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tile scientist or pseudo-scientist was compelled to meet
the issue of fact. He had to do battle in the forum
where only demonstration was acceptable and conse-
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By. JOSEPH WOLFF
quently emotion, personal equation, self-interest and
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prejudice played but meager parts. The Stoddards and
President and Editor
Joseph J. Cummins,
Chamberlains had a vogue for a time. With a know-
ill dusty conservatism and tradition.
There was a time when the name
Manager
Jacob H. Schakne, General
and the young critic, fired by the en-
______
Georg Brandes was taboo in a Jewish
ledge of scientific terminology, facile pens and not a
thusiasm of the French, English and
journal. We Jewish brethren count it
gecoatbelase matter March 3, 1911, at the Postolkee at Detroit.
liatereg
little unscrupulousness, they impressed some people for
Scoop.
Russian culture, gave his audience s' a V
Mich.. under the Act of Margit I. 1k79.
as a great ambition of our lives to
broadside that was designed to awak-
a time with the humbuggery of Nordic superiority.
hunt out Israel from the ranks of the
ONE
will
frown
upon
a
little
gust
Offices
and
Publication
Building
en them from their lethargy. Ills fiery
General
great and gather them into the fold.
They had their place in the sun of popular acclaim for
of pride pervading the precincts
advocacy of modern thought and his
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Somewhere in Africa, the savages
a
short
time,
but
they
could
not
withstand
the
pitiless
Cable
Address:
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condemnation of the old and stale
of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and
"smell" out a brother from a crowd of
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rays of adverse criticism directed by the members of propelled by the fact that the first strangers in a neighboring iiiuntry made him immediately the center of a
controversy. Bitter things
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their own fraternity who could not be deceived by false inkling of a Jewish offensive against when that brother is urgently wanted raging
were said against him, and while he
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home to expiate: sonic wrong.
scientific coinage. The racial flattering scientist is out anti-Semitic babblings of poison-pen Lack
attracted a group of sincere friends
Subscription, in Advance
r
And the smell of those savages is un-
and
followers,
the
mass
was
fiercely
matter meat rack W.
wielders
came
through
the
columns
of
of the picture and his place has been taken by the fanat-
Ts Imre publiration. all eorre.pondence an n. ch
failing. Our sense-organ is equally
opposed to him. And in all of the
Ohre by Tuesday evening of ea week
this
paper.
The
report,
sent
out
last
keen.
Only
we
devote
this
keen
sense
ic and the politician. This does not mean that the genu-
attacks made upon him his Jewish
intereot
nut, heaven forbid, to ferret out evil-
Chnfrle
Inviter corrbonondr nee on moblecto of
week by the Associated Press and the
ro
Th e Detroit Jewl.h
ine scientist has finished his task, for he must now com-
birth was sure to figure prominently.
disclaim+ responolblilty for •n indorotmont of the
doers, but to bring back to the ranks
le the Jewiah people. F ut
United
Press,
that
Aaron
Sapiro,
writer.
t
he
A professorship at this time became
, •
pre.ed
views ex
_
bat a foe who is not amenable to reason and who has
_
a brother upon whom is shining the
vacant at the University and Brdes,
an
counsel for a number of associations
star of fame.
not
the
capactiy
to
understand
scientific
truth
which
the
only
suitable
claimant
for
the
Tebeth 27, 5685
engaged in the co-operative market-
January 23, 1924
But woe betide the brother who
chair, was rejected because of the hos-
runs counter to bigotry or self-aggrandizement.
ing of agricultural products, will sue
shows an unwilling front. Na dis-
If this battle of Nordic superiority were confined to the Dearborn Independent unless it guise, no barricades will avail him. tile prejudice against him.
retracts certain libelous charges
All this bitterness eventually had
the field of science and our people would abide by the which is published against him, came Once it is rumored that he is a Jew— its effect on Brandes and MIDI(' years
The Refugee Tragedy.
or near-Jew—then he is lost to him-
four weeks after The Detroit Jewish
outcome,
there
would
be
little
to
cause
us
to
worry,
but
later he removed to Berlin where he
5'
self. Ile may have to be led back by
Since the passage of the Johnson immigration law'
Chronicle reported Mr. Sapiro's ad-
was received with great honor. In
ears, but the brethren will gather
a problem as acute as any that has faced Jewry has unhappily we must pierce the barriers of hate, preju- dress before the Men's Club of Tem- the
1553 the Danes began to appreciate
him
in.
