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Sabbath Chanukah Readings of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 37 :1-40 :23; Num. 7:1-17.
Prophetical portion—Zech. 2:14-4:7.
Chanukah Week Readings of the Torah.
Sunday,
Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings—Num.
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7:48-53.
December 7, 1928
Kislev 24, 5689
Is this How Great Britain Honors Her Pledge?
The British Government's White Paper concerning
the outrages at the Wailing Wall on Yom Kippur Day
making matters worst, and will cause many Jews to
40 , is ask:
"Is Great Britain sincere in her dealings with and
pledges to the Jewish people?"
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For eleven years, since the issuance of the Balfour
Declaration on Nov. 2, 1917, Jews have been among
Britain's sincerest friends. Having prayed for genera-
tions for the restoration of their homeland, and having
thrived on the hope that their dreams for a Jewish
Palestine will some day become real, they turned to
Great Britain as to a redeeming angel when that power-
ful country declared herself ready "to facilitate" the
establishment of a Jewish National Home in the ancient
land of Israel.
Many things have happened during the • past 11
years to offer valid reasons for questioning Britain's
sincerity in her relations with Israel. The Jaffa and
Petach Tikvah riots in 1920; the manner in which Jew-
ish tourists were intimidated ; the refusal to admid for
settlement in Palestine a number of Jews who are com-
paratively independent financially—these and many
other instances caused the Palestine officials to be
labeled with the stigma of being anti-Semitic. But in
I the Wailing Wall incident it is the British Government
itself that is thrusting a dagger into Jewry's side when
it places the blame for the incident on the sufferers,
on the Jews themselves.
The British memorandum offers an explanation :
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The Western or Wailing Wall formed a part of the
western exterior of the ancient Jewish Temple. As such, it
is holy to the Jewish community and their custom of pray-
ing there extends back to the Middle Ages, possibly fur-
ther. The Wall is also a part of Ilaram-Al-Sharaf and as
such is holy to Moslems.
The Jewish community had established an undoubted
right of access to the pavement for purposes of their devo-
tion, but whatever protests were made were repeatedly
made by Moslem authorities and Turkish authorities.
They ruled that they would not permit such departure from
existing practice as the bringing of chairs and benches to
the pavement.
Therefore, the memorandum goes on to elucidate,
the Palestine Government felt itself bound to maintain
this arrangement and to satisfy any complaints made by
Moslems; therefore, British officials "felt justified" in
doing the most outrageous thing possible, from moral
and political viewpoints alike, by insulting Jews the
world over through an attack at the most solemn Jew-
ish place on earth on the emost solemn day of the year;
therefore, Britain punished Jews, for bringing benches
to the Wailing Wall and for placing a partition there,
in a manner to which authorities under Turkish rule
never before stooped, during the four centuries or more
during which Jews enjoyed freedom of worship at the
Wall.
The action by the British Government recalls the
fact that the last act of the Christian Crusaders in
Jerusalem, prior to the conquest of Palestine by the
Turks, was to burn the Jewish population alive in its
synagogues. We already made reference, in an earlier
article, to the address of protest against Great Britain's
action delivered in London by the Chief Rabbi of the
British Empire, the Very Rev. Dr. J. II. hertz. In this
address we were informed that "shortly before the con-
quest of Palestine by the Turks, the Christians used the
Holy Place of the Jews, the ground before the Western
Wall, as a place in which to deposit all the filth and
rubbish of the neighborhood." Dr. Hertz then quoted
an interesting fact which should have served in en-
couraging Great Britain to amend the damage done.
- Said Dr. Hertz:
When, 50 or 60 years ago, Sir Charles Warren, on be-
half of the Palestine Exploration Fund, investigated that
site, he discovered that the Wall goes down 42 feet deeper
than the present surface.
All as a result of the filth and rubbish that was de-
posited at the Wall by Christians! And Great Britain,
instead of continuing the policy of freedom which was
instituted by the Turks in 1517, is going back to the
Middle Ages and is reverting to the policy of deposit-
ing filth at the holiest place on earth for Jews.
Great Britain mentions in the White Paper that "the
Wall is also a part of Haram-Al-Sharaf and as such is
holy to Moslems." In the same paragraph from which
these words are culled the memorandum admits to the
Western Wall having "formed a part of the western
exterior of the ancient Jewish Temple." Well, our
people has been more than fair. We have been self-
sacrificingly fair. We have yielded in everything.
