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A Cantor, Who Is Also A Scholar

By ABRAHAM CAPLAN

enduring in the literature of Jewish
music.
What is this scholarly musician's
view as to Jewish music? Jassinow.
ly Jew-
facts and swell-ordered Jewish sym-
ish ' s theory is th at
sky
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rom the peculiar
pathy, give to the Jewish public an
music derives fintrinsical
book.
Ile
historic process through which Jew-
important and worth-while
will trace fie development of a vivid
ish culture has gone. Jewish music,
Jewish religious institution from very
he claims, is as native to the Jewish
dim beginnings and record the cir-
soul as are the emanations, moral and
cunistancts that explain the evolu-
intt.11ectual, of what is summed up
tion of what is perhaps incorrectly
in the term of Jewish genius. Jewish
h.
When
this
book
is
sensed in the for-
called ha
melody cannot
written, there will appear a running
coal and scientific liturgical arrange-
commentary on the historic Jewish • silents of Sulzer and Levandowski,
pageant and an illuminating account
u th se e s f e ulteh a e s setheeay ea may haattvaenebdeetan the
of the unfoldment of the music that
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marks the Jewish liturgy.
oratories of the classical German
breadth of vision of some of our great
school. Jewish melody, according to
Had one been asked a few months
Adar 11, 8, 5684
men, strangely enough, often led
Jassinowsky, is a product of the Jew-
March 14, 1924
writing
e
th
to
des
of
an
obsti-
n i dado
ish folk mind and spirt, the interplay
the co pt attitu
book
might be assigned, he w
On Tuesday evening, March 4, Professor Julius tilie:yt•neoinkti
bh
reach o r t e l
u
T
in
or
Ws
t
k
h
Yis,
of all the forces which have made
st eti hl rtiallsekh Uof
ilga °v e o suggested
hcld
they acquired
nvict i ons
up Jewish life in the course of its
Esther, Haman, Ahashuerus, are the figures which Goldstein, of Darmstadt, spoke in Temple Beth El. He
dean of the world's cantorate,
in their immature days.
who recently died in Boston under unfoldment. Jewish learning and
obtrude themselves upon us when Purim comes. They demonstrated to our entire satisfaction that a proposi-
prayer, Jewish hope and yearning,
For catholicity of outlook and in
tragic circumstances. Today the
are the spectacular actors in the play. They have the tion, in order to be valid, must stand the test of the
Jewish wandering and cries for jus-
Jewish effort, no man in American , mantle of authors ip would,
in all
h
Jewish
life
of
the
present
stands
oat
tice, the eloquence of prophets, the
likelihood, fall upon the shoulders of
principal roles in the drama of Jewish life which has final logical conclusions which may be drawn from it.
faith of psalmists, the meditations of
more distinctively than David A.
one of the younger cantors of New
"flow
the
Jew
is
Carrying
on
in
Germany"
was
the
so oft been repeated in the long travail of the Goluth.
sages, the ardent enthusiasm of Has.
Brown. here is one man who is trans-
York—Pinchus Jassinowsky.
sidle rabbis, the improvisations of
Sometimes we are compelled to forego the pleasure of subject of his lecture. It is not well with the Jew in
ftttili(;i jc puI r s o rp at s ‘e r ta o ns d la veda ti h negcflusin e
Pinehus Jassinowsky was born its
cantors, the very rhymes and accents
emotional delight brought about by ilaman's repudia- that unhappy land. Of all the pathetic, gloomy !a
years ago in Romanovka, Province of
of Jewish troubadours—all these con.
vivid the helpful way s. Hosing seen
Kiev,
Russia.
Although
left
an
or-
tion and Esther's triumph. The present is one of the pictures in that gallery of poignant grief and misery that and prese nt perilus
o
f
on
stitute the warp and woof of Jewish
o
at an early age, he received a
melody. Tewish melody and music
times when Mordecai is cast in the star part. Morde- which is Germany, the most pathetic and gloomy pic- the Jewish pt.ople demands many - sid- phan
thorough religious education. His
are as indigenous to the Jewish tem.
ed services, he proceeds to do every-
-
ture is that of the baptized Jew.
father, troubled though he was with
