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to a bright, luminous flame."
And as he was saying this he was
conscious that it was more than the
Jewish spark that was lighting the
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to—it was the feeling that by his pride
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The last patient had left the office. a single one in a crowd of 30! Three gate te the America of his dreams,
A line of building products which we feel certain is
Dr. Borkin, newspaper in hand, eat of his Gentile 'friends' whom he had
Desired Lund whose portals he
down in the living room, but found hel ed with their compositions, called that
the best and highest in quality that can be bought.
up offering some foolish excuses, and wished to see tower above those of
he had no patience with the news.
even Mildred Barbey herself, who has any other country and its ultimate
Ile looked out of the window. A fresh now condescended to marry him, did achievement and greatness in Equal-
Gypsum Fireproofing Tile
Hollow Building Tile
breeze was blowing from the Hudson. not come. Dont you remember how ity without reservations, Fraternity
here and there the fires of an an-
Sheetrock W•Il Board
about
it?
No,
without
hypocrisy.
upset
was
chored battleship were gleaming in the poor boy
Woodpulp Plaster
Aniuta, if our son marries a Gentile
the dusk that gathered over the black
Sand and Gravel
girl, he will be lost to us. And—he
water carpet. Further west, on the
Portland Cement
will be unhappy with her—perhaps PROFESSOR GINZBERG
Sewer Pipe
New Jersey side, the obscure mass of unconsciously and unwilling, she will
Arrange now to take
HONORED AT BANQUET
the palisades was towering and merg- make him feel that he is a Jew. And
Drain Tile .
advantage of our
ing with the dark blue sky. Peace
Metal Lath
but
Jews,
we—we
may
not
be
good
complete
stocks
and
When you light your Chanukaah candles, we are
and calm breathed from the heart of we are Jews enough to realize it all." Rabbinical Assembly, Faculty and
Flue Lining
efficient delivery
,
the
tranquil
summer
night,
and
the
Wall Coping
,; when your Chevrolet requires service, we are
Students Join in Celebrating His
Again a pause ensued. Abraham
service.
op , ■
silent enchantment of the sleeping felt Anna's hand touch his and
Fiftieth Birthday.
always open; when you need a new Chevrolet, we
river pervaded Borkin's soul and filled
grasped it. He threw a glance at her
it with dreams.
and noticed tears in her eyes.
NEW YORK.—Dr. Louis Ginzber g
ar always open.
With a sudden start he woke from
"What is it, P niuta?" he asked, and was the guest of honor at a banque t
his reverie. Reality was upon him,
felt that both her thoughts and his Nov. 27, at the Patrician, tendered
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keenly, persistently. There, across the
were running back to their young by the Rabbinical Assembly in honor
(Formerly Greenwood)
Hudson, in the Catskills, his 22-year-
of his fiftieth birthday and the twen
years
in
Russia.
Ile
recalled
how
un-
old son, Arthur, was spending his va- happy his parents had felt when he tieth year of his association with th e
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cation. Arthur, his only child.
adopted the way of his Gentile class- Jewish Theological Seminary as pro-
Perhaps it was t he breeze, perhaps mates, ceased praying, going to the fessor of Talmud. Besides the mem
'something else he could not account synagogue. Yet he had never even bers of the assembly the banquet war
fur; but the cartel n hiding the past dreamt of doing what Arthur was participated in by I)r. Ginzberg's as
parted and Dr. Bar kin's life since his about to do now.
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aociates of the seminary faculty am
arrival in America began to unroll be-
"Aniuta. the Doctor finally uttered, the student body.
was 25 years ago
fore
his
eyes.
It
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and there was gentleness, but also
Dr. Louis Epstein president of th
that he was transpl anted from Russia, firm resolve in his voice. "This is not assembly was toastmaster, and ad
the idealistic, to A merica, the prag- going to happen—it I can help it." dresses were delivered by Dr. Cyru
E. M. Rosenthal
George
K.
Parsons
rn,
Socialist,
shop
David Rosenthal
matic, and, in to
And, without looking around to see Adler, acting-president of the semi
worker, atheist, s tudent, physician,
his wife's face, he softly stepped out nary; Dr. Elias L. Solomon, presiders
finally became a su ccessful practition-
of the United Synagogue; Prof. Alex
er. He recalled h ow he had worked of the room.
If Professor Barbey was surprised ander Marx, M. Arnoff, representin
his way through college—the hard
the students, and I)r. Jacob Kohn
struggle and the sweet courage of when Doctor Borkin called him up the who, on behalf of the graduates, pre
it and
youth and enthusi asm that made all next morning, he did not betray him
at sented Dr. Ginzberg with a set of en
see
le
and
even
worth
said
he
would
be
glad
to
hardships endurab
grossed resolutions. The resolution
while. His marring e to Anna Savitzky 4 in the afternoon.
