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Ah, Zangwill, Zangwill, solitary as and with easier step.
an artist, lonesome as a prophet,
Zangwill, whip of humanity, con-
nuts
He will have enough to buy
science of Israel, thy flaming pen has with it.
revealed ourselves and to the world.
Thou has taught an to be free and
Trust in God, but mind your own
frank, thou bast removed the hunch
from our back, and host taken the business.
hunted look front our eyes. Because
Every fish is not • sturgeon.
thou host lived and written, we all of

panion-piece to Burns' "The Cotter's
really should have told it to you be-
Saturday Night."
fore. You'll forgive me. Well, it's
"The roaring Sambalyton of life was hard to say it just this way. Let me
at rest in the ghetto; on thousands of whisper it in your car. I am a hunch-
• the slit of Sinai shone.
(Continued from last page.)
squalid
The Sabbath Angels whispered words back."
The young artist never forgot that
of hope and comfort t tothe Got-sore
was
of York." Then in the eighteenth and of hope and comfort to the foot.s.ore experience. The rest of his life
their parched souls with cc- devoted to the task otf straightening
nineteenth centuries came the strug-
gle for the emancipation of the Jew, lestial anodyne and made them kings the backbonof the Jew.
when non-Jews combined with Jews to of the hour, with leisure to dream of i
press upon an humanity liberated re- the golden chairs that awaited them
Teachers are so generously paid that one wonders what possible reason
formation, renaissance and revolution
in Paradise.
they can have for objecting to being "docked" in ease of absence. I can
the claim of the Jew to equal civil and
"The ghetto welcomed the bride with
easily imagine that the jealous guardians of the public's money, the board
political rights. At this time all writ-
of education, resent any teacher resenting having her check "trimmed" era on Jewish life felt it to be their proud song and humble feast, and sped
her
parting with optimistic symbol-
because of enforced absence from her duties.
high mission to make favorable propa-
isms of tire and wine, of spice and
Every dollar of public money is so carefully, oh, so carefully expended
ganda in behalf of the Jew. Great-
light
and shadow. All around their
upon only the most necessary things; not a single penny is wasted. I feel smiled Christian authors led the way
perfectly sure that if a public official; that is, some really important public in this effort to create a friendly at- neighbor's sought distraction in the
blazing
public-houses, and their tipsy "
official, not a school teacher, of curse, is absent for some cause from a mosphere for the cause of Jewish
day's work, or let us say a week's work, or even a month's work, that official emancipation. Thus was born Cum- bellow ing,s resounded t hrough the
streets
and
mingled with the Hebrew
is not docked. And some public officials who never work when they are at berland's "The Je Listing's "Na-
of a
work are of course paid every cent that isn't coining to them. liut school than the Wise," George Eliot's "Dan- hymns. Here and there the voice
Neaten
woman
rose on the air. lint no
teachers don't do much. They have such an easy time of it. They have iel Deronda." Jews themselves took
such short hours. And they earn such enormous salaries that every time up the pen in behalf of their people Son of the Covenant was among the
a board of education can save from their salaries it is to be highly com- and there were created the ghetto nov- revellers of the wife-beater; the Jews
peculiar
r
a dee
mended. Yes, the community which such a board represents should rise els of Leopold Kompert and Karl Emil remained a chosen ace,
but remed at
Franzos. Charles Dickens naively un- people, faulty enough,
up and bless it
least from the grosser vices, a little
conscious of the trend of world affairs
human islet won from the waters of
•• ,
wrote a moved "Oliver Twist"in which
us' 4 ancient en-
i
What is it all about? Last week I had occasion to call attention to the
the the mediaeval legend of the Jew as a animalism by the gen
bsent
gineers. For while the genius of the,
fact that Jewish teachers in Chicago were docked for being
fiend
was
l'evived,
lie
was
berated
by
on
non
.:Ai+,fpr4i.A11' •
ch a of are
Greek or the Roman, the Egyptian or
Jewish high holidays. You may inquire, isn't that right? Ss
"o
his friends for interferring with the
1"Itt
the Phoenician, survives but in word
sectarian. Schools are paid for by the taxpayers of all denominations. The
emancipation of the Jew, and he
wrd
alone
was
•;, • w.
‘"'"irt
f
•
111
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public cannot take cognizance of religious holidays and pay teachers who soguld odonement by means of another and stone, Hebrew
the H o
absent themselves on school days, because of their religious convictions. novel, "Our Mutual Friend" in which made flesh."
