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Again Yiddish and Hebrew.
ableness and moderation intervened between the time
The opening of the Yiddish Art Theater in New the immigration law was passed and the registration bill
York, and the arrival of the Ilabima Players are too was introduced. Ilad the proponents of restriction in-
events of significance to those Jews in America who are troduced both bills simultaneously during the period of
concerned about the perpetuation of Yiddish and the passionate anti-alienism they would have passed. This
renascence of Hebrew.
would have been little short of a catastrophe. The same
The Yiddish Hebrew controversy which became adamant attitude would be taken by the restrictionists
heated and acrimonious when Chaim Nachman Bialik ill this matter as has been taken by them on prohibition
visited here bids fair to be re-opened. but whatever they modification. Luckily we escaped alien registration
may say on both sides, the building and dedicating of with all that it connotes, but the changed attitude of
a modern, magnificent theater to Yiddish drama is a Secretary Davis proves that even Secretaries of Labor
beautiful gesture in view of the dolorous predictions are amenable to reason and subject to popular influ-
made concerning the moribund state of Yiddish. Mau- ence.
When Mr. Davis thought that the country was solid-
'0 rice Schwartz has ambitious plans for the Yiddish
drama and is apparently untouched by the prophets of ly behind him in these mediaeval measures, he was a
woe who are quite convinced that Yiddish will not live rather articulate champion of exclusion and registra-
beyond the half-century mark. And, in fact, why should tion, but now that the forces of obscurantism and
he not be? Why should an artist in the full bloom mediaevalism are not so vociferous, and the liberal,
of his creative powers be concerned as to what may moderate and modern elements have raised their voices
yn
happen in 20 years to a language which is his present high enough to be heard, he forthwith changes his
metier. He will have left his impress upon the drama policy.
by that time. Whatever estimates may be placed upon
This is as it should be, for in democracy the Ns ill of
his work will be just as enduring whether the language the people should be carried out by the elected and ap-
is virile and universally spoken, or if it has passed on pointed servants of the people.
and joined the innumerable tongues that once flour-
We are slowly returning to sanity in racial and na-
ished. The actors on the Yiddish stage today are as tional matters and the latest report of Secretary Davis
intensely interested and passionately fond of the idiom is another bit of evidence showing the drift.
which they employ as are the actors of any other stage,
and what is more the performances in many instances
•
Are You a Pogromist?
surpass those of the American stage. This is achieve-
ment enough, and, therefore, why bother with the dour
Despite the fact that czarism has been dead for
prognostications of undertakers and embalmers of lan- more than eight years, yet the believers in the divine
guage.
right of kings who lived luxuriously in the old Russia
Yiddish is a living, affluent language today. Mil- and who live with much the same pomp and splendor
lions speak it and express themselves as adequately and in Paris and Berlin, are hopeful of a return to their
authentically as those who may speak a language which former positions of rulership with the overthrow of
shows no signs of dissolution.
Bolshevism.
Drama, song, fiction, poetry, science and philosophy,
These dark reactionaries, parasites and pogromists
are written in this ubiquitous tongue. It is the medium carry on propaganda against the Jews who have been
for the creative artist as well as the translator. Men settled on the lands as well as those shipwrecked thou-
and women express all their moods and emotions with sands who belong to the lowest categories in Russian
it. Love, war, peace, labor and every other human ac- life. The cry of kill the Jews and save Russia has be-
tivity can be fully described by means of this authentic come ominous and familiar to the Jews of Paris and
instrument. Then why worry that the morrow may put Berlin, and more than once have they experienced the
throud upon it and give it either a regal or beggars brutalities of the Russian Black Hundred.
funeral, if today it has all the robustness and lustiness
It is one thing to carry on anti-Semitic propaganda
of a young giant.
in Paris and another thing to provoke pogroms in Rus-
The Yiddish literati poets, dramatists, and journal- sia. It is fatuous to believe that there is no nationalist
ists are certainly doing their share in perpetuating the spirit in Soviet Russia. There have been too many evi-
tongue. They have produced without any thought of dences of this fact of recent date for any objective ob-
the possible catastrophe which may eventuate.
server to deny its existence. But while there is the na-
The other event that evoked these mixed feelings tionalistic spirit and which, if anything, is growing
as to Yiddish is the arrival of the Habima Players from stronger and deeper, yet there is an aversion and dis-
Moscow. The renascence of Hebrew is from our point trust of czarism and all that it connotes that it seems
of view a task far more difficult and stubborn than the unlikely that the emigre pogromists can accomplish
