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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1924-05-23

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Win frrann*In (Axon tett.

the poor Jews go and pray. Often
it into clothing and sell it right in that there are beggars mixed in with the
am on the side of the young. We an- country. The same thing would apply Jews praying there, which makes a
cients are terribly wrong when we re- to s hoes. Palesitne sells its hides to bad appearance. Then the agencie:
sent the independence of our modern
offspring. What we ancients now, England, Italy and other countries, show the hills around Jerusalem, but
and what our modern offspring know 1 and they turn the hide into leather do not go into the interior of the
----
-
irty-Fifth
Anniversary
of
The
Jew
and , and then Palestine imports the manu. country to any extent.
13 Miles Out Michigan Avenue
On the Occasion of the Th
1 less well, is this. There are ideas and factured shoes from those countries.
But if one goes out into the stir
' ideals to which the terms older
ish Publication Society.
Since the war the Jews it Palestine hurbs and colonies, where the Jr,
----
I newer cannot be properly applied at
such things as permit- have established seine large industries, have settled themselves in the lase
By DR. ISRAEL ABRAHAMS,
all. There are
l ao, n ill: they
three years, and visits the Jewish Ag
. 0 s i a u r e g he as it:k big , f flourwhere
Lecturer at Cambridge University, Author of "Jewish Life in the Middle .. , : vent values. The old know this, the
li'rilsit tua. ricultural School, he will imagine him
brick plant,
Ages,","Chapters on Jewish Literature."
1 young do not. But the old are
cholars; that ! ignorant as the young us to the means: facture bricks from cement. They self in California, as the Pah•stin,
----_
have also about completed a plant to (Innate is practically the same as the
s
Some claims are so obvious that quire
all Jews to
be
pus- climate in Southern California. If h,
• afanatical
requirernetit.
But we 1
permanent values may he manufacture cement for
. building
! by which
T •• • t
Ann od n•
they fail to receive their deserved en- d • i ask all Jews to acquire sufficient
visits the Carmel Wine Comtism -
The old are at fault. Over against! poses and have esti' is t
sober
a
forcement; so supreme that
which i; tedory consisting of st u n
knowledge of their hist _my and their
finery.
s!oif w ho cannot ask l must lielilac-
formulation seems hyrrbole. For 25 deals t i he renamed to make a fair : the the
city
known
as
201 Jrvish families, he will think the
The
They are build'ng a
ather who cann e
e d b y Jews he is on the French Riviera. It is, I.;
years the Jewish Publication Society decision as t: the limits and delta nds od
el
Aviv-built
and
inhabit
. T
has rendered services unparalleled in of receptivity and resistance. leiter- ' y. a ng cannot und,rstand the s
c ast ructed the way, one of the largest wine-pr. ,
The first house wasJ
to the ,,iy.
n
I
do
not
refer
to
the age-long history of Israel. Not once tends beth to receive and resist of the old.
diming concerns in that section of Di
only has it realized the essential influ- in the wrong places, and at the wrong
of the
tongue only,
though
as in itants.
It has
streets
paved
with
cc- world, and its wine is sold all over th
ed !speech
: we know,
differences
of speech
(not
1911 and
today
it has
IS,500
inhab-
ence in Judaism of literature on life,
pig.head
be
time. Ignorance may
world.
but it has endeavored also to let life
hare-brained. It may re- !merely Yiddish and English) are bar.
c
brick, and
stucco
or cement
constrution,
What impressed me most was th
as it may be
to te h . t meld
nearly
every building
is of
Water
influence literature. Hence it has fuse to budge when it should move; riers. I refer more especially
College in Tel Aviv. It ha
h e canno with up-to-date sewerage and
been the begetter of a library useful to it may move when it should refuse to i speech of heart and soul. 't genera- ,,..!tcioa. The streets are wolf lighted Jewish
about PM boys and 600 girls as vii
if • air s p eech on the new
• l• th •
the specialist, attraitive to the lay-
on
give
them
our
per.
by
ele
ctneity,
one
dents,
although
the entire course
e.
