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Sabbath Readings of the Law.

Pentateuchal portions—Ex. 38 :21-40 :38.
Prophetical portions--Kings 7:51-8:21.

March 15, 1129

II Adar 3, 5689

Welcome, Colonel Kisch.

Detroit Jews will have the rare privilege, the corn-
ing Wednesday to greet oue of our outstanding lead-
ers in the world today. Colonel Frederick H. Kisch,
chairman of the Zionist Executive in Palestine, comes
to us following many personal successes in life. But
of particular interest to his people are, of course, his
triumphs on behalf of the Jewish national movement
for the upbuilding of Palestine. Ignoring the vast
fields of activity, in politics as well as in social work,
which were open to him in England, Colonel Kisch
threw in his lot with his kinsmen, the Jews, and with
his co-religionists' most important national effort,—
the upbuilding of the Jewish Homeland. For this rea-
son, and because of the prominence of his position in
the Zionist movement, all the triumphs for the Pales-
tinian cause have inevitably become wound up with
his name.
Colonel Kisch comes to us as a symbol of the de-
velopments taking place in the Jewish settlements in
the Homeland. lie comes as the spokesmen for that
Zionist idealism which is the backbone of the revival
of Jewish culture and tradition, as well as of the physi-
cal rebirth, which is marking the new life in Eretz Is-
rael. The idealism shared by Colonel Kisch in the
Zionist movement is embodied in a statement which he
made in an interview on his arrival:

With the Palestinian government the point that I ant
always making is freedom for Jewish self-expression.
There must be no attempt to restrict Jewish development,
or to level down Jewish to Arab standards. There must
be absolute freedom for Jewish character to develop. I
believe that the Jewish people of Palestine have a charac-
teristic Jwish contribution to make to progress and civil-
ization which is quite distinct from the contributions which
Jews can make in other countries. I believe that that con-
tribution has been in suspense since the Exile, and that it
will be revived ae a result of the Jewish National Home.
That contribution is necessary in order to restore for all
Jews everywhere the prestige required to end the odium
that is attached to the name of Jew, and that takes form
in what is called anti-Semitism. It is necessary for all
Jews that we should have an opportunity for this develop-
ment, and it is also necessary for the world at large.

This sentiment embodies the two chief ideals which
dominate Zionist philosophy: The first, and naturally
the most important, calls for the rebuilding of the
Jewish National Home; the second aims at the revival
of Jewish self-expression, at a rebirth of the Jewish
individuality, in Palestine and through Palestine in the
Diaspora. Colonel Kisch has revealed a deep insight
and understanding of both these ideals, and has thus
earned the great honor which his position gives him.
In welcoming Colonel Kisch, the leader, however,
we are not unmindful of the great cause in whose be-
half he comes to us. Colonel Kisch officially opens the
Detroit campaign of the United Palestine Appeal for
$100,000. He brings to us a message from the cradle-
land of our people, and the response should be spon-
taneous, spelling oversubscription of the comparatively
small Detroit quota.
Thus, we welcome Colonel Kisch, and at the same
time urge that the community live up nobly to its ob-
ligation to Palestine.

We Welcome Zionist Convention to Detroit.

The decision reached by the National Executive
Committee of the Zionist Organization of America to
hold the next Zionist convention, beginning on June 30,
in Detroit, will without a doubt be greeted with enthusi-
asm by local Zionists and their friends, and should
serve as a signal for preparations for a city-wide holi-
day by all Jews who have the cause of Palestine at
heart.
Detroit is the only city of importance in the country
not to have had a Zionist convention. This, however,
. did not deter it from being among the leading centers
in American Zionism. The convening, on the other
hand, of representatives from every section of the land,
at the next convention, in our city, should serve as a
signal to strengthen the ranks of the local district. It
should help to increase the membership to a proportion
that will be in position to greet the national leaders in
behalf of a united Jewry for Palestine.
We welcome to Detroit the forthcoming convention
of the Zionist Organization of America.

The Women's Council Seeks New Members.

