THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
SECTION THREE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1920.
VOL VIII. NO. 16.
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Semitism that manifests itself in ventures are both physical and psy- tore, and in the midst of the battle
Rifler liaggard's "Moon of Israel," chological, and they are always anus- Sylvia escapes to seek pastures new.
With much the same attitude of
Here is a book which deals with the rig and significant.
But, it must be admitted, Mr. cold contempt Mr. Mackenzie relates
Exodus from Egypt. The hero is
Seti, heir to the throne of the l'ha- Mackenzie offers no very flattering briefly what happened to one Leo-
Hausberg, a rich young financier
• „I's vim tries to convince his father picture of the Jews with whom Sylvia to
4 1 -hrews are justified in their el/1MS in contact. There arc several of London. This person was unfortu-
claims,
and
to
win
interesting
references.
Early
in
the
nate
enough
to tell some story to the
;:eir
and
''
attitude
him over
to t e. 'le methods. The story appears a landlord, depicted as discredit of Sylvia, and a friend of
. . Hebrew maiden, "a fiery little Jew," who tells two of hers, Lily Haden, determines to seek
"crone is . er am, a .
Syivla's friends that "that between revenge. She consequently induces
whom Seti early in the tale k.
rescues
a mob. the arrears of rent and the nuisance the young man to set no a flat for
ot„„ they were causing to his other ten- her; a date Ls provided for Lily's en-
from death at the hands or
Metals' later rescues him and be .4oid . ants lie would have to give theirs no- trance; the young man is given a key
his wife and the mother of his c. •• rice" This fiery oppressor, however, and told to come at midnight. When
The books tells, with melodramatic
I Mu nediately out of the story— he arrives, there is nobody in the flat
vividness, the long-drawn-out contest pas . 5 -hat to the reader's regret. except a chimpanzee that Sylvia had
vividness,
between the Hebrew priests and the somew
-irately portrayed is Danny bought at an animal store—a chim-
c
Egyptian priests, of the plagues and m ore e j a k , toylvia
meets at a party, panzee loose. Later on we are in-
the opening of the Red Sea and the Lewis, whom SieS a grc4t dcal of at. formed that the young man has sur-
extermination of the Egyptians.
where she rem N. The next morning' vived his rendezvous with the chim-
it would hardly scent possible that tention from hint..‘ohur attacks her panzee, has become even richer and
with such a theme and such a plot the SYleia's "friend" /. e behavior and now calls himself Lionel Houston
author could manage to be preju- on the subject of ht, ‘Cirs to spend In a trip to Nlorocco Sylvia and a
diced. Yet the whole coloring of the intimates that if she pre, :'"cleanlyfriend are welcomed by rowboats
hook is decidedly, if somewhat subtly,
. filled with Moors, negroes, and Jews.
dancin
a b rigefewr it sl,i o n',1 ) .." :71e1
anti-Semitic. It is the Egyptians, their t(he
s
' - 'ring ashore they pass the prison,
Ar
n
see "a. fat Jewess being pushed
ways of life, their customs, their per- Jews, he won't stand it. Sylvia
to
sonality, that interest Haggard; it is gards him disdainfully, and Arthur is Ann. • under arrest for giving false
,."Ie made some resistance in
their side of the case he presents; for moved to repeat his complaint, only
'trance, and the guard
the Jews he seems to cherish a this tine. the adjective employed is weight.
scarcely concealed dislike. Even that "greasy. - That afternoon, however,I the narrds.. ''' in the small of her
sublime contest of God against the Danny comes to visit her, wearing' planted his fort" suddenly seemed to
wickedness of Egypt, which has be- (no doubt typically) "a bright orange' back, s„ that shy • '' inside." 11'hen
ts, Sylvia pays
come the epic of the Passover cele- tic and a flashing ring." Almost inn crumple up and t.
-aged sympa-
bration, seems to Haggard only a promptu Sylvia rums off with him, for, her companion prob.
• where eld- I
contest between magicians—a battle as
Mackenzie tells the reader, no attention to her on,
'aye false
of greater wizards against lesser, a "his orange tie promised a richer,' thy. "She was in the Eas,
ii
Detroit, Mich.
