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to the Jewlgh pe ople, Init
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trial era. It is patronizing and aloof, but will hardly
withstand the pressure of economic necessity.
The :Magyar before the war was friendly enough
with the Jew, but it was the tolerant, master friendli-
ness of the superior toward an inferior. The "Awaken-
ing Magyar" is a rather befuddled, demoralized indi-
vidual who strikes blindly because he had been rudely -
awakened from a long slumber of laziness, luxury and
security. The awakened Magyar, conscious of his
actual position and deeds in a democratic and indus-
trial age, will in all probability adjust himself - to the
new environment. In the meantime anti-Semitsm is
rampant and works many hardships upon those who
least merit such treatment.
A Modern Legend.
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to equal this. The work must be done by somebody;
trade, industry and commerce must be carried on
, and the professions filled. The Magyar will not do it
and because the Jew does it he is discriminated against,
made the victim of pogroms and condemned.
And yet this is probably the simplest form which
anti-Semitism takes. It is the feudal culture with its
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Thank..
me for talking to him, not because
Herbert Gladstone was the son of
he was himself, but because he was
William E. Gladstone, the hero of the
the son of the man who had always
English liberals for many years, who,
talked of me in terms of affection. I
pen to an anti-Semite is to be saved
reaching to a ripe old age and win-
tried to reason with this attitude; I
from death by a Jew, The irony of
tried to point out how fortunate he
ning
the
esteem
and
the
affection
of
circumstances which effected the res-
was to have been the son of a great
the English people, was known for
cue, from an angry sea, of Richard
man, so beloved and admired that he
many years merely as the Grand Old
Kunze, a German Jew-baiter, by one
could command the service of men
Man.
Ilerbert
Gladstone
had
a
char-
who has felt the injury of Kunze's
and the friendship of people merely
weer of his own and his whole life
ranting agitation, must have been
out of reverence for his father, and
was
a
struggle
to
be
Ilerbert
Glad-
whetted by the very gods. Kunze had
that he should, at this tinie, be moved
stone and not the son of the Grand
just delivered an address. It was a
by the elan of a victory for his fa-
Old
Man.
stirring speech, for beads of perspira-
ther's cause. But the talk was use-
I never gave a thought to this odd
tion rolled profusely down his ruddy
less. He left me as morose and dis-
struggle
between
the
great
and
their
cheeks. And why not? Was he not
tressed, pensive and aged in walk, as
sons until one day in March, 1919, in
calling forth the truth regarding Jew-
though all the worry and trouble of
the longest and most intimate con-
ish machinations, truth hidden in the
the world were on his shoulders, and
versation that I ever had with Chaim
scheming defenses of the enemy
that all about him were merely chil-
Weizmann, sauntering on the Champs
Jews? Were the Jews not bringing
dren enjoying life because they knew
d'Elysse,
we
began
talking
about
the
Germany to the brink of ruin after
nothing of what was ahead of them.
remarkable fact that Hans Ilerzl had
accomplishing its military defeat in
At my last meeting with Nordau
failed
to
be
a
participant
in
the
1918? Do you not think that a Ger-
and Marmoreck in London, we again
whole group of events which we mu-
man deputy, after demonstrating the
discussed
the failure of the son of
tually
agreed
were
crowning
the
ef-
truth in regard to the iniquitous Jew,
our great comrade. Nordau added
forts of his never-to-be-forgotten fa-
and propelling his arms to punctuate
many
details;
Marmoreck added oth-
ther. In the back of my mind was
his arguments, should have cooled off
ers. But all three of us agreed that
the recollection of the fact that Jo-
in the waters of the sea? If you do
liens
Ilerzl
would
not serve the Jew-
seph Cowen and Jacobus Kann, the
not, you have never delivered a
ish cause unless Professor Leon Kell-
surviving trustees of the Herzl estate,
speech.
ner
could
charm
the dark spirit out
had undertaken to groom the boy to
Deputy Kunze verily needed a
of him, and we equally agreed that
be the successor of his father. There
swim and to take a swim he proceed-
behind Ilerzl was the story of hit
was a peculiarly intimate and affec-
ed. And then, unhappily to report,
mother and the bitterness of the years
tionate relation between those of us
a heavy northwestern wind began to
immediately preceding her death.