The Detroit section of the National Council of Jew-
ish Women announces preparations for a membership
drive beginning with the first week in April, and even
a casual glance at the organization's program should
serve to encourage women's participation in its work.
The Council sponsors the work of the Young Women's
Hebrew Association. It conducts an employment bu-
reau, finances a scholarship fund through which 14
girls were supplied the means for pursuing their studies
during the past two years, acts as Big Sister for a num-
ber of friendless girls and sponsors Child Study groups
before whom lectures of great benefit to mothers were
delivered.
These and many other activities speak for a pro-
gram of work worthy of support. The Detroit section,
serving as a link in a national chain of women's groups,
may be in a position, with a larger membership, so to
increase the scope of its work as to leave an indelible
imprint on the cultural and social life of our Jewish

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women, and the present membership drive is deserving
of encouragement.
It is interesting to note, in connection with the
national membership drive, that it is to be ushered in
with the observance of the Council Sabbath on March
23. On that occasion, rabbis will preach the cause of
the National Council of Jewish Women, and members
of the organization will occupy pulpits to advocate
their causes. The announcement from the national
office of the Council states that the Council Sabbath
"seeks to stress in the minds of the membership of the
National Council of Jewish Women that the synagogue
is a vital center of Jewish thought and activity whose
progress and effective functioning must be aided to the
fullest of every ability and power." The Council should
have added that the Sabbath is the very backbone of
this ''vital center of Jewish thought," and its celebration
of the Council Sabbath should be accredited as one of
its finest efforts.
Our readers may recall the beautiful stanzas on the
Sabbath written, under the title "Die Prinzessin Sab-
bat," by Ileinrich Heine:

'As a dog, with dog's ideas,
All the week, a cur, he noses
Thru' life's filthy mire and sweepings,
Butt of mocking city Arabs.

The Two Campaigns.

Next Wednesday, leaders in the movement for the
upbuilding of Palestine will officially sound the call to
Detroit Jews asking them to make their annual con-
tribution of $100,000 for the upbuilding of the Jewish
Homeland. Two months thereafter, the community
will again be asked for funds. In May Detroit Jews
will be asked to contribute $150,000 for local as well
as national and international needs, the latter call to
include a fund for a year's maintenance for the United
Hebrew Schools. In a period of ten weeks, Detroit
Jews will be called upon to contribute a quarter of a
million dollars to the two major appeals of the year,
and their results will undoubtedly be watched with
great interest by virtue of the desires expressed in
many quarters for the construction of hospital and
center buildings, which would involve an outlay five
times the amount sought in the coming two drives for
the United Palestine Appeal and the United Jewish
Campaign.
There will, no doubt, be many among our neighbors
who will attempt to evade their obligations to one or
the other of the present calls. How else could a cam-
paign for funds be made complete? For if we were
all to be public-spirited, and if we were all to make
noble responses within our means to worthy causes,
many of us would lose their jobs of preaching idealism,
and the present writer would have been saved the ef-
fort of urging that the full quotas be raised for the
two present campaigns. So long, therefore, as there
are a few among us who must be converted to ideals
which others call worthy, and so long as there is a
number in our ranks whose cry will undoubtedly be
that 'there are too many appeals," that they are "tired
of drives," we may be excused a comparison.
Granting that there are not more than 75,000 Jew-
ish souls in Detroit, this figure having been arrived at
in the latest census, a contribution of $250,000 would
mean a per capita gift of $3.33. Granting also that
twice as much more is spent annually per capita for
other local Jewish institutions and other national ap-
peals,—and the writer is very liberal in granting such
an expenditure, it being extremely doubtful whether
twice as much as the two major contributions is spent
for other causes—then the per capita Jewish contribu-
tion in Detroit is $10 a year. Now compare this with
the figure of $60 per capita in 1928, arrived at as an
average for the Jews of this country, in a survey by
Uriah Z. Engelman, the results of which were published
in our last week's issue, and you have an emphatic
answer to Detroiters who may object to "too many ap-
peals."
As a matter of fact there is at least one local effort,
that of the United Hebrew Schools, which is deserving
of an annual gift of a quarter of a million dollars; be-
cause, given that sum, our schools would have the
means wherewith so to educate the young as to remove
for the future the difficulties encountered in our com-
munal activities due to ignorance and lack of under-
standing. Taken as a whole, the appeals for the United
Palestine Appeal and the United Jewish Campaign in-
clude so many of the finest sentiments in Jewish life
that to fail to respond to them is to admit a hardened
soul incapable of any sort of idealism.
Palestine has so enhanced and enriched the life
of our people, and, in the words of Lord Melchett, Lee
K. Frankel, Felix M. Warburg and Oscar Wassermann,
has been such ''a just source of pride and satisfaction
to all members of the community." that its upbuilding
ought to be the greatest joy for all Jews. For such re-
construction work the United Palestine Appeal calls to
us now.
Included in the United Jewish Campaign are, in ad-
dition to the call for the maintenance of the Hebrew
Schools, are items calling for furthering the relief work
abroad, the upkeep of institutions like the Ilebrew Free
Loan Association (Gemilath Chassodim) ; support for
more than a dozen national institutions. eliminating
thereby separate campaigns; and the other causes a
complete list of which was published in our columns
last week.
The importance of both appeals is obvious. There
ought to be unanimity in Detroit Jewish ranks in the
support of both campaigns. Only hardened and un-
feeling hearts will fail to respond.

