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Another Magnificent Gift.
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Felix M. Warburg's $1,000,000 contribution to the
Russian colonization fund, to match Julius Rosenwald's
$5,000,000 donation, is another of the most magnificent
philanthropic actions in the history of American Jews.
Mr. Rosenwald has in previous war relief campaigns
taken the lead among our people throughout the world
in donating the largest sums for the relief of war and
pogrom stricken European Jews. Mr. Warburg now
follows his lead and takes his place among the world's
noblest Jewish philanthropists.
In the progress that is being made to match Mr.
Rosenwald's gift with another $5,000,000, thus raising
a $10,000,000 sum for the settlement of Jews on farms
in Russia, it is important that one thing be clarified. Mr.
Warburg has made it clear that he does not intend,
with his contribution, to divert interest from the efforts
in Palestine. A Zionist official at the same time stated
that the two movements were not competitive, and it
is exactly this that is important as a difference between
the two movements for colonization, in Russia and in
Palestine:
If Russian land settlement is ever to be interpreted
as competitive to Palestine, and if Zionists are to lose
heart because another constructive relief effort is be-
ing made in behalf of a million poverty stricken Russian
Jews, confusing it as an effort to hurt the movement
for the reconstruction of the Jewish Homeland in Pal-
estin, it will be nothing short of an admission of failure
and bankruptcy on the part of Zionists. Calm and un-
excitable leaders in the Zionist movement, however,
will never yield to such panicky thinking. Historically,
Palestine has earned priority. In sentiment and aspira-
tion of our people, momentum in which was gained as
a result of centuries of praying for Palestine's restor-
ation, the Land of Israel has gained precedence in priv-
ilege as a place for Jewish colonization. The cultural
and moral achievements, not to speak of the physical
accomplishment in the Jewish Homeland, retain for
Zionist endeavor superiority in rank of Jewish land set-
tlement.
Palestine's priority, however, in no way detracts
from the importance of the agrarian effort of Messrs.
Rosenwald, Warburg, Louis Marshall and James N.
Rosenberg. Russia's starving million must be given an
opportunity to save itself, and land settlement is the
only remedy possible. Both movements, therefore,
that of Palestine's resettlement and the colonization of
Russian Jewry on the soil, are the most important tasks
facing Israel today.
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According to Jewish law, every Jew is obligated
either to write a scroll of the Law himself, or if he does
not do so, to cause it to be written for him. The collec-
tion of books, by virtue of this, becomes a duty for Jews,
and it is due perhaps to this law more than anything
else that we are called "Am liasofer,"-The People
of the Book.
The mere fact, however, that this is being written
during a seven-day period set aside by a recent tradi-
tion as "Jewish Book Week" seems to indicate that our
people has of late resigned from this title. The assign-
ment of a period of time in this country to stimulate the
purchase of Jewish books, and to encourage good Jew-
ish reading among Jews, is like an admission that the
Jewish books are forsaken by our people.
While it is hardly possible to arouse an interest in
books, culture and learning by merely designating a
certain brief period in the year as a time for stimulat-
ing good reading, every means possible ought never-
theless be made of in reawakening a love in the Jew
for good reading and an interest in Jewish writings, and
to stimulate a revival of book collections which are still
a trait in European Jewish communities.
"Jewish Book Week" is being observed during this
week one day of which is being celebrated as the Schol-
ars' Festival (on Lag b'Omer), the day on which, ac-
cording to tradition, the plague which raged among the
students of Rabbi Akiba stopped. To stimulate the pur-
chase and reading of good and more Jewish books is an
appropriate way of celebrating this festival of the schol-
ars.
"Mistress and Maid"-Yiddish vs. Hebrew.
The Jewish National Workers Alliance (Nationaler
Arbeiter Verband), in convektion here the early part
of the week, revived the now almost ancient conflict
between Hebrew and Yiddish. Dr. Chaim Zhitlovsky,
brilliant scholar and orator, philosopher and national-
ist theorist, and we might add that he is a very good
Zionist, has nevertheless fallen into grave error with his
lengthy address at the Sunday afternoon session of the
convention. Ignoring the scores of problems that are
facing the movement for Palestine's upbuilding, he once
again picked on Yiddish as the prime issue in the con-
flict and made the grave charge against Dr. Chaim
Weizmann that the latter, in his zeal for Hebrew, is
sacrificing the possibility of a large immigration into
Palestine because he fears that a large influx of East
European Jews would entirely eliminate Hebrew and
make Yiddish the language of Palestine.
