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VOL. XVI. NO. 18
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A Jewish visitor to Palestine
=
= doesn't have to look for thrills. They
= • come to him as soon as he sets his
foot in the land --Jewish thrills.
At any rate, that's how Palestine
=
= affected me and the others in that lit-
=1tle group of American Jews who vis-
- iced it a short while ago.
I went to Palestine because I want-
=
ed to see for myself. So -much had
been told me by my friends who are
=' intense Zionists. So much had been
id by my friends who are not 'Lion-
s, even antirLioniats. So much is
E being said throughout tie Jewish
E- world for Palestine as a Jewish home-
= land—so much is being said against
= Palestine, against a Jewish homeland.
E - 2 One who really scants to know the
nth. I felt, ought to go and see for
= hinvelf.
1 AM happy that I went—so are
=
those who went with me. We got
Fr; something out of our visit that will
— swain with us so long as we live.
= Oar souls got something!
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•
•
Equipped to ears for the modest
funeral at the most reasonable
charge as well as the largest
and most exacting.
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today so bitterly struggling to redeem
the ancient land.
And this brings me to a conversa-
tion I had with Sir Herbert Samuel.
Ile was the only official in Palestine
with whom I talked, except for a
few moments of casual conversation
with Governor Ronald Storrs. I had
planned not to discuss Palestine with
any official—either of the mandatory
power or of the Zionist organization.
I did not want to hear propaganda:
I did not want to be pervaded one
way or the other. I wanted to see
the land and talk to the pepole of the
land, 11111I no one else.
But when we arrived in Jerusalem
we learned that in the evening there
would be a reception to Miss Aram
Landau, in honor of her twenty-fifth
It has its own municipal govern
ment —Jewish. Its beautiful tree
lined boulevards are policed by Jews
The conductors and the motormen on
its tramways are Jews. Its electri
plant is manned by Jews. Its rues
scatter service is Jewish, The Ian
image spoken in its city hall is Ile
brew! The language of its casino
and its cabarets is Hebrew. Its steer
signs are in Hebrew—and only in Ile
brew. In all other towns the street
signs are in two other languages be
sides Il ebrew—in Arabic and Eng-
lish. But Tel Aviv is absolutely and
entirely Ilebrew!
Outwardly, with Its concrete road-
ways, with its wide sidewalks, with
its modern buildings of brick, tile
and stucco, with its excellent water
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It was at Ilaifa —where we landed
=• —that we got our first thrill. A new,
Opposite General Motors Bldg.
= unique thrill. The thrill that conies
= to a Jew ashen, for the first time in
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his life, he enters an Jewish city. Ilaifa
isn't much of a town, measured by
American standards. But to us who
disembarked there that morning it
was the biggest thing we had ever
seen. W hy ? Kec an. e everything
WAS Jewish, looked Jewish, sounded
Jewish. The streets, the houses, the
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signs on the houses. the automobiles,
, even, so to speak, the horses, every-
thing was Jewish. A II we saw, all
we heard was Jewish, The town
seemed to have a voice, and it shout-
ed to me: "Jew, welcome!"
That was the thrill we got when
we landed at Haifa.
We had vieited other countries, in
'
- a lasy trip through the Mediter-
We had landed at other
ranean.
SECONDARY SCHOOL OF HAIFA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ON
cities, at places whose names ring
SLOPE OF MOUNT CARMEL
. down through the centuries. We had
decidedly
seen other sights, eye-tilling, mar- year as head of the Alliance Israelite and sewage systems, it is
. yelous. But nothing moved us as •chools. Ws- were invited to look in American in appearance, more mod-
and there had the pleasure of meet- ern than the new part of Cairn, of
sight and sound of Haifa, with it
visible, audible "welcome home, ing the Jewish high commissioner. which one hears so much boasting in
"I understand that the immigration Egypt.
Jew," moved us.
Building is going on in Tel Aviv all
I am not II Zionist. Neither am of Jawsinto Palestine is restricted,"
I
said
to hint: "Will you please tell thetime. It is growing so fast one
I an anti.Zionist. Just an American
Jew-- that's all. But I want to say me why?" can see it grow. A brick-factory,
This was his answer: ''If we were modern in equipment and output,1
that whether one believes in a politi-
cal future for the Jews of Palestine to admit all who wish to enter we owned, financed and operated by
or rot, one gets a feeling when his would have a food panic. Unless Jews, is helping Tel Aviv to grow.
foot touches Palestine that a Jew those who want to come here have But before I go on with modern
• cannot get anywhere else in the • nlicient means to maintain them- Palestine I want to go back a bit. I
world. One gets the feeling of be-
elves, or have a trade by which they
s'
e want to return °nee more, and fur'
longing. One gets the feeling, in ean earn a living, we cannot admit the last time in this disjointed article,
that old, beautiful land of the Jew- them without adding to the poverty to Haifa. I want to recall the first I
ish beginning, that this is the land Of those who are already here. A thing of Jewish interest to which our
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large influx of Jews now would have guide took us. It was Elijah's cave,1
Nhere the oppressed Jeans belong.
