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tom, made friends with the new gov
ernment and gut as a reward a seat
the prosperity of the inhabitants in- dealings, are regarded as immoral in
in the Avereseu senate. The rather
creased and they readjusted them- America but not among European
Jews.
It
is
this
fine
line
between
the
unfortunate ex-Minister Gutnik was
selves to the American scene, it was
eagerly snapped up by the Averescu
but a step from these newer colonies truth and the lie that has been erased
The
Jews
of
Roumania
Without
a
Voice
In
Parliament:
The
in
America
and
consequently
the
Jew
party and ran as its candidate in Bes-
into the general, unlabeled precincts
Result of the Elections.
sarabia. It is also possible that Dr.
of the community. Today no quarter has adapted himself to American
Filderman, the president of the fed-
of the metropolis but has its quota standards of life.
eration of Roumanian Jews, who is
"In this process of adoption the
By J. YEVIN.
of former denizens of the lower East
just now completing his patriotic tour
general influence of American life has
Side.
of Apierica, will get into parliament
(Copyright, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 1926)
Meantime the old conquerors — been more influential than Reform Ju-
as a nominee of the government.
what is left of them in the orignial daism.
In the midst of such a band the
haunts—are themselves being slowly
Roumanian Jewry followed with this cringing pack of Jews, declaring
"In Palestine as in eastern Europe
forced out by the pressure of later the religious Jew is still a link in the keen interest the recent change of gov- that he was not inclined to take upon name of Dr. Ebner, that old national
ing
with
its
neighbors,
living
its
own
tighter
and leader of the Bukovina
immigrations.
Riding
up
Madison
chain of historical Judaism which is ernment. But when the mountain was himself any responsibility with regard
PASSING THE THE GHETTO life. Distinctions ranging from
street from the municipal building the worship of the God of Revelation. delivered of a mouse and General Av- to the Jews. At the same time, Ave- Zionists. looks rather out of place.
speech, the most obvious of national (by the bus which had supplanted the Whereas the Gil of Reform Judaism erescu assumed power, it became clear rescu proposed to the Jews that they Dr. Ebner stumbled because of his
A quarter of a century ago the differences, to dietary practice which ancient horse car), one looks in vain
ultra-realistic conception of the polit-
district was spoken of as the Ghetto; is the subtlest, divided them. You for the familiar landmarks of a quar- is a mere metaphysical Being un- that there was no change and that should join his party. This flat refus- ical situation and also because of his
we have simply got another edition of al to consider the Jews as a minority
just like that, with the definite ar- crossed Grand street and were in a ter of a century ago. The Lithu- known to traditional Judaism.
personal friendship with the new min-
did
not
teach
the
Jews
of
Roumania
the
same
old
government
we
had
he-
"They claim their religion Is the re-
ticle. The word, to be sure, was new civilization. Among the Rou- anian Jewish shops and stands and
their lesson. They went on negotiat- ister for Bukovina, Dr. Dori l'opvici.
more picturesque than accurate. manians flourished the wine cellar pushcarts which once held exclusive ligion of the prophets. It is true that fore.
First of all rumors appeared in the
ing
in
separate
groups
with
the
Aver-
The composition of the new Cabi-
"Ghetto," to the historically minded, and the pastry shop. The Russians sway at the southwestern extremity the prophets stressed the moral and
papers to the, effect that Dr. Ebner
brought up a picture of medieval sat in the backyards of eating houses of the narrow thoroughfare, have ethical life above ceremonialism. But net, or as we call it in our press, the escu party. The Averescu party was had joints! the Averescu party. Dr.
gracious
enough
to
let
them
negotiate
Italy, of gargoyles and curfews, of consuming tea by the dozen glasses. vanished utterly. For three or four the same prophets stressed also the vice-government, confirms our state-
Ebner had to emphatically deny these
an area confined by walls and iron And the Lithuanians set up printing blocks the Greeks are in full posses. ceremonials. They condemned those ment. A few retired generals with the and this tractableness on the part of rumors and then he had to light the
who broke the dietary laws. The same aged General Averescu at their head, the Averescu party brought it about
gates, and an alien race marked off presses, organized lecture bureaus sion.
