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THE ROMANCE OF
THE YIDDISH PRESS
years; it was there that the Jewish
genius flowered forth in the middle
of the last century and produced the
best Jewish thought, the best Jewish
literature, the best Jewish art in mod-
ern times; and finally, because it was
Russian Jews who established the
great Yiddish press in Ameri•s and
who still furnish nearly all of its
editors and writers and most of its
readers.
ing, as it were, side by side with the
modern hero.chalutz, over sacred soil .
conquest; poetic justice, and the
happy ending of history; holy hill:
and slurred cities with their songs and
their stories; the eternal theme of
fighting builders, and the colored
kaleidoscope of Jewish expression and
the struggle and survival in many
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lands and the many ages. This is the
Pied Yiddish Daily in U. S.
substance and these are the romantic
The tire; successful Yiddish paper
overtones of life which draw tor many to appear its the United States was
Jewish youth Of America into Younp the Jewish (laze-lb., founded in 1874
Judaea clubs."
by the late K. II. Sarasohn. Eleven
If I had written that I would have years later he launched the Jewish
changed one word. I would have Daily News, whose present editor is
said 'which, alas, draw so few Jewish (;edalieth Bublick. It is orthodox and
youths of America into Young Judaea conservative in policy, as is the
clubs." Unfortunately there are se Morning Journal, established in late:
few Young Judaea leaders and so few and now the second largest !Yiddish
Young Judaea clubs. The mast sig daily. It is under the editorship of
nificant statement, to my mind, which the scholarly Peter tViernik and the
has been made this morning, war fighting Jacob Fishman. 'The Morn-
our future.
youth is a wonder. :nude by Solomon Levin, the delegate ing Journal is noted for the large
But our Jewish
as almost limitless ac- from Detroit, who said that they has' amount of news it carries and for its
tut group. It h
ialititot. It has energy , it has ac 18 clubs in Detroit and added that theatrical page, jointly edited by Dr.
brains. It If it were not for Young Judaea then A. Mukdoni, the apostle of Cordon
testy, it has vision, it has
is strenuous in everything that it would not be any Jewish youth word Craig to the East Side Jews, and B.
Our masses of
at all in Detroit.
does, strenuous in its frivolity, young people without a Jewish home Conn, the historian of the Yiddish
strenuous in its money making, anwher e in the city of Detroit! Th. stage.
sear the ap-
self.int u ge c , frivolous social club, the exclusive
'the same year that sa
its
in
strenuous
strenuous in its sport, strenuous in i. country club, cannot satisfy the Jew entrance of the conservative Morning
n
in
its
laz
its studies,
strenuous
eve lead wearing ish heart hunger of the finest of out Journal also witnessed the birth of
ness.
Our Jewish
youth
!youth. A recreational Y. M. H. A. the Socialist Forward, the most wide-
sise i ees ou t in
lives.
They
wear the of their chosen cannot satisfy that heart hunger. The ly read Yiddish paper in the world.
the keen
competition
The story of its rise from unpromis-
They live their purpose in- leader of one of the newest and best i
of the Y. M. II. A.'s recently saki ing beginnings to its present high es-
silbs.
tensely,
whatever
The trouble
often be
is their
that purpose.
their aim Publicly to a young Judaea gather tate is an epic of the Jewish labor
ing: "Here is our Y. M. II. A. Come I movement in America, for it was with
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is not high enough. Their
in and capture it for the sake of the the mites contributed by sweatshop
Jewishyouth." Even the synagogue workers that the paper was founded
is nut outside of self, their aim is
„self-centered one. It is for this era ,
I do not say can nut" but "does and kept alive (luring its early years.