There is some merit in that position, I admit. But what community worthy the Jewish fiend of "Oliver T wist" is
The Second Emancipation.
her day s
of the name would refuse in such crcumstances to give a teacher cannot be suddenly transfigured into an angel.
'Ac smile nosy as we recall the cry
pay? Surely there are problems in human relationships that
Angels
indeed
were
all
the
Jewish
of
alarm
with which the book Was
to
Common
ir of scales.
in or a
g mache
solved by the foot rule, the addin
consider cha meters in the literature of the greeted by many responsible Jewish
be brought forward
sense and a high spirit of fairness should
emancipation propaganda. In these leaders. They ignored its mastery
them. And when a board of education charges off a day's pay because a novels and plays Jews never do any portrait of Jewish glory. They were
Jewish teacher absents herself on the Day of Atonement, that board is wrong. They haven't a single selfish wosried by its exposure of Jewish'"
bending backward. I would place such a ruling on the same plane as the desire. They live only for othe:•i. In faults, "What will the Gentiles Say?"
demand for the complete enforcement of the blue laws passed in the a word they are unreal. Their auth- they wailed. "Have not the anti-Se."
eighteenth century in face of conditions in the twentieth century.
ors write like doting mothers who can mites sufficient poisoned arrows in',
see only the merits and none of the their quivers? Must we supply them
faults of their children. These works with weapons to be used against us?"
Comes this letter from Baltimore. I think any board of education, were good and effective propaganda
Well, what did the Gentiles say?
whether in Baltimore or any other city, should be quite ashamed of itself but bad sociology and bad art. Before They said: there is honesty written all "
WOODWARD AYE
to 1441
to deduct one-half day's pay when a teacher is ill. That to my mind is Zangwill, it may he said, then, all over this book. And if we are to cred-
I
even worse than to deduct a day's pay for being absent from school twat's.- writing about Jewish character is eith- it Mr. Zangwill's statement of the
of religious holidays. Pardon me. I do grow indignant at such mean er hostile propaganda or favorable seamy side of Jewish character, we
propaganda, either vituperation or must give equal credit to his descrip-
economies. Here is the letter:
tion of Jewish virtue and idealism
panegyric.
You seemed rather surprised to learn that there was a deduction
The distinction of Zangwill lies in For the first time we have been per-
made from the salaries of Jewish teachers in Chicago, who were
the fact that he approached his task mitted to see the Jew as he really is—
absent on Jewish high holidays. You also stated that this was the
undistorted by hostile or undisguised
purely as an artist. Ile had no immed-
first of its kind. Baltimore, Md., always boasts of its Jewish con-
iate political cause to serve. When he by friendly propaganda. And we are
sciousness. It boasts of its Jewish superintendent of public schools,
began writing, the Jews of Western glad to meet him at last in his simple
Dr. David E. Weglein, and two Jewish members of the school board,
Europe, at least, were deffintely eman- status of a fello•-human with human
Mrs. Louis Levin and Theodore Strouse. Yet, despite these facts,
cipated. fiery in the voluntary ghetto weakness and human strength.
Zangwill's work really amounted to
Jewish teachers who are absent on Jewish high holidays have a full
of London he saw a human situation
day's salary deducted, whereas, these same teachers have only a
so rich in meaning that it pleaded for a new charter of liberty for the Jew
—the
liberty to be natural, the liberty
half-day's salary deducted when they are absent because of illness.
transcription in art. As an artist, he
made the simple discovery that his to drop the apologetic attitude—to be
What du you think of that?
picture would not he complete unless neither over-timid nor over-demonstr-
are one or
he painted the shadow as well as the live when in the presence of Gentiles,
I have already expressed my thoughts. The fact that there
two or a half-dozen Jewish members of a board does not in any way affect light. True to this artistic standpoint but to be just humanly at ease. Zang-
Israel Zangwill created a series of will's work was a declaration of the
the situion. I can easil understand
how
Jewish
members
of
the
board
y
at
s just such a claim, fearing the charge of undue works in which he treated the ghetto right of Jew to criticize himself. It
might b e reluctant to pres
with a frankness and honesty and was the inauguartion of a new policy
favoritism.
withal, with a profound understanding in the relation of the Jew to non-Jew
such as had never been accorded it —that the Jew shall anticipate and
before. I refer to the "Children of prevent the criticism of the non-Jew
A reader in Philadelphia sends me this:
the Ghetto," "Dreamers of the Ghet- by criticizing himself first, self-criti-
In your last issue of Random Thoughts you were justly peeved
to," "Tragedies of the Ghetto," "Com- cism being the first essential of pro-
about the prejudice displayed by some Protestants in refusing to
edies of the Ghetto," and the "King of gress.
