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By MAURICE PASCH.

Season's Greetings

(Editor's Note:—"The Spirit of Judaism," by Maurice
Pasch, a student at the University of Wisconsin, is the subject
of tin essay which was awarded first prize in the annual prize
oration contest conducted t u ning students Of universities
and colleges throughout America under the auspices of the
Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations. The colleges and uni-
versities are divided into sections and first, second, third and
fourth prizes are awarded in each district. Rabbi Samuel
llirschberg is supervisor in the district in which the University
of Wisconsin is located.)

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enlightened, rationalized, philoso-
FORGETFULNESS
phizing Judaism, has been growing'
and Nourishing and delaying its
Then- is n • forget fulness with
literal spirit into the people.
she Omnipresent. (Song of Songs.
The tragic story of the Jew and It. iii it.)
his spirit of Judaism is drawn to'
it- close. In the dawn of a century
One who is engaged in coimmunal
the bright star of human fraternity work forgets his learning. (Gen. R.
Burns Clear with the promise of a vi 2.)
looter time. Humanity is shaking
-
oil- the stupor of uncounted ages.
Rabbi Joseph through illness for-
Breaking the fetters of prejudice gut all his learning, and his disciple
and hate, man stands to his full Aloaye brought it hack Its him.
stature and begins to learn the (Ned. Ila.)
meaning: of the commandment,
"I. eve thy neighbor as thyself."
It is haroler for lone to study
Above the sullen mutter of discon- again a subject which he has known
tent, rings clear the call fur human and forgotten than to study an en-
unity. The minds of men are all tirely new sub eet. ()Coma 29a.)
aglow with the (lawn of peace and
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noble brotherhood. The walls of the
Whom, forgets one word of his
ghetto are being harken down. The study, him the Scripture regards
bitter cup of sorrow, so long as if he had forfeited his life. .
pressed to the lips of the .low s shall His guilt is note
stablished, how-
he dashed aside. The Jew shall be ever, unless he deliberately and of
an outcast no longer. The sae Of set purpose removes those lessons
is hundred generations 14 hunted from his heart. (Ab. iii la.l
men shall walk the ways of life
with the free sunlight of heaven
The words of the late are as hard
ahoy,. his head. Sutftoring anti to acquire as vessels of gold, and as
wrung still live, and will long give easily lost as vessel of glass. (Hag..
Nadi. in the darkened places in 1510
the world; but God rules anti truth
I and justice anti the love of man for
man shall triumph at the last, ac- •NEW MENDELSSOHN
•ompanied by a newer and stronger
EDITIONS PLANNED
spirit of Judaism.

