PAGE FOUR THEPLTRomirmsnORONIGLE TitEDEFROITJEWISit eiRON 'CIE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. Jacob H. Schakne, Business Mimeses Joseph J. Cummins, President Bartered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 850 High Street West Cable Address, Telephone, Glendale 9300 Chronicle LONDON OFFICE 14 STRATFORD PLACE LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND Illboaription. in Advance $3 00 Per Year To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN Editorial Contributor Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to Os Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the Mow expressed by the writers. The Tebeth 24, 5683 January 12, 1923 The Passing of Dr. Hirsch. A Gratifying Announcement. I We learn through a press report that of the amount of mon-I ey to be raised by the local New York Committee for the en- ecrt! t tertainment of the delegates of the forthcoming meeting of ' ft illrrIt's rim the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is to be set aside as a jubilee gift to the Hebrew Union College. This is the best news that has come to us for many a day. In the first place, such a gift to the col- By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ lege comes at a time when it will do a world of good, for the The more one reads of the wonders College has just entered upon a period of wide expansion as a result of which its budgetary needs are greater than ever. The that are being wrought in Palestine heart, ad he said "Surely, m Jose the brave young men and women THE SABBATH VISIT faculty has been largely increased during the past year and the by is still alive!" pioneers whose sacrifices for an ideal cost of maintenance is correspondingly higher. Should the Then, when Serah had convince By JESSIE S. SAMPTER him that the good news was amount named materialize, the interest thereon will, we be- are so enormous, the more anxious indee he becomes to see a greater response true, and that his beloved Jo war lieve, pay the salary of one of the professors, I always go to Grandpa's house in truth alive, Jacob drew her to him to the reconstruction work on the On Sabbaths--I am never missing, What a splendid momento this will be from the committees part of the Jewish people everywhere. and blessed her, saying, "Viy child stand as quiet as a mouse may your eyes never behol ! death': having in charge the jubilee arrangements! We feel absolutely A barren country, infested with dis- And To get my sabbath blessing. So, long after Jacob and his sons sure that there is not one of the thousands of men and women ease and sickness, is invaded by a At Grandma's Sabbath cap I look, had Serah still lived i Egypt who will attend the New York meeting who will not be grati- handful of Jews, and in a period of And touch its edges, frilled an and it died, was she who helped Moses a few years malaria is stamped out, beaded; fied beyond measure to dispense with any social entertainmen trachoma is on the decrease and And Grandpa when he went to seek Joseph's coffin. holds a holy book, For, while all the other children of that may have been planned in order that this great gift may healthy condition faces the new pio- And lets me try to read it. Israel were busy preparing for the be available. As a matter of fact, the lavish entertainment o f neers who follow them. A veritable exodus, hastening to and fro, each Babel of tongues existed in the land delegates to conventions has been considerably overdone i n man thinking only of his owu safety to the settlement of the early AT THE TOP OF THE POLE these last times. Many are the cities that could be greatly in prior and of his family, Moses thought of members of the Bilu movement; now Joseph's strong wish that hi body spired by the meetings of such conventions as the Union, th e Ilebrew is the language of the coun- "Wisdom," said King Solomon, "is Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Jewish Chatau try and the child, from the very first too high for a fool; he openeth not should be carried into the Promised Land. Therefore Moses in the midst qua Society and others of similar nature that hesitate to exten d moment it learns to speak, calls for his mouth in the gate." The wisest of his many cares would not rest un- parents in the Hebrew tongue. of men gives good advice to those an invitation because of the expense involved in entertainment his The beginning is certainly a good young people who pause at the thres- til he had found Joseph's cod, On the other hand, hte delegates thentselves are for the moo one, but it is only a beginning. Now hold of the temple of learning, dread- But he could not find it. Then he upon Serah, and Serail, whose part better pleased if the entertainment is not too lavish since our people are again asked to help ing the obstacles to be surmounted, came the sacrifice of mere money for and the rugged paths to be