LH£ 1)EI'RonjEwisn (/tRor tat LINCOLN •11 11 sS-1 1 1 SEVEN PASSENGER SEDAN Designed by DIETRICH The interior of this seven. passenger sedmt is very spacious. The two auxiliary seats, facing fone. , rd, are unusually comfortable, and ample noon is afforded for the comfort of all passengers. Broadcloth or mohair upholstery material is optional in thus sedan, as with all Lincoln enclosed cars. HE man or woman who purchases We meet this responsibility by pro- viding thorough inspection service without cost—the first four months. And this expert service is continued thereafter at merely nominal cost. a Lincoln motor car gets value that has never been duplicated in the field of quality automobiles. suit of a hobby. Ile became an in the newly in' wired collection authority on graphic arts and Jew- The Megillah is of especial signifi- ish cultural history. Twenty years cance, for it tells of the deliver- ago he bought out the collections ance of the community there from of a non-Je• named Frauberger, a siege by Turks—tells it on a who was director of the Dusseldorf scroll of hand illuminated parch- . museum, and had for several years meat, and is the first "private Me- ' traveled about collecting Jewish gillah to reach this country. The antiquities and ceremonial objects. form is adapted from the Purim The past has become a living Megillah from which the story of t hi ng i n ci n „that i s o ne can the deliverance of the Jews of . touch and see it. Back in the Ming Persia through the intervention of group of Hebrews w o h o Queen Esther is refold in syna- dynasty , came, nu one knows whence, set gogues every year. Of Megillot, lup a synagogue and worshipped in there are more than 100 in the collection, including Kai-Fong-Foo, and vanished as Kirchstem completely us the snows of yester- one in which silver filigree is em- ployed to spin the familiar tale. , year. A Christian mission fur the conversion of the Hebrew in 1852 Rich coverings for the ark of the brought back from China 75 writ- law, of velvets, jewel-mirrusted ten books which, with a wooden satins that have withstood the dust ' Ark of the Law and a few mould- and sun of 40(1 years, with gold , ering tombstones are all that re- and silver embroideries, form a mains of the Hebrew congregation dazzling array. A bride back in of Kai-Fung-Fun. Whether this the seventeenth century made one lost tribe of Israel WOW beards or of them with exquisite embroidery queues, had yellow skin or white, on a square of stain which had no one knows, but one is certain been her wedding dress, her moth- that they spoke the same words er's and her grandmother's. Six ' of blessing and praise that have hundred "wimpeln"—the bands of echoed in every synagogue in the the Torah, tell of the hopes of world. The Ark of the Law and many mothers that their newborn the Chinese books are housed in sons would be good and pious men, the Hebrew Union College library. fur it \VIA!: the custom when a child They were recently exhibited fur was born for its mother to em- I the first time in the East at the braider a "wimpel" for the holy New York Public Library. The scrolls, as a thanksgiving offering. boas are printed on rice paper. The Hebrew characters on one bit wadded together in a consistency of embroidery relate that its donor strong enough to beer the scratch. took 13 years to complete, her ing of a pen of split bamboo. Some work. The history of marriage is are bound in silk. Others have been written and folded so that brought down in an interesting their pages open like accordions. group of wedding canopies, of Traces of the floods that inundated wedding rings, bride girdles and Kai-Tung-Foo when the river over- mart iage contracts. There are il- flow:41 its banks 500 years ago are luminated ritual books for the rite fourth in the stained paper and of circumcision at rare old eircum- vision chair. and footstool, plates, blurred ink. . bowls, glasses and records. It is I The imagination is stirred again evi d e n t that 4 , 111' total by a wooden crucifix, 114 inches of Delft-ware was the work of a I high, on which a Spanish inscrip- non-Jewish .i•tist, because the lion is carved. This is a cross of baby is portrayed after the man- the Inquisition, the only one ner of the cherubim and seraphim, whose present survival is known. with a halo on his head. One finds It has witnessed the fiendish Menorah lamps for walls, windows, triumphs and the unspeakable altars, for the home and temple, agonies of martyrdom. It was in gold, silver and brass, it seven- held aloft in the unwilling hands teenth century machine for mat- of men who went to death at the zoth baking, a mould fur l'urim stake fur their religion. The in- cakes, till sorts of Chanukah lamps, scription translated says: "Who Seder cups, and plates—the home- holds me has not the cross, who ly implements of the spiritual and Ju holds me not has the cross.” It personal lives of four centuries. was part of the Kirschstein col- When the Jews returned to Mu- le•tion and will be added in the nich in 1793, after an expulsion Hebrew Union College museum to .