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they must not be blamed for such characteristics.
Dislike of the Jew, or anti-Semitism, is one of these preju-
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The Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subjects of interest to reasons, we set about finding the most far-fetched justifications
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view expressed by the writers.
Now it does not matter, or it matters little, when you praise
undeservedly, because you happen to like him. But it
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a serious immorality to slander someone because you dislike
him.
During the absence from the city of our regular editorial contributor,
So that, if you should happen to dislike a nation, the most
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, he will be responsible only for such occasional
you have a right to say is: "I dislike that nation." Even that is
articles in this column as beer his signature.
wrong. But it is infinitely more wrong to let your dislike lead
you into all sorts of extravagant and unprovable accusations.
The second immoral way in which anti-Semitism finds
The Six Greatest Jews.
vent—and this is more vicious than the first, and bound up with
In last month's American Magazine there appeared an it—is to attempt to penalize the Jews because they do not ap-
article by Bruce Barton, based on an interview with II. G. peal to one's taste.
Dislike the Jews, if you cannot help it. Say so, if you must.
Wells.
The author of "The Outline of History" was asked who, in But do not advocate measures against them. Do not assert to
his opinion, were the six greatest men in history.
all and sundry that they are an inferior people, or a superior
He picked the following: Jesus, Buddha, Aristotle, Asoka, and cunning people, or a people with this and that unpleasant
Roger Bacon and Abraham Lincoln.
characteristic, and that therefore they must be deprived of this
or that human privilege.
•
• •
For to be obsessed by a prejudice is human and forgivable.
Jews who read the Outline remember the scant considera- But to give vent to that prejudice in ways that will injure others
tion that was given to Moses, and are not surprised at the omis- is criminal.—The Day.
sion of his name from Mr. Wells' hand-picked list.
Should II. G. Wells have included the name of Moses? And
are other Jews entitled likewise to a place in this Hall of Super-
The Basle Program Triumphs.
fame?
Twenty-five years ago, almost to a day, the Basle Program
A list of the six greatest Jews in history may suggest the
Was formulated at the first Zionist Congress ever held. That
answer.
program
has been ratified by the nations of the world. In
Who are your nominations? The present writer compiles
his list with no claim to authoritative judgment. These are, to August, 1897, Dr. Theodor Herzl presided over the Zionist Con-
gress which it had been sought to prevent convening. And at
him, the most appealing, if not the greatest Jews in history.
that gathering, the first Jewish Parliament, there were laid
• • • •
down certain principles which have become historic in their
import. These principles known as the Basle Program are:
We nominate these as the six greatest Jews in history:
"The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a
Abraham.
publicly legally assured home in Palestine.
Moses.
"In order to attain this the Congress adopts the following
Solomon.
means:
Jesus.
"(1) To promote the settlement in Palestine of Jewish ag-
Spinoza.
riculturists, handicraftsmen, industrialists and those following
Herzl.
professions.
• • • •
"(2) The centralization of the entire Jewish people by
means of general institutions, agreeable to the laws of the land.
We nominate Abraham because he founded a great faith;
"(3) To strengthen Jewish sentiments and national self-
because he alone was unblinded by the prevailing idolating of consciousness.
the day ; because he was close to God: and, last but not least,
"(4) To obtain the sanction of governments to the carrying
because he became a father at 100.
out of the objects of Zionism."
A quarter of a century has elapsed before the work of the
• • • •
founders, who laid the corner-stone "truly and well," has been
We nominate Moses because he solved the Jewish problem crowned with success. Our joy is tempered by the sorrow that
of his day ; because he laid down laws that are still obeyed by Herzl, Wolfsohn, Tchlenow, Oscar Marmorek, Mandelstamm
millions; because he knew how to tell a story in a few words; and others who stood so steadfastly together in those stormy
and, last but not least, because he achieved fame in spite of days are no longer with us.
