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BOOK REVIEWS
Athens and Jerusalem
Romance of • Notable Jewish Figure
in Early Days of the Republic.
By GEDALIAH BUBLICK
(Copyrighted, 1924, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)
JUDAH TOURO:
The pride of Athens' past, the f ram the heights down to the people A mosiselocs1 Romance , I ? ). ?..l? . ” W
.
Parthenon, in itself the greatest stainting below. Evidently, there is ,
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architectural masterpiece of an- • I distinct relationship between the
tiquity, is perched in the top of a h ills and greatness. And in this re-
lofty mountain. When one has duly g and Album; has nothing to complain
Judah Tours was a notable figure
ascended to the top of this mountain if. She enjoys her full share of high
ill A Me Hen It life in the early days of
he becomes surprisingly aware of the daces and mountains.
the Republic. Like Ilayin Solomon,
indubitable similarity that exists be-
Ancient Judea and ancient Greece who same to t he of th Govern-
tween Athens and Jerusalem.
:assessed still other points of simi- merit When it was menaced by the
Even as Jerusalem, Athens is sur- laity between them that exercised , growing weakness of Revolutionary
rounded on all sides by a crown of iarallel effects upon the development
and up
supplied
the
which
hills. Full of primeval strength and if their history. First of all climes army
ra i wit
the spirit
of funds
the fighters,
beauty are the hills that surround the proximity of time. 1 h
i
e'etro3o'kg.
Judah Touro was one of those self-
Athens. They look at one with eyes if the mighty Hellenic :cu -el lu"rss
fl
giving men who devoted all their
of eternity so that he cannot escape place at practically the same time as
of the Bible. A little energies and resources to the develop-
for long the feeling that it was not the composition
after the entry of the Jewish taunt of the American nation. Touro
for nothing„ nor by a mere chance's later,
as a patriot in the sense that only
whim, that the giants of past ages tribes into Palestine, several Greek a thinking man can be a patriot, in
had lived and dreamed here. Such tribes began their struggles with each the sense that a man who reasons out
of his devotion can he a
an environment is conducive to call- other, while the battle about Troy is t he
ing forth great thoughts and limitless timed just about when Judah broke patriot. Whether in the old city of
dreams. Far and wide, and in every away front Ephraim. The greatest Newport where he was Win or New
direction that your eye chooses to period of Hellenistic derleopinent Orleans where he lived the greater
rove, it will meet the summits of took place just a little after the epoch lout of his life, Touro gave the finest
those silent giants, over which is of the I rophets among the Jews. So that Was in his to the promotion of
spread the blue of wondrously beau- that it really happened that both of civi sand national good. But Touro
these numerically small nations who
tiful skies.
was a sentioet and adventurous man
The relation of high mountains to lived under similar climatic condi- as well is /I patriot. As a youth he
philosophy is not entirely clear. And tions and both on the shores of the Wits of a romantic disposition, for, be-
yet I am almost convinced that noth- Mediterranean, so near in fact that ing the son of a Sephardic hazan in
ing really great can be created ex- at the present time it takes but two whose memory dwelled stirring recol-
cept in the high places of the earth's days to cover the space separating It•tions of ancestral martyrdom in
surface. The valley does not seem the two, and yet knowing nothing of Spain and Portugal, his mental back-
capable of imparting wings to your each other, have been the joint cre- ground was of a net that would
soul. Personally, I hale a valley as ators of the modern world as we see intrigue a keen and thoughtful young
I hate death itself, and oftentimes I it today.
man. The story of his experience in
And yet the similarity of these two
think that all the great thoughts as
France where he fulfilled a tradition
well as all the great dreams of the countries does not end here. Both which dominated his family, th ero-
these countries were small in area
imagination were born on the moun- of
and that nay have been the real :mince which followed his European
tains. It was not for nothing that
adventure and the spiritual transfor-
the giving of the Torah had to wait cause of their greatness. Palestine is mation
which he underwent upon his
until such times when a mountain a small and narrow strip of a land return to his native country, make up
was within reach of the lawgiver; no on the shores of the ocean, while a story of interest from the stand-
law could forcibly have been given Greece is a country of a few small poin tor one desiring a picture of the
to a people at a place where all was islands. Both these countries, the
as well as the Greek, were not , Jew in the early years of the Re-
level and monotony, though this code Jewish
capable of physical expansion by public, if not from the standpoint of
had already been prepared in ad-
the excellence of the author's work.
vance of the deed. And when it was means of warfare. Both of them had To one who would have a fuller
found necessary to promise certain to be content with defensive wars knowledge of the life of Judah Touro,
blessings to the Jewish people if they against their enemies, and both car- the story of Moses Wasserman, trans-
follow the path of righteousness and ried these on most splendidly.
lated by Harriet W. Mayer, should
Not being in a position to dream of
to curse them if they depart there-
be one of deep interest.
from, the blessings as well as the world power, of territorial aggran-
curses had to be pronounced from dizement, these two nations had to
mountain-tops. In a plain, or a val- turn their attention to other fields.
ley, neither the blessing nor the curse They followed the path of thought.
seems to possess strength or impres- They became the "expansionists of
the spirit," the conquerors of the
sivenes.
