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FIFTY-SIX. EIGHTY-THREE
By GERSHON AGRONSKY
5684 -:- 1923
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A Happy and Prosperous New Year to the
Jewish People of Detroit.
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If 51383 indicated that change it will
Despairingly your cynic leaves the
he memorable in modern Jewish his-
economic field and looks inquiringly
tory, notwithstanding its deferred
into the so-called political field. •Iews
hopes, disappointments, and futilities.
in most countries in Europe have been
guaranteed certain rights under the
Ile wise, my son, be prescient, ac-
peace treaties. Agencies were set up
for safeguarding of these rights. Rut quire truth and esteem uprightness.
Look
upon fools as empty shadows.
because Jewish unity is a sham ex-
ploitable by the Jew-baiter, and be- Avoid the advice of the ignorant;
build
when
he advRes to tear down,
cause in place of cooperation there is
a persistent clamor about the neces- and attach yourself to the wise.—The
Talmud.
sity of unity, Jewish rights are vio-
lated right and left. Pledges are on-
ically discarded on the dung pile and
written guarantees torn into scraps
of paper.
Everywhere a feeling of defeatism
and futility has fatigued the best of
our men. The Herculean task of keep-
ing heads of states to their "plighted
troth" is left to one or two individuals
in liar's who are not even armed with
the proper authorization, who can
only preach to the winds. Idiosynera-
cies of individuals in London play
havoc with dearly purchased rights,
while heavily laden Jewish hearts sigh
and abandon the task.
Resources Over
One Hundred Million Dollars
THE PEOPLES
STATE BANK
Opening of His New Studio.
Once each year, twice for those who tues and perfections. And while feed-
mark two New Years' every year, men ing on the past, we seem to forget
sit down and play a little genie which that it was the humility and selfless
might be called "God year, bad year ness of our fathers that made the
—which were you?" past which we are reproducing in
—
p por
chea
pu la editi ons.
ll around
Men persist in this habit of toying us Je ws are engaged
vindicating
vindicating
with the vanishing year, regarding it their existence, a vindication which
either kindly, approvingly or with dis- smacks more of abasing self-laudation
favor. They dolly with it amorously, than an appraisal of true values. And
weigh it and find it all it should he, the inert mass is not roused. It is
or kids it and send it rolling down the made torpid by the monotonous shout-
cellar of buried years. Some would ing. It blinks at the dross which is
keep its memory green, enclose it in a palmed off for JUdaiS111 and goes to
sarcophagus and deposit it in a thin'. Sleep.
like some royal mummy, or send it to
a grave in Potter's Field. There are
This the captious critic sees in ob-
those who would perform obsequies
berme the dying year, or give it "the serving the panorama of Jewish life
here. But Jewish life here is notori-
burial of an ass.'
mus t y
incomplete without the part
American Jews are playing either di-
If men will guage departing years
in this way, what sort of year, one rectly or vicariously in Jewish life
abroad. And o n e looks to the founda-
might ask, was 51383? Epitomized
briefly, one might refer to it as a tioins of the bridge across the span
separating us from them. Again one
year singularly without a nijlestone, a
year of inutilities and ineffectiveness, sees so-called American methods
transplanted and applied there. The
a year of dropping of 'Rickets into
whole framework of social and politi-
empty wells, of sowing of sands, of
RUDOLPH SZEKELY
cal relief—the work of men with an
feverish locking of doors after the
eye to the report, a sort of feeding of
Rudolph Szekely, former member
horse was stolen, of carrying of coals
journalistic virtues, a pound of in- of the Budapest Opera Company, who
to NewAstle.
vestigation to every ounce of relief, has been in Detroit for the past year,
•
to every inch of announces the opening of his
The jaundiced •eye, looking back- a yard of reporting
new
help or counsel, a coming and going studio at 6I0 Gladwin building. Mr.
