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of bringing racial unity, for we feel quite incompetent
to change biological forms, which is the basis of racial
difference. We insist that the Semite, Slav, Negro,
Latin can be and are just as good Americans as the
Teutonic-Nordic, and that all together we shall even-
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More Meditations.

trommtonomiurintrronorrootormitit

The Scholar Layman

IAS WE GO
ALONG

Ey

ABRAHAM CAPLAN

were looked upon as an ex-
A tuals and
privileged class. The

A MONG the ancients the intellec•

Music and Jewish Courage.

ILLEM
Dutch conductor who is presid-
W
ing over the Philharmenic Symphony

111 ENG ELBERG, the

CIUSiVe

Greek philosophers and the wise men

knowledge. Many of the g real rabbis
never earned a penny as rabbis, for
while they were called raid, they dis-
liked the rabbinate—not because it
W1111 lliShill101 . 111 111i to he a rabbi„ but
because Jewish doctrine emphasizes
the importance of havini ir a useful
occupation and of meditte ling in the
law l a th day and night.
The golden Jewish era in Spain is
such because conditions - tinder the
Moorish kings of Spain ga ve the Jews
an opportunity to inereas e the num-
her of scholarly laymen. Poets who
were f iminciers, grainnu trians and
philosophers who were ails o busy men
of affairs, authors of liter gical hymns
who WON' at the sit me ti me advisor,
of the king, astronomers and Tnhntt
eldest commentaters who earned theit
living 00 merchunts and • t ratiesinen -
such were the Jews tha t made tin
pre-Inquisition period i ri Spanish
Jewish history so fascins ding and s,
glorious.
This period in Jewish h istory is tin.
of the singularly divertii ig spectacle
in the history of the v curl& Sue'
it democratic diffusion of learning
b o th religious anti seculi tr, as wa
generated aiming the Je ws of Spai
was never equaled. Th , e pursuit
knowledge, which was r 'ways a rt
(Visite to a proper obser same of th
religious principles of it e Jews, we
in this east. embellished with a riel
ness and colorful diversi• y as to leer
cemparisen with the Ilenaissant
abate, and precisely he, tuse
Jewish culture was On. beget ter
the Renal
the Itensiissanre.
saner lacked, however, was the cc
Old feature of the unfel &melt of in
Whi
turn among the Jews of
the culture of the iten aissance w,
definitely unspiritual, ,Si panish-Jewi
learning was perinea' ted with
ethical motive that gay ti it spiritu
charm. But more I hi, n that. T
Repaissance was neith, sr essential
scientific nor democrat ic, while t
Spanish-Jewish era of culture w
mere widespread anti had defin
bearing on the purely scientific
veltipments that were 'bout to la