is
the
useful,
vigorous,
truthful,
courageous
lead
perament as is Russian music to Rus
thing
that
may
forably
av
affect
the
cal
The Jew, who a half century ago changed his re - progress o ftJud atisiin aelaVsaiontaidfaesi the responsibility of bringing up his sian instincts and folk thought, as
er who plays the part of a man no matter what the cir -
family without the aid of his wife,
the melodies of Grier are to the sod
he would
visions of Pinchus becoming a
ii '4cs
tai:ir_i iium.i
of Norwegian villagers.
frame
u m' or mind in regard had
ism, triumphant not because of any adventitious hap- military life of Germany, is excluded from organize- to Jewish
rabbi.
But
the
lad's
musical
gifts
ap-
needs, he has be
peered when Pinchus was but a child.
penings—the caprice of a king, or the heroic act of a lions because he cannot trace his unbroken Teutonic lead a masterful campaign lotto
for b
Cantors in many cities view with one
HADASSAH CONTRIBUTIOD
American Jewish Re lie f, give his ser-
woman; but because he is the embodiment of those vir- Christian lineage back to the fourteenth century.
another in their efforts to get him to
TO PALESTINE WELFARE
v ices to the million - d ollar drive of the
calumniator.
If
any
of
his
great,
great,
grandparents
were
per-
sing
in
their
choirs
and
in
due
course
tues which silende every detractor and
Jewis h Theological Seminary, assist
time Pinchus Minkowsky, who was
He was a useful member of society, a good citizen, chance of the inferior accursed race of Jewry, he does in making the Keren Ilayesod efforts of
For 11 years, Iladassah, the Won
cantor in Khersun, numbered . him
.
of 1924 fruitful and to do a host of
whose heart and soul were with the people, who labor- not belong. It is a sorry predicament. The Jew will
among the most gifted singers in is
en's Zionist Organization of Amend
other
vital
things,
the
doing
of
which
-
not
accept
him,
because
he
is
a
renegade,
and
his
Chris
has
been functioning. In 1912,
ed and planned to improve the whole social structure.
not told of on the front page of choir.
group of women interested in t i.
From early youth, Jassinowsky
The Mordecais know that a generous, benevolent tian "brothers" refuse to recognize him because lie has is " w ""'
r aog i l t T r.. ; e i
h ie t er o hl u ct g . r fit h ttge ta, ue sr organize
,:ni i a ss ;s h al,
of ei
study
re es eiit.:; trci f i ff Jewish
studied music under the most capable
Having bectane in a sense the ef-
despot
may have know
a murderous,
tyrannical
successor.
The
Mordecais
that an heroic
woman
may come the taint of Judasim. Truly a sorry spectacle which ficiency
th first
instructors his limited means could
man in the business of solving
secure. At 20 he went to St. Peterst-
brings us back where we started.
Jewish p blems, the report comes
u a ln -
composer,
f!a u sl e tthhee acq
ou
A.
The rigorous logic of facts prove conclusively that s i s s i the l ittle
burg e a e
e
attitude
a surprisee et h4,iet l./o
e.
life ia
at the psychological moment and yet she may not. The
Ifni Caesar n
may determine
Alordecais know that the liamans are ever with us, this watery transmogrification is a most unsubstantial
Cui was impressed with Jassinowsky's
. Earl's, our 1 9titm3, under Hadassah
on the plan to estal,
Aniewrilcamn
hs. auspices, two American trained ours
-
.assiduou
thing.
Baptism
may
have
certain
advantages
when
all
talent
as
a
singer
and
his
with their sinister machinations and destructive poli
lish a self-governing Jewish slate in
They adte ev ro a ti,
atise
e sit , i a ntea and
h and tohe
sent
e at ot to Pal.
cies of racial and religious discriminations. With this is well — whenhate, envy. fear and want do not stalk tcartienitcos.anOswf e ar 1:411110."elIoaton, a v leh h e;1 - e t a f fio a r etdtstiha ec hyi,e,avteh.rr admittance to the t ssh 7e ,secin
through
the
world.
But
under
such
conditions
it
is
-
women
of
Jerusalss
knowledge the Mordecais know that the one thorny,
conservatory, then the center of mu
e 'among thPere
ca;•m
people call him, all that may be said
-
dr ea dau di '
t;a e, et a en ale pt g mna ,against
Fhie ciV. educae tile in a Russia inRawsahiiacha
