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Republican Germany means to do better by the memory of Heinrich
Heine than Imperial Germany did. A bronze tablet has been placed on the
house in Taubenntrasse No. 32, in Berlin, where Heine lived a century ago;
a similar honor has been shown Heine in Dusseldorf.
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The Munich police department has issued an order prohibiting the wear-
ing of "provoking political emblems." The movement is understood to be
directed against the Ilakenkreuzler display of the anti-Semitic ''swastika"
emblem. The National Socialists and the Fascist! are very much wrought
up over the order.
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Assembly nt Riga. The vote was 40 to 37 in favor of the resolution, the
Socialists and deputies representing the minority nationalities carrying the
resolution with a narrow margin.
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The J. T. A. representative at Vienna learns that the novelist and dra-
matic critic, Felix Salten, a friend of the late Dr. Theodor Herz!, is leaving
for Palestine, together with the great German writer, Gerhardt Hauptmann.
On his return from Palestine Mr. Salten will undertake a campaign on be-
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Jews who were innocently strolling the streets of Lodz were attacked
by young students armed with rubber cudgels similar to those used by the
Bavarian Faacisti. The attack wan unexpected and without any provoca-
lon. Scores of Jews are nursing injuries as a result of the rowdyism,
which in some way may be connected with the textile strike there.
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The two labor representatives of the municipality of Tel Aviv resigned
n protest against the action of the municipality police and of the British
gendarmerie In interfering during the clash between organized and unor-
ganized building trades laborers. In consequence of this clash, 25 persona
were injured and 20 taken into custody. Of the latter, each was sentenced
o a week's imprisonment. • •
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Kameneff, president ofthe Moscow Soviet, has issued an order prohibit-
ng the further confiscation of synagogues. A statement to this effect was
made by M. Kameneff to a deputation of the Moscow Jewish community
(Kehillah), headed by Rabbi Fuchs. Kameneff also promised the delegation
hat he would consider their plea for the return to their original possessors
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s Alfred Rosenberg, said to be a Jewish apostate. In his book the claim
a made that Ached llaam is the author of the protocols and that the late
Drs. Herzl and Nordau were associated in the authorship.
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The famous Socialist Dr. Friedrich Adler, son of Dr. Victor Adler, the
founder of the Austrian Social Democratic party, is going to London in
order to settle there permanently in his capacity as secretary of the Socialist
International, Ile has stated that he will consequently not stand any more
as a candidate for the Austrian Chamber. In 1916 Dr. Fritz Adler killed
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sands of tomes and also there are an.
chant textbooks on geometry, with
problems drawn in red ink by hand,
with great preciseness. The reading
matter,, of course, was printed by
them. Palliative relief is exhaustive; hand. a report to lir. Cyrus Adler, act-
constructive effort will find a tireless ing president of the seminary, and to
constructive
■nd active American Jewry.
other trustees, Professor Marx said
that the Adler collections had in-
Our Future Generations. creased the institution's possession of
Will the later generations of Amer. Ilebrew incunabula from 65 to 82,
Iran Jewry constantly lose more and four of the additions being unique.
more of their Jewish consciousness? Additions in the way of non-Hebrew
We are inclined to disagree with the incunabula are six books in Latin
publisher of the Day on this point. and two in German.
And again we do so by comparing,
'Similarly, our collection of the
the conditions existing in our corn- earliest books printed in Constanti-
munities today with those that exist- nople, Salonica and Venice is enor-
ed before the war. Take any corn- mouldy enriched and many unique
munity you wish, and you find that items are added," siad Professor
enthusiasm for things Jewish has in- Marx's report. "To mention a few
creased a thousand fold. We find Constantinople books at random, we
that where Jewish consciousness was get an unknown treatise on the calen-
non-exitent five years ago it is flour- der of 1510; the alphabet of Ben
ishing today. The Ford propaganda Sim, 1519; Yedayah of Beziers, Se-
and the pogrom waves abroad may vex Hapardes. 1520; the printed frag-
have been the causes for the revival ment of the first edition of the Sara
of the Jewish spirit. But, regardless with Abraham ben David's commen-
of the causes, the effects have been tury, 1520; part of Kimhi's Grammar
marvelously encouraging. At no time of 1525, unicorn; Abraham Ibn Ezra,
in the history of the American Jew- Yesod Morale, 1530, and Joseph YA-
M community did the Hebrew school be; Hasde Hashem, 1532, from the
flourish as it does today. Jewish library of the famous bibliographer
mhools are opening daily and cultural at anysn s, and an unknown letter
activity is on the increase. And the writer, Shebet Sorer, dated 1545.