Ile
may
pour
out
his
bile
dice and, worst of all, greedy, unconscionable poli- ple Beth El, in the course of which
his genius and work more sincerely,
arisen. This is the distressing predicament of the Jews,
them, but what is that compared
and upon the urgent request of a
ticians who fatten upon all misunderstandings and in- he threw down the gauntlet to the upon
to the heavenly satisfaction of being
holding visas, stranded in the ports of Europe. Every
scribes employed to "reveal" the con-
group of influential friends he re-
able to say: "The great so-and-so is
ternecine strife.
spiracy of Jews to gain a strangle-
expedient has been resorted to in an effort to save these
turned to his old home and resumed
a Jew."
The
Ku
Klux
Klan
and
Nordic
Protestants
carried
hold
on
the
vital
activitites
of
the
his lectures.
unfortunates from their miserable plight. Through the
And so it was that Georg Brandes
world.
On
an
anti-Catholic,
anti-Jewish
campaign
for
decades,
Brandeis is now 71i years of age and
was
enmeshed
with
all
the
hunting
kind offices of the relief agencies extensions have been
It is our belief that in marking out
he is yet energetically continuing his
in which they charged Catholics and Jews with designs
tackle that his compatriots could
granted from time to time; some have been, for all
Aaron Sapiro for their arrows they
work,
producing the greatest master-
throw out. For he was a Jew and did
practical purposes, interned in camps, while some have to control the governments of the municipalities, states chose a more formidable foe than not proclaim this fact from the house- pieces of literary criticism of this gen-
they suspected and that in a legal
and nation, while they have brazenly and notoriously
eration.
tops. When, however, the tackle
found a haven in Canada.
in the courts, should that be
And yet, it is a sad fact to record
taken over these governments in the name of the In- battle
failed, and Brandes was still at large,
It is true that kindly humanitarian offers have been
necessary, they will sustain a worst-
that his books—of which there are 22
antagonism was his lot in the form of
visible Empire and Nordic superiority.
ing that will silence them effectively.
volumes—are
"poor sellers," to use
made by the President of Mexico and a welcome is ex-
press attacks. The Yiddish press and
And now that they have taken over many of the
professional parlance. While in New
the Yiddish cartoonists marked him
tended by Argentina, but the fact remains that these
York,
four
years
ago, he complained to
out as a target at every opportunity.
wretched persons, stranded in the ports of Europe, re- governing bodies, they pass legislation to please their
a friend that the royalties on English
Carriers.
To the more rational Jew it has
constituents.
The
immigration
law
is
only
one
piece
translations
of
his
works—English
ceived visas for the United States and, due to the quota
a mystery, this continual
of legislation tainted by these subversive influences.
Q UOTING Ilerodotus, the Greek always been
translations of Brandes' books are
law, found themselves wandering Jews with no place
tagging of the celebrity who is said to
more numerous than those in any oth-
which they may call home. penniless, sick and ex- The registration amendment is fathered by the same V historian, an inscription on New 1w a Jew. If he refuses to conic into er language—bring him in only "a
the fold let him enioy good health in
York City's main postoffice, evident-
groups. The whole movement to divide America into
few pounds a year." Ilia "Lassalle"
his
neighbor's
lot.
There
may
he
rea-
hausted.
majority and minority groups emanates from these ly intending to sum up the work per- sons for his aloofness. In the case of and "Autobiography" sold only two
At last something constructive is being offered in
copies a year! His style is widely
formed
by
the
thousands
who
consti-
Brandes,
the
reasons
were
very
pro-
poisoned, unscientific sources.
known, but his books are only popular
the form of an emergency act of Congressman Perlman
tuts the postal service, reads thus: flounced. Though both his parents
It must be now apparent to anyone with a scintilla
upon the shelves of the libraries and
nd
Senator
Copeland,
both
of
New
York.