I ought to say right here that as dire consequences. They would starve the place where the prophet is said
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one goes through the land, on even and others with them.
. to have taken shelter. M we as cen d
"I understand you are an Amen- es1 the slopes of Carmel we heard
so hurried a visit as the one I made,
can,"
the
high
commissioner
turned
strange noises—singing, music, chat- ,
one gets the feeling that everything
that one has heard against the land, to me. "You American Jews have ter. Arriving at the entrance to the
against its prospects and against its done much for the land by way of cave, we went in. We saw a number
future becomes empty sound, as money, but you must in more and of women and children sitting about. '
Cooking was going on. Candle's, hun-,
1 against the many things one learns
"Why we?" I dimanded. "Why dreds of candles, were lighted. We
or the land, fur its prospects and mo'r'
were told that this was a celebration'
for its future. More American Jews the American Jews?"
"Because you are the only Jews in because of the recovery of a sick ,
should go there, if even for a short
visit. Every prejudice they may have the world who have the means, the woman who had been brought to the,
cave to be cured—and had been
had will disappear. Instead, they financial power to help this land."
Possibly he is right. At any rate cured by the grace of the prophet.
will gain a new pride, a new self-
respect. For whether one is a Zion- I thought of the fruit and vegetation
Maybe so. At any rate the woman,
ist or not, he cannot help but have along the road from Ila , fa to Tiberias had been ill and was now well. If
his soul stirred by the eight of those to Jerusalem rotting for want of a
people can be cured of all sorts of 1
tine Jews, men, women, children, con- American cold.storage plant and how ailments by the grace of Mrs. Eddy,1
:ciuusly consecrated to the task of, many hundreds of pioneers might be why not by the "zechuss" of Elijah? ,
upbuilding a Jewish land, enduring fed by what now goes to shameful, Is it only Christian Science that has ,
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hardship, undergoing suffering for tragic wast•!
a monopoly on miracles?
Somehow there were times I could
the Fake of a Jewish ideal and of a
The next day, at Tiberias, we ran'
Jewish hope. Somehow, that sight not help wishing that the Jews of into more "Jewish science" at Ram-
alone is worth crossing two oceans to Palestine had more of the American barn's tomb, where people were drink- I
witness and, somehow, it destroys all spirit. There are some Arabs who ing water out of bottles they had left
prejudice, just as it destroys all mis- have it. One who has a hots , ' in in the tomb over night co that the
givings of Jewish hardihood, Jewish Ilaifa—and is a vigorous anti-Semite spirit of the great physician might
—has it. Hardly had our boat land- infuse it with curative power.
courage, Jewish self-sacrifice.
ed at Haifa than he was on my hack
And that was our second thrill.
However, most of us will be apt
We had left Haifa en route fur Je- persuading our party to put up at his to have greater faith in the cures ef-
rusalem and on the road toward Ti- hotel. The Jewish hotel keeper waits fected in Tiberias by the Iladassah
berias we passed through some of for trade to conic to hits.
hospital which has been established
I have spoken of the Jewish wel-
those wonder colonies where Jews
there to fight malaria and trachoma.
have re-learned the art of tilling the come in Ilaifa. But the Jews of Ilaifa The work of Iladassah in Tiberias is
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soil. We saw scores and scores of haven't learned how to welcome Jew- of the utmost importance in that city
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ish
visitors.
The
Arab
hotel
keeper
men and Yeomen—hundreds of them
of 10,000, of which 7,000 are Jews,
- -and children, too, working in the has learned how, as have the Arab with its narrow streets, abominable
fields. It was a remarkable sight to guides and drivers. The Jews of Beira sanitary conditions and over-crowded
one who is accustomed to seeing Jews would do much for Palestine, they buildings--especially the ancient city ,
only in city streets, in city offices, in would do much for themselves, if they within the wall. It is good to k no w 1 s msommtwoomemommos,%%somoommoomo‘
city shops and stores. But it was developed a little American . enter- that an organization of American
even more remarkable when we miens They should bear in mind tea
women is putting up a brave fight to
learned that only a few years ago jeW5 who visit Palestine are visiting improve living and health conditions
oat of these farmers—like the Jewish Palestine. They want to go n ot only in Tiberias but all over Pal-
stone-breakers along the mails, and to Jewish hotels, they want Jewish estine.
the road-builders themselves, were guides, they want .1ewish chauffeurs.