of other nations of ancient times
Ludwig Lewisohn, author of "Up Stream" and "Don
represented an official class and e n-
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Juan,"
is
troubled
by
his
inability
to
accommodate
joyed in their particular way the
Orchestra in New York. has been de-
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the
himself to a hostile Gentile world. Ile gives us a pic- scribed as possessing all the qualities privileges and emoluments which
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patricians of It. site enjoyed i n
which make a great conductor. That
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palmy days of the empire. It is true
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tion and culture and that the youths
that he displays not only charm and
•
Once
more,
despite
all
his
successes,
he
finds
the
of these days were for the most part
sympathy
for
music
and
for
the
men
The Detroit Jetakh Chronicle invites a°' respondence on subjects of Interest
ty
for
an
indorsement
of
the
li
n
non-Jewish world inhospitable, cold, a "living on the who interpret music, but a mastery trained in the arts and the sciences
to the Jewish people, bu t dis claims respo
writers.
view. exp eeeee d by tn.
of the time with a VIVI,• Of snaking
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of the psychological processes which
edge of a knife."
them cultured men. But it was not
enable a conductor to ascertain the
11,
22,
5684
Mar
The
acclaim
with
which
his
article
was
greeted
a case of educating for the sake of
concerto,
has
March 28, 1924
soul of a symphony or a
gate us the feeling that the prodigal son had returned been shown by a musician who had education. The underlying motive
was p.ier, the desire to rear men of
Stephen S. Wise.
to the house of his fathers, and forthwith there was the opportunity of playing under a sterling w physique and mental
half a (Wen orchestra leaders, Men-
much
festal
rejoicing.
The
return
of
a
lost
one
is
for the purpose of strengthening the
Stephen S. Wise holds a peculiar place in American
gelberg included.
imperial power of the State. The
Jewish life. He fills an important niche in the life of always a cause for banqueting, but after the intoxi-
But being a non-Jew, this musician
trouble with the ancient eductitienal
the country. His is an authentic voice, for he speaks cating joy of his mere presence has passed away it is was unable to say anything about systems was that they had too murk
Mengelberg the Jew, the observant
governmental sanction. The ancient
grandly and with deep conviction on all questions not improper to inquire into the reasons that brought
and earnestly religious man. Unlike
powers xvere not much interested ill
which concern the basic interests of American democ- the prodigal home.
other noted Jewish musicians who,
per or as in the theory that a
Lewisohn uses a German, living in America during for reasons unknown to intelligence, culture
racy. He has been endowed not only with a rare gift
highly cultivated nation was in a
to erase their Jewish spiritual
position to dominate the se peoples
of eloquence but with the ability to interpret Jewish the war, as his protagonist. The reactions of this seek
heritage, Mengelberg, though in
whose intellectual standards were
and general problems in a manner that most people German living in a hostile, contemptuous, suspicious America and far removed from his lower.
calen-
home
in
Holland.
arranges
his
world
make
him
realize
how
much
better
is
the
world
Further down in history we realize
can understand. While his concept of Judaism may
dar so that he does not violate the
more definitely how official and ex-
differ radically from that of many thinkjng Jews, there of his own kind, even though he may be bored to des- Jewish
Sabbath. One who desires to
clusive intellectuality became. For
is no lack of recognition of his prophet-like zeal for peration, shocked at their bad manners, disgusted with
verify th i s fact might consult the
the most part the intellectual class
of concerts played by the
consisted of the priesthood. Outside
true human values and for the enthronement of the their gaucheries. Ile has the feeling of personal in- schedule
Philharmonic Orchestra during the
the walls of the monastery there \VHS
tegrity unmixed with the sense of inferiority which
ideals of justice and right. Few will hesitate to admit
part of the season when it is led by
little or no intellectual interest er en-
that Stephen S. Wise, though constantly in the public the contempt and sneers of the enemy give him. That Willem ,Mengelberg.
The educated men of those
terprise.
days was either the priest or the
is now all passed for our German. Ile is no longer a
eye and in a position to command respect in the circles
prince. There was no such thing as
If Eliot Spoke.
an intelligent er scholarly layman, fur
