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MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1922

VOL. XII. NO. 18

THE MIRACLE

A Story of the Besh't (Israel Baal Shem-Tob.)

THE YEAR IN RETROSPECT

(Adapted from the Hungarian .)

Oct. 2, 1921, to Sept. 22, 1922.

By DR. CHARLES DUCHINSKY

Section Two

FORGIVEN

A Rosh ha-Shanah Episode

By BERTHA WIERNICK

"You see, sir, you are young, you
We all admired our new servant-
woman, Gittele. Hers was one of do not comprehend; but the Jew who
those faces that become distinctive married Goyed deceived his people
Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, born about Miedzboz, who had just returned from
by the impressive touches of sorrow; and his mother, in the same way a
1700, died May 22, 1760, the great a journey, and on his way stopped be-
By HARRY SCHNEIDERMAN
it showed a depth of endurance. mean man deceives the woman who
holy man, the miracle worker, known fore the house of R. Wolf. "On the
Later we learned that she differed loves him; and as that deceived worn-
Editor,
American
Jewish
Year
Book.
fifth
day
of
Adar
will
be
your
Gitele's
as the "Master of the Good Name" for
in many ways from our former tier- an pines away from yearning for her
wedding
day,"
added
the
Baal-Shem.
eing
foretell
the
future
of
any
hispower to
vant.woman.
What impressed us lover, thus we deserted old mothers
The
Baal-Shem
had
spoken
these
human b, and to shape their des-
mostly was her constant silence. We pine away from yearning for our
(Copyright, 1922, by the Jewish Writers' Guild. All rights reserved.)
tinies by his knowledge how to use the words, and although It. Wolf knew for
often
forgot
she
was with us, for sons who deceive us. Fools that we
certain
that
what
the
great
Rabbi
had
Name of the Most High was settled in
she spoke not one word to anyone are! But that is a woman's way, man
Miedzyboz. Thousands of people said must be true, and what he pre-
in
the
house
for
long hours. To —she yearns and hopes for the im-
dicted
was
sure
to
come,
he
could
not
flocked to him to obtain his advice
when in doubt, consolation when sor- refrain from exclaiming. 'But, Rebbe,
IIRF.E years ago, just after the euphemism for the moral and econom- stades in the path of progress in thi watch her as she moved gently about possible."
direction.
"I'erhaps your son, Gittele, will
the
kitchen,
or
as
she sat near the
how
can
I
get
my
daughter
married
row befell them, healing in sickness,
hurly-burly of the World War, ic annihilation of the Jewish popula-
stove with a bright pun in her lap, come back," Harry said softly.
The Jewish Communists.
in fact every phase of their lives. when I have not a penny in my pos-
the present writer endeavored tion, has been definitely repudiated;
sorting
beans
or
peeling
potatoes,
was
session?
and
it
was
only
about
ten
(lays
ago
"Never, sir, never! I won't have
They were recruited to a great extent
In Russia, we have the curious
to portray in the American Jewish
from the hard-toiling working-class,
"Do not trouble about that," said Year Book the sad and sober pic- that we read of the arrest of that de- spectacle of Jews, or men who recog- a pleasure to the observer. She al- him!" hastily replied Gittele and
from those who were not versed in the the hall-sham, "tomorrow you will ture of the life of the Jewish peo- spicable leader of cut-throats and nize a blood-bond at least with the ways wore a tsipek (crepe cap) on passed her hand over her forehead.
vast "Sea of the Talmud" to find sol- send a messenger to the great town ple in Central Europe, as well as garroters, Lieutenant liejjas. Hun- Jewish people, fighting with all the her small round bead, and her haid 'And he knows it, too. Ile used to
ace in the study of the bulky volumes which lies in the direction you saw the the sad, though less gloomy scenes gary, however, still maintains th e persistence and doggedness of fanat- parted down her high forehead; be- write me every week, but I have
but even great rabbis, more learned falling star, and tell this messenger in the life of our co-religionists in hateful percentage norm for the ad- ics against every effort to conserve neath looked out a pair of large never answered his letters. I read
in law than himself, came to him and to find Gitele's bridegroom. When he Western Europe and America, in mission of Jews to institutions of Judaism—against the observance of brown eyes—one looking in them them every night before I go to bed.
