I'AGE EIGHT
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Professor Ignatz Goldziher
A Tribute.
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By DR. ALFRED FELDMAN,
Budapest Contributor, The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
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IMMUNITY
(Editor's Note:—This is the find securing his full professorship in he Birnkrant's birthday anniversary,
of a series of articles to be written 1906. For 4U years he was a member the Birnkrant family entertained at
The word "immunity" was used in
by the European writer for the De- of the Ilungary Academy of Sciences,) a dinner-dance New Year's eve at the our last talk on tuberculosis. What
troit Jewish Chronicle, Dr. Arthur and president of its first section of family residence on Boston boule- does it mean? Briefly, we may say
Feldman of Budapest, Hungary. An philology, from which office he re- vard. There were 62 guests. Among that immunity is a name for the for-
eminent scholar and student of pro. signed when he saw the violent anti- those in attendance from out of town tifications of the betty against the on-
gressive Judaism, Dr. Feldman is Semitism pervaded those sacred, time- were Congressman Clarence J. Mc- slaught of disease. The blood, be-
splendidly equipped to discuss mat- honored halls of knowledge. Many Leod and wife of Washington, D. C.; sides carrying heat and nutriment to
tern of interest to world Jewry. His times he was the representative of the Isador Brody of Toronto and Ben the various organs, also carries sub-
first article, a tribute to Professor Hungarian government and Academy Luxemberg, also of Toronto. Dinner stances, manufactured by our bodies,
(gnats Goldziher, world - renowned of Scientific Congresses. He was a was served at midnight.
which act as antidotes to the toxins
scholar, will be read with interest.) honorary doctor of the Cambridge
(poisons) of certain disease germs.
(England) and Aberdeen (Scotland)
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Snider of
In the final analysis the degree of
Professor Ignatz Goldziher died of universities and member of the Ca
Professor
lrf , Glynn • t entertained at
immunity is determined by the vital-
Nov. 12, 1921, after three hagen Academies of Sciences, and of delightful family gathering New ity of energy surplus of the body.
days' illness. in his seventy-first year. numerous other scientific institutions.1 Year's day, commemorating their People who are weak, run-down, or
In the whole of the civilized world, At the eighth international Oriental i wedding anniversary.
debilitated, people who are over-
in all places where the lamp of knowl- Congress, held at Stockholm, in 1899,
worked and underfed, and ptsiple who
edge burns, in the calm study of the there was conferred on him the gold
Miss Sarah Gilbert was hostess at are always tired, "have no pep," and
lonely savant as well as in the large grand prize. In the year 1904 he was a New Year's eve party at her home, lack interest in life are easy prey to
centers of science, in the far-remote the Hungarian representative among . honoring Miss Harriet Barnett of common colds, tuberculosis, and other
Mohammedan halls of learning, as the 60 world-renowned scholars invit- Canada. The guests numbered 45.
diseases. It is a point of common ob-
well as in the academics of Jewish ed by the board of directors of the St.
servation that some people will go
lore, wherever the nod tidings of Louis world exhibition. His books,
The Misses Mollie 0. Price and through life without any sickness of
Goldziher'm death are heard, there is written in Hungarian and German, Esther B. Friedman of 565 Belmont serious nature, while others will suc-
deep, sincere mourning for the great were translated into French, Eng- avenue have returned from Saginaw cumb to every malady known.
scholar, whose splendid and brilliant lish, Russian, Servian, Swedish and after spending a pleasant week with
The moral is: If you want to keep
fame illumined the sky of the last Arabic. He contributed essays and the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. well, keep fit. For nine-tenths of our
five decades of Semitic philology and articles to 61 periodicals and 30 en- S. Price.
physical ailments we can blame no one
Mohammedan theology. Goldziher cyclopedias, lexicons, festive publica-
but ourselves; that is to say, nine-
was a master-mind, the highest ideal tions, published in Ilebrew, English,
Mrs. J. Goldberg of 286 Medbury tenths of our sicknesses are prevent-
of a scholar. In his early youth he German, French, Hungarian and avenue has as her guests Mr. and able, provided one has the necessary
chose his field of activity which he Arab, all over the world. He had an Mrs. Benjamin Goldberg of Chicago. means of self-defense.
