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INCORPORATED 1923.

Academy of Jewish and Related Lore LIQUIDATES LARGE
Whose Founder Was a Famous Lawyer BUSINESS TO LINE
IN THE HOLY LAND

ESTABLISHED 1883.

College Gave Graduat Instructi tc Some of the
Dropsie
Scholars of America.
Noted Younger Jew ish e

By LEON MEDOFF

Moses A. Dropsie, an eminent law-
yer and citizen of Philadelphia, died
there on July 8, 1905, in hts eighty ,
fifth year. He had been a successful
practitioner of the Iow, contributed
several important works to legal liter-
ature and aided in the development
of his native city. Ile was likewise
greatly devoted to Jewish interests,

HIGH—LOW LARGE or SMALL
HOTEL or APARTMENTT HOUSE

signed espesialls in • 0,1 • Tot ion with
the Gratz Colleee,
The college grants only one degree,
the doctorate in philosophy. Among
its graduates have been the late Inc.
fess r Babies; the late 11r. Joseph
Medoff, who seas act the time of his
death all instruetor in Crate. College
' of Philadelphia; and the late Dr. Wil-

Louis Robison, Successful Man
of Affairs, Transplants
His Whole Family.

SEEKS FULLER JEWISH
LIFE FOR OFFSPRING
--
-
To Engage In Business, Which

Palestine Amply Offers,

Merchant Declares.

NEW YORK.—A new type of pion-
eer has just gone to Palestine from
America. Unlike the chalutzire whose
valorous deeds form one of the most
romantic and glorious chapters in
Jewish history, this pioneer is no
longer young; he is not driven by the
ruthless persecutions ngninst his race
in eastern and central Europe, to seek
a new home in his ancient homeland;
neither is he going tee Palestine to re-
pair his fortune shattered by the posit-
Wien chaos.
Louis; Robison is a new type of
pioneer. Fifty-one years old, head of
a successful business, father of a fam-
ily of six children, he in leaving
America and all that it means to him,

"WHERE ONLY THE BEST HAS BEEN CONSIDERED
YOU MAX EXPECT TO FIND A.B.SEE ELEVATORS"