interesting point about all these ac- "The collection of early Bibles is
tivities is that the leadership is taken very remarkable and includes the ex-
not by the newcomer to these shores cessively rare Pentateuch of Con-
but by the fully Americanized Jew, stantinople, 1505, of which we get
and in many eases by the native born.' Genesis and Exodus printed on vel-
The signs of the Jewish spirit dying lum and the Ilaftoroth and Megilloth
out are not as evident today as they on paper.
were several years ago and a com-
"Most striking is the collection on
plete revival of Jewish consciousness the Spanish Inquisition, which in-
will come not by preaching its non- eludes most important documents in
existence and by praying for an im- print and manuscripts and a wealth
migrant element that will introduce of books.
it here, but by work in our own midst
"The collection of manuscripts,
that will make our consciousness a which includes many thousands of
living element. Too much has been Genizah fragments bound in thin
said about the European Jew keep- volumes and many loose ones which
ing our culture alive in America, and are still unclassed, is enormously
too often have we been disappointed rich in all branches of Jewish litera-
by the lack of real spirit on the part tore. We find a very large number
of those from whom we expect so of most important Biblical 'menu-
much. The American Jew must work scripts from various countries, such
out his own salvation, and it is as Persia, Yemen, Spain and Italy,
through his own efforts that the con- many of them with very old Masora,
sciousness of our people will be kept ' translations and glossaries in various
alive. The growth during the pastlanguages."
few years of Ilebrew culture and I Officials of the se inary said that
study has been inspiring. It can be when the collection has been prop-
increased many fold by a united of-lerly arranged, it wi be made avail-
fort for real Jewish cultural wdrk. I able to the public.
The impetus for it has been supplied
by the work for Palestine on the one
hand and by the ferocious anti-Semi-
tic propaganda on the other. But the
impetus is here, regardless of the
source. Let us make the best 1 ' 5 ' I
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ready for Shabbos and they were
bright and shining, with the candles
The Ancient Order of Ilibernians was urged in convention in Montreal SEMINARY SECURES
ready to be lighted. Now she set
to wage war on the Ku Klux Klan. President James Decry said that no
GREATEST JEWISH all
them on the bench and spread her
greater duty faced the order than exposure of the Klan. Ile urged support
white
apron beneath them, for a
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of the Unity League of America, which, he said, was organized in the
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United States to cambat the Klan there. "In the United States," he said,
One
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"it is not the Jews or Negroes or Catholics who are in danger. It is Ameri-
had sent many boys to the common
can liberty."
General Fernando Martinez Mama-earlier in the afternoon with bottles
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Pugilistic ability is seen as the antidote for anti-Semitism in the opinion renhas and other theologians. of milk and great baskets of bread;
In several cases the collections mother had kept our share of the
of Arthur Brisbane. Commenting on the Leonard-Tendler fight in his yielded
parts of ancient books and food. Taking the loaf, she told me
column in the Ilearst papers, entitled "Today," Brisbane declares that in two instances
the missing part was to fill the kiddush cup with milk, and
Bennie Leonard's ability to defeat any Christian fighter of his class has
found
to
be among the records al- this and the bread she placed upon
done more to foster respect for Jews than the entire galaxy of brilliant
in the possession of the Jewish the table which she had set our for
Jewish authors. "Such is the state of our civilization," is Brisbane's pessi- ready
Theological Seminary. These books us out there under the sky,
mistic conclusion.
were commentaries on the Jewish
Then she put the baby into my
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law.
arms, lit the candles, covered her
Sidney C. linger, student at Hebrew Union College, is conducting Friday
Among the curious volumes, writ- face and recited the blessing. When
evening services at Camp Awanee, Brandon, Vt., a girls' camp. These ten in script as clear as though pen- she turned to take Esther again her
services are attended by about 70 girls and 10 counsellors. At Camp Twin net yesterday, is Abraham Zacute's eyes
shining like the candles,
Lake, a boys' camp in Brandon, Vt., Mr. Unger is conducting services every Almanach Perpetuum, issued at Dor.' and were
I did not feel frightened any
Sabbath morning. These services are attended by 120 boys, 20 counsellors tas in 1490. Both author and scrive- more.
and about 15 adults, mostly parents. Both of these camps have a volunteer ners of this book were Jews, and it
There were other Jewish women
choir of campers.