perpetuation of Yiddish.
anything with the peasantry.
As to the artistic competence of the Ilabima Players,
Aside from the inherent difficulties due to the sus-
we are willing to accept the critical judgments of those
competent men and women who praise them unreserv- picion of Russia toward anything which even remotely
edly, but there is a fact which obtrudes itself, which resembles czarism, there are other facts which make
touches the very core of the matter, and that is that the for security and tranquillity for Russian Jewry, and this
whole repertory of plays there is not a single one writ- we maintain in the face of the fact that there have been
ten originally in the Hebrew. They are translations anti-Semitic expressions and manifestations because of
the Crimean settlement.
from the Yiddish, German and the English. The "Dyb-
Two recent movements of equai significance are
buk," "Jacob's Dream," The Eternal Jew," may be
done with rare artistry and conviction by the Habima making for the removal of any possibility of a recru-
Players, but nobody can contend that a translation is descence anti-Semitism and pogroms. The settlement
quite as authentic as an original piece of writing. If all of the Jews on the land, making them useful productive
the plays done by the Moscow players were translated citizens, and the loss of political prestige by the origi-
from other languages into the Russian, or if the Yiddish nal revolutionary leaders. It may be a piece of ghet-
Art Theater and Vilna Troupe produced plays trans- toism to view the loss of political leadership by Jews
lated into the Yiddish from other languages, one could as a possible blessing, but with the present drift toward
hardly refrain from saying that the whole affair was peasant nationalism it is much better for the health
an artificial enterprise with its roots in the air and not and safety of Russian Jewry that not too many hold
in the earth. Were the Yiddish drama based upon such conspicuous positions. If Trotzky, Kameneff and Zino-
a precarious foundation, and were the cords which vieff had adjusted their revolutionary views to the
bound the whole thing so slender as it is in the case of changed conditions, then conspicuous positions would
;Ca
the Habima Players and Hebrew, we would indeed be have involved no hazards for the Jews, but inasmuch
very despondent about its immediate future. Had some as they belonged to the opposition and were actual in-
dramatist written a play comparable to "The Dybbuk," transgients it may yet be a happy fact in Russian life
"Schwer Zu Sein A Yid," "Die Nevaleh," "Der Gott that they have been relegated to obscurity.
Von Nekomeh," or "Gott Mench Und Teifel," then
The positive factor which will make pogroms im-
there would be a logical reason for Hebrew drama, and possible, however, is the settlement of the Jews on the
not a purely adventitious and artificial one.
land, the making over of luftmenchen into farmers, ar-
Even though the Habima Players prove to be a phe- tisans, craftsmen and factory workers. It is fortunate
nomenal success, it will not make Hebrew either a virile that despite all changes in the domestic and foreign pol-
or authentic language. Only when the creative artist icies of the Soviets, they have not discriminated against
employs It in drama, fiction, song and verse will it be- any people because of race or religion. The Jews of
come such. The recreation of Hebrew is no mean un- Russia are not specially favored, but due to the inequi-
dertaking. The Ilebraists believe that the soil of Pal- ties and economic artificialties imposed upon the Jew's
estine will bring forth the wished for product. We are for centuries, they had to be treated differently from
not so sanguine, but despite our lack of faith, we are the other groups which may belong to the Soviet Union.
willing to be shown.
Even the most stubborn and ignorant peasant can
be made to see the justice of giving land to the land-
less Jew when that landless Jew becomes a kindly.
A Secretary Changes His Mind.
helpful neighbor who is seeking to make the lot of all
In 1924 Secretary of Labor Davis was among the happier. Just this has been happening in Russia, if we
Nordic restrictionists, but in 1926 we find a marked are to believe that whole group of investigate . who
change in his attitude toward these questions. He favors have witnessed the renaissance of a people on the • oil.
Those who do anything to obstruct the colonization
the entrance of certain relatives as non-quota immi-
grants, and he has abandoned the idea of registration are unwittingly joining hands with the emigre poirrom-
of all aliens who have entered illegally, but who have ists and black hundreds. A solidly rooted prodtictive
the necessary qualifications, to remain here unmolested. Russian Jewry is the best insurance against anti-l) m;
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settlement
scheme
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envisaged
at
the
time
the alien registration idea as we are over the Wads-
12, of
worthbill. The picture of a country of spies and snoop- the J. D. C. decided to re-organize and to cant. on .
ers promised by the registration act was not at all al- The best plan for Jewry to pursue is a continuatit m of
luring. We cannot forget the days of draft registration liquidation of the luftmench, no matter what po 'tical
and the espionage laws. The memory of them is too and economic changes may be made.