For its present prosperity and pres-
son that I got the feeling that the
characteristic of the face of our not" satisfy that vague hunger, some
because of lack of vision on the tige credit is mainly due to the zeal
and driving force of its editor, Ab-
youth is a deep-lying dissatisfactio
n c part of the board of trustees, and raham Cohen.
a Ti unsatisfied hunger, a groping, look-i
or-somettling unknown and ut _ most h oftenbecause of lack of vision
The Freiheit, started two years
f On t h e part of the parents who di
ing-
recognized, a gnawing discontent
of
I t see the need of Jewish educe ago as the organ of the left wing Ilia-
which makes even the fruits of our
work for their young children Jewish Socialists, derives its main
cess turn bitter to the taste.
]'rung Judaea could become and Unction from the fact that it is edited
.
Then I tlsought of Young Judaea should become the Jewish youth by the brilliant and multi-lingual
and of the difference of the youth movement in America. You kilos Moissaye Olgin, one of the finest
that one meets at Young Judaea con- what the youth movement means. writers of Yiddish prose.
ventions, and I felt comforted in the The youth movement today' is a
My favorite Yiddish paper, how•
thought that not all of our youth was spreading, world-wide movement ever, is the liberal Day, founded near-
thus groping fur a high aim in life. stronger in Europe than in America. ly 10 years ago by Herman Bernstein.
Young Judaea is an organization It is an organized movement of the Under his editorship and later that
which mobilizes the youth for bigger . youth who are disillusioned by the of William Min, it has assembled an
and better things., which gives our breakdown of personal, social, its- all-star editorial staff which, in my
youth an ideal outside of itself which tionat, international, moral and re opinion, only two other American pa-
can save it from that physical break-, ligious standards since the war—n pers could snatch, the New York
down, nervous breakdown, mental movement devoted to various phase: World and the Chicago Daily News.
breakdown and Jewish breakdown of world betterment, usually pledged To name its contributors is tee call the
which comes to our successful bust- to world peace, to industrial demos honor roll of Yiddish men of letters.
ness men and to our pleasure loving racy and to international understand Above all I like the admirable literary
women not from the \stress of life, in
reviews of that model critic, Samuel
not from the energy with which we
young Judaea should become the Niger. I wish the clever young men
dive into our tasks and shoulder our Jewish
youth movement in the who write on books for the metro-
burdens, not from the tenseness of United States. The Young Judaea politan English press could mad Yid-
our work, but from the unsatisfied movement could save the Jewish dish so that they might learn from
heart hunger, from an emptiness of youth in America. It has a keen Mr. Niger that reviewing a book Is
soul, from a need for some ideal big- pyschological appeal, satisfying the more than an occasion for making
ger than one's self, outside of one's craving of the youth for social mere. puns.
self, a noble urge to service. !talon, and satisfying the thirst of
Besides these five papers, all of
If I have any criticism to make of youth for knowledge. It brings to which appear in New York, Yiddish
Young Judaea, it is that it has not expression and dramatizes the Jewish dailies are also published in Phila-
lived up to its possibilities. Young consciousness in the blood of oui delphia, Chicago, Montreal, Cleveland
Judaea is in an unusual and a unique youth. It affiliates the youth with and St. Louis. Mention must also be
position. For it has an appeal which • the community and makes the youth made of Die Zukunft, the leading
no other youth movement has. In the a significant part of the most ideal- Yiddish literary monthly, which is
words of the eloquent call recently isles movement in Jewish life today edited by Abraham l.iessin, disin-
issued: —Zionism. And with this marvelous guished poet and publicist.
