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KEEP ALIVE ON ALTARS OF ISRAEL
THE ETERNAL FIRES 0 OUR FAITH"

An Authorized Interview With Louis Marshall.

By A. H. FROMENSON

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• -.4guished men was slightly tremulous, exclaimed: "1
smiled in the thought I was listening to an Isaiah
‘.1,../1 assembled in --to one of our Prophets." A bit ea-
last April to tele. travagant, no doubt, but indicative.
•ial culmination 141
It was the climax—the thrilling

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tine mfort, I.• s :.y David A. Browe, peroration of that marvelous address
to ri4 $11, 0 ...' 1 0 for
the relief of --which had this moving effect. It
the wa , striekm, Jews" of Eastern was Mr. Marshall's stirrin • reminder
Furore and I aws.ine have many good that the Jews of America have prob-
tens:41r for eherishing in their stem- Ions of their own, problems which
sae • that thrilhag event. One of the they & H.,. no t longer
features of that historic .weasion made the profoundest impression,
which they will remember longest was
Problem of Education.
the mat%•lolls address delivered by
"I pray to lani from the bottom of
Louis Ma:Raab at the opening of the
afterisoon session. Even the news- sly heart," said Mr. Marshall, that
papermen present, calloused (wings, the time will soon be here when it will
'Led up," ninny of them, by addresses not be necessary' for us to conduct
by the great and near-great to which campaigns for the relief of our breth-
they were compelled to listen during ren abroad, so that we may turn our
the course of their work, were thrilled eyes upon the problems that confront
even as the assembly of leaders was um here in the United States, that we
thrilled. When the orator ha4 finished may be enabled before long to engage
there was a silence that wakjeener, in campaigns for the collection of
louder even than the cheers which funds necessary to grapple with the
rang out when the gathering had most momentous problem that has
pulled itself together. A distinguished ever confronted American Jewry.
Jewish writer, who sat at the press That is the problem of Jewish educa-
table, turned to me and in a voice that tion.

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keynote of the interview I had with an automobile, notwithstanding a re-
him a few days ago.
cent sneer by a demagogue that Mr.
A Journalist'. Ambition.
Nlarshall "lolled to and from business
For years !Once %anted to inter- in a high-priced limousine.' However,
view Mr. Marshall. Recognized by his it was the man whu sounded that stir-
own people as the filreniost Jew in ring prophet-like call to the Jews of
America, tanking as a leader in the America to think of the future of Ju-
eyes of the Jews of the world, re- daism in this country I had gone to
garded by the American people as one interview.

of the most distinguished citizens of
the Republic( and the authoritative
spokesman of the ,Jews on all ques-
tions of Jewish concern, an interview
with him has always been my journal-
istic ambition. Mr. Marshall always
makes Komi "ropy." lVlost he dies,
what he says, is always nap stunt, al-
ways "spot !sews," and o n ly in the
Jewish but also in the general press.
For, outside of Jewish life, Mr. Mar-
shall is conspicuous. Ile is one of the
greatest constitutional lawyers in the
United States. He is one of the out-
standing figures in the political party
with whit:i he is affiliated. He is
strong in his convictions, relentless,
fearless, outspoken and determined.
In Jewish life his position is tower-
ing.

"While Standing on One Foot."

Mr. Marshall talked to me in his of-
fice—at that desk 4)f his which over-
whelms one who catches sight for the
first time of that mass of papers,
briefs, appeal hooks and legal flan-
meats, and volumes of all s its which
is piled up on it for his IMMeMati
attention. It is only When one sees
that desk that ume understands how
busy he is and why. Sitting at
desk, I plunged into the particular
to ire' I Wanted him to discuss, bee/inst.,
after all, the subject nearest his heart
is Jewish education.
"Talk to me of Jewish olneation,"
I said.
"While standing on one foot ?The re-