Many attempts were made to deny, change and even destroy
halting speech.
the Basle Program, but these efforts failed, because the prin-
• • • •
ciples formulated in 1897 are based upon truth. Ilerzl and his
We nominate Solomon because he proved his wisdom by cohorts and all Zionists, then and always, felt that the position
praying for it; because he conceived great works and made of the Jew in the world must be legalized. At the annual con-
them real; because he said many worth-while things; because ference of the Federation of English Zionists, of which he is the
he is credited with being the father of Masonry ; and last, but president as well as being presiding officer of the World Zionist
not least, because he married a thousand wives, without domes- Organization, Dr. Weizmann said that the ratification of the
mandate means the adoption of the Basle Program by the na-
tic dissension, so far as we are told.
tions of the world. He spoke truly.
• • • •
Twenty-five years in the history of a people is a very brief
We nominate Jesus because His name is worshipped and period of time indeed, but when a people has suffered as Jews
have
then every day during which the oppression is prolonged
revered by untold millions; because he was a martyr to His
like an age. It has been said that one can become inured to
cause; because he preached a doctrine of humility, and lived is
This is just merely a saying and nothing more. A
it as well; and last, but not least, because He was one of the suffering.
people with a great past, conscious of its contribution to civili-
first pleaders for social justice.
zation and realizing that it has still much to give to mankind
• • • •
does not willingly accept persecution. Such a people may suffer
does not cease to protest against the conditions forced upon
We nomintae Baruch Spinoza because he is regarded by but
it. And so it was but natural that in every age and under all
many as the greatest philosopher of all time; because he in- conditions, even the most adverse, there should arise men and
terpreted Greek culture in the light of Jewish faith ; because he women who, holding aloft the Banner of the Jew, called upon
faced scorn and violence for the things he held dear; and last, their people to reshape its corporate life and thus compel the
but not least, because he showed all Jews the way to tolerance. nations to place a different and a higher value upon the life of
the Jew.
• • • •
It is because of this insistence that the Basle Program has
We nominate Theodor Herzl because he was the founder now been affirmed as the inherent Declaration of Rights of the
of modern Zionism; because his great passion was for his peo- Jewish people.
ple; because he used his potent pen to tell an old message in a
After this is it necessary for us to tell conscious, living, pul-
new way; because he reawakened a Jewish consciousness in the sating Jews what their duty is? The path is opened. Of course
hearts of thousands; and, last, but not least, because he dis- much clearing has yet to be done. And the clearing of the ob-
dained to commercialize his ideals and his popularity.
structions on the road can only be the work of Jews them-
selves.
• • • •
The regeneration of the Jewish people is the task of the
Of these six great men all Jews may well be proud.
whole people. The Jewish people are now to be tested. Up to
M. M. A. yesterday it was a dream. It may still be a dream, a pleasant
fairy tale. "But if you will it, it will be no fairy tale," Herzl
said.—The Jewish Daily News.
•
Anti-Semitism, Common Sense and Justice.
When a man says: "I dislike the English," or "I dislike the
French," or, "I dislike the Germans," he is saying something
which is ridiculous in the first place, and next to meaningless
in the second.
For there is no such thing as disliking a whole nation. You
may dislike some of the most of its institutions; you may fight
against its army. But when you say "I dislike that nation"
you are saying something incomprehensible.
For a nation is composed of millions of individuals. Within
those millions there is infinite variety. And unless you have met
every member of that nation, and taken a dislike to him or her,
it is ridiculous to say: "I hate that nation."
It is ridiculous, but not immoral. It is a human weakness
which you ought to combat, but for which you may not be re-
sponsible. It is a prejudice, and a prejudice is something with-
out logic, something that you can seldom control.
What is the explanation of such a prejudice? Why do peo-
ple make that statement: "I hate this and that nation or peo-
ple?"
There are numerous explanations. Perhaps that individual
happened to run up against some bad specimens of that nation.