It
will
be
andog
is
a
erne
a argued by the restrictionists that to pass this emergency of understanding that the pronouncements of scientists "Ner
e ith snow nor rain nor heat nm were Jeih,
critics—who receive "complimentary"
be
o y strictly the
night stays these couriers grandmoth
haded
um
of
urla
copies.
e
r
th
,
fo
evils
kept
are
not
of
sufficient
potency
to
cure
these
nullification
of
the
law,
be-
from the swift completion of their :
How Brandes characterized Ferdin.
act will be tantamount to a
e 8 and M I a e t p II e ' „ e:is P-
di: t afro); milk
orate
h wih dishes
cause, if the 8,000 who are now stranded and have visas forum is no longer one of proof and demonstration. appointed rounds." The quotation brought
and Lassalle nay be ascertained in
s-
up in entire ignorance of Ju
Prejudice,
emotion
and
ignorance
must
be
overcome.
the
following extract:
.he
necessity
of
men-
eicitos
ly
ale-
n
.
deism.
Beyond
are admitted, many more will urge similar extenuating
sules
g g. agndstavnetry unchanging
"In order to understand [Amalie
a n n o d r iins gli, s ,l rar c,tg alist d r e a st r •s ent i i t s t thpear se ta nt t e s
circumstances so that they may be admitted. To die- This can be done only through general enlightenment deed , the
we
must begin with a study of his
resisting
sense
of
duty
daily
en-
of the masses who give power to self - seeking politi - ment
never spoke of Jewish Matters in any
fugitive writings. His prose style will
acted by the men who deliver the
In ore the fallacy of the restrictionist position we point
form.
As
an
instance
of
this
estrange-
stir
the least emotional of men; his
mail to home, office and place of bust-
to the fact that Louis Marshall and Rabbi Stephen S. cians.
unusually wide learning is dominated
ness. Of all the agencies which en-
went, take the following incident:
Wise favor the Copeland bill because it asks only for
by eloquence, entirely modern and
ter into the texture of the Federal
When Brandes was a youngster, he
strictly logical and practical in char-
service, none brings home to the citi-
the emergency relief of those saran ded with visas and
wa s often greatly' surprised and hurt
Precious Facts.
t
acter; between the lines the reader can
zen a more direct awareness of
so n
eir homelands.
,.wigiou htit s d nurse-
w
r ealtk
when,
s tv hh ei le s t walking
.n
not those with visas who have not left their
detect a suppressed enthusiasm which
purpose
of
the
national
gov-
inform
t
Our contemporaries in foreign lands often info m insisten
lv
those
e nthe word at hint and shook their fists. ie
occasionally blazes out in letters of
h opuug bhl i t c hthan
In the present case the purpose is only to salvage
e p r s mar
n d , p t o a see n the
e.
Perhaps
Perh
fire. His attacks are delivered with
were so anxious to leave that they were unmindful us of things of which we have no knowled
The word was "Jew."
often metal
uncommon audacity which is support-
ntality of the deli verer of the mail.
of the dangers which beset them when they left their our ignorance is due to our close proximity,
What trd word
meant, the nurse
ed by the iron tenacity with which he
In
no
phase
of
its
activity
is
the
one does not see the trees because of the forest. In an
The whole episode of the refugees is a sad and
latrens,:edahl,i hut his mother one
conducts his defensive operations; his
more vigorouswtetnenintilt
ement
homes.
govern
told hint that
we
are
and
him
ies
ray
pitiful commentary upon the conditions prevailing in editorial in an An lo-Jewish p ap er of London
language and style are often tasteful
s
p urpo to have nothing
. hnotan process of distributing the mails. This "Jews e a Mople."
dput
i
rn
e
,
and always peculiar to him. Of mere
and,
e
u
m
s
ent,ad
n
p
g
given
an
ex-cathedra
.judgment,
southeastern Europe. Practically all the refugees
"Nasty
people?"
asked
the
boy.
nF, i n the ex-
rhetoric there is no trace. The extent
to one
realize
th that we i t s rer ni efi e ec gted, .fr
startledus a
Jews. Fancy, if you can, how unendurable must be opinion, which startled
thing,
ithsi tchthtohsee en
of the writer's knowledge and power
aa
h
gaw
i
v
s
"Yes, sometimes very ugly people."
o
tzets
e.en.tevperr
"Yes,
ut i t tear-
without
left no room for rhetorical display.
the conditions when thousands of people will undertake have seen the current of events pass by wi
"Can ► see a Jew?"