The bitterness with which Dr. Zhitlovsky made his
charges against the President of the World Zionist Or-
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ganization, and the seriousness with which he attacked
the Ilebraist movement at times made us wonder as to
what was wrong with the lecturer. Following a brilliant
analysis of the problems leading up to the need for the
establishment of a Jewish national center in Palestine,
Dr. Zhitlovsky immediately sunk from the sublime to
the ridiculous. In advocating Yiddish as the universal
Jewish language and as the ruling Palestine medium
of conversation, he ignored the most elementary facts
in the situation : that outside of Palestine, in the States,
in England, in France, in practically every land on
earth, it is the most natural thing under the sun for the
Jew to adopt the language of his environment. We
can't help but feel that Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, in his
brilliant reply to Dr. Zhitlovsky's charges, was right
when he pointed out that even in the most patriotic of
Yiddish Volkshul classes the pupils turn to English as
soon as they have left the Yiddish environment. It is
the most natural thing in the world for the boy and the
girl to use the language of the street, of the playground,
and, why not admit, of the home. It is at the same time
a cause of joy to know that under the existing circum-
stances in the language question, in the two or three
Yiddish schools in Jerusalem, whose Agudist directors
consider it a sacrilege for "loshon kodesh," the holy
tongue, to be used as an every day medium of expres-
sion, the pupils, when the teachers' backs are turned
upon them, resort to Hebrew. Because in Palestine it is
Hebrew that is the most natural tongue.
So why fool ourselves? And why divert the issue
from the economic and social problems that face us in
Palestine to that of a narrow discussion of a Hebrew-
Yiddish struggle? And why not accept the will of
the Palestine workers, as was stated to the convention
here by Dr. Arlosoroff, that they insist on the right to
choose their language, and they have chosen Hebrew?
The most interesting expression on the question of
Hebrew and Yiddish remains the chapter, "Mistress
and Maid," in the late Yehoash's (Solomon Bloom-
garden) book, "The Feet of the Messenger." "Mistress
and Maid" were the terms employed by Maskilim to de-
note Hebrew and Yiddish respectively. In a resume of
his experiences in which the conflict of Yiddish and
Hebrew played their parts, Yehoash wrote among other
things:
Jewish Book Week.
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James Marshall, son of Louis Marshall, the eminent
leader in American Jewry, is a keen observer. At least
I judge so from his article in the April issue of The
Menorah Journal," which I am sorry through an over-
sight, is being called at so late a day to the attention of
the readers of this column. Mr. Marshall discusses every
problem, well, maybe not every one, but most problems
that are always being most talked about when Jews
geier. And I ant sure that it will repay you to get a
coPy of the Menorah Journal, which is published at 63
Fifth avenue, New York, and read what a representative
of the younger generation has to say on these various
subjects. I am glad to advertise the Menorah Journal
because I think it just about the most worth-while Jew-
ish publication in this country.
Personally I find myself daily believing moredaod more
in the possibility of reviving the language of our forebears
in Eretz Yisroel. Hebrew has always been a necessity in
Palestine as a universal tongue in which Jews that come
hither from every corner of the earth have been able to
understand one another. The Jew from Persia and the
Jew from Afghanistan, the Jew from Germany and the
Jew from Yemen, were obliged to use Hebrew in order to
find a brother in one another. This necessity becomes
daily stronger, and will provide a constant incentive to the
employment of Hebrew. In time Hebrew can become as
natural to the residents of Palestine as it was to our
ancestors two thousand years ago.
After all, Hebrew has always been an important ek-
meet in all the dialects that Jews have adopted in the
various lands where they were dispersed. Perhaps in a
sense one might- even call Yiddish a Hebraic dialect.
When Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Chancellor of the He-
brew University at Jerusalem, on his recent American
visit, accepted a sum of money for the establishment of
a Yiddish chair at the university, there was hope that
bitterness would be removed from the Hebrew-Yiddish
controversy, and that the latter would indeed be ac-
cepted as a "Hebrew dialect." But when Dr. Zhitlovsky
refers to Hebrew as a foreign language (auslaendisher
loshon) he not only does not do his cause any good, but
creates a bitterness which hurts the movements he aims
to aid.
Rome and Jerusalem.