tinned became members of the board
at the request of Dr. Schechter," Mr.
Nlarshall said, ':but neither Mr. Schiff
nor any other one of the so-called Re-
form Jews on the board have ever in-
terfered, even by so much as a sugges-
tion, with the form, content or meth-
ods of teaching pursued in the Sem-
inary, nor"— and this he said with
all the emphasis he can give words—
"nor anyone ever ventured to intimate
the wish to make propaganda for any
particular shade of Jewish thought.
All that we have desired, all that we
now desire, is that the Seminary
should educate Rabbis in everything
taught by our ancient Rabbis and to
enable its graduates to apply this
knowledge to the needs of modern
Jewish life.

"Accordingly', the Seminary is about
to launch an appeal fur an additional
endowment fund of $1,000,000. It is,
worth noting that it has never before
Manly an appeal to the Jews of this
country. We have the right to ex-
pect that every right thinking Jew
will be swift to respond to this ap-
tor1 reminded him 44' his Detroit speech peal. Should the Seminary now fail
For all his strength of conviction, and asked him what he had in mind from lack of financial support it
he is without prejudice. For instance, when he uttered that Moving perora- would, indeed, be a sad day for ad-
he is not a Zionist, in the political tion.
herence to Judaism. The responsibil-
sense of that term. Yet no one has
"I had everything of Jewish inter- ity rests on every Jew and must not,
been more firmly, more outspokenly est in America in mind when I spoke," he shirked."
the friend of the Zionists than he. Mr. N1arshall replied. "Our children
Ile caught the question that was
Sono. years ago there was at move- are growing up into manhood and framing itself on niy lips: "Our •
ment afoot to start an anti-Zionist womanhom1 with almost no Jewish young people born and educated in',
"We are now organized. We must movement in this country. Mr. Mar- education. If we would make of them this country insist on English-speak
prepare for a continuance of that or- shall killed it—killed it with a word. good Jews, good citizens and desirable ing Rabbis. Nlenibers of the rabbinate
ganization that as amongst those of On many occassions he has come to members of society, We must train coming here Iron) 1111111/141, WhateVer
every other denomination, the means their support, their defense. Ile is a them in the faith. We must teach their scholarship, whatever their
shall be forthcoming from the Jews to Reform Jew -president of Temple them the meaning of Judaism, what it spiritual attributes, cannot reach our
enable Jewish children to he brought Emanu-El, New York. Yet he has means as a world force, its signifi- youth, because they do n44 understand!
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
up .lewishly, that they may know their alusays been the strong rock on which cance us II civilizing influence and their psychology. Jewish children in
own noble history, that they may ap- the Orthodox Jews of this country what it May be mode into by an intel- this country reared in our public
preciate the great treasure, the Bible, have leaned. When he went abroad as ligent, educated body of Jews.
schools and familiar with American
that has been confided to them, that one of the delegates sent by the Amer-
"Since Oily I have insisted that as life, which is their life, cannot he
they may understand the beauties of ican Jewish Congress to the Peace . soon as the relief work in which we taught the tenets of their faith or the
Jewish life. We must be able to train Conference, he was strongly opposed have been engaged is over—and I be- history of their people in Yiddish.
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teachers and Rabbis, we toast have to the theory of Jewish national right. lieve that fur all practical purposes Most of them do not even relish the,
writers and persons to supply Jewish Yet at Paris, true to his mandate, he it is about over now except for the idea of living addressed in