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By Milton M. Scheyer.

Lewis Browne was educated for the
rabbinic pulpit, he has developed into
an author commanding a national
audince. His latest book, "This Be-
lieving World" is written in a man-
ner that not only arouses but main-
tains the reader's interest. The ordi-
nary work on comparative religion is
"dry as dust." Any person of any
religious belief having the impression
that his own particular group is the
center eef all religious inspiration will
experience a rude awakening also a
healthy one when reading this book.
Ignorance is the reason of intoler-
ance. There is no need to throw stones
at ourselves but a judicial, impartial
study of the facts may broaden our
minds and permit us to see things as
they are, nut as we would wish them
to he.

"So you want to nurry Alice, do
you?" asked the girl's father of the
young man of her choke.
"Very much indeed," replied the
youth.
"('an you support a (Lindy?"
The young man reflected a moment,
and then asked, "how ninny arc there
of you, sir?"
The courageous optimism of this
young man almost equals that of the
Jews, who for thousands of years have
keen carrying the banner of leader-
ship for all humanity. In numbers
we amount to between 2 and 3 per cent
of the population. We slip, stagger,
stumble and fall, yet raise up again
and assume the lead. Justice, tolera-
tion and truth are the virtues it is
essential man should practice if hu-
manity is ever to en;ov a "true broth-
erhood of man." This our leaders
preach but every Jew has not learned
that he too must carry his part of the
load.

Ordinarily we are a people who will
pay well for value reveived. When
it comes to supporting the Jewish
newspaper in our community, gener-
ally speaking, we suffer front cold
feet. We furnish it with materail,
that is, where we are going, whom we
entertained, our bridge and mah-jong,
club notes, etc. Sonia of us get real
excited if our items are not played
up. Some of us get excited if the man-
agement asks for our $1 or $2 for the
year's subscription, and as for adver-
tising, which is the life blood of any
publication, our prominent merchants,
again generally speaking, cannot see
the Jewish press at all. Yet is is one
of our best communal agencies.
Strange, isn't it? By the way, how
about you, personally?

Whether one is a Zionist or not, one
must be interested in Dr. Pritchett's
statement that the movement is
doomed to failure. The Carnegie in-
stitute's representative spent all of 10
(lays investigating this matter and
then pronounced a judgment.
Scores, if not hundreds, of men, let
as modestly say, almost as able as Dr.
Pritchett, have spent months, perhaps
years, investigating, probing, study-
ing, analyzing the possibilities of Pal-
estine and the probability of making
the colonization movement a success.
They have staked their time, money,
credit and reputation in this nation
building project. I believe an ardent
Zionist could invite an argument with
the doctor and accumulate enough
data showing the successful begin-
nings of the movement to embarass
him.

All down the ages the Jew has
been misunderstood and probably
will continue to be. Still it is our
duty to hold the light and tell the
world we hold it. I know of no one
who has more forcefully delivered
our message than did Rebecca in Sir
Walter Scott's immortal novel, "Ivan-
hoe." When Ivanhoe wanted to re-
pay her in gold for services rendered,
she asked for another kind of pay-
ment. When asked what that was,
she replied: "I will but pray of thee
to believe henceforward that a Jew
may do good service to a Christian,
without desiring other guerdon than
the blessing of the Great Father, who
made both Jew and Gentile."
To appreciate how well off we arc
now-a-days, spend a most delightful
evening with this book. It's worth a
400-hand in pinochle.