We have resigned our rights to the Solomonic Temple
Site. We have resigned our rights to the Ma-arath
Hamachpelah, the burial grounds of the forefathers.
We are clinging only to a remnant of a wall, and all the
bigotry that can possibly invade two great religions
cries out against us and says, "No; No! You can't even
have this!"
Now comes Herr Koestler, Jerusalem correspon-
dent of the Vossiche Zeitung, and tells his Berlin
readers that the Palestine Government has permitted
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the recent events in Jerusalem in order to renew fric-
tion between Jews and Arabs and thereby lead to the
abolition of the Balfour Declaration. Read the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency dispatch from Berlin, quoting
from Herr Koestler's story:
The German correspondent bases his assertion on the
frequently repeated statement of anti-Zionist Arab leaders
that "there will be no peace as long as the Balfour Decla-
ration exists." He asserts that the short-sighted Pales-
tine government intentionally committed tactless acts in
connection with the Wailing Wall dispute and furthered
the economic crisis with a view of preparing the way fur
the abolition of the Balfour Declaration."
The irony of the situation is to be found in another
news item. Dr. David Yellin, former vice-mayor of
Jerusalem and president of the Ilebrew Teachers' Col-
lege there, on his arrival in New York for a visit in this
country during which he is to ask for funds for his
college, is quoted as having stated:
The Arab agitation on the Wailing Wall issue is an arti-
ficial one and is conducted mainly by a group of anti-
Zionist Arab leaders. However, this group does not repre-
sent the feeling of the Moslem masses with regard to the
Jewish question in Palestine.
It is tragic that such optimism should, only a week
later, have called forth a statement from Dr. Yellin
in which he declared that "the White Paper is a one-
sided-document and aims obviously at justifying the
action of the Palestine police which interfered with
the Jewish worshippers on Atonement Day."
Jewish sentiment mirrors a stubborn optimism
which will not permit even the most crushing insult on
the part of Great Britain to deter us from efforts on
behalf of a rebuilt and redeemed Palestine. And yet,
the incident at the Wailing Wall must not be permitted
to go unchallenged. Another similar incident, and all
our hopes may be shattered, all British pledges to the
contrary notwithstanding. Should this insult go un-
challenged, there will be jeopardized the thousands of
Jewish men and the millions of Jewish dollars that
have been poured into Palestine.
A Cossack and His Religion.
The question of proselyting by Jews, ably discussed
by Rabbi Leon Fram in recent issues of The Chronicle,
finds excellent illustration in the following news story
from Warsaw, cabled by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency:
The call of his Cossack blood, seldom, if ever, peace-
ful and tolerant and in particular in reference to Jews,
was given as the reason for Stefan Gorkotschenko's inabil-
ity to tolerate his Jewish mother-in-law and his stepson
after his Jewish wife died.
Gorkotschenko, a former member of the Petlura pogrom
bands, settled in Warsaw five years ago, when he em-
braced Judaism and married a Jewish widow, who was the
provider of the family, earning her living in a grocery
store. During the five years of his marital bliss, Gor-
kotschenko severed his connections with his past, being a
peaceful husband, and a pious observer of Jewish tradi-
tions and customs.
Now, when his wife died, the proselyte declared that
his Cossack blood had reawakened and for this reason he
cannot any longer bear the presence of his Jewish mother-
in-law, an aged woman, and young stepson. Ile summar-
ily ejected them from his household. The story is made
the most of in the daily chronicles of the Warsaw Yiddish
press.
This story carries with it emphatic conviction of the
wisdom of the Jewish law and custom which is opposed
to proselyting. Especially where marriage is the mo-
tive, as is so well proved by this story, converts are sel-
dom a gain to Jewry and Judaism. Unless "reason"
plays a stronger role than "love," proselyting is not for
the Jew. Unless a convert, by virtue of his own reason-
ing power, decides to join the Jewish fold and suffer
the consequences of adherence to the religion of an
oppressed and minority people, neither he nor Judaism
will gain.
The United States as Center of Jewish Learning.
In a recent issue we expressed the belief that the
point frequently made that the United States is becom-
ing the reservoir for rabbis is gaining in importance by
virtue of the prominence of positions held by American
trained Jews in England.
Now, from information released by the Dropsie
College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, it develops
that students from all over the world are flocking here
for Jewish cultural training. We are informed that
students at Dropsie College previously attended the
following institutions:
Hebrew Gymnasium "Ilerzlish," Tel Aviv.
