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tion. Modern anthropologists have not been able to dis-
cover mental or physical inferiority. But even above
and beyond this the Negro has become conscious of his
By S. MELAMED
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publiehing Cis., Inc.
own racial worthwhileness. This feeling has often car-
./
ried
him
beyond
the
feeling
of
equality
and
many
ne
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
Jewish Women Adjourn.
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grophiles have even claimed superiority. This weak-
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
Plans for the eleventh triennial con-
ness is found among all minority peoples. It is a form
in unnoticed response of the rabIS ,
Entered av 8erund-d•AS mistier Herds A 1918. at the Postoffice at Detroit.
The unexpected death of Dr. Israel
vention of the National Council of
in the Middle Ages. It is only to
Mich . under the Act of March
of defense reaction.
Abrahams, professor of rabbinics at
Jewish Women were discussed at the
last 15 or 20 years that Jea
The Negro left the South to escape from filthy, dis- concluding session of the board of Cambridge University, England, is an the
General Offices and Publication Building
historians have been attempting
loss to Anglo-Jewry and
eased segregated areas. Ile is a person with the same managers of the organization held in irreparable
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desires, interests and ambitions as the white. If he suc- place in Washington, D. C., next Nov. pire. Dr. Israel Abrahams was con- the Jewish life of the Middle Ass ,
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from a sociological point of view. I,
all
ceeded in overcoming the handicaps which have been Mrs. Alexander Wolf of Washington, sidered by Anglo-Jewry and by the
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is not to long ago that a young G
•the,Jews of the British Empire as
second vice-president of the national
man Jewish historian wrote the h
imposed
upon
him
it
is
really
a
most
creditable
perform-
$3.00
Per
Year
dean
of
Jewish
learning
of
our
times.
council,
announced
that
,the
prelimi-
Subscription, in Advance
of Jewish economic life in t ,
ance. Negroes are people and are citizens of our own nary committee in charge of arrange- Ile certainly was the foremost Jewish tory
Middle Ages, and to the present 1
matter
must
reach
this
To insure publication, all rorreepondenre and news
scholar in England and next to Gas-
community who are entitled to as much consideration ments had been formed.
many scholarly hands arc busy d.
office by Tuesday evening of each week.
ter and Buechler and was better
The board planned a budget for the
ging up the facts and figures and s.,
as any other group.
The Detroit Jewivh Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of Interest
known than both of them because he
national work of the council during
be busy for a great many years •
of the
to the Jewish people, hot disclaims r.ponlbility for an indorsement
was a native and member of a great
Social
health
cannot
be
achieved
by
neglecting
or
1925,
for
which
$102,450
was
proposed.
come because the material is no r . s
the writer.,
d
views
family. A brother of the
and no varied in character. The b.-t
discriminating against any section of our population. Mrs. Alvin L. Bauman of St. Louis rabbinical
is at present Chief Rabbi
Kislev 10, 5686 If we have a plague area in our city the whole city will announced that the national council, deceased
part of the material is buried in the
November 27, 1925
of Sidney, Australia, and the spiritual
with its 220 sections in all parts of the
18,000 response literature. Neither
be affected. The problem of Negro housing must be country, would report to the Washing- head of Australian Jewry, and a Abrahams nor Guedemann nor Greets
younger brother is Rabbi of Leeds,
A Real Peace Suggestion.
ton convention a total of $1,200,000
had any access to this vast material.
met with sympathy, understanding and tolerance.
England.
expended in the current triennial per-
We are just gaining access to them
The effort of Rabbis Morris G. Lazaron, William
Besides being a scholar of great
iod. Many of the sections maintain
now.
Rosenau and Edward L. Israel to bring real peace be-
reputation, Dr. Israel Abrahams was
public kindergartens, Y. W. Ii. A.'s,
However, Abrahams' historical
also
identified
with
all
phases
of
com-
homes
for
business
women,
protective
writings make pleasant and profit-
tween the Zionists and the J. D. C. is most commend-
Need for Co-operation.
munal life in the English metropolis
institutions for girls, and neighbor-
able reading and sometimes they ars
able. The partisan spirit engendered if carried to the
and nothing that is genuinely Jew's
even inspiring and this explains why
The path of the mandatory power is not strewn hood houses.
was strange to his mind. He was an
A special committee was named to
bitter end will certainly not help the Jews in Pales- with roses, as the French wars with the Riffs. Druzes
the English Jews especially held the
industrious and successful public
conduct
an
extensive
membership
cam-
tine, Russia or in the rest of Europe. The bitterness and more recently with the Syrians attest. With con- paign in the United States and Can- worker and was always ready to sup- deceased in such high entree,. His Is
books were to them sources of genus
betrayed in so many quarters indicates that personal vincing gestures, makers of the Versailles Treaty par- ada in the spring of 1926. Mrs. Wil- port every worthy Jewish cause, Me inspiration.
whether economic, political, social or
am I)
. Sporborg of Port Chester, N.
