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own inevitable undoing. There is much to be said in favor of this
The City and the
latter course—and yet, human nature must be taken into consideration
Sukah
in a matter of this kind. We know that behind the present Anti-Semitic
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lac
campaign,
there
are
the
powerful
forces
of
untold
money
and
as
has
Pehlished Weekly ky The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co..
By Dr. A. Coralnik.
been proved, a readiness to resort to any means, no matter how false
Joseph J. Cummins, President.
and vicious, to compass the end that the sponsors of the movement have There is a "Chasidick" tale to the
following effect:
matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit. in view.
&items as second.class
It was during a period when the
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879
And, after all, while thinking men and upright men will not for a Jews
of Russia were subjected to
In lonely hours of thought I long
moment be moved by the asinine attacks that are being made upon the great persecution. The Chasidim
To hear again that sacred song,
Offices, 1334 Book Building
Jew. it must be remembered that large numbers of those in whose hands came to the ''Zadick" of Rushin la-
So solemn, beautiful and soft,
Cable Address:
the vindictive writings of the Anti-Semites are placed, are of the more menting and expostulating against
Telephones:
Which years ago I heard so oft!
Chronicle, U. S. A. or less ignorant and unthinking masses. These people, untrained to their fate. The told Zadick that one
Jewish community had been literally
Cherry 3381-2689
No song of war or jilted love,
think clearly, are often prone to accept whatever they read as true. converted into a cemetery while a
year
$3-00 per
Nor of the moon and stars above;
And it is because of this fact that the arguments brought forward by goodly number of other communities
Subscription, lu Advance
A wandering tribe without a goal
our enemies, no matter how obviously , untrue they may be, must be were in imminent danger of suffering
To Mears publication, all correspondence and news matter must each
Asks pardon from its very soul.
a similar fate. On hearing this, the
answered.
Zadick became jubilant and when his
Kol Nidre, masterpiece of art,
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
But they must be answered without undue passion. We must not admiring followers looked at hint in
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Editorial CoatrIbwime
Thou outcry of a weary heart,
EASE LEO M. FRANKLIN
dignify the attacks of those who by their acts and attitudes prove consternation, he told them the fol-
Sublime, seraphic, seems to me
to
may
lowing
legend
from
the
"Midrash."
interest
themselves
to
be
lost
to
a
sense
of
justice
and
of
troth.
And
it
of
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects
The sweetness of thy melody.
A father accompanied by his son
indorsement of the
be fairly said that the answers that shall be given to them in due time, were making their way through the
OW Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an
No other song is half so rich,
will he calm, sane, dignified and unanswerable because they shall be country. After they had covered a
views expressed by the writers.
And none may ever so bewitch
Tishri 12, 5681 based in truth. And when truth meets falsehood, there can be only considerable distance, the child turned
Like thee—for magic is thy spell,
Friday, September 24, 1920.
to the parent and questioned: "Fa-
one result.
when are we going to reach a
0, hymn of Israel.
Therefore, the Jews of this country may rest fully satisfied in the ther,
city?" And the father replied, "Be
Succoth.
belief that their interests will be taken care of not by subtle and un- patient my child." And they went
M. OSIAS.
Following as it does in the wake of those great festivals that lifted worthy methods such as our foes are using, but by open, above aboard, further and after many miles, the
child repeated the question. "Father,
us to spiritual heights, Succoth comes almost as an anti-climax. traightforward statements of the truth. And that is all-sufficient!
when are we coming to a city?" And
Thrilled as we must be by the message of the New Year and Atone-
the father replied, "Not yet my child."
we should be to the lesson of a
we
are
scarcely
as
receptive
as
Humoresque.
And still they continued on their way
ment,
festival in which the harvest thought is central. Particularly is this
How potent an educational and inspiring force the picture drama and finally the child turned to its
immediate amplification so as
true because even had the Jew remained essentially an agriculturist may become is admirably illustrated by the splendid production of parent for a third time and said, "Fa- deplored the fact that not a single their
when are we going to sight a member of the Government had even to remove the ambiguous and erron-
as he was at the time of the institution of the Succoth festival, the Fannie Ilurst's play "Humoresque," which for some time has been ther,
city?" and the father replied. "When so much as toothed upon the Jewish eous construction which is some-
meaning of the celebration would be lost upon him because of the fact shown in this and other cities. The setting of the play is particularly you will see a cemetery my child, question. He stated that the assump- times given to them, particularly
that this is not the time for the ingathering of the harvests in a climaate well thought out and indicates a more than ordinary understanding on then you may know that a city is tion that the question was solved when applied to Jews.
