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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
PERMIT EINSTEIN'S AID
TO WORK IN RUSSIA
and hopes that other great scholars
will follow his example.
A wise man can learn from a fool.
MOSCOW (J. T. A.)—Dr. Grauner,
an assistant of Prof. Albert Einstein,
has received the permision of the Sov-
Ever the great storm comes at
iet government to work in the intitu- harvest time.
tion of higher learning in Soviet Rus-
sia. This permission was granted in
A hungry belly has no ears.
reply to a request directed by Profes-
sor Einstein to I.unatcharsky, Soviet
To a good cat a good rat.
minister of effiu•ation.
Replying to Dr. Einstein's letter,
A man is no happier than he thinks
Lunateharsky declared that he wel- himself.
•omes his desire to co-operate with the
Soviet institutions of higher learning
Ile goes best who goes gently.
Recollections of Israel Zangwill
By JACOB DE HAAS
(Copyright, 1920, by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate,)
Editor's Note:—There is hardly any I me more qualified to write
intimate recollections on Israel Zangwill than Jacob &Haas, the
eminent journalist and veteran Jewish leader, who was his dose
personal friend from his very early youth. In this article, De Haas
reveals many new aspects of the young Zangwill. The future biog-
rapher of the brilliant British-Jewish Imhor will have to conic to
this article for many hitherto unknown facts. Jacob de Haas has
pictured the man in 'Zangwill and has thrown light upon incidents
which give an entirely new aspect to the history of the dead writer
and leader.)
Zangwill, the whimsical, has passed
not Many,
though they are sincere, for though he
drew crowds, Israel Zangwill attracted
few people in a personal way. He
had the bitter acid wit which is Jew-
ish, a gift for that slightly grotesque
which also marked Disraeli, and he
Was clever. Ile was the first Russo-
Polish Jew to rise ta prominence in
the English-speaking world, and he
held his own with remarkable suc-
cess for many years. Ile understood
the ,newish milieu and described it an
well that he was for a time likened to
Dickens, but as a novelist, it is un-
likely that any but a few of his specif•-
iou Jewish stories will survive. His
sheer brilliancy of paradox and witty
retort held his stories and plays to-
geth er, for had no gift for narra-
tive and none of his plays present
dramatic surprise. His name will live
longest among Jews as hoist leader
and nationalist, however.
00. II is mourners are
JEWISH OLD FOLKS HOME
Financial Statements as Prepared by
ISENBERG, PURDY & COMPANY
Certified Public Accountants.
BALANCE SHEET AS OF DEC. 31, 1926
ASSETS-
C..h on handand in banks
Land and Building, 318 Edmund Place--
Original cost
$42,500.00
Improvements—Original cost of improvements on two
building, such as reniodding and equipment of
buildings
......
. ............
13,797.30
341.42
life. Sometime in the nineties he went
to Jerusalem, to die there.
Joining a fellow student, Louis Co-
hen, whin afterwards adopted the name
of Lesser Columbus, Israel 'Zangwill
continued his studies and bet•aine
teacher at Jew's Free School. To-
gether they wrote a satirical story and
published it anonymously. Zangwill
did the writing, or at least Cohen was
caught pasting the notices of it. The
nlbninistration of the school were held
all to ridicule in the story and their
annoyance took the form of dismiss-
ing the two teachers. Zangwill con-
tinued to write., Cohen found his way
to the Stock Exchange.
J. N. F. TO CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY MARCH 20
DETROIT LIFE WRITES $1,000,000
FIRST 10 DAYS OF FISHMAN MONTH
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Jewish National Fund will be cele-
brated by the Jew's of Detroit at the'
By HOMER LUCK,
Assistant to President of Detroit Life Insurance Company.
"In the first 10 days of March, 1027, particularly interested in
e:,••
the agents of the Detroit Life Insur- paign. Naturally, in our own ori:n,
zation,
we
are
proud
of
his
sin.,
ance Company wrote in excess of
and of the success of his agents.