read so follows and are signed by th
Doctor Borkin had met Professor
and what she ha d meant of him-
officers
of the assembly and a membe
from the day he op ened his first office Charles Barbey, Mildred's father, on of each of the classes which gradu
enement
and
to
his
a few occasions at the College Inter-
in an East Side t
ated
under
Dr. Ginzberg:
present opulence o n Riverside Drive. national Club affairs. Barbey was a Our Dear Professor:
True, little by littl e both began to lag man of pronounced radical tendencies
"On the occasion of your fiftiet h
behind in the mar ch toward a better and a very popular lecturer on social
future for mankind . Comfort, well-to- and political science. Of especial in - birthday, we, the members of th h
Rabbinical
Assembly of the Jewis
-
ce
of
the
wrinkled
terest were his lectures on race preju
do patients in pla
and weazened an d wailing sufferers dice and intolerance, and Borkin was Theological Seminary of America e
tend
to
you
our heartiest felicitation
this
gave
them
so delighted with his liberal views that
of the Ghetto—all
Through the two decades durin
peace and ease to live out their years he had more than once invited the
which
we
have
been intimately ass
system
which
had
Professor to call. He would smile,
under the present
"Start early, make your New Year's Reservations."
no longer seemed so hopelessly bad promise—but somehow never kept his ciated with you we have come to re
ognize
in
you
not
merely our maste
promise, and Borkin felt alighted.
and unjust.
but a beloved and loving friend. Ou
But that which we call conscience Nevertheless he, and, particularly, cares and interests you have mad
rthur's vis-
and which is the stricte ud je of Mrs. Borkin, encouraged A
your own; you have shared with
would often its to the professor's home. And only
our thoughts and deeds, st
our anxieties and have helped us wit h
prompt Mrs. Borkin to console her now, did he understand why Arthur your ready counsel in difficult m
husband and herself: "Arthur will had been so eager to call on Professor meats. You have attained so pr
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accolish what we haven't. Ile is Barbey.
eminent a position in America an d
Amerrican-born and will not have to go
The two fathers exchanged conven- throughout the world by virtue if
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through a struggle of acclimatization tional greetings, and Professor Barbey your numerous important contrib i 1-
and self-adaptation that fell to our opened the conversation by mention- tions to Jewish learning that we fe el
lot. And, Abrasha, it is up to us to ing a well-known philosopher of Jew- a sense of pride in the privilege if
ish descent who was just then visiting calling you master. May you
prepare him for the task."
re
With his practice constantly grow- the States. At any other time Borkin spared to us and to Israel for ma r iy
inig, the doctor was too busy to de- would have been pleased, if not flat- years of active and vigorous work in
vote himself to his son's education, tered, to have a talk on such an inter- the fields of learning in which y RI
and Arthur's mother, so mother-like esting subject, but something else was have already attained so high a
in her extremes, saw to it that no gnawing at his heart, and he put the rank."
zsidi
trace of "religious superstition" pen- question point blank:
Mr. Louis Marshall, chairman Df
"Professor, do you know that your
etrate his heart, nor a page of his
the seminary's board of trustees w
people's history catch his oye. At an daughter and my son are engaged to was unable to be present, wrote:
early age Arthur was taught that his be married?"
'°
"Will you kindly convey my co n
"Why, it is quite a surprise to me,"
parents belonged to the advance guard
id
alt
of humanity and did not believe in the Barbey found his tongue after he got gratulations to Prof. Ginzberg a
division of men according to race or over the shock. What—what makes my earnest hope that he may be en a -
bled
to
continue
his
extraordinary
religion—they were internationalists. you think so?"
"That's what he writes me. Hasn't tivities and his contributions to Je
Imperceptibly the years had over-
ish scholarship and learning for ma ay
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taken one another, and this summer your daughter written to you?"
"No, probably she thought her years to come. The position that he
Arthur went for a few weeks in the
occupies
in Jewish literature entit l
(
mother
.
.
.
May
I
know
what
Catskills before beginning his work as
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him to the homage of every loyal s i
a high school teacher. He wrote home you think of this—this matter?"
of
Israel
throughout
the
world."
It must have been the much-mooted
I a few times a week, and his last letter Jewish habit of answering a question
The
student
body
presented
caused his father considerable uneasi-
ness. He took it from his coat pocket by asking another, that asserted itself Ginzberg with an illuminated copy
"The Canticles." Letters and to
and re-read it. With boyish joy and when Doctor Borkin asked:
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.
.
.
.
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"I would like to know your opinion, grams of congratulation were
unbounded confidence breathed the
ceived from prominent Jews throu
Professor?"
message.
One could easily see that a difficult out the land.
"Dear Papochka and Mamochka,"
problem
was
put
to
Barbey
for
solu-
the letter began, "congratulate roe. I
am happy, inexpressibly happy. Mil- tion. His lips twitched nervously, his
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drous prize is to be mine. Of course, course of his rutted existence.
,
"Why," he stammered out. "Why,
we'll postpone our marriage for at
Karl Rice, who is well known in
least a year, until I'm on my feet; of course you're familiar with my
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meanwhile I know you will be happy views on the subject of intermarriage. Detroit Jewish community,
been
connected with the Robins
. . I am regarded as a radical.
in my happiness."
