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By JACOB R. MARCUS
It is quite accurate to state that
Professor Georg !Halides, the fa-
practically all disabilities with
The great Hebrew schools in , he recognized its a superior and nyhich the .Jew's have been cursed mous criti,' and thinker, dits1 at
Copenhag n o on February In, He
Babylonia, graduating the young profound scholar.
for almost 1,1300 years either had had, au Fe!iruary I , reached his
students w ho berate the spiritual
The change was effected and ap- their origin or were foreshadowed
leaders of world .lewry, were main- proved by the community, which in the state and church legislation eigthy-fifth birthday. He was then
dangerously ill, and the celebra-
tained through individual contribu- felt honored to have such a savant
f Visiogothic Spain.
tions which had been arranged in
tions, in much the same way as our as its leader. The school at Cor-
Fortunately for the luckless
modern theological seminaries.
dova under his tutelage was soon Jew's, the attitude of the different honor of his birthday hail to be
abandoned. A week later, tat Feb-
About the middle of the tenth raised to a very high standard, and
kings in the seventh century varied. ruary II, he underwent a serious iR
century,the authorities at Sura sent ultimately superseded the great
Jews were forcibly converted, operation for intestinal trouble and
out four notable scholars to make academies in Babylonia.
wholesale, under one monarch only
collections fur the depleted ex-
In this way did Spain become the to return to the bosom of Judaism it was stated at the time that there
was little in pe of his re•overy.
chequer. After leaving Bari, on the great religious center of Europe
under the next. But these lapsed
Georg nalmmrris Cohen Brandes was
Italian tams!, the ship hearing theta and the world.
concerts were constantly watched born in C. penhagen 011 February
NOS captured by an Arabic admiral
But Jewish cultural centers are by an outraged church which al-
.1, 10.12. Ile first studied law, but
sent out on a privatmering expedi- not built overnight, and although
ways held to fife inviolability of the soon abandoned this for t he study
tion by the Spanish Caliph of Cur- Moses ben Enoch may have given
sacrament: Once a Catholic always of philosophy and literature and ,
(10ele
I an impetus to Spanish-Jewry life,
a Catholic! Young children of con- published a number of noteworthy
According to the story as told us , the roots of this academic spring-
verted Jews were forcibly turn books, which in a short time estab-
by a mediaeval .Jewish historian, ! t into are to be found in past history.
from their parents and reared in
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the admiral fell madly in love with
Our ancestors had come to Spain the church. "We decr••," reads a lished his reputation as the leading,
literary (oathe of his thin, I 0
the beautiful young wife of one 1.f during Roman times and had lived,
canon of the Fourth Council of To-
He e was appointed lecturer in 1$
the four rabbis, Moses ben Enoch. as far as we know, a quiet Rail
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ledo, 033, "that the sons and Ilaugh- Belles lettres at the University of
Fearing the evil intentions of the perto•ful life. They were engaged
ters of Jew,: are to be separated Copenhagen where his lectures were t
Arab, she inquired of her husband, in trade and agriculture, and asso-
front the parents, lest they be like- the sensation of the day. In 11172.
in Hebrew, if those who were ciated on terms of closest intimacy
wise involved in their errors. To on the professorship of aesthetics
drowned might hope for resurrec- with their non-Jewish neighbors.
he placed either in monasteries, or becoming vacant, it was taken as a
tion, and receiving an affirmative
The land, during Roman 01111 - with Christian men and women who
matter of course that Brandes
answer from him, she threw her- 111011, WaS Oserru it by the Arian
fear God, that from their conver-
self into the sea.
