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solim, the rabbi must izo
if he wants a few dollars from
thent Like the rabbi of Itelz, he is
also the rabbi of the town and he
obtains more income from Shechita
than from his headship of a Has-
_ ',Odic sect. lint in the town he has
no influe n ce at all. In his Hassidim
there are two carpenters and a
tailor. Thee majority of the well-
to-do residents keep away f11111
him.
And then there are those rabbis
whose whole distinction ties in their
descent, in their membership of a
dynasty. They still live in their
half-ruined courts and make jour-
net's as for as rankfurt-on-the-
'Main, and even New York in order
to raise the funds to keep them
going.
The famous ease of %late the
Rebbitzin was the consequence of
this kind of a Munn'. It had to
end in something like that. One
way or another, the emptiness of
it had to he exposed, the baseless-
iwss Of this state of affairs, with
I rabbis who have no Hassidim, in-
heritors of tumble-down ruins, who
have lost all influence upon the
life 14 the Jewish people. The ail.
liege' has turned from its squir-
archal nulls and the town from
its rabbinical courts. Sic transit
This view of the library of the Jewish Center reveals its need
gloria month.
for more books. Mr. Pearlstein, educatiinal director of the Center,
appeals to Detroit Jewry in this issue of The Chronicle to donate
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courts, into which they poured the
fat of the land. Every non-Jewish
village had its squiral hall, almost
every Jewish two had its rabbin-
ical hall, and around the malt of
the rabbi revolved the whole of the
spiritual and political life of the
Jewish settlement.
I class Souvestre's Un Philoso-
phe Sous Les Traits, An Attie Phil-
osopher, among the best books I
have read. It is justly "a French
classic." Its judgment of life 11'11111
an idealistic standpoint is so fine
that one would be justified in
studying French to be able to read
it in the original. And yet a
thoughtful perusal of it in English
will be abundantly repaid. It is not
a recent publication or a fast seller.
It is the kind of book that appears
only once in a long while. It is a
product of philosophy and art. It
is, therefore, more valuable than
scores of publicalbet a put together
that appeared before and after it.
the you want a book that will in-
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beautifully and happily, read Sou-
vestre's Attic Philosopher. If it
does nut profit as well as please
you, you are unconsciously needful
of pity. It is a great book.--Rev.
Dr. Alexander Lyons.
Before the war Galicia was a
Of course, the rabbinnl court
country of beautiful palaces. In differed in one respect from that of
every village, in every town, the the squire. The squiral hall stood
squire, the baron or financial mag- away and apart from the village,
nate, held his court. The political shut off from it with high hedges
and spiritual life of the country and guarded by savage dogs. The
turned entirely around these places, rabbinical court had neither hedges
which were surrounded and en- nor dogs to keep out the people. On
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closed by immense gardens and the contrary, the rabbinical court
parks. In these palaces they played stood open to all, inviting Hassidim
A book of greater power that 1111
Chopin, read Slovarki and received to come from every part of the
ought to have widespread consider. m
guests. The country was poverty- world to bask in the sunshine of
ation is "Tragic Mansions" by Mrs.
stricken and dirty. There were no the rabbi. lint, in both noes, the
Philip Lydig, from the' press of Ell
schools and no factories. The whole whole of the spiritual and political
Boni and Liveright, New York .
intensity of life was concentrated life of the people was concentrated
City. It casts en important side- ''
in the palace,. in the courts. The Jews prayed to
light upon the neural status tef what
'the gardens of the palaces grew God, instructed their children,
is called higher society'. The pie- Ns
delicious fruits. In the villages you elected to parliament, as the court,
tore is truly tragic.—The Supple-
might get a few sour cherries, or as the rabbi, told them. Each court
The sun once stood still; the ment.
over-ripe berries. But that was all. had its own traditions, and accord-
wheel of fortune never.
