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Where o'er her needle bent his weary And found therein what had been hid
•
before,
years old I could climb a ladder and
wife
A wisdom sage
paint like my boss. Once I fell down
By the lamp's dim glow.
That
made
his life far richer, and
and broke a foot. I couldn't work for
"Art ill? Why else thy study o'er so
more sweet;
a long time. When 1 got well I de-
noon?
By
PROFESSOR
CARL
RATHJENS
Ile humbly then
cided I would learn something else.
Alarmed she cried.
By ETHEL TAUROG
(University of Hamburg.)
"So soon! Nay, overlate! Ere long, Thanker! God for message that had
"I always envied people when I saw
made him one
perchance,
them looking in a book or a newspa-
(Copyright, 1923, Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)
With the world of men.
My soul had died!"
It was a pleasant summer day. We sketch leisurely, and I lost myself in per. It seemed a wonder to m e when'
—I. R. Hess (The Ark.)
a
world
of
dreams.
We
might
have
i
n
would
bury
himself
n
a
big
were sitting on the veranda of the
a m a
(EDITOR'S NOTE: — Interest learn more, who live among Ancobers From that night On a new' Reb Yussuf
w Paint summer resort, the early been sitting there but a few minutes newspaper. All of a sudden he would
Vi e
aroused recently in the movement and became pseudo-Christians. Bruce
or
As
many
hours.
In
the
cool
shad-
lived.
raise his head and begin to tell you
guests of the season. We were loung-
headed by hr, Feitelowitch for the estimated the Falashas at the begin-
Upon his back
ing abut listlessly, expressing the en- owy seclusion of the woods we had lost all kinds of things happening all over
betterment of the conditions of the ning of the eighteenth century at Through country lane and o'er the
nui of the overentertamed city dwell- our sense of time, when we both start- the world. The newspaper could tell
ed as the white-haired man of the pre- you everything—what kings were do- Falashas, or Abyssinian Jews, makes about 100,000. Markedly higher is
winding roads
ers when they find themselves in the
the estimate of Stern who was a mis-
ing, that there was a tire in Switzer- the offering of an extract from Pro-
Ile bore a pack.
"sylvan solitudes," thrown upon them- vious day stood before us.
We stared at him in an embarrassed land, an earthqpake in Italy, a war in fessor Rathjens' book, timely. The sionary and, what is more, a special Ile learnol to know the call of %e.t.d.
for
amusements.
Pell,
book, which has just been published, Falasha missionary and was surely
land birds,
Down the path leading from one of fashion, not knowing what the proper America. Everything the newspapers
theme for conversation with a person knew. If I could only read! When- is the result of an investigation con- the most deeply interested although
The flwn:nee rat..
inclined to make their number appear
th e prettiest cottages of the hotel who is "a little bit-off" would be.
ever I would walk on the street I ducted on the spot and of an exhaus- larger. Ile estimates them at about Of roadmone blooms. He had not
came a sloop-shouldered, bare headed
He probably noticed our confusion, would look up at the signs and spell tine study of all extant literature on
List Upon Request
dreamed that life
mar, his heavy white hair glistening
because he smiled at us reassuringly. them out slowly; that is, the signs in the subject. The extracts given here- a quarter of a million, a supposition
Was half so fair!
431 Griswold St,
which is exaggerated, in my opinion,
in tie s unshine.
The conversation, which had been "I hope you do not care if an old man Yiddish, for we had moved to a large with are mainly on points which have even in these days. On the other hand With hands toil roughened now he
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traced at night
desultory, now drifted to the various sits down here near you young people town. Well, when I decided that I hitherto been in doubt, such as the the Jewish Year Book of 1901 esti-
place.; where delightful vacations for a while. I noticed you right away would work by something where you number of Falashas and their origin.) mates only 50,000 souls. Identical
The sacred page,
C
yesterday." He indicated the painting don't have to climb no ladders and
could he spent.
with the latter is the estimate of Fait-
"If I had money," said a young, lady. "You seemed more like the kind break feet. I got a job as an errand
From what we know thus far about lovitch who visited the Falashas for
alight girl with a wistful expression of a girl I used to meet when I first boy in a small printing shop, with a
missionary reasons in behalf of the
came
to
this
country.
There
ain't
very
promise
that
they
would
leach
me
Falashas
we
can
assume
with
approx-
in her blue eyes, whom the others had
Jewish Falasha Committee. There is
dubbed the painting lady because she many like them now. Mayme there is. printing. Because I was never lazy , imate certainty, that they are a mix-
marked difference between assump-
Anyhow,
I
never
meet
them.
