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April 5, 1929

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When the Hebrew Language Triumphs.

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The importance of the staging of the Ilebrew play,
"Jephthah's Daughter," this Sunday evening„ does not
lie in the composition of the drama, or in the acting,
or the fine music. Although Mr. Bernard Issacs is to be
given his due credit for what is said to be an excellent
operetta, and his literary talents are to be encouraged.
Similarly, the composer of the music is to be compli-
mented, and the dramatic director given his full share
of praise. But the underlying factor of prominence
which makes the play stand out as an important event
on the calendar of Detroit events is the appearance in
public of dozens of our boys and girls, all of them
speaking Hebrew, all of them understanding the lie-
brew they speak, all of them possessing a fluency in
Hebrew deserving of commendation.
The Hebrew language triumphs when the young-
sters who are taught it reveal a naturalness when they
use it as a medium of speech. In the plays staged
seven and eight years ago the United Hebrew Schools
of Detroit achieved their first triumph, in that they
were able publicly to exhibit the results of their efforts.
The genuineness of the children's use of the Hebrew
language is said to have strengthened in naturalness;
therefore the presentation of "Jephthah's Daughter"
should be a signal of increased glory for our schools.

Rabbinic Unity.

The announcement made last week by Rabbi Aaron
M. Ashinsky, on behalf of the Rabbinical Board and a
group of laymen, that the local rabbis have agreed up-
on one creamery to supply the local Jewish commun-
ity with milk for Passover is more important for the
evident unity in the decision than for the object at-
tained. Heretofore, the supervising by individual rab-
bis of competitive supplies of kosher Passover milk cre-
ated a sort of business of the sentiment involved for
those who desire milk within the regulations of the
Passover festival; with the result that the market was
so split by competition that there was fear this year
of local creameries refusing to go into the expense of
supplying Detroit Jews with needed milk this Passover.
By their agreement to concentrate on one creamery,
and not to sponsor or supervise another supply by a
competitive company, the rabbis have not only assured
a clean milk supply for Detroit Jews this Pesach, but
have done something more important by establishing
unity within the ranks on the question of ritual and
diet. Which is as it should be; and which unity should
be further encouraged in matters involving rabbinic
control.

Women's Independent Giving.

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"Shall women give only through their husband's?"
is the question asked in a recent number of The Jew-
ish Woman, publication of the National Council of Jew-
ish Women, and two very interesting answers are giv-
en by Mrs. Felix M. Warburg of New York and Mrs.
Sol Rosenbloom of Pittsburgh. Both are emphatic in
urging women with means of their own to give inde-
pendently of their husbands to causes that interest
them. Mrs. Warburg even suggests that women go
out and earn the money necessary for independent giv-
ing. Her statement on the question reads in part:

It is only within this generation that women other than
widows or spinsters of independent means have thought of
riving except through their husbands, but since the grant-

ing of universal suffrage here in the United States, women
are more and more beginning to feel their personal respon-
sibility towards the many questions of the day and the

thought and aid that it is necessary to give to remedy the
inequalities of opportunity that exist even in our de-
mocracy.
As many of the wives of this generation are college

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bred and have been systematically trained to think on
public questions in all their aspects, it is natural that they
should wish to help towards alleviating social and civic mal-

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adjustments. I certainly think that whenever a woman
can command any means of her own, even if it were neces-
easy to earn the money herself, it is her right and her duty
to give independently of her husband to the causes that

interest her.

Mrs. Rosenbloom, with similar emphasis, urges
women to give independently for the sake of their "in-
ner satisfaction," and states in part:

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No woman can reach her whole-souled fulfillment unless
she herself fulfills what her soul craves. By herself giving
of her own purse to the causes, she will put her own inter-
ests into them; it will immediately call forth her active,
live partaking in what the community is doing for our
fellowmen. By putting her personal interest into the
vauses which require her contributions, she will get active
application for here energies; and through constant prac-
tice if such active interest in community problems she her-
self will be the gainer; as inner growth comes from more
and more giving of one's self and of one's means to one's
fellowmen.

