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SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Osaip GABRILOWITSCH
Conductor
Friday and Saturday Evenings
February 26 and 26 at 5:30
ORCHESTRA HALL
Sololet—IGNAZ FRIEDMAN—Plan.
Soloist-
!GRAZ FRIEDMAN
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Sunday Evening, March 6th, 1921
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Hebrew hooray) to the • departing
delegation that was lost somewhere in
the mist.
From Rhodes our way led to the
town of Adalis, held by the Turkish
revolutionary forces together' with the
(Continued From Page 1.)
Italians.
Since I had given up hope of ob-
tastic and ugly Turkish capital and to taining permission for the refugees
to
their last disappointment they are in-
land, I started to work on schemes to
formed that their Russian Donski
erect a shower bath for their use. At
roubles are worth exactly one cent
first the very idea of same struck the
per thousand.
Italian captain as something unthink-
What shall we do, then, with these
able, for whoever heard of such a
refugees? Constantinople is fright-
privilege as a bath for passengers that
fully congested; there are no suitable
are handled in every way like bundles
houses to be obtained to shelter them of freight?
all, and the rainy, cold season is soon
But again apparently any American
to approach; there are not sufficient
J. D. C. uniform, and furthermore the
funds at our disposal to help them all
fear of an epidemic that I held before
and food and other necessaries are
him, proved so impressive that they
sky hi h
started to search the ship for the
Somebody said: On to Palestine'
necessary appliances, found them,
and immediately the idea was born
cleaned a bathtub that was neglected
That the best thing is to help the
and nut used, and on the following
refugees had their way to the Holy
day the refugees had cold showers
Land.
and warm baths at their disposal.
Within three days the necessary
In the afternoon, we reached Adalia,
visas were obtained for three hundred
a beautiful spot, a real Garden of
and on the eve of Rosh Ilashana the
Eden, but to the sorrow of the refu-
Bukovina and Italian semi-freight
gees they were again Informed that
steamer, laden with 335 wanderers,
they could not land for sanitary rea-
slipped out of the Golden Horn and
sons, but this time of the reverse
made for Jaffa.
character, namely, because the bu-
Aboard ship was also the J. D. C.
bonic disease was raging on this other-
representative to Turkey. How I
wise blessed land.
found myself traveling with the refu-
I landed, purchased supplies until
gees I can hardly explain, for until
the next station and brought them to
one hour before the departure I could
the ship in time for a prompt start
not decide to go or not to go.
for Cyprus.
But at the eleventh hour, when I
As we left Adalia I noticed that we
found out that the refugees will ac-
had picked up a new cabin passenger,
tually have to travel 14 days before
an elderly gentleman of very revered
they will reach Jaffa; that no food is
appearance. I started a conversation
supplied to them by the steamship
with him and soon discovered that he
company, and that there were no suit-
was an Egyptian Jew originating front
able provisions made to obtain same
Italy, and that he spoke Italian and
along the way; that it is doubtful
English fluently. I interested him in
whether any of them will be permitted
the refugees and from that time I ob-
to land at any of the intermediate
tained a very valuable aid in my deal-
ports; that the captain refuses to un-
ings with the captain and the crew.
dertake to furnish the steerage pas-
Al Cyprus we stopped at Limasol
sengers even with hot water, I de-
and at Larniki. At both places we
cided to go.
had a very rigid examination by guar-
There was something like a second
amine officials and physicians. Luckily
class where the wealthier Greek and
we managed to hide the one sick boy
Turkish passengers traveled, and find-
that we had on board and all the
ing my berth in a cabin with a Turkish
other passengers passed the examina-
mufti and two other Turks, I settled
tion.
down for a two weeks' trip.
1 landed at Larniki and purchased
The very first of niy tasks became
necessary supplies, such as bread,
an arrangement for supplying the
fruit and vegetables, to last us until
refugees with hot water at least twice
Messina, but no sootier had I brought
a day, so that they could have their
same to the dock than I was Informed
Russian tea and kepiatok. But the
that no exportation of foodstuffs from
Italian cook could hardly sec the
Cyprus was permitted and that bread
necessity for same until a number of
could under no circumstances be taken
liras were transferred into his pockets.
out.
To all my pleas he at first answered.