Nor is the weight of his scholarship at
are
accused
of
crime
against
the
sins
the
slightest
impression
upon
oursomnolent
con-
ing
"Yes, very easily," replied the
the hazard of a trip to America without knowing
quoted
any time perceptible. He marches out
tal
service.
Indeed,
the
oft
sriousoess.
-
and she lifted him
smug
S
enter.
itted
toSome
relentlessness
of
the
United
States
mother'
would
be
w hether they
a to battle in full panoply; but it is rare
p to
the
In writing of Samuel Gompers the editor s ' 1 ieaks government in the pursuit of Federal large, oval mirror hanging uiin
to see heavy armor so easily worn.
placent ones may insist that t hey ha ul no right
ly complacent
wall.
I.ittle has been printed that hears
offenders
is
indicated
by
the
fact
that
th more notable seeing
. "This is the
to take such chances, but when misery pushes and hope right out and tells us:
ited m a shriek
What the lliit e iy . s aaswa l e itw
upon the life and personality of our
will go to the ends of the earth
hi self.
that Samuel GomPers. was a strong opponent of Social- it in order to apprehend a man charged from hint.
draws calm, dispassionate reason receives but scant
author. While travelling in Germany
ism in any shape or form—a cult which of late years with pilfering the m ails or in any
and afterward during a residence of 1_,
Naturally, such an upbringing and
consideration.
other manner breaking the postal
several years (1577-1851) in Berlin, it
his later cosmopolitan life drew him
These people are faced with a fact, not a theory. has become general in America as elsewhere." We
was my fortune to meet a considerable
almost totally away from Judaism, in
They have been shuttled back and forth, living on char- have lived in America for many years and have found laws.
ntcourse
was
number of men and women, whose
en unw aLin
copym
We think this introduction neces
no
evidences
of
a
general
socialistic
sentiment
here.
As
22
iudgment I respect, who had known
r
r
nial.
7
c
o
o
ni
f
:e
a
sary
in
order
to
point
out
the
unwis:
ivy, suffered to remain only after the strongest represen-
t
'
s
rIC
Lassalle personally. After Lassalle's
dom of the President's determined op Theodor Ilerz 'l sent Brandes ( Vit
a matter of fact Socialism, as every American know .
tations were made to the authorities. Now the situa-
sudden
death had silenced the voices j
on
"A
Jewish
State,"
and
asked
his
r
abt
r
o
ing
.
hww
oo
u
ir
l
p
o
ws.h
s
is upop ittrenwtaogtehse (1)3fill
innocuous, one may almost say non-existent. And, 's b be-
opi
e n ri e opnlio4 itt.iaal t dth of the plan involved, of his assailants, we know that public
Lion is becoming more acute and alarming every day.
.
tc,d
,
o
e
d
t
e
t
a
n
ar
opinion
of him underwent a change.
,
p
ophann
sides,
whatever
influence
Socialism
has
in
America
has
hem
to
support
h
standard enabling them
Something must be done and that very soon. We have
Public recognition of his capacity and
of the banker Men dels.
ers and the s Am
i - their families in decency, to reduce crick
no doubt that the emergency fund will be ra sed, but not been antagonistic to Samuel Gompers
:
of
his
importance
is by no means un-
Wilhelm
IV
of
Prussia.
