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takes the place of the nocturnal degradation. Ile decided to cut palling, agonizing thought struck
"This simple enii-
the cilaZoll.
short the conversation.
silence.
"There is no news in Vilna," he grant who saw the famous Cantor
"Here invisible, everlasting, ale- •
mental forces exist!" This awe-in- now answered the first question. Mintz in Vilna can't believe that I
By BERNARD ISAACS
am he!" Ile blinked rapidly from
..
spiring thought entered his heart. "11hom
do you know there?"
What are you saying? What inward pain.
(Continued from Preceding Paged. "A terrible world! Even at night
? Wh om do I
are
you
as
king
"What is your naffie, if I nut,
these forces are not at rest."
Mrs. Gold reddened.
1A'hen he again entered the know? Why, I am Chazon Mintz ask?" the cantor turned to Reh
"Here is a Siddur, make ki
The chazon of the great synagogue Yankel with affected noncha-
lush," invited Reb Yankel.
synag.ogue, t he two men were no in Vilna. I wish I bad never known 1,,,,, e ,
Benny turned the Siddu
„
longer engaged in counting money. it. If it wasn't for the money they
d vanished, an d on ly sent no. from Am erica before I IleaI am the son of Itch Josha
down, and gazed askance at it. Ilia The
box r bill lay on the table be-
one pape
fate turned crimson.
r'
left, I wouldn't even have had the
• Hell
Josh Bear? I remem-
"
Mrs. Gold saw that her Benny tween them.
traveling
e xpe ns es.
necessary
a moment-Oh, Itch
Itch Yankel sat down and, tak•. 1,,,,,,i tine ! After years
was in a'dilemma and bowed her
tier-wait-a
d what
do you M-
d
n
head. But Mr. Gold interposed, inis the only book he could find, a how did they repay me? What did Josh,
Nothing, tend todo in this blessed country?"
Siddur,
idly
turned
its
pages
while
those
murmuring apologetically.
paupers give m e?
t
r"
y?
. 'I am a rabbi. They brought
"You understand, do you not? listening to the following conver- nothing at all! 1S'hy, i this month,
Ellul, I earned more n the came-
Our Benny-as I said before, cation.
"Then whose is the five dollars?" tery than I earned there maybe me here from Vilna to officiate in
America is not Europe. The
onn oohf , the western cities."
half a year! They didn't spare me
longer you stay the more you asked one man.
yes, you are the new
will learn—"
"I'm not ashamed to say it., any work; that I won't. deny. The rabbi. Yes, I heard. I am very
shul was packed whenever I led
Reb Yankel began to sing, "Re- mine," returned the other.
g11/11 to know you. And so you
"For what? For the nice fu- the service, but what did they do
deem thy people from the midst of
ta i.,(: tittoi c.hrar me sing Slichoth?
the Goluth," in a voice strangely neral oration you made in the for nw. To think of the time and v
sad and ringing with a melancholy cemetery?" . labor I spent on the choir alone! „c. o. .,
Day and night, (lay and night -if
cadence.
Again the slight smile flitted
"Of course! Where does y our . wil
.
Benny gazed at him admiringly. fat purse come from? have it to h 1 . Med to work as hard as this over the rabbi's face and vanished
me, I could bathe in gold! It ut
"I never saw such a handsome me. I have never gone after the
idle as I please-only as suddenly as it had appeared.
Jew before in my life," he said to poor and the penniless, thank God! here l's As
The cliental felt that the young
his parents in English. "Ile has I have a keen scent; I can smell before the High Holydays, I get
co
the lo n-
the appearance of a priest or a 'Nlezume' from afar. Ha, ha, ha!" together it few latys fromwherever rabbi was trying to
Ile cut
understood
1 can and give them a hurired train versation short.
bishop."
that the name Cantor Mintz,
"Yes, indeed, no eq.., is better
jug
weeks.
one -vhom he had seen and heard in
"Where is you good taste today, than you in that."
And n°
in 8 f8w
says a wont, everything is all right,
Benny?" snapped Mrs. Gold, as
"You can rely on me. If it in fact, they beg me to make it it•ilata, was dear and sacred to this
she vanished into the kitchen.
An old wound, hitherto
weren't for me you wouldn't have short, very short. For, really, do man.
,
,
, t ,
She reappeared, bearing cups of
got hide or hair of the cemetery these mammon - worshipper need closet., suddenly opened to reveal
coffee and slices of cake on a tray,
haul. I'll tell you a secret. Don't prayers? And for this easy, almost a pain that had 'wen gnawing at
which she placed on the table.
breathe a word to anyone. You'll contemptilde work, they shower his u heart for years.