climbed, eyes beheld all that had hippened as frequently as not, it interferes with the business for whic h make Palestine. The Keren Ilayesod plea and fearing that their patience may in Egypt from the death of Joseph, the conventions are called. New York, if it carries out the pro is directed at every Jew who is urged fail More the goal is reached. said to him: "The magicians have gram mentioned in the press reports, will not only be doing a to be among the builders of Zion. "To what may such timid aspir- sunk the coffin of Joseph deep in the Nile because they knew that the Chil. wondrously fine thing for the College but it will be setting an We are optimistic. All who have faith ants be compared?" ask our sages. dren of Israel could not leave the in the Jewish people must be optimis- "To the ignorant man who enters example worthy of emulation to every city in the country. country without his coffin. Ge thou, tic. If we fail now in the task of pigrsting Aithrrn's (fouler There will be none to dispute that in the death of Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, American Jewry has lost a leader and a teacher who stood among the foremost. As pulpit orator, he had few equals. As thinker and as scholar, he had gained not only countrywide but worldwide recognition. As fearless sponsor of the liberal seat of religious learning, and see s interpretation of Judaism, he was perhaps better known rebuilding the homeland, we may its members intent on reading th e therefore, to the river 11111i hid the throughout this country and abroad than any of his colleagues never recover from the national dis- Law; and he asks them: 'flow can coffin of Joseph to appear to thee." Then Moses went and stood upon grace, and we are confident that the one become master of the requisite living today. Under his aggressive leadership, Sinai Congre- Jewish response will be a noble one. knowledge to understand and appre- the bank of the River Nile and he gation came to be looked upon as one of the foremost influential cried "Oh Joseph, the time has come ciate the depth and beauty of its centers of Jewish life not only in Chicago but throughout the for Israel to depart from Egypt. All holy lessons? How have you acquired Israel is waiting for thee. If thou land. this knowledge?' The pious readers A Question of Life end Death. wilt be borne in the midst of us, Nor was the influence of Dr. Hirsch limited to the people of answer him thus 'First you most show thyself, for, if thou wilt not The Jewish people, the majority of learn the simplest rudiments of the his faith. For many years, there was no event of civic impor- ily accustomed. I still believe that our nation, is placed in a position language; then master the Five Books show thyself, we must leave thee be- tance in regard to which his voice was not raised. To his coun- the beat weapon a man can have is hind." where it is between life and death. of Moses; then the Prophets; then the courage and fearlessness. . . . . sel men and women of every faith and of every social plane Then did the coffin of Joseph rise The European Jew particularly is holy writings; then the commentaries "It is obvious that peaceful citizens listened with eagerness and with confidence. He spoke on facing total destruction. The non- of the oral 111W ; then the duties set to the surface of the Nile, and, dur- who go quetly about their work are Jewish world, when asked for its forth therein; then the moral sayings, ing the 40 years of wandering in the many problems bearing upon education, philanthropy, and pol- not ordinarily armed and organized; opinion on Jewish existence, replied tales, and allegories.' No sooner does desert, the coffin was kept in the itics with a voice of authority. He was at home in the litera- they were in such a with offering the Jew an opportunity he hear all this than, disheartened at midst of the Children of Israel. For tures of many countries. He was particularly familair with the Paul Sandor Tells of Anti- consequently, state that it was out of the question of rebuilding Jewish life in our on- the Children of Israel carried two to think of resistance, even the slight- cient homeland. The Gentile nations the amount of study before him, he shrines with them; the one was the great treasures of Jewish literature and he combined in rare turns back from the gate, and re- Semitism Rampant in Cen- eat, to the activity of the terrorists. decreed that Palestine is to be the Ark, which held the commandments degree the qualities of a convincing preacher with those of a mains as ignorant as before," tral Europe. of the living God; the other was the Night after night the Jews were as- Jewish homeland, that the Holy Land "This reminds me," says Rabbi sage scholar. He was a man of strong convictions and fearless saulted. Night after night there was is again to become the center of Jew_ Jannai, "of a fool who once stood coffin