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BERLIN.— (J. T. A.) — Gregory
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I last visit.
I So there was no anti-Jewish animus
about it. Still 1 could not get rid of
the feeling that something was not
, quite right. I could not exactly place
what it was. Very niuch later, the
thought came to me that the word
"Jew" had been automatically drilled
into the heads of the people in a way
which brought up associations of
something unpleasant or even con-
, temptible. The word was used harm-
lessly enough, but the train of associ-
i ations which it brought up raised a
!host of prejudices.
It made me feel very uncornfort
able, especially so when Mine. Gern-
gross, thinking to flatter us, said to
me: "You Bernsteins are not real
She meant well but it
Jews at all
hurt me much more than it ph. asd d.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio.—(J• T. A.)
- -Christians and Jews of Cincinnati
united in a celebration at the Reading
Road Temple on April 1 commenio-
rating the dedication of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
Professor Guy Allen Twaney, pro.
fessor of psychology at the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati, and Julian Mor-
genstern, president of the Hebrew
Union College, were the speakers.
"I not only hope but I believe that
this school will perpetuate the wis-
dom of that ancient Jewish monarch,
Solomon," declared Professor Twa-
nev. The Jew has had a dream of
spiritual values unrivaled in the his-
tory of mankind. It appears to be
his mission to find the great mean,
the common meeting ground on which
all nations and races may cast aside
their differences and accept the high.
er spiritual values."
Dr. Morgenstern told how the dedi-
cation marked the beginning of a
solemn responsibility for all Jews.
"We should not fall into the error of
thinking that a magical force will be
exerted by this university and that
it will automatically solve all of our
problems. On our part, a more de-
termined striving for the ideals that
have contributed so great a share of
the world's store of knowledge is nec-
essary," he said.
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ARAB-JEWISH FRIENDSHIP FEAST
neighbors the same Jew-peddler. Ile was a fre-
visitor, of course, to our house,
When the Jewish colonists of Tel-Joseph entertained their
g
of te ribe of Ben* Sker.
about lquent
he was all along the street,
a The picture shows the Bedouins rouped
t
fe•st. Sitting I too, as
who carne from Jerusalem to attend the
but as a rule he was not very welcome
Zionist rep ..... tatives
Mottleg, El Aisan, Sheik Ab- : I with us. My mother could not afford
from left to right in the middle row: Sheik
della HuBein, Col. F. H. Kisch, Zionist political chief, and Mr. Kalvarisky,
deal with him and she could not
• leader of Paleatinian Jewry who numbers many friends among the ----
Arabs.
I to to part with articles of cloth-
afford
— other things until they were
Zing and
— --
too far gone to be of any value to
I him. One day, however, she was in
great need of money and sold him an
article of clothing, afterwards re-
petting her barge in. Wishing to buy
By EDUARD BERNSTEIN
it back she asked a neighbor for the
---
peddler's address and went to his
(Editor's Note:—A few weeks ago the Nestor of German Social
home. Ile was not in when she came,
Democracy, Eduard Bernstein, attained his seventy-fifth birthday.
but his wife was, a neat, well-dressed
It was an event not only for social democracy. For Eduard Bern-
MAIL CONTRACT GIVEN
woman. The home was comfortably
stein, the founder of the Revisionist movement in Socialism, is one
furnished, tidy and clean, and when
TO PALESTINE LINER
of those men whose achievements is them above party and class.
my mother suggested buying back the
be
They belong to all humanity. And we Jews, too, have reason to
article she had sold, she was imme-
NEW Y 0 It K. — The Associated
proud of this great man who has sprung from our race. Eduard
diately given the article with an air
Press recently broadcasted throughout
Bernstein was brought up in an assimilationist atmosphere. Until
as if the sum concerned was so small
ing that
the country a report announc
a
year
ago
he
took
no
interest
in
Jewish
affairs.
