P AGE TE N PIEVErRorynvistiChRDNIUE ELIO The Jew Returns To Spain ttlthOtttth 0;reetnigg Brandes ■ ■ Rosh Hashonah Greetings. We Join in the Spirit ()I' the Season anti You All a Happy and Prosperous New Year. • rDrlk Wiedmaier & Gay Nett' ilitnietuare ARCHITECTS to delight the fastidious taste of hospitable home-keeping hearts. Wedgewood — Cauldon and New Royal Worcester Designs !..lie to Martin's and enjoy the wide selection and assuredly beautiful quality of the latest and best designs, which are arriving daily from Europe, purchased by Mr. Martin on his recent trip. artin'5 Greetings of the Season. G 18 316ti.:;:im • WESMS_Far,SSMSIMINSOM19 tiestmnsunarsicimatamomintwommitammscauransaw ELF Sicason sz 05rectings a 1 L Star Beverage Company Malt, Grain, Feed and Bird Seed. The iJ SI morale of the Jew, and create a %1Melsaaalls Its IngaltsailalialstalaalaNalealslalaaals•• •• ••••• •at sharp soeial, political and economic Qeoro . cleavage between hint and his Gen- (`'s tile associates. 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 ruary II, he underwent a serious iR century,the authorities at Sura sent ultimately superseded the great Jews were forcibly converted, operation for intestinal trouble and out four notable scholars to make academies in Babylonia.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 1212 METROPOLITAN BLDG. 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 Cherry 2126 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 cud, among the beasts, that shall ye Strindberg, Anatole France, D . 17918 JOHN R. STREET Arlington 0670 An- 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 711111 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 11Al'I'Y 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 Hygeia Kosher Beef, Sausages and High Grade ino were racially different front events described Were foretold. 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. " BROADWAY MARKET, SHOPS 37 AND 30 '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 Phone Randolph 1664 f the o 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 liaala•••••••IslaNIANISIUMANISN'aaliaaW It is quite possible that they were years.Under the influence of . t■ correspondence with their North Niotzche, whom he discovered fur Rosh liashonah Greetings .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 V... to the effect that the Jew has- gon e forth from the masses, the "in- 1 II. I,. HERSIIIIF:I{G, Prop 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- 24 W. Jefferson Avenue Randolph 5303-5304 134 W. Jefferson chronicles of embittered churchmen, iou• of citilization led him to turn from literature, and in his I may be accounted for as all attempt away Oil the part of the church to make litter years he wrote voluminous Phone Cadillac 6697 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•• %%%%%%%%% Get Turken Coal, it's clean and right. ertson writes. "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 Whittier 6050 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 142 WEST JEFFERSON Randolph 4675 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- Modern Sanitary Plant subjects to turn from the drab stu• , tytenth century and in the first p \\\\\ \ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ \1111 dies of law and polemic to science, years of our own." Special Service to Homes, Parties, Churches, philosophy and belles-lettres. 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 ICE CREAM FOR ALI. OCCASIONS different parts of the Mediterra- ,. He who loves not the loved one's nean lands. Some had come over Cadillac 4767-3750 1558 WINDER STREET oath, the earliest Arabic invtolers. ' faults does not truly love. ..1Withan a period of 3011 years Spain gradually forged ahead as a center of Jewish activity and life. Arabic GREETINGS. becanie the mother tongue; a Jew- 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." ISH 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. 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