Averescu party to get a Jew included
that
even
very
experienced
nationally
Isaiah
who
laid
so
much
emphasis
on
two
or
three
deserters
from
the
oppo-
by distinctive garb and the yellow and went in for education and cul•
Further up the scene shifts sud- the 'moral life also condemned those sition who have grasped the oppor- inspired Jewish partymen stumbled on the senate list.
badge.
ture.
The policy of the Bessarabian Zion-
denly to Italian. A sprinkling of Rus- who ate the meat of the swine.
and let themselves be led by the nose.
tunity
of
getting
into
power,
a
few
The lower east side of New York
ists was a different one; they pro-
Presently the defenses of the older sians follows; and not until one
"There are many Jews of the most colorless professors and to top all,
The position became more compli- tested against the reactionary elector-
suggested no such memories even to races gave way and the Ghetto—it reaches the heart of the old district
unquestionable
loyalty
who
eat
trefe
the
minister
for
the
interior,
Octavian
cated by the fact that the Zionists of al law, shook off from themselves
its inhabitants. No law decreed that was still called the Ghetto—began is there as much as a suggestion of
Jews fleeing from Eastern Europe to spill over the surrounding coun- its whilom masters. On the north a but they are not making a religion out Goga, the national bard of the Rouma- Bukovina benefited by the change of those Jews who figured on non-Jewish
should dwell there. Economy of try. The natural barrier of the East motley hoard of enemies, mostly of their abandonment of the dietary nia of the day before yesterday, who government. The Averescu party lists and were trying to conduct Jew-
a few things from traditional Judaism has lately exchanged his poetical quill sacked the old head of the Jewish corn-
rents and transportation (the needle- river itself no longer could hold back Slays, are progressively asserting
laws. Reform Judaism has picked out for a Fascist pen; and who is full of munity of Czernowitz, the assimila- ish politics on their own individual
trades shops in the maze of little the crusading invader. To the south their right of possession.
and called it the whole religion of the hatred against the Jews and all hu- tionist, Dr. Straucher, and appointed responsibility. The refusal of the
streets east and west of Broadway the last remnants of the Irish were
Bessarabian Zionistii to take any ac-
Most striking of all is the lay of Jew. They have laid so much stress manity.
in his place the leader of the United tive part in the elections is a logical
were within walking distance), pros. driven out of their fastnesses. But things in the middle region just east
Although the new government is Party, Dr. Ebner and Director Flem-
imity to the landing station and the it was in the north that the greatest of the Bowery. On Rivington, Stan on the abandonment of rituals that
they sometimes mistgke their reform outspokenly anti-Jewish its anti-Sem- Inger, those real-politiker of the Buk- gesture directed not only against the
bureau of licenses for peddlers, and havoc was wrought. Before the first ton and Houston streets it is the Ital-
government but also against the de-
perhaps more than all else, sheer ac- half-decade of the century had gone ians from beyond the old frontier measures for a religion' in itself. When itism dues not carry a political but ovina Zionists, which make the whole moralising corrupt state of Jewish po-
cident, had determined that this new. by the Germans had all but complete- who have spilled over. This sector an individual abandons rituals he may purely a matter-of-fact character. The thing look uncommonly like a new litical life in Roumania at the pres-
eat wave of Europeans 'should roll up ly retired from the territory, leaving has for 25 years been the undisputed do on as an individual but why should supporters of Averescu are what are Ugoda. This gave the deathblow to ent time.
on that bit of the American littoral. behind (in the language of the com- ground of the Roumanian Jews, and he try to justify it by incorporating known in the small Jewish towns as the idea of a Jewish national bloc,
Roumanian Jewry has again shown
good Gentiles. They are tractable and which was then on the verge of being itself in a state of national disinteg-
But that the halt was to be a tem• muniques) great stores of provisions. these former invaders are putting up it into a religious dogma?