Perhaps he happened to have an unfortunate experience with
some of them. They say that Ford became an anti-Semite be-
cause he believes that Jews fooled him on his famous peace
trip. But it is clear that to hate a people because of an incident
in which a few of its members were Involved is ridiculous.
Or perhaps the dislike is an artificially instilled one. Per-
haps the person in question has heard repeated so often: "This
nation is a nation of thieves." "That nation is a nation of nig-
gards," that the mere repitition of the senseless remark took
effect:—just as repitition in advertising takes effect without
proof.
Or perhaps the dislike is quite unanalysable, like many of
our human motives.
However that be, such a dislike is human and forgivable.
one's in-
It should be combatted, as a weakness, as a threat to
International Hymn
O'er continent and ocean,
From city, field and wood,
Still speak, 0 Lord, thy messengers
Of peace and brotherhood.
In Athens and Benares,
In Rome and Galilee,
They fronted kings and conquerers,
And taught mankind of thee.
We hear, 0 Lord, these voices,
And hail them as thine own,
They speak as speak the seraphim
Who guard thy silent throne—
One God, the heavenly Father;
One king, the Lord above;
One Kingdom and Humanity;
One holy Law of Love!
The tribes and nations falter
In rivalries of fear,
The fires of hate to ashes turn,
To dust, the sword and spear.
Thy word alone remaineth;
That word we speak again;
O'er sea and shore and continent,
To all the sons of men.
JOHN HAYNES HOLMES.
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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
At about the same time that the
news of the ratification of the Pales-
tine mandate was flashed througout
images. One day he is •nt out and let the world, we learned of the murder
his son Abraham in the studio. A cus of Djemal Pasha, former Turkish Na-
loner came and asked for an image val minister and governor of Palestine
selecting one which had just been con: during the war. It is a remarkable
co-incidence that the very moment
pleted.
"How old art thou?" asked Abra that marks the realization of a Jewish
ham. "Sixty years," was the reply two-thousand-year-old dream should
"And a man of sixty will worship a also mark the end of one of the worst
god scarcely one (lay old!" The mat oppressors of our people in Palestine.
During the war, Djemal tortured
left covered with shame.
Another day a woman brought at many Jews in Jerusalem and other
offering of flour for the idols. Abra cities in the Holy Land. The mere
ham received it, and when she has suspicion of a Jewish resident's sym-
gone took up a hammer and destroyei pathy with the Zionist movement was
them all except one, in whose hand h enough to jail him. Under his regime
Miss Aaronson, the sister of the fam-
put the hammer. When the fathe
came home and found all his idol ous agriculturist of l'alestine and of
broken to pieces he became very angry Capt. Aaronson, was tortured to death
and demanded to know who had des in a Turkish dungeon for refusing to
troyed the images. "No one," replied divulge secrets of the Allied armies.
Abraham. "A woman brought a !ilea
From Liberal to Tyrant.
offering, and when I handed it to th
idols they began to quarrel and die
Djemal Pasha was a liberal before
pute as to who should have the firs the war, but with the outbreak of the
portion. The largest, however, then world conflict, he turned into a tyrant
grew passionate. He took the hamme
and enemy of everything that was for-
and demolished all the rest."
eign to Turkey. Before the British
"My son," said Abraham's father occupation of Palestine, he initiated a
"thou art jesting with nie; are inani pogrom policy against the Jews of
mate stones able to commit such Palestine. He threatened to wipe out
acts?"
every trace of Jewish life and to de-
"Well," said Abraham, "may thine stroy the Jewish colonies that were
ears harken to what thy mouth the result of 40 years of Jewish effort
speaks."
and sacrifice. With the British occu-
The father, who well perceived that pation of Palestine, Bjenial's activi-
Abraham's life would be in danger if ties against the .lews came to an end,
his attack on the idols were known, and the tyrant turned his attention to
nevertheless took him before Nimrod, the Armenians. "Sof Ganev Litliyo,"
the mighty ruler of the land.
