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Sabbath Readings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 18:1-20:23.
Prophetical portion—Is. 6:1-7:6; 9;5, 6.
February 1, 1929
Shvat 21, 5689
Mr. de Haas and the Jewish Agency.
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Zionists will find much food for thought in the let-
ter of Jacob de Haas, published elsewhere in this issue.
Mr. de Haas is convinced that the Jewish Agency will
spell bankruptcy for Zionism. He pleads with us for
the sake of our intelligence and the intelligence of our
readers "to dig deeper and more seriously into what is
probably the most all-embracing problem that con-
fronts world Jewry." Evidently it is because they were
not deep and serious enough for him that Mr. tie Haas
found fault with two of our editorials in the issue of
Jan. 18; in which we, in turn, found fault with the De-
troit Free Press's attack on Zionism and Dr. Stephen S.
Wise's method of attack on the Agency.
We welcome the constructive criticisms offered by
Mr. de Haas, but we find it impossible to be convinced
by his arguments. We believe in all modesty that we
have read most of the available literature on the ques-
tion of the Jewish Agency, front the editorials in the
London Jewish Chronicle and the releases of the oppo-
sition to the editorials in the New Palestine and the
"useless smears of the professional press agent." Anti
yet we are compelled to favor the Jewish Agency be-
cause it seems to point to the shortest and safest road to
Palestine's reconstruction.
There is no fooling ourselves, but Zionists have giv-
en sufficient evidence that it will be impossible fur them
to accomplish the great aims in Palestine without the
co-operation of the vast numbers who are outside the
Zionist ranks. Zionists are either tired of working for
their movement, or are tired of giving, or have been
discouraged by the fact that no outside help has been
forthcoming. For years, even in the days of Brandeis
and Mack and de Haas, the "useless smears of the pro-
fessional press agent" have had to be resorted to in the
hope that the wealthier classes may become interested
in Palestine to make the load of the Zionist easier.
Whenever a non-Zionist was attracted to the move-
ment there was rejoicing. "Another convert," we
boasted, "another great gain for Zion!" And if the
Jewish Agency should help bring new converts and
greater gains, why not? What we mean, of course, is,
if Palestine will gain, why not? For if Zion be rebuilt,
won't Zionism triumph?
Mr. de Haas speaks of the attitude of New York
Zionists. We are not questioning the authenticity of
Mr. de Haas's statement, in spite of the fact that Pro-
fessor Horace M. Kallen, Leo Wollman, Benjamin V.
Cohen* and Julius Simon, all former Brandeis followers,
have now come out in favor of the Jewish Agency. But
will Mr. de Haas please tell us what hope there is for
great accomplishments for Palestine by the New York
Zionists he speaks of, without the aid of a large body
representative of all Jewry? And if we are not to take
seriously Mr. de Haas's admonition that we are not
"four million morons ready to respond and dance for-
ever to a tune played on a tin whistle," we must remind
Mr. de Haas that if there are some "morons" who are
ready to dance to the tune played by Mr. Louis Mar-
shall, there was also a class of "morons" that danced to
the tune of Brandeis and Mack. And if we are to take
sides with one piper or the other, we shall surely choose
the one who is active, whose efforts for Palestine will
bring the greater results for all Jewry.
Mr. de Haas asks that we comment on the state-
ment of Rabbi Meyer Berlin, in the Jewish Morning
Journal, in which the national president of Mizrachi
looks through gloomy spectacles on the Agency. Rab-
bi Berlin fears for the life of the Zionist Organization,
which "instead of getting stronger will get weaker be-
cause its opinion will not carry weight." The rabbi
warns; "You want Palestine built according to the
philosophy of Zionism, not of the non-Zionists," but the
addresses delivered at the historic meeting in Novem-
ber in which the favorable decision for the Agency was
taken by the non-Zionists, read like one hundred per
cent Zionist orations. Surely, Jews are not "gazlonim."
