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Chanukah
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THE ONLY JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN
Section Two
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1924
VOL. XVII. NO. 4
Protecting Rare Book Collection With More Than $1 000,000 Policies
Sum, HOXerer a
Mere&
SYMOfiZTS PrielleSSlleSS Of
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laniaeriPtc and of Rekl a riOtiS
and Art Objects
gon, ten Jane 30, 1138. Fifty Jews
elaborately illustrated, gives a con-
course between Jews and Christians. temporary rtecount of the tame of St. paid the penalty for the assassination
were
recovered
of the King's inquisitor and behead-
these manuscripts
Chinese city of Kai-Fung-Foo. With dazzle the layman and delight the through the London Society for Con- It reveals the story of anti-Semitism Sinion of rient.
published
This book, published ing, drawing and quartering were
Insurance policies aggregating $1,-
land, a country which perse-
in Switzerland,
the annourcement of the purchase of scholar.
in Bonn' in 1175, is of excessive rarity, added to the tortures at the stake.
"itY
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200,000 protect against loss by tire, the Chine,t treiNures, value either re-
ti
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Ci
cuted
Jews
in
the
middle
ages
more
versi "" a the ' kw ' I "
in historical
importance
of all which
Chie f y's
treasures
is the Chinese
sent n mission into China in than any other country of Europe. (the only copy in the tinted dales) Luis de Saintangel wits one of those
ondalism, and theft the priceless col- ports of the acquisition of manu-
and tells of an attempt to inflame executed. Ilithurto this account Was
the lib rar
: The ( hinese books are printed
bispised and oppressed, Jews were
scripts, hooks find ceremonial objects collect i on , s ,,,,, rity _fm, writtenn,orks laa2.
Christians against Jews by the famil- only to be found In the library of the
lection of books and manuscripts
n
rice
paper, wadded together into
t a
low tirtheless tolerated in Switzerland
comprise the library of Hebrew Union costing $75,000 but historically of in- are all , extaipt for two on tilt' l'e f 0111 ne - - consistency, song enough tie hear t h e
iar charge of ritual murder. St. Si- secret manual of the Inquisition,
because of their wealth, but were com-
t
mon was a 23-month-old infant who printed at Seville about 150(1. How-
College at Cincinnati. This huge sum, estimable Villa, The librarian's pur- stones in
the
middle
of
China,
that
if the Jewish community that scratching of it pen of split bamboo pelled to verse
ea a badge and live in
however, does not fully racer the val- chases vied with one another for the main ,
drowned near the house of a Jess' ever, this is offset by a unique Span-
undhomen(ade
inks.
Some
are
bound
Fiiiii.,
,
.
.
riiii.
_
iii Kiii
glottis. This interesting publication Was
of many of the literary treasures layman's and the scholar's interest.
ace worshipped
f these are scrolls of the law n silk. Others have been ,written and forbids Gentiles from eating or drink- after the prophecy of it half tioniented ish letter of indulgence, signed in ink
ice
in this Maury or give an inkling of Bell Selling of Portland, Oregon, cel- Twelve 0 or
folded : so that, their pages open like ing with Jews and from bathing with Franciscan Friar. For the death of and issued by the Archbishop ()f Se-
remainder are prover books
this child, the members of the Jewish ville about 1197, giving absolution for
the monetary importance of tMi collec- ebrated his birthday by contributing and tl
The traces of the floods t hem or using their medicines, and
tion, which has been slowly gathered I' , 50,001) to pay for these treasures, and and ci =tuna, records. They' are all, a`''''''edwiel''
: intimlattal hat-hung-Putt when forbids.lews to build synagogues, community paid et frightful toll. They the payment Of 0110 null in silver for
Joseph
Echonthal
of
Columbus,
Ohio,
he
exception
of
a
few
that
were
that
together from all corners Of the earth
were tortured till they "confessed" the crime of eating meat or drinking
with t
wed it s hank '
r r ",",',"1"
ee
rive
inlie '''
ago
are
sun appnrent on t le open their windows, bear witness at they were then confiscated, burned
to
d °cm( ntrated at Cincinnati to gave $5,000, with other leading Jews stolen f rom an exhibition ill I.ondon h e : ( years
an
wine with Jews of Moors, going
S(•ell abroad (luring Eas-
000
1111(1 blurred ink. 111 Ile- trials or be
and beheaded until, by the
make the college om( of Bit , world's making up the telllainikr
many yt•ars ago, now in the possession
staintid
paper
their weddings or funerals or nursing
n
„
d
an
oi
i,„,„. u n ion ('allege,
ll
o
enters
of
Hebraic
literature
Pope
Sixtus
IV,
the
proceed-
of the
, ■ 1'
the Chines(i records ex- brew, with occasional hits of Persian I ter.