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"THE ROTHSCHILDS"

CriAS. tE. (JOSEPH,

I ant afraid that sometimes we expect too much of
human nature. A reader from Detroit sends me un
excerpt of one of Dorothy Herzog's gossipy letters from
Hollywood, which are just about as harmless a bit of
nothing that one can find. I imagine that Dorothy is
kept busy trying to find excuses for bringing her movie
friends and acquaintances into her paragraphs. Occasion-
ally in sheer desperation she just writes blab. Now I
don't know that Renee Adorce ever was guilty of the
following:
We were speaking of languages. Renee Adores
admitted that she chattered a few.
"Do you speak Hebrew?" quoth an inquisitive
soul.
Renee shrugged, extended wriggling fingers
and cried: "Gimme, gimme!"
She received perfect marking on the quiz.
That sort of thing is in bad taste but not in Holly
wood, where they have no taste. However, my corre-
spondent should not permit himself to become wrought
up over the matter just because the movie magnates are
Jews.

The liberal Christian clergy accept my writings in
the spirit in which they are written.

"But on every Friday evening
On a sudden in the twilight
The enchantment weakens, ceases
And the dog once more is human
And his father's halls he enters
As a man with man's emotions,
Head and heart alike uplifted
Clad in pure and festal raiment."
The Sabbath as it was once observed has in the past
years been so seriously weakened, that whatever may
be done to strengthen it is a duty of all Jews, and the
particular duty of the women in Israel. The Council
of Jewish Women ushers in a drive for members with
an observance of the Sabbath. There is nothing more
appropriate and it should help to win for the organiza-
tion unstinted and unanimous support.

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The Rev. Dr. Samuel W. Purvis, of the Thirteenth
Street M. E. Church of Philadelphia, one of the Quaker
city's forward-looking spiritual leaders, writes me this
letter:
Dear Mr. Joseph:
Last Saturday I gratified a long-desired wish
—to write concerning the Jewish Feast of Purim
—and then did a stupid thing—got my date wrong!
I consulted my "World's Almanac," and read the
date 1928 for 1929. 1 got March 5 as the eve of
Purim, instead of March 25. It wasn't long until
I heard from my Jewish readers, and there most
be quite a few. The letters came from Dan in the
north to Beersheba in the south, and from the
region beyond the Jordan on the east to the Great
Sea on the west, so to speak; not geographically,
of course, only as if it were.
There are three things I have to say as I slump
in the dust of my chagrin and humiliation: I
regret it. I am sorry. It is too bad. These three,
but the greatest of these is--I'll be more careful
next time! It is commendable, of course, for a
minister to be progressive, but he ought not to be
too far ahead of time. I hope my Jewish friends
will forgive my precipitancy.
Then, too, I am afraid I shall now be like the
man described by your good prophet Isaiah, "It
shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and be-
hold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is
empty." As I wrote the sermon I was looking
wistfully (mentally, of course), towards those
tables loaded with "hamentashen"—goodies, nice
"portions" for friends, and the poor (which might
include poor writers, as well)—not that I was
hoping that some kindly Jewish reader-friend
would—no, not that—I was just looking—that's
all. It was a pretty dream, but—oh, well—you
know what evanescent, insubstantial things dreams
are anyhow. Still, I cannot help thinking, very
sympathetically, of Lazarus at the fortunate man's
gate, and what the parable said he would have
been contented with.
I am enclosing a copy of last Saturday's
(March 2) sermon. I hops you will enjoy it. If
you enjoy it as much as I enjoy Random Thoughts
I will be very happy.
With best wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,
SAMUEL W. PURVIS.