Surely Mr. Marshall and the Lehmans and Mr. War-
burg will gain nothing from trapping Zionists into a
death cell. In spite of Mr. de Haas's and Dr. Wise's
admonitions, we retain much faith in the so-called non-
Zionists, for as Jews we believe that they will before
long give the upbuilding of Palestine a position of pri-
ority in all their efforts.
Sorry your letter didn't convince us, Mr. de Haas,
but we are compelled to place Palestine above Zionist
politico, Let us build Zion, and Zionism will inevitably
triumph.
The Zeppelin Flies to Zion
Plans for the Graf Zeppelin, announced from Ber-
lin, include a trip, in the spring, to Egypt where the
giant airship will circle the Pyramids. Its return voy-
age it is to make via Palestine.
In view of the demands that are now being made in
behalf of the late David Schwartz of Zagreb, Jugo-
slavia, that he be recognized as the inventor of the
Zeppelin, the announced trip arouses considerable in-
terest. Does it augur rightful recognition of the work
of a great inventor? If it does, it would be a great
spectacle. Think of the giant dirigible flying over the
Holy Land and flashing a message to the pioneers of
the Jewish Homeland that it acknowledges Mr. David
Schwartz of Zagreb as its inventor!
A fantastic thought, but the impossible hopes are
the ones that have always dominated the Jew.
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A Noble Effort.
In his "Random Thoughts" column last week, Mr.
Charles Joseph "spread the news" about an unusually
interesting and noble effort that is being made in Pitts-
burgh, his home city, by a group of eighteen men, to
raise a fund "to pay off every debt hanging over the
Jewish institutions of the city," This handful of men
pledged a million dollars of its own, and it aim is to
raise another million to complete the fund necessary to
wipe out the existing Pittsburgh Jewish debts.
Mr. Joseph, in his characteristic manner, comments
on this "noble experiment" as follows:
That sort of thing calls for giving with the heart as
well as the mind. When we give with the mind only we
usually employ a percentage machine. But when men give
generously—that's a different story. I do hope that
those pledges which are contingent upon the thousands
of others duplicating, them in total will be redeemed.
Our good friend Mr. Joseph might have gone a step
further in explaining the nobility of the attempted ef-
fort of Pittsburgh's eighteen men. The average Jew-
ish community suffers from that terrible malady called
"deficits." Every synagogue anti institution, with rare
exceptions, has some sort of deficit which taxes its en-
ergies to the end of removing this deficit, thus detract-
ing its attention from the purpose for which it exists.
Yes, it is a noble effort to attempt to wipe out our
existing deficits, and if Pittsburgh's public-spirited
Jews succeed they will set a great example for other
communities in the country. But wiping out deficits
will not be enough. It is important that we stop cre-
ating new deficits. The effort in Pittsubrgh also points
a warning finger against that.
The United Synagogue Campaign.
There is something extremely painful about cam-
paigns of the type the United Synagogue of America
and the other branches of American Judaism are com-
pelled to conduct in order to arouse the interest of Jews
in matters spiritual. The synagogue has always served
as the center of all Jewish activities, anti from the syn-
agogue has radiated that light which has influenced
Jewish life for so many centuries and which has made
such life possible under the most trying conditions. But
under conditions of greater freedom, the power seems
to have dropped from the synagogue, and for the pres-
ervation of traditional Judaism, the United Synagogue
of America is now asking $500,000, under the slo-
gan "Reunite Synagogue and Life."
Conscientious Jews will not shrink front this appeal
for the synagogue because of its all-embracing ele-
ments. As of old, the United Synagogue aims to in-
clude in is appeal to Conservative Judaism everything
that has to do with the spiritual things in life. Through
its 235 affiliated congregations and 275 Sisterhoods,
the United Synagogue of America trains over 30,000
children in 250 schools. Through the Young People's
League, the youth is remembered. The smaller com-
munities are provided with visiting rabbis and lectur-
ers and are assisted in establishing congregations and
schools. Intensive work is carried on among the Jew-
ish Boy Scouts. In a word, the United Synagogue's
program is all-inclusive, and traditional Jews are obli-
gated to respond wholeheartedly to the present appeal.