$1,000,000 worth of new business," is a very creditable .
thing for •
according to Homer (luck, assistant company to have suet' a mobil.,
to the president of that company.
known agency as the Fishman iiet• . ,
11 ith this start, it looks as if the and the program originated by Pi. -
goal net on 3Iarch 1, of $3,500,000 of Went O'Brien, to observe the fifteenth
new business,unight be reached," con- year of Mr. Fishman's activity With
tinued Mr. Guck. "Never in the his- our company, by making it a record.
tory of the insurance business, has breaker in production, in going for.
Oct much interest been shown relative ward by leaps and bounds. Last year,
to any aggressive sales campaign. in the Fishman month campaign, tiler •
From all parts of the State of Mich- was unusual interest aroused by the
igan, Vice-President Morris Fishman contest between the two teams iftgan ,
is receiving evidences of his popular- ized within the Fishman agency. 'Phis
ity. These, of course, are coming main- year, one of the teams, is captaihed
ly from the agents of the Detroit Life Louis Norma who is the In, in
Insurance Company, but it is a great Life's first $1,000,011u producer, and
pleasure to all of as to observe the the other by Simon Reuben, who per-
friendly interest taken by other life sonally is conducting a campaign to
insurance men throughout Nlichigan, write the largest number of applica-
and throughout the country as a whole. tions ever written in a single month
Two of the national life insurance by any life insurance agent."
journals have sent editorial represen-
"We realize, of course, that it is go-
MRS. MAX WEKSLER
t olives to follow the course of the cam- ing to require continuous and persis-
paign and to secure as many details tent effort by all of these agents each
Arena Gardens int Sunday, March 20. as possible relative to the program as day, from now until the first of April,
, An elaborate program has been ar- I we :u•e care}ring it
if the goal set, of $3,500,000, is reached
ranged anl will be continuous from
coast,
t"
,:f3Irr(.
".n 1. Fishman's but I feel sure that with the start al-
• •
isa 'amid friends here in Detroit, and ready attained, of a • $1,000,000 of new
Noted speakers have been engaged, he numbers them by the thousands, are business, that may Inc hoped for.
concert music will be rendered, pu-
pits of the United Hebrew Schools
will entertain and dancing to the
strains of Jean Goldkette's Orchestra
will be enjoyed from 9 o'clock on.
Refreshments will be served and all
who attend are assured a day of real '
enjoyment.
The Mizrachi, Hashachar and Zeire
Zion Organizations are putting forth
every effort to make the day it mem-
orabl• one.
Mrs. Max Weksler, vice-president
of the Jewish National Fund, is in
charge of arrangements and is being
assisted by able committees.
A group of Dutch Jews, serious, re-
ligious and affluent, whose business
interests were in the thoroughly Iran
Total root of Home (fire insurance is carried for $29,000)
business of pork and hank decided to
55,297.35
Land contracts receivable
7,744.24
support orthodoxy as they understood
Balance due on contracts donated by inmates-
Foinbere
it, and published The Jewish Stand-
$2,031.85
Grabowsky
5.712.39
ard. It was militantly orthodox. These
Lot Linwood •nd Davison—
Illell and their publication are de-
Original coat
$27,500.00
Israel Zangwill seas lethally
scribed in the "Children of the Ghet-
Interest and ..... paid
12,153.20
years of age, but whether he was born to." Zangwill was accorded a page
Total Cost of Lot
39,853.20
in London, and on Feb. 1-1, is doubt- in which to write "31oror and Charou-
Advanced to Annual Boll Affair to be held in 1927
180.28
ful. In a funny paragraph, he once seth," under the pen tame of "Mar-
TOTAL ASSETS
stated that he selected Feb. 14 as his shallik. It was here that he out
$104,223.44
birthday because it was St. Valen- Suiphtali Herz hillier whose own bit-
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS-
tine's day. The probabilities are that ter humor affected hint much. The
Mortsage payable (on Grabowslay land contract)
9 2,800.00
he was born in Poland—his Milne is chutzpah and wit of "Moroi. and Cha-
SURPLUS—
Polish—but if he were born in Eng- rouseth" kept the Standard alive. But
Surplus Dec. 1, I925
995,933,34
land it must have been in Southamp- one Purim Zangwill committed a
NI Inc.. for 1920, per Exhibit "C".