From Tiberias we went to Jerusa-
students, future professional men There are Jewish guides and Jewish lem. As we drove along the fine con-
and women—future city dwellers. chauffeurs and Jewish hotels in llaifa. crete roadway built by Jewish hands.
. And here, in the Jewish land they but you have got to go and look for built by the brave chalutzim and ohs- ;
them. That is what I had to do—
were proving that Jews could be and that is what I did as soon aa I dis- lutzoth, we drank in the wonderful, r
would be tillers of the soil, farmers,
covered that I hail been taken to an rolling landscape, each foot of it his- I
if only given the chance.
tonic ground, sacred to three re-
The sun broiled hot on the bent anti-Semite's hotel.
I had some interesting experiences ligions. Then the Mosque of Omar
backs of these men and women, dif-
while trying to locate the Jews in loomed Into view. And behold--Je- •
ferently bent from what we have
gi.
Haifa who could he useful to a Jew- rusalern.
Jerusalem—the sight of the world. I ,
come to understand when the bent. ish tourist. I stepped into a little
backed Jew is spoken of. These were
If you are at all spirtually minded,
no
more
than
10
feet
Jews backs nobly, not cravenly, bent, grocery store,
if you have any Jewish knowledge,
to the honorable and glorious toil of wide. The woman who ran this store if you have any Jewish instinct, you
Productive labor; to the labor of mak - had lived in Palestine for over 20 realize that here is the home of your
years
and
had
brought
up
her
family,
ing the land that once flowed with
forefathers. Here is so much of Jew-
milk and honey return to its old-time three sons and a daughter, all col- ish history. Here is the tomb of Ra-
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lege graduates. Then I dropped into
richness. And they were succeeding!
chel, the tower of David. King Solo. oti
Never in all my life have I tasted a barber shop, the Jewish proprietor mon's quarries, the pools of Siloam, t
of
which
had
come
from
Roumania
ric
h
such luscious fruits, never such
.
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1T('- the wall and the site of the Temple. s
vegetables. Along the road cauli- 12 years ago. "Go back?" he
You hear the call of your ancestors.,
Go bac
flower made one hungry to set his neated my question.
You feel their nearness. You know
teeth in it and the orange groves I Never!" I told him what I wanted
that they lived and they died here. ,,..
seemed like stacks of gold. Almond I just as I had told the grocery woman But why—why are Jews barred from a
orchards waved one welcome, and and, finally, the barber's son went out
these Jewish places? Why are they 5
figs, and all manner of fruit. It was and returned after a while with a
guarded by Moslems against those to 5
I good to know that all of these fruits, Jew who was both chauffeur and
I I
whom they belong by every right?
DANISH PASTRY
in boundless profusion, tasting as guide. But why wasn't this man at
I saw a wonderful thing—a new .11
FRENCH PASTRY
sweet as they looked, tasting better the dock?
Feeey Cookies sad Wee..
thing in Jerusalem. A performance . r i
But
if
Haifa
lacks
the
American
WEDDING CAKES
than they taste anywhere else in the
mous. Also Our Faso.
of the Italian opera "Faust" in Ile.' s
tended
and
spirit,
Tel
Aviv
is
another
story.
I
world, had been sawn,
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brew. A good performance, by a I
Tortes.
that
this
wonder
Pay
don't want to
grown by Jewish hands.
production
was'
The
company.
good
FANCY CAKES
Vihat a tragic pity that for lack of town on the Mediterranean has the excellent from the scenic standpoint,'
American
spirit,
that
there
is
an
, storage facilities and of export mar
too. The scenery was painted by
kets due to the economic downfall of American air about it, because that Jews, students at the Bezalel School., i.
Europe so snuck of this prodigal would destroy the picture. It ha s
Arabs and Christians followed d
bounty of the soil of Palestine must, everything that an American town Jews,
the performance with librettos print- i
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, for the time being, go to waste. I of the same size would have. It has
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opera company 1
ll when more than an American town of the ed in Hebrew. The
am sure that the time wi come
same size would have. It has i e,
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