ward at the Jewish activities of the
and a thunderous pronouncement of Szekely was formerly with the Mabel
past year, sees nothing but a series
of liquiditations, and eagerness to hastily formed judgments, a feverish Guess Studio. Ile is a lyric tenor
rush to make the judgments known to and has taken the leading parts in
bring the accounts into shape. With-
an expectant world, opinions delivered
"Carmen" and "II Trovatore" in Bu-
nut undoing any of the things that
with the finality of verdicts, the im-
were achieved during and immediate-
dapest, playing the part of Escamillioo
ly following the war years, there was pressiveness of oracles, judgments and Count Luna. For the past year
a noticeable tendency this year to put lacy inutog-g-sat ('MEW SItIt SHRI he has been entertaining at concerts
leaving out of account all human vie
it period after these things, without
at the Graystone and the Stotler for
ments.
thinking if and what the next sen-
a number of local Jewish organiza-
tence might be. Everywhere a deter-
tions. During the coming season he
What ivied, asks he whom for our will be heard at the Temple Beth El.
mined attempt to attain forgetfulness,
to return to "normalcy" or "stability" own comfort we call a destructive
or whatever the fashionable word critic, is accomplished by all this?
handed down by those who give the Well, there are supposed to be facts made scarlet by massacres, has been
tone. Far from repudiating the so- and figures. There is the Jewish sit- a particularly blank year. It has nut
othed self-sacrifice of the past, Jew- uation abroad. The situation is so marked anything memorable. It has
ish men and women in every part of and so today. It was different a year given nothing which men can take in
the land seemed to experience a vast or two ago. And, demands the critic, their hands, look at and say: "5883
expansion of pride over what was point if you can to sonic measure of will go down in history for so and so."
jointly achieved during the bloody war substantial and permanent relic f, to
years. But except in very limited cir- the revolutionizing effect of all this
It is customary to ask at the mull
cles and among a few very big men animated activity. You point to Jew- of a particularly gloomy review
there was nowhere the helpful feeling ish reconstruction in the European whether it is not true that it is olark-
of inadequacy.
countries that were most hopelessly est before dawn. For all concerned,
stricken. The snail-like pace is sup- nothing but that hope remains. There
posed to be auguring more progress
The skeptic sees nothing but profes-
is, we are told, an inaudible stirring
sional Jewish activity all but confined later on Meantime, there is a dread in Jewish souls, grown tired of prom-
to those whose business it is to keep emptiness and an inactivity. Depleted ise without fulfillment. There is an
it alive or make an appearance id during the wars and the massacres, attempt, hardly crystallized, to give
keeping it alive, an ambitious building Jewish workshops are idle and Jewish concrete shape to •sonie of the Jewish
of steel and concrete structures to hands take to speculation, which is aspirations, to give flesh and blued
house what had been spared of the nothing but is fishing in the air. While to the shades of the past which Jews
cataclysm, "Jewish Centers" modeled waiting for American dollars, whether have tried, will try, to shake toff, but
along the finest non-Jewish pattern, the contribution of the public or the cannot. The Hebrew language is be-
built with a thought of rivaling the individual's relative or friend, erst- ginning to give its- lovers something
•ost of the Jewish center in the other while hard-working Jews live by tak- more substantial than propaganda.
city, a whirlwind competition of digits, ing in one another's washing. An un- There is a vast Hebrew literature be-
a Judaism by multiplication, the big- steadiness and temporariness contin- ing developed in Germany, whither
ger the number of digits, the pro. ues to make the life of nearly all .lew- war anol famine wracked Jews from
founder the Jewish thinking, an adap- ish communities •years after their non- Russiahave found their way. Jewish
tation of stanolard forms, an midway- Jewish neighbors had gotten down too art was given powerful impetus, also
rebuilding and replanting. Many talk
in
in Germany. Yiddish is gaining read-
siccc°( YP cs which succciiiicii
elsewhere -- all this to the tune of of agricultural and urban settlements, ers and, consequently, writers. Its
of
facilitating eredits with sums re-
frantic press-agenting!