"What is this?" inquired Reb
oesn't even want to tale
never be a success. Ti, be a chazon prayers! Many thanks! I'll never to
Yanked a note of pious dread
1.11,e-dhe thinks I um a liar or n
you need to be a business man. forget their kindness."
creeping into his voice.
and
And you, beg pardon, are as stupid
"Coffee," replied Mrs. Gold in a
So the chazon rambled on bit-scene
l'u'
Vilna ni savant
n
e from
i In—"
-his life l(in
as a log. You trill the funeral
voice low from consciousness of
tarty, oblivious of the fact that he large as life before the ehazon's
prayers like a foolish cock. Those
guilt.
had no audience. Reb Yankel did eyes. The close of Yom Kippur.
sinners can rot in the ground
"Coffee and cake," Mr. Gold
not at all listen to what he said. He had just finished his favorite
without your trills, The main
confirmed, "you understand, do
At that moment the latter WAS prayer, N'eilath. They were leaving
thing is the 'Mezume' but even
you not, that in America dinner is
reading a notice hanging on the the shul in masse. All elbowed
more than that-you've got to
eaten regularly at noon?"
opposite wall in a frame: "Rules elbowed their way towards him,
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know the secret of 'pulling'-how
"Excuse me, pa," Benny inter-
and Regulations fur Yahzeit•"
greeting him with hearty "Yom
to pull the women. That's my line.
posed. "At noon we have a light
"Ile won't even listen to me.
news in Vilne?"
(Tar nto Page Twelve.)
meal, called luncheon, while at
Ile doesn't believe me!" The ap-
I'm an expert in it. It's hard to
evening dinner is served."
find a sharnosh like me."
Reb Yankel pushed aside the cup
"You're right. I'm helpless in
of coffee and began the grace.
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these matters."
•
•
•
"Who, I ask, saw to it that they
Red Yankel had not yet seen the
should invite you to the Ginsberg
city. Ile was not particularly in-
'b'rith'? I myself, no one else.
terested in it. For he was bowed
You didn't lose much by it, did
down by a dull melancholy. Some
you? Ila, ha, ha! I think that
, indefinable sorrow pressed down
five dollar bill is all mine. And
_
his heart,
I'll tell you another secret. Do
II e awaited
•
the close of the
t e Sa -
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you know that tit the next directors
bath with
eager anticipation.
meeting, they will consider renew-
I
0 When finally it came, he set out
/
0, for the Jewish quarters to hear ing your contract? Of course you
I
know. I know-nothing is hidden
and enjoy chazon Minto in the
from you. And so I'm telling you
First Night of Slichoth. "This,"
I. he reflected, "will dispel my sad- -without me you'll get now-here.
I
Do you understand what I can do?
A
ness."
I
I
I know the whole business like a
000
He felt deep down in his heart,
book. I visit the president, the
although he would not openly ad-
treasurer-the treasurer is a pow-
mit it, that the presence of the
erful man in our congregation-I
chazon in America had turned the
I
tell them jokes, I talk Russian,
scales in favor of his emigrating.
I
l'olish, sing a little. Ha, ha, ha!
"If the country is good enough
I
Do you understand? That's my
0
for him, it ought to suit me," he
line, I was born in it. You are a
had
reasoned,
debating
with
him-
Graduates, Undergraduates and Practical
'schlurniel', beg pardon."
self in Vilna before deciding to
"Take the live dollars and if, by
emigrate. "I have no reason to
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worry about America, seeing that God's help, I get a contract for
three years more, I certainly
Chantal Mintz has lived there so
won't forget you."
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many years."
"Well, that's what I like-gen-
So he impatiently awaited the
Prompt Service Day or Night
tlemanly words. Thanks, thanks,
hour when he could listen to the
ppgpq ~ grG a
you're a gentleman. I always said
0
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IS 4 . 044
cantor who had been his boyhood
so. Thanks."
idol.
During
all
this
queer
conversa-
Eleven o'clock had not yet
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tion Reit YankeI sat like an image
;40 struck when Reb Yankel stood be- of stone. His head was bowed and
/ fore the "Anshe Chaim Syna-
MRS. N. B. CHRISM , Proprietor
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his brain spun in erotic circles. "Is
I
gogue.