"Under the term Jewish I under- are fond of Jewish filled fish, and of concluded, but which as a consequence ration and political disorganization.
porary one was evident not alone The only traces of the defeated peo- a spirited resistance. Carmen Sylvia
stand Jewish nationalism as well as pretty girls—Jewish girls. They frat- of these new appointments did not An attempt was made tin set up a
from the preceding history of the ple were a handful of determined coffee houses (sentimentally named
quarter but from events that pres- weinstuben and delicatessen shops after the late queen) and restaurants the Jewish religion and Jewish cul- ernize with the Jews, howevbr, only come off. The Jewish Yishulm. in con- united Jewish bloc, but it fell to pieces
ture, whereas the Reform Jew under- so long as it pays them to do so and sequence of the Mussolinian Electoral at the first blow. The Jews who have
ently began to happen.
which tried for a time to resist the with characteristic window displays
The so-named Ghetto in the year tide, only to be in their turn sub- of liver paste and chopped egg-plant, stands by the term jewish only his at the first chance they show their Law, were forced to give up the idea succeeded in getting into parliament
particular brand of Jewish religion. anti-Semitic claws right enough.
of taking part in the elections as one and the senate will not constitute a
1900 was bounded on the east by the merged or swept away. The German alternate with spaghetti houses, Gari-
I did net mean to create any discus-
The supporters of Averescu do not united minority.
national Jewish representation and
river and on the west by the Bowery. bank, the bookseller, the society baldi cafes and warehouses of Caruso sion between Fundamentalism and
cherish any undue respect for the
The outposts of big business skirted meeting hall, gave up without a olive oil , in the same block.
The compulsory passivity of the na- will have no right to speak in the
Modernism. All I said about Reform Jews. The vice-government is con-
it from the south approximately at struggle. The final surrender was
Prophecy, doubtless, has its risks; Judaism involves the question of
tionally inspired elements gave an op- name of the Roumanian Jews. The
Chatham square, and at the northern- registered when a Yiddish company yet there can seem but little question whether or not there.is a place for it scious of its weakness and is well portunity to various opportunists to Jews continue to be defenceless against
most frontier was the Tompkins of actors took over the Irving Place as to how the struggle is likely to in Palestine which to my mind is an aware of the fact that a party which make political capital out of the situa- the reactionary government which
was represented in the last parlia-
fraternises quite openly with the ene-
Square park, which at East Seventh Theater—only for a time, to be sure; end. Unless there should be a return
impractical idea. The very word ment by only five deputies and which tion and to fish in turbid waters. Rab- mies of Israel.
street arose like a fortress to bar which goes merely to show how tran- to free immigration, the original Zionism
bi Zirelsohn, according to his cus-
is absolutely contradictory to
the invader's further progress. sitory all such conquests are in Ghetto is destined to dwindle to a Reform Judaism no matter how they came into power only through the fa-
Though the invasion had begun near- America.
mere cultural center for its scattered may interpret it. Zionism means vor of the court cannot afford to quar-
rel with the whole world because of
ly a score of years before, the con-
Indeed, the military metaphor can emigres. The newspaper offices, the above all, Jewish nationalism. Where- its Jews. This is the reason why Av-
querors had not yet contrived to wipe hardly be sustained to the end of the old bookshops, the theaters are likely as Reform Judaism denies Jewish na-
out all traces of the aborigine. A story. The Irish and the Germans to remain where they are, and with tionalism. How then can Reform Ju- ereseu flirts quite openly with Cuza
and makes love to all sorts of Fas-
quaint German variety theater on who had retired before the onslaughts them many a favorite tea-house and daism establish itself in Palestine?
cists.
the Bowery, a Roman Catholic chapel of the East Europeans had given way restaurant. A deep sentimental
II. ZACKIIEIM.
M.