Universite de Grand Ecole des Enginieurs Civil.,
Gymnasium of Vilno.
University of Paris.
John Hopkins University.
Bucknell University.
Bahr Hebrew Gymnasium.
Geneva College.
Columbia University.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
City College of New York.
University of Pennhylvania.
Hebrew Community Gymnasium, Grodno, Poland.
Dickinson College.
University of Akron.
Temple University.
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
University of Cincinnati.
Hebrew Union College.
llebrew University.
Konigl. Deutsche Vermessungsschule, Berlin.
Beth Sefer Beall.
Soroca Gymnasium.
University of Jassy.
University of Tauria.
Ilebrew Seminary for Teachers, Jerusalem.
University of California.
Stanford University.
Gratz College.
GiAs.
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The Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York
has not, directly or indirectly, answered my inquiry of
last week why it insists on requiring an applicant for a
bond to indicate if he is a Jew. I kn. ow this has been a
part of that form for a long while, but then it is never
too late-to correct such mistakes (71. Personally, I am
surprised that Jews who are agents for this company have
not said something about it. Sometimes I think that too
many of us are inclined to just "let th'ngs alone," and
"why stir up something." It's only when somebody comes
along and tramps heavily on their own corns that they
cry out to heaven for justice against the offender. Flow-
ever, I haven't anything else to do, so I am going to sit
down and wait outside the office door of the Fidelity
and Casualty Company until somebody brings me an
answer to my question. And if I have to wait too long
I am likely to become impatient and kick the door, just
to let them know I am outside.
There is a gentlenian by the name of Isaac Gruen-
baum, a Deputy in the Polish Parliament. He gets his
name into the newspapers almost as frequently as does
Samuel Untermyer. And he becomes embroiled in public
controversies almost as often as Louis Marshall.
Sometimes I wonder if he lacks diplomacy. When-
ever I find Mr. Gruenbaum's name in a headline I am
sure to discover immediately after the word "clashes."
He is always clashing with something or somebody. The
other day he clashed with General Skladkowski, the Polish
Minister of the Interior, and he began to compare him
with infamous Stolypin, Minister of Interior in Russia
under the equally infamous Czarist era of inhumanity.
This of course angered the Polish general. There is
no doubt that the Jewish situation in Poland is enough
to fray any Jew's nerves, and that Deputy Gruenbaum
becomes properly indignant and resentful against offi-
cials who seem to fail in their duties in the premises.
But then, after all , one has to be careful not to call
names in public, because in the end in a country such as
Poland, the Jew sutlers. It is quite right to point out
instances where officials have failed to protect Jewish
interests where there have been discrimination, but criti-
cism should end there and personalities avoided. The
sharp tongue of Deputy Gruenbaum has resulted in quite
an acrimonious discussion in the press of Poland, ser•ine
only to make the rank and file of Jews more uneasy.
The Bishop of Ripon is reported to have said that a
hundred thousand Jews have been converted to Christian-
ity in England in the past 10 years. If he made that
statement I don't believe it. I am not accusing the
bishop of an untruth , but merely announcing that he is
mistaken. All told there are about 300,000 Jews in
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and that number
hasn't changed much' in the past 10 years. So 30 per
cent of that number have been converted! I am not
working a percentage machine, so I won't give the actual
percentage, thus making it easier for the bishop to wriggle
out of his dilemma. It is sheer nonsense. That many
Jews have gone over to Christianity I would not deny.
There are many in this country, but I challenge any one
to say that 10,000 Jews a year embrace Christianity in
the United States, and we have over four million Jews
here.
There seems to be a misunderstanding in some quar-
ters regarding my attitude toward conversional work
among the Jews. If a Jew wants to voluntarily leave his
faith that's his business, not mine. Ile can became a
Buddhist or a Christian if he thinks that a fuller life
here and hereafter are his by such a change. But what
I do inveigh against is the character of missionary work
and the type of missionaries employed by the Christian
church. I do not mean every Christian church, because
I am aware that the majority of the Christian clergymen
are satisfied to let the Jews work out their own salvation
without interference. But whenever a group of earnest-
minded Christians desire to save the Jew from damna-
tion they usually engage a converted Jew to lead his
people from darkness into light. That's where I become
angry. I know some of these llebrew-Christians and I
don't like them. Not because they are converted, but
because of their personality. Sonic may be sincere, but
some I don't trust and wouldn't trust. I detest their
sneaking, contemptible, un-Jewish and un-Christian meth-
ods. I detest their hypocrisy. I abominate their meth-
ods of enticing little children through sweetmeats and
toys and pennies, through helping the parents in a
charity way, to become interested in the missions and in
their mission work. And I get out of patience with
worthy but completely misguided Christian men and
women who take church funds and use them for such an
unworthy purpose. I have maintained that only the few-
est Jews, so few as to he completely negligible, become
Christians because they believe in Christianity. Many
of them do it from political, professional. business and
social reasons. I know Jews and I know what I am talk-
ing about.