Visigoths, Catholic heretics, who sation they may learn the worship would be appointed. But Brandes
had offended many important per•
The bereaved husband and young were kindly disposed toward the
of the true faith, and thus in- sons by his championship of modern
son were taken as slaves to Cor- Jews. The intimacy of the two
structed fur the letter, may be im- ideas, he WAS a 11 1111W:11 and an ath-
dOeti where they hoped to be ran- groups disturbed the church which
proved both inmorals and belief." eist, rind had been flora a slew. 'The
somed by their coreligionists. Moses enraged restriction to disrupt their
Occasionally some distinguished authorities refused to elect him,
went to the !twat academy governed social relations, but these canons
churchman would raise a voice of but his fitness for the post Was so
by Rabbi Nathan, an upright man, were promulgated only to remain
protest, not against the disabilities, obvious that the chair of aesthetics
'out hardly a thorough scholar in dead letter.
but against forcible conversion, an in the University of Copenhagen
Talmudic lore. The unfortunate
Unfortunately for the Jews, the
act that MIS manifestly a religious remained vacant, no one else daring
slave listened quietly, in a corner, Arians were converted to Roman
farce. EVell a distinguished prelate Go place himself in comparison with
to the discussion, and when a difli- Catholicism in the sixth century.
like Isidor of Seville, who objected
cult y was reached, he modestly U n der the inspiration of bigoted to forcible eonversion, did not hesi- Beauties. At this time, Brandes
began to issue his epoch-making
presented the solution. Further eon- kings, completely subservient to
tate to write polemics against the work, "Main Streams in the Liter-
versation with him by the men of zealous and powerful clergy, a se-
Jews, and in his exegesis of Bibli-
Dealers in
the academy disclosed his keen in- ries of disabilities and laws were cal 'massages he takes the customary ature of the Nineteenth Century,"
tellect and comprehensive knowl- enacted that turned the life of the narrow view of the Jew. Continent- which was published in English
edge of Jewish law. Nathan, with Jew in Spain from a path of com- lug on the verse from Leviticus: translation in 1901-1905.
Brandes made the reputation of
a spirit worthy of high commenda- parative east into a veritable "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and
and WAS the discoverer for the
attempt was etude to
tion, felt prompted to resign and to Hades.
is doyen footed, and cheweth the world at large of Nietzche, Hewn,
!enforce
laws
that
would
crush
the
place himself at feet of Moses whom
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tat," he states, "Thus the Jews nunzio and others of the great
M INATF„ indeed, the words of writers of the century. His publica- a
the law, but part not the hoof, since tions extend to mort than 30 vol-
they do not receive two testaments, umes of history, literature
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nor take for bases of faith the 1.1 11i111S111, among them works of
Father and the Son; therefore they Shakespeare, Beaconsfield, Islyen.
are unclean."
Voltaire, Caesar, Gyethe and Nlich•
Established IN96.
With but a handful of knell, ' ael Angelo. His latest work, whicl
Tara, an Arabic chieftain of North aroused a storm of controversy
A
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NEW YEAR TO .ALL
Afrieu, crossed the Straits of Gib- was "Jesus. .A Myth," published
raltar in ill, and put to flight the this year. 111 this book, Brandes,
from
ernsit Gothic army. In an aston- tried to show that Jesus was not a '
ishingly short time the whole land, historical figure. He pointed out
lip to the Pyrenees, was in the the frequency with which the Old
halals of the Arabs. The peninsula Testament passages are brought in-
'mnni all easy prey to the militant to the New Testament as if par-
SLAW, because the great masses, ',tady designed to show that the
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Gothic overlords, were chafing Nevertheless, he concluded, "the
Delicatessen.
,rider' the oppression they were ex- Christ figure will live fur thousands'
cel ienci ng. The land was. torn by of years to come, even if he had
quarrels and strife. and 111.,1 1 1 ,•sisleml 1/1.1 f Ore. "
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'he church had an undue influence
Proft,amr John G. Robertson of
'Ir atfairs of state. The Jews, a not London University, writing in the
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proportion
,TIconsiderable
Observer, says:
oopulation, were bitterly incensed
Vt'ith the death of Georg lit untie ,
at the heartleas cruelty of the Visi- European criticism hits lost its'_
n;aths.
greatest personality of the last 50
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It is quite possible that they were years.Under the influence of
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t■ correspondence with their North Niotzche, whom he discovered fur
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.1 Mean coreligionists, and were Europe at large, It new and obsess-
prepared to welcome any change ing idea came into his Mind, which
that might alleviate their miserable has coloured all his later interpre-
ondition. There are many Chris-. tations, namely, that the urge for-
:ion traditions --most of them late ward in human things has never
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to the effect that the Jew has- gon e forth from the masses, the "in- 1
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I :erred the downfall of the land by 1 1 11 1111 11101 1 1 • 1111,1, 11 hat alW11 VS and
I aidIng the onceming Arabs. :\ lost 111111111 from great personalities. His
of these stories, appearing in the quest for the great Mall as the sae-
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the .Jew a scapegoat for all its muds- works exemplifying his idea, on Jul-
ius Caesar and on 'Michael Angelo;
fort ones.
