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A Great Builder Builds For the Future

Louis Gold Turns to the Yeshiva of America.

By MAURICE A. BERGMAN

THOMAS H. EVANS

Certified Public Accountant.

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Louis Gold sits in his office at 27U be a religious Jew, has a profound
avenue, New York City, and feeling for Jewish culture and learn-
plans happiness for thousands of ing. Having attended the large
Yeshiva in Vilna, he continued his
people.
Hebrew studies when he came to
This is not a happy task. But Louis
America.
Gold has a passion for building
Our modern Jewish youth is miss-
homes. Ile is known as a pioneer.
He is reputed to have done more to ing the fine Jewish education that
solve the housing problem of greater every Jew should get. There is a
jazz tendency in the way our chil-
New York than any other person.
He speaks modestly of the fact dren receive Judaism. I believe that
that recently in the Bronx he was Judaism in this country is doomed
responsible for the development of a utiles: our children are impressed
home community. In- with its beauty and culture.
neW
"For 30 years I have devoted my-
complishment was followed by t he
erection of school buildings by the self to the problem of building homes
,• city. Ile is justly proud of this fact. [ throughout New York. I have turned
Ile believes that his business is a re- waste lands into happy communities.
I have practically built several parts
ligion, a philosophy, a panacea.
A round his office are pictures of of Brooklyn, Bronx and Long Island.
(Continued From Page Six.)
other communities he has built. Pic- Now I want to do my part in build-
tures of homes with real yards where ing a safeguard for Jewish culture
throughout
the country the next morn-
children romp and play. Pictures of and learning.
— -- ing the newspapers tarried the j
before and after he went to Long
Mr. Gold was asked what he
"President 15
headlines:
Island City and turned an ugly waste thought of the Yeshiva of America screaming
Polio, Hebrew Cement." Thanks to
area into a most pleasant home coin- as a bulwark of Judaism.
President Coolidge this aspect of
munity.
"It is my firm belief that without
becoming more
Then he remarks, after telling of ' the Yeshiva of America, Jewish ids. American history is
known. Thef acts may all be
modern factories with pleasant en- cation will become at negligible part
found
in
Lecky's
"History
of Ration-
vironment that he has built, that all of our life.
That would 1111.1111 the
these things merely mean that he is gradual extinction of Judaism in this alism in Europe " or in Oscar Strauss' .• A
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of
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meeting his obligation in life; that country. I love Judaism too much to
of Government in the United States." FA
he was merely trying to be a good neglect the opportunity of aiding
any
Jew
set
foot
on
the
soil
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Before
Jew.
this great cause. The greatest thrill
Ile seems a little tired. But there of my life will come when the cor- of North America, the soul of the Jew
was already here. When the earliest
is a fire in his eye. Ile lets you know nerstone of the Yeshiva is laid."
that he has no immediate building
Pioneer that he is, Mr. Gold sees Jewish settlers came to these shores,
plans. No, he will not retire. There in the Yeshiva a new spirit in the life they found that Judaism had preceded
are yet too many obligations. Al- of American Jewry. The rich, eau- them, brought here by non-Jews who
though most of his time is now given tiful Judaism that he knows must be found that to survive the horrors of
over to charitable and social work, brought to the youth of today. Un- nature and the fierceness of men, they
he still hopes to develop more con- fortunately, as Mr. Gold pointed out, needed Hebrew optimism, Ilebrew
munities.
Jewish learning in this country has stir f-neckedness nod Hebrew de-
mocracy.
Ilere is a real pioneer.
been greatly neglected.
Louis Gold accepted his great ob-
So when the Jew finally landed in
"We have been Lou content to let
ligation in life when he was only five the rabbis and teachers acquire our America, he did not feel himself a
years old.
Jewish knowledge for us. Our laity stranger here as he was made to feel
It was an obligation that he has in the next generation will lack the in other places. fie sensed that he
never shirked and never will. It is a education to produce leaders. With- was coming into his own. Ile (lid not
sacred duty that he will perform for out leaders we are lost. We would need to plead for his rights and his
recognition. His rights and his recog-
- the rest of his life.
disintegrate.
Like the story of ninny of our
"Jews whether Reform or Ortho- nition were here all the time waiting
prominent men, the history of Louis dux should awaken to the great pur- fur him to come and claim them. The
Gold begins in the ghettos of Eastern pose that our Yeshiva will serve. Jew was American long before he ar-
Europe—Koshadere to be exact. It They should attend the cornerstone rived in America.
Now all Jews may know for a fact
was here that he was born. It was laying to fully appreciate the magni-
here that he suffered with other , tudt:, and significance of the Yesh- what ninny Jews have long felt as a
Jews. It was here that he had hopes
conviction, that Jewish education is an
and dreams. It was in Koshadere "' Besides being one of the large con- education in the original sources of
that he met the great Jewish sage, tributors to the Yeshiva College American institutions. When your
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan. And it was Building Fund, Mr. Gold is an active child reads the stories of the Bible, he
in this meeting that the life drama of worker and is spreading Its gospel. is reading the facts of American his-
Louis Gold began.
He is a director of the Yeshiva and tory, and when he studies the laws of
The great rabbi had come to Kosh- is now chairman of the organization Moses and the visions of the prophets,
he is studying the essential ideals of
adere on a joyous mission. His sec- committee.
ond marriage was consummated in
The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo- the American people. Yes, when your
the Gold home.
logical Seminary, which has been child learns to read Hebrew, he is
When the time came for the fam- located on the lower East Side for learning the tongue in which the
ous rabbi to leave he placed his hands 40 years, will find a new home, be- Fathers of America, as well as the
upon the head of Louis Gold and fitting its name, when the new Patriarchs of Israel, found their su-