of the mighty, carries on his many public activities in social leper. a despised enemy. His ostracism was con-
an earnest effort to bring out the truth and to serve temporaneous with the war,—that over. he was rein-
the very obvious reason that those
W. EuoT, the fore-
ellARLES
in whom the culture of the time
the welfare of the Jewish people and the happiness of stated in the good graces of his Nordic equals. But
most private citizen of America,
did not believe that in-
when will the war be over which will place the Jew is Sit years lod. Educator, statesman, dwelled
tellectuality was the concern of the
all mankind.
The good wishes and the praise that have been on a plane of equality with his non-Jewish neighbors man of letters, administrator, puri- masses of the p e ople. It was to lei
and liberal, a moral freeman Wilt,
expected that a great scholar who was
showered on him upon his reaching the age of 50 have and fellow citizens? That is the serious question which tan
studied the world with perfect object-
neither priest nor Government official
not been undeserved. The unison with which men of Lewisohn's meditations bring so forcefully home to ivity. he stands at the great age which should be a rare phenomenon.
has been vouchsafed to him both as
light and leading in America and elsewhere have him.
The Professional Aspect.
model of true culture and human-
We agree wholeheartedly with hint that it is un- a ism
Even belay scholarship has its pro-
sounded their admiration for his services to the world's
and as a rebuke to the army of
Some lawyers are
best causes reflects not the banal toothsomeness of the comfortable and awkward to "live on the edge of a puny ignoramuses (het is seeking to fessional aspect. they
are lawyers.
scholar:: because
the bulwarks of American civil-
usual run of eulogies but a keen appreciation for the knife," but it is corroding and disintegrating to live in assail
There
may
be
scholarly
philosophers,
Frown on Igno ranee.
ization. flow calm and pitying must
scholarly
physicians,
scholarly
men of
services of a great public figure, for his fearlessness a sanctuary all the time. (We were going to say be his contemplation of the feverish
Whitt in reality male ot the Jews
letters,
but
in
all
cases
they
belong
mob that, in the name of everything
as a civic advocate, for the humanism of a world- prison.)
people of the book is t heir steatIft
to the professional class anti are
rinciple 1.1
Our highly sensitized co-religionist has been bruised that is fine and holy, would foist upon scholars by virtue of the fact that insistence upon the p Le
visioned thinker and for the high character of his lead-
an wits
the government of the United States
must not
in body. His armour propre torn to shreds, his intel- the repudiated fallacies of hatred and they have gained eminence in one or learning
ership in the midst of his own people.
acquisition or a rare personal e
of the recognized professions.
, , have ;IN . :
lect despised in this unappreciative, unfriendly Gentile malice that are destroying the foun- another
bellishment.
The
Jew.
It would b.. hard to find a business
dations of European life! Those who
regarded the unlettered man with
world, he comes to the sanctuary of Judaism where all
man er artisan who is also a scholar.
are moving heaven and earth to jus-
Nordic Lunacy.
uncertain scorn. TO ill unlearned
not a professional
one
in
The
fact
that
speak
his
language,
understand
his
yearning,
sympa-
tify a mail proceeding would do well
the 'purely religious It tw was to
Inevitably, nonsense carried to its logical conclu-
person of some kind precludes the
to remember what Dr. Eliot once
guilty of grievous nett lect, and
sion, brings forth lunacy. The proponent of the lunacy thize with him in his despairing frustrations and sense said: "Our country needs the labor likelihood that that person should be sonar responsibility for ignorance
scholar. Scholarship and pro-
an unshakable princia e. But to
of Nordicism is none other than the facetious weekly of futility. And yet, we feel he is using us. He has of every honest and healthy immi- a fessionalism
are so intimately inter-
se n s
been kicked out of the back door of the Christian grant who has intelligence and enter- twined that it is
informed in secular in r a tu terrgd
difficult to conicupon
Judge.
prise
to
come
here."
Only
men
who,
was quite as strong])
In an editorial of the issue of March 22, entitled world and we open wide our front door and welcome like Dr. Eliot, are monarchs of all a man of scholarly attainments who sages were fur the n lost part r
is not at the same time a member of
culture in the truest sense of
thoroughly conversant with the a
"Good-bye Melting Pot," this piece of unusual intelli- him. lie does not belong to us from choice, but from that
fraternity.
necessity. He prefers them but must take us. What the term embraces, can say this for a professional