who had served with Herz] almost
blow. The waves rose high, the waves
Theodor Herz], literary editor of
from the beginning and after Ilerzl's
bent low and Deputy Kunze, a good
the Neiu Frei Press, accepted play-
death, Nordau, Marmoreck and my-
swimmer no doubt, no longer could
wright
of the Viennese stage, fine fig-
self often discussed the possibility
hold his own. Our theory is that dur-
ure, charming personality, WAR one of
that this lad, if he hail the ability and
ing, his speech he waved his arms no
the
most
desirable matrimonial
the emotion, should become to us, in
often and with so much vehemence
catches in the Vienna pf the late
his manhood, what his father had
that when the cooling effects of the
'CO's. Ile had what most no other
been. And I think that in back of
water had asserted themselves, his
Jew had—entre into those select so-
Weizmann's mind was the thought
arms experienced a sort of temporary
cial circles, non-Jewish. of course,
fWeizmann had been sufficiently ear-
feebleness which prevented him from
which were otherwise closed to all
nest in his opposition to Ilerzl, both
swimming to shore. And so he shout-
of those who lacked 16 tablets on
to the man and his policies) that my
ed for asssitance. "Ilelp me, take
their heraldic family shield. Those
side of the discussion, however vague,
nie out," he pleaded, much as the
who had 48 quarterings were the real
was still a reproach concerning his
great Caesar himself once did, ac-
thing. Fanny Weiss was a good-look-
failure, through partisanship, to rec-
cording to the play "Julius Caesar,"
ing, fair-skinned typical Viennese, of
ognize the part Hans Herz' should
written by William Shakespeare, an
that type not uncommon in Vienna,
have played. And so Weizmann told
English poet and playwright.
whose
whole world is made un of Vi-
me
of
the
attempts
he
had
made
to
And when Deputy Kunze's cries for
enna, and to whom the afternoon
win 'lane Herz] to active participa-
succor came forth with greater and
walk
or
ride on the Praeta, to be
tion in the cause, and of the difficul-
greater volume, they came unto the
seen with the right people, was the
ties that he had experienced. He told
ears of Dr. Phsner, the Jewish medi-
sum
total
of human existence, She
me of Hans' nervous habits, retiring
cal officer of the resort where Deputy
came of a well-to-do but not extreme-
disposition and of a certain abnor-
Kunze had just called on high heaven
ly
wealthy
family. Theodor Ilerzl
mality which, while it made it pos-
to wreak vengeance upon the destroy-
was her hero. She fell in love with
sible for reople to serve Hans Herz!,
ing angels of Germany and the world
him and he loved her. And in all that
no one could succeed in getting any-
—to wit, the Jews. Dr. Posner acted
followed his affection never weak-
thing like an aroused interest from
forthwith, plunged into the angry
ened, nor his extreme courtesy and
him. Subsequently. I talked the mat-
waters, placed his hands on the strug-
consideration lessened by an iota.
ter over with all those of the group
gling Kunze and dragged him to
They had three children, one son and
who had been with Ilerzl and who
safety.
two daughters. I think Trudel was
knew something of the son. From all
The reports have it that Kunze had
his pet. As a father, he was an emo-
of those, I got the impression that
not cooled off sufficiently from the ef-
tional, sympathetic man, and one of
there was an insurmountable diffi-
fects of his speech to thank his res-
his finest abort essays, written after
culty in the character of Hans Ilerzl
cuer for giving him his life. It is
Trudel's recovery from a severe ill-
which prevented normal association
thought in circles close to Kunze that
ness, is entitled "Wie Arme Sind die
determined
to
seek
him
I
he may introduce a bill making it a
with him.
Kinderlosse," in which he recounts
out, but some one had evidently in-
felony, or at least a misdemeanor, for
how niuch the suffering that parents
formed him that I was anxious to see
a Jew to rescue a German from death,
experience is part of the charm of
whether by drowning or by fire, al-
him and no I was pleasantly surprised
life. In 1894 he took his wife and
though legal experts doubt the consti-
when at a Zionist meeting there step-
family to Paris for a spell, but after
ped out from the back benches a very
tutionality of such a measure. But
1896 they resided permanently in Vi-
oldish looking young man who said
Dr. Posner intends to remain at his
enna, except for the summers, which
he wanted to talk with his father's
post and to rescue all whom he is
they
spent at Alt-Ausse.
first associate. Even at that first
able to save when they are in danger
The breach in their life came with
glance at a mass meeting, I was de-
at the Leba health resort, law or no
the
self-conversion
to Zionism of
pressed at the somewhat vague, oldish
law.