Setting forth the main demands of
was merely the continuation of a
sight."
the part of those who are responsible for it. The play itself pictures within
such as this.
This is the interpretation given the policy which ignored the truth. "It the Jews he formulated them in the
And yet it would be a mistake, we believe, to permit the Succoth a phase of Jewish life that is exceedingly appealing just because of its Midrash
by the Great Man of Rushin, should be one of the most urgent and following eloquent language:
"We consider it a sacred duty to
altogether to lose its hold upon us. Two-fold is its significance. In clean-cut presentation of certain phases of Jewish character.
and this, it is. The cemetery comes important works of this Parliament,"
the first place, back of the harvest thought is always the remainder of
first
and
then gradually step by step he said, "not only to ratify the law fight, to fight until the very last drop
Above all, it is a vivid story of mother love, a love which nowhere
of
our blood, for the full and com-
God's providence. So, too, is that thought back of the historic reminder is stronger than in the Jewish mother. If men seek to understand the we approach the city. This is eternal- decree by which some of the Jews plete
emancipation of all of the Jews
true. The cemetery invariably pre- have been emancipated but to enact
of God's providential care of Israel during his march through the forces that have co-operated to keep the Jewish home sanctified and ly
of
Roumania,
for their becoming citi-
cedes the town and is always larger other laws which will amplify the old
zens and enjoying full civil and po-
laws
and
complete
the
emancipation
pure,
they
must
place
above
all
others
the
fine
sacrificial
spirit
of
Jewish
than
the
town.
And
were
it
not
that
wilderness.
litical
rights;
we will fight for the
That God still watches over Israel is the message of hope and of mothers throughout the ages. And this thought finds a splendid ex- the stones continue to sink deeper work in such a manner that all Jews
and deeper into the soil until they in Roumania would become full- recognition of the Jewish Communi-
cheer that cannot be too often or too insistently sounded into the ears pression in "Humoresque."
are completely absorbed and replaced fledged citizens, and would have ties as legal entities with the right
of our people in a time when so many opposing forces are arrayed
There are those who are a bit sensitive to the presentation in the by new earth from which new life guaranteed to them full political to attend and to manage their own
against him. While we believe that as at every stage in history, so play of certain humors of the Jew which are not always altogether springs the dead would have swal- rights and complete autonomy in re- cultural affairs; we will fight for our
religious and cultural autonomy; we
the living or would at any rate ligious and cultural matters."
again in these times the Jew will be strengthened rather than weak- pleasant. For our part, we make no objection to the portrayal of those lowed
Not even that would be satisfactory will fight for the contribution of the
ened by persecution, yet it seems timely to remind him that as God qualities of the Jews which are more or less characteristic, so long as have left no room for them.
Such is the course of life, the des- to hint and to the Jews, he went on, Government to our schools and for
protected his people against the storms and beasts of the wilderness, there is no malice in the presentation. And certainly no one viewing tiny
of man, the road of society. It until all those law decrees and laws the recognition of our school certifi-
even when he dwelt in frail tents, so now will he throw has protecting "Humoresque" could feel that from first to last there was a lack of commences with a cave, with a house, affecting Jewish emancipation would cates; we will fight, fight with all
with
a shelter, and ends with a cave. be written into the Roumanian Con- our might, to bring about a true and
mantle about his people when a new tidal wave of oppression threatens sympathetic understanding of the Jewish spirit on the part of the author.
stone house in the garden of the stitution—and that being the work of honest democracy in our public life
Except for one incident, twice repeated in the play, which is not his- a dead.
to overwhelm him.
Such is the course all the way a Constitutional Convention, he and in our Government—for democ-
The message of Succoth is essentially one of faith in Gott. So long torically accurate but which lends a touch of the dramatic to the picture, through. The town is preceded by a urged that one be convened as speed- racy constitutes an inherent part of
the Jewish spirit for which it has
throws
himself
upon
the
love
and
the
mercy
of
the
All
cemetery and the cemetery by a shel- ily as possible.
we feel that the production is well nigh beyond criticism.
as the Jew
There could be no talk of a solu- bled for centuries and for which it is
Father, believing in Him and serving Him with his whole heart and
We commend the play to those who would plumb the depths of teeter, a canvas tent, and then it is tion
ready to go on bleeding until its suc-
of
the
Jewish
question,
the
a shelter of branches and
mother love. All such, we believe, are under a debt of gratitude to a cave, something
mind and spirit, he need have no fear.
still more primitive, speaker insisted, until such time as cess is assured. Finally. we will fight
Succoth as the embodiment of this thought should really not rep- Fannie Hurst and to those who have so adequately given a proper leaves,
against
the unfounded and unjust
newer, younger and finally it is the the above program had been fully
prejudices which exist, are engen-
resent an anti-climax to the earlier festivals of the month. On the setting to her play.
carried out.