delighted in his sagacity, his know- has found him he should agree to all those dismol days of after-war-strife, higher learning, having reverted in the Sabbath and the festivals, against would feel the warmth of her heart. It's the letters that make me cling
Our youngest brother, Ilarry, who to life,• you know. Ile wrote them
ledge of the human heart and mind. the conditions the bridegroom's par- hatred and terrorism. For, although this respect to the shameful practice the establishmen of Jewish schools
Miedzyboz was only a very small place nets will make, and sign the "Tenaim' the World War had officially ended, of old Russia; and it was chiefly on for the teaching of religion, against was a very inquisitive and bold youth, to me before I tore his image out of
this
account
that
Hungary
was
com-
my heart. Yes, that's what I did.
and hither he retired after years of (contract of betrothal) at once." "But the "four horsemen,"—Plague, War,
Jewish organizations, against the Ile- decided to win Gittele's confidence.
Our mother argued: "A young man Well, words written on paper fade
meditation in the heights and forests Rebbe, when I have nothing at all?" Famine and Death,—were still riding pelled to withdraw her application for brew language—all on the alleged
exclaimed Itch Wolf again. He re- in cyclonic circles, over hill and dale, membership in the League of Nations. ground that all these observances lik you must not interfere in an old, away in time, and so will I. Do you
of Wallachia (Roumania.)
understand?"
and institutions promote reaction strange woman's affairs."
Iteb Wolf was a simple working ceived no answer. Ilis visitor had through town and countryside, leaving
Russia Stops Pogroms.
"It's the old women that have so
and are bourgeois. Zionism, which
man, a tailor in Miedzyboz, where he gone. The direction in which the star in their rear not as many myriads of
Ilarry did not understand. A pause.
had
fallen
pointed
towards
the
great
That the firm hand of government has become inseparably bound up many strange affairs," answered !Tar-
victims as during the preceding holo-
kept a little shop. Itch Wolf sat in
"Gittele," said Harry, and stop-
caust, it is true, but a much smaller is all that is necessary to repress an- with the British government, is also ry, "and the young must learn from Jed.
front of this little shop one tine spring town of Jassy.
A few days later R. Wolf accompan- number—a smaller number which was ti-Jewish outbreaks which cast only opposed on the ground that it tends the old."
evening, and watched the sky, yet pink
"Yes."
Mother said no more. Two days
from the setting sun, meditating sad- ied by a dust-laden traveler, stood be- greater than the count of those sacri- shame and opprobrium on any land to aid and abet the imperialistic pro- later,
There was a low quiver in Harry's
after the evening meal, I saw
ly. It was about 9 °clock in the eve- fore the rabbi, wringing his hands in ficed in many a "first-class" war dur- in which they occur has been shown gram of Great Britain. These tac-
emphatically in Soviet Russia. When tics of the Jewish section of the Com- through the curtained window in the tone as he said
ning, and in Miedzyboz all was quiet. desperation. The traveller was the ing the previous epoch.
"I wish, if you don't mind, you
dining
room
Harry
enter
the
kitchen.
The children had returned from the messenger, the Shadchan, whom It.
When that essay was written, it 5682 began, the Ukraine was still in munist party have conspicuously
let me read your eon's letters.
(leder where thir teachers had tried Wolf had sent to Jassy as the Baal- was the author's belief that at least the throes of that banditry and whole- failed and have had, as is often the I saw Gittele give a little start as he would
Pardon
me for asking, but I think
entered.
This
being
observed
also
all day long to pour into them the Shem had told him, and who had just five years of turmoil would precede sale murder which will make such case in all kinds of persecution, an
letters must be very interesting."
knowledge of the sacred books, and returned from his journey. "What the return of sanity and humanity. names as Makhno, Grigoriev, Sevin- effect directly the opposite of that by Harry, he, ..•nry good-naturedly, his "You!"
and Gittele smiled. "Well,
smiled
at
her
and
said
were asleep in their little beds, in the shall I do now?" cried It. Wolf. "Un- Indeed, these precious prerequisites kov, Balskovitch, Popov, and Goliak desired. There has been a notable
"Did I frighten you, lady—I mean I have an album full of them in my
little rooms of the little houses. Even til today I had at least my honest for human progress have not com- remembered for many years. To the revival of religiousness, a fresh im-
trunk,
only—
Well, I am sorry to
the Bachurim. the older students had name, and now, in my old age, I have pletely conic back even yet; but if, as exerlasting credit of the Soviet gov- petus has been given to the study of —Mrs.—?"