Theodor Herz'. The idea, its purpose
face and slightly bent, stooped fig-
and its personal contacts were all
ure, leaning on a stick. Something
Leadership.
equaly distressing to Mrs. Ilerzl. She
of the Herz] face was there, but so
OR ALFRED MOND'S return to
wanted her husband and she wanted
vague, to weak, that one had to look
the House of Commons as a rep-
him every day, and she opposed his
for the father in the son. I had not
resentative of a district in Wales will
travels and his long absences in Lon-
seen
him
since
he
had
been
a
little
witness a strong intellectual acquisi-
don, Constantinople, Berlin and else-
boy, playing with his two sisters in
tion to Britain's law-making body. It
where. Zionism had thrown Ilerzl
the
garden
of
the
house
when
they
will be hailed—though little mention
out of his orbit and she declined to
lived in Wahring, Vienna.
of the fact will be made in the news-
travel with him on the new path. It
He
next
called
on
me
at
the
Hyde
papers—as the beginning of a neces-
presented many difficulties, but he
Park Hotel, and then later in the
sary process of reconstruction within
was as persistent in his direction as
think
when
I
came
back
from
year, I
the Liberal party. The hanging to-
she was resisting.
Palestine, he came again to the hotel
gether of Asquith and Lloyd George
Neither the Jews nor Zionism lose
and we sat and talked the hours
has not been a case of beatific comity
anything by Mans Ilerzl's conversion
am
afraid
I
did
the
talking.
away.
I
and has been prompted rather by the
to
Catholicism, nor does the Catholic
He told me that he was interested in
expedient thought that if they did not
church gain anything from its new
Zionism, but all his talk was vague,
hang together they would hang sepa-
recruit.
The only failure is that of
distant, until he came to the subject
rately. The state of health of the
Hans himself. He cannot escape be-
chatter of his distress: that he was the
Liberal party is at this time not par-
ing
the
son
of his father. Ile was
son of his father, the son of a great
ticularly glowing and the fissures that
born under the shadow of a great
man, and that no one would treat
have appeared in the facade of the
name, but will not escape it. It is
with him or think of him except as
Liberal structure have assumed a
just the kind of thing the Viennese
the son of a great man. The British
gaping character.
Jew's have done before him, but it
had treated him with exquisite cour-
Mond's return to active harness
s cheer y i e me iet rheelr for
n e T
o provides ni
tesy during the war, although he was
was in the nature of an answer to a
ope n the
an
Austrian
by
birth.
But
even
this
summons for heroic measures.
door
on
a
passage
which has no other
courtesy he spoke of with some pain
Whether or not he will be able to in-
If I meet him in Europe I still
exit.
and
irritation;
something
achieved
still new vigor in the drooping shoul-
feel kindly to this son of a great man
for him not because he was Hans
ders of his party will depend more
because he is Ilerzl'a son and I shall
Ilerzl but because he was the son of
upon the larger situations in Europe
make bold to tell him so.
Theodor Ilerzl. Ile even reproached
than in England itself. But one thing
Of the 4,300,000 illiterates who will vote for a
president in November the vast majority are native
white, Protestant, 100 per cent American Nordics.
When these illiterates disappear we may confidently
expect the disappearance of bigotry, parochialism and
snooping.
5-Y
By JACOB DE HAAS
wise despatched to eternity, the
N
most distressing thing that can hap-
The sententious critic of every age has found the
fable and legend a most effective method to puncture
foibles and burst banal absurdities. Aesop employed
Defense Day.
the fable with telling, disturbing effect. Dean Swift
There has been a terrible to-do about Defense Day. laid bare the chicane and hypocrisy of his time. The
The fanfpre, noise and the fury of controversy are in-
most catholic figure of the nineteenth century, Leo Tol-
stoi, probed to the very heart the cruelties and hideous-
creasing daily.
What is it all about? September 12 has been chosen ness of Czarism with his charming fabled tales of other
as national defense or mobilization day. On this day lands,
the forces which could be mobilized immediately for
In our own day the K. K. K. has obtruded itself in
war are to march through the streets of the cities and so many ugly forms that the vocabulary of abuse has
towns of the United States. The citizens behind the
been strained tO.the utmost in an attempt to express
first line of defense will stand on the side lines and be the horror and indignation it has aroused. At the
edified, amazed and thrilled by the effective formidable same time the antics of its apologists, the fears of men
forces which the country could summon at a moment's in public life, have afforded amusement as well as dis-
gust. -First the Republican convention gracefully side-
notice,
Theciihaf objection 'to the proceeding appears to stepped the issue, then by a narrow margin the Demo-
be the fear thirour Et•Kopean. friends will view it as a cratic convention escaped the holocaust which would
mark of belligerency on\our part, and may provoke a
befall it if it mentioned the mystic, magical name in
hostile attitude. Further, no military demonstration its platform. The Progressive convention in Cleveland
should be staged so soon after the war because all our also avoided naming this awesome, sacrosanct thing.
efforts should be directed to inculcating the will and
After the deliberations of the nominating bodies
passed into history the chosen candidates seemed to get
spirit for peace.
