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turbance was produced, but the gov- gathering and severe punishment of
cal. But that is not a matter of re-
ernment soon put a stop to it and the ringleaders.
gret. In the glowing story of strange
The treatment I have received, as
the ringleaders were arrested and se-
lands and ancient peoples, conditions
verely punished.
well as all of my co-religionists, and
• L. ET er EFt. BOX
and world affairs, we sense the keen
The real and powerful anti-Semites there are a great many from all over
insight and wisdom of Benjamin of Fact Believed by Press. Fighting
of Austria are the Christian Social- the world who are also attending the
Vienna, Austria, Aug. 6, 1925.
Against French in Syria.
Tudela and that is enough.
istic party, the party in power in the clinics, could not be more courteous.
Editor, The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, government, but, as I find, this anti- I have met a number of Viennese.
Not even the occupation of this
great Spanish Jew is set down. It is
JERUSALEM.—(J. T. A.) — Sue- Detroit, Mich.
Semitic feeling is submerged for the both in and out of the profession, and
supposed that he was a merchant, for ida, Syria, the principal city of the
Dear Sir:—My attention was re- good of the country. They realize I can truthfully say that I never came
in those days globe-trotters were un- Jebel Drone district, has been captured cently called to several placards post- the extreme poverty, the many resorts in contact with a more courteous,
known. Going about just for pleas- by the Druze tribesmen who are re- ed here and there on the billboards and beauty spots which have been kind and pleasing people. They all
ure was not done, for vast difficulties belling against the French in Syria, of the city, very anti-Semitic in char- empty and the need of stimulating seem so glad to meet one and do all
be t the traveler • according to latest reports.
an
d ars
h I s hi
hits se
acter, and calling a meeting of pro- pleasant international relations and in their power, even to inconvenienc-
a long time—thence to Spain by way Even now, with the wealth of equip-
The Transjordaman military au- test aganist the coming international the encouragement of travel and ing themselves, to make one's stay in
BENJAMIN OF TUDELA
of Sicily.
ment and paraphernalia invented for thorities are carefully watching the Zionist Congress. Knowing that the tourists, so that they are really doing the city pleasant. Aside from the
It is a list of lands so foreign and the climate and conditions of the Druze rebellion and preparations are people of Detroit would be interested, all within their power to bring this placards I mentioned above, I have
By Espy Tell..
far away from America; it records countries to be explored, strong phy- being made against any possible in- as I was myself, I have taken the time about. They have organized an in- seen no visibl demonstrations of anti -
times so romantic and picturesque siques—perfect health—are neces-, vasion of Transjordania by the Sy- to investigate what it means and what ternational exposition to be held here Semitism and I feel sure there will be
with age, on rich in history compared nary. The archaeologists, those ar - Irian rebels. It is believed that the it truly amounts to.
next month. They have invited the no marked demonstration during
If Benjamin of Tudela had his
to this new Western Ilemisphere that dent diggers just now engaged in un- Druze have no hostile intentions
There is an organization in Aus- Zionist Congress to hold its meeting the coming congress to nine its peace-
journey to make today, he would not
to us here and now it is difficult to I earthing the ancient city of Carthage, against England, the objective of their
tria called the Ilakenkreutzler, simi- here; they have grunted many con- ful deliberations.
be away from home anything like so
lar to the Fascisti of Italy and the cessions. They are cleaning up and
long as 13 years. But this famous realize unless we use our imagina-1 write that they go into training as warfare being France.
Sincerely yours,
for an athletic contest.
A high personage here informed the Ku Klux Klan of America. They are many other movements have been
traveler, known as the Jewish Marco tions.
DR. J. ROSENTIIAI..
And there was Benjamin of Tu. representative of the J. T. A. that not only anti-Semitic but anti-every- started towards this end.
Very little is handed down to us
Polo, lived in Spain in the twelfth
800 ye'!" while the British forces in Palestine thing except Austria, and especially
Realizing that any demonstration
century, almost 800 years ago, when of the life of Benjamin of Tudela dela, starting out almost
One
cannot
compel a deviation
the method of transportation was a other than his concise and accuratee ago without any of the modren aids number only a few thousand, includ- anti-foreign. Their anti-Semitism, I against the Zionist Congress would from the customs of the place, wages,
camel instead of a caterpillar tractor, record of his great journey. That and accessories. In his retinue there ing the local gendarmerie, the French find, is founded, like the K. K. K., only bring disrepute against the coun- hours, board—unless express stipule.
specially designed for desert travel. constituted his service to mankind was no photographers, no motion-pic- troops in Syria number no less than on the ill-famed "Protocol by the try and discourage further relations tion is made, the employer must fol-
Wise Men of Zion." These Ilaken- and travel, they have resolved to en-
Today the distance that can be chug- and that achievement lives today and ture men, no newspaper represents- 21,000.