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There is something very encouraging in these state-
ment. In the first place, woman's active participation
in worthy causes will not only help the causes but will
improve all efforts for them by her added support and
encouragement. In the second place, the awakening
of interest in important works among the women is a
sign of the genuineness and sincerity of the efforts of
the men who are passing on their interests to the wom-
en. In the case of Mrs. Warburg and Mrs. Rosenbloom,
their Jewish activities help to add glory and honor to
their names which already stand for the noblest efforts

in American Jewish philanthropy.

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Jewry Loses a Noble Figure.

The passing last Saturday of Rabbi Max I feller of
New Orleans robs American Jewry of one of its most
picturesque figures. As rabbi of Sinai Temple at New
Orleans for 13 years, as professor of Hebrew literature
at Tulare University, as participant in the worthiest
Jewish causes and as a prominent Zionist, Rabbi Hel-
ler's death will be mourned by many thousands of
f riends, disciples and admirers.
Not once the conventions of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America which were attended by the late be-
loved Professor Gotthard Deutsch Were Zionist gather-
ings, in recent years. graced by so fine, picturesque and
noble a figure as that of Rabbi Heller. Those who at-
tended the last convention in Pittsburgh, last July, no
doubt cherish reminisceMTS Of the earliest and ener-
getic efforts made by this sincere lover of Zion to cre-
ate peace among the Warring factions. His prophetic
personality more than anything else helped to inspire
the delegates at last year's as well as at preceeding
conventions. Similarly, wherever he made appear-
ances he thrilled his audiences with his personality
and his idealism.
A prince has fallen in Israel, and Jews mourn his
loss.

Relativity in Envy, Hatred and Taste.

The Boersen Korier of Berlin reveals the formation
of a secret society for the purpose of exposing Einstein.
The German paper remarks in its revelation that it is
not surprised that envy and hatred of the great Jewish
scientist should lead to the creation of an organized
group of his opponents, although it adds that the society
will not attempt to disprove the Einstein Theory. Thus
we have a new Theory of Relativity in Envy and Hatred.
Einstein himself has described it in his own interesting
manner in an article in the London Times:

The description of me and my circumstances in the

Times shows an amusing feat of imagination on the part of
the writer. By nn application of the theory of relativity
to the taste of readers, I am today called in Germany a
German man of science, and in England I am represented
as a Sinks Jew.... If I should come to be regarded as

at bete noire, the descriptions of me will be reversed,
and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans, and a
German man of science for the English.

To the satisfaction of Professor Einstein and his
admirers, the attacks upon him have an effect inversely
proportional to the hatred against him: the more
bitter the antagonism against him, the greater his pop-
ularity and the stronger the love of his admirers for
him.

Three Cheers for the Ten Commandments.

In Omaha, Nebraska, we are told, the 3500th an-
niversary of the birth of Moses was observed when over
500 people, representing, 22 welfare, religious, educa-
tional and fraternal organizations gathered at the
Omaha Jewish Community Center." There were
speeches and eulogies, and we can just picture to our-
selves the rejoicings of the members of the Western
community over the great fortune of our people to
have been blessed with the Greatest of Prophets.
But we can also picture to ourselves a few possible
additional numbers to a program for obtaining the
3500th anniversary of Moses' birth. For example, the
committee might have trained a special cheer leader to
"Rah, Rah" for Moses and his Ten Commandments.
It might have conducted a special "cheer contest"
among the Sunday School children, awarding the win-
ners copies of Bibles, thus spreading the gospel. As
a novelty for its social hour, hail we been asked in ad-
vance, we would have suggested the serving of "Man-
na" as refreshments.
But poor Moses, if we are to judge from the reports
of the anniversary celebration in his honor, was des-
tined only to listen to speeches on his birthday. Ile
was not even given a banquet! Evidently we shall
again have to turn from the West to the East for the
right cheers for the Ten Commandments and their au-
thor for Mosiac honors.