Rome last week celebrated its two thousand six hun-
dred and eighty-first birthday. It is interesting to note
from the reports of the celebration that it was a Fascist
holiday. It is even more interesting for the Jew to know
that a birthday of ancient Rome was observed by Ital-
ians and not by Romans. The Italian of today is not
the Roman of old. The Romans' disappearance is com-
plete.
Rome's anniversary celebration also recalls the an-
cient struggle between that state and Jerusalem. It
was at the hands of Rome that the Jewish State received
its last blow. The Jewish State was conquered by Titus
and Rome rejoiced. It interpreted the conquest as the
subduction of the Jewish people, and therein was pow-
erful Rome's error.
Even to the great Roman Empire the conquest of
small Judaea seemed no usual triumph, and a number
of arches were erected to the glory of Titus. They
pointed to "Judaea devicta" and "Judaea capta," the
conquered and the captive Judaea, and on one of the
arches was inscribed the legend :
The Senate and people of Rome have erected this arch
to the first of their citizens, His Sacred Majesty, Titus
Caesar Vespasian, son of the God Vespasian, High Priest,
invested for the tenth time with tribunician power, hailed
commander seventeen times, chosen consul eight times,
Father of his Country, because, led by the guidance, wisdom
and divine favor of his father, he subdued the race of the
Jews and destroyed their city of Jerusalem, a city which
all kings, commanders, and nations before him have either
attacked in vain, or left wholly unassailed.
Today Jerusalem, the spirit of Israel, remains to
laugh at Rome's boasts. While the Roman rejoiced
that "he subdued the race of the Jews and destroyed
their city of Jerusalem," the Jew stubbornly refusd to
disappear. "I shall not die but live to declare the
works of the Lord," was his reply in the words of the
psalmist. A prevailing tradition in Rome, emphasing
the stubborness in the Jew's will to live, even opened
for the inhabitants of Rome's ghetto inhabitants a way
between the arch and the Palatine. that Jews should
not have to pass under the Arch of Titus. Although
the Jew's very passing under the arch would have given
the lie to the false legend of triumph.
Emma Lazarus, in.one of her finest poems, "Gifts,"
offers a reasou. The Roman cried for Power, and today
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A roofless ruin stands where once abode
Th' imperial race of everlasting Rome.
But the Jew cried for Truth. "lie became the slave of
the Idea." And-
Seek him today, and find in every land;
No fire consumes him, neither floods devour;
Immortal through the lamp within his hand.
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Here is one statement that Marshall made that seems
to me to contain many elements of truth. Speaking of
the American-Jewish community, he makes this bold
assertion:
There is no general communal life, except in
menet of philanthropy, nothing that arouses gen-
eral Jewish interest except the cry of anti-Semi-
tism. The, contact of the young people with the
synagogues has been becoming more tenuous and
thus far even the establishment of Jewish Centers
does not seem to have done more than to create
a certain w1cial stability. . . . Among the Jews
the flow of modernity is blended with a sense of
shame at being a people apart; and one is aware
of a growing desire of American Jews, especially
of the well-to-do whose pockets hold the key to
many gates, to become assimilated. The Ameri-
can rabbinate has neither the materials nor the
genius to cope with the spiritual dissolution which
the congregation is undergoing under the blessings
of freedom.
Of course I am not prepared to follow him all the
way and I think he is just a little extreme in his judg-
ments. Nevertheless he gives all Jewish leaders some-
thing to think kbout.
Sometimes I don't know whether a letter is meant
for my eyes only or if it is to be published and answered
through this column. I do not publish letters that I am
sure'are meant to be confidential, but I would ask those
who do desire their correspondence to be considered con-
fidential to please advise me to that effect. If they don't
they are likely (if their letters are of general interest)
to find them in this column. I have a letter in front of
me at this moment that I am in doubt about. It is from
a gentleman in Washington, D. C., who wants to know
if money shouldn't be first contributed to necessary
home-communal causes, then outside appeals should be
considered.
He feels that the communal pride on the part of a
certain group of Jews in failing to provide a proper edi-
fice for religious worship in a desirable residential dis-
trict caused Gentiles to move away. Whereas, if an
attractive synagogue had been built instead of using a
remodeled private dwelling, the neighbors would have
welcomed it, instead of resenting it. In the interest of
truth I must say, that I have never known a temple,
regardless of how pretentious if built in a fine residen-
tial district, which did not arouse the ire of neighbors.