hard road to Jewish happiness has labor, responsibility, hardly needed. for one is then not made a target for at
is that he fully disc li jarge ,s h his oblige -
tdistrict
and
citizenship, intelligence, right living as guide posts, and, tacks even though one is a Jew. It can only be prized lions to
and
the
g
ap
ui
fte
musical
cal
aspirants
as
n s most lagnit td amcr
Israel" has
olw.an "catholic
Bpre worthily
A
what is more to the point, the road has no short cuts. as a valuable asset in troublesome times, and w e per-
o thim
who
and successfully giants among the Russian composers ing meet the contingencies arisi
sol
out of the World War, a unit of
were engaged . in the work of build -
at such times it does not help, for you are a Jew a represents
.
The detours of assimilation, racial denial and sycophan-
it.
doctors, nurses and sanitarians wt
ing up on indigenous national music.
despite
your
baptism,
and
you
suffer
just
as
do
the
un-
sent over seas to reviler (allergen
While in St. Petersburg, Jassinow-
cy only lead to disillusion and unhappiness.
service to a diseased and war-ridd
How well the Mordecais know•that the good, up- washed.
sky served as assistant director of the
-
In
population. This American Zion
The
Great
Awakening.
choir
in
the
Great
Synagogue.
Baptism
alas
is
not
a
solution
to
the
Jewish
goes
right, conscientious Jew is a good citizen, and has the
-
Medical Unit developed into the pr
1915 he graduated from the conserv
-
ant Ilsidassah Medical Organizati
respect and good will of the non - Jew, and that only in tion, that much seems certain. No problem is ever solv
story with a diploma certifying that
WIIEN he was a young man Lud-
with more than 400 doctors, 114!
wig I.ewisohn little realized
he had achieved the musicianship for
this way can he continue to have the esteem and regard ed by denying it or running away from it. Ours is the
tants, nurses and sanitarians, to se
which he had studied. Ills instruc -
that there was a Jewish people, play-
greater
task,
and
with
courage,
honesty
and
unity
we
a
much
the health needs of Palestine, rega
of the Gentile.
ing a necessary though of the
tors — men like Alexander Glazunov
The Mordecais know that the favor of a king is a shall eventually solve it.
less of sect, in five hospitals, clip
and Nikolai Sokoloff, who not only
thwarted role in the affairs
Baptism is in almost every case an exchange of a world, much less a Jewish problem. taught him but were his friends— infant welfare stations, field hospit
false god. a delusion; and that those who trust in such
predicted
that
he
would
excel
both
in
the
schools and in the colonies.
he thought so does not now mat-
gods shall pay a heavy price. If ever we were on the spiritual for a material thing. The baptized always Why
three-year course in the Nurses Tr:
ter very much. It may have been
as a singer and as a composer.
P
by the transaction, and no one profits therefrom. the environment in which he was
high road where the Humans no longer infest it as brig- loses
ing
School of the Rothschild Host)
At the outbreak of the great war,
In fact, the community is the poorer by reason of the reared or his own visions of a glori- Jassinowsky, with the aid of Count in Jerusalem has opened up a i
ands, it is today. But we must ever bear in mind that
field of activity for Palestinian w
ous brotherhood that obliterated
proceeded to Finland.
we must live uprightly, love our neighbors, work dili-
suppression of the spiritual in the baptized Jew, (we from his mind the existence of his Obolenski,
es , A schol arship fund has been
of the War zone, the young
say suppression, for the spiritual persists even though people. But he learned much in the Once out
tablished for post-graduate trait
decided to tour the Scandi-
gently, and fe ar God.
in
America for graduates of
he
e
course
of
his
mental
development.
singer
it is not manifested.) Words and water cannot wipe
navian countries. In Copenhagen
Though still a young man, he has
training school.
gave several concerts and scored a
it out and destroy it.
The latest phase of Iladassah v
come through the trying phases which
triumph. Critics accounted him a
This present experience in Germany will no doubt lead all the way from purposeful in- singer who was endowed not only are the infant welfare stations, vs!