In our own community, the aims of the United Syn-
agogue of America will be outlined at a dinner spon-
sored by Congregation Shaarey Zedek, to be held this
Sunday evening, with Dr. Elias L. Solomon as speaker.
The eminence of the lecturer and the importance of his
subject should not only make the evening extremely
interesting, but should serve to contribute something
toward the advancement of traditional Judaism in De-
troit.
A New Specter.
It is amazing in what different forms anti-Semites
are able to translate their hatred of the small and
harmless Jewish people. There were times when we
were blamed for poisoning wells. Even in our own en-
lightened twentieth century we experience the recur-
rence of inbred beliefs that Jews murder Christian chil-
dren for the purpose of securing their blood for ritual
purposes. The different charges against us are with-
out number. Now the comedy continues from Jugo-
slavia.
General Rad. S. Stanoilovitch has issued a secret
order to the Jugoslavian air force threatening officers
who contemplate marriage with Jewesses with expul-
sion from their ranks. You ask, why? Let the Jugo-
slavian general speak for himself. The following is
from his secret order, now made public by the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress:
I have no wish to meddle with the affairs of the heart
or with the tests of these officers. I would simply draw
their attention here—while quoting point 237 of fart 1 of
the service regulations—to the fact that such alliances
cannot be considered satisfactory to the well-being of the
air force or to the future careers of the officers in ques-
tion. I would also draw their attention to the conse-
quences attendant upon their actions.
The Royal Air Force, which I have the honor to com-
mand, must, in order to preserve its efficiency and its util-
ity to the state, be, in the first place, absolutely national in
character and in no way extra-national. Officers bound
by relationship ties and especially by marriage ties to extra-
national elements lose the character of national officers.
One is reminded of the proverbs "birds of a feather flock
together" and "blood is thicker than water." The Jews
and other extra-national elements of our state may pos-
sibly be good and loyal citizens, but they can never be-
come pillars of the state. No doublt they have no such
pretensions nor does one demand such of them.
The air force controlled by Jewish influences would no
longer possess that national character desired and on
which the country must count at such times as its existence
might become threatened.
Here you have the latest specter of hatred, invad-
ing Jugoslavia in the shape of a hobgoblin who injects
fear in the hearts of men of war. And this powerful
bogey seems capiible of extracting from General Stan-
oilovitch, in the same breath that he warns against the
Jewish goblin, an admission that "Jews ... may pos-
sibly be good and loyal citizens."
Shakespeare long ago prepared a word of cheer for
the terrible hobgoblin who is at the same time a "loyal
citizen:"
Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
There is, however, a contributing element to all the
paintings of us as specters and bogeys. The more ridic-
ulous the charges against us. the stronger the lesson
which would teach us to posses a sense of humor; and
the stronger our sense of humor, the lesser the dangers
of ridiculous anti-Semitism.
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Recently I had occasion to comment on the; alleged
discrimination against Jewish students applying for ad-
mission to the medical department of the University of
Pittsburgh, which I felt was an unfair ea iticism of the
university. The following letter was received from Dr.
Joseph 11. Barach, one of Pittsburgh's outstanding physi•
clans, which requires no comment:
My Dear Mr. Joseph:
Your Random Thoughts on medical education
are timely, constructive and highly elucidating.
I have verified your figures—they are correct.
In the year 1328 the data I have obtained
substantiates yours in every way.
Applicants in medical school of the University
of Pittsburgh—one Jew to four non-Jews.
Jewish physicians in Pittsburgh and it, en-
virons, approximately one Jew to ten non-Jews.
Population in Pittsburgh, one Jew to twenty
non-Jews.
Estimated requirement for United States
(American :Medical Association)—one physician
per thousand of population.
Jewish physicians for Jewish population in
Pittsburgh, three per thousand.
