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Remarkable Story Revealed
By Old Documents
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By A. WIENER.
(Copyright, 1927, by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
It was at the time of the Em-
eror Franz I, when the Austrian
State Treasury went bankrupt, and
he Jewish population more than
all others, was reduced to destitu-
ion by the heavy taxation and the
errible financial edicts of the Em-
peror. The special Jew-tax was
the last straw. They had to sell
he very shirt off their hacks in or-
( er to pay, or else they had to leave
he country and find some other
place in which to dwell.
But there they were confronted
by the question—whither? Amer-
ica was almost unknown territory
at the time especially to the small
Jewish communities of Bohemia,
who were hit harder than the rent
by the merciless tax-grinding ma-
chine of the state. There was no
money left for trading. It was im-
posisble to earn an honest crust
of bread. The despair of the Jew-
ish masses reached its highest point
and a feeling grew up that these
were the end of days, the final tor-
tures which would precede the corn-
ing of the Messiah. Entire Jewish
communities began to look forward
to the coming of the Messiah and
there was talk on all sides that the
Jews should gird their loins and go
out to Palestine in order to wait
there for the Messiah. Only a mir-
acle, they said, could save them
from starvation.
At this time, a Jew arose among
them who went about preaching
that all the Jews should rise up
and go forth to Palestine. Ile went
from community to community,
from village to village, and organ-
ized masses of Jews for the exodus
to Palestine. They were to take
carts and horses, tents, scythes and
plows and spades, for use in Pales-
tine to till the ground and to reap.
And in this way, a great stream
of Hallam went forth to Palestine
150 years ago. They sold every-
, thing they had and put the money
into a common fund, which reached
several hundred (haler, and they
trecked to Palestine, a lung proces-
sion of carts and people. They went
through Moravia, Slovakia and the
Burgenland to the Danube, in order
to follow it to Belgrade. As they
passed through the big Jewish com-
munities of Nicolsburg and l'ress-
burg, they were received with ac-
clamation, showered with gifts and
money and food. In some places
the younger Jews joined them in
order to go with them to Palestine.
But as the nays passed by, they
became tired and exhausted. They
kept up bravely, but the horses
, started to fall, and the carts stuck
'in the road. Rumors spread that
great numbers of Jews hearing
much wealth with them were pass-
I
ing through the country, and they
found themselves exposed to attack.
There were continual battles and
many of the Jews were wounded
in the fighting.
On one occasion the Jewish camp
was completely surrounded. The'.
Jews collected all their carts into
the center, grouped them together
like a kind of fortress, placed the
women and children there, and
made a ring of fighting men all
round and they succeeded in beat-',
Mg off the attack. Only there were
many dead and wounded on both,
sides, and the leader and organizer
of the exodus himself fell in battle,'
leaving his people without anyone '
to guide the n,.
liut a leader soon arose in their
midst. Ile was one Jacob Meisel,
who proved himself to be a clever
leader and bofore long he was of-
ficially elected leader. And the pro-
cession continued its journey to
Palestine. Whole armies of vil-
lagers went out against them and
once there was a furious battle
which raged two whole days and
nights. The fortress of carts was
broken up and women and children,
too, fell in the fighting. The Jews
grew weak with hunger and thirst
and the heat and they began to
make offers of submission to the
robber hands who were following
them. They offered one-hundred
ducats, all that they had. But
the peasants refused to believe that
this was all that the Jews possessed
and they insisted that they had hid -
den fabulous treasures among their
goods. It seemed that the end was
near. All the Jews gathered and
repeated the Confession before
Death and prepared to give up
their souls to God.
Suddenly a Ilungarian lord at-
tended by a suite of knights flak-
up, It was Count Esterhazy. Ile
had heard the terrible sound of
weeping aid praying, and he want-
ed to linPaut what was happening.
Count Esterhazy attempted to per-
suade the robbers to leave the Jews
alone; but they refused. With all
respect to him, they said, they could
not understand why he should de-
fend the Jews against his own peo-
ple.
So Count Esterhazy rode off with
his knights, as if he was taking no
further interest in the matter.
About an hour later he returned
with a huge force of Iluzzars, and
there was 0 terrible battle between
the soldiers and the robber hands,
and the latter were driven off with
heavy losses. Scores of them were
left dead on the battlefield. Hun-
dreds were taken prisoners, the re-
mainder fled.
The Jews were overcome with
Durant Tells His
Views of Religion
gratitude to the count, and they
told him why they were making
this journey to l'alestine. Count
Esterhazy grew enthusiastic about
their journey and he and his Buz-
zers escorted them till they were
safe across the border into Croatia. Says He Likes Plato Better
On the road several of the Jews
Than Spinoza, In U. of
died of wounds they had received
M. Interview.
in battle, aiming them the new lead-
er, Jacob Meisel.
By LOUIS ALTSHULER
This is the story as it is told in
(Ann Arbor Correspondent.)
an old German-Bohemian newspa-
per which has just been found in
The adroit Will Durant, self-
Vienna. The details are somewhat designated heretic and outliner,
confused. Historians say that it
and
publicly
acclaimed popular
could not have happened under the
Emepror Franz I, without being philosopher, author and lecturer,
sat
enthroned
in the green room
entered in the Jewish records of the
communities, where it had occur- of Hill Auditorium, after his lec-
ture
on"ls
Progress
a Delusion?"
red. Several suggest that it dates
back to the seventeenth century (Wednesday, Nov. 291, surround-
ed
by
his
many
admirers
of the
and the time of the Emperor Leo-
pold I. The story is very reminis- young intelligentsia. Ile was the,
cynosure
of
all
eyes,
and
he
evi-
cent of the exodus under Rabbi Ju-
dah Hassid. here, too, Count Es- dently liked it. He sat there,'
terhazy played the part of saviour smiling half cynically, half affably,
to the Jewish wanderers, but the his eyes partly closed, his hands
details of the two stories do not folded in his lap, twiddling his
agree. And the end of the new, thumbs.
is the lust animal that
story is different, more terrible."