containing the bones of Joseph, in his utterance of what he believed to be the truth. Often The anti -Semitism rampant blood running in the streets. The ish learning, Jewish culture, Jewish wondering and staring at a high pole, who had always obeyed God's word. enough because of this very fearlessness, he was misunderstood throughout Central Europe has been terrible things which were done ideals—Jewish life. Now the prob. on the top of which was a tempting —The Jewish Child. eloquently described in a statement reached such a pitch that the more lem is thrust at ourselves. The non- loaf of bread. The fool was hungry; and even slandered. Paul Sandor, the one Jewish mem- thinking Christians were shocked out Jew has played his part and he is his mouth watered, and all he did was• An intensely loyal American, he was yet not blind to the by ber of the Hungarian National As- of their indifference, and without through. He puts it entirely up to to gape, and exclaim: 'Who can get 80 BANKS SAVED FROM weaknesses of some Americans. He was a master of satire and sembly, having any particular sympathy to- the Jew, and it is for the Jew to published in the Nation: COLLAPSE IN LITHUANIA it down? How nice it looks!" His under his withering scorn, many and many a man has deserved- "After a period of terror lasting ward their Jewish fellow-citizens, answer: Is the Jewish people to live companion, wiser than he, addressed were compelled to make a stand or not to live? A nation that has ly been made to feel small. At times he was brusque almost for three years, the pressure of for- they him thus: 'Ah, silly fellow; the pole the excesses. The eighty Jewish People's banks survived 20 centuries of persecutions; is no higher now than when the loaf to the point of cruelty but back of his harsh word, there was eign opinion and the movement to- against Gratitude to Apponyi. consolidation within the coun- a people that has been one without 1 was first placed upon it. I'll show in ithuania have been saved from col- never any real malice. Indeed at heart he was a lover of his ward lapse by a special loan of $10,000 for try have brought to Hungarian Jewry "Partciular gratitude is due to a country for 2,000 years; we who , ' you how to get it down.' He took fellows. Had this not been the case, it is inconceivable that he a certain respite, notwithstanding the Count Albert Apponyi, to whom dur- suffered no much and endured so ably , a ladder with many steps, mounted the Joint Distribution Committee to the Central Bank in Kovno. should have wielded through so many years such an immeasur- fact that the anti-Semitic regime still ing these dark days hundreds of our can have but one answer: We shall them one by one, reached the to p, crisis, thus averted, was due able influence over the lives of thousands of his people or that goes on. In this spell of calm, which suffering co-religionists appealed, and not shame our past and our ancestors and got the bread, and you may be to The the issuance of the Lithuanian gov- be but an interval before the not in vain; also to the courageous and we must not be brand-marked by . certain that he enjoyed it, too; while he should have gained the affection and the respect of the un- may storm breaks again, it will be well to Protestant Bishop Desider Balthasar, as the generation that was the fool went away hungry and ernment on October lot, of currency counted men and women, Jews and non-Jews, who at this time give a little thought to the horror of who, faced by thousands of perils, his history to take the place of the German mark composed of cowards and misers. It' ashamed." which has been legal tendor since the sincerely mourn hsi passing. the times through which we have own life threatened, held high the shall not be said of us that we had So you, young students, who read military occupation. This action Dr. Hirsch wielded a very facile pen and it is to be regret- passed. To recount all the injustices, banner of liberal thought, and let the the opportunity and failed. Posterity' this, loiter not at the foot of the hill caused a run on the banks by &psi. persecutions and the tortures lash of his words fall unmercifully on shall not stamp us as a people that of Fame; deplore not your prospec- ted that he has not left more of his writings in permanent form. the which have had to be endured and all who deprived fellow-men of their was merely asked for money for the tive labors, but set to work, letter by tors whose savings were in German His weekly contributions to the editorial columns of the Reform to some extent are still being endured lives. My most profound gratitude accomplishment marks. Withdrawals became so of one of the great- verse by verse, chapter by heavy that the banks had extreme dif- Advocate were as a rule, thoughtful and masterly articles. It by the Jewish population of Hungary also to the Nestor of Hungarian pub- est romances in