For two reasons, then, the publica-
employ Jewish stenographers. How about sonic Jewish merchants?
Schnorrerers." No man may call his
After the ad I enclose, published by a Jewish firm, where shall a Jew-
education in Jewish history or in Eng- tion of the "Children of the Ghetto" is
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Vices and Virtues of the Ghetto.
- Here is the ad:
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The "Children of the Ghetto" caught experience, the ghetto. Second, it be-
Clerk for office work; must be experienced; Gentile preferred;
-
the Jewish world completely by sur- stowed upon the modern Jew his sec•
we have good position with rapid advancement for girl who is steady.
prise. Here for the first time since ond emancipation, his emancipation
the days of the Bible a Jewish writer from the ghetto psychology which had
The name is signed. But I will not print it in this issue. This much I
again appears in a dared to reveal to the world at large clung to hint even after the walls had
at kind of an all
the vices as well as the virtues of Jew-
will do, however; if ever th
been levelled.
newspaper and signed by the same Jews, I will plaster their name all over
ish life. All Jews were startled by the
The viewpoint from which Zangwill
the City of Philadelphia. The alibi, I know. is already in the making: exposure and many were afraid. With
wrote his books—that of the impartial
"Some subordinate did it!" They make me tired.
unpreeedented boldness he depicted artist—he clung to in all the manifold
upon his page the shadow which re- activities of his life. "The artist is of
ligion casts over the ghetto. Yes, re-
Right Away.
Yes, Rabbi Goldenson of Congregation Rodef Shalom, Pittsburgh, has ligion in some of its forms can en- all parties and none. He must stand
alone, for him union is weakness. But
accepted the suggestion made in this column that he lecture on "Sorrel and tangle and thwart life, and this it does
1150)
because he is of no party, his search
the widely read novel by Warwick Deeping, the English writer. So frequently, in the ghetto. Whenever
for truth from his lonely watch-tower
Son," of nip readers who have been inquiring will be glad to hear that this
ancient
moral
laws
are
applied
to
cir-
•
many
i, one of the most scholarly men in American
religious life, cumstances for which they were never may happily reveal that both partisan
scholarly rabb
the "Problem of Evil" in its relation to the book, on the first intended there cruelty results. I can- and antagonist miss." Again and a-
I
gain, he aroused the ire of Orthodox
will discuss
Sunday in November. Whether this lecture will be published or not
no stop here too tell you the plot of .lews, of Reform Jews and of Zionists
the story. With your own eyes you by what seent•ol destructive attacks
cannot say. We hope so.
must follow on Zangwill's page the upon their most highly cherished
process by which the saintly, kindly ideals. Again and again he lived to
Twenty thousand Jewish students out of a total of 210,000 in the
Itch Shmuel is transformed into a see his criticisms vindicated and his
American universities, so says the Jewish Daily Bulletin, which has been
harsh and heartless tyrant as he in- advice followed. His appetite for truth
making an exhaustive inquiry among the higher institutions of learnng to
vokes against his only daughter an
discover if the charges of discrimination against the Jewish students can antiquated law which shall separate led him to become the champion of
be substantiated. The result of the survey leads the Jewish Daily Bulletin her forever from the man she loves. many unpopular causes in England
critic of
to the conclusion that there is absolutely no discrimination of any kind. The dwellers of the ghetto loved their and made hint in s austere
trut-tellin pen
This is at variance with the popular belief on the subject that it is interest- religion all too well, loved it more than English polietics.
to the cause of
ing to say the least. I am not yet prepared to agree with the survey.
was good for them or it and "each gave servic woman
laor,
kills the thing he love's." (Zang- suffrage, to the cause of British Bribt
man
to
quote
this
little
verse
of
and
to
the
struggle
against
ish
War
ountry behind her will loved
when
the great d ex-
While it's true the queen hs a left rather a messy os ct backward among Oscar Wilde's. Ile believed that the imperialism. And aline,
e, unsupporte
y be classed as the m
people
of
the
ghetto
were
killing
.1u-
came
he
stood
aline,
and that Roumania may properl
a r certain Jewish news- elitism by loving it too blindly.) None cept perhaps by Bertrand Russell and
the so-called civilized nations, yet that is no excuse t
w
of the evils of the ghetto escaped his Mahatma Ghandi, first in protest
papers to criticize those. Roumanian Jews the courtesies of the oasion.