was a copy of the Almanach which who had saved their candle sticks and
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Columbus used on his travels and those who had not borrowed a bit
The skeleton unearthed by diggers beneath the foundation of a syna- from which he predicted the eclipse of candle and fastened their Shabbos
gogue in Debra, Hessen, is at least a century old. whereas the synagogue by which he so much impressed the lights upon a piece of board and
was built only some 40 years ago. These facts were developed following American Indians. This book is in blessed them, after seeing what my
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an investigation by the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. excellent condition. The seminary mother had done. And so by the
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1Dexpite the fact that the skeleton was there long before the synagogue, also obtained a second edition of the time all the saes came out there were
anti-Semites are trying to connect it with the synagogue, alleging it is that book, put out in Venice in 1502, many little twinkling stars shining
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The oldest book so far unpacked we were keeping the Sabbath,
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Thirly•second; Grand River, half Mock shove Joy Road; West Jefferson
is a Bible, splendidly illuminated,
I remember little else of the great
Twenty Jewish tradesmen were seriously wounded, a number fatally which is the work of the ninth cen- fire, except that father broke down
hurt and damages to Jewish property estimated at 1,000,000 marks were tury. This boqk„however is a copy for a little while when he saw the
sustained as a result of the mob attack at Lituov, in the Vilna district, of an earlier work. In between
an bread and the cup of milk and the
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according to reports reaching Warsaw. The attack, which occurred at the ancient tome, with wooden covers and candles. But he recited the blessing
annual market fair and was carried out by visiting peasants, was entirely an equally old but tiny volume with' for the milk and bread, and he
unexpected by the Jewish tradesmen. But the manner in which the assault an old strip of fabric attached to it blessed us children just as though we
took place indicates it was thoroughly mapped out and planned in advance. —apparently so that the owner might ' were at home. It was not until years
Following the attack on the tradesmen, the mob broke into Jewish homes "toe" the book to himself—Professor afterwards that he told me how much
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and stripped them of all valuables. Marx came across a volume with an that night had meant to him, and
interesting foreword. It read, in old how mother's Shabbos table had given
Relics that date back to Biblical times were unearthed by explorers M Hebrew characters:
him courage to begin all over again .
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the archaeological expedition headed by Professor Adolf Schultens, in
"This book, in which are the twen-
And though I was but a boy at the
Huelva, capital of Andalusia, Spain. Among the articles found by the dig- ty-four books of Scripture, was writ- time—more unhappy than you can
gets were a mass of bronze weapons and tools, including 50 bronze swords. ten by the hand of the learned R, imagine because I could not go to
Courteous and Careful Drivers
They are believed to have come from the city of Tarshish, famed as a com- Abraham Caliph in the •t of To- my ic Sund ay—1 , too, felt
mensal center in the days of King Solomon, which is generally believed ledo, which is in Spain. And it was something of the splendid courage
to have been situated in Southern Spain. Great historical significance ts finished in the month of Nissan, 5252 and strength of my mother, and
attached to the discoveries by German archaeologists.
Anno Mundi, for the most learned R. through her learned a little of the
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The governments of Great Britain, France and New Zealand have com- (Samuel). May the Lord permit him courage and strength of all the Jew-
to meditate therein—him and his seed ish mothers all over the world.
municated to the league's secretariat their annual . reports for the council and his seed's seed forever. And on
That is why, I think, I am not ut-
on the administration of the mandated territories. The French report deals the seventh of the month of Ab, in terly discouraged when great dangers
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New Zealand reports deal with their respective mandates in Talestine and rusalem which were in Spain went pie, just as the flames swept over our
Samoa. These reports will be examined by th e League Mandate Commis- forth dismayed and banished by the quarter in my boyhood. For no mat.
Rion. A section of the constitution of the mandates commission provides king's command. May they come ter what desolation comes to our
that a mandatory power may appoint a representative to appear before back with joy, bearing their sheaves. people, there will always be the Jew-
the commission in order to explain the report presented by his government And I, Haim Ibn Haim, have written ish mothers to kindle the Shabbos
and to answer any questions.
therein part of the Mossera and the lights that will shine like stars
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variants in the year 5257 in the city through the darkness.—(J e wish
American industry needs large numbers of cheaper laborers, Secretary of Constantinople. May salvation be Child.)
of Labor Davis. who is studying immigration at first hand sources, declared at hand!"