The Symptoms of Dislike for the Jew.

Anti-Semitic prejudices are not necessarily to be
judged by violent attacks against any group of our
people. On the contrary. the symptoms of dislike for
the Jew which are a thousand times more stinging, are
those involving intellectual and social suppressions.
Soviet Russia, at which many Jews directed hopeful
eyes, and front which some even expected the coming
of the millenium insofar has been a terrible disap-
pointment in just this respect. The numerous inci-
dents of individuals tortured, of violence against Jew-
ish employes in Russian factories. of Jewish girls
abused.—all these are as nothing compaied with the
humiliations—which our people must feel from the
prejudices from the quarters higher up. It is but nat-
ural that Jews should suffer economically in a Com-
munist state. Neither is it to he wondered at that peo-
ple with medieval minds should attack us physically.
But when merit is abused by prejudiced minds of in-
tellectuals, and When natural ability is ignored when
the able is a Jew, the test is clear.
An instance of this is contained in the following
Jewish Telegraphic Agency report from Moscow:

The appointment of A. Deborin, Jewish philosopher,
to the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was met with
opposition by some members of the Academy, led by Pro-

fessor Pavlov. The name of Professor Deborin was
rejected along with that of V. M. Fritche, literary critic,
and N. Lukin. historian.
Opposition to the three candidates named by the Soviet
authorities developed among the 40 members of the Acad-
emy when the Soviet authorities proceeded with its plan

to increase the number of academicians from 40 to 80,
instituting a new department of social sciences and making
certain changes in the methods of some of the existing

departments.

The violence of the masses can be well offset by the
better sense of the classes. But when the violence of
the first is flavored by the prejudice of the latter, it is
a sign that the land is as cursed under the Communist
as it was under the Czar.

GIAS.

JOSEP11-• - =

Dr. S. Melamed, the editor of that Jewish 3Ienshen-
coqu• magazine, The Reflex, is, I am very much
afraid, trying to lead us astray. He wants, a Jewish uni-
versity into which will be emptied all the Jewish teachers
who can't find jobs in other universities, and of course
those who can. And I presume he will try to absoro
every Jewish student who wants a college education.
Then Dr. Melamed says that everybody will cry "Ghetto!"
That's right, Doctor, that's exactly what they will cry,
1 jut don't like it. It's getting so lately in Jewry that
all the work done by the earlier Jews in America to pre-
vent us from becoming fenced off from the rest of the
[people is being undone by our tense Jews. I don't know
Just why I used the word "tense" but it seems to fit.

Maybe Dr. Melamed and his friends want us to get
bark into a ghetto of our own making. Perhaps he will
feel that the closer we crowd together and the further
away that We get from our neighbors, the better Jean
we will be. We made a good start in trying to establish
a Jewish nation in Palestine. We have our Jewish schools
--parochial. IVe are trying to make Yiddish popular.
Our Jewish theaters and our Yiddish press are with tnt
in ever-increasing numbers. So why not have a Jewish
university? We are getting driven into ourselves by
Gentile hotel keepers, apartment house owners and club
officials. Read the want ads in the newspaper and it
looks as if we are getting to a spot where Jews will have
to work for Jews or not work at all. But Dr. Melamed
wants to make it unanimous with a Jewish university.
Maybe that's the right thing to do. To create it definite
minority group here like exists in some European
countries.