.99.017.04
Net Loss or Dctsmaaer, 1925... • •$120.94
ton or Portsmouth, for he lived in onel blunder. One of his poems ended with
Loan paid which was incurre::
of the South Coast towns as a child. a Hebrew curse, a popular obscenity.
to Dec. I, 1925
300.00
lie had two brothers, Louis, a writer; That ended "Marshallik" and the
428.94
Mark, an artist, and I believe two sis- Standard died soon thereafter. At the
Net addition to surplus
8,590.10
term, one, Dinah, I recaii Well. She same time Zangwill wrote a humorous
,,
was
regarded as the real head of the' i nide fps a Jewish fair, The guide
NET SURPLUS—Dec. 31, 19211
101,423.44
f2:011Y when Israel was still R boy.
:nook land to be suppressed because the
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
$ 104,22 3 .44
His father was
alltnige peddler, a author had unwisely included in his
funny
exhibits "Bodies • of Children I a.
fairly
tall,
slightly
bent
figure,
with
There WS, . Otthtandinir liability of $752.80 for e.t.a operating expensei
l ng black hair and side locks, a Jew
o
on Dee. 31, 1926, which woo told during January, 1927.
1 !elms of Blood Accusation." Tact-
NH. and Mrs. Isaac Marbleston
that artists love to draw. Ile was lessness exhibited itself thus early.
(Anna Greenfield) of 2319 Calver
extremely religious, one of that old,'
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES FROM JAN. 1, 1926,
Zangwill was through with Jewish avenue are receiving congratulations
harsh, unyielding type that read well journalism and communal life. lie
TO DEC. 31, 1926.
in books, but make life difficult. Ile became the editor of Ariel, the wit- on the birth of a son, Frederick
Lewis, on Feb. 27.
and his family touched the bottom of tiest weekly ever published
INCOME—
ill Lon-
•
Members' dues
poverty for sponge peddling to a man • don. But it had a short life.
$3,629.60
Donations .d memorials
2,68224
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Caplan (Tessie I
who knew little English and cared less
He was still under the communal Davis) of 3012 Calvert avenue are
Inmates' fees
9,170.00
for the world around him was not a
Willa and bequests
3,778.75
lucrative calling in the Landon of ban when Judge Mayer Sulliberger ac- rejoicing over the birth of a son,
Annual Ball Committee
2,671.06
cepted for the Jewish Publication So- Lloyd Gilbert.
Men's and Ladies Chevra Kadish• and Ladies' Auxiliary
3,771.10
the late seventies. Coarse bread and
Young People's Society and Northwestern Branch of Jew-
a herring sufficed him as his daily ciety "Children of the Ghetto," a se-1
F olks Home
748.30
fare. He offered his family little more. ries of sketches that seriously dis-
Donations for new building
1,805.10
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Jaffe of Edi-
turbed
o
s. Practically every
Income from Synagogue services
681.67
Material things concerned him little.
son avenue announce the birth of a
Income from Yorseits
464.80
I still hear him cuffing and cursing character could be identified, and most son, Merton Dalton, on Feb. 18.
Interest received
500.04
his growing sons because they would incidents placed. Practically the first
Collected on insurance
74.83
Miscellaneous income
411.50
not follow him zealously in the de- intimate picture of Anglo-Jewish life,
Mr. and Mrs. Merman Cohen (Car-
tails of orthodoxy. i its Dickens-like accuracy won the au- rie Adelman) of 0380 Broadstreet
TOTAL INCOME
1 32,188.91
thor a place among English writers.
announce the birth of a son, Marvin
The widening of the congeries of
To Zangwill—through a letter of
streets which made Petticoat Lane the introduction of Max Nordau—we owe Harris. on Feb. 23.