"No; but you came in so quetly." say you won't be able to read them,
retired, though many of them sat and lost that too!" he said, "I hope the many believe the condition of the Jew- ernment it must be said—no matter Ilebrew, the synagogues are better
for
the
letters
are
written in Yiddish.
"You
were
lost
in
thought
when
I
would be sitting for hours yet study- Chosen (bridegroom) is well," said ish people is a barometer of social ad- what may be said to its discredit— attended than ever before, and the
you read Yiddish?"
ing the Law in fulfillment of the Di- the Baal-Shem to the Shadchan, not vancement, then there is substantial that it was merciless and unrelenting rabbis have been placed on a more came in, and I did not want to die- Can
"No,"
answered
Harry, and flushed.
turb
you,"
explained
Harry.
vine command. "This Book of the taking any notice of R. Wolf. Ile an- ground upon which to base the hope in its war against and its punishment r secure footing economically than was
He advanced toward the window,
Gittele made no answer.
law shall not depart out of thy mouth swered: "Not yet, master, but his that the next two years will witness of these villainous land-pirates. Fo the case even in the days of the au-
tapped
softly
on
the sill for a few
almost
a
year
now,
pogroms
have
"You
are
not
very
talkative,
are
and thou shalt meditate therein day pale face is getting a little color, and tremendous leaps upward toward the
tocracy.
seconds, then turned and quietly left
This naturally brings us to the you, Mrs.—?" continued Harry.
and night."—(Josh. c. I., v. 8.) The now and then his eyes are brighter." plane of real world peace, for the past been practically non-existent in
the
room.
Gittele
looked after him
throughout
the
length
and
breadth
of
"Well, sometimes I am."
question of the political status of the
shops were mostly shut and in the Now R. Wolf, who could not overcome year saw the dawn of a brighter day
in surprise.
"I hope you are tonight."
Jews in these countries, in which
street principally inha b i t ed by Jews his emotion, chimed in: "Five thou- for the Jewish people, the world over, Russia.
It
was
past
seven
on the following
"Why?"
they stood about in "Reindlechs, little sand thaler dowry asked the bride- and especially for the Jewish masses
During the past year, also, there the former Russian autocracy had
"Well, I want to ask you many evening when Ilarry came into his
groups which they called "rings" chat- groom's father! five thousand! And in Central Europe. This may not be has not been, in the strict sense of built up a strong tradition opposed
this man went and signed the Tenaim apparent immediately because we still the terms, any way in Europe. The to the civil and political equality of questions, for I am interested in you. mother's room and said:
ting and discussing the affairs of (
"Mother, tell me all you know
own small world, and the large world on this condition! Where shall I take see about us some of the minor symp- year before, there was the war be- the Jews, a fact which led the Peace What is your name, Sirs.—?"
"('all me Gittele; that is the name about the Yiddish language. I've
outside, news of which they now re- five thousand thaler when I have not toms of those social diseases which tween Poland and Russia, which was Conference to endeavor to throw
made
up my mind to learn it. I want
even
five?
howhall
I
be
able
to
ful-
I
like
best."
followed
the
War,
but,
by
and
large,
ceived almost daily from the pilgrims
fought in that territory, which was, safeguards about the rights of not
"Are you called by any other father not to know. Mother, I want
who came to visit the saintly, "Man of fill the conditions to which this man the statement may confidently he during the preceding World War, the only the Jews but also of all other
you
to
be my Rebbe."
has
pledged
me?"
The
Ball-Shem
took
name?"
made
that
the
patient
is
definitely
on
cock-pit of Eastern Europe, and in racial, linguistic and religious minori-
the Good Name."
Harry's mother held her breath
"Yes, well, yes; but call me Git-
which more than half of the Jews ties as well, by guaranteeing to them
Only Itch Wolf sat alone, laden with no notice of him, but turned again to the road to recovery.
while
he
spoke. "There is something
the
Shadchan
In
his
quiet
and
digni-
tele."
in the world dwell. The peace which certain so-called "minority rights."
care and anxious thoughts about his
Death-Blow to Protocols.
behind all that," she said, mentally.