tilled until hie death with clear-head- extensive acquaintance in all parts of
Keep lit! A simple phrase, but it
ed, systematic persistence and with the world and entertained a keen sci-
Mrs. Esther-A. Simons and little means a lot. To keep the body fit,
fundamental results. To his search- entific correspondence with almost all daughter have returned from Toledo, one must first of all keep the mind
ing, all-pervading eyes, there was no his colleagues in foreign lands. Every where they visited Mrs. Simons' fit, because it is the mind that rules
dark point in the vast sphere of the great question in the realm of Semitic brother.
the body. One who is not satisfied
Arab and Jewish culture. Reared up philology and Mohammedan theology
with his daily occupation, one whose
and educated in the spirit of the was brought to him for solution. Even
Mr. and Mrs. A. Levy of 8311 mind is always a hornet's nest of con-
Biblical and Talmudic disciplines, he the highest Mohammedan authorities Byron have just returned from a visit flicting ideas and desires can not pos-
applied
to
him
for
decision.
His
fathomed their very depths and ap-
with their son, Jule Levy of Port sibly keep fit. So, for the welfare of
plied their aspects and categories to judgment in an intricate question was Huron, Mich.
our bodies as well as of our souls, we
the Arabic science. This reciproca- received like a revelation.
must try to find work that we like.
tion made his investigations and
Dr. and Mrs. David Weingarden We must work out a philosophy that
An Entertaining Writer.
studies inestimable and unsurpassed
have returned to the city after an suits our circumstances and our abil-
Goldziher was not a tedious scholar. extended visit to Monroe, La.
both in the Arab and in the Jewish
ities, thus eliminating conflicts from
All his books and articles, even the
literature.
the mind, and securing the first es,
philologic ones, are written in an at-
Authority in Theology.
Miss Mildred Bachrach of Hague gentle' to good health, content of soul.
tractive, ingenious and witty style.
The rule works also the other way.
Goldziher's superiority lies in the One reads them like novels. He was avenue was hostess at a New Year's
domain of Mohammedan theology. Ile also a fine lecturer, full of life, fire party given by the Sigma Phi Gamma To keep well in mind one must keep
well
in bdoy. The action is reciprocal.
Sorority
on
Sunday
evening,
Jan.
11.
was the greatest, world-renowned ex- and vigor. The students could listen
pert in the Arab Chadith literature. to his lectures on the most abstract Charles Briskman rendered several Exercise of some kind is the sine qua
non
of
good health. Long daily walks
vocal
selections,
accompanied
by
Miss
Chadith is the Mohammedan Talmud. topics for hours without the slightest
Bernice Cohen at the piano. A buffet cohstitute a form of exercise available
In this gigantic science he had a lassitude.
to
all.
Proper
food, sufficient rest,
luncheon
was
served
to
20
guests.
marvelous learning and was not to
In his private intercourse he was
sleep, and play are necessary to one
be equaled. As the student of the obliging, affable, courteous and re-
who
wants
to
keep
fit.
Mrs. II. I. Wine of Josephine ave-
Talmud studies the works of Lacha- ceived all men with a cheerful coun-
Overeating is as bad as not eating
vies Frankel and Wilhelm Becher, so tenance. His house was a meeting nue was hostess at a dinner party on
enough.
Putting
too
much food into
everyone who seeks to become con- house for the wise of all nations. From Sunday, Jan. 1, given in honor of
versant with the Chadith applies to near and far many came to see him. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Blumberg of the body is like gorging a furnace
with
an
overload
of
coal
while all the
the books of Professor Goldziher. The No scholar or friend of science passed New York City. Mr. and Mrs. II. A.