The situation may be stated as follows:
Five per cent of Pittsburgh's populatiion is
Jewish—but
Ten per cent of Pittsburgh's medical proles-
. Sion is Jewish—and
Twenty per cent of medical students of the
University of Pittsburgh are Jewish.
Every thinking man will interpret these facts
in the light of his own wisdom and experience.
Increasing the ratio of physicians to patients per
thousand brings increasing competition for a live-
lihood and a lowering of professional standards.
Should educators and the medical profession
encourage! this?
Joseph II. Barach.
Not all the outstanding achievements in American
Jewish life are to be found among the Jews in the
larger communities. There are to be found in hundreds
of small towns and cities throughout the country Jews
who are rendering splendid service to their faith and
their people. Through the character of their lives they
are building good-will for the Jewish name. They pro-
mote good-will and a better understanding with their
neighbors of other faiths. They are frequently honored
by their fellow citizens, who rise above all petty preju-
dices of religion and pay tribute to merit of men. All
through the years it has been what I consider a high
privilege to bring these representative members of the.
How• of Israel out of their obscurity and present them
as inspirations for their fellows in the larger and more
widely advertised communities. And I want them to
know that the writer of this column 'adds the Jew of the
small town in highest regard; that he appreciates the
sacrifices he has to bring for his waith and his family. I
want them to feel that 1 not always ready to give to
the Jewish world the record of their achievements and
that their communications will receive at all times a
sympathetic consideration.
Religious disputes are always the most difficult to
settle and usually cause the most bitterness. We have
had an example in Palestine of the ill-feeling that has
been carried to the very doors of the League of Nations,
resulting from an unfortunate incident in connection with
the holding of the Yom Kippur services at the Ivailing
Wall. It has widened the already too wide breach be-
tween Moslem and Jew. Now we have another contro-
versy over the Tomb of Rachel. It is in urgent need of
repair. The Jewish community of Jerusalem wanted the
high privilege of undertaking the work. Inasmuch as the
tomb is cla load both by Moslem and Jew, the Palestine
government becoming wiser as it grows older, has de-
cided that whatever repairs are necessary will be done
by the government. As a result of this decision an appeal
has been !node by the Jewish community to the High
Commissioner, who will require the wisdom of a Solomon
to determine whether the tomb belongs to Jew or Moslem.
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Well, there seems to be a char.c,• that anoth•r Jew
will represent the United States as Minister to Turkey.
Ile is Louis Mayer, the moving picture magnate of the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, Ile is one of the
original Hoover men and if I am not mistaken, it was
Mr. Mayer, in company with a few other moving picture
magnates, who threw a scare into Mayor "Jimmie"
Walker during the campaign. The debonnair mayor of
New York believed because of the interest that was
shown in Mr. Hoover by the gentlemen mentioned that
the moving pictures were to be used for Hoover propa-
ganda. But this proved to be an error, for our movie
friends are wise in their generation and they had no
desire to put such a powerful group as Governor Smith
represented antagonistic to them. But now the reward
of faithfulness seems at hand and I wouldn't be in the
least surprised if the movies would move officially to
Turkey.
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Turkey has been about the only country in Europe
where a Jew is welcome as a diplomatic representative.
My memory sometimes is treacherous, but it seems to
me that many years ago a Jew from the city of St. Louis
was to be named as ambassador to Austria, but his name
was withdrawn, beeausse it was intimated that he would
be persona non grata at the court of Emperor Franz
Joseph. So Turkey has been the one post where Jews
may obtain an 'ambassadorial thrill. I recall the late
Simon Wolf of Washington, D. C., who was appointed
consul-general to Egypt by General Grant. lie was the
first Jew I ever met who had been honored with such a
foreign post. I never met Oscar Straus, who was ap-
pointed minister to Turkey, but I met Abram Elkus and
Henry Morgenthau. Elkus would have graced any court
—a suave gentleman, who knew how to get the flavor out
of life. lie made a splendid record in Turkey, and then
came Morgenthau, much more serious minded and I
think a man of much greater capacity. Morgenthau was
more of an organizer and an executive. lie made a fine
name for himself and for his country when he directed
the humanitarian services for the Armenians. He is held
in high regard by leaders of the nation. The one big mis-
take he made was when he agreed to serve as a commis-
sion to investigate the Polish oppressions of the Jews. By
doing this he played into the hands of the Polish authori-
ties and lost caste with his own people throughout the
world. Ile was so anxious to be fair in his report, just
because he was a Jew, that he went backward and gave
Poland a fine coat of whitewash, which incensed his co-
religionists. But henry Morgenthau nevertheless is an
exceedingly able man and has proved to be a most valu-
able citizen in the contribution to national and interna-
tional welfare.