"Actions speak louder than words."
Old copy-book stuff, which phrase is
respectfully referred to Queen Marie
of Roumania. You will recall how,
on her recent visit to America, the
queen stated publicly to the Jews of
America that Ferdinand and herself
regarded highly those Jews who lived
in Roumania. Of course they, as in-
dividuals, may, but many of their
subjects do not share their opinion,
judging from the unhappy telegrams
emanating from that country. Most
people in America will believe that
the people by their actions reflect the
actual feelings of the rulers.
It is not possible, is it, that Queen
Marie was only talking for publica-
tion, or, as the boys say, "she had
her fingers crossed."

"The dining room and the library,"
says James F. Willis, "are the two
most essential rooms in every home;
the one provides work stuff for the
body, the other provides work stuff
for the soul. Perhaps we should all
be healthier and happier and longer-
lived for less dining room and more
library. There's many a fat paunch
with a lean head and heart and char-
acter service for others."
True enough, but in our ambition
to help the world along we must be
practical and patient. Everyone is
not qualified to be a student, nor
have we all learned to control our
appetites. General conditions are
better than they were. More people
give money and service to the under-
privileged than ever did before. More
of those termed "the poorer classes"
struggle, fight for and win leader-
ship in our ranks than ever did be-
fore. More Jews recognize their re-
sponsibilities and do their part than
ever did before. It's a pretty good
world. Let's not all be pessimists.

Do not eat cherries with the boy-
ards; they will throw the stones at
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Sermon delivered by Rabbi Leon From at Temple Beth El on Dec. 25, 1926.

In one of his moods of disappoint-
ment and depression the poet Heine
sings a melancholy yet melodious
song about a pine tree in the north-
land who yearns all in vain for a
palm tree of the southland.

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A pine tree .tondo
lonelt
In the north where the high winds blow.
Ile sleeps, and the whitest Hanker
Wraps him in ice and snow.
Ile dreams—dreams of a pair tree,
•lhat far in Orient land
Languishes, lonely and drooping,
Upon the burning sand.

Be they ever so fascinated by one
another, the pine tree and the palm
can never unite.
While the poet's
main theme is the tragedy of thwart-
ed love, his imagery of snow-land
and sand-land has also been taken to
indicate that an irrevocable fate sun-
ders the people of the North and
West from the people of the South
and East. Rudyard Kipling expressed
a similar judgment in his famous
verse:

0 East is East and Went it Went.
And never the twain shall meet,
ill doom has swept the whirling world
Beneath Cod's Judgment teat.

It has become extremely popular
this notion that the people of the
Orient are fundamentally different
from the people of the Occident, that
the two cannot understand one an-
other and cannot learn anything
from one another. The idea has be-
come as prevalent in Asia as it is in
Europe and America. Like so many
other popular notions, it has not the
slightest basis in reality. It is con-
tradicted both by the facts of current
life and by the records of history.
Perhaps the most obvious refutation
of the prejudice that Asia and Eu-
rope can never meet lies in the holi-
day which the world about us is cele-
brating today—the Christmas festi-
val. Ilere is an institution in whim
the supposedly irreconcilable ex-
tremes meet and blend—the pine and
the warn, the snow-land and the sand-
land, the wise men of the East and
the strong men of the West. The
outer forms and symbols of the holi-
day are of the North and West—the
evergreen tree, the holly, the yule
log. the mistletoe, the legend of Kris
Kringle and the reindeer—these all
are of the Occident, the land where
the sun sets. But the inner meaning
of the holiday, its teaching of peace
and goodwill, its adoration of that
pure and generous life which bore
the name of Jesus, its good news of
the coming of the universal dominion
of love—all this conies from the
Orient, the land where the sun rises.
Chanukah and Christmas.