In the
literature is extensive, mostly whole-
wontedly estimated in the billions of some and prospering.
cruiti ng of new and sorely ne
marks or Kronen, but all the time
men, premises are made, and th
—social obloquy the threat, socia ea " there is a yearning after the perm
ii
nisi
immigration quota to the United
In America serious-mindeol .Iews are
teem the promise. The spotligh
concerned with establishing unity, all
always manipulated towards the Jew- states.
extremes seeming to unite on the need
ish stage, accompanied outside by
Hydra-headed committees, unions, of "an understanding of Jewish life."
deafening roar of the publicity guns.
Windy revivalists go up and down the federations of committees are super- The realization that the emergency
country to persuade Jewish men and vising these activities aloroad, issuing did not pass with the vomiting of the
women that a comfortable minimum is c onflicting reports, coordinating booties last gun, or the depravity of the last
et into the way of each other, for bandit seems slowly but surely to be
not only possible but desirable so long
as it is compatible with one's standing every undertaking there is a commit- reaching Jewish men's minds. 'Men
in the community or in the country at tee charged with doing the work, r•- are increasingly in revolt against ab-
large. The preaching 'of the mini- sponsible to a committee charged with jectness towards majorities and arro-
mum goes hand in hand with the supervising the committee's doing of gance, be it ever so well inspired,
thunderous bellowing of our Own vir- the work, in turn answerable to a toward the Jewish victims of the
joint conference which is answerable Apocalypse. And there is the growing
to a quarterly, semi-annual or annual conviction that Jews without a con-
meeting charged with bringing order sciousness roistered by thorough edu-
out of chaos, and succeeding because cation will not survive. The rumb-
of the multiplicity of offices and offi- lings of the steadily grossing discon-
cers in increasing the chaos anol con. tent arising from the unceasing defec-
fusion. A military chain of responsi- tions of the world around as is the
bility weighing down the tired Jes- sole hope and promise of a re-awaken-
a democracy which finds its only ex- ing.
pression in intermittent "congresses."
SECURITY
30 Branches
For Your Convenience
Rudolph Szekely Announces
sea
The Jewish body politic, held heels
up, so to speak, presents this depress-
ing spectacle to the detached observer.
More depressing this year than in that
preceding it because of the many
hopes that had lwen staked on it, and
because there was less excuse for the
miscarrying of the hopes. The war
years are a thing of the past, insofar
as the overwhelming majority of the
Jews are immediately concerned. The
blockade and the famine and the sin-
-- inter results incident to these events
are supposed to be over 5683 was
to have been the heyday of adjust-
ment but instead of readjustment
there has been disintegration.
Everywhere the same Witlessness,
even in that coveted spot in the East
where hope loomed brightest. Whether
it be British defection or the inapti-
tude of Jewish leadership, the viCi• , 11 S-
neon of Arab intrigue, or the cussed-
ness of French policy, the Jewish
Homeland in 5683 made less progress
than the minimum that might have
been justly expected of it. Instead of
a rallying of all forces to the common
task, this year witnessed capricious
separatism, with one body of men
chinning to deal any with one of its
own ilk, while the other listlessly pur-
sued its old tried ways of doing things
without regard to the fact that the
way to do things in Argentine may
no t work in Palestine. Instead of
gaining ground in Palestine, Jews
have barely held their own. While
Chaluzim, sick of soul and calloused
of body, fought for every inch of the
ground, retaining it to the last, tri-
umphing over all enemies, succeeding
even against the deficiency of "Klal
Yisroel."
Whether this aundiced view is dis-
carded or accepted, the feeling pre-
rails that 5583 which had not been
Greetings
of the Season
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A
Happy and Prosperous
NEW YEAR
To Everybody.
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Main 0453
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Happy New Year
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