I
know
to
run
an
errand
and
anxious
to
make
tore
of
the
native
Agau
and
immigra-
oods
INisi. at dawn to go out in thew
tions and the estimate of Rabbi Na-
to make sketches of quaint•looking you ain't like the rest or you would he myself useful, the typesetter under- led Semites. Some of these inuni- hum, who was sent to Abyssinia by
like
them,
in
your
bed
room
painting
took
to
teach
me
Russian,
the
little
•
grated
Semites
were
unquestionably
trees and odd wild flowers. "If 1 had
the Alliance Israelite Universelle to
money," she reitearted, "I'd go to It- yourself up for breakfast and decid- that he himself knew, I bought my- of Jewish origin and some were Routh- determine whether help should be ex-
ing which dress you should put on— self a little grammar with the mon- ern Arabs, who probably formed a
aly at once, and I'd—"
tended to Falashas by the European
Leaning on the porch railing, his the one which show's more neck or es I was supposed to buy myself a cap. uniform people, who were called Axu-
energetic relief program. Nahum,
head resting on his hand, the white- noire feet, or more both. I see you are And I wore my torn, childish hat, that miles before they mixed with Agu. In who as a matter of fact was in Fa-
haired mar paused, apparently to rest, surprised I should know so much, but covered a small part of the top of my no case do the F'alashes of today owe
lashas in great haste and, therefore,
I
got
daughters--two
of
them—and
a
head,
happily.
With
the
price
of
a
hat
their
character
and
religion
to
Joe-
when suddenly he burst forth in an-
To All My Friends and Acquaintances
SAW only a very few of them, esti-
gry tones, in seeming irrelevancy: daughter-in-law, and, and—a wife." 1 could learn to read Russian! Who ish missionaries as is assumed in some mates them at the very small number
Ile
bit
his
lips
in
apparent
anguish.
could compare himself with me? The quarters. From the Judaic traces in
"You want to be a painter, an artist?
Then he picked up the book that lay at typesetter was secretly a member of the Christian Abyssinian cult we may of 6,000-7,000. I would assert with
Beg for poverty, then. If you have no
the Revolutionist party, and when he conclude that a great part of the certainty that this figure is altogether
money, bless your fortune that you nip feet.
'Ah! 'A Midsummer Nights Dream.' had proved to himself that I could be Auxmites adhered to the Jewish faith too low and would even conclude, con-
have none. There is no limit to what
sidering the crypt(' and scattered Fa-
you may become. But don't ask for The right place to read it, here in the trusted he introduced me to the party. before the introduction of Christian-
lashes that even the estimate of Fait-
money. With it conies a curse, a curse, woods." We glanced at one another 11'h•n I was sixteen years old I was an ity.
surreptitiously, the painting lady and active member. Through the party I There is still an uncertainty pre- lovitch is below the actual truth.
a curse."
From 50,000 to 100,000 Falashas are
I,
our
glances
indicating
our
amaze-
(Certified Public Accountant)
heard
educated
pepole,
Scarcely glancing at as or waiting
veiling as to how Jews came to Abys-
ment that the man—"a little off"— lecture. I heard the names of big men sinia. Most probably they came by surely still living in Abyssinia.
to bear a reply he walked on.
was
a
man
of
culture,
This
scarcely
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"Ile's a little bit off," whispered a
way a the Red Seat and from the
lady sitting closely to me. "His daugh- harmonized with the impression we f than any newspapers. I was al- slut. re advanced into the inner part of
had
gained
of
the
rest
of
the
family,
ready able to read slowly and to un- the Axumitic empire; and upon the
ter-in-law herself told me. Not vio-
lent, you know. Wouldn't hurt a fly, living in the prettiest cottage—the derstand a little of what I read.
forcible introduction of into
overdressed, overbejewelled ladies who
"Then some of the leaders were the were driven back Into the re-
but talks flashy, you know." She took
out her pocket mirror and brushed her came in evening gown to the hotel din- caught and sent to Siberia. A few : mote regions, where they reside to the Above the sacred page In attic room
Ref) Yussuf bent—
members of the party had to leave present day. The tradition prevail-
curled bob hair upward, a la mode Cir- ing room fur their morning meal.
for Economical Transportation
"I read this hook," he remarked, as Russia. They persuaded me to go with P mg among them, that they came train Beside him, in the gloom, a little lamp
cassian, while she asserted: "You
though
sensing
our
amazement,
"and
Its glimmer lent.
them.
