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A NEVV INTERPRETATION OF AN O LD
JEWISH IDEAL
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By JACOB BILLIKOPF
PAGE NINE
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be ex petted from such a conception
which contains the best that is in
Judaism with the best that is in
; America.
"We perceive a community great in
numbers, mighty in power, enjoying
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greetings
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normal aspects of Jewish life and in ! life, liberty and the pursuit ofhap-
The problem of Jewish riluiation is many cities, among them Chicago,' pitons; true life, not mere breathing
;
becoming more and more acute from Philadelphia, Boston and lialtimore,I sluice; full liberty, not mere elbow
day to day. Our future status in the the Federations of Jewish Charities I room: real happiness, not that of pus-
country depends, in a large degree, have undertaken, at Last in part, the • tare beasts; actively participating in,
, in tine manner in which we cope with responsibility for Jewish education at the civic, social and economic pro-
gress of the country, fully sharing and
this problem. It is up to us in the
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with this, we must not increasing its spiritual possessions and
'Jewish community to further the solo
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acquisitions, doubling its joys, haft-
.
!lion of this problem, for unless
; I is done, what good are our charities— the greatly changed standard of cony ingits sorrows; yet deeply iamb .1 in
' I what good our health centers, our hos- munal work. It would avail an little the soil of Judaism, clinging to its
I Pitals and our convalescent homes? if the community as a whole assumed past, working for its future, faithful
one in sentiment
NVe need to strengthen ourselves on responsibility for Jewish education to its aspirations,
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the standards. Not with their
brethern wherever they
without
i t
spintua
The Talmud Torahs represent an so very long ago it was generally ay- are men with straight bat s am
integral part of the Jewish communal ccoted that anything ut all was good raised heads, with big hearts and
Sinte any- strong minds, with no comiction
organization. There has been much enough in communal work,
cerning the thing at all was good enough for the crippled, with no emotion stifled, with
misunderstanding co n
' meaning of Talmud Torah and its pos•. A new standard exists today. souls harmoniously developed, self-
as
self-reliant; receiving
centered
function in our scheme of education. What is dons: by the community
phrase "Talmud Torah" (study of a whole ought to be of the highest and resisting, not yielding like wax
Till.
to every impress froin the outside, but
the Torah) has two distinct meanings, standard; it ought to be better than
blending the best they possess with
one signifying the ideal of learning,, the individual undertakings. The Mt.
Sinai hospital in New York City has the best they encounter, not a horde
or Jewish education, the other II
, definite institution, one particular indeed progressed very far from the of individuals, but a set of in-
dividualities, adding a new note to the
type of Jewish school. As an ideal, old Jewish "hekdesh"—the hospital
richness of American life, leading 11
"Talmud Torah" holds a very high fur the poor—if the reader still has
new current into the stream of Anwri-
plats. in Jewish thought. Jewish edu- some recollection of what that symbol
cation has been regarded by his- of disorganization and dirt was. In can civilization."
When Jewish educators in America
torians and philosophers as the very those cities where the Jewish cont-
basis of Jewish life since the Exile. munity has been aroused to the int- today speak of Talmud Torah, they
d.
, Poor families have deprived them. portance of Jewish educational work, have no mean institution in min
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and
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selves of the very necessities of life there is visible a mashed improve-
meat in the Talmud Torah. 1_ Donate.
to give their children Jewish instruc-
ly the Talmud Torah in America will
Out of High Rent District
tion.
greater resemblance to its
Between Second and Elizabeth
However, in spite of the very high bear Ills
prototype in eastern Europe than d
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place that the ideal of "Talmud
the finely equipped hospitals erected
' Torah" has held in the conscience of
by the Jews in America to the old
the Jewish people, the institution
and an auditorium where plays can
which goes by that name was in the "heltdesh" of the Ghetto.
Another force is at work remodeling he given, lectures delivered and ser-
eastern Europe
vices held. They think of a body of
— a rather dilapidated affair. The Tat. the program of activities in the Tal-
mud Torah. This thesis has been teachers, young men and women of
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- - . mud Torah in Vilna, for example, was
the "charity school" maintained by brilliantly developed in a splendid son- fine bearing, who understand Ameri-
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-- the community for the children of the tribution to the whole subject of can life and the psychology of the
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American shill, who also have pored
= ' 'iota' who could not afford to send Americanisatit n in a honk called
...._ their children to private Heiler. As "Theories of Americanization." The over the tonics of Jewish literature,
TO ALL MY JEWISH FRIENDS
=-
who have been moved by the Jewish
author
of
this
book,
Dr.