The elections to the parliament and
somewhere near the Jefferson park, not before the newest wave of immi- bond attaches the former inhabitant
the senate were the most important
ancient residences with carved-oak grants; they had been conquered by to these institutions. But for the
PLANS
COMPLETED
FOR
factos
in the recent political life of
doors on East Broadway, stood as the American spirit. Belonging both rest they are Americans, like their
(Directly Opposite Book-Cadillac Hotel)
N. F. BEAUTY CONTEST the country and the government made
melancholy monuments to the ousted of them to nations which had fought forerunners the Irish and Germans,
promises as prodigally as a beggar
races. On the extreme southeastern for centuries against assimilation by and with the passage of time are be-
who
is
expecting
to
come
into
a
fat
fringe remnants of the dispossessed their old-world neighbors, here in coming more and more so. The
and
Plans have been completed
lingered on, mnigling with their sup- the United States they had from the Ghetto, in common with all foreign everything is in readiness for the legacy. The Roumanians of Transyl-
planters; so that among the children start grasped not only the impossibil- settlements in America, is a bird of Jewish National Fund carnival and vania sold their birthright for three
Of the newcomers Irish was synony- ity of racial isolation but its undesir- passage.—The Interpreter.
beauty contest to be held at Roches- ministerial posts, a group of Agrarian
mous with American.
ter Park on Sunday, July 25. A very radicals (the so-called l'easants Par-
ability. They quit the old settlement
To the outsider wandering over the voluntarily. It took but a little pres-
and His Famous
elaborate program has been arranged ty), painted the government colors on
Italian frontier on the west or com- sure from the read to make them
and will include, among other num- their bodies in order to get a few pre-
ing In from Little Germany on the aware that they had long outgrown
Dancing and Broadcasting Orchestra
bers, the Ilalevy Music Society and fectures, and the Tarusts too offered
north, the invading hosts seemed a the confines of a colony and that they
the Juvenile Concert Band, a talented their services and demanded jobs in
•1....EirTER. BOX
homogeneous race with a uniform now belonged with the main body of
of Nine Men.
group of boys between the ages of 6 return.
The minorities followed the example
language, culture and tradition. the population.
Editor's Note:—Wishing to correct and 13 years. This promises to be
Signs in Yiddish over the shops, the
certain misinterpretations which have one of the outstanding affairs of the of the opposition. Instead of forming
In time the name spirit subdued the been placed upon his interview with season and all are urged to attend. a formidable minorities' front and
kosher formula on restaurant and
butcher's window, tht prevalence of latest conquerors. To begin with the Lawrence Lipton in the issue of July
To get to Rochester Park by auto, thus obtaining some concessions, each
the six-pointed star of David on old Ghetto, like the island of which 9th in The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, drive out Woodward avenue to Maine of them tried to curry favor with the
houses of worship, lent color to the it is a part, was territorially limited. M. II. Zackhenn has added these sup- street, Royal Oak; follow Main street government on its own account in or-
Expansion could only go so far. plementary remarks by way of furth- to Rochester road, where committees der to get its own demands accepted
Dancing Daily, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 1a.m.
illusion.
Closer inspection dispelled the er- Therefore, almost from the start, re- er explanation.
will direct guests to the park. By and consequently none of them have
Saturday
Matinee Dancing 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
got
anything
worth
while
at
all.
ror. The Ghetto was not a central- colonization must be resorted to. By
street car, Woodward car to Royal
The Jews have brought it off in
ized state, but a loose federation of the year 1905 there was in Greater
"What I wish to imply by my re- Oak, ride as for as Rochester road,
kindred tribes, with customs, man- New York not one. Ghetto but a chain marks on lying among Jews was that where busses will meet and transport quite another manner. The Assimila-
tionist Federation of the Jews of Old
ners and dialects of their own. There of them.' Brooklyn had three or four while the Jew is morally sound, the guests to the park.
"Fine Food Served Fine."
were Jews from Poland, Galicia, the — in Brownsville, Borough Park, standards of morals are different in
Those dashing further information Roumania was the first to offer its
Ukraine, Lithuania. Russia and Rou- Williamsburg, and latterly in Bay America than they are in Eastern Eu- write the committee, '2231 West Eu- services to the government in exchange
mania; aech group had settled on Ridge. The growing borough of the rope. Little petty lies of no real con- clid avenue, or telephone Euclid for very slight concessions. The old
general, however, rejected the offer of
its own territory, erected its own in. Bronx drew multitudes away from sequence, particularly in business 2950.
stitutions and, while freely commun. the home settlement. And then, as
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