Like most scholars, who are pri-
vanities have been wounded and personal ambitions celled out the domains of the so-called backward peo- Liam
intellectual. Continental J e w i s h
first vice-president of the national
manly men of the spirit and les s men
frustrated. If so many lives were not at stake we ples. With Gaelic, or Nordic superiority, these peoples Y.,
scholars visiting London found al-
council, said that there were 700,000
of action, men of the intellect and
could view the whole matter with indifference and were to be governed for their own benefit by these Jewish women in America and that the ways in Dr. Abrahams a friend, guide less men of will power, the late Dr.
and advisor, and many of them owe
was an in-
Abrahams was not an aggressive ve-
equanimity but as much as we would minimize the facts beneficient mandatory powers. In the full flush of their soal of the organization from
52,000
him a part of their success in life.
of its membership .
there is a present danger of serious suffering to many generous impulses the powers offered certain of these crease
He
was,
no
to
speak,
the
ambassador
tore, rather
was a not
a fighting
man, but
was
man
of mild disposition,
00
to 100,0.
of Jewish learning in England.
reminding one very tench of his
in Palestine as well as in Russia.
backward areas to the United States, which were for-
Jewish
religionists,
historians,
bib-
American
colleague,
the
late
Profes.
The plan advocated by the rabbis calls for a $20,-
Tells How To Keep Young.
sow Gotthard Deutsch. Ile had his
liographers and Jewish erudites corn-
000,000 joint fund instead of two campaigns, one for tunately refused.
views
and
opinions,
but
he
never
tried
t
Man begins to look old when he be- ing to London to do research work
The theory of self determination so bravely promul -
o impose them upon others. In mat.
$15,000,000 and one for $5,000,000, with an under-
to help them in
gins to look backward, said Rabbi Mors knew that the man
gated
among
the
Fourteen
Points
seemed
inconsistent
and
s
canservative
a
them
aid
tern religious, he w
thief efforts and give
standing that Palestine receives $5,000,000. One may
in a sermon at the
that the mandated cis Lichtenstein
and yet inclined to radicalism. Ile
a m
e tse,
sdh
Issunpdp otii•,t, y vs:isi ‘1,./ero. t Israelim Asborl hw
Syoco r i e t y
f the
I s
still have all his doubts either as to the permanence of with mandatory powers and it seems
a &o ne, segroveasti vbeo ta astt a: pr set c
-
d
e
7iC:
j
a
.
lif
e
k
w
v e i n ccee (i)ti
sradical
all
received
in
the
friendliest
of
m
Russian colonization and the good will of the Soviet nations have the bad manners to take the original pro ;CI;
passage of years must alter per-
The
The same can be said of young his theological conception of Juda-
government on one hand or as to the feasibility and nouncement seriously, insisting that it be carried out. hat's the course and direction of as- spirit.
ism.
And
how
far
his
theological
aspiring
Jewish
scholars
in
England.
but not aspiration itself.
practicality of Zionism and Palestine as a homeland The Riffs, Druzes and Syrians are not persuaded that piration,
radicalism went can best be seen
Youth is, as a rule, egotistic, self-ab- They all looked to Dr. Israel Abra-
hams and considered him their dean from the work of his disciple and
for Jewry, and yet the necessities and exigencies of an untanned skin makes one superior.
sorbed and self-centered.
Claude Monteflore, who is
and guide. He was anxious to help
friend,
Although
the
kettle
of
fish
which
is
boiling
over
has
.