bu
dg
thin hut we. 1.411
man. It has responded to the inspira-
than many cities in study is Hebrew. When the studen
The Jewish Publication Society has manently valid Jewish spirit in the city looks better si,
i„,, size.
tion of the past, it has heard the call
,,,ica a t I,
A
no
e
graduate
they
get
diplomas in II
done
more
than
its
share
in
providing
.v;generation's own speech. NS
of the present. In an epoch of sectar-
. i s ts,
s , '
r th o • very
material
f • I - now-
I find that very few tou r ns
force, we must give
brew, and such diplomas are accept(
t not u
ianism, it has risen above party. So the
right
mus
r
a
,
s
e
l
eti;
geti,t,Ilsarla
in
any
of
the
leading
colleges of t'
ortunity. seI remember an illustra-
thei kte2r
manifold are the Society's merits that
even
I' by that brilliant illustrator, Emil 1 tile. as well
in Palestine,
h i s e thh
own age. Directly, it lion
as Jews,
know much world as entitling the possessor to a
r ytic o ht our
about the dews
even this bald exposition seems to take ! .fde gn i't w
Chinese
\ those who visit there. As a rule the mission.
e visitor to a
including
on an air of exaggeration.
of
has (loin, this by printing such books C. H irs
i s children
and h were
heaps agencies which conduct the tours
What impressed me still noire f
found Ah
t man which
But it is an under, not an over, as Schechter's "Studies and Aha( banker
„mo d at a table on
muddy is how happy the Jews a
statement of the truth. This may he llama's "Essays," both of which seek of gold and silver coins. At the batik- !that
only show in
tourists
of the country
places mentioned
Jewish parts
his-
live together there.
tt
f i aention
seen most cleary
l
is re- to give Israel this self-knowledge; the er's instigation the children were pass- ' tory, such as the Wailing Wall, where Christians
stricted to one particular aspect of the one perhaps under the breath of rah.
.......... ............. ..........
ing their hands through the shining
ewish
prob-
,,..,,
.....
-,,
r
--,
case. What is the main J
binnon colored by modernism, the piles. The visitor was shocked. Would .
m asked
as
-
lem of the day? King Soloon
eart." In other perhaps under the narrowness not the children soon enough acquire - —
"underst an
ding hparaphrase of the Ghetto tinged with Hegelian. a fondness for money? The hanker ex-
should
we
for
ann
times
moder
ism.Then, there are the Society's
plained: "It is not that. But when '
his petition into a prayer for a recep-
articular; its eth- my children go out into the world they
p an
g eneral d
tive spirit. We know from Ezekiel
series
and
literary
volumes;
its
sees
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how unreceptive Israel can be; how Jewish classics; its summaries of the ! will encounter cheats, who will try
Kings of Rhythm
leaden-cared, how stiff-necked when Talmud and its apologetics; and not !pass counterfeit mintage to them. I
Crowds.
Now Delighting Large
the truth is presented. On the other I •ost its romances. All these tend tolcennot s«vethem from this danger.
But the coins on my table are genuine.
hand, Israel has often proved himself self-knowledge. It has crowned the
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fatally ready to accept the false, to edifice with its new translation of the I an teaching them the feel of the
genuine." The moral is clear. We can-
Froglegs
where
adopt Amorite ways and debase its Ilebrew Bible—Israel's main text book
Westwood, the Roadhouse
not keep the younger generation from
own spiritual possessions. When out- of a knowledge of Cod and of himself,
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are prepared to the delight of Epicureans.
side, hostile critics make contradictory of his duties to law and conscience, to temptation towards counterfeit assim-
ilation. But we can give them the feel
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charges
against
Israel,
the
inconsis-
self and community, to community of the genuine Jewish truth, and thus
AN ENVIRONMENT
With
tencies may be left to themselves. One
at any mealtime. A good place to enjoy a quirt hour at
on
jimpue.............simommosmomm igogsmosagnIMM day, Judaism is the villian of capital- and to mankind. 0, how beautiful
of the me- do something to provide t cmh totesti
any time. Splendid food. Courteous Service.