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happy in their boy's happiness! A
smile flitted through Borkin 's lips. He to how—exactly—Mrs. Barbey will bought the drug store at 9000 Twel
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She is a church- street, corner Taylor. His son, Ile
felt and was loath to admit, even to take it
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I
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he is as fine and gether with two other reliable re
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of happiness—a smile that is sunny
tered pharmacists, are steadily on
white a lad as they make them. . .
•vith exultation, and welcome as the Why, after all, I don't think there wil l job ready to give their patrons ape s
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heavy leaden clouds. No, not that he much difficulty, particularly if you attention.
view. . . .
of smile it was. Borkin was afraid come to se our point of
sort
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to remain alone with his thoughts. He I mean Mrs. Barbey's because, person-
tapped on the door of his wife's room ally, to me, one religion is as good as
and entered. Anna lay in bed, read- the next. . . . And, besides, I un-
derstand, you, too, are not religious."
ing. Borkin sat down at her side.
No longer could Borkin contain him-
"Here's Arthur's letter—it came
self. With all the sarcasm at his com-
while you were out."
mand
and looking the Gentile straight
She read the letter through, then
in the eye, he inquired:
looked up, and their eyes met.
"You
seem to take my consent for
"Well, Abrasha," she asked, "don't
granted, don't you?" and he threw a
you feel happy?"
It seemed as though surgeon cut glance of triumph at his host. "You
open a wound with a swift movement think that Arthur is good enough to
of his scalpel when Doctor Borkin ut- marry your daughter in spite of his
being a Jew, provided he adopts Chris-
tered the two words:
tianity? I feel very much flattered,
"Are you?"
A pause followed, and it was the indeed, but let me tell you, if only I
husband who broke the silence. At can exert any influence over my son,
first, hesitation quivered in his voice that will not come to pass. I'll dis-
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preaching. As he spoke on, however, of my letter to him."
Mechanically Professor Barbey took
.
his voice grew firmer and more de-
....................................
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the sheet of paper and, as he was pe-
termined:
"No, Aniuta, it seems to me it is rusing it, Doctor Borkin watched him
not right—I cannot account for this closely and felt himself fully avenged
feeling—but—I don't think our son for all the coldness and snobbishness
ought to marry a Gentile. True, we and many other subtle insults he had
are far from our people, yet, after all, suffered all these years—from Profes-
we are Jews. Let an be honest with sor Barbey and others.
"But won't it break Arthur's
ourselves. We have lived for over 25
years in this country. We love Amer- heart?" Mrs. Borkin asked her hus -
band
that evening, after he had told
ica, we would give our all for her—
Can't you imagine what a comfortable feeling it would be to have gone
and yet, please tell me, why is it that her of his encounter with the profes-
sor.
"Ile
is so sensitive and appar-
of all the people who call on us and
down your list—bought a suitable gift for everyone—wrapped them up—
whom we go to see, there is not a sin- ently so much in love with the girl.
mailed them (or hidden them) and know that they were all paid for?—to face
gle non-Jew? And you know as well And, by the way, what about her?"
"And what about Minnit Liebman
as I do that in old Russia, what with
Christmas morning with a clean slate instead of bunch of bills?
all the anti-Jewish laws and restric- of whom he was so fond and to whom
tions, your best friend was the Chris- you objected because she is the daugh-
tian girl Mania Krasavina and my ter of an 'insufficiently Americanized'
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chum—the Gentile boy Alesha Naide- Yiddish poet, and herself a Zionist?
nov, and here—there is an invisible And God knows, she is a nice girl and
wall between the Gentiles and our - an ideal wife to the man she married.
Cadillac 6157,6158, 6159.
selves, a segregation I cannot under- Arthur will get over his affair with
Miss Barbey. He must come to see
stand."
"It is your own fault!" Mrs. Borkin my point of view, else he will no
interrupted passionately. "Your own longer be my son."
Perhaps her husband's arguments
fault, because you would not mix with
and make your Christmas buying for next year a strictly business proposi-
them. You have stuck to your Rus- failed to convince her fully. Perhaps
tion—build a special fund for it
sian or, rather, Jewish friends and her mother's heart was opposed to
would not—deliberately—meet any crushing her eon's love so ruthlessly,
others, in spite of my insistence. And particularly since she herself did not
now you're opposed to Arthur's break- object to the match, perhaps all her
ing through the very wall you men- pet theories of assimilation were
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N, l it is not my fault," Doctor Bor- Mrs. Borkin preferred not to argue
kin protested. "I have always tried to about it. Again, as on the night be-
make friends with the Christians I fore, she put her hand in Borkin's
met, but nothing has ever come of it . and, as they were looking out at the
I've always felt something frigid, in - Hudson, she asked softly:
tangible stand between us, always
"Tell me, Abrasha, what was it that
Or Any of
Main 0 face
some vague obstacle. And how about made you do it, you the atheist, the
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Arthur himself? American born and internationalist, and what is it in my-
bred, educated In one of the most self that makes me feel instinctively—
and
Branches
fashionable colleges—has he got more that you may probably be right?"
Lai ayette
non-Jewish friends than we have?
"What is it, Ann? It is the Jewish
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