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cows, most of Holstein breed. They'
feed the commune and cover the
greatest part of its budget. No cum-1
mune in Palestine can boast of a
dairy industry so highly developed as
The Fierce Struggle That Is Converting a $tony Wilderness that of Kiriath Anavim.
1
Lusty calves spring before me joy-,
High Above Jerusalem Into a Verdant Colony.
fully, in friendly welcome. Thus
grows up a new bovine generation
By DR . M. ROBINS ON
which will not stint us any cheese or
butter. 'rhe food for the cattle alone
(Editor's Note:—This article is one of the most graphic descrip-
calls for the cultivation of at least
lions of the struggles of the pioneers in reclaiming the soil of
.h
art i •h(
which
a ( I ot i dunam
I
o w':
-,
of tH
land, 1 t ON
Pal stone yet written by Dr. M. Robinson, the eminent European-
goal the commune is now (working..
Jewish journalist, in the series of sketches based on the pioneers'
After the conimune had built the
life, which he is now living in Palestine.) • '
l kitchen. Flow- stone barn for the cattle, it began
to worry for its own needs. Two
or oe
th commons
barn
The radiant month of March b
buildings with upper stories contain-
brought with it the• blessed Palestine °ring pots an d Wo v e" ""d "l b " -
tiered articles suggest the presence of ing 14 rooms are being built by the,
spring and little red, yellow and white refined feminine hands.
aid of the Keren Ilayesod. In the
'
flowers blossomed forth of a sudden,
A comraue Jeans me to the "Green sean of three years will be built 40 ,
in the fields and even shot up front
nestles in the heart of the rooms to house all the families of the ,
Isle
stone-crevices.
me t o I stony wilderness. llere is a little commune. A large cistern with a ca-i
An alonga
automobile
is carrying
Jaffa
new road
which lies not oasis abounding with numerous trees pacity of 500 cubic meters of watt r,
.'s far from the mountain path on which and plants, 40 dunam of mixed fruit has been hewn out of the solid rock.
Montellore had traveled in a littertrees, 50 dunam of olives and 200 The cost of this work was covered4hyl
dunam of grape vines. A little forest the Kam) Ilayesod and the Jewish
strapped to two donkeys. The road I of mountain pine and cypress trees National Fund. The water problem,
is choked with omnibuses and auto- .sprawls over the stony mountain slope has always been a knotty problem for !
mobiles humming like black beetles, and learns how to grow. On 50 this commune in the desert waste, be-
as they accelerate speed while seek-
of cultivated land grow fat cause their only spring of water dried'
The
At
ing
to outdistance
another.
tourist
season has one
already
begun and and swollen vegetables and on 200 up when it was extensively used. Al
the tourists are on the wing. dunam grows fodder for the cattle. the present time a motor drives the
Every inch of soil had to be wrested water through pipes into the barracks I
Below us stretch undulating val- by force from the hard rock. At and the problem seems to be solved
I
lays, with flat-roofed Arab villages. certain spots, with more than human at last.
I pass by a leisurely brood of hens :
J
Here lies the firmly rootedJewish
patience, the workers drilled into the
settlement Mozah with its cafe and rock until they reached the source and pigeons and turn back to look
olive groves, and there rises the large of the fertility of ancient days which at the barracks which nestle in the
building of Beth Ilabraah, the sani- slumbers underneath its stony roof. shade of a hill. A large building ha , ,
tarium for convalescent workers. Our
At other spots, the pioneers coy- especially been constructed into 0

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automobile is now hugging • the rim ered the rocky land with soft soil, in dining hall and club house. A coin.'
of a stony precipice and is going which they planted vegetation need- mittee for culture has organized a (
724 PENOBSCOT BUILDING, DETROIT
through a course of dizzy antics. And ing but surface soil to grow in, lind library having 2,01)11 books.
When the clear and star-lit night
all around us stretches a youthful framed by low clay walls which scale
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sunny world, half cultivated and half the mountain like blossoming steps, descends upon the mountains, Petri-
impelled by an upward aspiring will fled in their silence, the sounds of 1
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Wti follow a quiet by-path which to reach the summit and at last to singing and dancing resound through I /
the desert. The young people have • if
leads us to an obscure settlement, conquer the wilderness.
I
descend
into
the
valley,
between
truly
earned
their
pleasure.
Kiriath Anavim. This cloony was
upon the
A Ione Arab Pere
created only after an obstinate and rows of green beanstalks, and stop
e
ea
fierce struggle with the wild forces before a large stone building. This hump of his scrawny camel apprs
the
dream-rapt
mountains
a nd /
ll e upon
of nature. A long alley of young is the stable, the center o f t he itt
which the commune knows it is "Jahudirn" that are re- f.
wsettlement,
saplings gives evidence to us t hat we
are approaching our destination. Soon guards like the apple of its eye. Here juicing over their newly acquired
we behold the eagle's nest of the are housed in exemplary order 511 kingdom.
heroic company of pioneers who by
e
the act of striking a wooden claim
into the ground of the rocky wilder-
ness proclaimed: "Let there be life!"