the mountains are the feet
ism, the next day of communism; one senger of hope, of belief in the destiny standard of judgment by whic
day the Jew is bourgeois, the next day of obedient earth and the providence the real from the false, when the
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holshevist. All this is absurd, for Ju- of commanding heaven, of stalwart 1 world offers the choice.
daism has no economic theory, just as acceptance of the role of Servant—I This, then, is the practical outcome.;
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it has no theory of the state. Judaism servant in sulTering; suffering in The Society is, I understand, making
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developed alike under monarchy and glory! Here Israel may know himself \ a fresh appeal to those who have pith-
stood outside. It will appeal to !
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democracy, and in economics, it no
and knowing himself may have erto
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more stands for capitalist competition truly,
a sure touchstone to a true humanism the newfangled, but will make a spec-'I
than for socialist co-operation. It and a true potestantisni. I ial call to the old fashioned. It will
them to bridge over the gap be-
stands for equity in and under every
There is one serious drawback. This i ask
economic theory, for righteousness in self-knowledge with its discriminating 1 tween themselves and their children ! -----
by
placing
in their hands the Society's!
and under every theory of state.
by
power, at once so conserva tive
the
When, however, we examine the ap- progressive, Ices not express itself in volumes. They can begin with
the excell ent and attrac-
ith
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parently inconsistent accusations of the same terms to different genera- mances, w
I have nev- ,
ancient prophet and modern homilist tio ns. I do not refer to the genera- tive series of story-books.
,
er
met
a
child
who
has
not
loved
them.
that Israel is at once too receptive and tions of former epochs; I refer to our
no ,
too obstinate, .we cannot whistle off own co-existent generations. In mai- 1 But I have met many who wou they
the charge as due to prejudice or ig - gation of this difficulty, the Society be better Jews if, when children,
been
given
the
chance
to
know
had
norance For it is clear that Israel has done much. It can and will do
a- these books. Knowing them they 1
most learn two lessons; how to yield, more. It has interpreted past to pees-
have love d them. H s
how to resist. S•1 nrn's desire for a ant, it can and will interpret present would assure
dly provided enough suca h
The King Wah Lo Cafe has always enjoyed the
1th e Society not
reeeptiee spirit must remain Israel's to future,
books?
The
Society
replies; "Ask for 1
perennial ambith n. Israel has lived
enviable reputation of being the best and finest
The other day I met for the second ,
1
through centuries of humiliation into time a brilliant young American writ- more, and they shall be forthcoming•
by
restaurant in Detroit. Its service and quality of
be-
Ask for more, but ask effectively,
an era of accessible honor, just
er. His thought is thoroughly Jewish,
the same served at its
food is a continuance of
Ten buying the books already available, by
cause of his receptivity. Israel has his style is thoroughly English.
farmer location at the Hotel Cadillac.
always lived on the past perhaps, but years ago when I first me shim, he had subscribing to the Society and by in-
in the present certainly. lie has best little
speak Jewish
nor write
any
language
except(hieing your friends to subscribe."I
feeling
and
could neither
Then having interested the young in 1
shown this capacity for living by tra-
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dition under modern conditions when Yiddish. The change was startling. the story-books, parents can a
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he has best balanced receptivity and The Yiddish non-Jew had transformed through the rest of the Society's pub-
lications, its histories, its travelbooks, •
resistance. The wrong obstinacy, the himself
el into an American Jew. What
6 to 8 and 9:30 to 1..
wrong assimilation arise from identi- magi c had effected the miracle? In its essays, its folk-lore sketches, its I
cal faults, Israel is too receptive of particular, I asked him how he acquir- ethical travel-books, its essays, its !
Jewish
Management)
folk-lore
sketches,
its
ethical
treatises,
I
(Under
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the moment's fashion, to ready to take ed his English style while recovering
on the latest fad, too anxious to be in his Jewish spirit. "A good friend," its biographies, its homilies, its class-
to 2. Dinner from 5 to 8.
