12 11 Dcrizon:/rxisn (A 'tor Ica 7:. PAGE TWO 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. 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