A pause.
since reigned in that region has Every state created by the Peace
future. R. Wolf was indeed a sad fied way and said: "Now tell me what
For example, just before the begin- has
She
took
Harry's hand and, looking
"Are
you
long
in
this
country?"
happened?"
been a boon to the entire world and Conference, or recognized later by
careworn man, luck had very seldom
deep into his shining eyes, said:
"Ten years, sir."
The Shadchan began: "Great sor- ning of the past year, 5682, the wide- especially to these millions of Jews the League of Nations, is endeavor-
if ever, came his way; his life had
flown
conspiracy
of
calumny
and
"Ilarry,
are you in love with a
"You
don't
look
old."
been drab, devoid of all beauty. The row filled the whole Jewish community slander against the Jewish people, who are the first to suffer when there ing to honor the letter and the spirit
grinne meidell"
"I am fifty-one years."
one beautiful thing in his life, his only when I arrived at Jassy. The son of based on "documentary evidence" in is strife and disorder. The estab- of these political principles, with the
"No,
mother,"
Harry answered
"In
the
same
age
with
my
moth-
child Gitele, was now, instead of being the famous Parness, the leader of the the shape of the now thoroughly dis- lishment of peace has also brought exception of Latvia, Poland and, to
earnestly.
mmunity, was dying. Everyone was
a source of joy to him, only an or community,
with it a palpable improvement in a lesser extent, Roumania. Lithu- er," declared Harry.
credited
"Protocols
of
the
Learned
"When
do
you
want to begin?"
"Your
mother
looks
much
younger.
tion to his usual worries. Gitele was sorry for the pious, learned kind and Elders of Zion," had begun to col- economic life, by which the Jews ania has been conspicuously progres-
very very beautiful indeed—too beau- beautiful young man, but, it seemed, lapse. The death-blow to this perni- have advantaged along with the rest sive in this direction, having provid- I have a son who is about as old as asked the mother, and a look of poy
shone
in
her
eyes.
are."
tiful for the daughter of a poor
. tail- nobody could help him. Ile hail been cious propaganda, at least insofar as of the population. Though the eco- ed in its constitution for a ministry you
"Tomorrow," answered Harry,
"So! Does he know you are here
or. Her beauty was of a singu a strong and healthy a fine young schol- Western Europe and America is con- nomic condition of our brethren in for Jewish affairs. Poland has on
when father returns to the store, af-
type, quite different to the ordinary ar until 18 months ago. At that time cerned, was dealt by the Times of these regions Was a sorry one even many occasions refused to subsidizze —with us?"
"No, not he; nor my two other ter having his supper." There was
run of fine Jewish girls with black one night he dreamed, and in his London, a journal which had previous- before the war, events are fast lead- Jewish schools under the conditions
locks and sparkling eyes—it was a dream he saw a beautiful girl and fell ly pretended to place some credence in ing to their restoration to that nor- laid down in the peace treaty, and sons, they will never know it, air. something new in Harry's look when
mysterious angel-like glory of her in love with her. Since then his heart the inane pasquinade. It was late in mal condition, miserable as it was. has placed hindrances in the way of Two of them are way out West, and he left his mother's room.
An elapse of six months. It was
o wn. Tall and slim and fair, she had is full of longing for the fiancee of his August of 1921 that the Times pub- In Russia, the introduction of the so- the organization of the Jewish com- the youngest—he is the handsomest
a mouth like a cherry, her nose was dreams. The father sent out messen- lished three articles from its corres- called New Economic Policy (NEP) munities. While Roumania has not youth in the world, sir—well, he for- on a Monday morning, two days be-
fore Rosh Ilahsona, that the mail
straight, not too small nor too big, and gers broadcast in the whole country pondent in Constantinople, showing of the Communist regime has also fully carried out some of the pro- got his God and his—mother."
here Gittele turned away and man, for the first time, delivered a
her dark blue eyes had a lustre which to find the girl. But without result. to an incontroveritahle manner.and to led to an improvement in this phase visions of her treaty with the Allied
outshone the black and brown eyes of People even said that such a Jewish the satisfaction of all, including many of life. It was not so long ago that and associated powers, especially in stood with her back to Harry for a letter to Gittele. "Mrs. Gertrude
Cohen," the address read. That day
all her girl friends in yboz. She girl as Joseph the Parness' son saw in who had been misled, the unpersuable a well known Jewish writer told us respect of the automatic naturaliza- moment.