to a minimum lapses towards dishon
i
unless these people are permitted to enter the United erican Federation of Labor, but has aligned itself
with esty by those plagued by insufficient peror had a led Mendelssohn
common. On the other hand, expres-
i n whe
Th ahe -
i,
i
sions
of
private
opinion
concerning
rt
t
a'
t
plan
i
l,
of
n
'
the federation upon almost every impoant occasion
thought
income and check the growing de
l o ug h ett u
States it will be one emerge` ey fund after another.
and a t'l:lieng the -
him are, for the most part, compara-
fects in the service which obviously Jews return to
The whole dreadful affair has arisen from the hest- It has been said that Europeans and Englishmen in par-
very
fine
a
tively
unfavorable.
his
private
ac-
may be laid to the indifference which er had answered: "It is
America one may say effrontery, to the underpaid workers are manifest- program, and in case it becomes a quaintances displayed but fugitive in-
ut A
ocular r have
ily enacted immigration law which did not make pro-
pointed
appointed
terest in his writings and rarely or
reality I would wish to be
kr:. about merica after having spent a week
ie ilt
vision for the prevention of such a catastrophe. Under write
never shared his views. His weak
by the new state as ambassador to
ing Taxes should be reduced, but not
the circumstances the most elementary humanity de- at a New York hotel. This is not intended as a rebuke
points were perfectly obvious, and no
'
Berlin."
at a sacrifice of efficiency in o ne o f
psychological analysis was required
mantis the enactment of the Copeland bill so that the to our European contemporary, but really the pontifical the most vital departments in the
But Brandes never sought to hide
for the discovery of them; monsieur,
attitude
should
be
abandoned
when
one
does
not
know
govement
service.
Greater
aeon-
the
fact
that
he
was
a
Jew,
as
is
rn
plague area of Europe be wiped out.
the private acquaintances of public
omy might be practiced in other ill- charged by his enemies. In fact, he
This is a time when all people with any human sym- the facts. Some acute and honest European observers sections and more judicious liberal- wrote many articles in which he tried men and the majority of the educated
have
visited
our
shores
and
hate
studied
us
earnestly
reading public are inclined to lay un-
h saw . it.
to reme
remedy their plight—as toe
pathy should insist upon the passage of the Copeland
ity
w enw t ell m ight be sh own in the treat-
due stress upon unconcealed weak-
publish
and objectively, but in the main they have visited the
But the papers refused
of the postal workers.
bill.
nesses, especially when such failings
them. Ile endeavored also to pay his
provinces with a supercilious air and preconceived no -
are entirely disregarded by a hand of
We are often reminded that the pessimistic, dark
respects to the Jews by writing a
hero-worshippers.
biography of Lord Beaconsfield and
and sombre are stressed. That is no doubt true and we Lions which nothing could alter.
Refreshment.
Ferdinand
I.asalle
in
warm
colors
at
"Lassalle's fundamentally distinc-
We wonder if many of the ideas of America current
would that the facts and conditions of life in Europe
Semitism ran high.
tive temperament is apparent in the
a
time
when
anti
NYTIIING
can
happen
in
New
were different and that we might become eloquently have the same soundness as this one. Before there can
But his efforts went unrecognized. Of quality best expressed by the Jewish
York without exciting wonder-
be understanding there must be accurate knowledge of
word 'Chutspo,' which connotes pres-
the merits of these "efforts" on behalf
optimistic as to the present and the future. It is only
ment except in those who, living out-
ence of mind, impudence, temerity,
Judaism, the wrtier has not the
with a knowledge of the facts and a courageous attack the facts anti apparently the facts are often distorted side the country's greatest city, look of
to proclaim. But it is a fact
temerity
resolution and effrontery; it will be
to remedy that we may hope to bring about a state of if not entirely wrong in matters of greatest import. If upon it a collossal admixture of that Brandes' aloofness from the Jews readily intelligible to anyone who re-
the
statement
were
a
matter
of
detail
it
would
not
call
instinctive
aloofness
of
gards it as an extreme which the
was
not
the
affairs that will admit of hopefulness.
strange elements. Actually, what
so
'
forth any special comment, but on a matter as funda- seems unusual is not remarkable at the assimilator or anti Semite. lie re- growth of culture necessarily and
However, we can hardly suppress a smile when we
garded the Jews as a religious sect,
naturally produced by reaction from
mental as this the writer should have some exact data.