Isaac
B.
Berk-
all
over
the
world
in
thd
• the
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suffering, of men and women who
son, is now supervisor of instruction suffering,
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=- Don sir two ago, "charity schools," in the Philadelphia Associated Talmud amidst our success-pursuing
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lion are devoting themselves out of
maintained for the poor by the gne - Torahs. In his bock, he discusses the
love
for
their
people
to
Jewish
teach-
- 7 ' prat community, were much inferior whole set of conditions, social, poli-
1-
s-
ing. They think of Jewish children,
-M to private schools. hi sanitary con- tical and intellectual, which are
who,
wondering
and
thoughtful,
lis-
radically affecting the course of study
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Tal- and the plan of work in the Talmud ten to the great story of Jewish life
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and are moulded and changed by it
, mud Torah institution became
Torah.
For example, the Jewish child in forever.
dated in the minds of the Jewish
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This is not a dream. There are
America attends the public school for
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masses
with
something
shabby,
even
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secular education, speaks English as already here and there such buildings,
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When the Jews from eastern Europe the vernacular and has much less time such teachers, and there are young
neap' s. who look back to their year in
-- : began to establish Talmud Torahs for Hebrew studies. Without enter-
si--_
ing deeply into the change in schedule, Hebrew school as the must interesting
__ in America, they simply copied the
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subjects and methods, it is easy to see and significant in their life. It will
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institution
as
they
had
known
it
in
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Europe. The Talmud Torah that the educational program will be M• the task of the next generation
3 I became a free school for the poor. It greatly modified by a host of new con- to make the erection of such schools
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the main business of Jewish com-
-- i remained mean and inadequate. The ditions.
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The Jews early began to realize munal endeavor in America. This is
='I odor of contempt still adhered to it,
both on the part of the parents and the necessity of adjusting the immi- not a prophecy, it is the calculation of
ec supportingpublic. Talmud Torah grant to his new environment—the probability. As the state takes over
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ame, and in a great many plas necessity of Americanization as it is some of the more important charitable
-.; still continues to be, a symbol for un- often called. The educational alliances work, as it has already done in many
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sanitary quarters and poor teaching. and the Y. M. II. As emphasized places; the increasing wealth of
But in the last 10 or 15 years the the teaching of English, preparation the community makes it possible to
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Talmud Torah in the larger American for citizenship, and recreational ac- meet philanthropic needs more easily,
the energy of the Jewish community
-; cities has begun to undergo a very tivities. Talmud Torahs, too, have
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change destined to make begun to recognize the importance of will be freed for constructive Jewish
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this institution a true embodiment of such activities calculated to adapt the tasks looking toward improvement of
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as the ideal of Jewish education. We
immigrant to the new life. In the the cultural and spiritual life of the
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find throughout the country men like more modern forms of the Talmud levy, for the preservation of that
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which is dearest in Jewish life. It
Detroit, Mich.
==-- I,ouis Marshall, Judge Irving Lehman, Torah there have been included such will be recognized that Jewish educa-
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--; Judge Otto Rosalsky, Felix Warburg, activities as clubs, lectures, concerts,
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I the late Jacob IL Schiff, speaking reading rooms and gymnasium, so that tion is worthy of the serious labor of
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', referen ce that Talmud Torah center of today as the community as a whole, acting to-
- ab out Talmud Torah ith nt
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to the. old ramshackle, unsanitary,
represented in the Central Jewish In- gether. "Talmud Torah Kneged
efficien tinstitution which used to be stitute of New York, for instance, Rotate (Talmud Torah above all)
called to mind by that name; but to combines a broad social and recrea- will no longer be a forgotten ',brass. in
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a new Jewish educational institution tional program with the Jewish edu- the Hebrew prayer look. It will be-
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I adapted to American conditions, mod- cational Rim. The scope of the work come the slogan of American Jewish
' rn in •t4 equipment, its teaching staff has been enlarged also to include the communal endeavor.