I went on a mission of wire-pulling
"Impossible," but money talks and a
among the few English officials and
possibility was soon found. A large
finally obtained the necessary permis-
kettle was placed on top of the iron
sion to take everything on board ship.
oven and the refugees started to be
At Messina we were again informed
alloted at seven in the morning and
that the plague was widespread there,
at seven in the evening hot water for
but since there was a responsibility
tea.
for feeding women and children, we
The next on the program was to
went marketing for bread and vege-
obtain sufficient space on deck for the
tables and brought them to the ship.
wanderers to leave the freight holes
The ship again stopped for 36 hours,
during the day and get a breath of the
loading and unloading.
fresh sea air. Since almost all of the
As we slid along the coast of Syria
space was reserved for the cabin pas-
the holiday of You Kippur approached.
sengers and since the captain abso-
With the aid of the Egyptian Jewish
lutely refused to allow anybody from p assen er
g
en ti one d b cane
su -
the steerage quarters to step on pro
ceeded in making arrangements with
hibited ground, the question was not
the captain for quarters on Gees where
so easy of solution, but on the other
the prayers could be conducted.
hand it was unthinkable to leave the
And here they were under the clear
people in the dirty inside when during
southern sky, with the Lebannons on
the entire two weeks of the journey.
their left and the blue kfediterranian
1 finally persuaded the captain to
on the right—children of Israel, head-
turn over to their use the castle of
ing back for the ancient land and
the ship, which ordinarily is reserved
shedding tears mixed with prayers on
for the crew. The sailors were at
sufferings and privations Just passed.
first contented with the arraneetnent,
Tired from a long day of fast, they
but by the time we reached 'Messina,
were sitting on bales of rope or lying
eight days later, their dissatisfaction
stretched on the bare deck, but the
with same had grown to such an ex-
older men persistently refused to stt
tent that they started to threaten e
down and remained on their feet un-
strike unless the castle was cleared
til the evening stars appeared.
of the refugees and returned to their
I picked out one old woman and
use.
.:aced a general conversation with
On September 15111, in the morning,
her. "Mother," I said, "you are prob-
we entered the harbor at Sinyrn...
a bly awfully tired and I am awfully
This city has a large Jewish com-
sorry for the conditions in which you
munity and since the food supplies of
had to remain all the past two weeks,
the refugees were running very low,
but—"
it was decided that a committee of
I did not have time to finish, as
five should go into the town and make
she promptly answered, "Oh, iiq, son.
arrangements for reprovisioning.
That is far better than that cellar in
But no sooner had we reached on
Elizavetgrad, where we lay seven days
our bark the custom house than the
during the pogrom. Thank God I am
Greek officials ordered the oarsmen
here, and soon we shall be in Eretz
to take us right back aboard ship. The Israel."
fear of 300 Russians on one ship had
That was the sentiment of all of
apparently completely overcome those them
until the end of the journey and
officials, and it took a good deal of after they landed in Palestine. As
persuasion before I obtained scrims- soon as 1 would start to make an
sion for myself to land. The commit- , apology for bad conditions I was In-
tee of refugees naturally had to go variably
met with the prompt answer:
back and stay aboard ship. I got in ••oh
that is all better than over
touch with our committee, informing there."
Jews on
them of the presence of 355
the Bukovina, and in a few hours a
rowboat brought bread, cheese, olive. FATHERS, SONS MEET
and even Smyrna figs.
AT TEMPLE BETH EL
The vessel remained in Symrna 36 ,
—
hours and all dining this period the
elves to Closer Relation-
poor refugees were kicked from one Pledge Themselves
ship
During
1921.
side to the other in order to make
room for the incoming freight, and
were not allowed to get onto "terra
More than 350 fathers and sons at-
firma," which was only ■ few paces tended a dinner at Temple Beth El
away. Tuesday evening to pledge themselves
From Symrna our way was through to a closer relationship during 1921,
numberless uninhabited Greek islands the first official Father and Son year.
of Rhodes, which is an Italian posses- The dinner was given under the aus-
sion. Since the steamer was also pices of the Men's Temple Club, the
Italian, I started to negotiate with the Young People's Society and the
captain about permission for the refu- Junior Young People's Society.
gees to get ashore at least for a few
The principal speakers of the even-
hours so that they could get a swim ing were Rabbi Leo M. Franklin,
in the blue waters of the Mediter- Julian Krolik and Abner Rosenzweig.
ranean and wash part of their dirt and kir. Krolik spoke for the fathers and
troubles off.
Mr. Rosenzweig answered for the
"Insh Allah." Apparently nothing boys.
could be accomplished in that respect.
The feature of the evening was the
Everybody feared the refugees as car- "gang" singing by those attending.
riers of pests and disease. The Greek. The musical program was led by Wil-
Italian and Turkish cabin passengers fred Goldman, with Mr. Weller at
would look down upon them as they the piano, and included a violin se-
lay in the freight holes, but would lection by Harold Ehrlich and a song
run away as soon as any of them by Leonard Goldman. Other features
would come on deck, and the officials of the evening were slight-of-hand
at Rhodes sent doctors to examine tricks by F. Sevald, an old-fashioned
everybody before the steamer was Punch and Judy show and moving
allowed to discharge its freight, but pictures furnished by Phil Glenheim.
they absolutely refused even to hear
Supper arrangements were made by
a plea for permission to land.