• o plate f • I() years, they made a porcelain letters, manuscripts and printed] to tell the story to posterity. boli:ihks g „. that tell of the Jews' geese- Sharing interest with the cere• cation over the whole face of the monist collection are the mann- The Season's Greetings. I AfacGregorand Compa/y ,-- 614-6,, _._., -- . o-„:6 ,,,,r -----OAPtiq -• ( C.COMW-'- -- I Formerly MarGregor and Valhi] i Sharp, Clear Photograph. That lo.ors Excellent Reproduction.. 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Two hitherto unpublished ed," in two thick volumes, which letters of Richard Wagner to has been the parent of all the Ileyerbeer, dated from l'aris in 6325 GRAND RIVER AVENUE tracts and publications of anti. May and June , of 1840, come to Semitism down to the present day.' light in this collection, and illumi- Sisetimenger had studied rabbini- nate the character of the famous Euclid 4980 cal literature for 19 years before composer. In these letters Wag- he published "Entdecktes Juden- tier hails Meyerbeer as "master thiim," and when it appeared in and addresses hint in tones of Frankfort in 1700 the Jews, fear- Ile sketches in one the not ing that it would increase , the tifs of the "Flying Dutcimum " prejudice which already 111111Ie life Some years later Wagner wrote a Edgewood 4800 burdensome thing, offered Eisen- book, "Judaism In Music," and menger 12,000 florins if he would bitterly attacked Jewish musicians, -o p press it. Ile demanded 30,000 particularly Meyerbmsr. and the transactions cams to The collections of Jewish art in- naught. However, the emperor did clude portraits, miniatures, etch- do order the whole, edition of 2,000 ings and engravings. There are It**6-11/..,•,-.11 ■ -••-•41AP• 4 -11%, • .%—ilf ■ •• ■—d lisow—illv4.3 comes confiscated and playact un- 38 pictures of Moses Mendelsohn, der lock and key--thereby OCCII- , „ the the philosopher. The famous Op. sinning the letter which now helps j penheim portrait of Ludwig to tell the story of the Jew's per,lBoerne is here and portraits by secution. Marr, Mengs, and etchings done To this is added it complete col- by Cioolowierki, Solomon Bennett, B. II. Bendix, Manno Haas, and lection of sermons preached at the Hebrew Union (7ollege library at Cincinnati Considered autosola-fe of the Portuguese In- caricatures by Emil Grimm. Tht re Center of Jewish Cultural and Religious quisition from 1612 to 1748, and is, too, a collection of pictures of Learning in This Country. a unique collection of all the rec- synagogues of all ages and coun- ords of the Inquisition in Portu- tries , portraits of Mendelsohn, ,I)1liel yerbeer, Halevi, Offenbach__ gal, giving the names of the v By ZELDA F. POPKIN. paintings and engravings and aims, their crimes and punisitic : Call Us Today—Cadillac 0707 ments. A tiny book, initialed in newer works of art down to Her- man Stroock, Marc Chagall and Now the whole story of the of a bride's wedding gown, and gaudy colors, elaborately Illus- ;Jew's cultural and religious his- rabbi's record books, the fire and trated, gives contemporary ac- Jacob Epstein. It beinnies impossible to enume- tory can be written. The last chap- water scarred records of a quaint, count of the case of St Simon of tees have been found, the frog. long dead congregation. and an Trient. This book, published in rate or calculate, for one finds oneself telling the history of a meats all assembled. The intern- awful cross of the Inquisition. Rome in 1175, is of exceeding roe- tire of the sufferings and joys of Strangely enough, once it is all ity (this is the only ropy in the people by a mere listing of the things it has left for the admira- a wandering people, 500 centuries spread out, the panorama of the United States) and tells of an at- ,7 Near, of Se r, ICe. old, its