"Oh, Gittele, did I make you Gittele appeared to be in a low state
walked about upright andilent like his dreams; tall, slender, with fair Morning Post, always excepted—that that "the economic position of the tion of Jewish nations, she is mak-
of activity. I am afraid to say how
hair
and
dark
blue
eyes,
never
exist-
cry?"
hastily
spoke
Harry.
"Truly,
a real princess of royal blood, but her
the Protocols was a base literary for- Jewish masses in Soviet Russia is ca- ing efforts to subsidize Jewish insti-
silence was not the result of conceit- ed; the young man was sure to die of gery manufactured by that precious tastrophe!. The imperialist wars, tutions, to legalize the Jewish Rail- I didn't mean to. !'lease, Gittele, many times she ran up and down
stairs for articles that were safely
a
broken
heart!
The
father
only
re-
ed haughtiness or pride in her beauty,
crew, the secret police of Tsarist Rus- civil wars. pogroms, the abolition of loth and to give official recognition stop crying.
Gittele turned and softly touched deposited in her room. Harry put a
it was the meekness of a princess in lied upon what you, master, had told sia. Anti-Jewish propaganda in oc- small trading and, above all, the to a council of Jewish communities.
him
that
'when
a
star
fell
out
of
the
stop to it at last by taking her hand
the
hand
that
was
held
out
to
her,
exile.
cidental countries, where intelligence dreadful famine that has gripped Apparently Roumanian statesmen,
and leading her forcibly to her room.
Was it this reversed silence, or the Zodiac sign the messenger from Mied- is universal, could exist only so long parts of the Jewish settlement with realizing that they have before them then said:
zyboz
and
the
bride
would
arrive.'
The
"Gittele, you are not yourself to-
"No,
no,
I
was
not
crying;
it's
the
as its sponsors could appeal to the their congested populations, have up- the stupendous task of consolidating
strangeness of her beauty which kept
would-be husbands at a distance? The star had fallen and no messenger had reason of the people, but with the rooted the economic life of the Jew- a greatly enlarged country with sev- heaviness on the heart, you know— day," he said. "Remain In your
room;
I will explain things to moth-
Protocols pulled down, the entire ish masses, have practically sen- eral groups of non-Roumanian na- but, no, you don't know. It shrinks
fact remains Gitele was 22 and still appeared.
"When I arrived on the following strucutre which they supported tum- tenced them to a life of starvation tionals, have come to appreciate the the heart tight—so tight that one er."
unmarried. Reb Wolf was possibly
Gittele
made no reply, but smiled
right when he thought that his pover- day, they had given up all hope for bled ingloriously to the ground. Even and want as well as to actual death value of conciliation and have shuf- has to struggle for a breath. It lasts
ty was the chief obstacle in finding a Joseph's life. After I had told the the Dearborn Independent, the Ford in great numbers." Happily, the fled off the coil of arrogance and de- for a moment then all is well again." to herself a little sadly. Harry exited.
A long pause followed. There was An hour later he dared to peep in.
suitable son-in-law, as Reb Wolf was farness the object of my visit and de- Inetrnational Weekly, ceased publi- wars are over, the pogroms have ceit which they had exhibited in their
poor, very poor indeed. However hard scribed to him the beauty of It. Wolf's cation of its enlightening articles, al- ended, the right to trade has been re- attitude toward the Jewish question a hint of tears in her voice when she lie wanted to withdraw, but an un-
known power seemed to pull him into
he tried to mend the clothes of Jew daughter, he embraced me and took though it is continuing to circulate its stored, with the result that Jews who and which gave Roumania an unen- continued:
the room. Softly he approached the
and Gentile with a perfection not me at once, full of joy, to his son. And pamphlets on a wide scale; and in Eu- had already departed from Russia viable reputation for chicanery in
tainty as to its political status has chair. Gittele was asleep. On the
equalled even by the tailors of the since then Joseph is recovering and rope translations of the booklets bear- with the intention of seeking security every chancellery of Europe.
getting
stronger
every
day.