In this connection one wonders what would be the more courage. First Robert M. La Follette uttered a
reaction of Leo Tolstoi, that Magnificent thinker, artist denunciation against the white-robed ogre, and then
and pacifist. We hazard a guess that he would not be followed John W. Davis with a tirade against the fear-
opposed to it, for it is not something sweetened by some giant.
hypocrisy and made palatable by cant. Tolstoi saw
Perhaps they haVe come to the conclusion that the
the seeds of war fructifying when France and Russia
Klan has passed through'the idealistic and commercial
held joint rnanoeuvers, offered mutual felicitations and
stages and is now actually in the political stage. What-
assured each' other of their undying friendship and ever the reason may be, we applaud them for their
their wish for .eternal accord. He looked with suspi- temerity and forthright condemnation of this sinister,
cion upon it, for the lie was stamped unmistakably upon
mocking thing. .
the whole bombastic, pompous fraud.
To return again to the fable and legend, we here
In the case. of mobilization clay we see a frank, di- reproduce in its entirety a most excellent legend from
rect; though provocative, flaunting display of our war- the column, "It Seems to Me," conducted by Heywood
time strength. We want to show our people that in Broun in the New York World of Aug. 20.
the event anybody sliotild be so foolhardy as to attack
Once upon a time there was a certain cave and in that
us - we are fully prepared to'meet all the exigencies of,
cave there lived a great, drowsy ogre. He towered 20 feet,
the situation:, -
so that, his head all but touched the rocky roof. Folk
knew that 41e was alive, because sometimes he blinked his
As we vievd it, the whole performance is in the na-
' eyes and he swayed 'a little. And it was supposed that
ture of a pageant; it' is one of the innocent substitutes
great and fearful power lay in the back and shoulders of
which offer an outlet for our pugnacity and . present
this giant. Perhaps there was magic in his mind.
The name of the ogre was written on a rock outside the
feeling of superiority. We did contribute in no small
door of the cave. There it stood, in three tall letters,
I degree to winning the World War, through the strength
But nobody ever spoke the name aloud. The
people who lived round about were too wise for that. They
F ••of our military and economic organization, and now
knew
that
if
the name or the giant were to be spoken a
l we want to make the country and the world aware of it.
great' doom would fall. The precise nature of the doom
There is no intention to offend or to exalt the mili-
i
was not known and so it was terrible.
In some respects the ogre was tolerant. Little men and
L :fary- creed or arouse the war spirit. Wars are not made
children could walk close up to the ankles of him and say
such mobiliiations, particularly in a'country which
quite distinctly, "I don't like ogres." At such times he did
p ) 5 „by
is really a pacific country; for despite the fact that we
not even blink. One bold spirit thumbed his nose at the
giant and the great figure was thought at that time to
engaged in the late War' e really had no wars for half
have swayed forward a little, but nothing fearful came
IL a oetitury, excentlhat flurry of unpleasantness which
of it.
And then one day. a stronger came to the cave and he
. few remember, the Spanish war. ,
read the name on the rock and was about to speak it out
5 , • : The causes of war are more profound and subtle
loud. A man from the village quickly clapped a hand over
than mere parading of our great forces before the
his mouth. And this man who knew told the stranger that
a great doom would fall if ever the name of the ogre
inhabitants Of the country. There is Much less. danger
was pronounced aloud.
' ,,, onpflaming the people by such honest exhibition than
But the stranger broke loose from the grasp of the vil-
who would save him and he ran into the cave and
6 :by apparently friendly mannuevers with foreign pow . lager
era,, while in the hearts and minds of the participants " shouted at the top of his voice "Kla, Kla, Kla." The sound
' rang to the roof and came back again from all the walls,
.
'
..
there' is rancor and susupicion.