Now that's the sort of friendly letter I like to get.
I'm sorry that I don't reside in Philadelphia, Doctor
Purvis, and have the opportunity to knowing you well.
I am quite sure you'd find me in one of your pews an
occasional Sunday night. I say Sunday "night" because
I'd want to hear Rabbi Fineshriber and Rabbi Wolsey on
Sunday mornings. And do you know, Dr. Purvis, that it
wouldn't be a new experience for me to attend services
in a Christian church? A great many years ago—
longer than I care to remember—I lived in a small town
in Orange county, New York. As the Josephs were the
only Jews in the town we couldn't very well support a
synagogue. So my parents decided that I would prob-
ably receive considerable benefit and that my soul would
not be placed in jeopardy by attending Christian church
services. I was rather liberal in the selection. For a
time I was a constant attendant at the Baptist church,
then I changed my affections and began to attend the
Methodist church, then moved to the Dutch Reformed
church, and finally closed my church-going career in the
Episcopalian church. After such a splendid training I
became a Jewish journalist.

I was very glad indeed to receive the details of the
Good-will Service held in Rabbi Samuel M. Cup's congre-
gation, Sons of Israel and David (Temple Beth-Eli in
I'rovidence( R. I. I note that Dr. Faunce, president of
Brown University, delivered the principal address. Ile is a
liberal and I do believe that he is genuinely interested
in the advancement of the cause of good-will among all
peoples. About the only complaint I have to lodge
against hint was the attitude he took when the Jewish
boys at Brown wanted to establish a fraternity because
they couldn't get into any of the others. lie felt that by
founding a Jewish fraternity would create "rishus" (he
didn't say that but he meant it). Well, there was grsat
passing to and fro of letters between Louis Marshall and
Dr. Faunce, who, by the way, are good friends. But
nothing came of it. And the Jewish boys at Brown are
out a fraternity of their own and out of the other fel-
low's. So there you are!

But to get back for a moment to that good-will
meeting in Providence. Dr. Faunce struck a high note of
good-will and GOD fellowship. And Dr. Hunt. the direc-
tor of the Good-Will Union in America, urged the cause
of tolerance and religious liberty. When we participate
in gatherings of this kind we are carried away by the
spirit of brotherhood which prevails and we are shocked
when we get back to the larger world outside, to find so
much bigotry and hate and prejudice and fanaticism and
intolerance. If I mistake not Providence was one of the
few cities in the civilized east where the Klan was
extremely offensive and all too important, and where
occasionally attempts are made to pass sectarian laws.
So Dr. Gup is to be commended for trying to fan into
flame the spark of a more understanding fellowship
between Jew and Christian.

I regret that I am not able to publish the letter
received from Rabbi Abbe I. Krim, editor of the Jewish
Classical Magazine of Newark, N. J., because it is too
long. The substance of Rabbi Kim's communication is
that there is in Newark, N. J., living in poverty, a rabbi
who studied at the Hebrew Union College and the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati, and who has been without a pupil
for the past five years. This he attributes to the intrigues
of his enemies, but that's his statement and not mine.
lie is a scholar who has translated the works of l'hilo
Judaeus, the philosopher, into Yiddish; he also translated
into Yiddish the work of the philosopher and poet,
Judah ha-Levi. But unfortunately he is in such distress
financially that he is unable to publish his more impor-
tant works. And he charges that he cannot find a pulpit
because of prejudice against him on the part of co-
religionists. So he asks through this column that those
interested in assisting the rabbi to publish his books and
to realize his ambition and ideals make known ther desire.
I wish to say that I am not in possession of the facts in
the case as a result of my personal investigation, but am
merely quoting in substance the statements made to me
in this letter from Rabbi Krim. I presume that if any-
one is inclined to offer financial assistance that he will
fully investigate the situation.

It wasn't much, yet an interesting side-light on the
funeral of the late Col. Samuel D. Lit, distinguished
Philadelphian, was the playing of the chimes of Dr. Floyd
Tompkins church, which is near the Lit residence. The
chimes tang softly throughout the service and as the
funeral cortege started on its way to the cetnetery, the
chimes again played a farewell to the neighbor of the
church and the friend of the pastor's.

