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By PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MARX
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President
Ghetto existence.
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editor
To expect thinking, earnest young men and women
tury after the author's death, is a tine
By Z. WENDROFF
The Jewish department of the New
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, General Manager
to remain untouched by the scientific conclusions of the
specimen of Yemenite writing. Some
—
York Public Library has recently ar-
.
Pentateuch MSS. front this country
Darwinian and post Darwinian School and the various
There are today in Russia about
Itntered as Second-class matter Starrh 3, 1914 st the Postoffice at Detroit.
ranged a moat interesting and instruc-
of special interest. They partly
blicb.. under the Act of 'birch 3, 1879.
550
Jewish
intermediate
schools
with
sociologic, economic movements is only a piece of fatu- over 100,000 Jewish children in at. tine exhibition, Jewish Life in Orien- are
have upper vocalization and one, of
tat Countries Illustrated by Menu-
ousness, paralleled by the stupidity of those who would tendance; there exist eight Jewish scripts and Printed Books. About two- them claims to be the exact transcript
General Offices and Publication Building
of the copy of the famous Masorite
e:
pedagogical seminaries; there are
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make them deny what they had learned.
thirds of the items exhibited are lent
Ben Asher. This volume is also re-
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special Jewish departments devoted
the Seminary Library, which, thus,
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There is an essential difference between the renun- to pedagogy in the Second Govern- by
markable by its unusual box-binding.
f';)
London Office,
has an occasion to give a larger pub-
Qriginal
Yemenite
literature
is
repre-
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ciation of Mr. Wise and the renunciations of many in ment University of Moscow, the Uni- lie a convenient chance to inspect over
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sented besides some old and bulky
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versity
of
Minsk
and
the
Pedagogical
100
of
its
rarities.
A
considerable
Year
Per
the
last
two
generations.
It
must
be
remembered
that
$3.00
some
liturgical
volumes,
by
5lidrash-
Institute of Odessa. There is a Jew-
Subecrlption, in Advance
part was taken from the Adler collec-
he did not renounce the Jewish people, nor did he think ish department in the Western Uni- lion, but many interesting items from int, and as a curiosity, a fragment of
Insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach this
Tn
er by a pseudo-Messiah written
fett
office by Tuesday evenine of etch wesk
that he could not function as a Jew in a cultural and versity, Moscow. In Leningrad they the Sulzberger and Schechter collet- a during
the last century is exhibited.
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a special Jewish labor
lions, as well as more recent done-
social way. The past renouncers severed all connec- established
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subjects of Interest
Two
song books printed in Aden in
faculty. There are Jewish depart.
lions by Louis Barnberger, Abraham
disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the
In ate Jewish people, but
1891
are
of
an
unusual
size,
very
long
-..
tions
not
only
with
their
religion
but
with
the
people
menu
in
the
museums,
the
libraries
Friedenwald
and
harry
views sap ***** d by the writers.
Erlanger, Dr,
Mortimer L. Schiff helped to make up and extremely narrow, which the ",
the reading rooms. There are
and their special problems as well. This could hardly and
Yemenites also like to use for 5155.
i
two Jewish government theaters and
C)a
this exhibition.
Sivan
8,
5686
have been otherwise, inasmuch as there was no middle one, the Ilabimah, where perform-
May 21, 1926
of that 'character.
i'
The treasures of the Genizah make
We
cannot
tell
in
which
part
of
the
antes
are
given
in
Hebrew
only.
ground. The fundamentalist, dogma bound parent,
it possible to illustrate Jewish h life in
Furthermore, the cultural field of
East the remarkable eleventh century
Egypt by most unusual items. As is
was the very antithesis of the revolting, radical child. Jewish
interest is expected to grow
MS. of three Talmudic treatises, Pes-
\
Detroit Increases Her Quota.
well known, the discovery of part of
The break was complete, and whatever contribution and expand. In only one, the cur- the
ahini, Rosh Hashonah and Sukkah
'i
lost Hebrew original of the apoe-
At the workers meeting of the United Jewish Cam- adventurous, tough minded youth could make to the rent year, the capacity of the Jewish r' hal book, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was written. The large volume with
schools grew by over 30,000 pupils.
its
beautiful
bold
writing
is
one
of
the
bYPI)r. Schechter led to the removal of
paign held at the Phoenix Club on Monday, May 17, it Jewish people was prevented by the excommunicating
In the political field the Jews
finest items. An Arabic astronomi-
the numberless thousands of frag-
gained complete equality. There are
was decided unanimously that the Detroit quota for attitude of the elders.
meats accumulated in that ancient cal work WOK copied in Hebrew char-
now in existence 39 Jewish town
acters by a direct descendant of Mill-
store-house.