Arab theological literature embraces Budapest without paying him a visit Benderoff of Cleveland were among drafts are shut down. The man who
stuffs himself with a late evening
all momenta and relations of life. in his unassuming home on an out-of- the out-of-town guests.
meal and follows that with a dozen
There is something of every depart- the-way street. It was pleasant to
Alvin D. Hersch spent last week in cigarettes knows very well the effects
ment of science in it. Archaeology, see his lovable, nimble, erect figure
of
overeating. The man who sits in
Chicago,
where
he
attended
the
bien-
folk-lore, geography and the history in his study full of books, sitting at
of civilization can gain from it. Only his long writing table, always covered nial convention of the Delta Theta his office all day, never stirs without
his
machine, is afraid of a draft of
Phi
Fraternity.
On
Dec.
18,
at
the
the phenomenal adroitness and skill with big volumes and a large number
of Goldziher could find out the use- of new books sent him from all cor- Masonic Temple, Alvin D. Hersch de- fresh air, and reads the evening pa-
per
at
the supper table knows the evil
livered
an
address
before
the
Ashlar
ful fruit from among the weeds of ners of the world. With his students
Oriental words, sayings, phrases and he was intimate friends, often receiv- Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 91, on the effects of lack of exercise.
Imperfect
mental adjustment, dis-
subject
of
"King
Solomon,
a
Man
for
modes of expression. What his great ing and entertaining them in his
sipation, lack of exercise and fresh
knowledge and his natural logic found home, and visiting them in their lodg- the Ages."
air,
and
a
faulty
diet are major fac-
valuable and precious in the vast ings. He had a quick repartee, very
Returning from a visit to New tors in production of disease condi-
range of Arab literature he pub- fond of good anecdotes which he re-
tions.
It
will
help
us to keep well if
lished in many standard books and lated in a delicious manner, and was York is Samuel Lehrman of Fourth
in hundreds of essays and articles always bubbling over with wit. Hun- avenue. Through the efforts of the we realize that our common sense was
given
to
us
as
a
guardian of our
which enriched the history of poli- dreds of his witty sayings became fa- Misses Rose Meisel, Lena Meisel and
tics, languages, geography and science miliar quotations. 'tie applied old Tillie Cohen, a welcome reception health and that if disease enters the
door,
the
sentry
was
negligent in his
of law. Without his deep Talmudic Hebraic dictions in an ingenious way. was tendered at the home of Miss
duty. Let us resolve to keep healthy
learning he would not have been able
Professor Goldziher was a Jew in Betty Taub, also a farewell at the
and
let
us
make
that
resolution a
to achieve this great work.
the full sense of the word. Until home of Miss Skroderf of Brooklyn.
prime consideration in the conduct of
This wonderful contribution of 1904, when he rose to the full pro-
Miss Pauline Lichtenstein of New our daily life. Let us learn something
Goldziher to the Arab and Jewish fessorship, he was secretary to the
sciences is, on the part of Jewry, as Budapest Jewish community and in York City is visiting her sister, Mrs. about oud hotly, its structure, its
it were, payig off an old historical that capacity worked
hard to A. A. Zagal of 151 Ilazelwood ave- mechanism, and the conditions most
favorable for its proper functioning;
debt. For 400 years, from the eighth strengthen Judaism and to glorify it. nue.
know at least as much about your
until the twelfth century, the Arab He was a God-fearing, pious Jew, of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Klein of 1410 Col- body as you do about your automo-
culture fructified the Jewish culture deep religious inwardness and with a
in Babylon, South Africa and Spain. great love of the Torah. During his lingwood avenue have returned from bile, and above all, let us use common
The Jewish people, through Goldzi- life he always began his daily labors Chicago, where they spent two weeks sense in the application and control
of our bunion energies.
her, gives ample payment. Once, un- at 6 o'clock in the morning, by read- with Mr. and Mrs. S. Litman.
der the influence of the old Arab ing a few chapters from the Bible and
Mrs. I. Schaffer and grand-daugh-
philological schools, there began and a portion of the Talmud and Midrash,
flourished the scientific research of and in the same way he finished the ter, Eleanore Schaffer, of Chicago
Hebrew, with the investigation of day at 2 o'clock in the morning. His are visiting at the home of Mr. and
Laadje, Chayug, Abulvalid and oth- strong constitution wanted only a Mrs. D. M. Sidder.