The Prophets, we find, were lovers moral world, and they succeeded fin-
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—A pen-
of the heights. Elijah selects Mt. ally in spreading the influence of
Carmel as the place most suitable to their ideals much more than had they sion fund fur rabbis, three proposals
engage in his life-and-death struggle attempted it by means of weapons' for which were presented by Ludwig
with the false prophets. He well and armies. The two nations became Vogelstein, chairman of the commit-
knows that up above man's powers people of the book, though in differ- tee on Synagogue Pension Fund, was '
the feature of a series of conferences
are greater, and that no such deeds ent forms.
The fate of both, minor-major. of committees directing the activities
can possibly be accomplished in a
peoples
was
also
similar.
That
which
of the Union of American Hebrew
valley. Isaiah cannot visualize the
triumph of the Jews but in the fact happened to Judah also happened to Congregations, held in the Hotel As-
o weak to overcome the tor, and attended by 125 prominent
that the Jewish mountains will be at Athens. Ti
the head of all others," and that when gigantic military powers that arose Jews from all parts of the country.
The first of the three proposals sug-
the nations will call one another to at the time when these minor peoples
worship the true God they will say, had reached the highest stage of their gests a fund of $1,300,000 which
"let us ascend God's mountain." No cultural development, they hail to en- would provide an annuity of $2,400 to
one goes down into the valley to find dure the terrific series of assaults in- rabbis above the age of 69. The sec-
the truth. At most, the valley may flicted by their mighty neighbors. ond and third suggested insurance
become a place of punishment and The Babylonians destroyed the tem-1 policies whose premiums would be
retribution, such as the plain of Je- pie while their successors—the Per- paid for by the congregations, the
hosophat, but whatever is great must sians—burned the Parthenon even rabbis and the union and would pro-
owe its genesis to the hills. And before it was entirely completed. The vide annuities of $1,200 to $2,400 de
when the glad tiding are about to be very same world-destroyers that pending upon the rabbis. The propos -
announced to the world it must come struck at Judea struck also at Athens, als will be presented to the executive
while Judah's latest enemy—Rome- hoard of the Central Conference of
destroyed the Jewish homeland, it American Rabbis, which met here re-
f.
also subjugated Athens, though it did cently.
not destroy here as completely as it
William Ornstein, chairman of the
(lid Judea.
board of managers of the department
And the denouement? Well, it of synagogues and school extension,
must be admitted that the outcome gave a general view of the accomplish-
in our case is a far better one than ments in the past year. Rabbi George
in theirs. The Greeks have long since Zepin, executive, submitted a report
disappeared from the face of the on the efforts made to spread Judaism
earth, never to return to it. The in every hamlet where Jews reside.
present-day Greeks are not Greeks at Twenty religious schools were either
all, racially speaking. They are a newly organized or reorganized after
mixture of all the Balkan peoples: a period of inactivity. Forty-one small
Slays, Bulgars, Goths, Albanians and congregations were aided by visits of
what not. The Hellenic strain in rabbis. Religious work among univer-
them is long since gone. It is but sities is on the increase, Rabbi Zepin,
necessary for one to walk through stated.
and
the streets of Athens or go into a
restaurant and observe the faces of
the Creeks of today and compare
them with the physiognomy that one
finds on the pictures and statues that
the Greeks have left us in order to
become convinced that the modern
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not these people who are the grand-
children of Sophoeles, Socrates, Phid-
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not flow the blood of the Hellenes of
old. And this new Athens which you
have to traverse on the way to the
Acropolis has no connection what-
ever with the old Athens that is to
remain enshrined forever in her
greatness, despite her lack of rightful
heirs.
And eve Jews are alive! The walls
of Jerusalem are as thoroughly de-
stroyed as the walls of the Acropolis.