If the heart of an apartment house

is its elevator service, it must follow
that the type of elevators installed

and starting life anew in Palestine.
At the age when most men are con-
k!) tto sit beck and rest on the ma-
terial wealth which they have accumu-
lated by years of hard effort, Louis
Robison is giving up everything—bus•
iness, friends, surroundings which he
has grown to love-sand is leaving
with his wife and children to engage
in business in the Jewish homeland
and in that way make his direct con.
tribution toward the evaluation of
the ideal for which he has ardently
worked for years in America.
Step Called Courageous.
-
Just before he milled last week, an
interview was sought with Mr. Robi-
son to find out what had determined
him to take this courageous step, an
act which in darn; and self-sacrifice,
equals, if it does ti t transcend, the
deeds of the chalutz in, and which Is
expected to inspire co er Jewish busi-
ness men in America with the need of
men of their kind in Palestine at this
stage of its development.
For over a decade Mr. Robison has
been active in the affairs of the Zion-
ist
Organization of America, ever
LATE DR. BENZION HALPER,
since his first trip to the homeland in
DETROIT OFFICE
was Associate Professor of Cognate Languages at Dropsie College 1912, and in more recent years in the
se Who
work of the heron Bayos& He was
and Custodian of Its Manuscripts. Dr. Helper was 40 yeses
56 Henry St.
treasurer of the organization for four
old
at the time of his death.
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Cadillac 2167.8
years; member of the first Zionist
and more especially to Hebrew educe- feed P. Kotkov, who was at the time commission sent to Palestine in 1919
t and left behind a bequest for of his death an instructor in the Jew- along with Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Ber-
MAIN OFFICE
.iiicailly‘S,t,iinehnaeritirsotf graduate, nard }•eaner and Mrs. Mary Fels;
Hebrew learning, probably the largest iis)hr.T8hci.riiii,1;:iss
52 Vesey Si., New York City
OFFICES
Yee made by an individual.
s El- acting chairman of the organization
FACTORY
This Inquest he made in his last is the president id the Rabbi IsaacNew during ninny periods; member of the
PHILADELPHIA
DETROIT
Jersey City, N. J.
WASHINGTON
will
and
testament,
executed
Sept.
17,
chattel)
Theological
Seminary
in
nationals; administrative committee
NEW YORK
another
BALTIMORE
BOSTON
1890, which directed "that there be es- York and Dr. Solomon Zeitlth
since 1921 and for a number of years
CLEVELAND
in,ere
HARTFORD
tablished and maintained in the city graduate, is an instructor
a mender of the Greater Actions Corn.
u
of Philadelphia, a college for the pro- Joseph Reeler, instrctor
in Biblical matey of the World Zionist Organiza-
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philology at the colle ge itself, is also
,
motion of and instruction in the Ile
tion.
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"There are several reasons why my
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to carry out the instruc- family and I are going to make our
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literatures g
lions
of
M
r.
Drepsie
with
regard
to
home
In Palestine," Mr. Robison be-
'al IearninK and literature." Ile also
. . la
e , 1El
•
Frank Iran k
"For one reason, I have been
M
t he admiss ion of slu- original research, as well as for thel gxn
and dedicated in the presence of 2,000
on, president of the United Sena- directed "that in I
general
purposes
of
an
institution
of
tinction
on
wanting
for some time to translate
m
s
--"We must not think that to be
dents there shall st no
persons.
Rogue of America; Rabbi Jacob Kohn ,
higher learning, the college has paid into something actual and practical
of
creed,
color
or
sex."
more the Jew means to be less the
The edifice costs more than $100,•1
Blechman, [ account
American. We can never be more Ott and is free front debt. Plans are of New York; Nathan
In addition to the original bequest, especial attention to its library, which what I have for ninny years been
rabbi of Temple Lsrael; Charles A.
has since received bone- now numbers more than 20,000 select- /driving and working for in the Zion-
the American than when we are most being made to build a community
colle
college
I
Apfel,
president
of
the
temple,
and
i
the
ills the sister of the found- ed volumes of works in the fields in ist movement in America. I feel that
the Jew," said Rabbi Norman Salit house adjoining, the temple.
i I srael Cummings, chairman of the factions
Rabbi Sees Civic Fullness in Religious of Far Rockaway, principal speaker
I can hest do that by establishing my-
Cr,
the
late
Mrs. Elizabeth A, Lazar- which it otters instruction.
At the afternoon service addresses
Li-
The fruits of all this work are per- ;self in business in Palestine and thus
1 building committee.
Intensity.
us, who bequeathed her estate to the
in the dedication of the Temple re
were made by the following: Acting
haps best to he seen in the scientific aid directly in the growing economic
built
he
Judge
late
college, and from the a
I reel, the first synagogue
1.1 'F. A
LONG BEACH, N.
Mayer Sulzberger, who mode a be- publications of the college, which have life of the country.
Needs Business Men.
quest of money end a considerable made available to scholars everywhere
what would otherwise have been
"Palestine right now needs business
portion of his valuable library.
known
only
to
a
few..
From
the
very
men
who
have been successful In
The governors whom Mr. Dropsit
had named in his will immediately beginning the college took over the America, who will bring to the home-
,
ex-
Jewish
Quarterly
Review,
which
had
i took steps; for organizing this insti-
shed in England fur 201 land the result
of their years of
1 tution, and after carefully studying lwen publi
perience in this country. In the light
and
woo
about
to
be
discontin-1
emcee
here.
I
feel
that
the
I the problem of just what should he year s
of ml'
done to carry out Mr. Dropsie's in- mid. The new series of the Quarter- I most valuable contribution I can make
structions, and after correspondence ly e which is now in its fifteenth vol- is to take part in the industrial (le-
with scholars in all parts of the world, ucite, hos published a great number i vela sent of the country.
of distinguished articles and reviews I
"People tell me I ate taking a roar-
I organiZed the college and had it for- by scholars, not only of this college ,
malty incorporated under the laws of but of all parts of the world. The ageous step. Weill I don't think so.
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the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
True, .I have given up by business In
on June 0, 1907, as "The Dropsie Col- Dropsie College has, in addition, pub- , Aniereia and expect to invest my
lege for Ileltew aid Cognate Learn. lished a number of Ismks, some of money in some Palestine enterprise,
ing." In order to follow t he wishes which had, in whole er in part, pre- which I haven't as yet determined
upon. But I don't thing it requires
of the founder, it was decided to offer viously appeared in the quarterly.
uates.
Grad
Work by ese
instruction of post-graduate stand.
were
originally I courage. For I have unplicit faith in
I
SeVIIIIi Of th
ard and to make original research
written as theses for the doctor's dr-Ithe
possibilities of the country.
ist,iffatthisiencetitke; intial part of
"E ar- know from my two previous trips to
ino;ritk
end w
;tree in the college; Dr.
Revel's to Sad- Palestine that the country otters many
Relation
d
I
ails' Ilalakah and its
excellent (opportunities in a business
ai
Opened 15 Years Ago.
ducean, Samaritan and Philonian Hal-
The college opened its doors for iikith" ; Professor II alper's et'elume ! and industrial way god, therefore, I
! feel confident that I will have Co
I
L
ea
ile,f
instruction in the academic year 190!1-
of the Book of Precepts by , trouble in making a livlihood for my
1910 and has maintained this program
Yasliah"; Dr. Roider's "Proletromen
family.
ever since The original faculty con-
tinsels-Hebrew and Hebrew-Greek
"I am not going tto Palestine to
sisted of 11r. Cyrus Adler, president: 0/ 0
Index to Aquila"; Or. Raphael lie make money. If I wanted to make
Dr. Max I. Margolis, professor of
Ac-
ore
numey I would remain in Amer-
Biblical philology; Dr. Henry Matter, !delimiters "Tare= to Canticles
, Dr.
America is the country for tnon-
professor of rabbinical literature; cording to Six Yemen MSS."
of e m e g o b I ice. Amer
ey-making. But I tel that I can find
Judge. Mayer Sulzberger, resident Solomon Zeitlin's study
and Dr. Samuel Nirenstei n's
if i
-
lectured in Jewish jurisprudence and Taanit"; a
e field them i n which I can "tab
lieh myself, and a as I grow I will have
institutes of government, and Proles- "Problem of the Existence of God in e ' "Th
Averrites.
°
k
ti on of nowing
alainemides,
Alanus,
and
sfac
the
supreme
sati
1
Aor George F. Moore of Harvard
be en "The that I am doing far more to make the
lecturer. Other publications ' have il. , ,,,,, ....
non-resident
University,
' bind grow than whatever I would ac-
Polity
of
the
Ancient
lie
'HARRY CRUDDER,
Dr. Jacob lloschander, who is now A,,,,i,,t Hebrew Law of homicide"
complish here in America."
Vice.Pre•:dent and General Manager.
Satiate Marais professor of BiliVpial
and "The Status of Labor in Ancient
Seek New Jewish Life.
literature and exegesis at the Jewish
Israel" by the late Judge Mayer Su's-
Ilia chief motive in taking this step,
Theological Seminary of America,
bargee; "The Book of Esther in j ,,,,,,i,
the which snakes hint the first business
ill cognate
oo
was s n made instructor
Light of History," by Dr.
. at. pioneer from America to Palestine,
languages, and somewhat later were
lloschander; and a "Descriptive (
Mr. Robison disclosed, was the intense
added Dr Abraham A. Newnan, in-
alegue ofGenizah Fragments in Phil- desire of his wife, six children and
structer (now associate prof essor)Sin
ailelphis," by the late Professor Ilal- - himself, to live in Palestine
.
. in the
Jewish history; Dr. Joseph Heider, in-
Jewish atmosphere that is being
structor in Biblical philology. and the per.
In the history of academic institu- created there. And it was actually
late Or. Benzion Helper, who first tions, the Dropsie College is still very
his wife and two eldest boys (Abra-
was instructor and later associate pro-
young, but in the 15 years of its exit- ham, aged 20, the eldest, is going in-
fessor of cognate languages and who teller it has gene quietly about the un-
to business in Palestine and the others
al, served the college as custodian
sung work of Jewish srhnlarship for will continue their schooling), who
manuscripts. II is death last March, its own sake, and has already shown
urged him tto take the step which he
at the age of 40, was sad blow tee definitely the wisdom and foresight
has considered or some time.
Ithe college and to the world of Jew- of the founder by giving to the wor
"All these years I have tried to de-
ish and Arabic scholarship.
number of important works
and by velop a Jewish life for myself and my
a
.
The instruction offered by the mem-
cr
•lewish
training ter work in higher
family here," Mr. Robison continued.
bers of the faculty and, under their
succeeded to a certain extent,
learning a considerable number of
supervision, by the fellows, has been scholars, including not only its grad- ,"Ithosve. le •ish life here in America
p
d by special
frequently supplemente
" u
uates,
but
others
who
have
directly
contains
certain gaps which 1 could
d ex-
courses, given during the way an
or indirectly received its instruction. not MI. In Palestine I can fill those
tension ccurses in the evenings, de-
gaps and thus round out our lives as
we want them to be. I want to bring