OPERATING EXPENSES-
Provis'ons
center of the London Ghetto--practi- Herzl's first appearance in London, in
$8.382.41
Wag.
7,29425
Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Budnitzky
cally an alley, forced a host to quit Dec., 1895, and his first private re-
Light and fuel
2.515.95
"Pie Lomod," as it was affectionately ception by the Maccabeans whom for (Belle BurskyI of 2211 Pingree ave-
Collection main.
1,028.35
Laundry
called in the late eighties, and to seek a year Herz' regarded as his possible nue are receiving congratulations on
871.32
Medicine and drugs
345.83
homes further east. Among these mi- chief supporters. Herzl has described the birth of a daughter, Ellen Ethel,
Kitchen supplies •nd utensils, dishes, ..
Mating dis-
grants were the Zangwills. They that first meeting in his diary. Zang- on Feb. 25.
infectants, hardware, janitor's supplies, window clean.
were, I believe, the first Russian Jews will knew no German, and spoke
ins, brooms, inscriptions on tablets, etc
814.13
Repairs to building
127.74
Mr. and Mrs. George Rabinowitz
to invade our quiet English "square."
French poorly. Herz] knew but could
Annual ball expense
376.00
of 3932 Monterey avenue are receiv-
These strange neighbors stirred my
Insurance
295.45
speak no English. Zangwill's littered
ing felicitations on the birth of a son,
childish imagination, and I was ex-
Printing, stationery. etc
118.71
desk, his tense mannerism impressed
Miscellaneous expenses
483.53
cited by their audacious conduct. The Herz], who knew none of Zangwill's Gerald Seymour, on March 7.
Inn
405,08
id
boys had attended and were still at-
Telephone
writings, as that of a man who con-
132.12
tending the London Jew's Free School. quered by patient devotion to style.
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES
9 23,171.67
Then the great Rothschild benevolence
Zangwill was not then a Zionist. In appearance in New York when his
which, besides free education, pro-
NET INCOME FOR PERIOD
July, 1890, when the Maccabeans reputation was just made aroused a
$ 9.017 04
vided two meals a day for every pu-
turned a cold shoulder to Ilerzl, Zang- storm because he bitterly denounced
pil, who needed it, and two suits of
will, who at this historic assembly in- reform Judaism. His last appearance
STATEMENT OF CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
clothes a your. It had about 3,000
FROM DEC. 1, 1925 TO DEC. 31, 1926, BEING A
dulged in jesting, made it dear that created still a greater storm because
pupils in those days, and being built
his introduction of Ilerzl did not in he criticized the Zionist Organization.
PERIOD OF 13 MONTHS.
in the heart of old London was ap-
any way imply his agreement with He was no respecter of persons, and
proached by narrow, twisting alleys Herzl s ways and views.
in America one of his great sons was
C•sh in hank
9
6,816.64
that ran close to the worst thieves'
that he snubbed the rich, and pricked
RECEIPTS—
He attended with Joseph Cowen, his
quarter of old London as it then ex-
Income as detailed on Exhibit "IP'
9 2,213.50
the bubble of much meaningless ora-
Income as detmled on Exhibit "C"
32,188.91
isted. Besides in my school there cousin, the first Zionist congress at tory. In England with its parliamens
Loan Isom hank
6,500.00
Basle, by accident rather than by de-
were
legends
of
the
cruelty
practised
tary methods of public discussion his
Paid on land co ntras
rat I.
484.06
by ;several of the principal teachers sign. They were touring Switzerland, candor with a sharp tooth was more
TOTAL CASH RECEIVED
5 41,386.47
of this great charity school. Curiosity and the Congress (which he turned readily accepted. :Meeting him in New
prompted me to cultivate these older into a brilliant study, "Dreamers in York after the American-Jewish Con-
TOTAL CASH AVAILABLE
$ 48,203.11
boys familiar with this strange, for- Congress") attracted them as a nov- gress debacle I was impressed with his
bidding land. All that I learned was elty. He sat in the rear at the Casino, growing seriousness, and his flounder-
DISBURSEMENTS-
that these boys were always in a hur- took no part in the gathering except ing like a fish out of water. He ad-
Paymont en lot, Linwood and Davison
913.78190
Interest on contract
447.11
ry because to eke out the narrow in- that once or twice he privately argued mitted that he did not under stand
Taxes paid—Sidewalks and paving
733.19
come of the family they were Tehil- with me on my attitude on certain the situation nor the strange throng
lim boys at the great synagogue in matters as a delegate. But at the end that suddenly surrounded him. lie
Total payment on lot
$14.962.10
Payment on Grabowsky mortgage.