From the days of Abraham, the
This, in the tierce ages of feudal-
lira monotheist and the father of ism, was the lot of the Jew. Look
JUdaiS111, the Jews have taken upon now, in our century of light and
niselves the mission of dissem- liberty. It is a winter night at
inating the doctrines of light and . . . Tu the north of the city
truth. They were enjoined by Coal des the Jewish suburb. The people
in the wilderness of Sinai to he- are asleep. Around stretches the
come a "kingdom of priests and frozen forest. Out from the city
holy people" ordained to spread steals a band of Cossacks. The lit-
throughaut the nations of the fie suburb is surrounded. With
wed(' that divine code handed to' whip and saber the helpless people
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of every civilized country upon thy the Jews kindle a few branches to
fare of the globe. From that time keep front freezing; the soldiers
Israel has tenaciously sought to follow them and stamp out the
fulfill her holy mission despite tor- I fires. In the cold light of the morn-
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GOOD AND RIGHT
edition of the works of)loses Men-
pharaohs, Babylonian princes, Ito-1Christian remoter}, lie the frozen
delssohn, German Jewish philoso-
man emperors, Spanish inquisitors, bodies of the dead. And this in the
"And thou shalt do that which is pher, who started a new t•tma in
and Russian tyrants have all, vain- twilight of the nineteenth century,
r ight mall good," Mout. vi. 18)— Jewish history, will be published
ly, by mottos of slavery, dispersion, then what ill the twentieth?
.on
account of this verse, the rabbis on the occasion of the two hun-
store, degradation and murder,
Hunted, tortured, exiled, the Jew
sought to exterminate this nation, has survived all. No fire could o rdained that property deeded by dredth anniversary of his birth.
but one by one they have passed lawn, 110 ol'a drown, no church con- the court to a man's creditor might The anniversary will be celebrated
lovaS, and the Jew, remains. After vent, no force destroy this humor- be redeemed by the debtor at any in 1929.
A committee of prominent Ger-
Nitnessing every other ancient Irate time, even where such is not the
AUTHORIZED DUCO AUTO REFINISHING
castem of the country. (See B. M. man Jews was funned for the pur-
power hold its torch high for a „
pose of preparing the edition. The
time until it burned out and left huo power, but there is a greater 11 10
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committee has issued an anointl to
the torch-bearer sitting in the twi-
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more powerful force than
By the an of abandonn•itt, all persons who are in possession
light, the Jew today exhibits DO de- these, an unshaken faith in an Al-
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cadence, no inlionitY
mighty God. Denied all means of those strays which the owner had of manuscripts or rare editions of
abatement of his etiergies and no ,j,,s'etopmem, the J e w became lust for ,ter a year belonged to Mendelssohn's works or of letters
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the J Jewish race, wandering, sor- the attitude of a suppliant. Chris- their former owner some donkeys are to be addressed to Dr. Julius
',tau!, deathless; driven 011 from tianity grasped the scepter and which he knew had been lust for Guttmann, Berlin N. W. /1, \Vul-
land to land, from age to age, by meted out the savage law of de- more than as year, as he wished to lenweberstr. 2.
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human hatred, human scorn. struction until the whole world be- be well within the law. (B. 11. 21b.)
l;
A wise man knows his own ig-
The survival of the Hebrew race mile a hell of torture to the de-
The greatest booby knows most norance, a fuel thinks he knows
is the miracle of history. The spiced Jew. Nineteen centuries of
in his own house.
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everything.
mighty nations of antiquity rose, such grinding tyranny left the
ride 1, and, one by one, crept away marks of their fetters on his soul.
to sleep in the mists of time. Their Proud, he learned to endure the in-
noble cities and fertile plains are dignities of all men; passionate, he
dreary wastes of sand. Where cultivated patience and humility,
throbbed the pulses of great civil- warlike, he taught himself to bow
izations now roam the beasts to physical force /11111 succeeded
of the desert. Each nation has its through the subtle power of his
little hour held aloft the torch of mind. With the avenue of every uc -
light 1111a the sword of dominion, cupation barred to him as with
only to have them snatched from gates of brass, from a farmer and
its grasp by a newer and stronger shepherd, he because
becausea trailer and
Egypt. Babylon, Persia, Greece, a cunning money lender, the prod-
1-i° ,
. Rome—the stately procession has , act (of a hundred generat bolls of re- DI;
passed forever. But one people, une pression and wrong.
•
Imprisoned within the walls of 1,2 T
nationality. comes down in the in-
tegrity of its language, race and I the ghetto. what has the Jew ac- 6,0
religion, from the very dawn of eomplished? Can this little band of
history. This venerable contempt- 'outcasts have done aught of noble GT
rary of Egypt and hidden our note. Among the master minds of
Jives today in youthful vigor. The, the world the Jew stands forth in
how alone has defied time'.
the full splendor of achievement.
that is there in Judaism that Lassalle, Marx and Ricardo, the
has made the people suffer to up- •canoliiists; Auerbach, the novel- GC
Spimiza,
philosopher;
the
hold it? It is the spirit of Judaism . st ;
itself. Judaism represents the spin Herschel, the astronomer; Mendel-
ssoihn
and
Rubinstein,
the
•ompos-
yf Oval fatherland, the bond of union
of a dispersed people. As ancient •TA: Disraeli and GamItetta, the
statesmen;
this
is
a
cull
of
glory to
a. the Jewish people it is also as
modern. Rich in custom and cere- dignify the proudest race. Through
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all
the
centuries
of
mediaeval
bar-
inonitos that hail their birth in the
distant past. Unlike other out- Iiarism, when the world was bent Fat
city
urn
destruction
and
consumed
, :landing systems of religion, Bud-
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world and taught men the snouts r
The hi story of the Jew is the of fototnee. \Vhen over 811 EllrOpt.
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story of a glorious day followed by
a dente and dreadful night. Seated drew the dark (lauds of ignorance
the valley of the Jordon, ever and superstition, when Eurap •
deepening the lines of nationality seemed to have lapsed forever int ,
and drawing closer the mantle of barbarism, the Jewish scholars.
lone as a lighthouse in a stormy
I his religion, proud. stern, fanatiial, sae, kept alive the lamp of luai.11- •
the Hebrew builded a national and ,
mg. During all his history the .le
religious life that has successfully '
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blinded It his fanatieism, the Jew
refused tribute too Caesar. True to
the traditions of their race, the Jew
made a last stand in the temple.
There, amid the liurning waits, le-
gionary and .lew, lighting, fell, tut-
til the sio rid Wad . was deep in hu-
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man blood and the dead wer• piled
against the very altar. Thus, in a
sea of slaughter, her streets a char-
nel hoolow•, her temple a shambles,
01 fell Jerusalem. non: again, while
Rune ruled, to be triable') by a
Il•brew foot.
Was the story of the Jew ended;
les cities in ruins, his land a des-
, err, himself DO 1d1•, an outcast
town the earth? With es•ry nu-
• eh, lout Of 101 nation, smog every
lilt Of no petiole. the •ew. ,
ping in his arms the Talmud
Jell the To•tah, comes down his long
pathway through the centuries. It
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with all the obstacles the hate and
cried of man cauld devise: n loath-
way Of infinite toil, infinite sutfyr-
'iog. infinite humiliation. A path-
;may lit by the glare tif incendiary
t mhos, and here and there the
sullen glimmer of the candles rn
Illy chambers of the inquisition. It
was n pathway where the light of
happint ss was at the gold and fit-
ful gleam of winter stars among
the flying clouds. It led from deso-
lation unto ihosolation. At one end
to re the tramp of the legion and
the blod-washed streets of Jerusa-
'o•rn: at the other, the rush of the
Cessack cavalry' and midnight
massacres in Russia. Nineteen
i•r•eping centuries of woe and