The other day a distinguished Scotch minister spoke
very loosely in Australia and he was rebuked by the
rabbis. He said that the Jew who has lost his religion
and knows no God is the greatest social problem today.
A narrow-minded, bigoted statement. As if a Gentile ,
who has lost his religion and knows no God isn't just as
great a social problem! Ile mentioned Trotsky as an
example of the type of Jew he had in mind, and so we
mention Lenin as an example of the type of Gentile I
have in mind. The Christian church and such men as
Dr. Black should devote their time and attention and
energies to Christianizing Gentiles. That has been my
contention right along. I am quite sure that the Jew is
perfectly satisfied to take care of his own soul. We cer-
tainly appreciate the high motives and the solicitude of
our Christian friends of the Dr. Black kind, who are
anxious that we shall be saved. But since we do not for
a moment believe that any group or sect enjoys a monon-
oly of all religious truth we do not believe that the only
path to Heaven is via Christianity. All we ask of any
religion is that its followers shall be prepared to take
the full consequences of their belief, and that they shall
live according to the best teachings of their religion. If
they do that then all the hate and intolerance, all the
bigotry and fanaticism will disappear from the face of
the earth. Let us pay more attention to life here, and
leave the hereafter in God's keeping. We are concerned
as Jews less with dying right than with living right.
Julius Rosenwald has become sold on the idea that
money contributed by the present generation for institu-
tional work should be spent on the present generation
or at least the next. He stipulated that when the Rosen-
wald Fund for general philanthropic causes was estab-
lished, and now he insists on that policy again in connec-
tion with his gift of half a million dollars to the llebrew
Union College. Mr. Rosenwald requires that the college
raise three and one-half million dollars before his con-
tribution becomes effective. In addition he does not wish
to have the fund of four million dollars set aside for
all time as a permanent endowment, but that it should be
spent within 25 to 33 years. Ile took the position that
future generations should take care of themselves.
Of the 29 institutions listed, 13 are from outside the
United States. In more than one sense this is not unnat-
ural. The poverty of the Jewish communities in
Europe. the growth of the American Jewish commun-
ity and the extension of Jewish educational institutions
here—all serve to attract the sudent to these shores.
With the campaigns now being conducted for the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary and the Hebrew Union Col-
lege, and with the establishment of the Yeshivah Col-
lege, it is to be expected that the United States will,
before long, become one of the leading, if not the lead-
ing, center of Jewish learning.
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What do you think about it? Is it right to create
institutions and then ask our children who had nothing
to do with creating them to maintain them? What pos-
sible reason has Mr. Rosenwald for demanding that all
money now raised should be expended within another
generation? I can appreciate that there may arise in
the future a condition which, for example, would not
make it necessary to have a Hebrew Union College, or a
Harvard University, or a privately maintained hospital.
That was what Mr. Rosenwald had in mind in connection
with the fund that bears his name. Ile did not want
money accumulated to be spent in a hundred years from
now. There is some merit in that thought, but why
apply that to the situation with the Hebrew Union Col-
lege? I think that is carrying the theory to an unwar-
ranted extreme. Five hundred thousand dollars is a
large contribution, but with the condition attached, per-
haps the college may have to pay too high a price for it.
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Books and Authors
A Scholarly Study of the
Farmer's Problem.
MARKETING: A FARMER'S
PROFILES!. By Benjamin F.
Goldstein. Published by Slac-
!Milan Publishing Co., 2159
Prairie avenue, Chicago ($3.50).
Even if we were to judge only
by the numerous and exhaustive
footnotes on practically every page
of this book we would be led to con-
sider it a very scholarly study of
the farmer's problem. But the con-
tents of the book are such a com-
plete or nearly complete investi-
gation of the question handled that
the author deserves praise for a
timely essay on one of the most
pressing national problems of the
day.