said: Yeshiva is completed. The Yeshiva preme inspirations. .Jewish education
to keep fresh and clean and
"My boy, be a good Jew and what- of America will accommodate 5,000
ever else you do in life will be all students in its various departments sparkling the fountainhead of Amer-
right."
and will comprise eight buildings ican progress.
The Thanksgiving season is here.
The little boy looked into the eyes designed in the architectural style of
Let us give thanks for America. Let
of the great sage and replied: "Yes, the early Hebrew period.
rabbi, I will try."
The first group of three buildings us give thanks that the Jew has been
The sacredness of this blessing _the academy, dormitory and audi- privileged to serve America not only
made a profound impression on the torium—is now being rushed to cons- with the skill of his hand and the
keeness of his brain, but also, and
boy. Ile sensed for the first time,
from the impressive act of the great pletion. When the cornerstone lay- more especially, with the fire of his
rabbi, that Judaism is an obligation. ing for these buildings takes place, soul. Although the sesquicentennial
Today at the age of 52 Louis Gold a new festive day in the history of
American Israel will have been re- rear is almost at an end, it is not too
late to pronounce over it the ancient
' is not only known as a good Jew , but
I as America's greatest home-builder. corded.
Thousands of people will attend festival benediction: "Sheherheyanu."
He tells you that he has built thous- the ceremonies. They will be happy Praised be Thou 0 Lord Our God,
lands of homes throughout New York and Louis Gold, America's greatest Father of the Universe, that thou has
and New Jersey. He tells you this builder, will get the biggest thrill of kept us alive to see this glorious oc-
casion, the one hundred fiftieth an-
nonchalantly. But when he tells you his life.
niversary of the day when the Liberty
I about the many Jewish causes he has
Bell announced to America and to n
aided and sponsored, he speaks ser-
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE the world the emancipating message
iously; he still feels his great obli-
of the shofar.
gation. Great builder that he is, he
Life properly viewed is an oppor-
believes that his greatest building is
yet to be done. And that is his part tunity. Reaction to life is what we
The hungry man has only bread I
in building the Yeshiva of America, call experience. Reaction is constant,
usly r unconsciously, while we on his mind.
which will be a glorious monument co nscio o
We
to the memory of Rabbi Isaac Elch- sleep, while we wake, as long as
If every one gives a kopeck, the
anan, whose blessing has influenced are alive. Reaction may extensively poor will have a rouble.
Louis Gold since he was a boy of five. be determined by our prevision and
America's greatest home-builder
arrived in this country at the age of ,
12.
He secured employment as an
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apprentice clerk in a Brooklyn drug
store. Seven years later he originat-
ed and because manager of the in-
dustrial insurance department of the
Union Casualty and Surety Com-
pany, the first insurance company tot
offer liberal health policies. Louis I
Gold has been a pioneer ever since.!
Brooklyn at that time was just be-
ginning to expand.
"Before I was 21, I made my first
real estate deal in Brooklyn," Mr.
Gold stated in speaking of his ex-
perience as a pioneer builder. "Be.
ing under age, I had a guardian ap-
pointed for my first transaction. I
bought five lists near what was then
considered the outskirts of Brooklyn.
I paid $500 for these lists. Today
this price could not buy half of any-
one of them.
"By this time I had a very re-
sponsible position with the New York
Underwriting Agency, a subsidiary of
the Hartford Insurance C(smpany.,
But my great ambition was to become'
I had natural ability' s
a builder.
Even today II
along these lines.
supervise all of my own building."
Since his first real estate transac-
tion Mr. GoIll has built over 9,0001
homes in Brooklyn, Long Island and
other parts of Greater New York and
environs.
"My building policy was to provide
decent homes for people of small in-
comes. The congestion of New York
life in many sections made living an
undeserving hardship. I bought and
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improved vast areas of waste land in
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Brooklyn. By this means, I was able
to build homes for poorer people."
His name is now synonymous with
building. In 1924, his building oper-
ations totalled over $30,000,000. In
Brooklyn alone he has erected more
than 6,000 homes.
his material progress did not mean
that he was neglecting his interest in
Judaism. Since 1900 he has been a
leader in philanthropic and religious
movements, For 17 years he has
been a director of the Brooklyn He-
'll brew Orphan Asylum. Ile is said
1 to have given more money to Brook-
lyn Jewish charities than any other
person. For over 20 years he his
been a leader in the Brooklyn Y. M.
II. A. In 1924 he founded a sum-
mer camp for poor children in the
Jersey mountains.
"When I was blessed by Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan, I was not told to be
a religious Jew. I was told to be a
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good Jew. I think that I have so
far fulfilled that blessing. In all my
business experience, I have never
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been in court. I have never held a
man to a bargain that he is financial.
ly unable to carry out. I have al-
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tract and even return a deposit when
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unwilling
to
live
up
to
his
was
a man
side of the deal."
I Mr. Gold, who does not pretend to

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training.
In his stimulating book on "Educa-
lion and the Good Life" Bertrand Rus- I A
sell says wisely, that "to make men ,
and women capable of learning from ,
experience should be one of the aimx I
which early education sh(sul•1 keel
prominently in view."
Russell does well to call attention A
to the need of so directing education •
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experience. The individual who sue-
(seeds in establishing what our right ,r
reactions should be and how training
may bring them about will be without
superior in the record of the world's
seers and conservators of society.
Mr. Russell has rendered another
great social service in calling attention
t a the creative possibilities of educa-
tion and to our implied duty.--The
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