know, some one said that there are as
Northway
"In England I found work in a Jew-(north
and consequently
moving and from
advancing
up So always, day by day, and night by
Northway
many insane people running around I ...oak! understand a lot of what • I
. the Nile,
the west,
night,
loose as there are in an asylum. I cad. 'I ao see, I never went to no kin
ish printing shop. The other working- . is devoid of solid ground, although
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O'er tome he pored
i the sac-
think it was some professor in a lec- of a school in my life. My father died men were good fellows, idealists, who the common characteristics in
when I was nine years old, and I was would rather hear a lecture on Mere- rifice cult practiced on the Elephan• Nor heeded how the stream of busy
ture said it. Ain't it terrible?"
life
The next morning I arose at dawn the oldest of five children. We lived lure and the drama than to eat a good t tine Island and by the ' , Mashes are
About him roared.
and went with the painting lady to in a little village in Russia. There meal. Often some of us would go with- suggestive.
was
no
kind
of
a
school
not
even
a
out
supper,
buy
an
apple,
and
go
to
a
the woods, where she promised to in-
troduce me to her friends—the quaint Cheder, not even a rebbe, to teach us lecture with our supper money. That's While this is being printed the edi- Was it not writ that all mans duty is
To know the Law?
trees, the odd wild flowers, the inquis- a little Hebrew. My father taught me where I heard about Shakespeare. In for happens to come across a study by
itive, queer-shaped myriads of flies the alphabet, and I could stammer out the same way that I learned to read Conte Rossini C., "Appunti di stores Who else save him who constant
a
few'
simple
prayers.
Russian
and
Yiddish
I
now
learned
to
e
lette•atura
Falascia
Rivista
degli
studied deep
and butterflies, the dew-drenched
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"First 1 was apprenticed to a paint- read English. Studi Orientali VIII. 1920 S, 663."
Was without flaw?
messes and grasses,
Italian orientalist deals closely What mattered it if wife were bent
from
er.
I
helped
him
mix
paint,
carry
The
"An
uncle
in
America
sent
me
a
We seated ourselves on the stumps
with toil,
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would help me bring the family over of the Falashas and comes to a con-
If child ill clad,
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from Russia. I came. Later I mar- elusion that only the Te'ezaza Sanbat Half hungered while he searched the
vied his wife's niece, I worked in a . translated by Halevy are of specific
sacred word
printing shop, made a comfortable Jewish origin whereas in all the other
To make heart glad?
living, put a few dollars away on the scriptures one can almost certainly
side to educate my children when they trace the Christian literature, the con- But this night as he bent above the
got older. tent of which was adapted to Jewish
book,
Pa-
Spread the joy of the Rosh Ha-Shanah festival better than anything
"To my misfortune I was pesuaded taste. As to the origin of the Pa-
His eyes grew wide,
else. "Say it with Flowers"--in your home-send them to your friends.
ar
out
from
the
city.
I
lashes,
Conti
Rossini,
like
the
writer,
For, hold and clear against the yel-
to buy a Isom
hoped that e day I would build a comes to the conclusion that they
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from their studies by the excitements ready in the Axumitic empire before
He slowly read—
in the city. Who could tell that the the introduction of Christianity. The Whence came the words? In wonder-
railroad—the plague take them!— theory of Conti Rossini differs from
ing doubt soul fear
would want to build rails right that of the writer in that the former
He shook his head.
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through the lot I bought and that they believes that the tnain current of im-
ul should pay me twenty times as much migration into Abyssinia came after "What do thy hands to keep thy body's
as it cost? the introduction of Christianity,
weal?"
"That money ruined me. My wife, whereas the writer on the other hand
Ile read it o'er
who till that time was satisfied with had reason to assume that the Jewish His hands? When had they known a
a quiet life, became a regular society colony was already very large when
harsher tool
lady. The children too. Learning, ed- Christianity was introduced, that im-
Than pen they bore!
ucation! They laughed at it. 1Vhat mediately thereafter persecutions en- True, he had taught some youngster
could I do alone against them? Maybe sued and no immigration took place.
01 .
aleph—beth-
I am too weak natured. I am not sup- Conti Rossini emphasizes the close
But food and drink
erstitious, but I really think there economic relations between Southern Cana from his wife who from the
was a curse came with the money. Arabia and Abyssinia in the centuries
hardest toil
"Imagine how I got my learning! before and after the rising of Moham-
Dared never shrink.
Yet the only one in our house who gees rued, which favored the immigration
to a lecture, who buys a good book, is of the Jews to Abyssinia. The pres-
Into his sallow face a slow flush
me. The rest of them are always ent writer on the other hand main-
Put your Dimes in Diamonds, and
crept-
looking for pleasure. Whatever I say tains that the business relations at
your Diamonds into one of our
Coeld it well be
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to thorn sounds to them crazy. And that time were far less extensive than
God did not want her willing sacrifice
Happy and
t't tell you the truth, the way they live, during the pre-Chran and the early
That left him free?
the way they dress and what they post-Christian centuries.