searching, trenchant pen. Pitilessly against the British alliance with czar- •
Without mentioning names, certain of our leaders have been in conference he bared to the world the extreme in- istic Russia and then, as soon as his
hollow n
on more than one occasion with "the Roumanian minister in this country. dividualism of his characters, their in- keen mind hail penetrated the
ga
thar-propanda, i c
There is no reason why they shouldn't. We can't get anywhere the
by refusing ordinate chutzpah or impudence, their pretences o
e w war itse lf. One
'titi ons i the countries continual squabbles and their inability protest against the
l pos
responsible governmen
g
believen
to meet those holdin oppressed .
to organize. Ile exposed the filth and more his fellow-lows were alarmed at
Perso nally I tadon
th e
where the Jews are , Queen
of
sorry cond ition of
the stench in which they wallowed, and him. "Do not make yourself so con-
untable for the ere
a
Roumania is to be held strictly ac
i
s he
their total lack of interest in the spicurous," they pleaded. "Remember
so
noco
re
Jews of that country.
I t long ago wh tred to do
of her country. But whether she has the power things of nature and of play. He bade you are a Jew." He reminded them
Jews
gracious act for the
is another matter. To my mind, she seems to be too busy with everything the world to look in arm the sweat- that the habit of telling the truth was
shop where Jewish employers sweated a heritage that had been bequeathed
Ana
else to be much of a factor in actually ruling her country.
the life-blood out of their Jewish work- him by the Jewish prophets.
s. Ile threw a grotesque light upon while his fellow-Jews were grieved at
Dr. Herbert Adams Gibbons, the well-known author and publicist, ther
hit th pestilence of the ghetto—the his conduct, from across the English
schnorrers and loft mensehen, the pro- Channel came to him the encouraging
u ience in Pittsybeu rgh
told a Jewish ad
e head w hen he
t w hat its
found
out
fessional beggars who supported a voice of a fellow-soul. "Dear broth-
the nail on thRussian
n'
t
have
people themselves
serve leisurely dignified life on those three er," Romaine Rolland wrote to Zang-
day
that
the
all
eading os
r r. This will
where they
sure
and are not quite
foless
es- will, "Dear brother, I stretch out my
are
hmore
o
n
statements of the
to disc
accurate
And the virtues "faith and hope and more
d . the and to you. You are the truly
about,
ount the confusing
in Russ a. "ob-
g
is goinll-ton
Ile disclose h
se
to tell us juat
ecially charit y."
n ( Russia as ire
peace
i
w
o-
lass
prejudices
by
which
the
ghetto
vernal spirit." To Zangwill the
servers"ful
n oteend
what
is
a
wi
st there
he
struck
is
th
n
most
ho
pe ho
pret and other Continental countries. But of one thing all was torn, Sephardic Jew hating the words of Rolland must have been the
Germany,
France
of us are as sure as anything in this life can be, and that is that Russia Ashkenazic Jew and the Ashkenazi(' cage of all his labor under the sun.
lew keeping aloof from the Polish For that was Zangwill's passion: to
will never again be content to yoke herself to a czarist regime.
Jew. he a Jew and thereby also a universal

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Ah, but then with equal facility, and spirit.
Profes.sor Israel Friedlander, of
with infinite tenderness, his pen began
to describe the beauty and romance of blessed memory, told me of this won-
in an earlier reading:
the ghetto. He told the world of the derfully smylo incident in Zang-
for learning which the ghet- will's life, which Zangwill himself had
The Rev. Mr. Taylor and the Rev. Mr. Dick conducted a public
reverence
w
Hi s P res-
nfided to him. It was
early in
et
n
to fostered, how the poorest of its peo- .once co
debate t Edenton on the questio
"Will te Negro Rain
Negro's color
lib- the young author's career, just after
a
b
or contented that the
pie
were
somehow
able to afford a
en t Col or In Heaven?" Mr. Tayl
eral education for their children and he had gained sonic reputation as a
will change.
how the highest rung on its social lad- writer on general non-Jewish subjects.
ides then to do what no
No wonder that religion is making such progress among the nations of ter was occupied not by the wealthiest It was his
have done—
the earth. Wouldn't it be a terrible shock for white folks to discover that but by the most scholarly. lie told of many other Jewish artists
d rdens. Ile
the live of home and wife and children to escape Judaism an its bu
the angels are colored?