I felt a distinct personal loss in the death of Sophie
Irene Loeb, the well known social welfare worker and
writer. I knew Sophie when she was a young girl and I
had the privilege of publishing her first article. She
lived at that time in a small town near Pittsburgh, Pa..
called McKeesport. She was not educated at a college,
but she had an education of far more value in the Uni•
versity of Life. She was a natural writer and held sur-
prisingly sound opinions on a variety of subjects, which
she was able to express in a readable way. Readers in
various cities of the country will undoubtedly recall a
syndicated column that appeared in their local papers
bearing a photograph of Sophie Loeb at its head. She
would discuss day by day social problems, home prob.
lens, and questions that would have to do with persons
and personalities. It was a New York Evening World
feature, of which Sophie I.oeb was a staff writer.
I have never known a person who had more poise and
who had more confidence in her ability. She never suf-
fered from an inferiority complex and never experienced
stage fright in the presence of the great. On the con-
trary, she always followed the advice of her friend and
teacher, the late Elmer Hubbard, the Roycrofter, who
always contended that human beings were just human
beings and regardless of how high they stood on a pedea-
id!, if we just reached up and took them by the back of
their necks and brought them down to our own level, we
would find them just regular folks. And Sophie Loeb
did just that. She knew presidents and senators, and
famous society folk, and great writers and artists; she
knew bankers; she knew famous educators, captains of
industry, men and women in every walk of life. And at
her funeral in New York, the lieutenant-governor of the
state and the mayor of the city paid high tribute to her
memory. She was engaged in fine humanitarian 'service
and her reputation was national and international.
PARIS JEWISH TOPICS
Volunteers and Combatants Fight, Others Unite; Jewish Youth
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Problems.
By J. SCHECHTMAN
An outsider surely cannot un-
derstand what :met of peculiar
creatures these be, and the mean-
ing of these two terms. The Jew-
ish population of l'aris, however,
is all agog with the dispute be-
tween the two organizations with
the above-mentioned names.
"Volunteers"—These are an or-
ganization of Jewish volunteers
who took part in the World War
in the ranks of the French army.
Their number is very large,
although it is difficult to state it
definitely, because the French war
statistics do not take any cogniz•
once of Jews as such; they regis-
ter only the subject of one or an-
other country. Thus the Jews
hardly appear as such on the lists
of volunteers, but some
forim•il persons have publicly de-
clared that among the 50,000
"Russians," "Poles," "Rumani-
ans," etc., who entered as volun-
teers into the French army, the
Jews constituted about 90 per
cent. It is quite natural and eas-
ily understood that these former
Jewish "volunteers" in France
have united in order to protect
their interests, to give each other
mutual assistance and also to de-
fend Jewish honor. This aim must
not be underestimated. There is
no actual co-operative anti-Semi-
tism in existence in France, but
there is a feeling against foreign-
ers, and there is a tendency to di-
rect this feeling against the Jew-
ish emigrant in the first place.
They are accused of being all
parasites andl are enjoying free
the hospitality of France; that
they will not defend France in au
hour of need, etc. A union of
Jewish volunteers is the best reply
to all such accusations. By its
mere existence it proves that the
Jewish emigrants have done their
duty at an hour of danger and re-
sponsibility. In general veteran
soldiers have a great deal to say
in France!, and enjoy a great deal
of general respect, especially vol.
unteer soldiers. A union of Jew-
ish volunteers can accomplish a
great deal in all Jewish affairs
both with the government and with
public opinion.
