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with a string. Then we went into the j G.
kitchen anti, its he was putting the
bundle into the stove he raised his eyes
and pronounced the customary lame-
"Blessed be Thou . . . 1
diction:
who has comnuinded us to remove the
crumbs,"
Soon after sun down we made ready I
I can still!
for the Passover Feast.
see the old couple. Both of them were '
dressed in Hark. !Mollwr Baruch hail'
of: beautiful brecitired dress. And I ;!
can it 11 hear the dignified old man as,
he etal.•41 its together, "Come Ye My
QUeer, My Princess and M y Princos."
Ilia, J ar. . ;
Ile represented the
Bit 1111 . h was the Queen. Miriam was ;
the princess, and Jacob, Ilavid and I !
were the Princes.
Just outside the windows, the vans
and elevated trains were rushing up .;
and down furiously, making mad
I
noises; inside, the snare was one of
gentle beauty and serenity. The Mot-
orah - the set en-branched candlestock
—occupied the center of the table. j'
From it the tapers flickered their soft
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and gentle light, casting long shad-
ows upon the walls. Around the base
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of the candlestick were three large ,
platters, one filled with bitter her14—
horseradish and chicory—representing
the suffering of the Jews in Egypt; a
second covered with matzos—thin wa-
fers of unleavened bread--to repre-j
sent the bread the Jews ate in the
wilderness, 81111 the third was filled
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with eggs, butter, cheese and other Y4s %Mt
dairy products—that is all they "at
o
during the Passover. A large silver
pitcher sustaining sacramental wine
was also on the table and by each
plate, a silver goblet the size of an egg.
At Mr. Baruch's place was the Hag-
Mrs. Estelle M. Stcrnbcrgcr, Executive
gada, the Book of the Passover.
Secretary National Council
The Itoy:al Host and the Queen sat
of Jewish Women.
on the large, soft couch at the head of
the table,. Jacob and Miriam at their
on the farm" is no longer which women have not invaded since
right and David anti I sat at the hift. f
• a subject to joke about on the their recent emancipation, and the
At the extreme end of the oval table t
saudeville stage. "The modern girl, current belief that it is too strenuous
was a large throne-like chair reserved
fired of city life, is now turning her is pure fallacy. The free healthful
for the unseen guest, the All Wise
oyes toward the farm for a career," life of the farm, with its tonic of fresh
Elijah, the Prophet. As soon as we
says Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, air and exercise, produces a far hardier
were seated Mr. Baruch drew himself
race
of
women
than
city
strap-hangers.
executive secretary of the National
up and opened the book of the Pass-
Council of Jewish Women, after a Moreover, all should realize that
over—it had parallel columns in He- iss
survey of conditions in New York and the woman farmer is no innovation.
brew
and English. lie would first
other cities throughout the country. Women have always done farm
read R passage in Hebrew to Mrs. r is
She is now organizing leading women work; they have churned butter,
Baruch,
Jacob and Miriam, and then
of the nation to convert the National preserved fruits, tended poultry, and
read in English, emphasizing a line or
Farm Sehool at Doylestown, Pa., into cared for the flower gardens which
explaining a word here and there, for
a to-educational erhool, offering schol- the husbands, in their proeccupation,
the benetit of David and me.
arships to needy city girls for a three would neglect."
In keeping with tie custom, the
"They have worked in the fields
sears' course.
youngest
son, David, asked the four
when
harvests
were
large
and
labor
believe
that
the
trend
bark
to
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questions. The first one, the only one
the farm has begun." asserted Mrs scarce; but it is only within recent
I remember, was: "l'ather, what is
Sternberger. "Nlany girls have signi- years that the suggestion has arisen
the difference between this night and
lied interest in the training, following that they be taught scientific farming
all other nights of the year?"
months of discouragement in New as a career. The National Farm
Yor k Cit y. The c it ies are overcrowded. School will soon erect a dormitory
"This is the night, my child, on
Esery year tolleges, throughout the for women. Girls may specialize in'
which we celebrate the escape of our
tountry, turn out hundreds of grad- sash brandies as horticulture and
forefathers from Egypt," answered
istlen, and because of competition, landscape gardening if they possess
Mr. Baruch with great dignity. "The
emit year it is:tomes harder to attain artistic inclinations. They may also
feast We keep, my children, is more
•iitctss. Theft hate bun too many learn poultry raising, bee-keeping, and
than a feast. It symbolizes the very
tales of discouragement in the city. ' general farming, with a minimum of
soul of the Jews. God ordered it and
"Farming is the only profession labor and a maximum of result."
wherever we have gone, throughout
all the generations since our people
escaped from Egypt have we kept it,
"Some say that the Passover Is sim-
ply a spring festival," he continued,
"anti so it is in a way. As spring typi TF•
fies new life, so the Passover symbol- %7-;
ices the re-birth of our people. Our r
fathers were once slaves in Egypt. "t s:'
The Egyptians were cruel to them; .
they flogged them and forced them to je .