not as a nation with national striv-
the timorous and shrinking subservi-
realize that in this former land of refuge one must beg
all, in view of the fact that the vast-
Imagine how much injury is done by honest mis-
ings.. And if the truth is to be whis-
ence imposed upon a race that has
for permission to enable the persecuted to enter. Chi-
ness of the population offers oppor-
pored it may as well be let out that
been harassed and oppressed for more
nese walls of exclusion remain standing unless vigor- statement, then picture if you can how much damage is tunities for almost limitless social Brandes knows less of the Jews than than 1,000 years. We have an in- cil
and cultural expression. This is ex-
any other pismle he has written
stance or Chutspo when we fin
ous and concerted attacks of enlightenment are direct- done by the malicious vendors of vicious lies, especially
of
emplified in the Jewish community
In his recent article regarding
Lassalle, during one of his criminal
ed against them. And, what is more, those within too where our people are concerned. Facts are precious in a thousand and one different ways. about.
his
attitude
toward
the
Jewish
sows-
flouting he public prosecutor in
genus and cannot be appraised too highly. Upon the An interesting instance of that com- lion, he states that a nation, to be eases,
often perish spiritually and intellectually for lack of
the course of his speech for the de-
many-hued life came to our
what the name i m pli es , must, a t least,
tense, notwithstanding the threats of
contact with the outside world. The present problem, foundation of facts are reared the structures of hope, munity's
notice recently. interesting not so
a language, whereas the Jews
the president to deny hint a hearing.
however, is the immediate passage of the emergency idealism anti human regeneration, and upon the foun- much from the present writer's possess
are even yet divided in their conic-
Even when he has been ordered to
act. Perhaps sufficient interest may be generated in dation of distortion of facts are built the crooked houses standpoint as from that of some of thin as to which is their language— keep silent, he obtains the right of
the
readers
of
Mk
column.
Yiddish or Hebrew. To point out the
speech by initiating a discussion upon
the effort so that we may hope the whole problem will of malice, war, hate, distrust and degradation.
New Yorkers are said to be a very
poverty of this argument is, of course,
the question how' far he can legally be
receive the attention it merits.
much harassed people, neurologically
unnecessary. Another point that deprived of his right to speak." •

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Intermarriage and Charity.

Science or Nordic Superiority.

One of our contemporaries ascribed the recent in-
termarriages among our wealthy co-religionists to the
At a convention of economists and anthropologists
held recently in Chicago. the American immigration desire on their part to be freed from the many demands
policy was characterized as unsound, wasteful and for charity made upon them by the unfortunate Jews
eventually calculated to work great injury to the coun- of the world. Many reasons have been assigned for
try's industry. The Ku Klux Klan and the Nordic non- these intermarriages but. to say the least. the above
sense came in for much adverse criticism. Not one of
reason is original, if not sound. We can hardly imag-
the scientists accorded the monstrous Klan position any ine that they were moved by such bizarre and fanciful
validity, while all agreed that the Nordic nonsense haul reasons to enter into these unions and. what is more,
not a shred of scientific support but was based upon most of them are so young that they have hardly been
burdened by the great and insistent demands for help.
unreasoning prejudice.
We have known this all along. but it is comforting
Yet something should be done in the matter, for it
to have the support of men whose business it is to ex- were much better that the sick and hungry die in si-
amine the claims of poison spreaders in an objective, lence rather than these defections should occur. But
detached. scientific manner and. after these painstak-
perhaps the writer was wrong and felt called upon to
ing studies, to render a vu rdict which leaves no possible
protect his rich clientele from the clamor of the starv-
ing. Perhaps in his mammon worshipping mind he
ground for meretricious meddlers to stand upon.
