PAGE NINE "'HE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE What Is A Jew?' —.- By Myer S. Fink. The following address was deliv- ered under the auspices of the Intel- lectual Advancement Committee of Pisgah Lodge No. 34, 1. 0. B. B., at the regular meeting Monday, May 31: Frederick the Great, in making Prussia a great military power, com- mented in his history of the "Rise of States" in the following words: "No nation has ever prospered that has ever persecuted the Jews." The first great nation that ever per- secuted the Jews was Egypt. Egypt has perished as a nation, but the Jew still exists. Next came the ChaIdeans, the Assyrians, and the Babylonians. These three powerful nations in their time ruled Asia, Africa and most of Europe. They have disappeared en- tirely. Next came the Greeks. They, too, persecuted the Jews and they, too, have disappeared. Then Rome arose and Rome is no More. Then came the Spaniards and Portuguese. When Napoleon sent his army into Spain and Portugal with the intent to end their existence, as nations, in order to annex them to France, Eng- land sent in Sir Arthur Wellesley "Dogged persistence" to the way owners describe Hup- mobile performance. And what could warm a driver's heart more than to know thaVlis car is always "there?" WILLIAMS & HASTINGS 1283 Woodward Ave. Market 2101 CASE « » with an army to withstand him. But Commandments Zedek, Zedek Tirdor it was the Jewish bankers of England (Justice, Justice, thou shalt pursue). who maintained the army with sup- Justice is an abstract word. It can plies and assisted in organizing the he interpeted in three ways. An Spanish and Portuguese, thus bring- idealist, a sculptor portrays the figure ing about their salvation. of Justice as an earnest woman sit- Last came the organized pogroms ting on a throne, a sword in one hand, of Russia and today the instigators scales in another, blindfolded. She of that persecution are . scattered does not see the parties, listening througout the world, themselves ob- only to their cause and deciding ac- jects of persecution. And now we cordingly. are told Germany has become the A man who, by his foresight, en- flagellant. ergy and industry, has accumulated an The question arises, "Why is it immense estate, has everything that that all the persecutors have perished, he can want of the material things of or nearly so, while the Jew remains, the world. He is perfectly satisfied more powerful than eve r before?" with present conditions, the status The answer is obvious. While other too. He sees nothing but justice in nations represented the material and the world. lie owns everything that brutal elements of humanity, the Jews he has accumulated, and no one can have held and maintained the spirit- take it away from him. Then collies teal and the idealistic. Materialism the third interpretation of Justice. and brutality are perishable; spiritual- Men %vim earn their living for them- ity and idealism can never die. That selves by their daily labor, whether is the secret of the immortality of mechanical or professional. They the Jew. have no means of accumulating any- Now since the Suit Remo Confer- I thing. If these men are thrown out mice, the entire world is asking the of work or are taken sick and suffer question, "What is a Jew?" Take one for wait of the necessities of life, the hundred non-Jews in our city at ran- interpret Justice differently. They dom, and ask them that question. cannot understand why one man The majority will answer, "The Jew should have an immense estate, a is a Christ-Killer." That is all they hundred times more than he can use know. Others again, when asked, in his entire life, while thousands of "What is a Jew?" will readily reply, his fellow citizens are starving. They "Why, a Jew cats no pork, and wears may say, "What good are your laws a long, black beard. A few, a very of property to us. We possess noth- few, to whom the question may be ing. What are your rules and regu- put will tell you that is a man of lations of right and wrong, to us? We kindly disposition, very much attache(' have nothing to defend. If we do to his family, charitable and a very not work tomorrow, we shall starve. shrewd, sharp business man. That Is Now let us see whether Moses the best you can get out of any non- understood Justice. He issued a code Jew. of lanes to the effect that when the Take one hundred Jews and ask Jews enter Palestine, each mai, should them, "What is a Jew?" The major- own an equal amount of property, of ity will tell you "He is a 'Yid.' Very which he could never be deprived. few of our people can give a correct When in such circumstances that he definition of a Jew. Let us begin with would have to pledge his property the first Jew. God gave the command to borrow money, it would have to to Abraham to leave his ,father's be returned to hint after a period, house and land to preach the truth without any incumberance. This of humanity. He was the first Jew. ruling made the Jews a happy and Then came the greatest of all men, contented people when they settled in Jew or non-Jew, Moses. The Bible I Palestine. When they began to says Velow corn ish commoso (there mingle with other nations and to never was and never will be another adopt their customs, liter was misery man like Moses). Ile was the first and ruin at once. Then came a great to preach and establish the laws which Jew, not a warrior or politician, but the entire world is supposed to live up a holy man—Samuel, the Prophet. Ile to today. The first and the tenth told them that they could never be Commandments are the essential happy unless they lived according to ones. The First Commandment is the laws laid down by Moses. The Awnoche elehe (God is One and His people insisted then upon having a name is One). The Tenth Command- king to enforce the laws. This was ment is Jo sach mud (Thou shalt not entirely against the will of Samuel, covet thy neighbor's possessions). If and against the Principles of Judaism, we lived up to these, we would end but it was adopted nevertheless. The all of the ills of humanity. There first king was Saul. Ile was engaged would be no more wars, no police, no in war all of his life and eventually judges, no lawyers. Each man would was killed in a battle with the Phil- be satisfied with his own, and would lisfnes. Then came the greatest warrior king that Judaism has ever ask nothing of his neighbor. Moses used three words to impress known, David. He was engaged in his people with the significance of the war practically all of his life. Wien Ire died Inc left his kingdom in peace for the first time to his son, Solomon, were prosperous as WEI1 S 4 M1A 6NDMOTOR SALES CO. le n ,der tlik e.fojrl è 7 Glendale 2646 7 LATH 130M-48-inch Fir 145M-48-inch No. 3 White Pine 75M-48-inch Norway Pine 280M-32-inch No. 2 White Pine But only for a short time, for the venue Glendale 7975 seed of destruction and misery was planted. Solomon built the most magnificent temple, palaces for him- self and his wives, his generals and princes. He had to have laborers to accomplish this, to which end Ile drafted one hundred and twenty thousand Jews to do the work. For the first time an aristocracy was es- , tablished, dividing the Jews into two camps. The unnatural condition continued while he lived. Ile no more than closed his eyes when the entire fabric went to pieces. The Jews were divided into two camps,—the King- dom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. There was continual fighting. King after King was assasinated. Then came the fall of the Jews as a nation. First the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes, then the Kingdom of Judah. Again a Jewish scholar saved them. Ezra, the Scribe, led the Jews bac to Palestine, and re-established the laws of Moses. They lived hap- pily until they began to mix with the Hellenes and the Greeks: Dissention arose between them. Then came the family of Hasmondians to save them. And while they saved the Jewish state, they, too, planted seeds of destruction. The Hasmoneans estab- I:shed a Kingdom in the state, an un- Jewish institution. Dissention arose again. They called in ten Romans to interfere in their affairs, and they : destroyed them. That was the final end of the Jewish state. Again a Jewish scholar arose- Jocham Ben Zachi. He requested of Oh+ Titus, the conquerer of Judaism a single favor—that he furnish him the means to establish a Je•isit school. Jocham Ben Zachi did not belive in a Jewish state. He held the Jews were the teachers of the world. 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