People don't like church property next door to them.
This holds true of Christian as well as of Jewish houses
of worship. If my correspondent wants to test the truth
of this statement let him observe the reaction of a neigh-
borhood in the next fine temple or synagogue or church
that is built in an exclusive residential district of his
city. Why I know Jews. any number of them, who
resent the presence of synagogues, beautiful buildings,
too, next door to them. And there is no anti-Semitism
in their attitude, they just don't like crowds and con-
fusion, and automobiles lining the curbs in front of their
homes.
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So the Negro Y. M. C. A.'s are to have a "Julius
Rosenwald Day"-a yearly holiday to honor the memory
of the one man in this country who has been their great-
est inspiration and encouragement.. If the newspaper
statements are correct Mr. Rosenwald has given twenty
million dollars to Negro educational and "Y" movements.
This seems to me to be an astonishingly large sum and I
question whether most of my readers ever thought that
Mr. Rosenwald had given no much money to Negro wel-
fare. I cannot dismiss this subject without recalling
the whisperings that swept the country when the Klan
had its peak sucker list that Sears Roebuck & Co. were
being quietly discriminated against in certain sections of
the country because Mr. Rosenwald was such a bene-
factor to the Negro race. Undoubtedly, some of the more
ignorant of the Klan possibly showed their displeasure
of Mr. Rosenwald's "Un-American" attitude but not any
who were normal-minded.
I was amused to read that the Nation, which is trying
to make the world safe for "Humor," is going to give a
Blacklist Party on Tuesday, May 9, at the Level Club in
New. York, which is at 253 West Seventy-third street. I
Ilfam exact about the time and the place because if any
of my readers have a sense of humor and will be in New
York on that date, they may take a dollar-bill and go to
the party. A group of dangerous characters, those black-
listed by the Daughters of the American Revolution, will
be the entertainers. Heywood Broun and Edna Ferber
and Clarence Darrow and a lot of others. If you are a
radical or have ever been seen in public with such dan-
gerous characters as Rabbi Stephen Wise or Bertrand
Russell or Jane Addams, you are entitled to attend this
dinner. Really I sometimes think that those of you who
are so conventional and spend their time in New York in
just eating food and dancing and going to night clubs and
shows, ought to get off of Broadway long enough to get
the flavor of real life and not the artificial kind that is
prepared by "promoters.. who:Canned Entertainment."
So I see that Baron von Huenefeld is the son of a
Jewish mother. Well, that will help the Jewish cause in
Germany-maybe! I undertsand that there has been
considerable anti-Semitic agitation in some of the press
of Germany in connection with the flight. But, of course,
that means nothing because anti-Semitic agitations are
developed every hour in Germany. It doesn's make the
slightest difference what the occasion, there is always an
anti-Semitic demonstration. If a man eats two plates
of soup, it at once becomes a matter for nationalistic
propaganda and it is discovered that the Jew is at the
bottom of it-the soup. Great country, Germany. At
any event the Jews can claim half of the flier. That evens
matters up a bit in connection with Christopher Colum-
bus. But wait a minute, wait a minute! We have our
own Levine who flew to Germany. Occasion for another
anti-Semitic outburst.
I have been criticized for criticizing the "King of
Kings" picture-I am told the Jews are too sensitive-
well, we are not the only ones as this clipping from a
London paper will attest:
During the past two weeks it has been stated
that the American producers are withdrawing the
film, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
because it engenderer the old war spirit. An Irish
film, "The Callahans and the Murphys" has also
been withdrawn in America because of Irish oppo-
sition. The exhibition of "Beau Geste" in Shang-
hai. recently. was the cause of disturbances and
active protests by French ex-soldiers. And more
recently still comes the intimation from the Berlin
correspondent of the Times that the firm depicting
the life of Martin Luther has been shown on the
Berlin screens for the last time because of strong
Roman Catholic protests. The view of Protest.
ants in Germany is that in a film attempting to
present the life of Martin Luther, it would have
been impossible to have ignored some of these
On • former occasion. an American film was shown
in thin country depicting scenes from the Revolu-
tionary War in the eighteenth century distinctly
unfavorable to the British point of view, and it
might be said to have jeopardized British-Ameri-
can relations.
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The New Book of Lamentations
A Private Letter From Soviet Russia.
Translated from
By A.
the Hebrew in the
Hadoar.