The Kadimah Girls announce that
ers. And now, after a millenium, three-hour rest. Ile kept the Sab-
the date of their dance has been post-
George Harris and son, Harold, of
there dived a Jewish scholar into the bath and Holy Days rigorously. On
poned from Jan. 15 to Jan. 29 and
very mysteries of the Arab language. those days he sat in his study clad 2226 Hazelwood avenue spent the will be held in the B'nai B'rith club-
holiday season with relatives in Cin- rooms, 13119 Broadway, instead of
Goldziher was an acknowledged mas- in festive garments.
cinnati.
He
was
a
progressive
liberal
Jew
ter of Arab philology. None, as he,
the Temple Beth El. Tickets can be
could expound difficult, obstrusive, and had a great esteem for American
secured from the members or at the
Miss Evelyn Siegel and Miss Ann door. Extensive plans are being made
antique Arab texts, fathom their liberal Judaism. He often related how
meaning and make them adaptable he celebrated the Day of Atonement Greenberg spent a few days at the by the committee in charge.
home
of
Miss
Rose
Isenberg
of
Pon-
for scientific purposes. With un- at the St. Louis Reform synagogue.
Refreshments and dancing follow-
paralleled assiduity and philologic Ile saw in no other-Jewish temple tiac, Mich.
ed the delightful program which was
geniality he revivified the three-let- such a deep devoutness, he often re-
arranged by the entertainment com-
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Rothman of
tered Arab roots and they revealed marked. lie read from beginning to
mittee at the open meeting on Thurs-
to him wondrous things of an impor- end the year books issued by the Cen- Royal Oak are leaving Sunday for day evening, Jan. 5.
tant epoch of culture not yet suffi- tral Conference of American Rabbis. California to spend the remainder of '
Miss Pearl Kline entertained the
ciently cleared up. Goldziher was About a year ago I found him in his the winter.
Art Clam at her home on Owen ave-
particularly successful in elucidating study reading with eagerness Rabbi
nue last Sunday.
A card party and luncheon were
from the poetic relics the spiritual life Leo M. Franklin's presidential mes-
of the heathen Arabs, and in throw- sage deliverisl at the 1918 annual, given by Sirs. Harry Cohen of Marl
ing light on and listening to the ger- convention of the Central Conference, borough avenue on Jan. 1.
mination and primitive beginnings of of American Rabbis. Ile called it an
Sirs. S. L. Trigg of 2305 Gladstone
earnest, noble work, and said that pro-
their religious notions.
gressive Judaism is a serious, holy avenue entertained 17 guests Thurs-
Interest in Religion.
day, Dec. 29, in honor of her niece,
thing with the American Jews.
Goldziher occupied himself very
Miss Evelyn Kosloff of Flint, Mich.,
Defies Illness in Studies.
much with the religious problems of
who has spent her vacation here.
The sad, regrettable events occuring
Judaism. Influenced by Abraham
Zieger he was a liberal divine and in Hungary i the last thnree years
and
an
additional
family
calamity
interpreted Judaism in a progressive
liberal vein in his lectures delivered kept him down. The tall, upright fig-
on the growth of the religious idea in ure became frail and broken. It was
Judaism to the students of the Buda- heartrending to see the beloved,
pest Rabbinical Seminary during 20 adored teacher pining away and draw-
Sir. and Mrs. Hyman Jacobson o
years. His favorite author was Boeh- ing to his end. Infirm and sick, he 908 King avenue announce the en-
m ['elude, the famous epokesman pursued his studies incessently and gagement of their sister, Miss Ida
of religious inwardness, who declared held his lectures. Teaching and Jacobson, to harry Pittleman of Mil
the love of God as the fundamental learning were the two elements of his waukee, Wis.
idea of Judaism, and placed the du- whole life. Four weeks preceding
ties of the heart higher than the his death he delivered his lectures at
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Applebuam of
ritual externalities of religion. On his study, for he was too weak to go 233 Farnsworth avenue announce
his instigation, Dr. Yahuda, profes- to the university and rabbinical sem- the engagement of their daughter,
sor of Semitic philology at the Ma- inary. Wednesday, Nov. 9, he lec- Ida, to Jerry M. Goodman of Muske-
drid University, edited the original tured for two full hours, against the gon, Mich. The wedding will take
Arab text of Bachja's famous work, wish of his physician. This totally place early in February.
