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THE JEWS IN TRIPOLI

North African News Letter.

By DAVID KLEINLERER

Chanukah Greetings
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FAMOUS CHASSIDIC
DOCUMENTS STOLEN

Chanukah Greetings

Of all the peoples who have in also better opportunities for edu• Robbery Occurs During Ex-
citement at Wedding of
centuries past wandered into and eating their children. In the two
dwelt in Tripoli, only the Bedou- Jewish villages of the Jebel, Yehud
Rebbe's Daughter.
ins, the Arabs and the Jews have Abbas and Tigrana, which togeth-
remained. But while the Bedouins er constitute about 30 long sub-
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—Im-
and the Arabs have intermingled terranean cellars, there are now
freely with the rest of the African no more than about 100 Jewish portant historic documents throw-
races, especially with the negroes families left. During the season ing light on the origin of the
w ho were brought from the Sou- for field work, they put aside their Chassidic movement were stolen
don as slaves, the Jews have re- artisanship and they devote them- in the excitement at the weddine'
Gained their religious and ethical selves to agriculture, and their wo- of the daughter of Rabbi Jacob
POI
purity. As far back already as men sit and weave carpets and ar- Schneursohn, the Lubawitsche
the days of the ancient Phoeni- tides of clothing for the local Rebbe who came from Riga for the
Arab population, marriage ceremony.
clans, there were Jews living in
Large numbers of Chassidim
Their Women Are Beautiful.
Tripoli, and long before the de-
Bedouin welcenied the scion of the famous
In the various Arab and
struction of the Temple in Jeru-
Drop in any time for one of those delicious
Chassidic
dynasty of Schneursorn
salem they had founded important villages in 'the oases which I sin - ,
engage in the same on his arrival at the Warsaw de-
Boesky Sandwiches. We're always glad to
trading centers in the towns Red, the Jews
Ile
returned to Riga, his
alongside the coast, notably in the occupations as the Jews in the ' pot.
see you and you'll meet your friends here.
present abode, fo.lowing his exile
Jebel. The Jews are besides the
Jebel Gharian.
from Russia, to celebrate on Sun-.
The typo of the Tripolitan Jew, only hard working element in the day, Dec. 2, the Chabbad holiday,
his customs and his superstitions, Arabs
population.
The laziness
of the the nineteenth of Kislev, which is
REGULAR MEALS — LIGHT LUNCHES
and Bedouins
is traditional.
his manners and his peculiarities, . The Araki carpets woven by the commemorated annually as the
his complete identification with i. Jews of the Jebel Nefuss and the date when his grandfather was re-
We Deliver — Phone Us at Any Time
the country and his refusal to m g,oldsinith work of the Jews of Ye-. leased from the Petro-Pawlowsk
prison.
grate whatever the conditions.
Hundreds of the Lubawitsche
economic or sanitary, may be, all fren
are they
famed
throughout
North
Africa;
are
even exported
bear witness to the long line of his to the furthermost regions of the Rebbios followers attended the
wedding
ceremony, which was held
African descent. The chief occu- ,Orient.
I extend to the entire com-
Just phone and we'll be glad to give you a demonstration with.
in a Yeshiva hall. Many weddint
pation of the Tripoli Jews, too,
munity sincere Chanukah greet-
The Jews of the Jebel area are gifts were showered upon the
out any obligation.
have remained the some that they the finest looking and best dess'l-
—"DAVE."
logs.
couple. Congratulatory messages
were thousands of years ago. The
oped Jewish types I have met. The were received from the United
largest section of the Jews of Tri-
poll are artisans, iron workers and women recall the women of the States, Egypt, Palestine and other
goldsmiths, or small traders. As Bible. They are remarkably
beau- countries, including one from
ul. The y wear long white robes, Chief Rabbi A. J. Kook of Jeru-
goldsmiths they are held in high tif
repute; they are real artists in against which their bronzed faces, Salem.
their black hair and great melon-,
h excitement which reigned
5145 HASTINGS ST.
lu the
8900 TWELFTH ST.
their craft. In the town of Soars
At Farnsworth
I saw a collection of beautiful ar- choly black eyes show up in strong during the festivities a package
At Hazelwood
contrast.
of manuscripts, said to have con-,
Empire 2981
tides which the local population l I hove seen the women of Horns, tained letters written by the Ba'al
Empire 6860.
Lenox 0707
had got together in order to pre- i
10940 Mack Avenue
sent to the king of Italy and the Zuara, Zavia, Azizia, Zliten and Shem Tov, the founder of the',
royal family during their official1
other places in Tripoli dressed in Chassidic movement, in his own
ffi
their festival robes, bedecked with handwriting, and of R a b b i
visit to Tripoli. There were great
coins and amulets. They are tall Schneur Zalman, the grandfather