It seems to ow that our friends have taken the bit in
their mouth and are trying to run away with American
Jewry bag and baggage. They try to sweep some of
us off our feet. It makes me uneasy. Its quite a prob-
lem, ladies and gentlemen, and if you don't think so.
some bright morning you are going to have an awakening.
I don't want Dr. Melamed to become frightened and
believe that I want to assimilate) completely with the
Christian group. That's quite foolish. But is it ivies
to swing to the other extreme and fence ourselves in
and the rest of the world out? I think not. I may be off
the track but I humbly suggest that the Jews who want us
to crowd into a corner instead of mixing more freely
with the life about us are some day going to get us into
trouble. We may be de-Judaised Jews, as Dr. Melamed
calls us, but I em afraid the de-Judaised Jews will have
to save the situation some day for those Jews who are
extremists.

How the mighty have fallen! Ludendorff, the former
great war lord, tined and sentenced to jail for making an
attack on Jews and Freemasons. Well, well, who would
have ever believed that the one-time idol of the German
army could come to such a pass. But the mistake was
made in arresting Ludendorff. Ile should have been
taken to a hospital and given medical attention. I have
always believed that Ludendorff for the past few years
has been mentally unbalanced and his actions prove it.
It's too bad to see such a brilliant mind in decay.

A reader corrects me in my assumption that Einstein
in addition to being a Zionist takes an interest in other
phases of Jewish life. Ile says that Einstein, like
Brandeis, Untermeyer, Kallen and other outstanding
Zionists, has no Jewish contact 'whatsoever with Jewish
communal life. Einstein belongs (so he says) to no
Jewish congregation and has nothing to do with any
Jewish activity other than Zionism. It has always been a
puzzle to me, this interest in Zionism on the part of Jews
who take no interest in Jewish life in their own countries
but who go to extremes in interesting themselves in Jew-
ish life in Palestine.

Arthur Brisbane says that the "president against his
will and judgment and so lely because the law compels it,
has proclaimed the new 'origins' act limiting immigration
and tracing the would-be immigrant to his national
origin," Mr. Brisbane further states that "that act was
drawn and intended to diminish the number of Jewish
immigrants and immigration from Southern Europe,
where live the people described by Woodrow Wilson as
the 'baser sort'." While I ant sure that the original
immigration restrictive measures were passed to curtail
immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and
while those responsible for the "National Origins" act
may have had in mind further restriction of immigration
from those districts yet if I an to believe the Jewish
Daily Bulletin" immigration is actually increased by the
new law. It says that an increase) of 4,215 is effected
front Southern and Eastern Europe. Who is right, Mr.
Brisbane or the Jewish Daily Bulletin?

I can't retrain from quoting another paragrauh from
the brilliant Brisbane's pithy comments;

As to the desire to prevent Jewish immigra-
tion, by no means limited to the Ku Klux Klan,

it is well for sensible Americans to bear in mind

certain historical facts. Spain and Portugal drove
out the Jews inspired by religious hatreds. Hol-
land welcomed them. Holland rose to great power

and wealth. Portugal and Spain went to the devil,
commercially and otherwise, and are still there.

Rabbi Stephen Wise, who scored in a recent ser-
mon those Jewish social clubs "on the north or south
shore of Long Island (N. Y.)" who send out application
blanks asking where the applicant's father, mother,
grandmother and grandfather, and wife's relatives were
horn, was absolutely right in denouncing it as an "anti-
Semitic gesture." If our Jewish social clubs would
interest themselves a little more conscientiously in dis-
covering the character of the applicant they would be
rendering a distinct service to Jewry. The Jewish social
club should purge its membership lists of those Jews
whose business, professional and social conduct reflects
upon Jewry, a vastly more important and vital act than
in basing an applicant's value as a club-asset upon his
birthplace. Dr. Wise said that it might be undiplomatic
to make the assertion publicly that Jewish clubs to the
sort of thing referred to but he felt a higher obligation
to be a truth-speaking than a diplomat. I agree with
him. We have too many diplomats, pussy-footers and
users of weasel-words. We need more truth-speakers
who denounce the hypocrites and the hypocrisies of Jews
and Jewries.
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The Boston Jewish Advocate forwards me a letter sent
by a reader living in Keene, New Hampshire. I am
asked to comment on a statement appearing in the Eve-
ning Sentinel of Keene. This statement was made by
the Rev. Edwin Farley of New York, of the Unitarian
Association.