According to the Bohemian version, : woman domesticated," said Du-
only five Jews reached Palestine, rant, much to the amusement of
the others died on the road, or re- the young girls there.
turned home to Bohemia broken
I like Spinoza so well, because
and wounded. A Croatian lord re- he, better than any other, had a
fused to let them pass over the sense of the whole; he was deep
frontier and many of them were ar- and profound; and philosophy,
rested and thrown into gaol. Of you know, is a study of the per-
the five who (lid reach Palestine, spective. I like Plato better, how-
one was brought back blind to his ever, because he added brilliancy
relatives in Bohemia. His name to his profundity. Ile was an
was Hartman and it Was prabably artist."
a descendant who became the celc-
"Christianity, in its essence, has
brated Viennese scholar and finan- no place for intelligence. A com-
cier Moritz Hartman.
bination of the ethical doctrines
The historians are puzzled. They of Christ, the intelligence of Soc-
are unable to say whether it is an- rates or Aristotle, and the code of '
other version of the exodus under , honor of Nietzsche, the belief that
Judah Hassid, or whether it is a above all I must be a gentleman—,
new story of the exodus of which —that is the ideal conception of '
nothing was known hitherto. In life. God is a continual process
any case, it is a very gripping and ; of seeking the highest in life. Re-
terrible account of an attempt ligion is a technique of adjusting
made 150 years ago by a large body' oneself with ulterior results and
of Jews to return to l'alestine with purposes with the world. Truth is
spades and plows and sythes in or- the co-ordinate evidence of the
der to till the soil of the Zloty Land. senses, something that I get, I may
say, through my fingertips."
• • •
The production of "Ilello U,"
the Millet revue, announced last
week, has ben cancelled. Because
of the severe cutting it received
at the hands of Herbert Kenyon,
of the university committee
Detroit Committee For Or- , head
on dramatic productions, it was
phan Home Sponsors
deemed inadvisable to continue ,
the show, as there would be in-
Raffle.
sufficient time to recreate the bad-'
ly mutilated parts before the pro-
The local committee of the ' duction date.
MICA Orphans' Ilome and Farm
From what I know of the play,
School, through its secretary, and from what I have seen of it,
Louis Busker, is sponsoring a I could find no justification for
raffle on behalf of the school. the numerous cuts, unless it was
Raffle tickets have been mailed for sonic ulterior motives, such as
broadcast to Detroit Jewry, to- !discouraging similar future at-
gether with tickets to the amount I tempts on the campus, or
of $2, and a generous response is noting too great competition from
anticipated.
1 the Mimes. The action on the
Among the articles that will be part of the students who worked
awarded to those holding the lucky hard to produce something that
tickets are four imported Japanese would, in some form, show an tip-
lustre tea sets, one electric fire- : preciation of the backers of this
place, one wrist watch, three , foundation, is highly commend-
clocks, one solid cowhide suitcase, ' able, while the action on the part
one steamer trunk, three footballs, of the censors is, in my belief,
twop airs of ice skates, one elec- rank and despicable.
• •
tric curling iron, one manicure
set, one wagon, one scooter, one
Ray Baer, prominent footballer,
baby walker, two children's furni- has received honors from all sport
ture sets, one erector set, one car- critics in the country. Ile is an
penter's chest of tools, one Gris- unanimous choice for the All-Con-
wold Dutch oven, six safety razors, . ference team and has been placed
three electric boudoir lamps and I on several All-American selec- .-
such other articles as may be con- lions. Ile has accepted a request
tributed in the future by friends to play in the intersectional foot-
and sympathizers.
ball game, held annually in tali-
The drawing of the lots will take , fornia for charitable purposes. In
place in the offices of the commit- his field , he has done a great deal
I
tee on Dec. 19.
toward the recognition of Jewish
student participation in campus
activities.
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FASCISM FAVORS
JEWS, SAYS DUCE
GIVES $100,000 TO
JEWSH ORPHAN HOME
CIIICAGO.—(J. T. A.)—A gift
Mussolini Tells Roumanian of $100,000 to the Marks Nathan
Jewish Orphan Home here was
Press That He Opposes
made by Morris Katz and his son,
Anti-Semitism.
BUCHAREST. — (J. T. A.) —
Fascism and anti-Semitism are dia-
metrically opposed to each other
and the attempts of German na-
tionalists to clothe their anti-Sem-
itism in the garb of Fascism is ab-
surd, Mussolini declared to a dele-
gation of Roumanian press repre-
sentatives received by him at Rome.
The Adeverul, Roumanian news-
paper, quotes the Italian Premier
as saying that Fascism was not for
export. "Fascist anti-Semitism or
anti-Semitic Fascism is an absurd-
ity. We have been much amused
by the efforts of the anti-Semites
in Germany and elsewhere to asso-
ciate Fascism with anti-Semitism.
Fascism seeks unity; anti-Semitism
seeks destruction and separation.
We protest against these attempts
which compromise Fascism. Anti-
Semitism is a product of Barbar-
ism to which our movement is dia-
metrically opposed. If we are to
exclude Jews, we will only
strengthen our enemies," Mussolini
stated
: Samuel. Samuel Katz is president
of the Publix Theatres.
According to Charles I. Ilerron,
president of the home. the gift
will be set aside as a trust fund,'
. the income of which will be used
!for the care and guidance of the
graduates of the home.
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