"But a man of many years and ex-
the situation are such that these objections must for
e g
P bu
periences after emerging from the young scholarly talents and did
g between Judaism and
the present be forgotten. a Gaelic flavor it was not long ago that Britain was crucible o'f his experiences, must he them to a great extent. And to them, recaol nycilinatiaone
Christianity. Most of Monteflore's
wish scholars on
We believe that Russian land settlement is only faced with Indian non-co-operation, Egyptian revolts
come more tender, more comprot infatiet, as to the great ,JeEurope, his death
ldsowdieth mt,hoetelitoeteDri jeAohr.
ittar
i
r
d
se
ha
ssroosr
s
ilne
Iloss.
tenpeanttos
oinrti
the
es
lc
,
,i s kin d .
ant,i to his
a transition stage inasmuch as all western culture has and, more recently, Mosul. Christian domination of
more devoted
build and aspire for the
been in the direction of industrialism and Russia as a Islam is resented as much as was Islamic domination
There
are
a
number
of
reputable
an
aggressive
personality, Utilized
good of all mankind with the same zeal
these ideas for practical theological
competing nation must inevitably follow that trend. of Christianity centuries back. These dark skinned
Jewish scholars in England, but I
that self interest evokes in those of
don't
know
of
any
who
can
take
his
purposes,
while
late Dr. Abrahams
However, land settlement promises for Russian Jewry peoples are as proud of their culture, race, traditions lesser yearn, he will remain young de- place, for he was the only man of did not, and was the only
satisfied with
spite the passage of the years."
and
capacity
for
self
determination
as
are
the
Euro-
Jewish learning in England who was formulating and reformulating them
a place of dignity and equality in the present social
--
time to time without urging
from
active
in
Jewish
life
and
he
made
it
scheme and will do more toward sound economic and peans. They want no tutelage notwithstanding the in-
his business not only to create books anybody to accept them.
Would Not Have Bible in
social rehabilitation than any plan heretofore advo- nocent names which may be given to it.
In his earlier days he was some-
but also to create men. I dare say
Schools.
creats what opposed to Zionism, but even
It
will
be
recalled
that
Damascus,
which
is
now
the
cated.
s
busy
In a stirring sermon in the St. Jo- that he
wan
more
successful
in
an opponent he
e
sat!:
mu
ob
oodoekts.,
u men I than no t creating
We have no hopes for Jewish political autonomy in center of serious disturbances, erupted at the time of seph's Lutheran Church at Lodi, Cal-
was just stated his
ch
not want
though
views
without
inviting
anybody
to
Palestine because of the conflicting interests of Brit - the visit of Lord Balfour to attend the University of
mate his scholarly achievements.
ifornia, Rev. A. H. 11.
a his- share them. Lately he came nearer
iisg olatfiewBal;,7e
a y
cs, the tac
ish Imperialism, Arab hostility, Christian opposition Jerusalem dedication. Some optimistic persons may ly deno
pmoob u in nced
s h\Ye
Dr. Israel Abrahams wa
elir h e baol t-
ti tee ,fiatcot the ncause,
Zionism mt
schools. "it mar sound
in dt
sorxil aan bi ■li ps roft enscsionsi bwuottknot Lbi te ionf- to Zi was converted
and Turkish intrigue, not to mention the overwhelming minimize the declaration of a strike by the Arabs of
strange
for
a
minister
of
the
gospel
t
-
tl
is
a
book
here
again
he
made
little
of
his con-
Palestine
on
the
eighth
anniversary
of
the
Balfour
Dec
tbilietinthscrmls,"hiet
facts of economic and geographical insufficiency of the
to . objer to the. Bible
Jews in the Viddl e p Ages,"
country. The best that can be expected in Palestine laration. All of these phenomena reflect a condition
church are the proper places for full of information and enlighten- version
and was
satisfied
with stating
his views
without
attempting
to im-
ld,churact I
meet, but it is not a first rate his-
is a colonization movement which unfortunately in the which cannot be glossed with assurances that all is well st'ie
pose them upon anybody.
teaching religion. Unfortunately the mee
tory. His inspiring mentor was the
the
stoic
of
There was something
home of today has become only a
last two years has attracted traders and business men because Britain is the mandatory power.
attitude
i fude o such . matters
boarding-house and the result of pa- late Dr. Guedemann of Vienna.
Dr.
,in .his aR
Guedemann is the author . of a book sage
far more than workers.
The movement for a Syria - Palestine is logical and
as
Zionism,
Reformed
Judaism
and
fora
rental neglect is
of Jewish life in the Middle Ages,
the like. Just because he was pri-
- determination
Despite all the inadequacies of both movements yet
large percentage of o the cm es
from the point of view of historlog-
.
manly a man of books and not a man
these stubborn facts remain. In Russia, according to consistent
with
self
Weointed
out Arab
that aspiration
the time of for
the
appointment of d yt.,,,,Lheitogthe church stick to its task from}
pointed
.