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labor in the hot sun, to make bricks 7- -
without straw:, until their hands would
semble
at
Thanksgiving
time.
Jacob,
bleed, to work without giving them e
I was only fifteen. David, the young-
'Ss?
est son of the Barach family, and I time to do the fasting falling on the just returns."
The old man's voice quivered with . 04;:::,,a1tAte,ft,t4.44.424,4 '44W4Aggf," ,-cattelnA
were chums. \'hen my mother died first born. Miriam came down front
that winter, and I was left an orphan, Philadelphia and David and I had emotion as if he were re-living the ex-
they sheltered me in their home, al- been given eight days by the Gentile periences of his forefathers. Then he
though I was a Gentile. And no I was the oldest son, had closed his furniture read the story of Moses, the father of
with them at the time of the Passover. shop in Boston and reached home in his people, anti the account of the ten
I had heard the boys say that it was a store keeper for whom we ran errands. plagues. "It is all a symbol, my chil-
strange custom, so I was all the more And I heard Mr. Baruch say that he dren," he added. At the end of the
curious to see what they did. I did felt especially happy that year when story of each plague he let a drop of
ee and hear! . . . And I have he hooked the padhs.k on his store and wine fall onto his plate and all the
put away all thoughts of business for others did the same.
not forgotten!
"Anti now cat ye the bitter herbs
For a week or more beforehand the days of the feast. The old couple
and the matzos, my children, in mem-
Mother Barach, as I called her, worked were very happy.
On the morning of the first day we ory of the struggles of our forefathers.
her fingers off to prepare for the feast.
She swept and scrubbed every nook made the Search for the Crumbs—the Whatever else you do or do not recall
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and corner of the house with solicit- last preparation for the feast. Soon of this feast, remember that our an-
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ous care; the feast room she had re- after breakfast Mr. Barach called us cestors, n tribe of frightened slaves,
papered and the ceiling whitewashed; together in the front room, placed a chose suffering and starvation, pre-
she polished the furniture and varn- piece of bread on the window sill to ferred to wander, to fie without home
ished the chairs, and stored away all mark the starting place and, lighting and country fur many years rather
the cooking utensils, table linen, ail- a candle, he handed it to Mother Har- than to submit dumbly to oppression.
venvare and dishes used commonly. tzell. Be then took up a small crumb So did they wander and out have we
She took out of the chest the beauti- tray and brush and, while we followed, wandered. Ily the Passover we pledge
ful, deeply inlaid Passover dishes she he passed fr: nt rot in to room, hsiking to keep that freedom our forefathers
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had brought with her from Germany in every corner of the apartment for gained. And more , we pledge to help
and polished them until her fingers any p ssible stray fragments of leav- liberate the enslaved, to succor the
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and
to
feed
and
shelter
the
ened bread. When we reached the
burned and her back ached.
On the night before the first day starting 'drive he brushed the piece of poor, whatever their race or kind."
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Dignity
beamed
upon
the
old
man's
!of the feast, all the family came to- bread into the tray, blew out the can-
-, jgather much in the manner and in the dle, put the eandle, the crumbs and face and deep joy resounded in his
spirit in which New Englanders as- the brush it napkin and tied it voice. Ile threw back his head and I
his flowing white heard shone like a!
sheaf of silver as it trembled in the
mellow candle light. With resonant
voice and sweet cadence he then re-
peated from memory a passage front
Heine's beautiful prose fragment "'Ile
Rabbi of Bacharah," which he had
learned in Germany when a young
nian. I could not understand it then,
bat when I read it years aftertvai ds
j I could readily see why his fa,e
beamed so as he repeated the lin,.
Following that, he rued from the Hag-
, rada, the story of the cat and On dog
: and the stick and the fire and the wa-
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ter and the slaughterer and the angel
of death and hove eaeh ate or killed the j
other until the Holy One came and
slew Death. How that story delighted'
I us! All during the rental of it and
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Barach, Jacob and Miriam joined in
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with beautiful, melodious chants.
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And then they sang the "Song of
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Songs." The feast lasted until about
11 o'elock. The next night we did the
I same thing. The four days following
I.
!were days of reioicing and the last two •
Lansme., X t:e
again solemn holidays.
That was 25 years ago. I have not
deer
lir.
fasts. o
Si
seen another Passover since then.
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lint I have never forgotten that
tutor
our on sca.stanco to LAW
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And when the time of the Passover
urchaiIng De-
• at
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:aunts every year, to my mind comes
it.t. Is en at ', lots neceA114.
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also that New York East Side apart-
rcl n
act • 1.•11 a sc,tti,w to us* Eta long
ment RIO] I can understand why t he
“f ,• Wt, raper, *no. st.'d go ao bu-
• ce
Jews Make so much of the Passover
r v1, {meant 11,0 prarearo ryetens, •Ithout
0. roe tole -nee •
.
and I understand wt. y it means so
much to them as a race.
t. sea;s on U1, tautest. *Off lose dletsreo
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condemning the mass because of the
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