"Sukah."
dered
and
fomented against us, and
Dr. Straucher then showed the im-
Between these two extremes is the
contrary, it should gather up the fine sentiments which they have em-
town. It is the intermediary between perative necessity of ratifying by this we will fight also against anti-
bodied and impress them more deeply upon the hearts and the minds
Semitism,
official
and otherwise."
one eternity and another. It is the Parliament of all the law decrees and
factory wherein the energy accumu
of Israel.

THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

KOL NIDRE

lated in the huts is exploited and
utilized until it goes back to its orig-
inal source. There is no people with
Under the above heading, there appears in the current issue of the
whom the historic process is so clear-
ly defined, so distinct and I would say
Reform Advocate, an article in the course of which the ministry of
primitive as is that of the Jewish peo-
America is given a very severe flagellation at the hands of the author
ple. Other peoples have long forgot-
of the article—one S. D. Schwartz. Asserting that the pulpits of the
ten the process of history. They are
land are impotent and that the present religious forces are morally
settled, almost rusticated, they have
fashion,
he
gives
free
rein
to
his
indignation
already forgotten what the culture
bankrupt, in ipse disit
Let us consider the case of this sec- preceding the city is like.
(Continued from page 1.)
the pulpits of America should have shared in the war madness of
that
tion
of
American
Jewry.
It may sound like an amusing para-
recent years and he holds them responsible for having implanted whom they have cast in their lot.
dox, I know, but it is so. We, the
Other Phases of Judaism.
The center of gravity of the Jew-
town people are actually the people
hate rather than love in human hearts.
It is composed of Hebrews who
We take no exception to the tone of the article merely on the ishpeople has shifted from the Jew- deny that there is such a thing as a of the country, the people of the soil.
ish towns and townlets of the Rus-
is not only an accepted but an
ground that its writer is a pacifist of a very pronounced type. But we sian and Polish pale of settletneut Jewish nation, who have lost all con- This
actual fact, but we are all that, only
do take exception to it on the ground that apparently he was entirely to the western shores of the Atlan- nection with Jewish traditions, who outwardly in appearance, not inward-
no other culture, no other
out of touch with the real situation during the war period. While we tic, and the fate of Israel will now possess
ly, not in spirit.
essentially to he worked out ideals, no other standard of moral
There is after all but a slight differ-
believe that the pulpit throughout those dreadful times wielded a tre- have
values
than
those of the nation in ence between the town and the vil-
by the 3,500,000 of American Jews.
mendous influence in maintaining the morals of those who remained
whose midst they live and with whom lage. The village is a small town
of
Americana.
Interest
behind while the brave boys went forward to the battlefield, we do What interest have they in Pales- they unreservedly identify them- and is in point of fact, more of a
selves. They profess to be Israelites township than the to itself, not-
assert that at the same time the ministry of all denominations with of tine? I shall try to show it.
only by religion, but in no other re-
The authors of the San Remo spect. And even their religion often withstanding the fact, that the village
course notable exceptions as to individuals, never tired in its task of
have thought it necessary to leaves something like an uneasiness, has but small houses as against the
restraining the passions and the lusts born of war among the people treaty
large ones of the town and is far
add to the article promising the es-
and of striving to overcome some of that brutality in them which the tablishment of a national home for an unavowed secret rcsistence in nearer to the open field.
their subconsciousness.
The village is more of a township
the
Jewish
people
in
Palestine
a
war spirit normally engenders.