Complete lane of
There are at least three different last of all in a book which has just
stories of the aid that the Jews are appeared in English translation in
NOVELTIES, FAVORS,
said to have given the Arabs in the which he has dealt with the per-
conquest of Toledo, and for cen- sonality of Christ.
DECORATIONS, ETC.
"It
is
as
a
literary
critic
that
in
ToUlellse
turies the people of
Southern France were accustomed !females will live," Professor Rob- WslkawAtokswookaalimmocasa•aawm•• %%%%%%%%%
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"Ile
has
written
to station one of the leaders of the
Jewish community before the large books on Shakespeare, Goethe,
Easy to tire and quick to ignite;
church door, on Good Friday, and Voltaire -- graphic, vivid books, fer
slap
his face, because in earlier with perhaps a tendency to rely tea
Burns like the mischief, with little ash:
centuries the Jews of the city be- emnfillently on psychological meth-
trayed or threatened to betray the ods and to lay undue weight on
Saves your temper and saves your cash.
piquant anecdote --but always in
place to the Mohammedans!
It is quite probable, however, that the hest sense live books, inspired
Compliments of
We take this means of wishing our friends and customs,
as the Moors occupied the Spanish by the desire 10 prof* the personal-
:Ries during their initial conquest, ity of the man to the uttermost.
they garrisoned them equally with What will live longest are, I •hink,
Arabs and .l•ws because they knew the essays of his earlier years;
that the loyalty of the latter might there is nothing finer in form and
always he relied upon if they were style in any literature. Here the
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mantle of the gm eat French critics
accorded human treatment.
Under the Arabs, the Jews in --of Saint Heave and of Taine,
Spain attained a new lease of life. whose greatest disciple he might
All disabilities were removed; com- dam, to he - has fallen upon his
plete religious and economic liberty shoulders.
But after all, it is Brantles' ets-
.11111 granted. The only requirement
laid an them was the payment of a mapolitanisni that Was the biggest
nominal head-tax. The Arabs, who I thing: about him. There was little
were related to the Jews, both ra- I in the European literature of his
tautly and spiritually, accorded time that escaped his IN:net-an eyes;
them a broad tolerance and stimu- and he had a marvelous power of
lated them in many ways. The id-retrying himself with the most
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learning which the Moslems had :tried minds. His collected writ-
found in Northern Africa--frag- nosy., which extend to more than 20
ments of the highly developed Alex- !volumes. are an epitome of the
INCORPORATED
andrian culture—they brought into ideas and taste that dominated Eu•
Spain, and influenced their Jewish rope In the last quarter of the nine-
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The recognition of one's own
The pleasant life and the splen-
Lodges, Etc.
did opportunities in Arabic Spain I imperfections is very high perfec- 0
tion.
'Irmmught
many
immigrants
from
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He who loves not the loved one's
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..1Withan a period of 3011 years Spain
gradually forged ahead as a center
of Jewish activity and life. Arabic
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ish literature began to develop as
FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR .'
a concomitant of economic prosper-
ity. "Who did not see the splendor
4 the Jews in Granada," said a
Jewish worthy, "their good fortune
TO MY JEW-
and their glory, never saw true
glory."
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When Moses ben Ems• arrived,
for they were great through wis-
dom in Spain in the tenth century,
he found conditions ripe for a great
cultural uplift and he, through his
scholarship, stimulated a literary
development that wax inevitable.
Indirectly the Spanish Jews
gained ascendancy through the
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to oppress them severely; the Rab-
binists were constantly quarreling
among themselves, and the rise of
the vigorous Karatic movement
tended to hasten the decadence of
Eastern Jewry. The two great
academies slowly declined and dis-
appeared until they were only a
memory.
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