He
was
74
years
that it was not worth bothering
smis-
the time required f or th e trans
of age when for the first time he took his stand on the platform of
about.
sion of mail from New York to Pales-
a Jewish meeting. It was one of the meetings of the Committee
This Jew-peddler, going about the
tine would be shortened by six days.
for Promoting a Working-Class Palestine. The building up of Pales-
streets with his pack over his shoul-
The shortening," say the Asso-
tine, Bernstein declared at that meeting, is a symbol of the progress
der, taunted and sneered! at, kept all
ciated Press, "is the result of the
of mankind and must be safeguarded against possible failure. Since
his insults and unpleasantness from
awarding by the postoffice department
that time Eduard Bernstein has spoken at many Jewish meetings. A
his wife. Ile trudged about the stretes
er at the
I of a mail contract to the American-
German Jew of the German Jews, he was the chief speak
II day, submitting to hardships and
In
the
Palestine Line, which will begin oper-
h Students in German y.
jeers, and told her nothing of these
Conference
of
East
su
p
ations March 12."
space of one year, this great son of our people has come close to
things.
His home was a sanctuary
"Under the present arrangements,"
our people, has come to the very heart of our people, has become
nd his wife Cie mistress of it, to be
the report continues, "the mail time
one
with
the
people
from
whom
he
has
sprung.)
sheltered!
fromall that he had to en-
is 22 days. The new line operating
t a
the S.S. President Arthur will
the journey in 15 days."
make
Vtuirintier 6rprtittgli
WM. J. OTTER C. E. OTTER
N. F. HAMILTON
My Childhood Days
I
My parents were both Jewish. They
were members o f the e Reform com- I
munity, a community which to the
Jews is something like the Evangeli-
cals to the Protestants or the Modern-
ists to the Catholic Church.
The Reform Jews observe Sunday
as their day of rest, they are not
bound by the Jewish dietary laws.
Their Judaism is a form of rational-
ism which does not, however, satisfy
I exercised the
the rational critic.
something I never forgot. And one I dure himself.
From that day my mother looked
day I said to myself: "Since I am
a Jew I might as well be a decent at him with quite different eyes when
sort of a Jew and do what Jews are came to us. Ile had grown to be
supposed to do. So to make a start almost a hero to her.
I will eat no more swine's flesh." The
next day while we were all at table
I suddenly announced!: "From today'
I eat no more swine's flesh. We are ,
Jews and Jewish law prohibits swine's
flesh. I refuse to touch it any more."
What do you think my father an- ,
swered? "Very well," he said, "don't !;
right of criticism and while still a eat swine's flesh."
1
youngster I grew to be a sceptic in
It took all the wind out of my sails.
matters of religion. For a long time
Here was I with my mind made up I
sentiment
and
scepticism
struggled
I
to be a martyr, to fight for my cause, I
within me, each for the mastery. I
to sacrifice myself for my faith, and
recall a prayer of mine which be-
nobody was taking any notice of it.
longs to this period. I was a boy of
There was nothing to fight for.
I 16 at the time and a dearly loved girl
My next move was into the German
, cousin was fighting a desperate battle
with death. In the stress of great Liberal camp. I threw myself into
emotion, the words tore themselves the fight for political emancipation
, from my heart: "Oh God, if you exist, with all the ardor of my youth. One
day my mother was dusting some lith-
' save my cousin!"
This cousin was a daughter of my ographs which had been lying about
I father's elder brother, Aaron Bern- in an attic of our house. They were
stein, a great man whom I always re- portraits of the first champions of
garded with immense awe and affec- German democracy in the fight for
tion. He was the founder and for liberation of 1848 to 1850. I studied
many years editor and chief leader them very carefully. Each bore an
writer of the Berliner Volkszeitung, inscription underneath the portrait.
at that time one of the most widely There was one which particularly at-
I read dailies in Germany. Ile wrote tracted me. The portrait was of a
scientific works which won the admi- man obviously Jewish. The inscrip-
ration of scientists of the rank of tion it bore was: "That is the mis-
Alexander von Humboldt. Ile was a fortune of kings, that they will not I
practical scientist, too. He invented listen to the truth." It was the por-
a method of sending two distinct tele- trait of Johann Jacobi, the Jew of
graphic messages over the same wire Koenigsberg.