Benjamin F. Goldstein is a prac-
ticing attorney who also has the
A. B. degree, during the prepara-
tion for which he has won the Phi
Beta Kappa key. In preparing his
excellent work on farming, Mr.
Goldstein has drawn upon his liter-
ary as well as legal training. We
are informed that he has served
his city and state, Chicago and Illi•
nois, as special counsel in impor-
tant floaters affecting the public
interest, and it is in this connec-
tion that he has written this hook.
Mr. Goldstein reviews the gene-
sis of the present laws and de-
scribes the economic changes in the
Middle West during the past three-
quarters of a century, weaving in-
to this description a resume of
changes in the farmer's economics.
Taking Chicago, because of his
home city s leading position in the
grain nuirket, as an example of
what has happened and what is
happening on the grain market
and in the legislature of the state
affecting the market, Mr. Gold-
stein furors important conclusions,
the most important of which is:
"A serious part of the farmer's
problem today involves the dispo-
sition of his surplius grain in ex-
port trade. Unless the United
States Government itself should
purchase and undertake the dis-
tribution of this surplus, the ma-
chinery of the exchanges for trad-
ing in grain and of terminal ware-
houses for storage, assembling, and
delivery of grain will continue as
constructive forces in the distri-
bution thereof. The efficient ad-
ministration of any merchandising
program dealing with the national
surplus as a unit and predicated
upon existing machinery must take
into account and must overcome
the existing lack of uniformity of
practices and regulations prevail-
ing in the several terminal mark-
ets wherein and through which
such surplus will be handled."
The author himself is thus de-
scribed by the publishers:
By training and experience the
author is well qualified to deal with
the subject. In March, 1927, he
was employed as Special Counsel
for the Grain Marketing Investi-
gating Committee, appointed by
the Illinois Legislature to investi-
gate the marketing practices in
Chicago as a basis for legislative
recommendation. Of his work,
extended over several months, the
committee reported officially to the
Legislature as follows:
"The committee desires to ac-
knowledge its indebtedness and ap-
preciation to its special counsel,
Benjamin F. Goldstein, whose
faithful performance of his duty
and thoroughness in the investiga-
tion of the vast mass of evidence
offered, merit special commenda-
tion. We feel that much of the
success of this committee was due
to his special knowledge of the
marketing of grain. his untiring
energy in searching out the evi-
dence, and his wonderful ability in
handling the matter generally."
With the appointment in 1927,
he began a study of the history and
analysis of marketing of agricul-
tural products in the United States
from 1828 to the present time, in-
volving its legal, economic and
practical aspects and the effect of
world conditions, especially since
the War, on the marketing machi-
nery of this country. This study
is incorporated in this book.
Mr. Goldstein, a native of St.
Louis, entered Washington Uni-
versity on a four-year scholarship
and completed his course in three
years with highest scholastic hon-
ors, being awarded the Phi Beta
Kappa key on graduation. While
still a student he composed a the-
sis on the Recall of Judges which
received personal commendation
•
from President Woodrow Wilsol
Upon receiving his 1.1..11. degree
from the Harvard Law School in
1917, Sir. Goldstein began the
practice of law in Peora, III. Af-
ter 13 months' service during the
War he resumed the practice of
law and moved his offices to Chi-
cago. He is now serving his city
and state as special counsel in
large litigation and in matters of
great importance affecting the pub-
lic interest. This book grew out
of his recent legal work in the
grain trade.
A Study of Superstition
Through the Ages.
KNOCK WOOD. Ily Dr. Daniel
Deerforth. Published by Bren-
tano's, 1 West 47th street, New
York City.
Dr. Deerforth's excellent study
of superstition is not only a very
fine and deep presentation of the
subject, but is a beautifully writ-
ten narrative of reaction in all
ages.
The author opens his theme by
telling us that "the average flute,
who has always done the world's
work, still does it. Ile . .. has
gradually come out from a very
low mental state to his present
status. Now, according to statis-
tics coming from examinations by
insurance companies, colleges,
schools, police departments, and
from the examinations of millions
of soldiers and sailors by the Army
and navy, he shows, on systema-
tized mental measurements, about
the same score as an average 14-
year-old schoolboy."
Thus, in his chapter on "Facts
and Fetiches," Dr. Deerforth
conies to the conclusion that "his-
torians of a thousand years hence
would write about the myths in
which he believed."