In a few large woollen barracks
lives the commune at about 50 mem-
By VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY
bers, the first outpost of the chaluzim

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in the stony country around Jerusa-
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lem. The commune was organized
eight years ago in Odessa with the
The non-partisan Western reader
It is much more than just a net-
name of "Kvutzat Eretz Israel." And
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after living through the distressing work of schools; it is the only bright should not apply to this region his 10A,11.%%%% %%%%%%%
island in an ocean of misery and hu- Western ideas on the undesirability
period following the Russian revolu-
tion, it succeeded, only through the miliation. Jewish life in the vast ter- of separate schools for Jewish chil-
ritory stretching between Kovno, dren. Poland. Lithuania, Bessarabia
greatest difficulties, to migrate to
Palestine. After which it set to work. Lithuania and Kishinev, Bessarabia— are essentially polyglot countries.
about 6,000,000 tortured souls of Is- Each of the numerous ethical groups,1
The Jewish National Fund allotted rael—is now literally bare of any in whose midst the Jews have to
it 4,0011 dunam of land (if stones comforting influence, devoid even of steer their way, is keenly jealous of
would be more correct). The Keren hope. Their economic plight seems its neighbor's progress; should the
CALL
Ilayesod supplied all the necessities
en only linguis
to be past redemption, owing not Jews ever join
and uttered the following command: only to wilful oppressing, but also to tically—the Polish group, it would
"Repent the miracle of Moses! Strike the competition of the young but fast provoke intense resentment on the
the rock and let the water of life growing Christian bourgeosie. Their part of all the others, and vice versa.
pour forth!" And the miracle did political condition is determined by The only course of safety is, under
happen!
an unprecedented outburst of local these conditions, for the Jew to keep
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The barracks are partitioned into nationalists. There is no joy in their neutral- to conduct his school work
little rooms like Noah's Ark. In every life, but in the only old refuge of the rather in Latin or Chinese than in
little room lives a man and his wife. Jew—in the field of spiritual activity. any of the local idioms. Then, even
apart from the positive impulse to
They lead a tranquil existence, made
Once again, as in Bialik's early foster Jewish culture. life itself
happy by satisfying labors and fut.
I poems, the "House of the Book" has makes cultural and linguistic hide- :
filled desires.
A narrow corridor leads me into a become the only corner where the prIldellre imperative.
little whitewashed room which ema- East European Jew may find his bit
'there are also other reasons, of
I (lut•s the spirit of respectability and of nachass. Yet, now it is no longer much more tragic character. Send-
refinement. In it stand two scraps- the Betiellamidrash; it is the modern
ing a Jewish child to a non-Jewish s'
lously clean beds and a little child's Jewish school work. Roughly speak- school means, in many cases, expos-
crib, which are covered with the ing, about 100,000 Jewish children ing him or hid' to direct and open I
gauze spreads. The child has been of that whole region went, a year persecution. I heard a statement
carried if to the nursery, where ago, to Hebrew schools, half that from a Jewish doctor in Lithuania.
young girls play with and tend the number to Yiddish schools. In Po- himself not a Zionist: "Should tb.
children in the commune. The moth- land alone there are 12 Hebrew and
To My Customers and Friends
ers, freed from their burdens, occupy three Yiddish high schools, 194 Ile- I have to close our on schools f r
themselves with the' general farm brew and 101 Yiddish elementary 'lack of funds, I'll prefer to keep my
boys at home. I tint want their
work, whether in the fields, cow schools, apart from kindergartens.
nerves shattered to bits at their ten-
der age; I don't want them to go into
life hating the very memory of their
adolescence. I speak as it father and
I a physician. It would simply be un-
healthy."
Yet, unfortunately, that necessary
and, in many respects, admirable net-
work of schools is now actually tot-
tering. The Roumanian government
seems, despite all the minority clauses
of the peace treaties, to have set its
heart on exterminating both the Ile-
brew and the Yiddish language's I if
instruction in Bessarabia. In Lithu-
ania, the Jewish communities have
been deprived of their rights of self-
taxation; American help has prac-
tically ceased; the parents are desti-
tute; as a result, 15 per cent of the
Office Phone: Walnut 4756.
Hebrew elementary schools are al-
ready closed, the remainder in a pre-1
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I carious 'position. The situation in
Poland. including Galicia, is hardly',
brighter.
One hears so much just now abort
the physical hunger of the East Eu-
ropean Jew; yet for our people, with I
its tremendous tradition of learning.,
•the collapse of the Hebrew and Yid-
dish schools would be no less a trag-
edy. Let it be hoped that relief work-
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