history and we re- letter chapter, book by book, science by ficulty in meeting them, and the clos- (which not for a single moment licists, Eugene Rakosi, who, though fused to part with it. Surely, our is to be hoped that selections from these writings will be gather- science. This makes the scholar; this ing of their doors would have been from its loyalty to its father- strictly conservative in views, fought answer will be as noble as is the re- gains the prize of life. ed together and put into permanent form for the enlightenment swerved the next stop. The situation was ag- land, and participated far beyond its with the whole power of his mighty quest. and the edification of future generations. graveled by the failure of theguvern- powers in the efforts of the war and pen against the White Terror milt to issue sufficient "Litas" in the While all Israel sits in mourning at the bier of Dr. Hirsch, in the movement to counteract the "We Ilungarian Jews were there- JOSEPH'S COFFIN place of the abolished Marks. our special sympathy goes out to his immediate family and to doings of hte extremist revolution- fore left to our own resources At Extravagance of Youth. To meet the bank crisis the govern- last it was possible to bring the Jew- When Jacob's sons found their ment offered the Kovno Central Bank the larger family of Sinai Congregation over whose well being aries) is not merely difficult but ac- ish question on to the floor of the tually impossible. These things are Speaking of the Keren Ilayesod brother, Joseph, alive and a mighty is loan, but the rate of interest asked be watched with true fatherly devotion through these many beyond description. . . . Instead, National Assembly, the only forum appeal, strikes us that more of the man in Egypt, they wished to send was too large to erniit the Central years. It will be difficult to replace the leader and teacher who therefore, of dealing with the suffer- from which we could appeal to all younger it generation ought to take an word to Jacob that Joseph had not Bank to loan money to the subsidiary has gone from theM. But his memory will endure, a lasting and ings of Hungarian Jewry as a whole circles. Never in my life shall I for- active part in the work. It will do perished. But because Jacob was old institution. Realizing the dangers of —and impossibility—I will confine get the speech which I delivered in them good and it will benefit the and very feeble, the brethren feared a blessed inspiration to them and to their children. hte situation, the Joint Distribution myself to relating my own experi- the Assembly in February, 1920. I DESCRIBES HATRED OF JEW IN HUNGARY Ludwig Lewisohn. The announcement that Mr. Ludwig Lewisohn, the well known author and translator, is to give several lectures in De- troit during the coming week, will be received with gratifica- tion by those who have read his books. It is questionable whether there is any work translated from another language into our vernacular that has been read so widely or that has been enjoyed so thoroughly or that has called forth such inter- ested discussion as Wasserman's "Christian Washnschaffe" which Lewisohn has put into English under the title "The World's Illusion." He is an absolute master of English and he is at home in our literature as few of our great scholars are. To read his books constitutes a liberal education in literature. The book which has caused widest comment, however, is his autobiography pub- lished under the title "Up Stream." The book is one eminently worth careful reading and study, for though autobiographical in character, it is not merely a study of the forces that have subtly worked upon the soul of the author, but it is essentially a study of the soul of America. From some standpoints, we are definitely inclined to the belief that Mr. Lewisohn has not struck a proper keynote in his investigation. But it is not our purpose in this brief article to review the book which in all fairness, it must be said, possesses more than one element of real greatness. What interests us at the moment is to make clear that Mr. Lewisohn finds the source of most of his life's disappointments in the fact that he had sprung from the loins of Jewish parents. The fact that he was a Jew by birth, Lewisohn holds largely responsible for the fact that his whole life front boyhood through young manhood and late maturity, represented a tre- mendous struggle against almost unequalled odds. Still, when one says that Mr. Lewisohn is the descendant of Jewish ances- tors, he says all that Mr. Lewisohn himself would claim if we read his book correctly, as to any sympathetic affiliation that he has had with Jewish life. It is true that—always judging from his book and not from any words that to our knowledge he has spoken,—Mr. Lewisohn has outgrown all churches. But the point is that before realizing their inadequacy to answer the needs of his soul