He said:
We no longer fight duels as individuals, but
war and battleships are not yet completely out-

lawed. In industry we tolerate in the corporation
a standard of morality which we could hardly
defend in our next door neighbor. We believe in

the brotherhood of man but we do not like a Jew
or a Negro to live next to us.

The Jewess who sent this item to the Boston Advo-
cate is very indignant, and even wants to invoke the aid
of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation I.eague. Why? I
do not know the conditions that exist in a small commu-
nity like Keene, N. IL, but I assure the lady that in large
cities there are definite residential districts from which
Jews are rigidly excluded. Our Christian neighbors, not
all of them, of course, do not care to live next door to
a Jew. If it so happens that a cultured Jewish family
happens to wedge in through some accidental circum-
stance, the Christian neighbor will be sure to tell her
children that they are not allowed to play with the Jewish
children next door. I assure the complainant that so
far as Dr. Farley is concerned there is no occasion for
resentment because he was not expressing his own views
but merely stating conditions as they exist. Unitarians
are exceedingly liberal, tolerant and just and are closer
to the Jewish religious group than any other denomina-
tion. I appreciate, too, that Dr. Farley was unhappy in
his placing together reference to the Negro and Jew.
If he had separated the statements the readers would not
have become no indignant. But I am sure he meant
nothing malicious, merely a mistake that might happen to
anyone. And no one will feel sorrier than Dr. Farley if
this criticism should happen to meet his eye.

Books and Authors

DID POE KNOW HEBREW

An Interesting Discussion on the
Subject in Prof. Forrest's
Excellent Volume.

BIBLICAL ALLUSIONS IN POE.
By IV. 31. Forrest. Published
by the Macmillan Co., New
York and Chicago 432.501.
William Mentzel Forrests, John
B. Cary professor of Biblical his-
tory and literature at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, began his study of
the Biblical allusions in Poe in
DOH, When the one hundredth an-
niversary of the birth of Amer-
ica's most universally renowned
author was celebrated at his alma
nutter, the University of Virginia.
The result is a very tine contribu-
tion on the subject and a valuable
work for the student of Poe and
the Bible.

T. this author, "the Bible in
Shakespeare and Browning and
Tennyson seems an almost obvious
result of the spiritual permeation
of English literature in general."
"But Poe has never before been so
studied." we read in his preface.
"The extent of his familiarity with
the Bible may not induce the read-
'er to follow Poe's Often French
critic and translator (Charles
Baudelaire I, who wrote in his
journal, 'I swear to myself hence-
forth to pray every morning to
Poe.' Yet it is likely to astonish
many by reason of the type of his
writings and his reputation."

Professor Forrest makes a
study, and a very interesting one,
of Poe's spirituality, pantheism
and mysticism. Ile devotes chap-
ters to a review of Poe's refer-
ences to "death," "beyond death"
and "world end and judgment,"
later proceeding to a study of his
prose and poetic resemblances to
the Bible and devotes a chapter to
"The Bible in Poe." Of unusual
value for the Biblical student is
the appendix, in this case a very
necessary item in the study, con-
taining quotations, II
phrases, Scripture proper names
and an interesting section on the
question of whether Poe knew
Hebrew.

