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VOL. XV, NO. If
STATUETTE PRESENTED TO EARL BALFOUR AND
SCULPTOR WHO CREATED IT
A Passover
Message
Passover
Greetings
TPON this festive
casion in the lives of
the Jewish people, I ex-
tend to you all a message
of greeting. . •
LOUIS ROSENTHAL,
: : from •
EARL OF BALFOUR,
Noted Sculptor and
Miniaturist.
Author of Declaration Bearing His
Name.
The Palace
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Chas. H. Bryan
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The statuette which was presented to the Earl of Balfour a few months ago by Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, was executed by Mr. Rosenthal at
the request of American Zionists. The figure, which is 11 inches high, consists of a silver shaft
er base and is surmounted by a standing figure of Balfour. Surround-
which rests upon a sil v
ing the shaft and on the four corners of the b vie are tiny figures of historical and symbolic
significance. These figures, as well as the figure of Balfour, are in gold.
Louis Rosenthal, the Baltimore sculptor, was born in Lithuania about 35 years ago and came
s Yeshiva of
to the United States when he was 17 years old. Ile was educated in the famouinced
Telz and was intended for a rabbinical career. At an early age, however, he ev marked '
ability in drawing and carving. Upon his arrival in America, he sought to enter an art school
study sculpture. Poverty and unfriendly conditions made his early years in this country'
to
diflicult.
Maryland Institute, Rosenthal secured a four-year schol-
After preliminary courses in the
arship in the Rinehart School of Sculpture in Baltimore, where he became one of the brilliant
pupils of Ephraim Keyser, the distinguished American sculptor. Ile won numerous prizes dur-1
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years revealed intellect, adequacy of execution and deep Jewish feeling.
During the past five or six years, Mr. Rosenthal's efforts have been directed along the
astonishing skill e model charming figures of tiny dimen-
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and in history, writers of every man
of Jabne and Tiberias. It is not diffi-
IT it well to bear in mind that Jews cult to understand why Cordova under ner of books.
I.et us make but brief mention of
1 were to be found in many parts of the Mohammedan rulers was to South
Europe even before Jewish national western Europe what Athens was to one or two of the outstanding figures
life was completely extinguished by Greece when that little country of in the field of Jewish Iterature.
51aimonides, the story of whose life
the Roman power in the year 70 of Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and
the present era. Along the coast of the immortal poets and dramatists, reads like a romance and who stands
out
as the most significant figure in ,
Northern Africa and along the South- was glory itself.
the period of which we are speaking,
ern fringe of Europe there were small
Era of Jewish Greatness.
urges
first consideration. Ile wrote
groups of Jews who engaged in var-
Jewish greateness flourished in ev-
ious activities, most of which, how- ery direction. Jewish industry and the Codex, in which he systematized,
on
the
basis of Talmudic authority, all
ever, had a definitely commercial char- commerce enriched cities. .lewish in-
acter. In Spain, as in the other coun- tellect expanded in secular as well as the ordinances and tenets of Judaism,
tries of Southern and Southwestern religious directions. Poets sang and and brought into a comprehensive or-
Europe, the Jews obtained in sufficient philosophers deepened the furrows in ganization the ethics of the Jews. As
numbers to make their influence felt, their brows. Science was given great a youth he was the author of an as-
for to an important degree they were impetus, and scholars of every de- tronomiral treatise on the Jewish cal-
the bearers of civilization wherever scription found their works welcome endar. Later on he wrote commentar-
ies on parts of the Babylonian and
they went, initiating industries, en- and appreciated.
Jerusalem Talmud bearing on the
gaging in agriculture and giving slim-
Under the benevolent dispensation
ulas to commercial enterprise. But of the Moorish Kaliphs, the Jews practice's of Judaism. He is the au-
on the
more than that. They distinguished founded synagogues that were glor- thor of an Arabic commentary.
themselves in medicine and in what is ious in beauty and in architecture, and Mishnah presented from a strictly
perhaps a less lovely calling, the pro- founded colleges in which Jewish tra- rabbinical point of view. Ile wrote
the thirteen articles of faith, which,
fession of arms.
were absorbed
Until the sixth century t he Jews dition and learning
in a sense, embody the essence of Ju-
found life in Spain fairly tolerable. numerous students. Physicians and daism.
It was only when ChrisInnity had theologions, m en of affairs and ripe
olars, gemm crown
Th. Great Maimonides.
taken a firmer hold in the Spanish Pe- Talmudic
sch fascinating period in Jew-
of this most
Maimonieles was a great physician,
ninsula that Jewish existence was
ish history.
perhaps the most eminent of his slay,
painful and difficult. Nine hundred
The remarkable thing about the bringing to his art a scientific and NE
years before the infamous Inquisition, Jews at that time was the extent of
em irical mind, the fruits of which NE
the Jews in Spain were subjected to their interests. Si varied and well-
are not ignored by medical history. —
the well-known cruelties which for rounded a life as the Jews of those
Great as were the demands upon his
many centuries characterized the
r' •. lived has never been services, he found time to keep up a ---
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four
centu
I treatment by the Christian Church of equalled. Every phase of Jewish life
correspondence with Jewish centers
the Infidels—massacre, expulsion, en- nod thought, s, mehow, was given its
in many parts of the world and to
I forced apostasy and limited pursuits. proper and just emphasis.Religion
write the Mishnah Torah and the
A Crucial Event.