(a thief's end is on the gallows) runs
When the king heard the accusation a Hebrew saying, and Djemal got his
he said to Abraham: "Thou despisest due two weeks ago. The two Armen-
my idols; well, then let us worship the ians who murdered him were caught,
fire."
but they were successful in wreaking
"Why not rather the water which their revenge on an enemy of their
extinguishes the tire?" asked Abra- people. Our own people is also aveng-
ham.
ed and the Orient sees the end of a
"Well, then, we will worship the terrible tyrant.
water."
"But why not rather the clouds
Barber Shop Gossip.
which bear the water?"
The barber shop is to the man what
"Well, we will worship the clouds."
"But why not rather," Abraham the grocery and hutcher stores are to
persisted, "the wind which disperses the women. It is their place for gos-
sip. There we discussed the Leonard-
the clouds?"
"Well, then, let us worship the Tendler bout on the day of the big
fight in Jersey City, until the main is-
wind."
"But why not rather man, who un- sue of the argument turned to a dis-
derstands how to shelter himself from cussion of proverbial prowess and
fearlessness of the expressman and
the wind?"
At last Nimrod lost patience, and he the butcher of the Lithuanian and
ordered Abraham to be thrown into a Russian Jewish village and town. Our
Jewish barber told the story of Gedal-
fiery furnace.
But the flames did not touch him, ya, the butcher of his own home town
and he emerged unscathed. This won in Russia, about whose strength stor-
him many followers, and thereafter k's without number were told and re-
the cause of the God of Heaven and told by the Moujhiks (peasants) of a
dozen counties. There was not a more
Earth was firmly established.
feared man in that part of the land.
M
Dear Boys and Girls:
Beginning with this issue of The
Detroit Jewish Chronicle, the complex.
ion of this column will be somewhat
different from what it was. Appear-
ing under a different title, we want
the column to become what it ought to
be by right. We are anxious to have
this column become your column in
every sense of the word, and, for this
reason, we urge the readers of the
"Children's Corner," as the column
will be known from now on, to make
contributions of a Jewish nature to it.
Poems, essays and short stories of
worth, having Jewish angles to them,
will be accepted for publication.
The reason for the change of the na-
ture of this department of our paper
is that we feel that there are hundreds
of our young readers who are capable
of producing something of their own
of a literary character and we owe it
to them to supply a means for them
of making use of their talents. At
the same time, we believe that the
Jewish youth ought to have the means
of expressing an opinion on matters
Jewish which affect them. We refer
particularly to the problems of educa-
tion, the Hebrew and Sabbath school,
and we believe that when the opinions
of the boys and the girls are read,
their elders will he able to act more
wisely in supplying those needs.
Every boy and girl reader of this
column is, therefore, encouraged to
write an occasional contribution to
the editor of this column. Give him
your opinions and tell him of your ex-
periences. Your voice will find a
place in this column.
The editor of this corner hopes, with
your aid. to make this department the
mouthpiece of the Jewish youth of
your city.
TILE EDITOR.
Jewish History.
S. M. Dubnow is the greatest living
Jewish historian. This "History of the
Jews in Russia and Poland" has been
translated into many languages, in-
cluding the English language. It is
interesting to read Mr. Dubnow's
opinion on the duties of the Jews to
their people as dictated to them by
their great history. Says Mr. Dub-
now:
Jewish history arouses in the Jew
the desire to work unceasingly at the
task of perfecting himself. To direct
his attention to his glorious past, to
the resplendent intellectual feats of
his ancestors, to their masterly skill
in thinking and suffering, does not
lull him to sleep, does not awaken a
dullard's complacency or hollow self-
conceit. Jewish history admonishes
the Jews: Noblesse oblige. The priv-
ilege of belonging to a people to
whom the honorable title of the "vet-
eran of history" has been conceded,
puts serious responsibilities on your
shoulder. You must demonstrate that
you are worthy of your heroic past.