that
literature for our homes.
fought for them and secured the rec- work that still needs to he (lane for tongue. On the other hand, they
"I say here, and I say it advisedly, ognition of "minority rights" as an the %ca• orphans, we shall have to em- eagerly desire to he Jews; they Want
that adversity sometimes brings with integral part of the constitutions of bark on a nation-wide effort to raise to know
the history, the literature,
it a blessing. Blessed are our adversi- Poland, Roumania, Austria, Ilungary, an adequate sum annually to deal with the traditions of their people; to un-
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ties. We may pluck from them the Czekosloyakia and Jugn-Slavia.
the problem of Jewish education in derstand why so ninny Jews, during
mportunity, the means fur doing
There are other phases of the many America."
sixty generations, were willing to be
Oa the Ocean Front
those things that will redound as a phased Louis Marshall I roUld touch
"Jewish education is a wide-sweep. martyred for the sake of their ideals..
perpetual boon, not only to the Jew, upon --his rare appreciation of art ing phrase," I interjected.
American and European Plans.
Ninny are interested its Hebrew as a
but to our beloved country, and to all which finds, perhaps, its best expres-
"I near it to be understood in the living language. They are anxious to
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It was this peroration, this stirring home; his marvelous ability to rec- shall replied. "I have in mind all are properly taught by such rabbis
Bathing From Hotel.
call to the Jews of America to deal ognize and to name off hand be- phases of Jewish education, beginning
and teachers as have been and are
with these problems that have arisen tween 100 and 500 wild flowers; his with the primary classes and going
JOEL HILLMAN. Peasidaet.
being trained in the Jewish Theologi-
in Jewish life in A merira that was the I interest in baseball; his refusal to own on through secondary schools to theo- cal Seminary they will be certain to
logical seminaries and the like. I have treasure Judaism and make the dont-,
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ment looking to the religious training
Shall They Become Atheists?
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if our youths—and our adults. I have
"I say,' went on ND. Marshall, with
in mind the development of a Jewish
literature and the encouragement of an eloquetwe almost equal to that with
Jewish scholarship in its multiform which he thrills those whu have heard'
phases. I have in mind the encour- him on the fuddle platform, "I say
aging of every cultural movement in that unless we are willing to alienate
which Jews are concerned. In such a our young people, unless we are will-,
1 irograin, consideration Must likewise ing to make them agnostics or sane-!
a. given to the cultural needs of Pal- ists, then the time has come for the
"On Grand Cs an Dark"
•stine and Eastern 1.:0ropean Jewry." Jews of America to preserve the insti-,
"And how would this program be tution which is best calculated to fos-•
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carried out, 11r. Marshall?" I asked. ter Judaism on this continent among'
"What means do you think ought be the vast majority of A noncan .1 ews.
"I am not afraid of anti-Semitisni.
employed?"
"To carry out this program," Mr. Our danger does nut lie in that direr-;
Marshall replied, "we must first of tiara. There is no reason to fear the I
' all educate a body of rabbis and attacks from without. lout we have
teachers spiritually endowed and men. every reason to fear the harm that
tally equipped fur the great work that may come from within, from the evil j
• needs to be done. Unless we have the consequences of continued neglect of I
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and cultural institu-
'educated forces at hand, which would t z ri;eligious

