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David Frischman: The Secret
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of His Scoffing
The History of a Tragic Family.
By PROF. HENRY GLICENSTEIN
(Copyrighted, 1922, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)
and Frischmann, did he not write in
Ilebrew—and he is not counted among
the creators of modern Hebrew cul-
ture!
Hungry, embittered and broken,
they have done their work, and now
they are gone. Discontented and un-
satisfied--one in Jerusalem, the other
in Berlin.
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MAGISTRATE DEFENDS
AND FREES "LONE JEW"
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NEW YORK.— (J. C. B.)—Magis-
trate Louis II. Reynolds in Brooklyn
suspended sentence upon four Jewish
business men accused of keeping t en.
places open on Sunday.
In deciding the case of Benjamin
Kaplan, a grocer of 214 Utica avenue,
the magistrate said
"Visit Sutter aenue on a Sunday
night and you will see everything wide
open. Certainly all the stores and, if
I remember correctly, even some of
the banks. Until some method is tak -
en of enforcing the law in a commun -
ity which the people make no attempt
to conceal their brazen disregard o f
this law, I do not believe that it is just
to pick out the lone Jew and make him
pay the penalty while countless other
continue their ways undisturbed."
Manufactured and Remodeled
For the series of six concerts which
It was about 35 years ago, in the me, had been when he had lost himself it to be presented this season at Or-
spring of 1807, that I became acquain- with me in memories of his childhood. chestra Hall by Detroit Concert Di-
ted, then a lad of seventeen, with the A broken man, he went about all rection, Isobel J. llurst, manager, the
family of Hirszenberg in 'AXIL In his life, discontented, never satisfied. greatest artist available have been se-
two damp, cellar-like rooms, they were And about his writings, too, he felt
cured. The list will include Giovanni
living with twelve children, the young- this constant dissatisfaction. It was
est a babe still at the breast, the old- not the thing he had wanted to write, Martinelli, the famous Metropolitan
er occupied with their school lessons, he would complain, that he had writ- tenor, who opens the course on Oct.,
the still older ones seated at the mach- ten, but those he had had to write- 7. Martinelli will have with him as JEWS IN CUNARD CARE
ine staring vacantly into the distance, and he used to dream of the works assisting artist a young contralto,
ARE PROPERLY HOUSE D
Marian Telva, whose voice has been
an if afraid of something. The moth- which he would one day still write.
Jewish immigrants who travel vi
er, a beautiful woman, still wore beau-
Ile is dead. Since I-last saw him, pronounced phenominal.
the Cunard Line from Russia, Poland
tiful clothes, but they were devoid of he had been in Moscow, in Odessa and
The great dramatic soprano, Rosa
jewels. It was apparent that she had in Ilerlin. Everywhere he suffered, Ponselle, will give the second concert Roumania and Hungary and who hay
on
Oct.
31.
Ponsello
made
her
oper-
to
stop over at Southampton a. fe .
seen better times. A heavy cloud had everywhere there was added to the
passed over the house and the gloom great store of his affliction, the foun- stir debut at the Metropolitan singing days while waiting for the "lleren ,
opposite
Caruso,
and
since
that
area-
gays,""Aquitania"
or "Mauretania l
had settled into every corner of it.
stations of which had been laid many
on has been considered the leading to sail for New York, are carefull
And yet amidst it all, I felt myself years before, when the joy had de- m
dramatic soprano among present day and comfortably housed by the Conan 1
, Line at its Atlantic Park Hotel, a t
in the presence of something great parted from his family, and Ilirszen-
and noble. For the walls of the berg, and he had had to go on for the singers.
, Eastleigh, a suburb of Southhamp -
14th Floor
gloomy rooms were covered with pile- rest of their lives hungering and suf-
Mischa Elman returns to Detroit ton.
tures—the first time that I had seen . tering—and at home in the two damp after a two year world tour on Nov.1 There is a kosher kitchen, a Jewis s
pictures hung openly on a wall, and it cellar-like rooms they were dreaming 0. Mirovitch, a noted Russian pianist, cook, and a large dining hall and th e
was with glowing pride that I was of the stir that would one day he made and Nina Tarasova, an unique inter-' transmigrants are awaited upon b
refer of Russian folksongs will be special attendants. The food supplie
told by the two oldest children there in the world by the works of Ilirzen-
e
heard in joint recital on Nov. 27. An-
Leon, half-painter, half-weaver, and berg and Frischman.
ra
.
prepared of and
arranged
under wh
t o
Hinds-Gitele, half-child, half-house-
Mr.
P. Weitzman,
supervision
Hirszenberg died in Jerusalem, at other event that is arousing much in- are
k
of
a
keeper, that this was the woe
t h e 11
eza I
e I
c Sh
oo —
is . gestive
or-
' terest is the apearance of Isadore was recently appointed by the Londo
di
I h
brother,
Samuel academy
Ilirzen- gaps were unable
function any
Duncan Din
with twenty-two
dancer instance
from
'
at of the
at to Mu-
Beth
at the
of Mr. Ot t
still older
the Mosco wballet, which will take M. Schiff and Mr. A. Mundy. A ep ee
berg, who was
longer.
nick and had been previously at Cra.i
And Frsichman died in Berlin, place on January 3rd, and Feedor ial hall is set aside for religious se
k
who is considered the greatest opera- vices. Never does a group of Je w
cow under the great pain ter
without a sound organ left in his body
"Two of our family," they told me,
tic singer. in the world today, will be , leave the hotel without sending a de l
diseases—there was no
"are abroad, Samuel and Duffle- a mass of
heard on January 19. ; utation on behalf of all the Jewis
hope.