"Inherent in the idea of Young du- appeal from the youth worked out by
the youth for the youth, we can
Future of Yiddish Press.
tiara is a great , centripetal force
I took a Sabbath walk on Broad-
way. I looked into the faces of the
young people I met, many of whom
were Jewish. The faces usually did
not satisfy me. They were often
hard, often unsatisfied; often they
were coarse. The young boys and
young girls did not hare in their faces
the idealism which one looks for in
the faces of the youth. Not only the
sense of sight was offended, but also
the sense of hearing through the ruth-
less vivisection of the English lan-
guage, the vulgar intonations and the
coarse voices. If this be truly the
youth of America, this youth which
has the fate of America in its hold,
then the future is ominous. If this
be truly typical of our Jewish youth,
and those. be the trustees of our Jew-
ish future in America, then we must
take a new line of action in facing
which exerts a mighty pull on the build up an organization which shall
hearts of the Jewish youth of Ameri- cover the country with its work and
ca. There is nothing 'Sunday School- its spirit and which shall pour Jewish
ish' about a Young Judaea club. That content in the vacant souls of out
fine glow ofZionist dreaming which youth and feed the hungry Jewish
has all but disappeared in the Ol- heart of our youth.
ciency of money drives, has nested
Do not be afraid to stake the im
in Young Judaea's spiritual make-up. mediate present 011 this great future.
The lovely longing for the far away,. Unless Young Judaea wars with alb
the idealism of martyrdom, and the big vision, this broad Jewish vision
pulse-tingling elation over the pia- I it will be difficult to save the Jewish
neer, are part of Young Judaea's youth of the United States. But our
work will not be a failure, it will
soul.
"This is an organization in which grow and will meet with success. W ith
II Jewish over-tunes are remarkably the. vision before us of the heart
hungry.
resonant and piercing. Its very mood
ideafless masses of our
is that of romance, so dearly beloved youth, we shall consecrate
crate Young
Ju
sweeping
y
or
girl.
Dreams
f
.
dace to them with a
4.) by the young bevy
swamps and abodes of desolation re- 1 expansion of our work, so that Young
conquered into cities of the sun
Judaea shall indeed becomithe Jew-
the new children of the land! Thou- , ish youth movement in the United
sands of years of Jewish history walk- States
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to all our
At this gladsome time we desire to express
Jewish friends and patrons and to the Jewish com-
munity of Detroit our sincere wishes for a Happy and
Prosperous New Year.
C
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Having followed the course of the
Yiddish press thus far, the question
arises, What of the future? I can-
not answer this question as regards
Europe, for I have no first-hand
knowledge of the situation there; but,
as for America, I venture to say this
If restriction of immigration becomes
the settled policy of the United
States, the Yiddish press will not long
survie
THE JEW'S SUCCESS
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osh Hashona
Greetings
The frequently phenomenal sac
sass of the Jew is one of the com-
pensations of history in which God',
moral influence is thus manifest. The
philosophy of that success is simple.
The Jew has been refused opportun-
ity so king that when it comes it
means more to him than it does to
others who have not been similarly
denied and so he applies himself the
more lustily and works the more in-
dustriously and intensely. Please re-
= member this, you opponent of the
= Jew. Your kind have made him what
he is If you had let him alone or
EF_ at least treated him fairly he might
= have been almost as mediocre as
success is a reaction to
yourse
y uf lf .
It is thus that a just
God has protected him and, in your
restless resentment of him, punished
you. If you are wise, or are wise
enough to be taught by observation
= and experience, you will at least let
him alone in the future. In fact, un-
fair, unfraternal treatment of any
=, human being is a fling at Providence
that time will righteously revenge.—
ES Alexander Lyons.
a.
LOOKING AHEAD
unprogr es sive conservative
dthe
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future.
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=. dumb, that the past attained to fin-
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eyes
in front looking ahead.— Alexander ,
Lyons.
UNTHINKING PREJUDICES
A non-Jew that fails to respect a
Jew whose Jewish loyalty is a conse-1
quence of intelligent conviction ex-
pressed in creditable conduct is him-
self entitled to much less respect.
Whoever fails or refuses to value
such conviction in others proclaims'
his own poor pettiness in being ruled
by prejudice. The Jew who is
swayed by the unthinking prejudice
of others instead of by the thought-
ful principles of his own people is
deserving of the contempt of his own
people as well as that of others.—
Alexas.der Lyons.
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