They
are
now
distribu-
overseas relief be increased $200,000. It was an-
Today there is a minority which says that it repre- Soviets (25 in Ukrainia and 14 in
monides in Aleppo 1483. The copyist
among various European and Am-
nounced that Detroit had over-subscribed her original sents the essential spirit of Judaism. This militant mi- White Russia), 19 Jewish village fed
gives his full genealogy in the cols-
,, ratan libraries. With the Adler col-
soviets
and
over
20
courts.
The
Jews
_
phon.
quota of $600,000 and had actually pledged $607,000. nority refuses to be excommunicated. It insists that it
iection about 8,000 came to the Semi
are represented in the national
A few items illustrate the sort of
nary,
among
them
two
closely
written
We have attended many workers' rallies, but this has much of value which it can bring to enrich Jewish soviets and in the affairs of the state leaves of Ben Sire's book which till a luggage
that the unfortunate exiles
and the city.
was by all odds the most enthusiastic and, to use an culture.
from Spain and Portugal took along.
gap between the four leaves of the
Paradox of the Revolution.
A
Bible
written in Toledo a few
same
manuscript,
discovered
by
Doc-
overworked word, inspiring, it has been our pleasure to
The Wise incident reveals the wide gulfthat now
A completely different picture is
months before the expulsion was tak.
Schechter in Cambridge. The visi-
attend. Those who had worked to achieve the splen- exists, while at the same time it indicates the character presented by the Jewish economic for
en to Constantinople, and there a few
tors thus can see a part of this price-
ry
did results enjoyed many ecstatic moments as the ma- of the struggle that is almost inevitable. It is not so situation in Soviet Russia. here the less treasure which had been consid- years later the Masora was added. The
revolution played a grim joke; on the
l'entatouch prnited in Constantinople
erect
lost
for
a
thousand
years,
though
jors reported upon the work of their teams. If the
much a question of the survival of American Jewry, as one hand it offered the Jews corn- it was quoted in the Talmud and was 1505 uses identical illuminating bor.
hedonistic philosophy has any validity, then surely it is the kind of Jewry that will survive and emerge vic- plete political and cultural freedom, known to the Gaon Saudis who used tiers, previously employed in leer,
and on the other complete economic
Spain, and Lisbon, Portugal. The Fez
it in a book written in 934
those who have given and labored in this cause were torious.
ruin. Such is the paradox of the
Abudraham of 1521, the first book
Sandia is the first great Egyptian
amply repaid for their generosity and labor, if the
ever printed in Africa, employs type
Are the potential Einsteins, Brandes and Bergsons revolution.
scholar of the Middle Ages. Of his
The
revolution
offered
the
peasant
carried
over from Portugal. In 15112
li anifestations of joy were any criterion.
epoch-making works three are repre-
to be lost to American Jewry, only to be reclaimed by
and the workmen the promise
we find a printing press for the first
sented. Ilia Arabic translation of the
If any individuals are to be singled out among a a vicious, recrudescence of anti-Semitism of a post war land,
of benefits to be reaped in the near
time
in
Cairo, while .1005 a Hebrew
a large fragment of his
group of indefatiguable• earnest workers for special Europe? Such methods of reclamation are too costly future for the economic development. Pentateuch,
book was printed in Damascus. A
Siddur which he probably prepared
The
Jews,
however,
like
the
entire
Constantinople
of 1193
n ention, they are Nate Gross, whose devotion to a and uncertain. It is almost a certainty that if these class of small merchants and traders, for his Egyptian homeland and his is probably the incunabulum
first book printed in
Arabic account of Biblical chronology.
worthy cause has scarcely been surpassed in the his- highly sensitized, clear thinking, socially conscious suffered complete economic ruin.
the
Balkans.
A historical text written in Cairo in
Here, certainly, one must distin-
tory of Detroit community service; Samuel Summer- young men and young women are overwhelmed by the
A century later printing presses
the year 1000 by It Nathan, deals
between the Jews of Central
were established in the neighhohhood
with the appointment of Bustanai as
f eld, as head of the big giver committee, has made dogma holding majority that they will find expression guish
Russia, who suffered less from war
of
Constantinople in the house of Don-
exhilarch by the Calif Omar and helps
n.any an indifferent one discharge his social obliga-
in a milieu not so intimate but at least less hostile.
na Royna, the widow of the famous
and revolution, and the Jews of the to solve the riddle as to the identity of
Ukraine and White Russia, who suf-
tions; Henry Wineman, who has co-ordinated all the
Jewish
statesman, Don Joseph Nasi,
There are 4,000,000 Jews in America capable of fered more. There is also a differ- this historical writer.