The beauty of .lewish Guide of the Perplexed, the two great-
This condition of the Jews of Spain.] flourished.
an d home life Was never est religious and philosophic' works
mitigated at times by less despotic community
_
s then. and the loyalty to produced by the sews of the Middle Ws
regimes, continued until a great event co marked a
fathers was never Ages. Of his greatness as a physi-
occured in the history of Spain. In the cause of their
711 there conic to an end a struggle so deep as was the leyalty of the cian, an Arabic poet writes thus:
been waged prime ministers, financiers, advisers
for many years had
! by
which
relieve,
the forces of Mohammedanism on of kings, the great physicians and the 01 body's ill+ sloth Galen'• art
body both,—
■ Ie lighted Malmonide• cure+ mind eel s
e
His wkdorn hea
ls dise ase ad iynorsne.
one side and the lebrions of Christian- golden-voiced singers wit
success
moon invoke hi, skill and
ity on the other. In that year the with their poetry. Amid their Jews of And should the
art.
Battle of Xerxes was fought, in which and wealth and power, the
Her spot+. when full her orb. would di•ap•
kings that Moorish Spain never forgot that af-
ear:
the last of the Visigothic
ter all they were in the Diaspora and He'd all her breach, when time doth inroads
ruled Spain fell before the firm of
nt
d
make.
the seat h of the anciedow e-
Moors,
or
that
Zion,
by earth.
the Moorish invader. The
And cure her, too, of pallor (1111•ed
the Western Mohammedans, whose an- light, the city whic was bowedn
Of his place in Judaism, !et it be
centers fought their way through Asia under the yoke of a ruthless enemy,
Minor and Northern Africa, gained
4. always
cherished
given
great
thought, be
even
when they
were said that history thus speaks of him. E.--
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most happy. "From Moses, the Prophet, to Moses
n long sought-for foothold in Europe.
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ben
Maimon,
there
appeared
none-
like
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City after city—Cordova, Granada,
The names that flit before us As
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Jew- unto Nloses."
Toledo—fell before them.
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turn the pages of this period in
Jeliudah ha-Levi, most beloved of F.7-
The help they. received from the ishhistory bewilder us with their
h Biblical period,
aimonides, .lehu- Jewish poets after the
iJews in their conquest of Spain was
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all the -
ver y h greatness. M
I by no means to be despised. The Mo- dab ha-Levi, Abrahani and Moses In now appears unto us with s eharac-
Ft- hammedans recognized this aid and Ezra, Solomon Ibn Gabriel,— • sweetness and gentility of i -ass -- _-
I at once lifted the Jews from their host of others whose names are less ter. His is a varied muse. "Ile sounds F-_ -
praise of wine, you,is and happi- E.-..
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former position of degradation and
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but whose works are of the
chars of his lady -1,
Fii slavery to a position of liberty and significant
varied splendor—appear before us and ness, and extols the m
love, but beyond all he devotes his ..--
influences. "A new light," says Mau-
Sr- - _ - •
present
their
handiwork.
song
to
Zion
and
his
people."
F
rice Harris, "had dawned, and under
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Fit
People of Culture.
Israel's Sweet Singer.
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the broad and cultures! regime of the
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If at any time a people deserved to
His love for Zion, expressed both in S--
Moors a Golden Age unfolded for the
as
the
Jew's
w
of
1-F
nd in ardent attitudes, which -71 -= -
be called cultured, it w
a
of Spain."
the period we speak of. During this
FF Jews
him
afoot
from
his
native
coun-
For 450 years the history of the
took
time a great system of Jewish philos-
Jews of Spain- was one bathed in
try to the soil of Palestine, there to die
ophy was formulated. The most ere he could fondle the sacred soil, is
-H bright and enchanting colors. With beautiful Jewish poetry, sites the
FIF the exception. of course, of that pro-
thus made manifest:
Biblical period period, was written,
ductive period in Jewish history which
and the foundations of what is some- 0 Zion! of thine sass' pease tali+. thought.
The remnant of thy flock. Ishii thine have
brought forth the prophets. the psalm-
times called the science of Judaism
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-ought!
ists and the men of wisdom, whose were laid. We shall but pass over the
north end south
prom weal, from east. from
priceless works are incorporated in
re•nund+,
more
ephemeral
aspects
of
the
activ
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the
Bible,
and
with
the
further
ex-
Afar
and
now ones', from an thy bounds,
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ity of the Spanish Jews. We shal
And
no
Purees.,
F ception of the 500 years of Jewish his- merely record that Jews served as am-
-With thee be s tases r•
.
F tory in Babylon, where the monumen-
hassadors from the Moorish haltp he
lon•ing's fetters chained I gent thee , too.
tal Talmud was created, no period in
Jewish history is so rich and so happy to the kings and princes of other coun- Mr t d eatt fast welling forth like Hermon's
F
ct
the
I-
as this,—the Golden era of Spanish ries. We shall but recall soli fato
but drop on holy hills!
0 blis• could Cher
Jewish life. I that Jewish financiers gavesolidly
A croaking bird I turn. when through me
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cities
of
Cordova
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say
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cities guists, learned in Jewish philosophy
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