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order of society to some moral law?
Ilan it introduced a rational purpos-
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iveness and fairness in the distribu-
tion of labor? Is not the economic ex-
ploitation so characteristic of our
present day but another form of com-
f
od
pulsion, and is not our mern
ree-
dom of competition but another form
By LOUIS RICH
of struggle for booty? You pray to the
God of truth and love but worship a
the Jews have never violated their god of might and success, you worship
We Extend Our Sincere Wish. to Our Friends and Petrone and to
America, which in many things is
religion, while we have been violating the golden calf, the very thing with
repeating the experience of Europe,
the Jewish People of Detroit for a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
our Christian principles continually
which you reproach us (The unwar-
s of late been treated to a recru-
in our relations with them."
rantedness of this reproach is reveal-
descence of a form of religious bigot-
Spinoza was Soloviov's first and ed by your own Christian literature
ry and prejudice known as anti-Scm-
intellectual
passion.
To
this
in which the typical worshipper of the
greatest
itism. This anti-Semitism claims to
be much more than an expression of Jewish philosopher the greatest Rus- golden calf is not the Jew Shylock
sian
thinker,
as
he
himself
frequently
spuriously
but the Miserly Knight.) Had Chris-
personal and in many cases
emotional hostility to the Jews in this stated, owed not only his philosophi- tian society wherein we live not val-
country. Its advocates pretend to cal concepts but also his religious and ued money above all else, we Jews
base their attitude on principles of moral ideas. As a theologian and would have no need to preoccupy our-
theology and allege that they posses. authority on the history of the church selves with money matters. A money-
religious reasons for condemning Jo- Sotoviov had no equal in Russia. lie making Jewry is the product of your
? GLASS MOSAIC, TERRAZZO, MARBLE MOSAIC AND TILE
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deism and those who profess it. Be- was also at home in the fields of civilization: when we were politically,
literature, poetry, politics and pet a- independent we were famed for our
ins rather late in coming, in ac
His profound erudition, dis- religion not our money, for our Tern. ,
more than 50 years after the issues gogy
of academic Judcophobia were first tinguished style and inspiring as well pie not our stock exchange. What
raised in Germany and Austria, 0111'1 as deeply human and genial person- good there is in as comes from our
new Jew-baiters find it more economi-; silty gained for him the appellation legislator Moses, and what bad there
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cal and less troublesome from • ' of the Socrates of Russia.'
is both in our character and in our
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Soloviov wrote extensively on Jew- manner of life is the outcome of our I
scholastic viewpoint to resort to im-
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portations of specious arguments in ish subjects. Despite the fact that his adoption to the society in which we
support of their agitation from views were published in Russia many lived in the past and live at present;
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abroad. They reprint books and years ago they have not lost their an adoption at first to heathen society
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theses which offer nothing in the way force and pertinence to this very day. and later, and particularly, to Chris-
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ILIMWOMIMICIMJCVM,YeWtSWIN of new treatment or convincingness, His most notable contribution to the tian society. In spite of this volun-
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but which serve the purpose of lend- discussion of the Talmud, a contribu- tary and involuntary adoption to our
ing an apparent vitality to a long set- lion which has retained its place milieu which has harmfully affected
our original character, we still pre-
fled and exhausted controversy. The among the most authoritative and lu-
.
serve our main characteristics which
only original work that is imputed to cid expositions of a subject over w hit
our American "Jodentresser" is a a keen controversy had been raging, place us above the heathens as well as
translation of certain excerpts from was an article called "The Talmud and the Christiana, namely an unshakable
the Talmud which it is rumored is the Most Recent Polemical Literature attachment to our religious law, a
now being prepared at the behest of Concerning It" published in 1886. It close solidarity among ourselves and
some of our waelthy anti-Semites.
is an essay that excites the admira- the virtues of our family life. For the
The Jews may await this opus with tion of all who care for scholarship Jews to fuse with modern Christian
perfect equanimity. The forthcom- and truth. It is of especial value to society would mean to give up their
moral moorings without receiving any-
ing translation, if it does appear, will us Jews.
probably contain nothing that has not
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In this essay the author traces thing in return.
"You need not tell us that the bad
already been covered in "Dad Tal- briefly the history of the Talmud, the
order and non-virtuous life of Chris-
mudjude" of Professor Rolling or
"Der Judenspiegel" by Dr. Justus principles underlying its teachings, its
life tian society do not destroy the inner
and a score of other books written by role in the religious and national the advantages of the Christian religion,
of the Jews and its place among
the
adherents
of
the
two
named
au-
moral forces of true religion. The that religious truth has its own pecul-
SLUIPARD
thors. As is known, a whole litera- study includes a striking reply to Gen- iar power. We know that, for already
ture has sprung up on the nature, tile critics, such as in the opinion of in ancient times our Great Sanhedrin
merits and demerits of the Talmud, the writer a faithful Jew might make had laid down the three basic prin -
in which the Jews haye maintained to those who belittle his religion and ciples, we consider it inadmissible and
their side of the question with great wish to convert him. Below is a trans- impious to separate them from one an -
success and in which, to the credit of lation of the passages purporting to other, to divorce theory from practice ,
divine worship from love of mankind.
the Gentiles be it said, the Jews have speak the mind of the Jew:
Suchdistinctions are false. Therefore
found many learned and warm de-
In your theological discussions con-
rrie n et o sg r t o r u n o t ta hn al v r r
fenders.
cerning
the
truth
of
Christianity
you
Among the latter was one who par-
cte.
gliXanwedow
ticularly distinguished himself by his forget two things: the nature of re- manner of worship right, we wou ld
thorough knowledge of the Talmud, ligion and the peculiarity of the Jew- still consider your religion impotentt
irrefutable logic and brilliant style. ish character. You forget that Chris- and could not embrace it for we see '
Ile is the Russian philosopher and tianity as a religion must be a sys- that your life and actions are not goy-
moralist Vladimir Soloviov. Ile be - tem of life and not merely a system erned by the law of love and right- F
lieved the Jewish question to be a of theology and also, and principally, eousness, either human or divine.
on its practical side. At the same
"Were we Jews even to appreciate
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Christian question, i. e., one that re-
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flected the problems and defects of time you forget that what distinguish- the essential points of Christianityl -
Christendom rather than those of the es the Jews from the Greeks, the Hin- we could never accept your attitude
dus,
the
Germans
is
that
to
the
form-
Jews. The substance of his view on
toward religion as towar an abstract
the subject is given in the following er theoretical truth as such is of little truth. To our mind, truth can not be
observation of his: "The Jews have import, but is valued only in its ap- abstract, it can not be divorced from
always acted toward us as Jews, while plication to life and is considered of practical life. We are a people of law,
we have never acted toward them as worth according to its beneficial ef- to us truth itself is not no much a
Christians. In their dealings with us fects or its demonstrated utility. We rational concept as a law of life. Your
Jews judge a tree not by the size of viewpoint is different, to you truth is
its trunk, nor the picturesqueness of one thing and practical life another.
its branches, nor the shape of its Not only does your everyday life fail
leaves, nor the beauty of its blossoms, to realize the precepts of your relig-
but the taste and nutritiousness of its
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and moral considerations have no
''It is not my intention to dwell on
place in political and social-economic
the fact that to us Jews these fruits
questions, that here everything is gov- I
have always tasted bitter. Perhaps
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