The Detroit Survey reveals the immediate and
not
only Jewish mothers but Ma:
the
bring many of the baptized back into the fold. Those difference to a serious contemplation with a beautiful voice but with
pressing need of a Jewish hospital to take care of the
and Christian women come with t
of the Jewish problem.
intelligence and intuitive qualities
-
in
the
fold
have
experienced
or
will
experience
a
deep
babies for consultation and advice.
patients of Jewish faith, not only by reason of the lack
which raise a singer to the plain of
The experience of many other men
From a mere handful of WOW
parallels that of Mr. Lewison. From
authentic art.
of hospitalization in Detroit, but for the more vali d ening of their Jewish consciousness and pride.
1912, the present Iladassah orgai
many
and
various
quarters
come
re-
Shortly
afterward
Jassinowsky
reason that the Jewish patient who has not lost his or-
came to the United States. Ile was lion has grown, with 168 Chat
ports of the belated awakening of
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and 15,000 members in the 111
thodox identity finds the non-Jewish hospital very un-
di
Jewish intellectuals to the existence
invited to serve as cantor in one of
States, 63 Junior Units who ass
of a Jewish moral and spiritual force
Despite
the
indescribable
poverty
of
Europe
large
tisfactory.
This
may
sound
captious
and
absurd
to
the influential synagogues in St.
sa
the financial care of Palestinian
the
life
of
the
world.
It
seems
a
Louis. Here his services made a deep
in
those who have long ago discarded the dietary laws of numbers of Henry Ford's book "The International Jew
phans and 600 sewing circles w
pity that the impetus to reflectingg on
impression, for he showed forthwith
of Jewish suffering and that he was a singer who could vo - members sew and knit and gathe
Jewry, and who have made the manners, speech and are being sold. To think that this mendacious, distorted
service and will - to -
- hospital supplies for the Hods
Jewish
world
their
own.
But
the
tY.,:vireyffort,
-
practice
of the
non
live should come after irresponsible calize and interpret well and who pos
Medical Organization and I - 1 I
sessed the background of Jewish re-
fact remains
that
many of our co-religionists have not calumny
should be the source book of many Europeans
o. f their knowledge of the Jew in the American scene artificers of hate wield their whips. limous musical culture which alone institutions which include 2500
Iladassah Chn
•
ish orphans.
cast off their racial and religious characteristics. Con- Is enough to make one weep with mortification. And
Theodor Ilerzl started on the path
differentiates
the . competent cantor
df
maintain educational groups Jul
-
rom the anarchic warbler of exotic
to Jewish service and historic great-
a
Jewish
hospital
is
necessary
if
the
speed
yet,
that
this
is
so
is
confirmed
by
many
reliable
persons
lest recovery
study of Jewish history, Hebrew
airs. Critics who sought to appraise
when he first sensed the flame
• i e • in ge
iest recovery and convalesence are desired.
lonism,
an, I par t'
icipa
Jewish passion in the centers Jewish religious music attended the Z•
•
-
A hospital at best is a very unhappy place even and from
many
unquestionable
sources. among the dis - of of anti
This
dissemination
of propaganda
European culture. Once . he .per - • services over and over again. Zionist propaganda and Karen I
sod
strives.
Hadassah
is raising
ceived the facts of the Jewish situa-
Subsequently he went to Tulsa,
when conditions are most satisfactory, but when the
, in( I
burdens and worries of enforced violations of sacred traught, undernourished, inflammable population of tion in all their historic relationship, Orkalt a h, erat th weha invait e a ati r t of the Travis 000 for medical work in Palest
he took to his labors with an earnest-
laws and life-long practices are added, it is no wonder Europe is infinitely worse than the spreading of this
!III-1 (.14.11e
g
make was
Tulsa n' , Jewish community
that physicians find Judaic neurosis, slow recoveries vile stuff in our country. Ile is guilty of a very grave