and the seiences of th air time.
Among the Jews, however, scholar-
gence is given to an expectant world:
the
the immigrant who seeks the better
people with a sense of dignity and pride can rejoice life. Ought the Eliots shape immi- ship did net always suggest an ex- great rabbis who distil iguished
selves in intellectual pursuits o•
because the despised and disappointed come to them gration, or the mental backwoodsmen clusive class or a professional tem- secular character wart 2 by no me
"Almost every present threat to the free institutions
perament. So many Jews have ex-
of this country—prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, anti-
whose vision of America rarely ex-
rare. But it was the i ntellectual
only for refhge and solace.
celled in e arts and in the sciences
Bolshevist hysteria, the Lord's Day Alliance, censorship,
tends beyond the county they come
man, the layman with a well-roue
How long will he be satisfied to live in this sanc- from?
who were at the same time trades-
din seen
has its roots in race prejudice or distrust."
interest in spiritual
men or laborers that we must come to
tuary, for it will surely become irksome and irritating
culture who sheds a peculiar lu
the conclusion that they above all
While he was at it, why did he not include Teapot to him after a while, because even though pleasant
upon
Jewish
history.
peoples gave rise to the scholar lay-
The modern tendert , •y does not
Books and Men.
Dome, Income Tax Reduction, Capital and Labor, Dis- faces surround him and peace and quiet prevail, this
man—the man who made his living in
the whole encourage t he scholnr
one or another of the ordinary pur-
12011.OWING closely upon the
tragic restless spirit will not remain, for Judaism does
armament, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
Sian.
The ntania fel r specinliza
suits of life and who also engaged in
heels of the Jewish Theological
We may be laughed at for taking the editor of not furnish him with spiritual food and drink. He can-
has quite thoroughly undermined
the search for knowledge and wisdom.
Seminary, the Hebrew Union College,
catholic
spirit in the pi insult of kn
Judge seriously, but the levity of Judge is not innocent,
not live upon it. lie can only come fora rest, a vaca- through its librarian. Adolph S. Oko, Spinoza was a maker of lenses and edge. Nor has the ra sing of, le
one of the boldest and deepest
barbless and pointless. It employs the facetious to tion, inevitably to return again to live in that pre- has acquired a valuable collection of yet
say,business
end finan, .t. to the dig
thinkers of modern times. Maimonitles
Jewish books and manuscripts and
of professions brot ught with
more surely point a moral and adorn a talc with far carious Gentile world of sneers and hostility.
was one of the distinguished phy-
has augmented the importance of its
whetted
interest
in se helarly 111/1i
sicians of the twelfth century, but
greater success than the somber, heavy journals of
Had our troubled friend meditated with a mind library as a repository of Judaica.
on the part of the la: man. ENO
while he excelled in the art of heal-
Beginning
with
Professor
Solomon
statesmanship one he kg despairi
and heart free from wounded pride and bitterness; had
opinion.
ing his fame in Jewish history rests
If, furthermore, this conglomeration of issues and he arrived at his conclusion without the taint of shame Schechter, who unearthed the his- not on his accomplishment ill medicine, for the man of wide i ptellectual
torically important Geniza in Cairo,
problems stood alone, we may believe that the whole and chagrin; had no feeling of inferiority entered into American Jewish scholars and insti- but on his monumental work in codify- pathies.
In America this fag t is more
the laws of Judaism anti inter-
than in Europe. It England
Nordic lunatic fringe was being ridiculed, laughed out his verdict; had he made his judgment upon the facts tutions of higher Jewish learning ing
preting the philosophy of the Jewish
have
gradually
brought
to
the
west-
en
the Continent s• cholarship
of countenance, so to speak, but it is followed by this alone, considering the evidence only, we, too, would ern hemisphere the literary treasures religion in rational and understand- political
leadership et impanien
terms. The sages of Israel—
gem:
rejoice that he came back into the fold. But as ac- which the Jewish people amassed dur- able
frequently
than in th , e United St
those whose utterances are recorded
many centuries. They have, by
We are tenure backwar d in this 11,
tualists, unafraid of the facts of the consequences ing
in the Talmud—were by no means a
this token, transferred the scene of
"Mr. Johnson's bill contains some minor provisions
than the great Seta h America'
which may flow from those facts, we do not rejoice. research in the field of Jewish science privileged or an esoteric class. They publics. In England statecraft II