For the Jewish reader the most
interesting allusion in the book is
to the Black Death of the Middle
Ages:
"In the year 1522, during the
plague of Rome, the center of di-
vine illumination, certain people
came to the conclusion that this
great scourge. was the result of sa-
tanic malice. An on, decorated
with garlands after the ancient
heathen manner, was taken in pro-
cession to the Coliseeum and was
solemnly sacrificed....
Such theological reasoning de-
veloped on idea still more disas-
trous,—that Satan, in causing the
as emis-
pestilences, used the Jo
saries. Duo to the observance by
the Jews of better rules of health,
they had been able to escape with
a lower death rate, but they were
accused of having the protection of
Satan and repaying him by the
wholesale poisoning of the Chris-
tians at the time of the Black
Death. Attempts were made to
propitate the Almighty, to thwart
Satan, and to stop the plague by
torturing and murdering the Jews.
It is computed that 12,000 Jews
perished from burning at the time
of the Black Death in Bavaria.
The Rue Brulee remains at Stras-
burg as a monument to 2,030 Jews
burned there for poisoning the
wells and causing the plague of
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aling with the superstition
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about the cure of plagues and the
prejudice against medical men, Dr.
Deerforth writes:
"There were two bodies of men
outside the church who, though
largely fettered by superstition,
were far less so than the monks
and the students of ecclesiastical
schools. These were the Jews and
the Mohammedans.... The Arab-
ians gave much thought to medi-
cine and to chemistry. .
"Popes Eugene IV, Nicholas V,
and Calixtus III, however, espec-
ially forbade Christians to employ
Jewish physicians at a time when
they were in the lead in medicine."
Middle Age clergy is quoted as
declaring: "It were better to die
with Christ than to he cured by
wish doctor aided by the
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d el . ''
Dr. Deerforth reveals much of
the superstition of the time of the
Crusades. and takes a fling at
mediaeval as well as modern il-
lusions, Massachusetts superstit-
ions, the Ku Klux Klan, etc.
The conclusion of the book places
much hope in science helping to re-
move superstition and making
"this world a sweeter and better
place in which to live."
On the whole, this work is
among the finest additions to the
season's publications.
Gems From Jewish Literature
Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.
"ANGELUS"
The sun"hine melts away in twilight
golden•red.
From multitudes of lairs creep night's
pervading shadows;
The lee. and meads are hu•hed in vi-
ler, gray and dread.
And stalk lean" upon •talk in dusky, ,
grassy meadows . . .
Itut—hark! .
. • distant chime—and
serni-darkness yields
and ringing Peal" that flow
through woods and fields.
with iro gr . . word. he fed mr
And when I cried with • h•rne.
Ile esore that he would wed me
Defuse the summer came.
Allay!
My fears were quickly bani4ed.
Tra•ladado-lc
Sly fears were quickly banished.
His eye. were saris and true ..
Summer's Igo leaf has
And he ha" vanished. too.
Al.,!
To clear
And solemnly de•cends • cha.te and
rnow-wrote dove.
And carries mystic blessings from the
spheres above. . .
The air is filled with heartfelt, mild and
tender grace.
I hear the Godof Lo•e. God of •
stranger's rage. . .
nine-done ... Dine-long . . . Unwill-
inglyI drink the wine
Of consolation of • God that is not
Vehogh—Tr•nsl•ted by Elbert Aidline
—LOUIS UNTERMETER
l•WIIAT'S THE
USE"•
Inn 1 labour. sill my toil is vain.
Far never can I boast of riche.' gain.
The fates have frowned upon me, since
me birth,
And failure is my portion here on earth.
Were I to take the notion in me head
To deal in shrouds. the cerement" of the
dead,
Then to estobli4 how ill-starred us I.
No man who liver on earth would ever
die
Or should
I try to matte wag candles
The sun would shine by night •4 well
•it day.
—ARRARAM IIIN F.ZRA
MS
A JEWISH FOLK-SONG
Once when 1 went out walking,
Once when I wen t out walking.
I met • dark young m
an.
Ile smiled and .farted talking.
And en It an betas.
Alas!
With lover's words he fed me
Tra-la-lada•la,
.
A SERENADE
Awake, 0 my dear one. from 'lumber
arie.
The fight of the face will give en •e
l" mg Pain
If thou dream.. t of one that Is kie•ing
thine ern.
Awake. •nd the dream 1 full soon shall
Cek
3.?
ra pia in.
—JEI1UDA IIALF.V1
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