golden cups, beautifully chased,
she of the Lubawitsche Rebbe and the
fine bracelets and other articles of 0011 slim, and each looked as if
-
had
stepped out of the pages of founder of the Chabbad Chassidic
jewelry, clearly the work of a mac
' School, disappeared.
the Bible.
The docu-
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Jewish children in Tripoli ' manta, prized highly because of
told me that they were all made by ;1 are beautiful, too.
In Zuara, their rarity, were brought by the
two Jewish goldsmiths of Tripoli,
Jewish bridegroom's grandfather as a
hogging and Sernussi.
families, I now the children who wedding gift.
,
The Jews of Tripoli obtain their,l, where there are about 100
livelihood mostly as artisans or attend
local Talmud
lined up the
in ranks,
waiting Torah.
for the
-:
-
. , exce p
tin e on y I in king of Italy to arrive. In their hygienic and sanitary conditions in
sma 11 trie 1trs
the hilly
Jebel in
district,
where and
they
are
engaged
agriculture
blue suits and white and blue caps, Tripoli, but trachoma claims the
really stood out in the en-1 largest number of victims. The
cattle-breeding. in the Jebel area they
tire gather ing.
large number of blind in the Jew-
the Jews live today under what are
There are Talmud Torah schools ish quarter of El Ilara make one
almost prehistoric conditions. Two in practically every Jewish settle- feel really depressed. I heard
troglo-
entire Jewish villages are situated
entire
many complaints that Tripoli, a
en the have
under the ground, consisting of a meat in Tripoli. Even
town of 15,000 Jewish inhabitants,
aeries of deep cellars, hewn out of their
dyte Jews
of Jebel
Gharian
Talmud
Torah,
in which has no Jewish hospital, because
Only
the
rocky
those
who mountainside.
are thoroughly ac-
about 50 children receive instruc- the Jewish community cannot find
lion.
the funds for its maintenance.
We Take Full Charge of Your
quainted with the district can sue-
In the town of Tripoli itself over
It should be remarked here
reed among the palms and the fig 800 children attend the Talmud that the Jews of Tripoli are ex-
trees and the ruins of an ancient Torah. Last year the president of ceedingly religious and that Kash-
mosque, in sighting the holes in the community, Signor Simeons ruth is very strictly observed.
m
which are situated the subterran- Hogging, brought from Jerusalem There ore two great synagogues,
can dwellings of the Jews of the a highly qualified Ilebrew teacher the most recent of which has only
yueltlythe children just been opened during the visit
Jebel.
ti
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Descending several steps you speak
of the king of Italy, who was pres-
WE RENT SILVER, CHINA, STEM GLASSWARE,
I
have
become
convinced as the ent at the consecrating ceremony,
I find yourself in front of a little
PUNCH BOWLS, TABLES, CHAIRS, LINEN, Etc.
!wooden door through which you result of inquiries that the local and about 20 smaller synagogues
'enter a dark sloped tunnel. At the authorities in Tripoli are now pay- in Tripoli. While I was in a shop
B
Owners and Operators of the
' end of this tunnel, which makes a ing more attention to the special in Tripoli, the shopkeeper sud-
B
lengthy and somewhat perilous requirements of the Jewish corn- denly called together his Jewish
journey, you find a dimly lighted, Inanities, notably in regard to the customers into another room and
courtyard into which the rays of demand that in those Italian gov- we davened Mincha. Afterwards
ONE NEAR YOU
the sun penetrate faintly through ernment schools which ore attend- lzwwisehnIsluatriouunnd uulletcVunxg for u his
di
Main Office and Catering Dept.:
the chevices. Here are the work- 1 ed by Jewish children, Ilebrew
National o
And
shops of the Jewish artisans of should be made one of the sub- saw the same thing happen in prac.
Glendale 9600
Grand
River
Descending still further jects of instruction.
2757
Jebel.
Heftily all the Jewish shops in
If this demand is conceded, it Tripoli. It seems to be the gen-
into the earth, you come to the
001
dwellings of these Jewish troglo- will solve the Jewish education eral custom.
dytes. problem in Tripoli. The Italian
The Jewish national sentiment
In Yehud Abbas I visited the school inspector in Tripoli, Pro- is very strong among the Jewish
synagogue of the troglodyte Jews, fessor Piccioli, is an important youth and the Zionist movement
who have made their home under.' supporter of the Jewish demand.
has many active workers in Trip-
' , ground. I saw their rabbi, sev- Besides solving the Jewish edu - oli. The Maccabee Club isf the
the book is also hand-lettered in
tet
, eral venerable Jews and quite a cation problem, the granting of
club
sw i mming, oot
an impressive ex-libris design on
' large number of children. The this demand would mean perhaps baT
h Iiton
m and water
-
polo.
club -
older Jews were very patriarchal, the elimination of the plague of rooms of the Maccabee are filled the fly-leaf.