."
a, Kla,
' Europe knows full Well that we are not a militarist
The eyes of the drowsy giant opened. He swayed for-
-
ward
and
then
back before he fell face down, slowly,
nation and are not bent upon adventures of war.
upon the floor of the cave. And the sound of that fall
Equally well does Europe know that mobilization clay
Was no more than that of an apple dropping from a low
branch into high grass. The stranger rushed forward
' is, not intended to impress it with .our stupendous
and the (lust was ankle sleep on the floor of the cave. It
l strength and prowess. Europe knoWs what resources
was a dry, thin, gray dust. And except dust there was
in men, money and technical equipment we possess, for
nothing.
Later out women from the village swept the floor of
Europe:has celled upon usrto lend them from our great
the cave and little children play tag now between the
plenty. ' -I, . . '
walls and as they run they pipe up a word of derision
Those who work for universal and enduring peace
which is common in the village. They taunt each other
by shouting "Kla! Kla! Kla!"
need not worry that mobilization day will retard the
' movement. . Peace will come when men and women
Roumanian fashions for 1924 are rather grotesque.
' have removed the T auses. for war.
Civilization takes curious twists there. The following
is a sample: "The Jewish public abroad must over-
,• ',Hungarian Anti•Semitism.
look the pogrom policy in Roumania in order not to
Robert Dell, writing In the New Statesman, tells imperil the situation of the refugees. We must be
many curious things about a people who have a quix- satisfied with the fact that the Roumanian government
otic anti-Semitism, comic if it did not take such tragic tolerates the refugees, granting them extension of stay,
forms.' "The Magyars would excil.e more sympathy if and we must be grateful to her." This from a report
of Lucien. Wolf. Beggars cannot be choosers. But,
they .showed more tolerance themselves. Hungarian
ahti-Sernitisin is 'as intolerant as it is crazy. Its crazi- may we not ask, how long will this barbaric post-war
condition continue?
- n'esa passes belief."' "
According to Hungarians, Ramsay MacDonald and
In the Arab village of Baluji, near Jerusalem, the
George Lansburg are Jews. Lenin died in Switzer-
land, during the war and a Jew has been impersonat- police discovered 44 revolvers held without license,
ing him. What could transcend such absurdities? and yet the Arab newspapers are making an awful row
Further.ori•he Mates: "It is true that the Jews have over the fact that the murderers of de Haan have not
enormous economic power in Hungary. In Budapest yet been discovered. Is this an ancient dodge to avoid
they are about one-fourth of the population and own being charged by charging the other fellow with the
the greater part of the personal property. ,and a good offense? We wonder.
deal-of the real property. Not only banking, but com-
merce, industry and agriculture are in the hands of
Our enemies pay us the finest compliments. The
the Jews. It is not the fault of the Jews that they pre- new organ of anti-Semitic Internationalism published
dominate, but it is the fault of the Magyar.
in Berlin is called "Weltkampf ;" in English it would
"When a Magyar is not a laborer he wishes to be be "World Struggle." To think that 1 per cent of
merely a gentleman and considers all beneath him who
the population should engage the rest of the world in
engage in commerce or industry."
a struggle against it. Israel may well be proud of this
This is the crux of the matter and it is not surpris- distinction.
ing that in addition to trade, commerce and industry
the Jews should control all the learned professions.
Morgan and the Elders of Zion sponsored the Dawes
"The truth of the matter." according to Robert Dell,
plan, according to Count Reventlow. The influential
"is not lack of intelligence but laziness that is the cause count no doubt believes in sea serpents, witches and the
of the failure of the Magyar. They have been cut out
flatness of the earth. As long as such men have any
by the Jews because they do not like work and think
power or authority in shaping the domestic and foreign
that a gentleman ought not to work."
policies of Germany, not much advance can be ex-
. It is rather difficult to find a case of "you are
damned if you do and you are damned if you do not," pected.
August 29, 1924
Hans Herzl---Son of His Father
EXT to being drowned, or other-
is certain—Sir Alfred Mond will
bring to his task of rehabilitating the
Liberal party an eager sense of re-
sponsibility, intellectual quality, an
abhorrence for political trickery, a
calmness and vision that will com-
mand respect even in the camps of
the opposing parties.
Mond's efforts in the affairs of his
party will not be the first demonstra-
tion of the Jew's ability to give di-
rection to activities of statecraft.
That, in a party which numbers po-
litical figures of large stature, a Jew
should be given a commanding posi-
tion reveals both the soundness of
British political tendency and the
ability of the English Jew to take
high place when he is called. Should
Mond perform well for the present
needs of the Liberal party, his
achievement will mark another in-
stance of the Jew's power for work
of political healing and reconstruc-
tion.
Orientation.