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By RABBI LEON FRAM

The mother of the Rothschilds
ay on her death-bed, her five sons
about her, Frau Gittele, as she
was endearingly called, did not
yield up life without a struggle.
Dr. Stiehel, German's most emi-
nent surgeon, had told her sons
that she was dying of infirmities
attendant upon extreme old age
(she was 96 years old). As he
bent over her, she raised her head
slightly, and with highly expressive
though feeble gestures she berated
hint.
Even the calm surgeon grew a
little impatient. "Madam," he
said somewhat testily, "I ant sorry
I cannot make you younger."
"Who asked you to make me
younger?" the old lady snapped
back. "All I ant asking you is to
make me a little older."
No wonder Gittele wanted to
grow a little older. Hers had been
a wonderful life, increasing in
charm as the years went on. It is
true she had been a widow for 35
years, but all her life had been
wrapped up in her sons, and she
had seen her sons grow in power
and prestige until they were equal
to the mightiest princes of Europe.
She had known poverty. When
she had first married Meyer Am-
shel Rothschild, he was a strug-
gling money-changer and dealer in
old coins and curios. The little
cash dowry which she had brought
him when she married him had
helped set him on his feet. When
he died in 1712 he had left her
comfortable and had left the boys
enough to give them a good start
in business.

From Poverty to Power.

It is hardly likely that the old
man ever dreamt of the heights of
world-power to which his sons were
to rise. Before Meyer Amshel
died, he was conscious that he and
his boys had done quite a profit-
able bit of business running the
Napoleonic blockade. Ile was
aware that his family had pro-
ceeded from a condition of poverty
to it situation of being very well
off. Of anything like greatness or
of international influence, he cer-
tainly had not the slightest inkling.
But Gittele, she had experienced
the complete process—the march
of the House of Rothschild all the
way from the dreary Judengasse
of Frankfort-Au-Main to magnifi-
cent palaces in every capital in
Europe where they reigned as the
sixth great power of Europe—the
other five being England, France,
Prussic, Russia and Austria. No
wonder she wanted a little more of
such a life. Not that she had
moved into any of the palaces. She
was still living in that little house
on Jew's Lane where Meyer Am-
shel took her a few years after
their marriage. She was still liv-
ing in that little house next to an
old clothes shop kept by a man
whose name was Schiff and whose
children were destined to great
things in America, even as her chil-
dren accomplished great things in
Europe. Nothing could tempt her
to stir from that house. It was
here that the family fortune had
started.

The Succah.
Was it a mere superstition or

was it a profound intuition which
held her to that drab old dwelling
in the crowded Jew street? It
may have been merely a supersti-
tion that one should not abandon
the spot where one's fortune had
begun, that there was something
lucky about the place, that ill-
luck might follow the loss of it.
On the other hand, it may have
been more than that. The house
in the Judengasse, in which the
old mother lived, actually served
as a symbol to hold the broth-
ers together. Here they fore-
gathered again and again, coming
from the four other capitals in
which they were distributed, to dis-
cuss undertakings of vast propor-
tions. It is said that the stock ex-
changes in Europe trembled when-
ever the Rothschild clan assembled
in the Judengasse, for some huge
financial transaction was bound to
result. Many of the family wed-
dings were held in that house, and
it is said that the sons sought and
followed the advice of their old
mother on many important mat-
ters.
Carl Roessler, the German play-
wright, had dramatized this quaint
Rothschild custom of returning to
the shabby old ghetto home when-
ever a vital decision was to be
made, in a delightful comedy
called "The Five Frankforters."
It was produced in America about
10 years ago. Great crowds of
people went to see it because they
thought it was something about
wienerwursts of "hot dog" sand-
wiches.
That little house in the teeming
ghetto kept the Rothschilds loyal
to their own people. In this way,
the old ghetto home served the
same function in the life of the
Rothschilds as the symbol of the
Succah serves the Jewish people

as a whole. Once a year the Jet
is asked to leave his home an
dwell for a while in a tumble
down rickety shack—a succah—ii
order that he might thereby b
humbled and he able to smite
thine with all who were insecure
and homeless.
Proud as she was of her sons'
wealth and power, Gittele wa.
prouder still of this fact, that her
boys were good Jews, that they
never tired of using their power
to improve the civil condition of
their fellow Jews, that in every
ghetto of Europe there arose hos-
pitals, orphan homes, schools, and
homes for the aged, built and main-
tained by her sons. Happiest of
all was she in her consciousness
that her sons were pious Jews, that
they attended synagogue and that
their children were learning Torah.
Gittele had realized all the de -
sires of a Jewish mother's heart.
Love and joy surrounded her like
the "succah of peace," succath
Shalom, for which she prayed
every Sabbath evening. No wonder
she wanted more life, and asked of
the doctor that he make her a lit-
tle older.

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The. Secret of • Great Fortune.