such as the gratuitous insult to Japan, of which we think
deemed themselves and were looked
from
Europe
to
America,
In
doing
as little as Secretary Hughes. But in the main it faces in
its recruits largely from the
We are rather unhappy, for while there is one articu-
upon by the rest of the people as
sn they have acted in accord with the
the right direction, the direction of national and racial
universities, the trod itione of v
plain men. Anti such they were. The
late
Lewisohn,
there
are
thousands
of
inarticulate
silent processes of history. But in
are such as to make the lay sch
unity and therefore of liberty and sanity."
of the Captivity were them-
.
equally unhappy, tragic Jews, who are baffled, strug- bringing hither the priceless manu- l'rinces
the man of every lay affairs wine
selves
sages,
but
with
the
exception
pert'
That we shall achieve national unity is something gling in this turgid stream of indifference and iciness, scripts and the volumes which have of these the wise men of Israel were tellectual interests a re his
phenonl
no much to say on every phase of
not
unconn
a
which we can understand, but how can we possibly who return from time to time to the sanctuary of Ju- Jewish history and of Jewish learn- artisans and laborers and tradesmen concern,
of
a
richer
English public life is
Many of them
agriculturists.
achieve racial unity out of all of these diverse races?
daism. These barbed, trenchant meditations are a ing, they have, as it were, assumed and
more cultured vinta•: .,•e than th
were the poorest of the poor. Only
In the profound wisdom of Nordicism these irreconcil- challenge to the leaders of Jewry. None can escape the responsibility of making vital use occasionally do we find that a sage America. We have of worshippet
the self-
of these cultural possessions. The
at the shrine
ables present no problem perhaps, but to us racial them. Are they satisfied that Judaism be nothing but great libraries which have come to was also a man of great wealth. And much
c Ii
man, the man whos , su cess
wealth he was
}wing
a
man
of
great
al
ultimo
i
this
country
should
be
regarded
not
unity can only be attained by making this a melting a sanctuary, to which the battered, driven ones may
practical and meter
not, however, considered great because
and yarn ,
as
things
to
have
and
to
hold
but
as
rather
than
in
a
deep
pot to the 'nth degree in which all races are boiled come when every man's hand is turned against them? potent agencies for the broadening of he was wealthy but because of his
tune. Not so many years ago \
down, by creating a new race. Perhaps the editor has
Are they ready to accept the proposition that Judaism Jewish scholarship and deepening the high intellectual and spiritual stature. row Wilson, the hist , ielan and tic
Study
Enjoined.
the Presit
another suggestion in mind which we were not per- can function only when anti-Semitism is rampant? Has Jewish spirit.
This Jewish phenomenon of the who worked his way 111 t irthful rid
was the butt of
mitted to see, but since the tight is a free one, and all Judaism no substantial, vital qualities to satisfy the
scholar layman is due primarily to
)preciate
a
Somehow' we could itl
the fact that tram the very beginning
suggestions, no matter how silly, insane or bizarre, are needs of man in his every-day life?
and a Jusserand, b ut an Amt
Visiting the Holy Land.
the
head
the Jew was enjoined to study. The
President who win
in order, we, too, have one which at least has the merit
We ask these questions in all seriousness, for their
injunctions of the Bible were such
LARGE number of Americans
university, a writer of •
uni
of logical consistency. despite the fact that it is almost successful answer means much in the matter of the A have sailed for the Holy Land as to make the pursuit of knowledge great
and literary charm, a teacher
nturi
This
is
erest
int.
an
ever
nown—such a man VMS too
preservation anti perpetuation of Jewry in America. in order to spend Easter week in Je-
impossible to carry out.
es, sold con-
why for ce
reason why
r line leetual Wee
for our
In order to do away with all annoying problems The spiritual leaders of America have a tremendous rusalem and in other places of re- ditions
by
no
means
conducive
to
in-
interest to the Christian
TEngli s h Ideal.
The
da,r
and attain the nirvana of racial unity. we suggest that task before them, which requires all the powers which ligious
tellectual expansion, the Jews devoted
world. In this connection one is apt
perhaps we shall p.
to inquiry and research, some
Congress pass the following law: That hereafter all
they possess, if Judaism is to be accepted as a faith, to ask what these Dien and women themselves
after England and pay the sal
secular as well as religious. The ideal
will
think
and
do
when
they
return