A season ticket assures a seat for passengers to express to Mr. Wed.
Dudje is a writer, and he has already
Poor sufferers—broken and embit-
t-
published a book in Hebrew—"
tered, they have gone to their death. all of these remarkable concerts. The man their gratitude for the kind trea n
of Detroit Concert Direction is meat received and their appreciati(
And I, full of dreams of one day be-
office
Neither of them were ever Zionists,
coming an artist, listened with won- yet both rendered services in their at 1052 Book Building, telephone Main of the manner in which they were i
derment, and I did not know then that works to the Zionists among their peo- 6047. Beginning Sept. 18, the box of- friended by those whom he had a
this beautiful girl was to be my wife, ple. Ilirszenberg's paintings have fire at Grinnell Brothers will be open. pointed to look after them. The it
and that I was to become the third of been made use of—without royalties The subscription sale closes on Sept. wants as Jews are always respec ts A
the family trio—Hirszenberg, Frisch- —for Zionist propaganda purposes—
urposes- 30. and strictly catered to.
man, Glicenstein.
Just
after
the
blow
which
was
This
smote the Hirszenberg-Frischman
family. Like a thunderbolt it had
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come over night, and had left desola-
tion. The factory was closed down,
and the partnership of the two cousins
the father of Hirszenberg and the
father of Frischman, was dissolved.
Sullenly, and with resentment in their
hearts, each blamed the other for the
collapse, and so they drifted apart,
the two branches of the family, never
"Good Looks Mean
again to meet.
Good Business"
David Hiretenberg, the father, was
a man of ideas, restless as an artist,
alwaya evolving new machinery, new
designs, and always he found them re-
jected as fantastic and premature.
Afterwards, others took them up and
used them successfully. But Ilirszen-
berg gained nothing by his inventions
his family obtained nothing from their
successes.
In poverty and privation they lived
in the two gloomy cellar-like rooms, on
the wall of which were hung the
paintings of Samuel Hirszenberg, and
the dreamed of the fame that he would
one day attain, he and his cousin Dav-
id Frischman, who was writing books
in Ilebrew.
In poverty and privation, too, were
living Samuel Ilirszenberg and David
is the most
Frischman; hunger and bitterness ate
leasant, profitable and
into their bones and laid the founda-
practical profession on
tion of the complication of diseases
which plagued them all their lives and
earth today for girls or
finally brought them both to their
women who wish to be-
graves.
come independent, either
I saw Samuel Hirszenberg for the
first time the following year, in 181.41,
in business of their own
in the house of his parents. Ile had
or mastering positions that
come home from Munich to spend his
demand real salaries.
vacation there. I saw a slightly built,
This is the largest school
elegant young inan, always with n
quiet tender smile. Ile spoke to me
in the State of Michigan.
of his dreams, and he showed me a
THERE IS A REASON.
photograph of his latest picture, the
Our Diplomas
"Yershiba."
Stand for Efficiency.
I remember his telling me how at
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midday, when hte rest of the students
at the academy went out to lunch, he
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would always stay behind, and go
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round collecting the crusts of bread,
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the soft parts of which had been used
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by the students, for erasing lines in
their charcoal drawings. He would
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then repair to a quiet spot to munch
large
shop
with
we have
them, and return as if he had lunch-
plenty of efficient Para-
ed the finest restaurant in the city.
mount operators, and our
Ile was always neatly dressed, spot-
less in his appearance. He never al-
prices are right.
lowed anyone to know he was star/
ing..
And so all his life long, hunger
gnawed at his vitals—he suffered for
years from malnutrition and it was
chronic disease of the intestines which
eventually killed him in Jerusalem, at
the Herald' Schol of Art, to which he
had gone out as a teacher.
Frischman went through the same
kind of thing, but in his case suffer-
ing made his acid. It was his strug-
gling and privation which la y at the
root of his irony, and despite all his
scoffing and sarcasm, he was full of
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real yearning for love and happiness.
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Woorrooto-6.aneto Woo INIMID
Discontented and suffering, they
passed their lives, both of them, Two
broken men, they went along their
lonely road, Hirszenberg with his
tired smile, Frischman with his sting-
ing jest.
And it was this everlasting hunger,
this constant dissatisfaction with
themselves and with everything
around them that lies at the bottom
of their work.
The two sections of t he family ha d
drifted apart, but thei r longing for
When M Need of
each other never ceased.
In the spring of 1914, not long be-
fore the outbreak of the then still un-
You will save enough to pay your
suspected war, I came hack from
fraternity dues by calling
Rome to .Poland to see my parents .
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Frischmann heard of my coming, and
MONNEN
wrote to me at-Turek, that he wanted
to see me. He came specially to Lodz
from Warsaw.
There was all his unsatisfied long-
ing, all his pent up craving for his
dear ones, for the playmates of his
childhood, for my wife and her broth-
er Samuel Hirszenberg, which pulled
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him to me and made him pour out his
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most intimate thoughts to me. All
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around, people were busy with the
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festival in his honor, and he sat to-
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gether with me, far away fro mit all,
dreaming of other things and other
days, when the family had net yet
been severed and misfortune had not
yet broken about their heads.
Late into the night we used to sit
like that, until suddenly one morning
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That was about the spring of 1914.
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That same year I met Frischman
again. This time it was in Warsaw.
It was winter now, and the Great War
had been going on for an age. I met
him in his sister's house and again we
sat together for days, we two alone.
And then suddenly he disappeared
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