which was the dominating passion of was at this time on board a steamer
its men, of the inbred temperateness for America. Ti, his dismay he found
moderation which saved them himself snubbed by all the aristcrat-
This rather interesting news-note comes to me via the Nation anent the
and
from all the forms of debauchery of is Englishmen in the first cabin. Des-
odoriferous Daugherty-Miller trial:
ohysical violence which prevailed in slate, he wandered about the deck till
the cockney slums round about. Ile he came upon a little hunchbacked old
Merton was a badly scared witness despite his mental brilliancy.
showed how deep-rooted was the idea man who also seemed to be alone. The
There were many reasons for this. Perhaps he feared Steuer's
cross-
Was not Merton
of Zedakah or mutual helpfulness hunchback gave Zangwill a friendly
examination would bring into the limelight that he
among them, so that there was no Oman greeting, and before they knew it the'
at all, but Richard Moses, son of an Orthodox Jew who
left
his
mil-
they could have
provi on t
so poor, but gave aid and hospitality two were engrossed in • literary and
ren with the strict Orthodsi
hat the
o x. As
to someone still poorer. Ile brought philosophic conversation. They dined ,
lions to his child if they remained
the money only children had
to light the ambition of the children to together that day and the next ,and
social aspirations, they transferred the millions to an incorporated
e fo
-.overcome the disadvantages suffered were in fact inseparabl r the rest
business organization, thus voiding the provisions of their father's
If the trip. Somehow they managed
by their parents and the extreme sac-
will, and then changed their name. A London Jewish paper summed
afirewhich ghetto mothers made for to get on without inquiring shout each
afire
up the
situation
thus: your name to Merton
the sake of the advancement of their "others names or other persona
"You
may change
M
from Moses, but heaven
children. He gave the world a peep tens. And Zangwill was glad of that.
noses.
knows, you can't change
behind the forbidding exteriors of thelfor the experience of being snubbed
Thetto men into the inner sanctuary of had made him timid. When the boat
write this, harry Haudini, whose real name is Weis, son of • rabbi, their souls, alive with bright dreams docked, Zangwill sought the little man
As I at the point of death. Only two or three weeks ago I received -4 social justice and radiant fancies of lot and said, "Goodbye, my friend, I
is lying
scratched suppose we shall not see each other
from him a newspaper clipping giving the account of a serious
accident
Rochester,
N. humanitarian aspiration. lie
again. I want you to know horn much
he was doing one of his tricks at
I stood with vulgarians mad discovered prophets
which happened to him as
Above
all,
he
revealed
the
potentcy
of I appreciated your company. Good-
Y. Despite a crushed foot he went bravely on doing his
job. of spiritualiats
crowd
Houdini four months ago of an excited the ghettos,
a faith which made all lye, Oh there is one thing I ought to
tell you—it's on my conscience. I real-
I . expecte d every . min
in Philadelphia, who were no wrought up that,
t But he hardship endurable, a re issionwhich
to H oodin.
ed of sweet music and love. ly should have told you before. Y ou'll
witness a serious riot accompanied by severe injuries
it
if he , had been I was c am pos
conversation
as
calmly
as
delicious
flavors
in
forgive me. Well, it's hard to say
continued his
always looked upon Houdint as some- i le colors and, yes,
way. Let me whisper it in
stood his ground and
to
high
ideals
and
profound
lust
this
home.
I
have
w!"
The
little
am a J e
i n a roo m in his own
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In thumbing over an old Mercury I came across this one that I missed

I philosophies. In contrast with the your ear. I

at great
sae . !shadow which religion cast sometimes. man smiled. "Goodbye' 'he said, "I ,
thing more than a good has deemed an evIl --, Olrlts
m. And
preyed
upon
the broken
crusa d e r aga i ns t w hat he
have
projected the light and the My suppose we shill not see each other I
rifice he has exposed innumerable fakirs who
Ilea! ones, have wanted', h e
Hear this again. I want you to know how much
said that it which
it gave constantly.
men and women who, in the agony of a great loss of
I
"Hebrew's Friday I have enjoyed your company. Gis.o4- l 1
the departed. Houdint never
description of the
message
from
was
I ought to
to
receive
some
Night" written evidently as • corn- bye, Oh, there is one thing
isn't
possible
to communicate with the departed. ii% hat he did say

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