At about the sante period of the
year that Christians celebrate Christ-
mas, that Oriental people, the Jews,
celebrate Chanukah. Chanukah and
Christmas are more closely related
than most people realize. Chanukah
celebrates the determination of a
small group of Jews not to permit
the culture of the East to be com-
pletely' overwhelmed by the culture
of the West. When Alexander the
Great crossed into Asia from Europe,
he brought with him all the arts and
manners of Greek life, and these
Proved so attractive that in a few
years all Asia became Greek. In a
word, East became West. Thus an-
cient history contributes to the con-
futation of a popular notion. The
Jews alone, of all the Asiatic peo-
ples, refused to yield to the charm
of Greece, not because they did not
appreciate her beauties, but because
they felt that they had something to
give to Greece. They would trade
with the Greeks, but would not sur-
render. The Christian religion is one
of the products of this exchange of
ideas between Greeks and Jews. If
that tiny band of Maccabeans whose
heroism Chanukah commemorates
had not succeeded in resisting the
Greek conqueror, the Jewish people
would have disappeared as an entity,
as did the l'hoenician, Syrian, Egyp-
tian, Babylonian and Assyrian peo-
ples. It would have become lost like
a drop in the ocean of Greek civiliza-
tion. And without a Jewish people
there would have been no Jesus, no
Christianity, and therefore no Christ-
mas. Christmas, we might say, is a
gift bestowed upon the world by
Chanukah. The Christmas candles
have received their flame from the
Chanukah lights. Through Christian-
ity, the culture of an Asiatic country,
Palestine, was adopted by all of Eu-
rope. Thus, again to the embarrass-
ment of that popular notion, Kip-
ling's verse, West became East.
So it comes about that the celebra-
tion of Christmas going on about us
transfers all Europe and America
into the atmosphere of the Orient.
In all the cities of the West men and
women look adoringly toward that
far-off Eastern town of Bethlehem,
and all the blue-eyed, blond-haired,
light - complexioned, smooth - shaven
men of Europe whisper worshipfully
the name of a man who was dark-
eyed, black-haired, brown-complex-
ioned and bearded. Not only at this
season, but whenever the men of
these temperate zones are moved to
think in terms of ideals and aspira-
tions, then they breathe the tropic
fragrance of Palestine and speak its
language. Wherever men gather to
speak of brotherly love, there blooms
the rose of Sharon; wherever men
gather to purify their souls in prayer,
there flows the River Jordan; wher-
ever men gather to speak of world-
peace, there rise the gentle slopes of
the Mount of Olives.
Somehow out of the West came
no inspiring teacher to capture the
souls of men. All religion comes
from Asia. Greece and Rome culti-
vated beauty and law, but had to im-
port their religion from across the
Hellespont. Europe and America
have accomplished wonders with
science and mechanics—the means of
life—but still look back to Palestine
for religion and ethics—the ends of
life. So subtly and no utterly were
the peoples of Europe pervaded by
the Oriental spirit that they found
comfort in Jewish Psalms, even while
they hated the Jew, and their paint-
ers, sculptors and musicians produced
their greatest work on the theme of
the Messiah even while they perse-
cuted the people of the Messiah.
Asia Specialises in Dreams.
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the conclusion that the children of
the East are peculiarly fitted whether
by blood or by climatic conditions to
create and develop religious ideas,
while the children of the West are
peculiarly equipped by nature with
capacity for science and engineering.
But this would be a careless general-
izat.on. No part of mankind has a
natural monopoly of any of the ca-
paceies of man. Easterners have
made great scientists and Western-
ers have made great saints. Religion,
in its most advanced as well as in its
most primitive forms, is made up of
very 'triple stuff—made out of the
wishes and dreams that are common
to all men everywhere, in all climates
and in all situations. Men leave the
shelter of their homes to find the
world outside full of dangers, full of
powers Indifferent to them or even
hostile, and they yearn for a world
which ehall be secure as a home and
protected by a strong and loving Fa-
ther—and out of this longing, wheth-
er diml or luckily, comes the faith
in God. Men leave the devoted fam-
ily circle and go out to face is world
full of stringers who are fierce and
predatory and they long for ft world
of men which shall be like a family,
and out of this wish is created the
belief in human brotherhood. Out of
the love a tfe and the fear of death