But in the streets of Jerusalem one
does hear even now the echo of the
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COOLIDGE TO RECEIVE
JEWISH DELEGATION
WASHINGTON (J. T. A.)—Presi-
dent Coolidge will receive a delegation
of Massachusetts Jews who will speak
with him regarding the impending
immigration legislation Tuesday at
12:25 o'clock at the White House. The
appointment was arranged this morn-
ing by Joseph L. Simon, chairman of
the Republican Committee of the City
of Salem, a member of the delegation.
Mr. Simon also arranged appoint-
ments with Senator Lodge at 1:15
o'clock, and through Congressman
Andrew of Massachusetts he arranged
for a reception of the delegation by
Story in Court.
Speaker Gillett of the House of Rep-
resentatives and all of the Massachu-
MOSCOW (J. T. A. Mail Service) setts Republican Congressmen. This
—At the District Court in Zkitomir a reception will take place in the speak-
number of trials have been taking er's office at 9:45 o'clock. Mendel
place recently which again bring into Fisher, another member of the dele-
the limelight the terrors of the po- gation arrived in the afternoon to aid
gromist days of 1919-20, Scores of Mr. Simon in perfecting the arrange-
pogremists, hundreds of pogrom vic- ments for Tuesday. The delegation
tims, sometimes whole villages of will consist of about 25 men and will
Jews stand in the dock or the witness arrive in Washington Tuesday morn-
box of the court, and the whole tragic ,„ e.
story is gone over again with all its 1 i ''''
Democratic Opposition.
harrowing details.
Organized opposition to the John
A few days ago eight peasants were
restrictive immigration bill has
put on trial for participating in the developed
developed when 20 of the 22 members
pogrom in Ivniza in which 47 young , of the New York State Democratic
.laws were murdered. The leader of , delegation in the House endorsing a
t the
he hand
the wealthiest
whole is district
around peasant
D.Mus. of
a declaration in which it charged that
' s
Clever
Company
man named Lozoroj, and his two the bill was deliberately framed to
sons. Witnesses declare that he was favor the Nordic races and discrini-
the symbol of the pogroms in the dis- Eastern Europe.
tract. Ills appearance anywhere in
The New York Congressmen hold
the neighborhood meant that a ps- that such racial and religious discrim-
gromist band was on its way. The ination is a "new but perilous doe-
witnesses described terrible happen- trine for democratic America" which
ings which took place under their 1 was founded upon the principle that
eyes, and of which they themselves I ,, "all men are created equal." The
were victims. A young girl named
F'reyer, who was carried away into a . present
law and
expires
at the end major-
of the
fiscal year
a considerable
wood together with another girl and
wood
),
of the members feel that some
terribly maltreated, told a revolting . new restriction law' is essential to the
story. Her friend was afterwards last interests of the country. The
killed by the bandits. found
She herself
in the New York Democrats do not openly
was shot at. She Was
take exception to this contention, but
wood days after, lying unconscious, : they hold that the basis for fixing the
her nose rut off and one of her eyes quotas should not be changed.
out. The mutilated girl stood up in
the witness box and cried to the ban- i
r elid
dits who had shot at her:
l l 1m he y
you miss, why did you not ki 'V
REPORT IS FALSE
THAT MORGENTHAU
HAS LEFT ATHENS
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After a five hours' consultation the
court pronounced sentence of death I
upon Lozovoj and his two sons. The
-
rest were sentenced to various terms
ATHENS 1•I. T. A.)—Press re-
of imprisonment. Taking into can.. ports to the effect that Henry Morgen-
sideration, however, that the crime than had suddenly departed Greece
was carried out three yearn ago and were altogether incorrect, it now ap-
that since then all the prisoners have
itdeins iesdta t hedat he hhaes left
been leading honest lives, the death nea
Athens and
sentence was commuted to five years' ,
direct-
imprisonment
each case.
The whole remain
Greece, where he
is direct-
ed'
ing in the
League
of in
Nations'
relief
the possessions of the prisoners work among refugees, until there has
have been confiscated by the state.
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firm in our hope of bringing back to Athens the municipality in a solemn
life our great past because we are yet ceremony conferred upon him the free-
here and our "Shemah Israel" is the dam of the city. Former Premier
same one that it was thousands of Venizelos was present at the cere-
years ago. We have preserved our mony.
entity in the Diaspora far better than
did the Greeks on their own soil. The
MELBOURNE.—(J. T. A.)—II. I.
soil is not always the competent
guardian against anihilation. No! Cohen has been appointed Minister of
There is nothing for Judea to envy Public Works and Mines in the new
in the lot of Athens, despite every- cabinet which Premier Lawson has
Sat announced.
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