in an interview with representatives of the Vienna press. The United
Poems penned in the thirteenth
States Congress approving, the Department of Labor expects a revision of and fourteenth centuries with deli-
the immigration laws, Mr. Davis said. The new law will probably provide cately inscribed borders are in the
for the raising of the quota in certain instances. Mr. Davis said the indus- collection, the verses, sometimes in
tries, the farm and public opinion in America in general are favorably dis- Latin, sometimes in Spanish, but
posed towards an increase in the quota, which will yield a cheaper and mostly in Ilebrew, being as distinct
greater labor force. Unemployment has all but completely disappeared, he as traceries made yesterday. Much
added. Secretary Davis was received by the Austrian Premier, Dr. Siepel. lore about the Jewish physicians,
He is proceeding from Vienna to Rome.
rated then as the greatest of healers,
is contained in numerous books.
The District Council of Edmonton, a suburb of London, decided to pro- These were picked up in out of the
test to the Ministry of Health against the granting of an application for way corners in Egypt, Turkey and
the purchase of 19 acres in the district as a Jewish cemetery. Councillor Persia.
Perry, opposing the sale of the ground to the Jews, declared that it was
In this section are included the
"deplorable" to see some of the capers at Jewish funeral parties, where famous Avicenus canon of medicine,
games of cards and drinking was indulged in, while at other Jewish ceme- written in the fifteenth century, an
teries of the district Jews were in the habit of weeping and gnashing their original work of the same period by
teeth. The Edmonton children, he said, were frightened enough from the Nathan de Joel Palquera and a He-
air raids during the war. Edmonton already has two Jewish cemeteries. brew glossary of Arabic and Latin
The ground was offered to Edmonton Council as a recreation park for medical terms. In the book by Pal-
14,000, but the cemetery company's bid was £900 pounds more annually, quera, the author has written: "I
with an offer of a 30 years' lease.
have writen this commentary at the
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request of Joseph Cohen, Court Phy-
Emigrants from the Ukraine and White Russia will not be required to sician of the great King, Bayazet,
secure a transit visa at Moscow, the New York office of the Idgescom Sultan of Turkey." Also in the col-
informs the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, correcting this agency's recent lections is an autograph by Malmo-
report that emigrants would require no visas whatever. According to the nides, great physican and philoso-
Idgescom representatives, only the necessity of proceeding to Moscow pher, whose works are regarded as
has been obviated, emigrants being able to apply in Gharkov, Kiev, Odessa having had an extraordinary influ-
and Minsk. The American bureau of the Idgescom reports the receipt of the ence on Judaism.
following cable from Moscow: "A decree of the Soviet government pub-
"Magic Prescriptions.
lished in the official lzviestia provides that persons who suffered in pogroms,
Could we keep it up unless we held our old customers as well
A novelty among the books devoted
and emigrants in dire circumstances, are released from payment of pass- to the old arts of healing is a small
as secured new ones? Do you realize that the main factor in this
port fees, which every emigrant from Russia has had to pay. This decree volume, about as large as a man's
was adopted following the representations by the Idgescom.
growth has been "SERVICE"?
hand, written by an Arabian Jew in
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either the fifteenth or sixteenth cen-
The Menorah Summer School, conducted by the Intercollegiate Menorah tury. In the small pages in almost
Association, is now in full swing, having opened its sessions in New York microscopic characters are 1,300 pre-
July 9 in the building of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, 41 scriptions and many of them are
West Eighty-sixth street. Among the lecturers are Professor Foakes-Jack- "magic." Included in the suggestions
son of the Union Theological Seminary and Professor Jacob Mann of the ; on scorcery is one that discloses how
Ilebrew Union College. Other members of the faculty are Dr. Julius to induce sleep: the "physician" is
21 Convenient Branches
Drachsler of City College, New York; Dr. Isaac Ilusik of the University of advised to take • tooth from a black
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Pennsylvania; Dr. Nathan Isaacs of the University of Pittsburg; Dr. Horace dog and place it beneath the pillow
M. Kaftan of the New School for Social Research; Dr. Jacob Z. Lauterbach, of the one afflicted with insomnia
Ilebrew Union College; Dr. Max L. Margolies, Dronsie College; Dr. 11. S. Deep sleep is predicted for as long
Linfield of the Bureau for Jewish Social Research; Rabbi Louis A. Mischkind as the magic tooth from the black
and Henry Hurwitz, chancellor of the Menorah. A series of lectures on dog is kept under the head rest.
the conditions of Jews in Europeat countries is given by Marvin Lowenthal,
The op where courtesy
ils.
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