However, what has to happen?
The union splits. Instead of one,
there appear two, and they fight
each other with all the means at
their disposal, instead of co-oper-
ating in their work.
In order to understand this the
reader must realize the moaning
of the second part of the tittle
"Combatants." These are not
only ordinary volunteers, but those
who took personal It in :kettlel
fighting can the battlefield. Every-
one knows that not every soldier
can boast of such a title. It fell to
the lot of many to remain in such
military posts as were far from the
front. Such people served in the
offices and staffs. Some worked in
the militarized factories. :111 of
them did their duty in their ddwn
way, but they were not at the
front; they did not do any actual
fighting with the enemy, by meant
of actual weapons. It was suf-
ficient for those fortunate ones
who came back front the front
alive, to look down upon their •
other comrades of the volunteers'
union as second rate citizens.
They have separated, have created
a special organization, of former
"combatants" which looks down
upon the old union of volunteers
and claims to be the only repre-
sentative of "real" volunteers—
and not of such who only call
themselves that, and yet have
never been to the front.
The greater part of Jewish vet-
erans in France is thus being dis-
credited, declared to be disloyal
soldiers and patriots only the few
hundred combatants are honorable
and deserving of general recogni-
tion.
Such is Jewish luck. If there is
an opportunity to impress the out-
side world, and to create an im-
pressive weapon to defend Jewish
honor—the Jews break it with
their own hands.
Federation of Jewish Societies.
One must not think, heaven for-
hid, that the only thing they are
doing, in Paris is separating, It
sometimes happens that they also
unite.
There exist in Paris approxi-
mately 120 different Jewish immi-
grant societies. Those are for the
most part "Landsmanschaften"—
societies of fellow townsmen
from one and the same city, such
as, for instance, "Warshawer
Friends," "Pietrokow Landsleit,"
etc., that have the characteristics
of mutual Mil. There are also eu -
tura' and sporting societies. The
idea that all these societies should
unite is self-evident, But sensible
things are the very last things
that Jews like tid do. It t o o:
years before the plan of a federa-
tion of the Jewish societies in
I'aris took 011 concrete form.
It is certainly not possible even
today to speak of a union of all
Jewish organizations in Paris. Of
the 120 existing societies so far
not more than half have been or-
ganized in a federation which con-
tains as many eta 12,000 members.
That is, however, a great success
when one takes into consideration
the fact that the largest and most
influential societies have entered
into the federation,
This
federation
has
good
chances of becoming an important
force among the Jewish immi-
grants in France. The oflicial cir-
cles of the old "genuine!" French
Jewish community do not want to
have anything to do with this mass
and would prefer best of all to re-
nounce any connection with it.
The way of self-organization and
self-help is the only possible way,
and the leaders of the federation
have placed before it a very broad
and interesting program of work.
The Jewish immigrants in
France and in Florida° in general
are becoming a power. They are
not any more an arithmetical num-
ber of poor and persecuted indi-
viduals, but several hundred thou-
sand souls, who have already over-
come the first difficult years of un-
certainty and bewilderment. They
are beginning to become estab-
lished on their new soil. They are
feeling more certain, more secure.
Quite naturally, their social, na-
tional and political sense is reviv-
ing within them. The local, half-
assimilated Jews who at best acted
in a pitying manner toward the
Jewish immigrants, as "their poor
Oriental brethren," are beginning
to feel a new power is growing; up
which is freeing itself of their pa-
tronage, which takes its destiny
into its own hands. The renais-
sance of Western European Juda-
ism, its return to Jewish social life,
is corning from the East,
European Jews have come to the
West in order to take the place of
those old Jewish communitie ,
which are completely asleep and
torn asunder from common Jewiiii
roots,
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The Youth.