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the forefront of in •lernism. Israel is said he, "put into my hands Ilelena ics, and above all, before all, and (lur-
d feverishly not only by the Frank's 'Yiddish Tales.' The hook ing all—its Bible.
Sunday
Dinner from 12 to 8.
newest shallowest,
the most seized my attention, the contents
Let the parents try out this experi-
attractebut
by the
Located 30 miles from De-
grotesque, the most useless. Now touched my heart by the familiarity ment. It will not fail. The Society
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separate
dining rooms at your service for
troit, the Bellevue lintel is
what is wrong here is not the posses- of the scenes, the pathos and the hu- is willing to act the Elijah, but the
private parties, wedding dinners or banquets without
accessible by fine auto roads
sion of a receptive spirit. Epictetus, mors of the episodes. I had not prev- fathers and children must play their
Green
extra
charge.
Reservations
for
the R
oom, G
old
or by ferry which stops im-
the
the Stoic, refused to admit a young iously felt these qualities so keenly. part also. Books are not everything.
Room, Ivory Room, Silver Room, Rose Roo m or
mediately at the hotel at
dandy to his lectures, saying; "There But my mind was touched also. I Example is more. But books are some-
Cadillac
Palm
Room
may
he
secured
from
Mr.
Woods,
Bellevue Island.
is an art indeed, of speaking, and I practically learned English as well as thing. By books the Jewish heart is
the Superintendent of Service.
possess it. There is an art of hearing, Judaism from this hook. Then I eag- touched, for imagination clothes real-
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and you do not possess it. Learn how erly sought other hooks issued by the ity with charm, and what is life with-
month will be given to those
to hear before you ask me to speak to Society. I found them just the food out charm? We try to give our chil-
who desire sante. Children
you." Receptivity is the necessary an- for my soul and for my taste—for dren the charm of life. Let a little
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will be given half rates. One
tecedent to the acquisition of wisdom, these books are a liberal education in of the charm be Jewish. It is not
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hundred beautiful home-like
he it intellectual wisdom or wisdom in the Jewish spirit, while they at the something subtracted from other
rooms all facing outside.
same time instil the charm of the Eng- charm, it is something added. Nay, it
the science of life.
(Kosher)
It is net receptivity, then, that is at lish style.'
is the pinch of sweet spice that makes
fault. TI•e fault lies in another direc-
This is an experience, rare perhaps, the incense fragrant. Or to change
tion. 1st ael mast receive, but Israel yet so significant that it might be the metaphor to a better one, Jere-
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receive. Ile must made less rare. I remember that I miah asks Israel to tread the old paths'
must learn ho , to
be shit. to disciminate hevveen what myself began to learn German by and thereby to find rest for the soul.!
is congenial to his genius and what is reading Mendelsohn's Psalms. Are The young prefer the fresh flowery!
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i antagonistic to it. In other words, in net some American Jews learning meadow to the old rock-strewn roads.'
I order to be receptive front without English by learning the Society's Let us show the young that the old
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there must he self-knowledge within. Bible? The Society ought possibly to pa the are not rock strewn only. Old
_
Ill This is why an ignorant Jew is apt to emphasize its interpretative function. paths, all paths, leading by a living .=..
be a poor-spirited Jew. We do not re- By its English books it can interpret way to a living end, are rock-strewn.i Ma_
-
English to the Jew, Judaism to Time leaves its scars, and its upheav- 1 .7,
r =-
English. Some of us are weaker on , als their obstacles. But there are 1 1-
one side than on the other, some are flowers still in the old paths, as well
less English, some less Jewish. The as stones and barriers. Show the &...
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Society
has a mission It
to has
both,
a mis- I young the flowers and they will gath. g...
on of interpretation.
primer.
,--
-_
scent
to, inspired by their color and F-
them
er
-
2-
overcome
the
ardors
which
1F
ily to interpret the Jewish spirit, no
z•
doubt. Why is our knowledge of the duty always imposes. Truly the So- •:.=.
Can Fix it for you—just the way you want it—
Jewish spirit defective? Because the! ciety has a great enterprise forward.
and at the Right Time.