400.00
Duke's Place. The Zangwills by daily he was deeply stirred, and I still see was glad to go back to the quiet of
P•id loan from hank.
....... .
.
...
6.300.00
attendance were thus thoroughly fa- him, as 1 sat on the platform, waving his remote cottage in the Sussex
Advanced on annual ball
....
. .
180.28
miliar with the ritual of the syna- a lug red bandana handkerchief.
Downs, where every room was plas-
Repaid loan received prior to Dec. 1, 1925
. ..
300.00
'Zangwill come into the movement
gogue.
Operating expenses m detailed in Exhibit . •1"„
.
2,340.00
tered with notices demanding silence
Operating expense... detailed in Exhibit "C"
23,171.87
Israel Zangwill won the Jew's Frus• when Ilerzl led the first public fight during the hours he devoted to lit-
School Commemoration schalarship of against the Odessa Chovevi Zion erary composition.
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS
5 47,854.69
$500, the prize estahlished in honor of group. Ussischkin and his supporters
CASH ON HAND—Dec. 31, 1926
....
.
$
348.42
He stood alone. He created the mod-
the Emancipation of the Jews in Eng- had appealed to the I. C. A. for aid, ern Jewish story in English. Ile took
land in 185a This was his first pub. and hying in sympathy with the 'in- freely from the life around hint; he
DEPOSITORIES—
filtration
policy
of
immigration
were
Cash an hand
.
31.50
tic appearance. His family fluttered
had many imitators but no equals in
Dime Savings Bank—
with joy; the father appeared at the -ympathefic to Baron Edmond de the same field. And as I leave him,
Commercial account
9135
prize-giving in his poldler's suit, Itothst•hild who was wholly opposed to in memory, there comes back to me
Sarin. account .........
57.67
Peoples State Bank
157.90
sponge hamper on his hack. Thus ht• • Herz]. Zangwill who had joined in that scene in a hotel room in New
exhibited contempt for Goyish learn- the Maccab•un pilgrimage to Pales- York in Dot. Zangwill had come here
TOTAL CASH ON HAND—Per Exhibit "A“.
$348.42
ing. From that day I lielleY• he faded tine had come back disillusioned as to produce "The King of Schnoirers,"
into the liackgreund of the faultily his writing "to die in Jerusalem" and Jacob Adler was to play the hero
show. But here was play for his wit.
He loved contention and his "opera of that phantasy. Adler strutted up
Ulnae" colonization rankled. His ad- and down showing how he understand
drtssts, long, carefully prepared, full the part. Zangwill, his long swarthy
of paradox, still hear reading. They face following every movement, his
were innately better than the long fingers strumming on the table while
. address with which he wearied the he spoke. Adler understo o d slapstick
opening session of the American Jew- and comedy. Ile wanted to introduce
ish Congress. From the minute of the a dance. Zangwill wracked his brain
fight with the millionaires, Zangwill trying to discover a Yiddish word for
was a supporter of Ilerzl, but not af- "Whimsy." Adler could not under-
filiated with the Zionist Organization, stand the presentation of the char-
nor a participant in its tasks, His acter which eould only create laugh-
erratic temperament did n o t permit ter by its permanent Sephardi• self-
this. On the other hand he did much reverence and dignity. At length
contriving to bring to tient the mil- Zangwill turned to Adler and said:
"It Is not your fault. Your poor are
lions he needed.