That is a chapter in itself, and
not a very cheerful one. Quite the
contrary. Jewish youth in Franca
is in all respects lest interesting
and socially active than the oldie:.
generation.
About Franco-Jewish youth as
such there is nothing to say. It is
completely assimilated, hits no
feeling for Jewish problems. For
the most part, indeed, it has no
interest in general in social prob-
lems. They are more frequently
seen at dances and cabarets than
at civic gatherings.
That part of the Jewish "real
French" youth that does not feel
an interest in civic affairs, that
does have definite Weak, has trav-
eled far away from Judaism. They
are to be found with the French
Socialists, Radicals, Communists,
even Monarchists, but not with any
Jewish party or organization. It
is really desperate when one tries
to make up statistics on the sub-
ject of how many Jewish French
young people there are in Jewish
organizations. They are extreme-
ly few in number,
Bad examples are easily fol-
lowed. The immigrant youth, the
second generation of the Jewish
immigration in France, follows in
the path of its French friends. Ex-
Felled by Parisian life, blinded by
its glitter, and its superficial
beauty, their fondest wish is to be-
come "a real Parisian." For this
purpose, they imitate in every re-
spect those whom they consider to
be such "real" ones.
The most important problem of
the future of great mass of Jewish
immigrants in France is the prob-
lem of the youth. If it loses its
children, if it permits that the
cheap and superficial "Parisian-
ism" should swallow up its poster-
ity their entire organization is in
vain. And, as it appears now, the
best portion of the immigrant
leaders is beginning to grasp the
entire tragic aspect of this ques-
tion. The problem of Jewish youth
is now being seriously considered
on the calendar of Jewish l'aris.
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(Copyright, 1)29, J. T. A.)
Gems From Jewish Literature
Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.
BEFORE THE STATUE OF APOLLO"
To thee I come. 0 lone-abandoned and
Of early moons and unremembered days,
To thee, whose reign was in • greener
world
Among a race o f men divine with youth,
Strong. eynersti ons of the sons of earth:
To thee. whose right arm broke the bound
of hsayen
To set on thrones therein thy strongest
sons.
Whose proud brows with victorious bay•
were rowned.
Amongst the gods of old thou wett •
Bringing for Increase to the mighty
earth
A race of demigod+. Instinct with life,
Strange to the children of the house of
pain.
A aerator,, passionate and beautiful,
Whose mastery W., over the bright sun
And once the dark roYteries of life.
The golden shadow•treasuries of song,
The musie of innumerable seas—
A god of of
and fresh delight,
Of vigor and the erst•sy of life."
Sif. TCHERNICHOWSKY
"TIIE. SABBATH
OF
THE POOR"
Six days in the week Shmulik
tha,,rag-picker lived like a dog. But
on the eve of the Sabbath all was
changed i; his house. The walls
were whitewashed, the house was
cleaned; a new cloth shines on the
table, and the rich yellow bread,
a joy to the eyes, rests thereon.
The candles burn in their copper
candlesticks, burnished for the
Sabbath; and a smell of good fold
out of the oven, where the
dishes are covered. All week long
the mother of the house has been
black as coal; today her face is
resplendent, a white kerchief is tied
on her head, and a spirit of grace
has breathed upon her. The little
girls, with bare feet, have come
hack from the bath; their hair is
coiled in tresses; they linger in the
corners of the room; by their faces
it may he seen that they are wait-
ing, joyous hearted, for those whom
they love.
goes
"Gut Shabbos," says Shmulik,
as he enters; and he looks with
11/WP on his wife and his children,
and his face beams. "Gut Shabbos,"
says Moishele, his son, loudly, as
he too enters hurriedly, like one
who it full of good tidings, and
eager to spread them. And to and
fro in the house the father and the
son go, singing, with unpleasant
voices, the Sholom Aleichem songs
that greet the invisible angels that
come into every Jewish house when
the father returns from the house
of prayer on the eve of the Sab-
bath.
—S. J. ABRAMOWITCH
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