Prosperous
Then he remembered what the sages
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talk, they seem to me to be crazy."
Si tar we know so little about Fa-
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New Year
Ile stared at the ground vacantly.
That man must work
to all
Then he locked up with a sigh, hand- lashes that we can have only a sup-
M'ith hand and brain alike if his life's
-
ed me the book, saying: "If you should erficial image of their cult. The in-
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Ile
would
nut
shirk.
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without supper in London to pay for tian
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to the
Halevy
who penetrated
as Jews,
far as from
Wol- Slowly he pushed the plunderous book
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a ticket
to lectures
an literature."
Without
saying another
word he knit on behalf of the Alliance Israelite
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as only for a short time and his jour
not without unpleasant ex-
'a little bit off,' " said the painting nay
perience for him as it charged that he
lady.—Ilebrew Standard,
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and that the report of his journey was
an invention. Faitlovitch, who under-
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God of our Fathers, not Thine aid, (the first 1901-5, the second 1908-9)
Lend courage that we may with- stayed with them for the longest per-
iod of time. He wanted to arouse the
stand of malice, barbed with . interest of the European Jews in the
The shaft*
Falashas and his reports are drawn
hate,
with this particular end in view.
That seek our woe in every land.
In 1908 in order to verify these re-
Yea—lend once more Thy mighty ports, the Alliance Israelite Univer-
strength ,
selle
sent Rabbi Nahum to Abyssinia,
ace,
Nor foreu r errors hide Thy f
who apparently came there with a
preconceived judgment and travelled
,., The menace of a thousand years
ancient race r
Assails again Thine ancient
too fast to fo m an exact opinion. It
our blindness
that
The menace
ss follows therefore that in view of the
thought
es travelers came to
Van's
fuller light and knowledge fact that all the
the Falashas with special interests
Krim and deadly rears its head. and were entrusted with different
Now strength to fight tasks, we have no impartial and exact
God— grant us
iul lea at the Falashas. It was the en-
anew..
deavor of the writer to attmept to de-
pet it in such manner on that all par-
Nor ask we Lord the battle aid,
ties found their expression.
Thou gayest in an ancient days,,
Today we can assume with approxi-
The strength to wield a victor's sword . mate certainty that the Falashas imi.
A nat ion's destiny to sway.
grated to Abyssinia in the early years,
For strength of soul alone we plead
unquestionably before the birth of
at in our eyes the foe may see
That
Christ and since then they were spirit-
horn of faith
sp
The dauntlessspirit
wrought from trust in sally entirely cut off from the rest of
The courage
Jewish community. This fact is of
Thee.
particular interest, as it makes pas-
Strength—strength we pray to cleave toms
sible and
a thorough
study
of contribute
theircus-
ritual, which
will
, Thy Word would bid as . to our knowledge of antique Judaism
u
The laws
as well as of the primitive Christian
Tll Truth —
heed,
Honor — Justice — Mercy church. Haste is urgent if we are to
learn about these customs and habits
Yea —Love,
Service for each sacred need in their traditional form. Western
' " culture is beginning to intrude even
God of our Fathers—hear our prayer; with Abyssinia, The railroad already
Stretch forth Thine hand--incline reaches the capital of the land. Era-
' tures of the old original culture will
Thine ear,
yield one after another to the aggres-
Erect, uplifted with such strength
western culture, and in addition
Thine ancient people have no fear.
to that the circumstances that long
Y ea—though the venomed arrows (ill, ' 'ago
-
many Falashas accepted • Chris-
Though every turn be menact.- . i ....
t ay for unitarian reasons is to be
fraught,
Even it
consideration.
taken
ideration
en into con
Their shafts will shatter on our , they secretly remain true to their
shields,
Their tallest onslaught conic to , faith, ti is inevitable that some of the
old sacred customs will be forgotten.
naught ,
It would appear to be the duty of the
And when within a newer dawn
1 European Jews to preserve before it
The Book of Truth shall be u m. is too late, at least the knowledge of
sealed
.th rei t rioa hn , c . ient brethren for future gen-
Before the nations of the earth
Thy children—Lord—will stand re- , - I
The data 1111.1 to the number of Fa-
sealed.
—Emanuel G. Frank. 1 lashes vary immensely. It is, how-
ever, • fact that in the last century
they markedly diminished in number
The love which shirks from reprov- largely because of their acceptance of
ing is no love.—The Talmud. , the Christian religion. Their apos-
tasy Is, to be sure, very often only ap-
,
,' parent and secretly they continue to
Never take the clothes of wife or practice the faith of their fathers. An
children In payment of • debt —The example for it is the Tabiban, former-
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