The author makes a comparison,
in discussing Poe's mysticism, be-
tween the Jewish Biblical writers
and Poe: "In the•case of both the
Jewish writers and Poe the ex-
planation is found in the contrast
between what was and what ought
to be according to their ideal. With
Israel the wailing arose from
measuring their condition by the
glorious rhapsodies concerning na-
tional triumphs and splendors
which the early prophets sang to
them in times of calamity. They
had re-established their state after
the Exile with such hopes tuning
Then weary centuries
them on.
wore away and their enemies con-
tinued to rule them instead of com-
ing to lick the dust at their feet.
Prophetic voices no longer spoke
to them.... Then arose the new
order of seers. In new fashion the
hope of Israel found voice: in
strange guise the mysteries of life
were expounded. The prophecies
were not to fail. God would yet
avenge."
l'rofessor Forrest points to the
fact that the Bible in general is
against "vain repetitions," and de-
clares that "this finds its precise
analogy in Poe. No man ever
hated verbosity more than he.
None other ever no appreciated the
value of brevity—stories must be
short; poems must be short."
The refrain in "The Raven" is
compared to the refrain in the 26
stanzas in Psalm I:16, "For his
mercy endureth forever." The
double refrain, although faintly
suggested in Poe, is traced to
Psalm 107.
We learn from Professor For-
rest's cnneluding section to his ap-
pendix that "numerous passages in
Poe express or imply some knowl-
edge of Hebrew." The author pub-
lishes a list of references to these
passages. In a lengthy discussion,
marked by references, Professor
Forrest defends Poe against the
late Professor Harrison's charge
that Poe brought his reputation
"perilously near charlatanry" by
waving repeatedly a passage in Hes
bhew with which he was assisted
by Professor Charles Anthon. Pro-
fessor Forrest calls this charge
"not altogether fair or accurate,"
and declaress that "Poe was not
entirely dependent upon Anthon,"
Professor Forrest's "Biblical Al-
lusions in Poe" is, on the whole,
interesting to the lay reader and
valuable to the students of Poe and
the Bible.

The Reawakening of the
Orient.

ASIA REBORN. By Marguerite
Harrison. Published by Harper
a Bros., 40 East Thirty-third
street, New York 184).
The awakening of the Orient,
since the war, has found an echo
in a number of important works,
not the least interesting of which

is Mrs. Ilarrison's "Asia Reborn."
Mrs. Harrison discusses very in-
terestingly the growth of the Mas-
len] bloc in Turkey, Persia and
Afghanistan, and in view of the
recent uprisings in the land of the
Afghans, her story sheds light on
the situation for the average si
reader. The return of Russia to
Asia finds a well informed histor-
ian in Mrs. Harrison, and her vol-
ume includes a description of
events in India Skits, Indo-China,
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as well as it resume of the Far
Eastern triangle in Japan, Korea
and China.
Of particular interest to the
Jewish reader is the chapter on
"Cross Currents in Arab Lands,"
which is a discussion of Syria, the
Jewish Homeland and Iraq. It is
it source for regret that Mrs. Harri-
son, who showed such a fine under-
standing of the Jew's problem in
Russia in her "Marooned in Mos-
'41
cow," published eight years ago,
should have devoted only a little
over seven pages to Palestine's
problem ill her present bok.
Mrs. Ilarrison pays a tribute to
the Jewish pioneers in Palestine:
"My own observations in Pales-
tine, while very superficial, would
tend to substantiate the claim of
the Zionists that most of the land
occupied by their 'hiduzim' or colo-
nists had been unused and uncul-
tivated for centuries. There was
something very fine in the courage
with which the Jewish colonists,
many of them city-bred, tackled
pioneer existence in undeveloped
regions." Mrs. Ilarrison adds,
however, that "the fundamental
mistake made by the British ad-
ministration was in giving no much
prominence to the Zionist Execu-
tive without offering the Arabs an
opportunity to form their execu-
tive as well," And elsewhere she
states that "much of the trouble
was to be attributed to ill-advised
statements on the part of extrem-
ists in the Zionist party"—an old,
rehashed charge, easily explain-
able) by the author's admission that
are super-
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A Peep at Ancient Palestine.

ANCIENT PALESTINE. Sy Sen.
James Baikie, F. R. A. S. Pub-
lished by A. • C. Black, Ltd.,
London, England. Distributed in
this country by The Macmillan
Co. of New York and Chicago.