records in every Jews becomes no longer a record tempt to inflame Christians against tion of the modern generation. But now at last the cultural history of country of the globes in books and of anguish and persecution, but Jews by the familiar charge of YARDS ALL PARTS OF CITY manuscripts, in precious relics of rather a story of bunion hopes and ritual murder. St. Simon was a the Jews is being told in silver and the home and temple, has been seeking' after the expression of 28-months-old infant who was gold embroidery, in painted vel- drowned near the house of a Jew, lum. in graven metals, in exquisite 115 EAST GRAND RIVER . AVENUE completed in the library of the He- beauty. brew Union College. The famous The history of the Jews from after a prophecy by a half-dement- porcelains—the history of a tragic museum of Kirschstein and F'rau- the middle ages ()Olen to the pres- ed Franciscan friar. For the death people, expressed in symbols of Randolph 6321 !wiser, which was purchased re- ent day in England, Portugal. of this child. the whole Jewish beauty. - — - ' cently in Berlin by Adolph S. Oko, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, community paid a frightful toll. librarian of the college, has been Hungary and the near and far They were tortured till they "con- JEWS LIVE 407,119 brought to Cincinnati and added east, is charted in the Hebrew fessed," their property confiscated, IN WHITE RUSSIA to the notable collection there, Union College library and mu- numbers of them were burned or thereby making Ilebrew Union seum. When Isaac M. Wise found beheaded, until by the intervention MINSK.—(J. T. A.)—The Jew te of ma- ed the college in 1875, the library of Pope Pius Sixtus IV the pro- s ' College the greatest cenr 1101.11M11$ f er n,' on J ew i sh l earn i ng and hi , - was a modest accumulation of 160 ceedings were investigated and a ish population in the republic o 11:10001 11~1011~01. 110%. 1111M11.1 A s tory in the world. The arrival of volumes, for the most part per- hideous conspiracy to ruin the White Russia amounts to 8.17 per .14 huge cases packed with precious sona] donations of the founder and Jews was uncovered. There is a cent of the general population, at documents and relics, and the time his friends. Today, the 70,0110 copy of the Grand Inquisitor's ser- cording to the results of a censu s , intervening since their arrival, has volumes of the college library m o n at the autoola-fe of the as- made known by the statistical dc afforded opportunity to survey and crowd the building that was erect- sassin of Pedro Abros, Inquisitor pertinent of the White Russian goy appraise as a whole the Hebrew ed to house them so completely of .Aragon, on June 30. 18-16. eminent. The census shows the total pop Union College collection. Even a that the 6,174 items which Mr. Fifty Jews paid the penalty for statistical survey is imposing-70,- Oko has just added thereto can- the assassination of the King's In- ulation of White Russia number. 2294 EAST FOREST AVENUE 4,903,160. The White Russian. ' 000 volumes, 2,000 Hebrew menu- not be unpacked until new quar- quisitor and beheading and draw- • scripts, 2,000 ceremonial objects, ters are provided. The monetary ing and quartering were added to number 86.6 per rent, the Jewish Melrose 3129 / population 8.17 per cent, Russians 00 paintings intings and etchings. over value of thin collection has been the tortures at the stake. Luis e , I .11 0 it • appertaining Jew- only superficially indicated by the de Santangel was one of those f , xe- 7.7 per cent. The .lewish popula tion number 107,1111. ish music, the world's largest col- fact that insurance policies aggre- voted. Hitherto this account Was lection of Spinoziana—but the to- gating $1,600,000 protect it against only to be found in the library of tad significance of this collection loss by fire, vandalism or theft. the Hispanic Society of America 00-0400400000-004070-0,000-000-0,000000000O41 04:1 0-0000 000 c departs from sensational facts and This huge sum in the opinion of in New York. Another rarity is ti • res. many experts falls far short of a copy of the, secret manual of the Many years ago Palestine was covering the real value of many Inquisition, printed at Seville • the cultural center of the Jewish of its priceless books )111.1 manu- about 1500. This is offset by a 211 GRISWOLD STREET world. Gradually, through the vi- scripts, nor does it give more than unique