Joseph Decker, assisted by Mrs.
After considerable discussion they Decker, Mrs. L Van Vliet, Mrs. Sid-
finally allowed me to take along a ney Fechheimer and Mrs. Walter
committee of three and to go ashore Heavenrich. The hall was decorated
for the purpose of purchasing food.
in red, white and blue.
Once in town, I immediately went
Isaac Grabowsky, 85 years old, 686
to see the president or tne Jewish Brush Street, and his son Louis, 40,
community, whose address was fur- were the oldest father and son
nished to me in Smyrna. His name present.
was Rahamin Cohen and the names
of his associates in the communal
work were Nisim and Natzliha. In
Hebrew the first names of these gen-
tlemen mean mercy, miracle and luck.
and from their actions toward the
PARIS—Dr. Boris D. Bogen, chief
refugees they appear to be really representative of the Joint Distribu-
worthy of such names.
tion Committee, returned from a visit
In a few hours we had a supply of to Warsaw and declared that under
bread to last us until the next station, present conditions the Committee's in-
fruits and even candy for the children. tention to do away with its depart-
A delegation also came to visit the ment for the transmission of money
ship and to convey greetings to the cannot be effected. Dr. Bogen urged
refugees. The delight and happiness the Jews of America to hasten neces-
of the refugees in seeing Jews from saries for the forthcoming Passover
this lonely island coming to greet otherwise the Jews in Poland will not
them and to help them was beyond de- he able to fittingly celebrate Easter.
scription. For almost an entire hour He also declared that the depressing
after the ship had started to pull its conditions in America were already
anchor they stayed on the castle being felt in Poland, relatives in that
waving handkerchiefs, throwing kisses country failing to send the measure
and shouting "Heidat" (meaning in of relief they were wont to send.
URGES PASSOVER FOOD
BE RUSHED TO POLAND
THE BLOODY SIGN
(Translated from the Yiddish
of Ossip Dymov.)
F
By Philip Slonxwitz,
ROM days very far back this legend
•
travels. It may he that once upon
a time it was no legend at all, but a
fact, an occurrence from real life. But
e s t
time has moved, days flew by, and
time wove a texture about this hie
happening; it has rubbed off the un-
even corners, smoothed out the
humps, colored, took away from and
added to existing facts, and the life-
fact was transformed into a legend.
Like a sharp piece of stone, which
was torn from its cliff and washed
for years by the ocean waves, ground
and polished, covered with lime, and
does not live any more with a life of
its own, but with a new life; so does
a legend live with a separate, changed
strange fife.
In my childhood, my mother used
to tell me that, when she was a little
girl, she knew the heroine of this
legendary story. Then she was not
young any more, this strange woman,
daughter of a blacksmith, who ran
away from her Jewish God, and for-
sook her faith.
This is the story in my mother's
own words, as she told it to me one
evening before putting our to sleep:
"Many years ago, when you, my
child, were not yet born and no one
dreamt of your coming to this world,
my dear,—many years ago there
lived in our city a beautiful young
woman, who ran away from her God."
I opened my eyes snidely, and my
THE
childish heart was pressed out of
pain, sorrow and surprise.
MORRIS
"Ran away, mother? Did she run
PLA N
far from God?"
"Not far, my son. From God you
cannot run away far."
"Did the Jewish God overtake her?"
announcement that we were now
"Yes, He overtook her, my son.
ready to serve our customers with the Morris Plan
Very quickly did He overtake her;
yes, very quickly."
has met with instant response.
"And what did Ife do to her be-
cause she wanted to run away froin
If you are contemplating the purchase of home
Him?"
furnishings of any kind why not avail yourself of
"He made a sign upon her fore-
head—a terrible sign—that all men
this plan, which is most convenient, and most
may see and know that she wanted
dignified.
to run away froth her God."
In fear and agony I nestled myself
to my mother, and asked:
Of particular interest to home-lovers is our dis-
"And what kind of a sign was it?"
play of new living room furniture which has just
"A sign that she should never be
able to wipe or wash from her brow."
been placed upon our floors. The excellence of
"Not even with soap?"
workmanship is apparent immediately, and the un-
"Not even with soap, my son."
"And you have seen the sign with
usually large variety will meet your approval, we
your own eyes?"
feel sure.
"Yes, son, I have seen it. I was a
little girl when I met this beautiful
Anna, who ran away from her Jewish
God. Then she was not young any
more, but one could easily detect how
beautiful she was in her youth. Her
eyes were always downcast, she never
smiled—and beautiful was her mouth.
Her hair and hat aways covered her
forehead, yet she could not conceal
the terrible sign, which God stamped
upon her forehead."
But the sign . . . What sort of a
sign was it?"
