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BOOK ON JESUS
BY GEORG BRANDES
STIRS HISTORIANS
B'NAI B'RITH SPONSORS FIRST
INN
OF WEEKLY DANCES SEPT. 181
B'NOS ZION CHECK FOR
$3,500 ACKNOWLEDGED
The following communication was
received by Mrs. Moses Kaufman,
secretary of the B'nos Zion Organiz-
ation, from Dr. Nathan Ratnoff,
chairman of the hospital building
fund for Palestine, in acknowledg-
ment of a check for $3,500 which the
Detroit organization recently sent to
Palestine:
Y. M. H. A. DANCE IS
SET FOR SEPTEMBER 26
Central Figure of Christianity
Is Myth Like Appolo, Her-
cules, Says Critic.
DATA CONFUSED BY NEW
TESTAMENT WRITERS
"My Dear Mrs. Kaufman:
Your check for $3,500, made out
to Henrietta SzoId, has just been re-
ceived at this office.
"You certainly set an example of
what B'nos Zionists should do all over
the country, and if they would follow
your example how quickly Palestine
would be built up and how quickly
there would be an end to Jewish suf-
fering.
"A tablet will be placed over beds
in the maternity ward of one of the
hospitals in Palestine to perpetuate
the work of the B'nos Zion of De-
troit.
"On behalf of the committee, per-
mit me to wish you and every mem-
ber of your organization a Happy
New Year and many Ilapy New
Years so you may not only be useful
to yourselves and families in the com-
munity, but to all the Jewish people
who need you.
"Sincerely yours,
B'nai B'rith Community Center, 275
East Ferry avenue, on Oct. 5. Many
who recently returned from Pales-
tine and Europe will address the
Rummage Sale:
gathering. The public is requested
Mrs, S. Goldstick is in charge of
the rummage sale, to be held very to attend.
soon, and is being assisted by Mrs.
A. E. Goldsmith. All those who have
His thoughts are over the moun-
material of any kind that they think tains, but death is over his shoulder.
might be usable in the sale are re-
quested to cull Garfield 7685 and the
A brab is not a fish among fishes,
packages will be called for.
a bat is not a bird among birds, a
hen-pecked husband is not a man
Mass Meeting:
A mass meeting will be held at the among men.
luncheon is being planned, details of
which will be announced later.
Sermon On Mount is But Of-
ficial Proclamation of
Jewish High Priest.
YORK.—The contention for-
warded years ago by Professor Ar-
thur Dress's, a non-Jewish scholar,
that Jesus of Nazareth never lived
and that the central figure of Chris-
tianity is a myth is reiterated by
Georg Branches, the world famous
Danish Jewish author and critic, in
a new Book, "Jesus, a Myth," of
WALTER LICHTENFELD
which a translation is published this I
week by Albert and, Charles Boni.'
Vi'alter Lichtenfeld, treasurer of
The publication of thiii book last year! the Detroit Young Men's Hebrew As-
in the Danish original and its trans-' ,
.
is in charge of the ticket
WHITE'S BLUE GRASS SYNCOPATORS
lation into German roused a storm ,
committee for the "Y" Succoth dance
througoh out
White's Blue Grass Syncopators vitation was extended them to play ° t h. :h will b. held at the Hotel Stet
Professor
Draws,
who is professor
ter on Sunday evening, Sept. 26.
at the weekly Saturday
night
dances
•
and Sylvia Sunny flair, Ferndale'
of philosophy in the Technological
at the community house. Sylvia
radio station artists, together with Sunny Gair is well known to Detroit- College at Carlsruhe, Germany, wrote
"NATHAN RATNOFF,
the Kroll sisters, will furnish the en- ers, having sung over the radio and two books on the subject, "The
Christ Myth," and the "Witnesses to
Chairman.
tertainment for the first Saturday at various local dances. The Kroll
the Historicity of Jesus."
night dance given by Pisgah Lodge, sisters, I.ottie and Dorothy, have
IIENRIETTA SZOLD,
Meeting:
Brunches is now in his eighty-fifth
No. 34, Independent Order B'nai sung and performed at various
A board of directors meeting of
Vice-Chairman.
year. He lectured in New York in
B'rith and associated Jewish•orgarnz- dances in and around Detroit.
1914
and
attracted
great
attention.
the
main
branch of the Jewish Wom-
S. C. LAMPORT,
In addition to the entertainment,
ationa at 276 East Ferry avenue on
ion
sirganfizi at L
Welfare O
Treasurer. I Sept. 16 at 8:30 o'clock.
Mr. Gladwin promises refreshments In the long span of his life he ha: en's ' European
held at the home ors.
and souvenirs to all who attend. A I exercised on influence on nearly all-
C success
DR. ISRAEL WECHSLER,
Calvert avenue, at which time
Blue Grass Syncopators attracted the nominal admission charge will be I European literature. He has been the
Secretary."
t he annual ball to be held at the
the center of many important liter-
attention of Mr. dladwin and an in- made.
ary controversies and has been as Book-Cadillas Hotel on Nov. 21 was
A meeting of the B'nos Zion will
outspokt•n about his religious as his I planned, and the following commit•
be held at the residence of Mrs. Moe STUDENTS MAKE RABBI
o f , tees chosen to take charge: Mrs. Ida
literary opinions. Speaking
Ehrlich, 2200 Longfellow avenue, on
SHOUT "LONG LIVE CUZA"
Thomas Paine, he fine, said: "He Levine, chairman; Mrs. Joseph luck-
Monday afternoon, Sept. 27.
erman and Mrs. Agnes Levine, as-
I."
was
a
heretic;
on
am
Dance:
— An
BUCHAREST. —
The thesis of his book is that Jesus sistant chairmen.