The descendants of teachers of relig-
ion and martyrs of the faith dare not
to he insignificant, not to say wicked.
If the long centuries of wandering and
misery have inoculated you with faults
extirpate them in the name of the ex-
alted moral ideals whose bearers you
were commissioned to be. If, in the
course of time, elements out of har-
mony with your essential being have
fastened upon your mind, cast them
out, purify yourselves. In all places
and at all times, in joy and in sorrow,
you must aim to live for the higher,
the spiritual interests. But never
may you deem yourselves perfect. If
you become faithless to these sacred
principles, you sever the bonds that
unite you with the vital elements of
your past, with the first cause of your
national existence.
The Right Arm.
The Persian poet Sadi relates that
the famous King Jamshyd was the
first to introduce the wearing of rings
on the finger. He said that the rings
and other ornaments should be worn
on the left arm.
"Why only the left," the people ask-
ed him, "and not on the right?"
"The right arm has ornament
enough," he replied, "simply in being
right."
Abraham and the Idols.
Abraham's father, according to
tradition, was a maker of graven
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Yiddish Proverbs.
Obtain advice from another, but
keep your own counsel.
A hole makes a thief, and a thief
makes a hole.
When fortune conies offer it a chair.
The Shammas knows the whole
town.
Better a fool that has traveled than
a wise man who has remained at
home.
JACOB MOSES EDITOR
OF NEW PEN MAGAZINE
Perhaps it is a coincidence and per-
haps it isn't, but his name is Moses,
and he leads his followers t othe prom-
ised land of literary success, through
the medium of the New Pen, a month
ly magazine with its office a 216 East
14th st., New York, and "devoted to
the publishing of new writers' work
and criticism of it.' The magazine
owes its existence to Jacob Moses, a
literary aspirant from he New York
East Side, who has realized what han-
dicaps are put in the way of tyro-writ-
ers and has conceived this idea of
helping them on the road to achieve-
ment.
Not only does the New Pen print
the works of young authors but, what
is more important, each issue contains
a competent, constructive criticism of
the stories and poems published in the
preceding number. Edwin Harris is
the fiction and drama critic, while El-
bert Aidline-Trommer, the well known
poe atnd journalist, conducts a review
of the New I'en verse. Recently no
less a personage than Morris Rosen-
feld, the veteran Jewish poet, poined
the editorial staff of the New Pen, and
its last issue contains an English
poem from his pen, intended as an en-
couragement to his young colleagues.
WOODYARD AVENUE
Power Under Control.
Gedalya had occasion to show his
power when his little girl rubbed
against a moujhik's load of hay. In
his rage, the butcher turned over the
load of hay, wagon, horses and all,
then tore the whip from the peasant's
hand. But the giant butcher knew
enough to control himself. Ile knew
that a Jew must not hurt a non-Jew,
no matter how much in the right he
and how huch in the wrong the Gen-
tile. He was in dark Russia and
there the Jew was always in the
wrong. Furthermore, he knew that
once he lay his hands on the moujhik,
the latter won't conic out entirely safe.
So, in his rage, he began to chew on
the whip to appease his anger. Those
who saw him at the time had revealed
to them a great power under self-con.
trol.
A Strike—to Kill the Jews.
Our barber continued his narrative
by relating how a neighboring peasant
once told him that there was going to
be a "zabastovka"—a strike. Asked
what a strike was, the moujhik ex-
plained that as soon as the sign "Zab-
astovka" was given, all the peasants
would proceed to the market-place and
kill all the Jews. Sure enough, some
one gave the sign, and close to a hun-
dred peasants proceeded to the market
place. They found only one Jew there,
Gedalya the butcher, and his only wea-
pon was the thill of a wagon. In five
minutes, the "strike" was over.
Jewish Self-Defense.
These incidents are interesting at
this time, when hundreds of Jewish
young men and occasionally also Jew-
A ) ere
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