D. MARKSON
know me at all. It was a lesson in
With no other alternative I am
writing this letter to you. But history. By order of the principal
the teacher continued his lesson.
is this really a letter? Why, it is a
Ile was lecturing: "The history be-
second Book of Lamentations, and
fore the Bolshevik revolution is a
it even surpasses the Biblical book
product of the bourgeois, and
with its deep sorrow and wailing. therefore it is all deceptions. It is
all the invention of those bour-
Moreover, while the Book of
geois and their authors and there
Lamentations is being read only is not a grain of truth in it. The
once a year, on Tisha b'Av, this real history begins with the Com-
new "Kinah" is being read every
munisst. This week those bour-
day by all devout Russian Jews.
geois are celebrating Chanukah,
Forgive me, dear brother, for they light candles in the windows"
. Here the principal was called
making your life bitter with these
lamentations. I know I am not to the office. The teacher closed
the door immediately and began
the only one with his tales of woe.
You have more than enough telling the little pupils with great
brothers in distress who pour their enthusiasm and powerful emphasis
bitter hearts to you and fill your the importance of Chanukah, of
cup of tears with new tears every the greatness of Judah the Macca-
bacon, of those Jewish traitors, the
day.
But this time I do not come to Hellenists, who joined Antiochus.
When the teacher told them about
you with my own sufferings. I
am reconciled with them. Follow- the heroic death of Judah on the
battlefield, his eyes were moist
ing your advice I became a farmer
in one of the Cherson settlements. with tears and one boy exclaimed:
"Comrade
teacher, I would like to
I sold house and chattels. I took
be a bourgeoise like Judah." An-
- my delicate wife and my tender
other
pupil
exclaimed innocently:
children and, together with a few
more families of my native town- "Why, that is just what our Jewish
Bolsheviks
are doing right now!
let, we became farmers. I
ploughed, sowed, weeded thorns Just like those Hellenists!"
Such teachers we had in their
and thistles, and-we simply starve
every day. The terrible cold de- scLools in the scores and hun-
vastates us. Every day I go to dreds! That's how we beat the
the forest, about four Russian enemy within his stronghold and
miles (about 18 English miles)
with his own weapon. But that
from our hut. I chop some wood was two years ago, before we were
and carry it home on my shoul- famished by our poverty and op-
ders to keep my frail and tender pression. We could still find some-
children warm. Well, I have rec-
thing valuable in the house to
onciled with all that. I am liv• pawn for bread. But now, famine
ing among my brethren in Rus- with all the angels of destruction
sia and I have to bear with them are devastating and decimating our
all suffering and sorrow. I did ranks. Our tender children, our in-
not come to tell you my own suf-
nocent babes are begging for a
fering, but I came to let you hear piece of bread. Many of our good
the suffering of a people, the comrades died, emigrated, or are
groanings of our brethren, the out- wallowing in the filth in Siberia.
cry of our dear friends, a cry of Those who remained laid down
bitter despair which grasped all their weapons despondently. Our
our national heroes who have
front is thinning out; the number
fought no bravely and obstinately of the slain, physically or spirit-
for our Torah and our language, ually, is increasing hourly, and the
and were full of hope and believed
crue and obnoxious enemy is tri-
that their indomitable will to save
umphant. My heart breaks at the
our treasures will conquer. Now, sight of this national deathly
being overwhelmed with poverty agony.
and affliction they are laying down
Now the bitter irony of it. Peo-
their weapons. You know how ple who live in prosperity and en-
many trials we have been going joy all the luxuries of life, who
through in the last 10 years, but eat and drink like human beings
what a crushing and mortifying and enjoy the light and freedom of
trial when your dearest souls are a civilized world supply us with
starving for a piece of bread and good council. We, who walk in
you have to stand and look at them the darkness who have lost every
helplessly. To whom shall I conic hope and aspiration. "Why don't
if not to you?
you go back to the farm? Give up
Yes, my dear brother. you have your Shacher-Machep (petty busi-
suffered with us all the outrages ness of doubtful character)! Stop
of the great war, all the atrocities breathing the stifling air of the
and pogroms of Petluria, Denikin city." Very wise and profitable
and the tyrannies of the Polish council, indeed. Crimea, Cherson,
government. Together with us you and now, a new son was given to
were an eye-witness to all the us: Amur-Sibbia. Our good deliv-
calamities of our people. We, erers and providers are glorifying
therefore, turn to you to be our in their newspaper, the Sheker
mouthpiece and proclaim to the (The Lie, an ironical name for the
great world the bitter truth. We Jewish Bolshevik paper Der Ernes,
appeal to you: Cry aloud, do not meaning "the truth") the new
spare, lift up your voice like a Jewish commonwealth beyond the
horn, let the world hear through mountain darkness. Everything
your voice the groaning and out- is ready for the great banquet.