Guedemann
was a scholar of the of action, when it came to helping
the Bible and let it keep
ofa
' that his •
reliable reports, 70 per cent of the Jews are in a most' Lord Plume' to th h e If
'
somebody he was always there and
h h C omm is sionership
Hi g
free from politics."
first magnitude. Ills mastery of
would often spent not only days but
precarious state due to the economic philosophy of selection was dictated by the dangers which Arab dig-
medaeval literature and medaeval his-
tor}
was
astounding.
His
erudition
weeks
trying to help out a talented
Sovietism. The condition of Polish Jewry is appalling; content had revealed. Nothing that has happened in
Jewish scholar. Needless to say, al-
Canada Admits Klansman.
aroused the envy of many a great together, he was a very pleasant and
upon this point there is unanimity. The majority of the Palestine since has caused us to change that opinion but
scholar in Germany and Austria. Cul
Major Luther R. Powell, of Port
charming personality and was the
colonists in Palestine are not upon a self-supporting has rather strengthened it. All of which brings . us to
tural Jewish life of the Middle Ages
and, Ore., organizer of the Canadian
l and,
was to him an open book; he knew type of man and Jew who could in-
basis and although there is less unemployment this year the matter of Arab - Jewish relationship in Palestine.
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has
book by heart But still his great spire the youth and be a guide to the
been granted entry into Canada for every page and every line of this
old. In fact, he was both. And this
than last yet many chalutzim are unemployed and
It goes without saying that the desperate economic
n . d cTolLenDepartment of immi-
g
on
n e i tr nlila ih
-
-
should the building boom collapse
in
Tel
Aviv
the
sit
ization
has
made
this
opus
on life of 'the Jew's in'the Middle personal
influence
mainly contributed
Morris Rothenberg in and sanitary problems of Palestinian Jewry made it im
to his fame
as a scholar
too. He was
Major Powell orig Ages is antiquated for the reason that
uation
would
be most
disastrous.
the real type of English scholar and
speaking
of this
latter
fact says that they refuse to perative for the Zionist Organization to stress immedi- - announcement.
it is more in the nature of a history
natty was refused entry, hut appealed
ate needs, to emphasize British friendliness and in gen
of literature than the history of a gentleman,
and for
Anglo-Jewry
the decision to the immigra-
member him
a long time. will re-
think what will happen when the building boom Col-
people of a certain period of time.
uthorities in British Columbia.
There are over 100,000 Jews in Palestine now. oral to paint the picture as rosy as possible, ignor ing as t .
It
is
biographic
in
character.
It
is
a
They referred the matter to the Do-
lapses.
REPETITION
mbla Arab difficulties
history of books and their authors,
minion Immigration Department.
The educational program must be continued and ex- far as f"a
a history of cultural institutions and
This method, however, had one vice for it gave the
The
turning
back once more at
tended, the medical and sanitation work must be main-
their representatives, a history of
the season's opening for the re-read-
tained, subsidies must be granted to the workers who impression among those who went to Palestine that it
edicts and decrees, but not a histor y
Women Publish Journal.
ing of the Scriptural lessons Is a re-
of a people as we conceive of it to-
cannot make ends meet. All this requires money. was their country not only by historic priority and tra-
The first issue of a woman s jour-
"
minder of life's ceaseles repetition,
class The history of a people is a
nal published in Palestine has just
American Jewry is in position to supply the funds. ditional bonds but because of British recognition of
discerned in natural phenomena and
history
of
economic
life,
of
political
reached America. Hailassah, the Wo-
in
human
experience.
"The
genera-
life;
a
history
of
parties,
a
history
of
With a united effort it should be easier to raise $20,- Jewish national aspirations. The Arabs in possession men's Zionist of America, is the co-
tions come, the generations go,"
a history of commerce.
000,000 than by divided efforts to raise $15,000,000 and of Palestine resented this intrusion. It was their coun- publisher of the magazine called Ha- politics,
"that which bath been is that which
There is very little in Abrahams'
!she in Hebrew (The Woman.) As
$5,000,000. World Jewry is the all important thing try by every prescriptive right recognized by mankind.
shall be, nothing new under the sun."
of
book
dealing
with
these
phases
the name indicates, it is devoted to the
s
Is this the whole truth? Does the
Jewish life in the Middle Ages, and
for the United Zionists Conference to consider. If this The superior attitude of many of our fellow Jews
interest of the woman in Palestine.
world move only in a circle?
there
is
also
very
little
in
Gudemann'e
is kept in mind a real peace can be achieved, for we are rankled. All of this makes for little understanding Its purpose, as explained in the intro- book dealing with life in these phases.