We
drew
In
the
United
States,
the
virility
of
ing
the
distinguished
name
of
Henry
and a livelihood in other lands are
been removed by the approval on floor near the chair lay an open en-
great towns of Warsaw or Cracow, he
Might be sitting at his work day and up a document of betrothal and every- Ford are extensively distributed and beginning to return. Thanks to the Jewish life was splendidly demon- July 24, 1922, of the mandate and elope. Scarcely knowing what he was
night, riches would not come his way. thing is in order. When we came to are helping to supply Jey-baiters with historic work of the American Relief strated by the auccess, at a time of by the persistent refusal of the Brit- doing, he took up the enelope and
The sum total of a week's work was the question of the dowry, I told the ammunition made in America, f. ob., Administration, with which our own great business depression, of the cam- ish government to scrap the Balfour made his way to his room as fast as
in the end only lust enough to buy Parnass, according to R. Wolf's in- Detroit, Mich.
Joint Distribution Committee so ef- paign for the $14,000,000 fund for Declaration despite tremendous pres- he could. There was a letter in the
God for the Sabbath, and, now and structions, to write in the amount he
Now, when we say that as a result fectively co-operated, the famine is the relief of Jews in the Old World, sure, nothing remains for the Jewish envelope, written in Yiddish. He un-
required
his
future
daughter-in-law
when the amount actually raised was people but to go to work. It will folded it; his eyes rested long on each
then, a simple little frock or ribbon
of the Times expose, the literary mas- fast being forgotten.
shout $17,000,000. At the same be interesting to see the composition word, his lips moved unconsciously;
for the apple of his eye, for the treas- to bring into the marriage, and he sacres of Jews ceased, we do not, in-
wrote
'five
thousand
thaler,'
although
Immigration
Decreases.
time the Jewish community continued of the World Congress for the re- a deep flush was visible on his cheeks
ure of his heart—for Gitele. But it
deed we cannot say that the elaborate
was not enough to save a few hund- I know the richest man in the country and munificently supported propa-
Improvement in the economic life to support the numerous domestic in- building of Palestine which the Zion- and his eyes were radiant with the
would
have
been
glad
to
give
his
son
reit roubles for her dowry.
ganda was without effect. Its influ- of Jews in other countries is evi- stitutions and to contribute to vari- ist Organization has decided to call, glow of triumph. Harry made out
many more times that amount as 'Ne-
And Reh Wolf aged from day to day dan' (marriage portion,) "And I have ence was widespread and infiltrated denced also by the perceptible fall- ous funds and enterprises for Pales- and whether the numerous friends of every word. 'What interested him
his anxious desire to see his daughter not even five," interposed again R. everywhere, for we meet evidences of ing off in immigration to the United tine. A firm stand was taken by Palestine, who are not Zionists, will mostly was the last paragraph, and
its presence in commerce and in in- States. The report of the United Jewish organizations against the vio- respond to this call for their co-oper- this is what it read:
married did not make him any young-
"Mother, Joseph wants to come
dustry, in religion and education, in States Bureau of Immigration shows lation of the prohibition law, insofar ation in the sacred task. The inter-
er, he grew old and weak and afraid Wolf.
"We
fixed
the
wedding
day
for
the
society and in business. The recent that the July quotas for Poland and as it had to deal with the permission pretation of the Balfour Declaration back. lie divorced his wife and is
lest death overtake him before he
found someone younger and stronger fifth of Adar," concluded the Shad- discussion aroused by an infelicitous Bessarabia have not been filled. This given to Jews to use wine for re- by the British government is suffi- now in New York. See his address
sentence in an announcement of Ilan. singular phenomenon may be partly ligious purposes. Further restriction ciently liberal to satisfy every Jew below. Take him back, mother dear;
to take care of his only beloved child den.
"Wherewith and how?" cried R. vard University brought out evidences explained on the ground of the lack of immigration was vigorously op- who has until now held back from he needs you now more than ever,
Gitele. And as he waited and fough t
of the permeation of this doctrine of of the means to make the trip and posed by a number of national Jew- aiding for fear of that bogey, "po- for the safest place for one to come
Wolf,
but
he
received
no
answer.
the angel of death—he would not be
Three weeks later, R. Wolf stood hatred through academic walls, but of the business depression here. But ish organizations, represented before litical Zionism." According to this back to himself is—in his mother's
taken away before Gitele had found
it is to be hoped that the educational this cannot be the entire explanation. the House committee on immigration interpretation, "the development of arms."
again
before
the
Baal-Shem.