I and methods, preserving nevertheless
interests of young people and adults
the old aim and ideal of Talmud
Torah, the pursuit of Jewish knout- I as well as of children; in fact the
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ceceteratowork I individual has become the unit of
n
work. A splendid analysis of the pur-
r ,:n m sg f or t i h nei ns g e v t •
A t; in
ehreeichfaerra
!l 11 Talmud Torah in America is a new Poses of the Central Jewish Institute
O
ontention of what constitutes cum- is presented by Dr. Isaac B. Berkson, Right to Office Upheld by Votes from
' c inunal responsibility. In this matter I formerly its director. Says he;
Opposite Party.
"The underlying idea of The Cen-
. the Jewish community is undergoing
i a development parallel to that which tral Jewish Institute is Talmud Torah
WASHINGTON.—After
a day of
•
as is indicated by its sub-title. The
American municipalities have under-
O gone during the last. century. Former- preservation of Jewish spiritual life stormy debate, in which party feel-
t)
acti es point an ti pa - ing ran high, the House, by a vote of
ly it was thought that the community is the idea which giv vities of the inr- 210 to 198, passed a resolution de-
O as a whole ought to help the individual pose to all the
daring that Sol Bloom, the Demo-
n.
only in abnormal situations, when he stitutio
0
on cratic member Irvin the Nineteenth
"h
Wit all i its strong insistence
I t
heless New York District, was entitled to
was ill or incapable of supporting him-
Gradually it was recognized a Jewish purpose, it nevert
self. the community must make itself recognizes the need of adjusting to the seat that he now holds, thus re-
that
jecting the claim for it made by Wal-
responsible for supplying certain nor- the conditions of American life and ter M. Chandler, former Republican
O mul needs of every individucl. The thought. The harmonization of Jew-
rican life is the Representative from the New York
a greatest step forward ens made when ish purpose wit Am eetre.
district named.
O the community undertook the work of ins titution's raison intensive
Mr. Bloom's tenure of office during
" Insisting on
general education. A great theoretical Jewish subjects for the Talmud Torah,
ose this Congress was assured as a r -
battle had to he fought on the ques-
that
t
ins
mainta to enroll in butt of the support given him by a
w neverthel
tion of public education, but there are
induced
induc must not he en- coalition of Democrats, eight Pro•
be work
ho intensive
cannot ess
very few today who do not recognize
the
the enormous benefit that has been tirely neglected; they must be reached gressive Republicans and one Farmer-
conferred upon society as a whole by through a scheme of extension edu- Labor
Of member.
the 43a members of the present
U our splendid system of public schools
Established 1910
House, 408 voted. Had the eight Re-
The Jewish community likewise first, cation.
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publicans
and the one Farm' r-I abut.
gave its attention to the problem of I The odern Talmud Torah has not
odified its program in accord member who voted for Mr. Bloom
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sickness and dependency. Now that only m
supported
Mr. Chandler, he would
efficient organizations have been with the needs of American Jewish
created to meet these urgent needs, life, but is itself becoming an agency have had 207 votes, one more than
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the
Democratic
membership, which is
Jewish communities are beginning to , in the process of adjustment or of
ish pr
on. It s ver
composed of 206 Representatives.
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turn their attention seriously to the! Amcaniadti
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Not in many years has an election
I first, is an important element in the contest in the House excited so much
proper kind of Americanization.
interest among the members of that
In recent years, serious minded men body. Usually cases of this kind are;
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have begun to ponder the idea "Ameri- decided by partisan considerations
canization." Is the cultural status of and the Bloom-Chandler contest was
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the ordinary boy born in America of
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no exception to the rule.
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Jewish immigrant family really high-
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' er than that of his parents? "The
; father has the sagacious wit of the
Talmud; the son replies in the cheap
repartee of musical comedy. The
father calls to memory hundreds of
procerbs from Bible and Talmud; the
son knows the batting average to a
T. The father knows Hebrew; the
son knows slang. The father has
. been moved by the profound ideals of
1Jewish life, by the pathos and ro-
I mance of Jewish history; the son is
a devoted "go-getter." Americanise-
I ; tbm methods have been ton negative,
;they have unconsciously stressed the
I severing of connections, the breaking
of traditions; they have also been too
!external; they have stressed new
clothes, new manners, new languages,
rather than character ideals and
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