their children. Bound in old Span-
Texts of Middle Ages.
great c
Story of Persecution.
ings scent investigated and a hideous ish calf arc four thick volumes writ-
copy ( if any
in chi-
and culler ,
In the new collection there we're ex-
any library in Europe or Ant- and the anfiendage
if names
mt
The Hebrew Gnion College library
finds the familiar
portions of
a AV Woo,o slurp tel world-wide per- conspiracy to ruin the Jews was un- ten on vellum in Salamanca giving the
fists ii
nese. fine
quisitely
band
illuminated
texts
of
the
long known to scholars and prised by
that are read in Ile- secution of tthe'Jews through their covered.
erica. They are for historical pur-
lases of Spain relating to the Jews—
Pentateuch.
them, waned into public prominence Middle Ages and fluttering scraps of poses, therefore, priceless. To these the
the world over on mintu ries of %sauntering . ewer the face of
of brew.ecnregations
N'ying in antiquity, rarity and hor- a work of great rarity and beauty.
manuscript ..taqual by tire and flood
array of
ark
has j ust been added the holY i.rong.
the Sabbath, and the mind is strange- Europe is told ley letters and maim-
few methsWhk•II Adolph S.
There is an 1111preSISVC
o py of the Grand Inquisitor's
o f Ea
er bearing the (feticide careful ehirog-
printedboas' gathered liv ror, is a c
the .1 t qvish c o mmunity
that. scripts and prin
ok0 , M.. librarian, returned from Eu- raphy
• ly s tirred by the thought that these
famous bands long dead.
,
r'
r. Uku •
(of the earth' Sermon at the auto-da-fe of the assns.
011 next page.)
announced
that
he
had
pur-
Oko
iron'
all
ends
.
universal
words
of
prayer
are
all
n
(Continued
fine Lyonese bindings, I ((o, purchased by
rope anti
in of Pedro Altries, inquisitor of Ara-
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gouty
I • co I ors,
chased prayer books, scrolls and rec- 1- I ere were
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remains of this 1, st tribe of N i
t Mr'
t • hoo k , 1111111U
gold and silver clasps, filigree casings,' c"lqi
ords of a now extinct Hebrew colony
Ily a strange freak of circumstance Jews Whose glory lies 1 , 11' 1Ni ill thy
jewel encrustations; a collection t.(:
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which flourished centuries ago in the
mysterious heart of the Orient.
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Seeking Long Lost City.
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To eoniplete the tale of the long, lost
city, Mr. Oka bought th• original - :ItqU
rfl
manuscript of Alexander Wylie of a
letter which he wrste in 1 3')11 and sent
by messenger to the Jews of whose SO-
ni41
iourn in Kai-Fung-rote he hail heard.
lle asked them many questions about
their religious beliefs and their com- Of=
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that
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THE SEASON'S GREETINGS!
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the 'acquisition of the. narrative of
the Rev. Joseph Samuel Frey, a con-1 1
vertml Jew who founded the Society T.
for the Promotion Of Christianity T
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among Jews, through whew oiria
H. D. SHAY, President
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John E. Smith
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munity life and waited hopefully for
a reply that never came. 'The strange
interesting by
story is further 11111,1t•
Detroit Creosoted
Stained Shingle Co.
collection was brought to London.
Aside from the Chilies° collections,
Oko's European purchases in-
clude the first Latin edition of Jost.-
phi's' Ilistoria tie Antiquitate et (le
Bello Judaic() Libri, worm-eaten and
stained, with brilliant ornamental let-
terings. There are four other copies
of this book in America, one in the Li-
brary of Congress, atnaher in the
John Piurpont Morgan library and
two in private collections. Another
rarity, previously owned in this coun-
try only by the Jewish 'Theological
Seminary Literary at New York, is an
extraordinfire Ptebhuetwn issue) at
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CHARLES H. BRYAN,
President,
WASSON J. BRYAN,
Secretary.
JOSEPH LARKINS,
Treasurer.
and
HANUKAH symbolizes the thought--that men may live in peace
of
the
harmony. Though Chanukah memorializes the deliverance
Jews from the yoke of the Romans, yet it signifies a greater spirit—
If we can sve a bit better those
/he BROMERHOOD OF ALIN.
be. I,et us
surrounding US, how much better, how much happier life will
conduct ourselves with feeling towards our friends, our neighbors and our
families. Commemorating another Chanukah and another milestone ill the
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