Duke of Naxos. Two very rare books,
wilrbe a fascinating experience
groups and agencies for effective work.
creating a definite culture. These Jews are integrated, ence between the Jewish situation, for It many
one
from
Belvedere, the other one
a visitor to come face to face
in the large cities and
front Kuru Tsheshme are exhibited,
We hesitate to make invidious comparisons, but
conscious and have a group solidarity. The young economically,
with the autograph letter of the great-
that prevalent in the small town and
as
well
as
a Ladino translation of the
were we not to mention Major Bielfield and his tireless should not be made to feel that they are not wanted in village.
est mind produced by mediaeval Jew-
former prophets written in the house
ry, Moses Maimonides. The letters
The Smile of the Nep.
workers, we would be doing them an injustice.
of Donna Royna by one of the schol-
this Jewish world, rather they should be encouraged
exhibited, one from the Adler collec-
The Nep (new economic policy),
ars supported by her.
The workers have visited thousands of prospects to experiment; to go upon joyous adventures of the seemingly
tion and one formerly belonging to
friendly toward the Jewish
From the Constantinople presses we
Doctor Schechter, contain the ques-
with the result already mentioned, but the campaign spirit and whatever they bring back should be added merchant class at first, turned its tions
find a curious volume bibliographical-
directed to the great master un-
is by no means over, for there still remains to be to the achievements of their own group. If not, much hack on them. The absence of credit, der which he put down his answers. ly unrecordtel containing a letter
of wares, abnormal taxa-
writer 1545 and an abridged edition
The same is the case with a letter of
pledged $200,000. Those in charge of the campaign will be dissipated and lost in a world which tolerates limitation
of Zacuto's famous Almanac in Judeo-
tion, the extreme fines until recently
son Abraham, who, on his father's
entertain no doubts but that the amount will be raised
but does not accept. This fact can be attested to by in effect, combined with the competi- his
Spanish 1568, exhibited side by side
death in 1204, succeeded him as lead-
with a complete MS. written in the
if the same energy and momentum that characterized many who have found the walking on the edge of a tion from the government and co- er of the Cairo community.
operative stores, not only swallowed
same city in 1773, while one of the
An unexpected escape by the Jew-
the drive up to the present are maintained.
knife a difficult task.
early hooks printed at Salonica shows
the early profits of the Nep, but alsa
ish
community
of
Cairo
from
immi-
must
be
a
transvaluation
of
val-
Almoli's popular treatise on dreams
consumed the remnants of former
In this slay, there
We do not want to minimize the work of the active
nent destruction in 1524 is commemor-
giving an idea of the variety of sub-
wealth.
participants in the drive, but we want to say to them ues.
ated
in
the
Hebrew
Mogillat
Misraim
jects interesting the readers of the
Even before the inauguration of
nicely written with Arabic transla-
time.
that they have really been privileged to enjoy a rare
the Nep the smell traders and mer-
tion. An Egyptian ritual from the
An old ritual of the Romania rite
chants were reduced to poverty, to-
adventure. It must be remembered that man is essen-
Genizah shows some kind of musical
of one of the Constantinople commun-
gether
with
the
town
and
city
luft-
Subtle Discrimination.
notes for the blowing of the Shofer.
tially a social animal and as such derives a pleasure
ities shows a Greek prayer in Hebrew
menschen — the agents, representa-
A most important item from Persia,
characters. It illustrates the poly-
from helpful and generous action.
The charges made by Adolph Lewison and Gus- tives, salesmen and the like element. a ninth
century copy of the later
glot character of a large part of Jew-
The retail merchants, grain, lumber
It is most unfortunate that the tragedy of Europe tavus A. Rodgers at the luncheon given by the Yeshiva and rawhide dealers, almost exclu- prophets, was likewise discovered in ish literature and the introduction of
should be the efficient cause of social action on the part of America has precipitated a controversy which can sively Jews before the revolution, a Genizah at Yazd. This is one of the prayers in the vernacular into lit-
oldest Bibles MSS., in existence and
urgy.
a similar plight, and along
of American Jewry. But the fact remains that greater be settled only after a careful and honest study of the suffered
the important Masuretic notes on its
Another rare rite, that of the Krim-
with them all those who are depen-
unity and more co-operation was evidenced among De- whole situation in American colleges and universities dent upon their prosperity—drivers, margin contain valuable information chokes of the Krimea is represented
about older lost Bible codices. This
by an excessively rare volume printed
hotel keepers, clerks, etc.
troit Jews at the Phoenix Club than Detroit has here- is made.
