AmericaN 'apish periodical airier - CLIFTON AMU' - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO lie mcor 11 =1• 11...10 Ilitallitell11110111%1 Rceacte PAGE THREE f 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 A GREAT BOOK books to the library. LIBRARY OF JEWISH CENTER I ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS We extend our best wishes for the New Year to our Jewish Friends and Pat- rons. May the New Year spell the real- ization of your fondest hopes and the teaching of your highest goals. United Pretzel & Cone ha•tea7 , Company 9 'Alakel's of All Kinds Ice Cream Cones Golden Crisp Pretzels Sunshine Potato Chips Land of Tumbled- J 1414 TWENTY-FIRST STREET Palaces By B. LAYBY Lafayette 2179 1111101111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111/11111111111iM111141111111111111111111t11111111144111111111114111111(11111111111111211111 Rosh Hashonah Greetings. Tadross & Zahloute Importers of Oriental and Chinese 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- struct and inspire you to live more 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 TRAGIC 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 "Like Christians, like Jews, barbed wire entanglements of war :Manufacturers of Heine said. And slave the Chris- days, is not a palace to impress Buis had their palaces and courts, one. It is 110 longer a palace, it is the Jews too had their palaces and a ruin. II We specialize in (leaning and Repairing Rugs by Native Methods 52 West Adams, Fine Arts Bldg. 1111111111111H1011111111111111111111111111111111111H1111111111H111111111111111111111101 1 14 And the rabbinical palaces, too, are ruins, both those which are = burnt down and destroyed and Rosh Hashonah those which have been restored. = There are the famous courts of Greetings. Husiatin and Czortkov. They are = burnt down, demolished, overgrown — 1 0 h n s c b e n with grass. In the park of the Czortkoy toilful, the trees were felled during the war, and now it P rented as a sport ground to a 0 0 Polish football club. The Hassidim and even the ordinary residents of O Czortkov have repeatedly asked the rabbi to return o tkov. But t the rabbi always declines. Ile feels, • - E. - - and rightly, that it would be a mis- 6425 CONCORD take.. In exile, he is a king in exile, g. with all the old pride and glory upon him. But if he returns to 6481 Czortkovand restores a little hit of — his palace, puts in a few' doors and O windows repairs some of the — ♦ rooms, he will be the rabbi of a ruin, a partly-restored ruin, and the spirit of ruins and a tumble- Season's Greetings. down palace will lie heavily upon 5156 E-- him. A ruin can be beautiful, can be impressive, can radiate influ- Hamtramck Concrete ence, if it is imposing and majestic, _ IN .. _ BLOCKS .. E ==- . .= Excavating and Concrete Basements Under , -m, -1. Old Buildings — General Repairs. 2 -- . = t- '-'.=.. --- -- EUCLID ii SON viAsosiesseisessomosavessossivomiswoomoommoir. ° 0. A Happy New Year. / / / CEMENT BLOCKS ORNAMENTAL STONE SILLS, CAPS, ETC. 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And the rabbis of Czortkor and Ilusiatyn realize that. The whole O Empire 1093 of the rabbinical area—Czortkoe, O Ilusiatyn, Kopyczynce, Mielnice-- is an area of empty, ruined palaces, like the palaces of the squires 0 around them. "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 1414 Broadway : Clifford 6082 Czortkuv palace, for example, was hMlt up. It had no parks, no high hedges. It was a big building with Strictly home cooking. Best of food. Best of service. a lot of rooms, and that it was net take orders for weddings, parties. etc, During • difficult matter to restore. The Passover Week we will serve strictly kosher meals. house looked a little smudged and sooty, but Betz never put its faith , aeo-G000s0000000000000000imoao-txt0000000aea000-0000 in grandeur and pomp and tho court at lielz was never imposo 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- down court. The rabbi lives in a 3043 MAYBURY GRAND AVENUE house which is still in good condi- Lafayette 2051 tion, but the court is in ruins. 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