Sometimes they invent new names
We believe that this was true of the pulpit in general. \Ve know rider stating expressly that this stipu• for the scanty remnants of their re- than the town itself, if town stands
lation shall in no way interfere with ligious. Judaism, calling it, for in- for firmness, for anchorage, for stabil-
that as a rule, it was true of the Jewish pulpit. When America went the civil rights of the Jews in the stance, the Ethical Movement, in or- ity. The village is more of a town-
into the great struggle, the pulpit—it is true—put all the force of its different countries, nor alter in the der to make its Jewish character as ship than the town itself if town
stands for the establishment of a par-
tremendous influence behind the fight and it made many a boy brave least their legal status.
little conspicuous as possible. Of
form of life.
to meet his foe and to play his worthy part in the struggle for freedom This was a concession to those those that carry their logic to its ticular
The village is the very denial of
pusillanimous Jews who were afraid last consequence, drop deliberately
and for human rights. But at the same time, it was the pulpit that that in case of the foundation of a
nomadism, completely doing away
Judiasm and convert themselves
read into the great struggle the moral element and that gave to the Jewish nation and polity in I'ales- their
with the idea of searching and won
to the Christian faith, I have nothing
sacrifice that great-hearted men and women made during those awful tine they would be told by their gov- to say. They have become strangers dering. The town is a spiritual re-
ernments and countrymen: "Now to us and we have neither the right tracing to the "Sukah," a new wan
purpose
for
good
which
otherwise
might
have
times a meaning and a
you have your own nation and coun- nor a cogent reason to occupy our- dering attempt, a renewed search for
been altogether lacking in them.
try. You can no longer be Americans,
a purpose, for an objective.
with them.
And now, the author of the article asks, "Can America achieve as or Britishers, or Frenchmen. Clear selves
And in this sense we Jews are of
The Hebrews whom I describe are
out
from
here
and
go
to
l'alestine,
great a spiritual victory as she has achieved material victory?" In
mostly wealthy, many of them are all peoples, the ones who may be
to enjoy your new privileges." highly cultured and refined, they said to belong to the town. We unite
strange contradiction to his original assertion that the pulpits of the there
the "Sukah" and the primitive cave
Of course, such an absurd thought
land are impotent, he says that the pulpits of America must take the has never entered the mind of a sane often occupy prominent positions in with the disappearing culture. We
science, literature and art,
lead in the solution of this problem. licre, we are definitely at one person. It wants a poor, crippled, politics,
and their social standing is of the are the only ones who have not yet
down.
with Mr. Schwartz. The great masses of the people have not !sensed tremulous Ghetto soul afraid of its most distinguished. Yet they do not settled
Before the town there is the ceme-
own
shadow
to
conceive
it.
the moral implications of the war and it is unfortunately true as we There are millions of citizens in feel entirely happy. They could un- tery and beyond the town there is the
have taken occasion to say more than once in these columns, that the the United States who are of Dutch, doubtedly if they were callous, but tabernacle.
are not.
sacrifices of the war have not been adequately compensated. The of Scandinavian, of Italian extraction. they
And the cemetery grows and ex-
On the contrary, they are sensi-
human rights for which we strove have not been gained. The spirit of To whom has it ever occurred to say tive, hyper-sensitive, precisely be- tends finally overtaking the settle-
to
them:
"What
are
you
doing
here?
ment
and absorbing it. The ruin that
autocracy yet reins in certain quarters and brotherhood and humanity Return to your kinsfolk and to you' cause they are heirs to an old and has overtaken the Jewish people with-
remain idle words upon the lips of men. To translate the material own state in Sweden, or in Holland or intense culture and because they in recent years has been so great, so
have high-strung nerves. They feel
victory which we and our Allies have gained into the terms of the in Italy"'
morbidly the coolness of the moral extensive that hardly a building is
Effect in the U. S.
left. Even as in the days of the
spiritual must indeed be the task of the pulpit. That the preachers of
temperature in which they live.
Zadick of Rushin, more than one
religion arc alive to this fact and to the high opportunity and to the There is no fear that American
Sees
Flourishing
Nation.
Kehillah has been completely wiped
could ever have to suffer mor-
stupendous responsibility which it implies, we are firmly convinced. Jews
When Zionism will have realized out and converted into a cemetery.
ally from the existence of an inter-
The time for soft preaching is, we believe, forever past. What the nationally recognized Jewish Pales- its program, when there will be a Almost the entire Jewish settlements
times now demand is a virile morality, a strong, manly, straightfor- tine. If they chose, they might Jewish nation living its normal po- of Ukrainia and Poland have been
ward presentation of the moral relationships which must obtain be- totally ignore it. It is no business of litical, cultural, economic life in its turned into cemeteries.
own country, Palestine, entertaining
And even as the forest is shut out
tween individuals and social groups and a fearless, forceful demand theirs. It does not necessarily touch international relations with the other by the trees, the cemetaries are not
upon men and women that they live their lives under the inspiration them.