Without being particularly pol-
at the same time. Ile was the in-
ventor of an automatically closing ished, the atmosphere in our home
was
that of educated, refined people.
gate for railroad crossings, and there
are many dither inventions to his I to not remember ever hearing my
father speak a coarse word. Of my
credit.
But his chief interest was in the mother the very suggestion of such
Jewish Reform community, of which a thing would be on incongruity.
Both my parents spoke pure Ger-
he was one of the founders. Ile was
for many years its preacher and he man and only rarely did my mother
lapse
into a Yiddish word or two.
, and Dr. Stern were the authors of the They generally moved among non-
Prayer Book adopted by the commun-
Jews.
But
they never concealed their
ity. lie was a fluent Hebrew writer
Jewish origin. With all due respect
and a Biblical exegist.
to
the
Sermon
on the Mount, they
Because I was a Jew I was not re-
quired to do Scripture lessons at were convinced that the ethics of the
Jewish
Reform
community
were high-
school, but very often I stayed behind
er than those of the Christian church.
in class and listened and I must ad-
mit that the New Testament and its Yet it never entered their minds for
a moment that because their religion
central figure interested me much
more than did the Old Testament. was Judaism they were therefore the
Made in Detroit
The Reform synagogue being a long less German in nationality. My fa-
I way MT from where we lived, I often ther was a German patriot. He often
I ran on a Sunday into the Evangelical sang to us children the patriotic
ongs which had been sung in the War
church near our home.
My parents made no objection. of Liberation, songs most of which
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' Neither of them had any religious
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prejudices—my mother because of us heroic tales of the Prussian wars.
her deep religious feelings which left He considered himself a German com-
no room for sectarian prejudices, my plete and undivided, and there
seemed to be no contradiction or
father because of his complete indif-
ference to all forms of religious faith. dissonance in his view of himself. We
children grew up in the same spirit.
But the fact that I was a Jew was
There was so little spoken of our Jew-
:shness that the first time my oldest
brother discovered that he was a Jew
was when some boy in the street
called "Jew-boy" after him.
"I called back 'Jew-boy yourself!
he told my mother afterwards, and
he cried when my mother said "Well,
what about it? You are a Jew-boy."
We were little children then and
we took it all for granted. If we
were Jews, we were Jews, and there
was an end of it. From our neigh-
hors we never heard a word against
the Jews qua Jews. My father's oc-
cupation as an engine-driver on the
railway and the fact that we kept,
Sunday and did not observe the die-
tory laws brought as very close to
our Christian neighbors. There was
hardly anything to divide us. My
sister Clara's chum was a Christian'
girl, but the thought that she was any I
different than ourselves never en- i
tered our minds, and the two families
lived together very peaceably. The I
same thing with my own friends. It
was no different to me if one of my I
Let Us Serve You
friends was a Jew and the other a
Christian. There were very few Jews I
As We Do Your Neighbors.
n our part of the town and we all had
Christian friends and neighbors.
I did hear our next-door neighbor,
Mme. Gerngross, say to my chum
Alex: "Ilere comes the Jew!" She
2-ry
did not mean me. She meant a Jew-
"a
ish peddler who used to come into the I
ether ;
house regularly to sell his goods and
to buy. Ile was a foreign-looking
he
man with a long black beard and
carried a pack slung across his shoul-
typical
Jew-peddler.
der. Ile was a
It hurt me every time I heard him
referred to like that. I know that
Mme. Gerngross did not mean to ex.'
press religious or race hatred. The
peddler was a welcome visitor when
he came. He was given a seat at the
table and a glass of whisky and there I
was • friendly chat over things while
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