The repetition is not a recurrence
article, is to assist workers
complete. The whole truth lies in the
certain that the leaders of the J. D. C. are moved by a and less co-operation. No matter how much benefit the ductory
Today, however, we stress on eco-
in the development of Jewish commun-
recognition of two factors: the law
nomic facts, on commercial life, on
genuine benevolence, not a sickly sentimental thing; Arabs derived from Jewish settlement yet they have
s
al life.
heredity and the law of variation.
political life; in short, we view his-
of heredity
by a desire to help the Jews of Russia and not to please remained hostile and embittered.
This principle of natural selection by
tory more from a sociological than
The present crisis in Damascus is pregnant with
which
each
life
order
becomes
modi-
from
a
purely
aesthetic,
literary
or
Would Curb the Flapper.
Soviet authorities.
fied in seeking its best adjustment,
individualistic point of view. And
possibilities of disaster for the Jews in Palestine. It is
A plea for the restriction of the
s
causes variations so slight as hardly
that is exactly the point of view
infinitely of greater importance at this time to work "flapper was made by Rabbi Nathan taken by Israel Abrahams and by his to be discerned but which, through A
Negroes Are People.
for mutual understanding and greater co-operation Kress of Temple Emanu-EI of New great guide and mentor, Guedemann. countless ages ultimately lead to ,:,
York, in speaking at the laying of the
variations tremendously diverse.
It is not surprising that Guede-
. The fact that Negroes are people hari been im- than to stress our historical or legal rights to Jewish na- cornerstone of the $150,000 building mann
il
was, in his historial writings,
"Ilistory repeats itself?" Not
for the Astoria Center of Israel. As-
pitessed upon us and shall continue to clamor until there tional autonomy.
quite. Likeness tempered by diver-
more a biographer and chronicler,
toria, Queens. Ile urged greater em-
genre
makes
the
ultimate
difference
but
it
is
more
surprising
that
the
late
This is not an alarmist attitude. Syria is a fact, not phasis on religion in the home as did
i$ a definite adjustment.
's
between the ancient caveman and the
Israel Abrahams took an individualis-
■ In our own city the increase from 8,000 to 80,000 a theory. The Riffs and Druzes are facts. Revolt County Judge Burt J. Humphrey, an- tic view of Jewish life in the Middle modern philosopher.
Negroes has caused less discord and dislocation than against mandatories is in full tilt and we can'only hope other speaker.
In all our needless repetitions, the
Ages. Guedemann, like the great
"Where is the flapper going to land
curriculum of school, the routine of
Graetz, stood under the influence of
would have occurred if at the same time there was not that saner means will be found to settle the problem of ultimately?"
asked Rabbi Kress. "Per-
the famous German historian, Ranke, business, the manners of society, the
an unprecedented increase of whites from all over the British mandatories. The least the Jews can do is to haps she told you when she left the who did the same for German letters status of woman—change impercept•
country. The abSence of integration and the constant seek for closer co-operation and more amicable rela- house today that she was going to a as Carlyle did for English. As far as ible takes place from time to time.
dance, for a motor ride or to church.
viewing the past is concerned, Dr. Is•
Thus laws become obsolete, the old
flux made it possible for the Negroes to settle without tions with the Arabs of Palestine.
But do you really know where she has
reel Abrahams was not influenced by
order dies out, institutions become
definite opposition. The newcomers were too busy
gone? The future of the flapper is in-
Ranke. A native of England, Eng-
dead letters.
lish
letters
were
naturally
nearer
to
definite."
Changes inappreciable lead to Va-
While the old settlers were bewildered by the constant-
In his sermon in Temple Emanu-EI
him than German letters, and at the riations colossal.
ly moving city limits. Even now there is an unceasing
the same day, Dr. Kress spoke about
time when Israel Abrahams started
The slight divergence in the retell-
Ludwig Lewisohn's book "Israel," and
movement. from neighborhood to neighborhood. How-
out as a historian, Buckle was still the
ing of a fact leads to the divergence
chided
the
Jews
of
America
for
their
most
popular
historian
in
England
between
fable and truth. Note the
6'er. certain neighborhoods have become fixed. the
"servile assimilation," exhorting them
and Buckle, the author of the "His-
significance here in the domain of
My love, hast Thou forgotten Thy resting
people have taken root and are now Detroiters.
to assert their racial characteristics
England,"
was
tory of Civilization in
morals, "He who despiseth small
between my breasts?