Spanish letter 14 indul- cissitudes of time, the confer of an inkling of the historical and gence, signed in ink, issued by the , gravity began to shift eastward archaeological importance of the Archbishop of Seville about 1497, Randolph 7945 following the fortunes of the Jew- literary, religious and art objects giving absolution for the payment ish race. In England and Ger- which make this the largest col- of one real in silver for the crime of eating meat or drinking wine , „n ectar, began to sect, lit lection of Judaica in the world. g) 11011 Slanufaciuters of MIel131101.110110111 The Kirschstein collection was with Jews or Moors, going to their bring together the scattered frag- weddings or funerals, or nursing purchased with a special fund to ments of their people's history. El- ' kan Nathan Adler and Israel Solo- which Ben Selling of Portland. their children. Bound in old Span- ' mons in England, Kirschstein in Are., and Julius Rosenwald of Chi- ish calf arc four thick volumes Germany. Within the last two cago each contributed 125.000. written on vellum in Salamanca, rears, however, there have been and Isaac IV. Frank. A. J. Sun- giving the laws of Spain relating brought to America all of the im• stein, Maurice Falk. Bennis , Nei- to the Jews. The religious life of the Jew in portant collections of Judaica ex- man, Nathaniel Spear, all of Pitts- . MICHIGAN AVE. Lafayette 6110-6111 'sting in the world, and so much burgh; Adolph S. ( rhs, Lu wig Europe wan not all terror and an- unique and interesting historical Vogelstein and Ben Altheirner of guish, the records show. He had nformation, that the student who New. York and Simon Isaiarus of free breathing intervals, in which would delve into any phase of Jew- Columbus, Ohio. were the other his creative spirit seized the op- kb history can find unequalled op- contributors. The earlier acquisi- tiortunity for the pursuit of Season's Greetings. portunities for research here. The lion of the Chinese manuscripts beauty. As the synagogue was the whole panorama of the Jewish peo- was made possible by the gift of center of his world, his beauty plc will be spread out before his 850,000 from Mr. Selling and $5.- starved soul poured itself out in eyes in the exhibit rooms and on 000 from Joseph Schonthal of Co- the embellishments of the house of the law. He brought from the the library shelves of the Hebrew lumbus, Ohio. The most important collections temple at Jerusalem the motifs of Union College. The center of Jewish culture has crossed the sea. incorporated in this library are the' the dove, the lion, the fawn and Ti the Jew living in America, a Israel Solomons collection which the seven-branched candlestick, revelation is now vouchsafed. was brought from England two and wove them into rich embroi- Rear 280 East rainier shoe . his knowledge of his pen- years ago, and the Kirschstein defies, paintings and metal work. pie has been impersonal, a knowl- scum which has just arrived. The home and the synagogue were Goodrich Service Station German business bound close together, for the life s , edge gleaned from books of Bib- Kirschstein was a I lical and past-Biblical history.imen who was als o a book lover. of the Jew in the Renaissance and With the establishment of a Jew-, When he began to collect Jewish Baroque periods was essentially ish museum here, it Isessones tang- , ceremonial objects and graphic spiritual. He had few social contacts, no ible—the records of a race set arts 35 years ago the collections fish to' Credit. Longfellow 4912 625 GREENDALE down in silken embroideries, in ex- which might form a nucleus for a communal life outside the ghetto. ■ luisitely painted parchment scrolls. i museum were the treasures of syn- An ark of the sixteenth century 40 W. MONTCALM ST. NorOlve•y 3447. CHERRY 1221 in silver filigree, and hand wrought gogues and wealthy individuals., and Megillah of the congregation of Padua, dated about 1684, are — 4 metals — a history pieced togetherltie began as an amateur, in par - ....... N It is our responsibility, as authorized Lincoln dealers, to protect this in- vestment—to see that the car renders its gratifying maximum of service. —BEAUTIFUL IN DESIGN —THOROUGHLY MODERN - MECHANICALLY RIGHT In every particular, our service is worthy of the Lincoln—a perpetual protection to the owner's investment. E` PETER J. PLATTE 3700 E. Jefferson Ave. W. B. 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