The book may he ordered direct-
and the peculiar conditions under trachoma, which is widespread with the trophies of their victories
ly from the publishers, Iskor
which they live appeared to have among the Jewish population. The on the sports ground, bearing wit-
left no mark on them. But the disease is very successfully treat- ness to the athletic prowess of the Press, Inc., 286 Fifth avenue, New
I York City, who will on request
rabbi told me that their numbers ed in the ha Ian go e rnment Jewish youth of Tripoli.
furnish order forms on which to
are diminishing, largely because schools and if this treatment is ex-
In intellectual life the Jew's of forward necesasry instructions for
of the diseases which prevail tended to the Jewish children, it Tripoli are very backward. There
, among them, but mostly because may mean the end of the disease are not enough intellectual leaders the inscriptions.
the Jewish artisans are moving to among them.
to train the younger generation.
Tripoli, where they find better They Are Exceedingly Religious. But there are some men like Ra-
not live under good phael Arbib, chairman of the Zion-
do
The
Jews
, working and living conditions, and
ist Federation; Simeon ]lagging,
chairman of the Jewish commu-
-^,
45 j.
nity, the leaders of the Maccabee • BERLIN.—(J. T. A.)—Georg
Club and several others and theit Bernhard, editor-in-chief of the
•number is growing, so that in Vossische Zeitung, was unani-
course of time the Jewish com- mously elected president of the
munity may be found to be taking 'International Newspapermen's As-
a high place in the life of Jewry. sociation at its annual convention
(Copyright, 1112s, J. T. A.)
held in Dijon
I
/It
Herr Bernhard expressed his
resentment at the action of the
Hungarian government in deport-
ing the correspondent of the Vos-
siche Zeitung, Bruno Ileilig, for
Finely Designed Memorial Volume reporting in detail the anti-Semitic
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Offers Appropriate Means of
protest this action will be taken
Remembrance of Departed.
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through international channels,
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A unique type of Individual
Luncheon 11 to 2
service for practical aid in Jahr-
Dinner 5 to 8; Sunday Dinner 12 to 9
zeit and other personal mourning
observance, recently inaugurated
through a new undertaking in New
York City, is being supplied in the
FOR RESERVATIONS
KOVN0.—(J. T. A.)—A de-
form of a particularly appropriate
.
little book which at the same time nial of the report from Shovel that
serves as an individual memorial Rabbi Israel Rosendorf committed
Established 1883
of genuinely artistic character. suicide in grief over the death of
The service is being made avail- his wife, was received here.
It was disclosed that Rabbi Ro-
able also in other communities
sendorf, in his grief over the death
throughout the country.
Quick Shippers of
The little volume will be es- of his wife, absentmindedly mis-
pecially welcome to those who de- took a low window for a door and
sire a really convenient date re- stepped out to his death. His wife
minder for their anniversaries, had been buried on the day the
clothed in more dignified and en- accident occurred.
during form than the old-fash-
iomd, crude calendars and corn-
Cremieux, Noted French
monplace printed manuals.
The new Iskor book is a compact,
Jewish Statesman, Dies.
attractive little volume of 32
pages, providing all the required
PARIS.—(J. T. A.) — M. Fer-
aids for mourning observance and nand Cremieux, French-Jewish
"See, i, Plus Quality"
a number of pleasing new fea- statesman, died here Nov. 22. M.
Office and Factory:
tures never before incorporated in Cremieux had been a member of
such form.
the French Senate since 1903. Pre-
Junction Avenue and Federal Street
THE TIIREE FOLLOWING STATIONS AT YOUR SERVICE:
In addition to a 48-year calendar viously he had been a deputy since
irt
17001 Mack, at Harvard
giving for each year the date of 1878.
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the civil calendar corresponding
M. Cremieux was a lawyer. Ile
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to the Hebrew Jahrzeit date, it was educated at the College d'Or-
Lincoln 9065
7307 Mack, at Field
contains a complete series of the ange and the Lycee de Marseilles.
personal prayers used by mourn- Ile wore the ribbon of the Legion of
era in the home, cemetery and syn- Honor.
agogue, in both Ilebrew and Eng
lish text. The Kaddish is given not
t
only in Hebrew and English, but
also with a phonetic interlinear
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transliteration of the Hebrew, so
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wherever occasion requires. In ad-
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mourning rules, and also a page
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