If the squire did sell some of his ing to these traditions the Hassidim
Wine comforts the heart with its
apples or pears, he sent theni to lived their life. Belz believed in
Virtue is more persecuted by warmth and destroys the brain by
Lemberg, and the village, except study, so the Hassidim of Belo stu-
the wicked than loved by the good. drying it.
occasionally when the apples or dies. Siedliszcze believed in fervent
pears went rotten and could not be prayer, so all the Siedliszcze Has-
sent elsewhere, never knew the sidim prayer fervently. The life of
taste of fruit. Galicia, Jewish and non-Jewish, re-
The squire's children had the best volved around the courts. It was a
teachers obtainable tee teach them country of courts and palaces.
languages, music and the arts. But That was before the war. Today
the village population were illiter- it is a country of tumbled down
ate,. The only time when the vil- courts and ruined palace's. The
loge took any part in the life of courts both of the squires and the
the palace was when the palace rabbis are in ruins—the buildings
went hunting and all the peasants and even more the spirit.
around acted as beaters to prevent You go through the country and
the hunted animals from escaping at every step you come across a
outside the hunt area. But if a village with charred, broken-down
peasant dared himself to shoot a !unlaces, roofless, windowless. And
hare or a fox, he was promptly even if a part of the palace has
seized and imprisoned. been restored, the roof mended, a
That is how the villages and the few windows or doors put in, the
towns in Galicia lived, each like the old glory has nevertheless departed.
other and each its distinct and sep- A palace in which most of the win-
acute life—the squire in velvet and ,tows are boarded up, where instead
lapped in luxury, and the peasant o
f well-kept hedges you have a bar-
hungry and in rags.
„ Heade of wire, remains of the
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And the rabbinical palaces, too,
are ruins, both those which are
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Czortkoy toilful, the trees were
felled during the war, and now it
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Polish football club. The Hassidim
and even the ordinary residents of
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Czortkov have repeatedly asked the
rabbi to return o
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the rabbi always declines. Ile feels,
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ruin, a partly-restored ruin, and
the spirit of ruins and a tumble-
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"Like Christians, like Jews.”
In the district of Betz alone
things are somewhat different.
There are attempt has 'been made
to restore the old courts. Under
the influence of western Galicia,
where the war did not penetrate
with its ruins, efforts have been
made to set up again the old forms
of life. The leader of this rabbini-
cal renaissance was the late rabbi
of Belz. For him it was an easy
matter. The court at Belz was
never organized un those grand
squirarchal lines on which the
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in grandeur and pomp and tho
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because' of its fine exterior. IL
never prided itself on its richt-,
and as the old rabbi of Belz was a
man of great influence, he su.•-
ceeded for a short time in regath•
ering be Holz his old Hassidim.,
patching up the cracks in his pal-
ace and making things teem as if
they were again as they had Leen.
But since his death. Bela has again
been going downhill. Today Betz,
ton, is a tumble-down court, al-
though its windows are not boarded
up.
And Cieszanow, ton, is • tumble-
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Jewish wanderers is the merging of
emigration aid societies and mon
mittees in various countries. These
ntergers will be of inestimable value
to intending immigrants in that
they will be able to go to a central
organization for information and
aid.
In h't ince, for instance, the Jew-
ish Emigration committee founded
by the Einigdirect and the Immi-
grant Protective committee, at the
head of which is Chief Rabbi Israel
Levy, have united. A plat eel esid.
'um and council have been elected
and the committee's activities are
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curried Cr,
The chair-
Bias-lea-Emigdirert.
:min is Professor flay' of the tiro .
versity of l'aris amt Dr. Greenberg
has been appointed director.
The united committee will extend
its activities all over France.
In Poland, the Central Jewish
Emigration society, known as the
Jess, has merged with the einig•a-
ion department of the Ica. The
leaders of the new cnnmrillve a
Deputy Dr. !sane Shipper mid Dr.
Morgenstern. The machinery of
the .1111s will do the work and the
representatives of the Ica are tak-
ing special interest in training emi-
grants for agriculture and other
trades.
In Constantinople the local aid
committet, and the bureau of the
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Ica have fused.
All this is in keeping with the
new activities of Bias, to facili.
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for which a fund of 1500,000 is
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