Then death of Ilerzl left an open- ton rich to understand what a beloved
ing far the creation of the Jewish schnorrer beaks like. You have all
Territorial Organization. Again and kinds of kings here. but no king of
again Zangwill displayed his clever- st.hritiorers. No one is . poor to Is
ness on the platform but though he so great. 1%e stand too cl ose to the
won Jacob Schiff to his Galveston Ex- Iroutine of life to understand the rare
periment, and received the , devoted spirit: of the Zangwill
support of many high-minuted Jews in
EXCESSES IN KISHINEFF
Europe. the I. T. 0. never becaml•
real. The opportunity was not lack-
CONTINUOUS PROGRAM FROM 2 P. M., to 1 A. M.
VIENNA.—(J. T. A.)—New Rani
from
ing, but Zangwill was far rem o ved
from political life and political neees• Jewish excesses occurred in Kishineff.
•
sities. He was essentially contra- according to a report of the Ost Kor-
8 p. m. to I a. m.
minded. He lived like an English respondenz. a Balkan news agency.
writer, in a most English part of Eng- Roumanian students invaded the Ho-
land, but he was in disagreement with tel Commerzial and the Restaurant
alt things English in England. At Suszanni, mistreating the Jewish pat.
Showing • new rive-Reel Film Direct from Palestine.
Syncopated
times he suggested Ilt•ine as a Jew, rons and wrecking the furniture. The
II•le•y Choral Society.
Julius
Miller,
Director.
but mostly George Bernard Shaw, students also attacked the neighbor-
Tunes of
as an Englishman. Most of his lit- ing Jewish houses, where they
Delightful Entertainment by United Hebrew School Children.
erary successes Were achieved in smashed the windows and did much
Miss L. Pike. Director.
America. but all his American visits damage. Jewish passersby were cruel.
were failures from the personal ly beaten. Many were injured, in-
Juvenile Concert Band.
I. M. Glass. Director.
standpoint. lie said unpleasant things ' eluding non-Jews who were mistaken
in a biting way, took himself and oth- for Jews. One of the injured, Wei,
Jewish Center String Ensemble.
S. Semulewice, Director.
ers seriously, and agreed that nothing man, a cattle dealer, is dying. The
Noted Speakers.
Judge Pahn, Dr. H. Greenberg and others
that great men said should be printed, , police restored order.
will address the audience.
so that no one should point to their
contradictions. As an advocate of the
Shed blood and men believe; shed
melting pot he was opposed to the fun- tears, they d o ubt.
damental thenry of Zionism, and as
an Hoist he was the most devoted ad-
A beggar on his feet is worth more
herent to the political Jewish State. , than an emperor in his grave.
These inconsistencies were part of his
nuakeup.
Mistrust a woman who talks of 11,
There was • moral bravery in the virtue.
man which survives all these bizarre
Between Calvert and effects. lie had the courage of his
I Old fools are bigger fools than
Collingwood.
opinions to a rare degree. His first young fools.
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Now available for Parties, Weddings, Banquets
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For Information Call Elias Goldberg, Northway 1896.
Celebration
and Dance
Arena Gardens, Sunday, March
20
Events You Will Not Forget.
Jean Goldkette's
C elebrated
Orchestra.
A. C. Krenz
Silk Frocks
Merchant The Shop Where Courtesy 10347 Woodw'd
Tailor
and Service Prevail.
and Dances.
Return Engagement of
CANTOR M. HERSCHMAN
With a Choir Directed by David Skolaik
no the
CONGREGATION EMANUEL
Friday Night and Saturday Morn-
ing, March 11 and 12.
Also a high class concert wits Folk
Songs and Synagogal Music, accompa-
nied by other talent on Sunday, Mar. 13.
Get your tickets at the Emanuel Synagogue, Shecter's Music Stores,
h737 Twelfth St., 4937 Westminster; Subar's Book Store, 1911
Taylor; Zuckerman's Steamship Agency, 8838 Twelfth St.; Plotkin's
Book Store, 5031 Hastings St.; S. Cheslak, 9324 Oakland.
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