All this is very well, and for those who have a child- thought he was doing them a service which they did not
like faith that truth will triumph the whole matter is a care to have rendered.
closed incident. But there are sinister forces which
Be that as it may, the rich Jews of America and
must be considered. even after all the pseudo-scientists Europe will be called upon to assist as long as there is
have abandoned the field, put out of countenance by need for assistance. Even though they do not inter-
their more honest and courageous fellow scientists. In marry they will hardly escape the collector and despite
the ever upward struggle of science the most formid- intermarriage we are certain that they will respond
able opponent has not been the scientist who has antag- as generously and frequently as though they had not
onized the proponents of new scientific discoveries. The entered into the marriage out of their religion.
reason for the easy victory lies in the fact that the hos-

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speaking. New York life, as the most
casual observer will note, seems one
vast chase after unrequited wants.
The Jew', who no 4oubt has helped to
give tone to life in the metropolis,
in a sense has conic to symbolize the
phenomenon which the average per-
son (assuming that there is such a
thing as an average persont images
when he thinks of New York. The
New York Jew is, to say the least,
pretty much of a bundle of nerves.
And as such he needs constant diver-
sion, constant mental and physical
refreshment.
And what is one of the ways in
which some "tired" Jewish business
men of that city obtain their refresh-
ment? After the day's hard work in
factory, store or office these men
foregather in one or more religious
centers and study Gemarah. We as-
some that you know what is Gemarah.
If you do not, you may be informed
that it embodies Jewish religious
science, law. logic, dialectics and sun-
dry other branches of inquiry into
which Jewish sages for many een•
turies deeply delved. But it is the
nectar which tired Jewish men of af-
fairs dare to sip when the sun sets
upon the day's problems of industry,
commerce and finance. Apd they go
a nt wba e yrsref , Isher de,..mrt oreto so pe ie rhatua tt h earn s

makes Dr. Brandes hesitate to place
the .news in the national category is
UNIVERSITY
that they are not all agreed upon
Zionism—which strives toward na-
tionalism—and that the early Zionists
The ceremony In Jerusalem to
were not sure whether to regain Pal-
mark the opening of the classes in
estine or adopt some other land. The
connection with the proposed Hebrew:
fact that the nwre striving of even a
portion of a people toward a home- University is a welcome step forward
in the intellectual dominance which
land makes that people a nation does
Jews are establishing in Palestine. It
not seem to enter into the 13randes
has always been a doctrine of Jewish
theory.
nationalism that the cause would have
But in spite of all this he is now
to he won by mind and thought.
convinced that the Jews are entitled to
equally as by the spirit and the more
mold their own destiny and is in ac-
material means. Thus, it was not
cord with the principles of Zionism.
only a splendid demonstration of th e
if not with his whole heart, at least in
highest ideals of true Judaism, but
spirit. So that Georg Morris Cohen
also an exemplification of firm trust
Brandes has turned out to Ise as good
in the basic teachings of the Zionist
a Jew as this average compatriot, even
movement, to found a university to
though his written "defence . ' of his
which admission should, of course, be
Jewish attitude is remarkably weak
arnad c i ail 0 a d r el g itohues d v, i .ff h e o
for so logical a thinker.
nwhich
Brandes' life has nut been very ad- s t ir n ete iat o lfon all
world, it is hoped, will come to look
venturous save when he first faced
a+ a beacon of light and learning.
the storm of adverse opinion which his
The heart of every Jew, wherever he
first lectures in Denmark brought
may be, ought to thrill with pride at
about. At the age of 21, after a jour-
the knowledge that a Jewish um-
ney through Europe, following his
graduation as Ph.D., during which he versity will in the near future be
regularly functioning. It will act as
made the acquaintance of Taine, Re-
• new heart to Jewry the world over.
ran and Mill, he gave his first lecture
at the University of Copenhagen. This infusing into it strong and vigorous
the treasf ures o df:
tsic stun rn e wlatfeartnf oiu srsme ‘d ...te tz ta e i w n :ors c l utro blood. enr,w icti , tie ct

where human 'frivolity rises to the
most frivolous, and not altogether an-
tistic, heights.

rents in Nineteenth Century Liters- eel and maintained th e ro nu7hoeftua t r he
ages by our people.—London Jewish
l ure ."
Denmark at this time was wrapped Chronicle.

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