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HOPES FOR PASSING OF PREJUDICE

By JOHN C. LODGE,
Acting Mayor of Detroit.

I extend to all Jewish inhabitants of our city my sin-
cere good wishes for a year of great success and happi-

ness.
In your services on the New Year you not only thank
God for the blessings He has bestowed upon you in the past
but pray for a happy future. The intense religious signifi-
cance of this holiday is its most important aspect.
The City of Detroit welcomes the strict observance of
this great holiday. As a citizen of Detroit I feel proud of
the part that the Jews have taken in its civic life. I sin-
cerely hope that the time is not far distant when the Jews
will be entirely free from the unjust prejudices to which
they have been subjected. The happy functioning of our
government in all its aspects demands mutual understand-
ing and co-operation.

, up my family in the atmosphere that
1 Permeates Palestine, a Jewish atmos-
phere which can he found nowhere
else in the world. Only there can one'
find that sense of value of things
Jewish which we miss here in Amer
to achieve
'esti try as hard as we may
it."
Under the firm name of Louis Robi-
son and Brother, Mr. Robison for 24
years has directed one of the largest
yarn concerns in the country. That
i ce euhen
existen
business
sli enfets sf a sitd ou t o 1 heuxtis,,te
con-
will
for Palestine,
he
tinued
by
his
brother
under
a new
1
name, as Mr. Robison has sold out his
entire interest in it.
Abraham, his oldest non, was grad-
uated from Columbia at the age of
to and will be associated with his
I father in whatever business they de-
ride to launch in Palestine. The other
children are Gerson, 15; David, 13;
Joseph, 12; Lucy, 10, and Hannah, 9.

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