cravings, Mr. Lewisohn had given the churches of Christianity, a fair trial. Indeed at one stage of his early manhood, he had avowed himself a Christian and had accepted Christ—to use his own words—as his personal saviour. So far as we can read in his writings, however, he had never given Judaism—the faith of his fathers—any sort of a trial at all. One judges that Mr. Lewisohn has felt about Judaism much as Heine did—that "it was not a religion but a misfortune." All this, however. should not in any way minimize the warmth of welcome that should be extended to Mr. Lewisohn as a great scholar, clear cut writer, and a keen thinker. We shall look forward to his coming to Detroit with much pleas- ure. The New Talmud Torah. The new and splendid home of the Detroit Hebrew Schools which has just been dedicated is a credit to the progressive spirit of those through whose labor and whose love this great edifice has been made possible. For those who would greatly stress the importance of Hebrew education for their children— and there is of course none of us who would undervalue it—the new School will offer an opportunity that is perhaps unequal- led anywhere. But the new building will be more than a place for Hebrew instruction. It will undoubtedly become a center for the social life of the neighborhood and will thus fill a very pressing need at this time. To all who in any way have contributed to the upbullding of this great institution, we offer our hearty felici- Cations upon the completion of a very splendid and important piece of work. ences during these past three years. Distinguished from Others. "I was distinguished from among all my other Jewish fellow-citizens by being a privileged person. I was protected by my right of immunity as a member of Parliament. I could not be molested. My public activity,. reaching back many years, was be- yond suspicion. There was not a single episode, however slight, which could be manipulated by the anti- Semitic press, no matter what its wishes, to throw discredit upon me. The demagogic agitators who went about the country inciting the mob had nothing to seize upon in my pub- licor my private life to use for their purposes; willy-nilly, they were forced to be quiet. Yet, despite that, neither the terror of the Bolshevists nor the subsequent terror of the anti- Semites left me untouched. "Which of the two was harded to bear? One was as despicable as the other. Perhaps the second period of terror was the more despicable be- cause the things which were done out of lust for revenge were worse than those which were committed under bolshevism, which on the whole con- tented itself with employing the ter- ror in order to attain its communist Lives Worthless. "What was the feeling dominating us at the time it is difficult now to Perhaps it would be best put say. in these words—we never knew if the next hour would still find us alive. There was one moment when I was unofficially given of understand that I had best leave the country, because my life was not worth a peny piece. But I refused to run away. A friend of mine, a locksmith, secured my door with a few sound locks. On the table of my bedroom I kept. constantly ready two loaded revolvers, and as I had always had a steady hand and a steady eye, -I felt that I was suffi- ciently safe. Letters threatening me came in stacks, but that is the sort of thing to which people become eas- showed that the Hungarian Jews had come into the country together with the Magyars, that it was not the fault of the Jews that Hungary had lost the war. . . . I showed that the Jews of llungary were as useful a part of the population as the members of oth- er sects. Under normal circum- stances this speech should have taken about an hour and a half to deliver; actually, however, it took about three and a half hours. The whole of the time I was speaking there was a rain of insulting interjections aimed at my head. . . . Anti-Semitism was brought into Hungary by immigrant Germans. That can be proved by the fact that the leaders of the anti- Semites in Hungary bear German names such as Ilaller, Wolff, Frieder- ich, etc. The fathers of these peo- ple came into Ilungary only a decade or two ago from Germany or Bo- hemia and it is they who are now feeling themselves qualified to preach the doctrine of pure Magyar race. I to not believe for an instant that these hot-heads are convinced anti- Semites. I hold that they are using anti-Semitism only as a means with which to encompass their political aims AMERICAN JEWS TO VISIT PALESTINE NEW YORK.—(J. C. B.)