MS. has never yet been carefully ex-
in Kale in 1735 and a MS. of the Ad-
And not much better, so far, was
tofore seen. As a direct result of the spirit manifested,
The heads of Dartmouth, Brown, Yale and Colum- the condition of the Jewish artisan amined.
ler collection.
A special feature of this exhibition
those present decided to form a permanent organiza- bia deny categorically any discrimination for racial or in the small town; the farmer's lim-
As well known the Adler collection
are the sects of the Karaites and the
ited
buying
power,
the
competition
is
richer
in
Judeo-Persian
texts
than
tion which shall take care of money raising campaigns religious reasons. Adolph Lewison says that his grand- with rural artisans, in addition to
Samaritans
which are represented by
any other library. Out of these a few
sons were excluded from one of the biggest Eastern local problems, barely give the Jew- characteristic MSS. have been select- sonic important MSS. Anon, the foun-
in the future.
der of Karaism, appears with an old
ish artisan in the small town the op-
ed. They include works of Persian
Although the unspeakable condition evoked the de- universities because they are Jews.
fragment of his code in Aramaic
portunity to survive hunger, but cer-
literature copied in Hebrew charac-
sire to create a permanent organization for money rais-
marking the beginning of the move-
Mr. Rogers put the case succinctly and forcibly in tainly nut enough to live.
ters which show the participation of
ment, while the work of Samuel al-
Economic Conditions.
ing purposes, and although the go-getter note domi- the following statement given to a reporter on the New
the Jews in the culture of their sur-
Maghrabi of the fiftenth century is
The
Jewish
small
town,
as
it
is
now,
roundings,
as
well
as
original
compo-
nated, we do trust that purposes of scholarship, culture York World. He said: "It is not a matter of absolute contains a few privately owned stores
the latest Karaite code written in Ar-
sitions by Jewish writers. Some of
and art shall also be included in the broader plans exclusion so much as restriction and discrimination. with few wares and fewer customers, these show in their way- of writing abic. It was translated into Hebrew
Damascus 1722 and the only known
which may be formulated.
The universities themselves are not opposed, exactly, to and the rest of the population con- distinct imitation of the Persian meth- in
copy of this translation is placed be-
sists of artisans engaged in repairing
od. Three such manuscripts are par-
Detroit Jewry has yet to complete its task by rais- having Jews in the_student body, but want only what the peasants' old clothes and furni- ticularly attractive due to their beau- side the fine old copy of the Arabic
they consider the Jew who is up to their social stand- ture; laborers who walk from village tiful illustrations in typical Persian text.
ing the balance of the quota. It has been enriched
The original copy of a theological
to village in search of any sort of
style. There is a Hebrew-Persian dic-
through this common effort by an awakened social con- ard."
work dictated by the blind Karaite
labor for almost any remuneration
tionary to Bible and Talmud by Sol-
scholar,
Joseph Albaaic, in Jerusalem
sciousnes and group solidarity which will leave ineras-
The university is not a place of learning but a social offered; gardeners, teamsters, a great omon ben Samuel of Gurgang copied
1048, proves that the date of his death
number of luttmenschen, who do not
in 1490, the scientific value of which
able marks of greater value to the community than
club where only the elect may congregate. It is a place know
generally given as 1040 is too early.
where their next meal will come
has been pointed out in a special
anything heretofore undertaken.
where a premium is placed upon athletic prowess and from; one or two money lenders monograph by Bachor, besides a hith- Besides some liturgical MSS,—one of
written in Persia illustrates the
Knowledge of the existence of the manifold social, scholarship is regarded as of little consequence. The whose "banking capital" does not ex- erto-unknown Hebrew-Persian dic- them
statement of the traveler Pethyah of
ceed 150 to 200 rubles; two or three
recently presented by Louis
economic and aesthetic problems of mankind disturbs responsibility for this condition rests with the faculties, wholesalers whose turnover per year tionary
Ratisbon that their prayer mainly
Bamberger.
consisted of Psalms—we find the first
complacency, smugnesss and indifference. The lessons boards of trustees and graduates, rather than with the rarely reaches 5,000 rubles, and a
It in from the Persian Jews that the
printed text of their liturgy as ar-
number of "Americans," peo-
curious Chinese colony received its
which many learned may compel them to revalue many student bodies, if the most recent manifestations of great
ranged by Joseph the older. This
ple living on the mercy of American
ritual, as is evident from occasional
volume, the first published work of the
of their former values. Perhaps the broader sphere student reactions against compulsory military training,
relatives who have not forgotten
Persian notes found in their MSS.