POWs the credo of immortality and
out of the Pend of our disappoint-
ment in thd men we know and our
aspirations for the future of man
conies the awaiting of the Messiah.
These needs and hopes and wishes and
dreams behalf; to all men alike. The
most that can be said for Palestine
is that while all men felt these things
vaguely and expressed them awk-
wardly, the people of Palestine spe-
cialized in visions and expressed them
so vividly that all other men upon
hearing the voice of Jerusalem have
responded. 'Ms is just what I al-
ways thought tut never quite said.
Palestine Will led by circumstances
of history which are too involved to
state at this tine to specialize in the
dreams which satisfy men's hearts
and the ideals which challenge their
souls. Its prophets and teachers
would undoubtedly be regarded, were
they living today, as psychically ab-
normal, for they got imagination arid
reality all mixed up, and they lived
in the world of fancies more than in
the world of actuality. But this is
only to say that alt specialists are ab-
normal. So extravagant are the
dreams of Palestine that even those
that revere them most seem to have
little capacity for realizing them. The
best illustration of this we will find
in our newspapers on Christmas
morning. Their senors overflow with
adoration of Him who said, "If any-
one smite thee PI thy right cheek,
turn to him the oiler also," but they
will pounce ferocioisly upon any citi-
zen who advocated disarmament. It
seems that ideals have their value
even if they are not immediately and
completely acted, up2i, The visions
that came out of Ast took the rough
savages of Europe and refined them,
taught them charity and pity, gave
them a conscience., endowed them
with undying soul: ,rd directed their
thoughts in the chai.rid s of morality.
If Europe just now presents a sail
burlesque upon the teachings of the
child it worships, let us not be de-
spondent. As long as men acknowl-
edge ideals, there is lope that some
day they will take the seriously.
Europe and the ler East.
We have thus far spoken of the
Wise Men of what night be called
the Near East. The evidence that
the West is Near East • SO complete
that few men dare to challenge it
once it is presented. The case is
different, however, with the Far East.
Until recent times very few Euro-
peans other than soldiers and sailors
came into contact with the Far East.
Kipling's verse refers especially to
the For East and reflects, the attitude
of the conqueror. (Kiptng has been
called "the nursemaid imperial-
ism."' It means that de people of
the Far East are regarded not merely
as different, but eniphatrally as in-
feriors and that their oenquest by
the European is looked upon as a
necessary though painful duty, "the
white man's burden." As for their a„
alleged inferiority, it is only neces-
sary to recall that there were well-
established civilizations In India and
China at a time when Farepe was a
confusion of wild nomad tribes, and
as for their being different in any
fundamental sense, it is only neces-
sary to observe that in our own day
a Far Eastern Country, Japa n , has
successfully adopted European civil-
ization. That Oriental languor, su-
perinduced by a warm climate, which
Was supposed to characteriz e the Far
Easterners and render then unfit for
competition with the speedy Euro-
peans and Americans has been shown
to be no serious handicap. Within
comparatively brief period of time
we have seen Japan become an in-
dustrial power, we have seen her de-
feata great European power in a war
waged with the most modern weap-
ons, we have seen her build tkyscrap-
era and import Americanjazz and
movie thrillers. On the whole, Japan
has become more occidental than the
occidentals. The Far East is also
West.
And, surprising as it may sound,
there are not a few definite Indica-
tions that the West will also become
Far East. There portents are, first,
that out of the For East have come
tome trenchant criticisms of our
Western ways of life that have
shocked us of our vaunted superior-
ity. Second, the Far East has ac-
tually sent missionaries to our shores
to teach us a better way of lift than
we now are living. Europa and
America, who have piously been mis-
sionizing Asia, are now in turn being
evangelized by the Asiatics.
I remember reading • Ion/ time
ago that it was the Chinese who first
invented gunpowder, but that all they
used it for was to make fireworks.
I remember how funny I thought
that was—to take such a valuable
thing as gunpowder and waste it on
mere playthings. I was a thorough
Westerner then. Now, having seen
what Europe does with gunpowder, I
am ready to believe with the Celes-
tials that you put • thing to its 4h.

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