—Ameri- can Jews sailing on the S. S. Adriatic with the "Palestine Pilgrimage" for the Passover festival, organized by George M. Hyman of New York, in- clude Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Schnur and family of New York, Mr. and Mrs. B. II. Kitay and Miss Sarah Kitay of Paterson, N. J., and Mrs. A. Shapiro of Brooklyn. Among those who are making the trip to Palestine this year are Hon. Isaac Bachrach of Atlantic City, Mrs. Frederick Nathan, S. W. Straus, Mr. and hire. Nathan Miller, Samuel Ro- senblum, Henry B. Smith, Sol Lam- port, Mark Ilurowitz, J. Bolding and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fischel. movement. Judging by the varied ac- to startle him suddenly with their tivities of our young folks, they not news of joy. only have the energy for active par- Drawing nigh unto their father's ticipation in a great movement, but tent, the brothers called Serah, Ja- they also seem to have the Money cob's granddaughter, to them. Now with which to help the advancement Serah was a very beautiful maiden of great things. There appears to and a skilled harp player. When she be a general practice among Jewish saw the brothers lingering near the organizations of young men and tent, afraid to approach their father, women, or mere boys and girls, as lest they startle him with their news, the case may be, to give one or two she approached them and learned that public (lances a year, thus realizing Joseph was safe. Then she took her a profit of $100 or $200 or $300, a harp and played sweet music upon it very small portion of which is used and again and again she sang the for charitable purposes, or for the words, "Joseph, my uncle, liveth- entertainment of orphans or inmates he ruleth over the whole of Egypt— of an old folks' home. The balance be is not dead!" is evidently fully expended, because And each time she repeated the the members of such organizations words a little louder, and Jacob, hear- never let an opportunity go by with- . ing her, felt new joy in his aged out giving a theater party or house gatherings or card parties. With the — balance they seem to make sure that their stomachs are filled and terpsi- chorean encouragement offered for those who are fleet of foot on a dance floor. That organizations of this type (and there are plenty of them) do the community an injustice goes without saying. As a rule their profits are gotten under false pretenses. While the greater portion of the money goes for the entertainment of their various memberships, these societies deceive the people they cater to because the latter expect the profits to accomplish a certain good, and the filling of already satisfied stomachs is not such a healthy thing, mentally or physically. It is there- fore unfortunate that societies of this type should waste their energies in this manner, failing to grasp at some ideal of general importance and worth. If it were only possible for the Keren Hayesod to interest these young people in the work of rebuild- ing Palestine, it would have been an accomplishment in itself in that these young woul dbe attracted nearer to their own people and the Jewish home as well as the synagogue would also eventually benefit by it. Another "Mediaeval Eruption." The Proper Study of Mankind Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic aide, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. —ALEXANDER POPE. The American Ilebrew, a New York contemporary, is particularly , noted for tis venom when it speaks of the Zionist movement. When it does publish Zionist news, it tries to , disfigure and discolor it. Thus, in a recent issue, the New York Jewish weekly played un as the leading ar- ticle of the week the attack on the Ku Klux Klan that was made recently ' . at . Hartford, Conn., by Samuel Un. termyer, head of the Palestine Foundation Fund in America. The American Hebrew referred to the Ku Klux as a "mediaeval eruption on our civic life," quoting from Mr. Unter- ! myer. But what was perhaps the most important and novel part of Mr. Untermyer's address, wherein the great lawyer offered the requilding of Palestine as a practical answer to the Klan by the Jewish people, was entirely omitted by the Jewish paper.' As a matter of fact, the very purpose of the address was to show the ne- cessity for the building of a home- land for the Jew, and that very pur- pose was killed by our contemporary. We wonder if this isn't another "me- diaeval eruption," c oming from ■ Jewish heart. Committee's representative obtained permission from the director of the Reconstruction Department to loan the Central bank $10,000 at 2', per cent interest. This money WAS at once loaned out to the subsidiary banks so that they could continue do- ing business until the confusion due to the change of Lithuanian currency would abate. The loan of $10,000 made it possible also, for the Central Bank to accept the government's offer. Normal con- ditions have thus been restored and loans to small traders and manufac- turers resumed. Two pieces of coin in one bag make more noise than a hundred. --The Talmud. Savings of 25 % to 40% on All Kinds of Apparel and Furnishings for Women at Heyn's January Clear- ance Sale. Now is the Time to Buy HEWS 1241.1243 Woodward "At the Crosswalk" ANIMMI. ■■■