Karaites, was printed by the famous
of human activity will alienate some from the pursuit compulsory chapel and publication censorship are any them in their time of need.
Most of the Chinese material exhibit-
Christian publisher Daniel Bomberg,
Such was, and generaly still is, the
ed comes from the remarkable collec-
of the dollar and purely personal indulgences. Our criteria of student attitudes and points of view.
Venice 1528. A collection of poems,
economic condition of the Jewish
tion of the Hebrew Union College.
very little known by the Karaite poly-
fellow townsman, David A. Brown, seems to have found
The domination of the college and university by the small town.
The Seminary Library was able to
hinter Kaloh Afendopolo 1500 is beau-
"Thirty per cent of the population,
add a unique volume of fascimiles
the elixir and maybe others will follow suit. In any business and social group was bound to have a disas- among
tifully written.
them former merchants of the
from Chinese MSS. made in the mid-
event, it has been a unique and satisfying experience trous effect upon scholarship. One may say it was al- first degree, are now starving; the dle
Of the Samaritan MSS. in their an-
of the last century in Shanghai.
dent characters of which. the beauti-
remainder,
with
a
few
exceptions,
most inevitable that distinctions and discriminations
This volume of facsmilies recently
for many.
ful old Pentatouch belonging to the
in abject poverty"—so reported
presented by Abraham Erlanger is
based upon social and business differences were bound a live
Public Library is exhibited, we got On
special investigation committee re-
more important since the originals
Arabic translation written in Damas-
to emerge. The socially elect and commercially suc- cently at work in the villages and the
of several-of its parts have been lost.
cus
1365 which deserves careful ex-
towns
in
the
Province
Podolsk.
The Reaction to Youth.
cessful Jew is accepted even though it may be with
The rubbings of the inscriptions from
amination, several liturgical MSS.
The soviet employees, receiving 25
the Chinese Synagogue, presented
reservations.
All
other
Jews
find
many
difficulties
with
Arabic rubrics written in red
to
30
rubles
a
month,
consider
them-
James Waterman Wise has rendered a great serv-
some years ago by Dr. Harry Frieden-
ink, codes, a calendar of 1747 and a
enviably lucky. They have, at
weld, equally helped to illustrate this
ice by helping to clarify the position of American Jewry placed in their way in the form of personality and in- selves
fine
copy
of the Samaritan Arabic
least, a piece of bread.
disappearing colony.
telligence tests.
lengendary book of Joshua written
Judging from statistics gathered
toward its articulate dissenters.
Turning
to
India,
the
spoils
of
Mr.
1350-1360.
If the condition which now prevails in American by Gosplana (higher government Adler's travels illustrate the various
The general comment when not hostile V•tt8 indul-
The Public Library deserves credit
agency organizing economic condi-
dialects spoken by the Jews
for arranging this most interesting
gent, because Mr. Wise is only 24 years old. It is as- colleges is to be changed for the better, there must be tions in the republic), private capital Indian
and used in the translation of their
and attractive exhibition which had
a
better
understanding
and
more
co-operation
between
in
circulation
decreased
from
41
per
sumed by the graybeards who think they speak au-
prayerhooks and other publications.
been prepared by Doctor Joshua Bloch
cent in 1923-1924 to 24 per cent in
One of the latter bearing the title
thentically for Jewry, that youth means immaturity, the faculty and student body. The revolt of college
the chief of the Jewish division. Inci-
1925•1926. That it is obvious that
Why
I
Am
a
Jew?
shows
that
this
youth
is
a
promising
sign
from
which
we
may
expect
dentally it shows what treasures have
the private merchant has no possible
hot-headedness and rashness. If he were 50 and con-
question is discussed not only in our
been accumulated in the libraries of
future in Soviet Russia,
salutory
effects
which
will
improve
educational
stand-
cluded that the Jewish religion was not an effective or
port
of
the
world.