Among the polyglot pioneers were many from the
more definitely.
the extreme opposition to Ranke.
things, by small things shall he fail."
Buckle taught the English to view
"It is the first step that counts."
And wherefore hast Thou sold me for ever to
South who brought with them their baggage of racial
history and historical development.
"Facile descensus." "The easiest
them that enslave me?
Straus Retires as Chairman.
antagonism, intact. No better proof of this is the un-
from a sociological point of view. To way." How momentous these phrases.
him, the driving factors in life were
A few minutes more daily to master
Nathan Straus has retired as chair-
usual Klan strength as manifested in the last two may-
its concrete forces, like climate, food
the lesson completely—such habit
man of the board of directors of Ab-
Have I not followed Thee of old through a
orality. elections.
economic conditions, etc. And noth- marks the boy who wins the prizes
raham and Straus, Inc., Brooklyn, N.
land not sown?
The 80,000 Negroes are here also: They, too. came
ing would be more natural for Abra-
in school and the man who wins the
Y., turning over his interest to his son
hams than to follow Buckle and then
Lo, Seir and Mount Paran and Sinai and Sin
Hugh Grant Straus, vice-president of
prises in life.
from the South with the desire to lead a fuller and more
treat us to a history of the Jews in
The person satisfied to do "about
the
corporation,
who
has
been
active
are my witnesses.
wholesome life. They want to enjoy the advantages
the
Middle
Ages
from
the
piont
of
right" opens a rift in his armor
in the management for the last eleven
view
of
the
sociologist.
But
instead
better
economic
status
promises.
They
must
through
which the sword of his foe
years.
In
a
statement
giving
his
rea-
which a
the late Israel Abrahams preferred to
enters.
sons for retiring Mr. Straus said that
And my love was Thine. and Thy favour upon
have homes. Those with means want decent homes in
place himself under the influence of
Be not a hopeless pessimist believ-
since he resigned from R. H. Macy
me,
decent neighborhoods. They do not want to intrude
Guedemann, Graetz and Ranke and ing that it is useless to act, since
and Co., in 1914 he has devoted nearly
give us • history of the Jews in the
And how now hast Thou apportioned my glory
nothing changes for the better; no-
where they are not wanted but the fact remains that
all his time to charitable and philan-
Middle Ages from an individualistic, ther be a shallow optimist lazily be
thropic work, which he wants to make
away from me?
there is less squalor, dirt and unsightliness in white
literary and aesthetic rather than
lieving that all things will come right
his sole interest. He said he has not
neighborhoods. If they are not to be allowed to re-
from • sociological point of view.
of themselves. Be rather a meliorist
been active in Abraham and Straus for
These
shortcomings
in
Abrahams'
convinced
that we can make the world
Thrust
unto
Seir,
cast
out
unto
Kedar,
side 'in the better neighborhoods then adequate hous-
several years.
a little better by the things we do,
historical writings can, however, be
Tested
in
the
furnace
of
Greece,
afflicted
under
ing facilities must be provided for them. Thg many
explained by the fact that when he
slight in themselves, but which direct
the yoke of Media—
started out the prevalent view in the
thousands of competent industrial workers, business
Build Hospital.
the trend of events and character up-
ward. Such is the secret of the
field of Jewish historiography was
and professional Negroes contribute their share to the
Providence, R. I., Jewry is to be con-
that of Graeta, Gudemann and their world's advance.—Dr. Maurice II.
gratulated
upon
its
achievement
in
the
Is there, beside Thee. a redeemer or, beside
economic upbuilding of the city. They are entitled to
arri s.
been
a
Jew-
H
and
having
guide, Ranke
erection of Miriam Hospital, which
me, a captive of hope?—
clean streets. decent homes, sanitary arrangements.
ish historian, he wu guided by these
was dedicated last Sunday. It was •
Besides,
Buckle.
by
The difference between wisdom and
masters and not
great task for so small • community
This is a condition, not a theory, and must be met.
0 give Thy strength to me, for I give Thee
90 per cent of the historical material
folly has nothing to do with the dif-
to undertake and they are to be con-
Since the Negro was emancipated he has made enor-
my love.
concerning the life of the Jews in
ference between physical age and
gratulated on their achievement in its
JEHUDAH IIALEVI
physical youth.—G. B. S.
the Middle Ages was then still buried
mous strides and would have made even greater had he
completion.
Jewish Toblicatioe Societe
not been the greatest sufferer from social discrimina-
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