The capture of Sueida was made kreutzlers were the promoters of the force discipline and hence the imme- low the custom of the province.—
ged over the heavy sands in 10 days will be eternally worthy of record. tives, no airplanes and wireless ap-
required 10 weeks in the olden times. We read that his father's name was paratus. Ile did not carry a portable under the leadership of Pasha El At- placards and at this meeting sonic dis- diate disruption of the anti-Semitic Talmud.
Those were the days when camels Jonah and his home town was Tudela, typewriter, no, not even a fountain rash, sultan of the Druzes.
•
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swayed in their leisurely lope from or as it was then written, Tutela, the pen, nor a metal pencil.
His journeying and his record FOURTH ATTEMPT
city to city in the lands that Benja- oldest and most important Jewish
min of Tudela visited and studied and community in the former kingdom of lacked in swiftness, but abounded in MADE BY SULTAN
Navarre. It contained a large num- precision. Ile did not "hop off" hur-
PARIS.--The uprising in Syria be-
wrote about.
ber of Jews in 1114 when Alfonso, riedly from places, but stopped long gan on July 24, according to the Echo
For this intelligent and adventur-
enough to get a real insight into the
ous Spaniard turned to Palestine, the the Valiant, captured the city from conditions and history of the coun- de Paris. This is the fourth successive
August that El Atrash Pasha, in the
Islands of the Levant, Mesopotamia— the Moors.
His father's name and his home tries he visited and carefully verified southern regions of the French man-
to Bagdad, Syria, and still farther
town end the personal allusions. For all information given him. Benjamin date of Syria, has attempted to cap-
East and North, Persia and beyond
one thing writing was more difficult of Tudela was well fitted to go out
West
the Oxus. His homeward journey lay
into the world and travel about, for ture French columns and isolated gar-
through Khuzistan, the Indian Ocean in those days and apparently it was he had keen powers of observation risons. The most serious revolt took
on Grand C14115 Park
not
the
fashion
to
be
autobiographi
and Yemen to Egypt, where he stayed
and an intense interest in all things. place under General Gouraud's ad-
He could not have seen so much, nor ministration in 1922, when Damascus
compared and appraised with such ac- was threatened and the high commis-
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l'oineaire for reinforcements, 10,-
appreciated all manner of men and ier
affairs, non-Jewish as well as Jewish. 000 of whom were sent.
And so his comments range all the
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way from the commercial importance
LONDON.—(.1. T. A.)—Field Mar-
of Barcelona and Montpellier, of
Constantinople and Alexandria as shal Lord Herbert C. Plumer, newly
centers of international trade, to the appointed High Commissioner of Pal-
peculiarities of the republics of Ge- estine, has left for Egypt on his way
noa and Pisa in which he found to Palestine. Lord Homer is accom-
"every house a fortress." What a panied by his wife. All preparations
For the Most Delicious
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one's home resembled an armory! H e their arrival in Palestine.
Chop Suey or Chow Mein
felt the deterioration, the falling into
uselessness of the Greeks. Ile wrote monies there—all of this he tells in
that they were "waging wars by a delightful panoramic fashion. Far.
means of mercenaries," that is in- away scenes and peoples move like a
stead of fighting their own battles, super-film across the reader's vision.
And fashions have not altogether
they hired soldiers to go to war as
laborers are hired today to dig con- changed in the matter of reprinting
To the Rhythmic Tune of
important books. This itinerary of
duits.
He
noted
the
victorious
pro-
Bert Milan and His Band
gress in Europe of the Seljuks, whom Benjamin of Tudela, first compiled
In 1173 upon his return to Castile,
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he called Turks.
Benjamin of Tudela may not have has bete reprinted again and again.
been a scholarly man himself, but he Once it was published in Constanti-
had a profound respect for scholar- nople, and since then at various times
Situated Directly Opposite
ship and always quoted the principal in far-scattered cities. In 1902 an
Book-Cadillac Hotel at
men and the leaders of the Jewish edition was again prepared—this time
communities. His book contains not by Gruenhut in Jerusalem.—Young
less than 248 names of those he knew Israel.
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among the well-known men of his-
tory. Abraham the Pious, is men-
tinned by name as having given In-
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der that this book, "Massa'ot shel
Rabbi Binyamin" (Travels of Rabbi
Benjamin) is considered of the first
importance in the history of the Jews
of the twelfth century. There is
only one book that in any way equals
it and that was written about the
I same time by another Spanish Jew-
1 which is rather an interesting coincl-
' dence—Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo.
In an easy, fluent Ilebrew Benja-
min of Tudela tells how he made the
intimate acquaintance of the most im-
portant functionaries, the thinkers of
the Byzantine Empire, and writes
most interestingly about the calif in
Bagdad, whom he compares to the
Christian Pope. Of course, his chief
interest centered in the conditions of
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