While
in
the
this country in the course of the last
One glance at the figures issued by
eighteenth century prayerbooks for
two decades. It is encouraging to
adequate force to meet modern problems, we are quite ards in American universities.
the revenue office, which, rather than
the
Jews
of
Cochin•China
and
Ceylon
If the student succeeds in gaining a larger measure minimize, exaggerate conditions, were printed in Amsterdam, during learn that a very large number of vis-
certain that he would be charged with mendacity or
itors avail themselves of the oppor-
shows
the
profits
of
the
small
trier-
charlatanry. We refuse to believe that the action was of self-government while the influence of the graduate, chant. The average business of mer- the last century printing presses were tunity to inspect these relics of the
established
in
various
parts
of
the
parents
and
trustees
diminishes,
we
may
expect
the
Jewish
past.
chants
of
the
first
order
appears
as
due to rashness, or for any dramatic effect, but was the
country, such as Calcutta, Bombay,
to 1,500 rubles per annum, with
result of careful and even painful deliberation. It was disappearance of such silly standards as social promi- 1,200
Cochin and Poona, and some of their
a net profit of 8 to 10 rubles per
publications look very curious. That
no simple matter for the son of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise nence and business success.
UNJUST
month. Merchants of the second or-
particularly to the interesting
Constant criticism on the outside, together with stu- der average•2,700 rubles per annum, applies
to take such a radical step, particularly at a time when
illustrations of the Haggadah printed
netting a profit of about 30 rubles
Class distinction has greatly helped
alto-
his father was the target for many bitter attacks, and dent pressure on the inside, will make the university
in Calcutta in 1874. There are alt
month, out of which they have
to discredit and cause the failure of
a number of Haggadahs with
when he was to be graduated from the Institute of Re- authorities realize that racial, religious, social and busi- to pay SO rubles year personal tax- gether
the
Eighteenth Amendment. It has
Arabic
translations
printed
or
litho-
ness discrimination have no validity and that scholar- ation, as well as interest on money graphed in various parts of the East proved to be a law favorable to the
ligion as a rabbi.
borrowed. The average income of
rich
or to those who with unscruplous
which
might
offer
interesting
material
ship
and
the
passion
for
learning
are
the
only
authentic
the artisan had increased in the last
American Jewry must face the fact of the revolt
desire are willing to become rich,
to an expert in Arabic dialects. The
year to about 30 to 35 rubles per
of youth against dogma and fundamentalism. It can standards which can be used.
while the vast multitudes of less for-
thirteenth
cen-
finest
Haggadah
is
a
month against 20 rubles in previous
tunate materially are compelled to
tury MS. of the Adler collection with
call the intransgient, renegade and a betrayer of the
years. The rest of the population
suffer a sense of unjust distinction.—
beautiful illuminations in Byzantine
leads a miserable life of want and
ancient faith, but youth will not be held by formulas
The Supplement.
style which once belonged to the fa-
Sir Herbert Samuel, former high commissioner of need.
no matter how hoary and venerated they may be, when
mous
seventeenth
century
Italian
bib-
Several of a great number of sta-
Graciano. A fragment of a
those formulas do not meet with the requirements of Palestine and at present chairman of the coal commis- tistical records would better illustrate liophile Haggadah
of Constantinople
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p
sion, contributed as much to the settlement of the gen- conditions in the small towns. Re- printed
a scientific, questioning age. We do not live in such
or Salonica 1515, precedes by a decade
cent reports from 20 towns in Ilk-
passing
for
of
Prague
hitherto
an age. Honest, inquiring, skeptical youth envisages eral strike as did anyone in Britain. He characterized rainla, taken during the pe.'^d from that
t
have found after extensive ob-
oldest illustrated edition.
the world not with the eyes that accept eternal verities, those owners who would reduce wages in the face of Jan. 15 to 20, 1926, show that 4,803 the Another
servation that the cost of many things
country that is well rep-
existing
conditions
as
persons
who
still
insisted
that
families
registered
their
desire
to
in
New
York City is not determined
but with eyes that insist upon evidence consistent with
resented is Yemen. The first order
and take up farming,
by quality but by locality. Moral:
the earth was flat. World Jewry has reason to be leave the town and
of the Mishnah with the Arabic com-
the findings of psychology, biology and sociology.
sixteen of these
Four hundred
Be
careful
where you buy.—The Sup-
mentary of Maimonides, written on
plement.
This attitude of youth is not a new phenomenon. pleased with the service Sir Herbert is rendering in
thick vellum hardly more than a cen-
(Continued on next page.)
the
cause
of
decent
human
relationships.
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