H history of the cantorate will, if
he brings to his subject a mastery of

E who undertakes to write the

Jews Despite All.

Purim.

A Jewish Hospital. .

Sprea di ng

Ford" Gospel.

and unsatisfactory convalesance among Jewish pa -

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meat, and congratulates himself upon the quality of
And what is more, many cities much smaller than
Detroit have Jewish hospitals together with public dis- the material
the making
excellence
of its literary
style.
We have and
been
strenuous
efforts to
connect
pensaries. staffed with Jewish surgeons and physicians,
h have larger opportunity for practice, research and Henry Ford with
European anti-Semites, and have been
tr • uingt rove that he is a member of a conspirators'
study than they appear to have in the existing non-Jew- band.
We have strained co-incidence and exaggerated
language in our attempt to establish this connection,
ish hospitals.
The idea of a Jewish hospital is offers sive to some while all the time he pleads guilty to an offense infinite-
because they feel it is contrary to the whole principle
ly more hideous. It is shameful to send such trash to
of hospitalization, that it will not be open to all upon Europe, especially when we are receiving and have re-
equal terms. This fear is of course unfounded. The ceived such an abundance of fine literature from Eu-
Jewish hospital is non-sectarian, with the difference, rope. \%'e do not know how much this book has inte•
however, that it does not violate the dietary laws, and
sifted anti-Semitism in Europe, but of this we are cer-
will offer Jewish patients an intimate, home atmos- tain, it has done and will do more harm than could any
number of conspiracies, for the conspiracy is criminal,
phere.
We feel this is not something for the future, or in secret, limited: while this scurrilous, malicious thing
the discussion stage. To us that time is past, and we
is spread everywhere, every day, and has the prestige
unhesitatingly urge the speeding up of definite plans
which unlimited wealth and apparent freedom from
for the erection of an adequate Jewish hospital in the personal motive gives to its author.
It is too much to expect Henry Ford to discontinue
city of Detroit.
the printing and distribution of this book. We can
only hope that Europe will soon return to normal
Jews, Nordics and Tuberculosis.
The next generation in New York will record a and that that kind of stuff will fall upon rocky soil from
diminution in tuberculosis on account of the increase which nothing grows. May Europe soon rebuff Ford
in the Jewish and Italian population, according to the in no uncertain language by telling him that he has
statistician of the New York Tuberculosis Association. clone them a great disservice in their time of greatest
the need. We can think of no more merited rebuke which
The statistician shows that the natural increase in th
Italian and Jewish population. in view of the fact that he could get than to be told that he was an enemy of
increase through immigration probably will be reduced mankind despite his protests that he is merely trying
to a minimum through restrictive laws, will be accom- to arouse the "boob Gentile." it is possible that some
parriedby a decidedly lower incidence of tuberculosis. day even Henry Ford may realize that men are made
e The two racial groups have shown definite resistance better by love, tolerance, truth and understanding, and
to the disease, despite the congested conditions under not by hatred. malice, intolerance and untruth.
which they live. What is especially interesting in the
Samuel S. Fleisher. founder of the Graphic Sketch
statistician's report is that he intimates that suscepti-
bility to tuberculosis is more marked in the older native Club in Philadelphia, was given the $10,000 Edward
stocks than in some of the largest of the immigrant W Bok award. No doubt Klu Kluxers will call this
another proof of the workings of the invisible Jewish
groups.
Advocates of restrictive immigration legislation as- government,
cribe every dire condition to the immigrant. The immi-
It is indeed stimulating to hear a man like Singa-
grant who sought America was depicted as luridly and
lovsky. We always want to be told the truth about con-
as distortedly as words could permit. Under the cloak
of pseudo-scientific facts lay the simple truth that the ditions in Europe even if the facts do not look good in
native American who reviles the immigrant does so print. Anti in passing. may we not add that the "Ort."
the organization which he represents. is the most con-
because he is intolerant of the man who is different.
That the newer racial groups possessed qualities of a structive Jewish organization on this little planet.