"My
her mate!
will, as they should, be in
Harry folded the letter, placed it
On the spring evening in question, daughter's fiancee has written a letter, institutions
is no doubt that political con- by Louis Marshall, and much discus- the Jewish National Home in Pales-
the van of the army which will cast There
in
which
he
asks
for
an
engagement
his heart was again full of yearning
in Poland, for example, are sion was aroused by an offer by the tine" means "not the imposition of in his vest pocket, then rose, took his
the invading Russian "Black ditions
President of Mexico of a large tract a Jewish nationality upon the in- hat and, with Gittele's face before
and prayer, full of sorrow and hope ring, or something like it, to confirm out
distinctly
improving.
This
means
as he looked up to the glorious endless the betrothal, What shall I do, Mas- Hundreds," who are at the bottom of that the security of life, property of land in that country for coloniza- habitants of l'alestine as a whole, but him left the house. lie returned late
sky, when suddenly he was nearly ter? How can I buy a diamond ring the entire agitation.
and business is gradually becoming tion by Jews. The latter subject is the further development of the exist- In the evening.
The two following days passed rap-
Anti-Semitism.
blinded by an unusual apparition. A —they probably expect that—if I have
more assured. Economic conditions, being considered by the American ing Jewish community, with the as-
Gittele was herself again. The
bright star seemed to step out of the no money for a silver one? And what
In Germany, anti-Semitism appears as has already been said, have also be- Jewish Congress, which was organ- sistance of Jews in other parts of idly.
will
be
the
end
of
all
this?
The
bride-
millions and millions of others and fell
to have been adopted as the chief prin- come better. May we not hope, ized as a permanent body on May 21, the world, in order that it may be- preparation for the holiday in Harry's
downwards. It seemed to him as it groom's father even asks for a photo- ciple of certain political groups and therefore, that our brethren in Po- 1922 Noteworthy also is the pas- come a center in which the Jewish home was completed. The new year
the star was falling straight down graph of my daughter; he wants to it is there that we see most clearly land may soon find conditions in their sage by the Senate and the House people as whole may take, on evening was approaching. The mis-
where he sat; he started in fear and see whether Gitele really looks like the that it is the hand-maiden of reac- own country favorable to the recon- of Representatives of a joint resolu- grounds of religion and race, an in- tress was robed in white nod Gittele
tion endorsing the establishment in
wonder, and when he looked up again gorl of Joseph's dream!"
and a pride. But in order that in black. Father, Harry and I were
"Write at once to Joseph's father," tionism. But even in Germany, the struction of their ruined lives in that Palestine of a national home for the terest
the star had disappeared, all was
this community should have the best attired in our new clothes, waiting
return of better economic conditions country?
Jewish people. The matter of the re- prospect of free development and for dear mother to join us in the walk
quiet and peaceful and hopeless as be- said the rabbi, "write him that the and the increasing strength and firm-
Indications that such reconstruc- striction of the enrollment of Jews provide a full opportunity for the to the synagogue. Suddenly our door-
fore. "Even the stars are falling wedding will be either way on the 5th ness of the government will eventual.
when I look at them," said R. Wolf, of the next month; he will then be able ly change all this, and it will not be tion has already begun may he found in universities was much discussed Jewish people to display its capaci- bell rang. I saw Harry turn white;
bitterly. "Fallen stars! I wonder to see your daughter, and his son will very long before anti-Semitism, in- in the tremendous revival of cultural a nd it will be interesting to see what ties, it is essential that it should then he ran to open the door. lie
whose star fell just now? Was it a safely receive the ring. And invite stead of being the dynamic force life in Poland, in Russia and in Rou- a ction Harvard will take as a result know that it is in Palestine as of returned followed by a young, tall,
sign from Almighty God? And per- him at the same time, him and his which it now is, as we have seen in mania. The number of Jewish schools of the study of this subject now in right and not on sufferance."
handsome man. A horrified shriek
is increasing by leaps and bounds,
haps to me? Does it mean that I have whole family, to the wedding.'
While this interpretation does not reached our ears. It came from Git-
"Who will put them up and who will the martyrdom of Walter Rathenau, old Yeshiboth are being rebuilt and progress.
to make haste and arrange my affairs
Aciteity for Palestine.
completely •atisfy some, it is suM- tele. She stood there with her hands
feed them, Master?" R. Wolf asked will be relegated to an obscure place new ones established, text-books are
before I leave the valley of tears?"
in public life, chiefly furnishing a
Thus far, we have been surveying ciently broad to form the basis for raised and eyes enlarged, like one in
published everywhere, new
A coach stopped in front of his again.
precarious livelihood for • few bein;
the
happenings
of
the
past
year
in
a
program
of work, as has been wise. a dream. Then she collapsed, rather
"Who?