This essay is brief, having only
92 pages, but interesting and
beautifully illustrated.
The author opens his story with
a sincere compliment to the He-
brew:
"The Roman gift was great; for
without hit' and order, how shall
men ever rise above the level of
the brutes? Perhaps the Greek
gift was grater still, for out of it
has come by far the greatest part
of the joy of life. But greatest of
all is the gift of the Hebrew, be-
cause it has taught us that life has
a meaning and an end, and that
both are
because they are
ordered by infinite love."
In discussing the hills and the
valleys of Palestine, the author
makes an interesting observation:
"When you think of this extra-
ordinary variety' of surrounding:
you can see at once that it alnsist
invites, and certainly helps to
create, a corresponding variety of
peoples and tribes." "The author
attributes to this the divisions
among the Jews.
Rev, Baikie discusses the tradi-
tions and mode of living of the
Palestine tribes and devotes a con-
siderable portion of his essay to
Palestine's influence on Christian-
ity and to the founder of the
Christian religion.

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The Terrible Siren of

the '70s

THE TERRIBLE SIREN. By
Ermine Sachs. Published by
Harper & Bros., 49 East Thirty-
third street, New York ($4 )•
Victoria Woodhull (1835-1927)
WAS dubbed by the newspapers in
1870 as the "queen of the prosti-
tutes." As an advocate of free
love she attracted such men as
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Ward
Beecher and Theodore l'ilton.
Mrs. Sachs has revived this
story in "The Terrible) Sire's." In
her latest volume she has painted
a vivid picture of Mrs. Woodhull';
activities for the cause of woman
suffrage, her activities as publisher
of Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly,
in which she lost the fortune she
made).
The court and newspaper files
resurrected by Mrs. Sachs tell an
interesting story about an inter-
esting character in American life.
The following are biographical
filets about the author of "The
Terrible Siren":
Emanie N. Sachs was born in
Bowling Green, Kentucky, and
was the fourth generation to live
there. Went to public school, pri-
vate school, a young ladies' semi-
nary, Belmont college, a finishing

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Gems From Jewish Literature

Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.

TO WALTER LIONEL I/E 'ROTHS-
CHILD (IN HIS BAR-Man/AIL^

Thine is the herds, ofancient birth,
Are upon rise bath darned since first
the race
Was cradled in the ernpurpled East: the
place
e
Whenc
seer and king have sprung—
the great of earth.
And thine the heritage of higher worth:
she Jerre-smiled Charity. whose pitying

grace

Hath left nor land nor sea without Its
trace,
And raised a plenteous harvest 'midst
the dearth.
But thine • (treater hellfire than these:
The heaven-born Faith. thy sires have
taught the world,
Which lift. thine Pyre to God without
snreeate,
And hid thee guard His Sinner, wide
unfurled.
That deathless Faith make thou thy
steadfast titer,
Thy heart shall know • pore no pain

—LOUIS D. ABRAHAMS

"ILIA STRAITS"

(Who preferred to en down with her
I•idor Straus. at the s'ovine
of the Titanic, rather than avail herself
of the "Women and Children First" rule
• nd bes•ved).
"We wonder at, we praise your life.
For
.nine love with name of wife.
Whope
Irg• young In eun•et•time.
AP in the blush of mornini'm prime.
We pray: 'Ilk. what • miracle she!'
And thus confess how small are wet
Can rose he otherwise than rose+
Can Belt he II,. than light? Can those
Who love be le,. than love? So you
To your morel spirit were but true.
They dreamy, she died? 0. can it be,
since Inee'e star e immorttlity.
And love doth live throurh ruck as she?
You live in death. 'TI, we are dead,
In life. For you to love were wed.
Your love was gold and our, emo.
The s ea alone can si h our loom
g
Of you. The morninS stare alone
Can Ping your fame to year, unties..
For all vie sae but tells •new
How small are we, how 'rest are you!•
—ALTER ABELSON

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