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THE DETROIT JEWISH CH? ONICLE

Bertha Pearl, New
Author, Is Highly
Praised by Critic,

"Sarah and Her Daughter," Her
First Novel, Said to Be
a Work of Art.

Miss Bertha l'earl, she author of
"Sarah and tier Daughter," a first
novel, is one of those personalities
one is more apt to find between the
covers of a hook than in real life.
A product of the Ghetto, she has
worked and struggled tirelessly. Ite•
hind a quiet and modest exterior one
perceives the force that has carried

Miss Bertha Pearl

this young woman stage by stage
from the tenement house flat on the
east side to what seems to be an as-
sured position in American literature.
Miss Pearl has worked in factories,
in stores, in offices; she has taught
school. She has lived as an adopted
child with a family of strangers; she
has been an inmate of institutions;
she has conic in contact with all types.
The hardship of her childhood and
her many and varied experiences
brought her maturity at an early age.
Her experiences have left their im-
print in her first novel.
Of the book and of the author, Mr
Allen L. Benson in a current issue of
"Reconstruction," says:
Bertha Pearl is but a name to us—
a name we never heard before, We
understand this is her first book. That
does not matter. We hope it will not
be her last. She has written a hook
about the East Side of New York
that, in our opinion, is the best bit of
fiction that has been published in New
York in many a day. It is not the
kind of fieticn that most publishers
print. There is nothing of the Man-
sey flavor about it. It doesn't begin
with a beautiful girl at a summer
sort and end with a tremendous wed-
ding somewhere up Fifth avenue. It
begins in the East Side among the
Jews and ends—oh, no matter where
it ends, it ends too soon. After one
finishes the book he goes about for
three or four days feeling as if he
had lost something. He feels that he
has been cut off from people in whom
he had become greatly interested and
wishes he might go back to the book
and read some more. But he can read
no more because the book is ended.
That is where the sting conies.
The publishers say the book con ,
tains a good deal of "Potash and Perl-
mutter' 'humor. We didn't find it. As
a book of 'humor, it would be a fail-
ure. As a book of life, it is a tre-
mendous success. It goes where peo-
ple live. It goes where they hate,
where they love, where they do good
things and bad things, where they
laugh, hope and dream—and are dis-
appointed. Otherwise it could not be
a hook of life. It could never get into
"Kimsey's" because it does not end
happily. But if it could get into
"Munsey's" it would not be worth the
time of an intelligent person to read
it. Besides, life itself does not always
end happily. The author has chosen
to be true to life rather than to be
true to Munsey. Her readers will
glory in her decision. bliss Pearl—
though she may be "Mrs." for aught
we know—has written a book that,
once read, cannot easily be forgotten.

PALESTINE OFFICIALS

JERUSALEM—Mr. Norman Bent-
wich, who is the legal secretary of the
new civil administration in this coun-
try, was the chief judicial officer un-
der the military administration. He
was a Major in the Egyptian Expedi
notary Force being later promoted
by the war office to the rank of Lieu-
tenant.Colonel. Besides having writ-
ten a number of volumes dealing with
law in its various phases lie is the
author of "Palestine of the Jews."
Mr. Id. Lurock, who is assistant to
the High Commissioner, accepted an
army commission after concluding a
brilliant career at the Dublin Uni-
versity. lie was later appointed by
the Zionist Organization as Secretary
of the Zionist Commission in which
capacity he achieved distinction. His
appointment is a very popular one
among the local community.

FURS

This is a message to the women who
demand perfectly fashioned garments of
dependable pelts — priced at all
times to create the utmost values in furs

A word to the chadacter of our gar-
ments---they are creations, not imi-
tations --- they do not merely con-
form to the dictates of fashion--they
establish style.
Our designers possess an artistry
enabling them to evolve unusual
combinations of pelts. We pride
ourselves that Birmbaum creations
are unexcelled in beauty of designs.
The paramount thought when buying
furs should be dependability. But
few people not in the business have
expert knowlege of furs. Everyone
is more or less dependent upon the
honestyof the furrier. That Birm-
baum is dependable is evidenced by
the fact that for several years in our
capacity as manufacturers and
wholesalers, we have been selling to
a reliable established retail trade,
to furriers whose honor and pres-
tige is unquestioned, to men who
deal only with the dependable man-
facturers. The same ideals of de-
pendability which have character-
ized our methods as manufacturers
and wholesalers are sustained and
intensified in our relations with you.

We are jealous of our reputation---
we will guarantee that our furs are
exactly as represented.
We have always told the public that
good furs never can be bought
cheaply. Birnbaum furs never will
be cheap. But considering the de-
pendibility of this house, the beauty
of our creations and the genuine
quality of our furs, we will make the
positive assertion that Birnbaum
can sell at a price that is below the
market.
We are able to do so because of the
unique position we occupy. Re-
member we are manufacturing fur-
riers as well as retailers. We can
sell our creations at lower prices
than the average retailer
All we ask is that you visit any of
the reliable retailers in Detroit, then
come to us. We are positive that if
you wish quality and style at reas-
onable prices, your purchase will
be a Birmbaum creation.

VILNA JEWS RAIDED

KOVNO —During their stay in
Vilna the Bolsheviki raided a num-
ber of Jewish houses, directing their
efforts especially against the Zion-
ist s. Although their searches proved '
fruitless they arrested over a him-
deed Jews. The Lithuanian National
Committee protested against these ar-
rests as well as against the execution
of seven Lithuanian citizens.

"TIMES" ACCUSES JEWS

LONDON.—The "Times" has com-
menced the publication of a series of
articles in which the Jews are accused
of having been the chief participants
in the murder of the Czar. The
writer states that Yankel Yurofsky, a
Jew, who was converted to the Luth-
eran faith and who was commander
of the Imperial Prison House, shot
the Czar and Czarevitch. For the
entire act of exterminating the Im-
perial family, the writer makes re-
sponsible what he calls a gang of
Jews from Germany and Chicago. He
particularly accuses Svierdloft Sa-
furor, Volkov, who controlled the
Central Executive and Extraordinary
Commission of the Bolsheviki and
Goloshieken who was at the head of

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