persons of non-Nordic race (non-Nordic races are those philosophy and mode of life on a parity with the other from the tour. One should like to of the Jewish parent was to make
which cannot show a continuous Nordic lineage for five faiths, philosophies and modes of life which fight for feel that a visit to places held sacred of his son a learned man—learned
(Turn tola at page.)
in the ways of God and in human
in the traditions of the world's three
generations on both sides of the family) shall not be the souls of men.
religions would result in a rec-
permitted to have any offspring and shall he compelled
The leaders in Israel have been remiss and slothful. great
ognition of the essential oneness of
to practice birth control. Provided, however, that in The unnumbered I.ewisohns are but the proof that Ju- human beings in their relation to
this
rule
due
to
ig-
daism has not been made attractive, satisfying, nour- their Creator. But, alas, mass move-
the event there is any infraction of
to the Holy Land, such as the
norance, such offspring shall be deported to the land ishing, consequently they lust after strange gods and ments
('rusades, have left a by 110 means
from which the father or mother came, if not native shall continue to lust until Judaism is presented in all
happy imprint on the face of history.
Americans; and if native Americans, the land of the its grandeur and beauty, capable of satisfying every But we who live in the present cen-
Like a bridegroom the sun
tury are hopeful people despite the
first progenitor shall determine the place of deporta- spiritual need of the most exacting, restless spirit in
Dons his robe that is spun
unlovely facts. Some of us like to
feel that to visit Palestine is to come
tion ; provided further, however, if such birth shall be the house of Israel.
Of light,
into close communion with the true
with intent to bring non-Nordics into the world. then
Which from Thee emanated
spirit of human brotherhood.
said offspring with the mother shall be put into a lethal
Yet in no wise abated
The redeeming thing about the frequent proposals
Thy light.
ti chamber.
to
make
substitutes
for
the
Ten
Commandments
is
that
The
Bad
Little
Boys.
The punishment is cruel. barbarous and inhuman.
the
number
of
commandments
cannot
exceed
ten.
but how can we hope for racial unity in any other way?
ardent champion of child labor
Taught to go westward round
A in the cotton mills of the South
One is born a Nordic. You cannot become one. Nor-
With obeisance profound
recently raised his voice to urge that
dics want racial unity. they are in the majority, so
If the Keren ilayesod drive fails to go over the the laws regulating children's work
To his Lord,
be eased a bit, for, said he, it is better
what can we do?
top, the Jews will not be able to tell the Gentile world
He by service so loyal
One more suggestion we have in mind. Why limit that the Jews haven't the money. said Mr. Weizmann. that children should work in factories
To a master so royal
than that boys should fill the jails.
the number to 2 per cent based upon the census of
Is a lord.
No excuse is strong enough when Jews ails to take an We know very well that the prisons
1890? Why not exclude all of them? The day of
are for the most part populated by
interest in the most vital of Jewish movements.
young men, but it is to be doubted
racial unity would then be nearer at hand. The lunatic
While his homage each day
if the Southern gentleman has found
fringe surely has our deepest, most heartfelt thanks,
Serves to mark and display
the solution to the problem. It may
"Just
think
of
it!"
shouted
Mr.
Weizmann
at
the
not
be
unseemly
to
ask
if
his
heart
for now, when any problem perplexes us we shall
Thy glory,
Keren
Ilayesod
banquet
in
New
York
last
Monday.
bleeds
for
the
fallen
young
prisoners
merely say those magical words: "race prejudice and
'Tis Thy hand that investeth
or whether it yearneth for the clink-
"The
Jewish
boys
in
Palestine
are
playing
baseball
in
distrust, race unity," and all shall be lovely.
The robe on which resteth
ing coins that the labor of children
However, we shall continue to exert ourselves to llebre•." Some one should call this to the attention causeth to fall into the coffers of fac-
His glory.
tory owners. A five-minute talk by
of
Mr.
McGraw,
of
the
New
York
Giants.
He
is
the end of bringing liberty and sanity to this. our be-
such a man as Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
looking
for
a
Jewish
baseball
star.
And,
on
the
other
SOLMON IBN GABIROL.
loved country, through the door of national unity,
might make the advocate of child
labor change his mind. But that, of
Translated by lame! Zangwill.
which, which is a product of social understanding and hand, he might be able to "farm out" "Mose" Solomon
course,
is
not
a
certainty.
relationships, and not try to achieve the hopeless task with the Jerusalem team.

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