Yet if she knew what was hap-
pening in the world just at that
moment she might have been con-
tent to die like Letitia Napoleon
before Waterloo and St. Helena.
All Europe was in revolution,
thrones were topping, crowns
were rolling away. The Rothsc-
hilds had staked all their wealth
with the kings of Europe and now
the kings were in flight and repub-
lics were arising. The very mo-
ment that the suns were standing
about the bed of their mother
their couriers throughout Europe
were hastening towards them with
the news that might mean that the
House of Rothschild had collapsed
like a pricked soap-bubble.
Metternich, prime minister of
Austria and Europe's strong man,
had been forced to flee in his
nightgown with the revolutionaries
in hot pursuit—and it was Metter-
nich who had placed all of Aus-
tria's finances in the hands of Solo-
mon Rothschild. King Louis
Philippe of France had fallen—
and it was Philippe who had placed
all the finances of France in the
hands of James Rothschild. The
Pope had been forced to make It
very unceremonious exit out of
the patrimony of St. Peter and into
a rocky refuge in South Italy, and
it was the Pope who had placed the
papal finances in the hands of
Karl Rothschild.
It seemed for a while as though
with the death of the mother would
go everything else. But the
Rothschilds survived the great up-
heavals because after all, they pos.
pleased talents and resources which
republics needed as much as mon-
archies.
And here perhaps we have the
only secret that there is to tell
about the Rothschild fortune,
namely, that five young men—
business men every inch of them,
and determined, like the Three
Musketeers, to be all for one and
one for all—happened to be in
Europe just at the time when all
the states of Europe were busy
with undertakings which required
a great deal of ready cash. These
five men by placing themselves at
strategic points, by establishing a
network of financial connections,
and by doing all this with a skill
which amounted to genius, were
able to raise the cash needed by
states, when no one else could.
This genius made them indispen-
sable alike to the autocrats who
succeeded Napoleon and to the re-
publics which succeeded the auto-
cracies.
The most vital contribution
made to the history of the House
of Rothschild by its latest and
most authoritative biographer,
Count Caesar Egan Corti, in his
two volumes published this year,
"The Rise of the House of Roths-
child" and "The Rein of the
House of Rothschild," lies in the
piercing of those legends which
have woven themselves about the
name Rothschild. lie has found
the facts about the family to be
much more wonderful than the le-
gends ever were. Henceforth, no
history of Europe in the nine-
teenth century can be written
without taking into account the
factual picture which Corti has
produced of the dominating influ-
ence of the House of Rothschild
in the business and the interna-
tional relations of every state in

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The Legend of • Great Fortune.

This is the legend that the fam-
ily fortune came about through the
friendship of Meyer Amshel and
Prince William I of Hesse - Cassel.
The legend goes that this friend-
ship was founded upon their com-
mon interest in rare old coins.
This prince was one of the weal-
thiest men in Europe, having made

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Gems From Jewish Literature

Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.

"THE ETERNAL PEOPLE"

"Numerous peoples and power-
ful kingdoms have disappeared,
have gone down when their day
came. and have not risen again
before those that destroyed them;
and many another people, when its
day comes, will go down and be
lost. But Israel will still live, for
the breath of life is in him.

"When driven from his land,
when kingdom and liberty were
taken from him, he still refused to
utter the word of despair; for a
new idea broke into blossom above
the tombs of his forefathers, above
the ruins of his cities and above
his desolate land; the day of his
defeat was the day of a new hope.
And while the body crumbled in
the dust. he took courage, fash-
ioned for himself a heart of
bronze, which could resist both of
the arrows of hate and the fires

of the most terrible wars." (Perez
Smolenskin).

"GOLD AND IRON -

.... And there are times when dreams
•re snit ins.
Shadow. of beauty, altars unto love,
And, in the heart, the longings that
ari•e-
All, all are beautiful--and all are lies.

For wind is not • comfort unto hunger,
Nor gold are to immortality.
I rye then: 'For the bitter truth I tone.
Though grim as iron, yet a Iron strong: .

I cry d then: . 'Weary is my soul of

Fake prophecies, and golden visions
fake,
For, blinded with their vacant light, I
gave
My strength to beauty, an eternal slave.'

Though all are trapped. must I with
them he trapped!
I shall be first to tear the treacherous
net.
And thunder,
the golden strands I

grrer,

'Down, down with gold.
Let Iron
live forever!'"
—Z. SIDIAIUR

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