Jewish spirit is not usually expressed It will not shirk its responsibility, but
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with simplicity and grace. The op. will go from strength to strength for- __.L
1M
If you are getting ready for a picnic, outing of
preach to the Jewish spirit is too offs i wards to the ideal goal in Zion.
made impassable by heavy rocks of
!=
excursion. why worry about what to take alone
am
the
,
I
ponderous learning. Now
I m
to eat, when we can fix a basket for you fit fo
last to decry technical scholarship; I A BUSINESS MAN'S
1:÷ -.. !
a baguet and in the meanwhile save you time
have argued again and again that it is :
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trouble and worry?
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only our few technical scholars who!
provide the materials for expounding !
to the many the beauties of our relig•
JACOB EPSTEIN
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ion and literature. Bence, the promo -

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of technical scholarship is an es- f
Palestine
is
in
bet-
sential part of the Society's purpose. ) Next to Egypt,
1 ter shape than any other country in !,=_-
It is proving its consciousness
NOW PLAYING
duty by printing careful, critical edi- the Near East. It is making rapid !'=-
tions by Davidson and Brody of the progress, and is in much better
very Jewish classics which a Zangwill condition than it was before the great ?=-- 1
or a Nina Salaman are at last placing war. The only trouble in Palestine is =
in the hands of a delighted company that there are about 500,000 Arabs 14
of English-reading lovers of poetry. there who are doing very little. They
one and ! are not producing much and are not E•
l h a on
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l
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o ppo si te pages1 consuming much; therefore business' E-
th e s am e volume
is
poor.
and
mu u iIIIIIIIII
I =
oresent work Of Hebrew scholar
English poet. The two functions have
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t 20 per cent of it snap = ..I
mostly to be held separate. On the 1 [ Al to
h roc ugh
. y and hilly, the other 80 per
whole, the Society is compelled to,
k
leave technical scholarship to the Jew-, cent of it is very fertile, and yet al-
job
Quarterly
Review,
to
the
extant
most
90
per cent of the fertile soil is
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seminaries and colleges, to the coming! lying dormant because the Arabs will
University of Jerusalem, in short, to , not till it.
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the learned societies of scholars and
FRANK LIEUSE
In traveling around the country,,
specialists. Judaism cannot live with- ' you would be surprised to see some of '
CARLSON
SISTERS
ANITA GAY
who the Jewish colonies of perhaps 100
nut its scho lars and specialists,
enrour-
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families who have settled themsleves ,
des erve far more support and
And the Original
agement than is their present lot. But 1
b eeinygeahr(sma(n.sd started
theanladstluhirld
most Jews are neither scholars nor' wfairtnh,iinng
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specialists. Are they to be neglected ! felts
gree n, there are trees and
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because they have neither desire nor, shrubbery growing and on the whole \
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is importing prac-
never be allowed to eat a loaf that I, Pa l es ti
cannot bake? If so, I must often go tically everything that it consumes,
without bread. and therefore its imports amount to
Yet we have not yet probed to its , considerably more than its exports.
1
principally is
depth this interpretative function of What Palestine needs
a
Society. There has always been a industry. For example, it raises
sells to
cleft between old and young. It is good deal of wool, which it
and
Italy,
and
then
than
before,
but
it
is
-
England,
Germany
not now deeper
more visible. To bring the hearts of ! buys hack the wool from those coun-
parents and children together was tries in the form of ready - made cloth - I
recognized as the hardest of tasks in ing. Now, it takes about three pounds
:Malachi's days. To perform the task of wool to make a suit of clothes, and

needed an Elijah then—and the So- when they sell their wool they get $1
for it, or a total of $3. When
ciety is taking on Elijah's mantle. It a
1 the form of a
po b
buy it i back
b k in
is interpreting and thus reconciling, they
i
and that in a peculiarly inspiring
ready- made suit it costs them $25.
Consequently there is a good oppor-
manner.
The young are normally interes- tunity for a large woolen mill to man-
ted in the ideals of the old. Quite ufacture woolen cloth and then make
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