"A red, a terrible sign. It was as
if it burned upon her beautiful fore-
head. Nothing in the world could
remove that sign."
"Not even soap?"
"Not even soap • • • Sleep, sleep,
my son. Do not think or dream of it."
But sleep escaped me.
Long did I turn about in my bed
and thought of the way in which the
A Bar Mitzvah party was given last
Jewish God catches all those who
escape from Him, and, catching the Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. A. Katzin,
of
5670 Commonwealth avenue, in
sinner, stamps a sign upon the brow
—such a terrible, red sign, which eats honor of their son, Moe. Morning
services
were held at the Congrega-
itself into the flesh never to be
erased. . .
• •
I grew up and began to watch life
more closely; I became more con-
scious of the realism of daily exist-
ence, and got in closer touch with the
terrible legend of the beautiful Anna.
I began to ask the old people, those
who were acquainted with the story
of our state. And very soon I suc-
ceeded in getting to the bottom of the
legend which disturbed my peaceful,
childish sleep.
. . . Many years ago there lived
in our city a blacksmith, named Mor-
decai. He lived across the river, in a
small, wooden shanty, and had distin-
guished hinisel' for his marvelous
strength, his fear of God and his
honesty. He had worked for cavalry
officers, harnessing their horses. He
was a widower and had himself
brought up his only daughter, Anna.
Wonderfully beautiful was Anna, so
beautiful that the cavalry officers
could not tear their eyes from the
poor, modest girl.
"Do not travel upon the macadam-
ized road! Do not look upon the
officers! Do not answer the officers
when they talk to you!" So Mordecai
MOE KATZIN.
instructed his daughter.
But then came the spring—oh, the lion Beth David, where the Bar blitz-
spring of nineteen years, when the vah read the Maftir eloquently. In =
entire world appears like one bloom- the evening supper was served at
ing garden. The spring came and their residence for 20 couples. The
brought sorrow: Anna ran away with principal speakers of the evening were
208 - MO GRISWOLD ST.
the most beautiful and most wanton Rabbi Aishishkin, Dr. A. E. Bern-
officer. She ran away to the capital stein mid the Bar Mitzvah himself. =
city and—as it later became known— Moe Katzin is in his second year in
was converted to Christianity by a high schooL
long-haired priest in a Greek ortho-
dox church. There she cursed the
God of her parents.
Oh, how terribly and how mightily
did Mordecai beat with his heavy
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hammer upon the burning hot iron)
Two compositions not before heard
To all sides flew the sparks of the
In Detroit—Louis Victor Saar's Roco-
iron that burned almost white. . .
"Ran away . . . forsook me and co suite and Carl Busch's Indian
Him ... she ran away from her Godl" Songs—will be presented on the De-
Thus Mordecai muttered to himself, troit Symphony orchestra's program
beating upon the iron. "Yes, it doesn't Sunday afternoon, March 6, in Orches-
matter, you won't run very far! From tra ball, under Mr. GabrilowiWh's
the Jewish God you can't run far. He baton.
will catch up with you, Anna. He
Both composers are accounted Am-
will overtake you," he threatened with
ericans although born abroad. Mr.
his hands, pressing with his tongs a
Saar,
a native of Rotterdam, came to
piece of iron burning white.
To be sure, the beautiful Anna did New York In 1894 and for many years
has
been
a resident of Chicago. Ills
not run very far. There happened
what usually occurs in such instances: compositions include works for or-
The officer sickened of the Jewish girl chestra, chamber music groups, nolo
and threw her out on the street.... instruments, voice, chorus, organ .
On a dark winter night, Anna Mr. Busch, born in Denmark, in 1862,
THE
knocked upon the door of her father's came to America In the mid-eighties
shanty.
and settled In Kansas City. Ile has
"Who's there?" asked the black-
written a number of orchestral works
smith.
songs and cantatas favoring Indian
It is 1. Anna."'
Quite!), he let her in. Silently he themes and American patriotic sub-
jects.
began to heat a piece of iron. Anna
5221 BEAUBIEN ST.
sat with a bowed head, waiting for her
In addition to the Saar and Busch
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father to speak.
compositions. Mr. Gabrilowitsch will
And then he spoke.
present the orchestra in a delightful
"Your beauty did it all. We don't serenade by Mozart. Gustave Helm,
need such beauty." he said, as Fe trumpet, will be the assisting
soloist
grasped her by the hair with one
and will play Schubert'. Serenade
hand, while with the other stamped
scored
for
solo
trumpet
and
orchestra
upon her beautiful brow a bloody
JERUSALEM.--T h e government
and the same composer's well-known
Theatres. Dry Cleaning Plants .
sign with the hot iron.
has received a document from the in-
Ave Maria for solo trumpet with harp habitants of the Hebron district in
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