Elaborate plans are being com-
--
attack on a rabbi, a paseehger on a pleted by those in charge of the "Y" is as wholly fictitious and legendary ,
Roumanian train, is reported by the Succoth dance, which Will be held on a figure as Hercules, Prometheus or North Woodward Branch:
The North Woodward Branch of
Roumanian paper, Egalitatea.
William
Tell.
Its
arguments
are
based
•evening, Sept. 26, at the Ho-
Sunday
Cantor of Congregation Emanuel.
Rabbi Isaac Welech of Breaza was tel Statler. An orchestra of repute on what the author declares to be the J. W. E. W. 0. will hold its first
Taylor and Wilson.
a passenger on a train going from
the season on Oct. 5 at 2
has been engaged to furnish the mu- hopeless inconsistencies, contradic• meeting of
t the home of Mrs. Morris
EXPERT AND ANTISEPTIC
Dornnhelgie to Clausenburg. He was
alt. n. In s
, I int itesa flint
sic for the evening and the social thinsh e
at 2250 Gladstone avenue.
MOHEL
Fishman,
surrounded by students, who hit him committee has arranged many sur-
upont
a 1:4 wi niTPeui+tsai In'ii
Recommended by New York, CM-
in the face with their fists and forced prises. Souvenirs will be given the alysis of histories and legends from 1 Mrs. Fishman recently returned from
ago and Detroit physicians.
other sources. Its chief contention Palestine and has considerable of in-
him to shout "long live Coca." They
guests.
is that the figure and teachings of terest to tell the members: A bridge-
also made him dance to the tune of
MARRIAGES PERFORMED
.._
"Ma Yophis."
Jesus are drawn from materials
Moved to 1699 TAYLOR
Officials on the train refused to Meeting:
Phone Empire 4322
On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 19, at scattered through the Ohl Testament .
intervene to stop the outrage.
together in poorly arranged I
5 o'clock, the first meeting in the and put
newly decorated "Y" building will be and often inconsistent form. I
Nevertheless, Brunches adds, Jesus
held. All members are urged to at-
will continue to he worshipped by
tend, as mutters concerning the Suc-
Christians for thousands of years, as
coth dance will be discussed.
he has been in the past, and as Isis
and }torus were worshipped, for as
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On Oct. 1, the Y. M. II. A. of De- no one now believes that they actual-
troit will begin its various activities, ly existed.
such as classes, open meetings, Sun-
"For thousands of years," the
day afternoon dances. All Jewish
critic writes, "Apollo, the god of
young men are invited to attend light and purity, was adored in in-
meetings and join any of the classes numerable temples. Ile had hosts of
Beside. making • wonderful investment, you will always be proud
in which they are interested. The priests and priestesses, and he guid-
of doing the most noble deed in your life. How proud you will be
Y. W. and Y. M. are planning on con- ed the destinies of nien through his
when you can boast, "I personally helped in the upbuilding of
solidating in order that both organiz- oracles. To this very day his name
Palestine."
ations may be strengthened.
remains honored. But he never ex-
Buy a parcel of land in the new City of Aful• (in the heart of the
isted; no one believes it in this, the
Emek ). For particulars and conditions call
Athena Girls Dance:
twentieth century.
Following the Sunday meeting,
"On the other hand, the fact that
members of the "Y" will attend the he never existed detracts no more
Athena Girls dance at the Hotel Tul- from his significance then from that
les Roof Garden.
if Achilles, Ulysses, Hamlet and
auss. We know a great deal more
When the ass bears a light load,
bout Ophelia and Margaretta than
Representative of the American Zion Commonwealth.
he wants to lie down.
we know about Mary and Martha in
the New Testament. Yet real exist-
ence con no more he ascribed to the
latter than to the former. Divine
figures can never be affected by hav-
ing lived their true and only lives in
the mind of men.
J. W. E. W. O.
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"The Christ figure as an ideal of
spiritual superiority, of lover for hu- i
manity, of charity and purity, was
many centuries older than the noble-
minded Galilian man of the people
who, 1,900 years ago, was said to
have given historic embodiment to
this prototype," Branches says. "The I
some figure will survive him for cen- :
turies to come, even if he, as now
seems
likely, should never have 1..•
i
Branches attacks the historic re-
liability of the Gospel writers, say-
ing:
"It may he noted in general that
they had no interest in historic facts.
The fact that their topography is as
poor as their chronology shows that
the eva ngelists possessed no real
' knowledge of local conditions."
He calls the story of the 12 epos-
: tles "a palpable piece of mythology"
and declares the figure of Judas to
be purely legendary, as superfluous
, to the general story of Jesus as "the
, fifth wheel in a cart," and "an ab-
surdity explicable only as a mani-
I festation of the hatred felt by Gentile
I Christianity against the Jewish Chris-
The
I flans in the second century.
!legend has caused great mischief.
1 That it ever gained credence does
not speak well for man's acumen.
"The whole story of the Passion
is no saturated with mythology that
the shifting out of any historical
foundation may be regarded as out
. of the question."
The author thinks the evidence in-
dicates Jesus and Barabbas are iden-
i tient He finds the Sermon on the
' Mount to be derived from an official
proclamation addressed to the Jews
: scattered all over the Roman Empire
by a Jewish high priest in Palestine
,and says:
"The Lord's Prayer is now gen-
' erally recognized as no product of the
!New Testament, but a complication
formed on Old Testament models."
The English translation is by Ed- ,
win Bjorkman, translator of Strind- I
berg, Bjornson and Schnitzler.
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