Zionism appeals directly to those peoples of the earth on a footing of to be distinguished because of the
of a desire to serve because service is in the last analysis the expres- Jews only who are conscious of a equality, admitted as a folly qualified
(Concluded on Page 5)
particular nationality of their own member of the League of Nations,
sion of an ethical motive.
the name of Jew will rapidly lose the
and
refuse
to
adhere
to
the
melting-
No doubt, inadvertently, the author of the article has, we be- pot theory. They cannot be tainted pejorative our which our enemies STATESMAN DEFIES
lieve, done the pulpit an injustice so far as the part which he with the reproach of double allegi- try to impart to it at present; it will
LEGISLATIVE BODY
believes it to have played in the war is concerned. \Ve hope that as he ance. They profess only one—the have a geographically and politically
OF ROUMANIANS
strictly defined meaning, being ap-
Jewish
allegiance.
They
desire
noth-
which
the
ministers
of
all
denominations
are
playing
watches the part
so fervently as to be members plicahle only to the citizens of the
today in the lifting of life to higher planes, he will be justified in his ing
(Continued Prom Page 1.)
of a Jewish nation living independent- Jewish state of Palestine. and those
conclusion that "the pulpits of America will determine the destiny of ly in the country of their own. They American Jews who refuse to be
this land which we all love; the flag which we all revere ; the ideals want Palestine for their six or seven identified with the national Jews will standing all claims to the contrary
last attain their end. which is to and repeated statements which were
which it expresses and the beauty which it conveys. • • • It will millions of brothers living, or more at
dying, under tortures in the he considered as genuine Americans. issued from time to time at every
become articulate with the knowledge born of a rectified purpose and exactly,
differing
from their Christian coun- opportune moment, the Jewish ques-
countries of Eastern Europe. They
tion in Roumania was not complete-
sanctified mission to all peoples and to all nations."
want it for themselves, for even if trymen by their religion only.
Zonism alone can redeem those ly solved, and that no amount of
they cannot directly emigrate to it,
members of our race who want to be mere talk would solve it. He even
they
dream
at
least
to
go
here
one
Silence and Speech.
day and await their end, seated under only religiously, not nationally, Jews
As the author of Ecclesiastes puts it, "There is a time to speak and their own fig and olive trees. They from a position which our enemies
in denouncing as dubious and
there is a time to be silent." In the face of the new campaign of anti- consider themselves as virtually Pal- persist
even if they reside in Brook- equivocal. It is by no means a para-
Semitism that is being waged at the present moment by certain agencies estinians,
lyn or the Bronx; and I have no doubt dox but the mere truth to affirm that
acting in concert in this and other countries, it would be natural for that many of them will eventually be- Zionism works for its Jewish adver-
saries at least as efficiently as for its
the Jew in righteous indignation to pour out the vials of his wrath upon conic actual Palestinians.
who place their fondest
those who for the sake of destroying his people, are willing to resort The immediate duty of this cate- adherents
gory of American Jews is clear; they hopes in it.
to the methods of the Middle Ages. Indeed, there are those who think must do their utmost to aid in the Therefore, if the non-Zionist Jews
that the Jew would be justified at this time did he with every means at realization of the Zionist ideal. They of America consider the position
his command seek to expose to the ridicule and the disdain of the must furnish men and means for the with common sense and just a slight
of generosity, they will not re-
world those who upon the basis of fictitious documents are seeking to building up of the Jewish homeland dash
Palestine. They are well off, fuse to co-operate with the Zionists
build up a mass of supposed evidence to prove the Jew to be an enemy in
many of them are rich; they must in the arduous work of building up a
of society.
Saves
give money, without which the neces- if commonwealth in Palestine.
And, therefore, we cannot entirely blame some of our friends who, sary emigration to Palestine cannot If they aid it with their money, their
good advice and their organizing ca-
angered well nigh beyond control at the libel of their people, have not be started.
Besides these nationally conscious pacity, they will have their due share
measured their words in characterizing those responsible for this new Jews
who are virtual, and may be- in the pride and glory of this grand
campaign of vituperation against the Jew.
come actual, Palestinians. there is achievement.
On the other hand, there are those who calmer and perhaps saner the large section of American Jews to
in the face of the abuse that is heaped upon Jews and Judaism, feel whom l'alestine is nothing, or a dim BUCHAREST. — The Roumanian
at the best, and who Government will not allow Jewish
that the sources from which the libel emanates are so unworthy, no reminiscense
now either remained entirely refugees from Ukrainia to enter its
petty, so malicious, and above all, so un-American, that it were better until
indifferent to Zionism, or even ob- boundaries, declared a high official
to ignore them altogether and let them run their stupid course to their served a hostile attitude toward it.
recently.

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