Best Wishes for a
Happy New Year
trial of wits and cunning. Nterapi is warmer life." Danny treats her very , rely obese Jewesses who • os." In
n inn
lovely and adorable, to he sure, but well for a while, buying her brightly, weight were well treated th,
'mg-
"her mother was a Syrian. • • • a colored blouses and scarves, "which: their travels they conic to a
beautiful captive of the war whom she us , d to wear out of politeness, for I "called the Hotel Splendide, a
Nathan came to love and made his they :ere her very little pleasure."' ridden tumble-down place kept ,
wife, and the daughter lakes after lie
I's stories admirably, "portico- Spanish Jews as voracious as th
her." Is there any trouble in getting lady
use against his own race; and bugs."
what you want from a Jew? "Buy though Sylvia was a little scornful of I At one point in the narrative Sylv
Them from him. • • • The way to this truckling, self-mockery, she could , becomes rather disgusted with lift e
a Hebrew's heart is through his no t l e 1p laughing at the stories." and like many another in the saw
treasure hags." The Jews are "this Lattr Danny's . attentions become mood resolves to write a book. Sh
sour folk." Unpleasant and sneering nfiat• ;•ersonal and irksome. He gets draws up a list of subjects, with note
emphasis is laid upon the "spoiling of ugly . Id threatens Sylvia with a knife as to the treatment. First is "Obliga-
the Egyptians, who are depicted as an —dlr. being his method of love-mak- tions," on which she comments "Joel-
innocent people moulded like clay in ing. ut Sylvia merely smashes a dias (sic) like the rest of our moral
the hands of the unscrupulous Het). u.,' - bottle over hint, with the re- system" Then conies friendship an(
rews. Of the great figures of Moses ma.. "Though I ought to smash it then marriage. As to the latter she
tr greasy head; I read in a book antes: ludiac. I include this with
and Aaron only insignificant use is on
made.
or • that the Jews were a subject obligations. • • • Levi the same as
The water and the subject Lewis"—the last remark no doubt a
It is to he hoped that no guileless ra
I Danny off; he is reconciled to mental restrospect to the Danny Lew-
Sunday school superintendent will in- c.
r;
and
she invites him to a show. is mentioned before. "Development,"
clude this book, with its apparently
'me ;long, Danny," she says, described as "exploiting human per-
laudable brightness of narrative wov-
'
your
coat,
and tell me a story r.onaliy," is "Judiac, of course."
en around a Jewish theme, in his
.vill make me laugh. Tell me the
recommendations for reading by Jew-
ish children. of the Jcw who Med of grief
ENGLISH JEWS THANKFUL
Ise he bought his wife a new hat
In Compton Mackenzie British Sc'
found his best friend had bought
lion has an excellent and unusually
that day and Ile might have
LONDON. — The Joint Foreign
able representative of two tendencies
(1 his
.i money. Do make me laugh. Committee of the Board of Deputies
of recent novel writing—the recrud
escence of the picturesque and the
• ny '
of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish
presence of the same sets of charac
Lanny seems more than reconciled,' Association has just issued a report
tees through many successive novels e,I ed; the next (lay he even brines
"^ the work of its delegation at the
"The early Life and Adventures of ,--und a friend to see Sylvia, one Jay
Sylvia Scarlett" e xemplifi es both t ten, the son of a boolmaker in ; Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The
tendencies. Characters from several i Irary Lane. lie had big teeth and report covers in detail the work of the
earlier books appear in this lengthy a ,. , , end, prominent eyes; his boots i British Jewish representatives in Paris
count of the and by no means
exemp.
and pointed;
attaches all documents in that
re very
glossy and e sharply
Specific reference is
lary but always entertaining career
the toes, with uppers of what look- connection.
of one who is possibly of the
demi-
made
to
the work of the delegates
like leopard skin. It seems he has
monde but may be more accurately rune to intercede for Danny, who of the American Jewish Congress and
described as belonging to Mrs. War- wants to marry Sylvia, but before he in the concluding paragraph, the re-
ren's and the oldest profession. There an get very far, in bursts 'Miss Juhie port says-
is, moreover, a sequel in store far the Myers, "a handsome Jewess with
"The labors of the Joint Delega-
reader—possibly several sequels for tshing eyes and earrings," who lays lion were also much lightened by the
Mr. Mackenzie writes with immense first claim to Danny, berates Mr. wide and active collaboration of many
leisureliness and with astounding t. ()hen and Sylvia, and threatens them Jewish workers. The services of Mr.
minuteness of detail. Sylvia Scarlett with the services of her brother, Sam Louis Marshall and Dr. Cyrus Adler
(her right name is Snow—doubtless Nlyers, the pugilist. Hardly has she have already been referred to. Unfor-
Mr. Mackenzie was thinking of the gone when Danny himself returns tunately. in 1915, he was taken pris-
Biblical verse as to sins) wanders all and accuses Mr. Cohen of what in the once by the Bulgarians and worked
over the world—France, Spain, Ar- \merican language is described as with them. Later he was drafted by
gentine, Brazil, New York, and in "the double cross"—Mr. Cohen's oh- the 11th German army under hf acken-
many other places, in careful imita- Iect being to get Sylvia for himself. sen, "the American hater," who, how-
tion of her masculine predecessors In no time at all they are deciding ever, treated him with civility.
in