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Ile read the large golden let- this the chazon- ('an it be? Can it
/
, ters before the extrance, "Anshe he?? Why, I've seen Chazon Mintz
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A Chaim Synagogue " Yes, this face to face, and every line of his
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tor blintz officiated. Every child
though he were alive. Ni,, impos-
in Vilna knew that. But the com-
sible! Doubtless, they have two
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plete silence that reigned was ap
chazonim; one for the Shul and
palling. Not a soul was in sight
gi
the other for the Beth Midrash,
anywhere on the premises. Rather
and this is the one for the Beth
mysterious.
Midrash.
In his mind's eye he saw the
Suddenly approaching the two
vast multitude of huddled wor-
men, he asked:
shippers swaying to and fro like a
"Are then( two chazonim in this
stormy sea in and around the
building?"
Vilna synagogue, hours before the
"Even one is more than
7 ' appearance of the Chazon, and enough," replied the shamosh
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heart was filled with an unut-
7=4' his
laughingly.
"Two Chazonim! God
terable longing.
save
us!
What
do
you
think
of
it,
"But," he countered, dispelling(
the many doubts that had begun cantor". Oh, it's about time to go
to shut. I'm sure the members
to assail him. "America is not like
have already finished their blessed
Vilna. That accounts for it."
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But one lingering doubt would pinochle game. They'll soon show
net he disposed of so easily. Here up in all their glory."
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Ile went out and Reb Yankel
8835 Central Ave
there was no Beth Midrash, only
a Shul. And what about the Beth was left all alone with the Cha-
zon.
Midrash?
"I've just come from Vilna," he
They had explained to him that
in America the shul and Beth klid- began, gazing straight into the
chain's
eyes.
rish were in the same building, the
"Sholom
Aleichem.
What's
former on the main floor, the lat-
news in Vilna?"
ter in the basement.
"I came to this synagogue on
But this had failed to remove
purpose to hear ('hazon Mintz sing
the source Of his disquiet. Ile
would have liked the Beth Midrash Slichoth," continued Itch Yankel,
ignoring the other's question.
and Shul in separate quarters.
"Of course-you're welcome-
Reb Yankel entered the dusky
plenty
of vacant seats, thank God."
vestibule.
"But will Chazon Mintz come to
He went straight to the Shul,
'daven'
here tonight?"
Darkness. He lingered about the
"Certainly. What did I COMP
doorway until his eyes became ac-
here
for
at midnight? To listen to
customed to the gloom. Then he
saw a holy ark of elaborate work- the shamosh's drivel? Of course
Systems, Costs, Certified Audits, Income Tax, Special
I'll
'daven',
And who will 'damn'
manship, and beautiful, stained
Investigations, Monthly Check-Ups.
glass windows. A miniature Solo- in my place?"
A
bitter
smile
flitted
for
an
in-
truth.,
mon's Temple, in truth.
Mid- stant over Reb Yankel's features
Seeing a light in the
Buhl Building
rosh, he descended the stairs lead- and vanished. A suspicion seized
- by
hint that he was dealing either
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He opened the door. and halted. with a jester or with the soul of

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frozen in his tracks. Was this the
Beth Midrash? The house of
learning? And where were the
bookshelves? The bare walls
mocked him silently. "Where are
the books?" The question rankled
in his brain.
Ile looked about him. In a cor-
ner near the door stood a solitary
bookcase. Ile drew near and saw
through the glass a few G'morahs,
few bulky Mishmayos, a Russian
anthology. an English third year
child's primer, a Bible with a com-
mentary in German, and prayer
books, a sea of prayer books.
These books were crowded to-
gether against the backs of the
shelves; in front of them stood
neatly arranged some glasses,
flasks, and a tea-kettle. Reb Yan-
kel tried to open the door of the
bookcase. Ile could not. It was
locked.
His hands aremhbal. Think of
it, the few books that there were.
under lock and key.
"Mister, would you like a cup of
tea?" he heard a voice from the
other end of the room.
Looking up he saw two men sit-
ting, huddled before a !mall table.
counting money.
"I think," the voice continued.
"we can afford to offer him some
'schnapps.' We made a big haul
last week in the cemetery, and can
spare a stranger a few drops. Set•
how he's yearning for the bottle in
the bookcase!"
Reb Yankel did not hear the last
Ile rushed outside for a
words.
breath of air.
The night was like all New York
nights-neither dark nor quiet. A
medley of stifled sounds reached
hisears. They were all blended
into one formless, inarticulate, and
unceasing rumble, a sort of sup-
pressed, harmonious murmur that

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