_ _

Just how many university trained
Jews here and in Europe have been
bludgeoned into sorrowful reflection
on Jewish conditions, there is no tell-
ing. It is equally impossible to say
.
how many will triumph over their
rise _from
erturbation
p
i
ledge of con-
to k
their despairs
d spa
structive Jewish wog .

Keeping the Family Intact.

At the present time, the I
can Jewish col motion. After a stay
several years, during which he Ilayesod and the Joint Distril
Committee,
together with Bars
wrote a number of compositions, he
Rothschild and the residents of
ca . rue to New York to accept the po-
estine,
contribute
toward the st
s i tion of cantor in the Jewish Center.
of the Iladassah Medical Oris
In New York Jassinowsky came to
tion. But Hadassah is look ini
be regarded as a significant figure in
ward to the time when it will h
the Jewish musical world. His skit-
to assume the ntire financial is
its u a singer, writer and critic won
sibitity for medical work in Pal ,
for him first rank among the fruitful
and make it the contribution of
workers in the field of Jewish music.
,
ted American Jewish womanh
He is vice-president of the Jewish
the uphuilding of the Holy Lan
Cantors' Association, a frequent con-
Large campaigns are being
tributor to Yiddish journals and the
urated throughout the country I
first Jewish composer whose works
raising of funds for the fulfills
are being published by the Renanah
Iladassah's pledge to the sups
Music Society, an organization that
the work of Iladassah Medical
is seeking to give to the Jews of
ization.
America that which is best and most

RAIIAM TAYLOR, the well-
known social worker and writer
of Chicago, admires the insistence
with which Jews work towards main-
taining the family. In dealing with
dependent families, every reasonable
effort is made to keep them intact.
The Jewish point of view is that the
family, being the most effective
agency serving the interests of civil-
ization, must receive foremost recog-
nition. This state of mind works in
more ways than one. Not only does
the family suffering from dependency
caused by conditions over which it
has no control get prime considera-
tion at the hands of the community,
but a family that is threatened with
internal disorganization is given
equally earnest attention.
Mr. Taylor speaks of the lengths
to which Jews will go to run down
an absconding husband and father.
Like the authorities of the Federal
government, the Jewish National De-
sertion Bureau will hunt a runaway
husband over the face of the earth.
Jews do not take kindly to men of
families who shirk their duties.
An interesting piece of work along
the lines of family conservation is
done here in Detroit by the United
Jewish Charities. It is in the hands
of Miss Bluma Levin, the domestic
relations worker. Equipped with
legal and social training as well as
with native judgment and sympathy,
Miss I.evin quietly engages in solidfy-
ing families on the verge of breaking
into pieces and ironing out difficulties
that before would be adjusted in the
courts, not always in the most ap-
proved way from the standpoint of
the family's fundamental interests.
Of a character that rarely comes to
the attention of the public, the work
i essentially one
Miss Levin is doing is
of the assets of the Detroit Jewish
community.

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PURIM

Come, quaff the brimming festal glass!
Bring forth the good old cheer!
For Esther's Feast ban come at last,—
Most gladsome in the year.

And now, when hearts beat glad and free,
Come gather all about,
And tell once more how, long since, He
Did put our foe to rout.

Full oft has beauty ruled a land
And held its aceptred away;
Full often foiled th' avenging hand,
And bade oppression stay.

But ne'er did beauty so avail,
As when fair Esther's charm
'Gainst vengeful Haman did prevail
To 'fend the Jews from harm.

So all the dire impending woe
That hovered o'er their head,
Did light upon their ruthless foe
And ruined him, instead.

C. DAVID MATT.

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