make the funds that might be raised
for these high purposes utilizable,
t hen we are indulging in mere genes-
; dines and are not attacking the prob-
tmi in practical fashion. And for
t hese high purposes we must use all of
he institutions now existing and cre-
st,. such new institutions as may he-
cane necessary.

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kind of Jew they art.. I only know
the Jew and Judaism without qualify-
ing words. The problem of .lewish
dueation must concern every Jew as
a Jew. I repeat that fur the solving
of that great problem of Jewish mill-
Il l ion in America we must, •.f course,
work with existing institutions.
It
would not only be unwise, it would be
mitninal, to ignore or to disregard any
of them, whether they be theological
eminaries, as we understand the
; ern,, or Yeshilmtlis. As Jews, we must
ill work together for the great pur-
pose of preserving Judaism and the
trinciples for which it stands.
"In New York, or rather in the
'astern section of the United States,"
Mr. Marshall went on, "we have the
I largest body of Jews in this country.
The great majority of them, as is true
also of the great majority of Jews in
America, are adherents of traditional
Itulaism. The Jewish Theological
Seminary was organized 40 years ago,
in New York City, to perpetuate the
! principles of traditional Judaism, to
train Rabbis who would be exponents
of that phase .4f our religion which
appeals to the majority of the Jews
of this country.
"But, it was never the idea of the
founders of the Seminary that the
Rabbis trained there should be bound
unalterably to any particular school
..f .Jewish thought. That is nut within
our power. Indeed when the late Dr.
Solomon Schechter was installed as
the head of that great institution he
declared that it was his ambition to
train educated men familiar with Ju-
daism in all its aspects. The Sem-
inary seeks to train men to imbibe
Judaism and what it stands for, and
there has never been the slightest de-
sire on the part of anybody connected
with the institution to control a man's
thoughts, so lung as he remains loyal
to the fundamentals of Judalsm.
'Since it began its activities, the
Jewish Theological Seminary has
graduated over 150 rabbis—men who
sand high in their communities and
in their congregations. The Teach-
ers' Institute of the Seminary has ed-
ucated a host of Jewish pedagogues,
and today there is scarcely a religious
school in the country that has not one
or more of the graduates of that in-
stitute on its staff.
"But during all these years support
for the Seminary has come from a
mere handful of people. ND. Jacob II.
Schiff, of blessed memory, was One
of the first to recognize its essential
importance, and although he was
closely identified with the Hebrew
Union College and with Temple
Emanu-EI and Itt.th.EI, he ,Was eon
vinced of the tremendous need for
training Rabbis who would he quali-
fied to interpret and to become the
exponents of traditional Judaism in
• America. Ile realized that this could
be done only in an institution train-
ing English-speaking Rabbis and im-
parting to them a familiarity with
modern pedagogic methods."

No Interference by Directors.
I commented on what some would
consider the anomaly of so many Re-
form Jews being directors of the Sem-
inary; Mr. Marshall himself; Felix
M. Warburg, Adolph Lewisohn, Wil-
liam Gersttey of Philadelphia, Judges
Irving !Arnim, Samuel Greenbaum
and Sol M. Stroock.
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"All of those whom you have men.

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is the duty of every Jew in this criti-
cal hour!"
I felt the last word—a tremendous-
ly powerful word —had been spoken.
I gathered up my notes and prepared
to go.
"One thing let me add," Mr. Mar-
shall said in parting. "I want you to
express my gratitude to David A.
Brown, who has become deeply inter-
ested in the subject, recognizing, as
he does, its commanding importance.

I am unspeakably happy that he hat
consented to act in an advisory
ea.
parity to Rabbi Max Drob, who is to
direct the campaign. 'Fo David Br ow ,
there is no such thing as leaving a
job unfinished. Ile is not one of thm.
who drops his pickaxe and shot..
when the 5 o'clstek,whistle blows. With
such valiant aid as he will render, I
am confident that the Jews of Amer-
ica Will rejoice to support our ap-
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But why should Reform Jews con-
tribute to a fund fur the maintenance
of an institution like the Jewish The-
ological Seminary?" was, I thought,
a fair question to put to Mr. Marshall
at this point.
"Because they are Jews!" came the
response. "All Jews are interested
as Jews, in the same fundamental
doctrines fur the maintenance of
which their fathers struggled and for
the perpetuation of which their an-
cestors gladly laid down their lives.
Whether t hey belong to Temple
F:manu-EI or to some little Orthodox
rhevra or to a conservative styna-
gogue, t hey are all deeply concerned
in preserving our sacred literature
anti in keeping alive those great things
of the spirit taught by our poets, or
prophets and our sages, which are es-
sential to the establishment of a bet-
ter world and a nobler civilization.
The Reform Jews who became mem-
bers 44 the Seminary Board at Dr.
Schechter 's request did so because
they felt hound to do their part in
this vital task. We are happy we have I
participated in it because we have at
least helped to keep alive on the altars
of Israel in America, the eternal fires
of our faith. That, sir, in a sentence,

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