cries of millions of sighing and They are just waiting for those
groaning people, an outcry of an American philanthropists to open
important part of a people on the their pocketbooks. God Almighty!
brink of an abyss; perhaps it will we live in a lime when a person
stir to great pity one whose Jewish sits in his office and knows exactly
heart is still beating.
what is going on in every nook and
Two years ago, when I traveled corner on our globe, and here peo-
in Ukraine, a spark of hope flashed ple are blind to see the exact na-
here and there that "the Glory of ture of that movement to bring
Israel will not fail." In every the Jews back to the soil. More-
town and townlet 1 met a chosen over, those representatives and in-
few who were fighting with our vestigators who keep on coming to
atrocious internal enemy, defend- see the new Russia do not see
ing bravely our spiritual posses- what they ought to see.
sions, our Torah and our lan-
You surely remember the prepa-
guage. On the garrets, in the cel- rations they used to make under
lars, in stalls and stables, before the Czar's regime for the guber-
sunrise, or stormy night-they nator when he came to visit a
were spreading the knowledge of town. A ukase was promulgated
Judaism. They scoffed at all shots that every one must sweep the
and bombs that the malicious in-
pavement, kalsomine the house,
ternal enemy showered on them. and light the lanterns. They would
Sometimes they even dared to also warn that nobody dare pre-
break into the ranks of the enemy sent a petition or complaint to the
and saved with a mighty hand the gubornator, but he shall deliver
prey out of his mouth. They used it to the local magistrate. Now,
every means to save the poor under the present regime, we have
"lamb' from the mouth of the the same process. Three days
ferocious lion. Two years ago I before the arrival of a prominent
was in the townlet B- during visitor from abroad notice is given
Chanukah. I went in to one of that on that day an American
the schools to visit my young tourist, or an English press corre-
friend who was the principal of
spondent, will visit the colony.
that school, a hard-boiled Com- The men must all be in the field,
munist, a thick-witted and per- all
themselves
with
busying
verted Yev-seh. He showed me ploughing, sowing, weeding, dig-
through the classes to observe the ging. The women must stay home
studies and the order and disci- and busy themselves with milking
pline in the Yev-sek schools. We cows, shearing the sheep.
entered one clam-room where the
Humiliated, subdued, with a
teacher was "one of us," a faith- spine-breaking brow we receive
ful Hebraist and a devoted Zionist.
The teacher pretended not to
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A Sheaf of Shellas
By RABBI LEON FRAM
Director of Religious Education. Temple Beth El.
(Readers of The Detroit Jewish
10. To what Jewish congrega-
Chronicle are invited to submit tion did Benjamin Franklin makc
questions for Rabbi Fram to an- a contribution?
swer. Address Rabbi Leon Fram,
11. Who was Mordecai Manuel
Temple Beth El, Detroit.)
Noah?
1. Where is the first quarantine
12. What offices did Mordecai
law in history to be found?
Manuel Noah hold?
2. What influence did this first
13. What important principle
quarantine law have on the law of of international law did Mordecai
the state of Michigan?
Manuel Noah establish?
3. Which of the Prophets was
14. Why was Mordecai Manuel
thrown into prison for his prophe- Noah called the first Zionist?
cies?
15. Why is Grand Island in the
4. Which of the Prophets was Niagara River near Buffalo an im-
chased out of town for his prophe- portant spot for Jewish history?
cies?
16. What new name did Morde-
5. Which of the Prophets was cai Manuel Noah give to Grand
called "crazy"?
island?
6. Which of the Prophets had a
17. What is Ararat?
price on his head?
18. Who was the first American
7. Which of the rabbis was tor- Jew to urge the restoration of Pal-
tured to death by the Romans?
estine?
8. On what two holidays are the
19. What former Detroiter was
martyr rabbis commemorated in recently voted the foremost citi-
the services?
zen of New Orleans?
9. What Jewish congregations
20. Who was Judah Touro?
carried on • correspondence with
George Washington?
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