A. Lapin-Cohen
will conduct the services.
Reservations must be made in ad-
vance so that the committee, in charge
of Mr. Lester Leopold, may have
ample time for preparation. As a
record crowd is expected those who
are planning to attend are urged to
make arrangements without delay.
Reservations may he tnade by com-
municating with Mr. Leopold, care
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The Palestine Oriental Society was
organized in Jerusalem in January at
a meeting participated in by about
thirty officials and scholars. It adopt-
ed a constitution similar to that of
the American Oriental Society. The
officers elected are: Pere Lagrange,
president:Ilessrs. Clay and Garstang,
vice presidents; Mr. Danby, treasur-
er; Mr. Slousch, secretary; Governor
Storrs, Messrs. Ben Yehudah and
Crea, directors.
Mr. Samuel C. Lazarus of St. Kilda,
Australia, has been chosen as the
Rhodes scholar for Victoria for the
current year.
INTERESTING PROGRAM
GIVEN AT JEWISH OLD
FOLKS' HOME LAST WEEK
One of the most delightful pro-
grams given under the direction of
the educational department, Detroit
Federation of Women's Clubs, was at
the Jewish Old Folks' Home, where
Mrs. David Stocker was in charge.
There were vocal and instrumental
solos and recitations, given by Nathan
Simons, Mrs. Lapin-Cohen, and the
Misses Katherine l'ereira, Hattie Git-
tleinan, Sylvia Simons. Minnie Hirsch-
man and Sarah Weinberg.
The residents of the Home, who
were the guests, enjoyed the affairs
immensely, and dress for the occasion
with elaborate care. Another fine
on want was given by the Witai Brith
Glee club. These meetings invariably
wind up with the old ladies joining
bravely in singing "My Country 'Tis
of Thee."•
Samuel Mandel is arranging an
amateur show for them in the near
future, when some of the best talent
will be enlisted.
A victrola, the gift of David Mary-
mom, with a dozen records from
Nathaniel Steingold, brought joy to
theOlotne'r; family.
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BICUR CHOLEM JUNIORS.
The next regular meeting of the
organization will be held at Shaarey
Zedek, on Thursday, April 1st, 1920,
at 8:00 p. tn.
The speaker of the evening is one
worthy of note, namely Dr. James W.
Inches. Dr. Inches needs no intro-
duction' for his ability to deliver a
message of great importance to all
of us.
The musical program will be head-
ed by Messrs Jack Agins and Leah
Lambert, accomplished violinists, and
accompanied by Miss Ray Lambert.
Other numbers of good talent will
follow.
Business of importance is to be
transacted and all members are asked
to attend.
Dancing will close the meeting with
Miss Helen Krause at the piano.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cohen, M. D., the
first woman to practice medicine in
New Orleans, celebrated her 100th
birthday anniversary last week. Mrs.
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