You!"
was
the
short
answer
are springing up, and
house, someone alighted and stood be-
than seated herself, in father's chair.
wretched scribblers and literary publications
himself alone.
even the theater, that unmistakable the various countries throughout ly recognized by the Zionist organize- No tears dropped from her eyes; she
fore R. Wolf. "That star was the and R. Wolf found
• • • •
hacks.
which
the
Jews
are
scattered,
corn-
tion.
The
one serious obstacle, that
sign of normal life, is again coming
symbol of your misfortune," said a
With
anti-Semitism
so
thoroughly
monly called the Diaspora. For Pal- of Arab antagonism, still remains, was beyond that soft of frief now.
On the last day of the month of She-
firm, yet mild voice, answering the
After a painful pause, she looked up
discredited in the enlightened coun- into its own. Not only is the num-
thoughts of R. Wolf. "Your misfor- vat, six days before the 5th of Adar, tries of the world, it could not long ber of schools growing fast, but estine, in which, according to the but as this is based on untenable (we'll never forget that look), then
tune is ended, and so is the unhappi- R. Wolf went again to see the Ball- survive in the less favored lands of modernization is the order of the day, latest interpretation of the British grounds it must, in course of time she rose. with a wonderful expression
Colonial
Office,
"a
Jewish
national
and
actual
experience„
eventually
Shem.
He
had
received
an
answer
ness of your daughter, It. Wolf. You
Central and Eastern Europe. Thus and even the Cheder has felt and re-
on her fine features, and said:
will soon see your daughter happily from the father of his future son-in- we find that it exists to any consider- sponded to the demand for an im- home" is to be established, there has disappear.
"Friends, this is my son. lie came
In conclusion, it may be said that
married." R. Wolf knew the voice, but law in which he thanked him for the able extent only in two countries, Po- proved and expanded curriculum for been a great deal of activity in all
hack to me, like out of the past. Ile
even had he not recognized it at once, Invitation and named the day in which land and Hungary, and that it is sure- better text-books, and more scientific directions, economic, cultural and re- 5683 was the beginning of a brighter did wrong by his people and me. To-
he
hoped
to
arrive
in
Miedzyboz
with
ligious.
Numerous
commercial
and
era
for
the
Jews
everywhere
and
he would have known who it could be,
ly on the decline in both, where the methods of teaching. In every coun-
the only one, who had the power to his son and other members of his fam- better elements who have long been try, with the exception of Poland industrial enterprises have been be- that even better times may be looked night is Rosh Ilashona—the night of
answer secret thoughts, however, anx- ily. And R. Wolf had, with hard convinced that racial antagonism is and Hungary, the government is en- gun, the educational system has been for in the New Year. The world forgiveness. My son, let me embrace
iously guarded in the depths of the hu- struggle, only collected 20 thaler) suicidal are now beginning to assert couraging this renaissance of intel- placed upon a firm, modern basis, may appear, at times, to be moving you. Peace unto you!"
And we all added, "Amen!"
man heart. R. Wolf quickly rose from While he was walking along the dark themselves with a strong hand. Even lectual life among the Jewish masses. model text books are being published, backward, but this is always the re-
Harry smiled. He did all.
his seat and stood in reverence before street—it was nearly night—a car- in Hungary, where anti-Semitism was Following a short-sighted policy of new organs of opinion have been es- suit of an optical illusion. Much in-
Yes, and together with Gittele, let
riage
came
tearing
along
in
great
his guest, for the tall imposing looking
respectable and many • high-handed narrow nationalism, Poland is only tablished. It is clear that enthusiasm justice exists, much unrighteousness
man who had just addressed him with haste, and the driver, on seeing R. outrage went unpunished, the so-call- feebly aiding these efforts, while in for the rebuilding of Palestine is prevails, but we are going forward, us pray: "Lord, let there be peace."
And
God's voice is echoing Amenr
kind words was no other than the
ed "Christian policy," • sanctimonious many instances she is placing ob- widespread, and now that all uncer nevertheless.
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