Jews of l'ersia who eulogized
1 Rabbi Joseph S. Nornfeld, Amer-
ican minister to Persia, as the "pres-
ent-day Mordecai," for interceding in
their behalf when they were threat-
ened with serious attacks by an angry
populace, were true to form. The
florid language which marked their
tribute to the retiring envoy was in
keeping with Oriental tendency.
There is nothing stolid in the Oriental
Jew, When he commends a person
he does so with so many flourishes
and with such colorful use of meta-
phor that even if the recipient of the
gracious words be an Oriental him-
self he would blush to the ears.
D
Balm.
R. BORIS D. BOGEN, who direct-
ll
the activities of the Joint
Distribution Committee in Europe,
made • comforting statement in To-
ronto recently. When Dr. liarry S.
Linfield told the Jewish social work-
ers that the Soviet regime was war-
ring relentlessly on religion, Dr. Bo-
gen declared that the Communist
chiefs made no discrimination in their
anti-religion efforts. For once the
Jew in Russia is not singled out for
treatment withheld from others.
There is balm in Soviet Ramie even
as there was in Gilead.
"ft i ,
THE CANTOR OF SHAAREY ZEDEK
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
plaints without number that the can-
The filling of a vacancy in a po-
torate had degenerated, in instances
sition which is regarded as an integ-
so numerous as to constitute a gen-
ral part of a community's life is al-
eral intellectual vice, into a somewhat
ways an occasion of importance.
unprincipled, theatrical, almost clown-
like pose of singers whose conception
Hence the selection of Cantor Samuel
of their calling was, to put it mildly,
Vigoda to succeed at the precentor's
deficient. And because the cantor-
desk of Shaarey Zedek Synagogue the
ate, lacking intellectual and cultural
place held with distinction by the
authority and proceeding upon a tan-
late Cantor Minkowsky is an event
gent of its own, was quickly losing
which has a very definite bearing on
the vitality with which it was orig-
the religious and cultural life of the
inally endowed. heroic measures were
community, certainly that large and
taken to stem the tide and give it a
potent element in Jewish life in De-
direction and character that would
troit over which the Shaarey Zedek
restore it to beauty and strength and
Synagogue, through its traditions,
a condition of high and efficient serv-
outlook and activities, throws the
ice to worshipers in the synagogues
mantle of its influence,
of America.
The cantor's post, directly or in-
It is a source of communal satisfac-
directly, is the successor of the of-
tion to know that Cantor Vigoda is
fice held in olden times by the sweet-
one of the younger cantors who bring
singing Levites who, with cornets,
to their calling the point of view and
psalteries and harps, with timbre's,
the bearing of the cultured man and
pipes and various stringed instru-
seek to endow their professioqal ac-
ments, with clear-ringing and high-
tivities with that attitude which orig-
sounding cymbals led the eager He-
inates in an appreciation for the his-
brews in adoring worship in the en-
toric sources of Jewish religious mu-
virons of the Temple in Jerusalem.
sic.
It is pleasing to note that the
Throughout generations unnumbered
new cantor expresses cognizance of
the throats of the musically trained
the possibilities for service to the
and the voices of the simple worship-
spiritual needs of the community
ers in ancient Israel were lifted up
through the medium of religious mu-
to express, in that strange, inimit-
sic, the instinct for which is so highly
able, impassioned fervor which all
developed in the synagogue-attending
authorities agree arises out of the
Jew. Having had the opportunity of
Jew's possession of the inward elan
discussing the situation with Mr. Vi-
for prayer, their gratitude to and
goda and having learned his grasp of
dependence on the King of Kings.
the problem with which he, as a can-
Like every institution created to
tor, is confronted, I confidently look
serve the needs of men, the cantorate,
forward to interesting musical activi-
considered in the generic sense and
ties in Shaarey Zedek Synagogue,
not with reference to the more recent
provided, of course, that the needful
development of the cantor's position
co-operation and stimulation are free-
in the synagogue, has passed through
ly and happily given.
the numerous phases that begin with
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle hails
the simplicity of original impulse and
Cantor Vigoda's coming to Detroit
find their fullest expression in art—
and wishes him well in his work for
art that at times is but seeming art
the development of Jewish spiritual
and often a spurious thing, an em-
values in the community. For, ulti-
ployment of external methods and
mately and finally, the voices of rabbi
attitudes that do not well consort
and cantor merge to bring to Jewish
with the impulse which these attitudes
worshipers an awareness of man's
and methods are intended to refine.
close proximity to God.
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