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vengeance evertook it. Egypt en-
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sands of the desert. Babylonia and
Assyria ravaged this little polite
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names. Tine Roman church struck
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withered in the blues. Spain drove
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011 sun's, the cloth. of her history
stria!: 12. She sits teday 11 .ti I
skeleton impale the governments of
Europe.
Tl (lay we hate a sound prooblion
confronting us. It is a problem of
reorganizing Jewish life, enriching
it, of making it a safe refuge from
the despair of doubt. a field of ac•
lion for the display of one ' s tmlimm r•
ate,. But can Jewish life be thus
reorganized and rernalle? The cru-
etsl prablem of Judaism is the prate
twal problem, the possibility o f
having a Jea. ish life in all its full-
ness and completeness, is this non-
Jewish world. Jewish thought can
. undoubtedly be adjusted after a
manner to modern thought, but can
Jewish life be adjusted lit misloorto
life? If we look things squarely in
the fat e. we are bound to adnid
that such a task is impossible. Jew-
ish life in t h e 'modern Gentile world
is an anonialy. Judaism is not only
a view of life, it is also a form of
life. It is not the simple Cold,
Rule which Hills-I recommended tio
the heathen.
Too sacrifice rs the common 114 of
man. We sacrifice our highest am-
loitions on the altar of our short-
comings. In order to obtain the
o nf, ryevo uio'
- Irate tee•
the unbounded strivings of our
soul. So few of us are like Brand
who will want all or nothing. We
constantly give up things, and deny
ourselves pleasures and crush de-
sires, for the sake of ideals we ac-
quire and friends we make. But
the greatest sacrifices of all are
these we make in or not to upset
out native habits and characters,
our timidities. our natural re-
serves. our bashfulness, our sense
Of propriety, of right and of good-
ness. HOW many things do we leave
undone, how many words do we
leave unsaid, how many objects do
we leave unattained, and how (often
(to we let our highest happiness re-
main unrealized, all because of an
inner inhibition. and inner re-
strains. But are these not the fay-,
tors responsible for the survival of o
the Jewish race? For that race, to
suffer is no pain, to obey is no bur-
den, to worship is no servitude.
They will cheerfully make the sac-
rifices. for their native character
and habits, yrs, and to carry on
that spirit of Judaism.
Judaism is at its highest intel-
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