"The Duties of the Heart." The data undermined his diseased, enfeebled
which he found in hundreds of Arab condition. Immediately after the lec-
Mrs. T. Friedman of Joseph Cam-
books related to Judaism and Jews, he ture he took to his bed which proved pau avenue announces the engage-
carefully collected and published his death-bed. He developed pneu- ment of her daughter, Betty, to Mor-
throughout the long period in the monia. The tender nursing of his be- rey Willman of Buffalo, N. Y., for-
French Revue des Etudes Juives, un- loved wife and only son could not merly of Detroit, Sunday, Dec. 25. A
der the title "Milanges Judea- save him. On Saturday, Nov. 12, at reception followed.
Arabes." Be started his career with 10 o'clock in the evening, he breathed
an inaugural dissertation entitled his last. According to his last will
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gitlin of 552
"Studies on Tanchum, Jeruschalmi the traditional Tahorah (ritual wash- Medbury avenue announce the en-
118701," chosen from the Jewish lit- ing of the dead) was performed. His gagement of their daughter, Eva, to
erature, and at the zenith of his fame disciples, friends and all rabbis of Louis Greenblatt, son of Mr. and Mrs.
and glory he edited the most interest- Budapest wrapped him in the Tslith Robert Greenblatt of this city.
ing psychological and ethical work of he wore on his confirmation day, put
a medieval anonymous Jewish-Arab him in a simple, wooden coffin and
Mrs. Max Wolff of 2470 Clairmont
scholar. Every line written, every laid an open Bible in his hands, his
avenue announces the engagement of
word spoken and every deed done for right great finger pointing at the her
daughter, Rhea Wolff, to Meyer
Judaism teaches us his great lesson— fourth verse of Psalm XXIII:
Steinman of Toledo, Ohio.
Jews were always a civilized nation, "Though I walk through the valley of
at all times of history, it fought for the shadow of death, I will fear no
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Maxman of
the high ideals of mankind. Without evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod
992 Brady street announce the en-
giving up its peculiarity and character and Thy staff, they comfort me."
gagement
of their daughter, Ida, to
his
daily
prayer
for
it received and absorbed much from Psalm XXIII Was
the spiritual and intellectual store- 55 years. it wan a touching scene Nat Bloom of this city.
when the Bible dropped from the life-
house of various nations.
less hands of the man who, during a
PI GAMMA SORORITY
Became Ph. D. at 20.
life devoted to science, turned thou-
Plans for an annual dance, to be
The importance of Goldziher in sands of books in his hands. The fu-
the service of the Mohammedan the- neral took place Tuesday, Nov. 15, given at the Tree Studios Sunday eve-
ology and Semitic philology was fully from the Column hall of the palace ning, Jan. 29, are now being under-
recognized at home and abroad. At of the Hungarian Academy of Sci- taken by the Pi Gamma Sorority.
the age of 20 he became doctor of ence, a great distinction in Hungary.
This will be the sorority's fourth
His activity during his whole life annual affair, and it is being looked
philosophy at the Leipsic University.
With the scholarships he got from the was: Abodah, • service of God and forward to with considerable interest
Hungarian government, he traveled humanity; his personality: Kidush by the younger set acquainted with
through Palestine, Syria, Egypt and ha'shem, a sanctification of God, the the sorority.
Arabia. Ile spent one year at Al- embodiment of the highest ideals of
Those in charge are:
Miss Rose
Asher in Alexandria, the highest the Jewish ethical law, He inscribed Klein, 304 Owen avenue, ticket com-
school fo Mohammed theology. Ile his immortal name with unperishable mittee, and the Misses Ethel Stein-
was the first Jew in Hungary who was golden letters in the annals of Jew- born and Frances Pleasant, 3941
promoted to a professorship in 1894, fsh history.
Brush street, publicity committee.
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