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April 12, 1929
Nisan 2, 5689
More Blood-Lies for Passover.
The approach of the Passover season has again
ushered in a series of blood lies in many cities in Eu-
rope. Indicative of the ignorance that continues to
govern the minds of many Christians in Eastern Europe
is the report from Pink, district of Siedlec, Poland, that
the lives of members of seven Jewish families were
threatened by the sudden disappearance of a farm
hand :
A public meeting had already been held in the village
in the presence of the local sheriff and the aged Catholic
priest, where peasants swore that they had witnessed the
transaction whereby Abraham Dwosz a Jewish farmer who
had employed a Christian farmhand, sold the farmhand to
the "city Jews for ritual purposes," we are told in a J. T.
A. cable. Twenty Zlotys were alleged to have been the
price paid. The farmhand was previously employed by
the local large landowner, Pugowski, a Pole, who dismissed
him. The farmhand found employment with local Jewish
farniers. Ile then suddenly disappeared from the village.
When his absence was noted the Polish peasants started the
rumor which culminated in the public meeting.
Soon after the meeting the farmhand returned to the
village. The "witnesses" lost no time in withdrawing their
"testimony," indulging in mutual recriminations. Abra-
ham Dwomz, whose life was placed in jeopardy because of
the rumor, has now instituted libel proceedings against his
false accusers.
This may be excusable for the (lark and ignorant
communities in the darkest centers of Europe. But
when reports of ritual murder lies come from Germany
there is naturally even greater cause for despair over
the low state of human intelligence. A Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency report from Berlin, under the date of
April 5, reveals an attrocious charge made against the
Jews in Manau, Bavaria. This charge reveals the low
state to which the anti-Semites of Germany have sunk.
To quote the J. T. A. report:
A Christian boy of 5 was found murdered in Manau,
Bavaria. His throat had been cut. Members of the anti -
Semitic National Socialist party, and particularly the anti -
Semitic weekly, Stuermer of Nuremburg • started an atro-
cious ritual murder agitation. "Blond Boy Slaughtered,
Passover Blood Drawn" was the sensational headline in
huge letters in the current issue of the weekly. The agi-
tation stirred the population tremendously. Other anti-
Semitic leaflets took up the cry and excited meetings were
held in the entire vicinity.
The Bavarian Rabbinical Conference took cognizance
of the agitation and published an indignant protest. "We
consider it a shame that Jewry must today defend itself
against the ritual murder lie. We declare most solemnly
that the sources of the Jewish teachings contain not the
slightest reference or hint to any such ritual murder prac-
tice. No Jewish sect believing in such practices exists or
has ever existed. We are ready to establish the veracity
of this statement in the courts," the protest of the Rab-
binical Conference declared.
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In the fashions described in the two quoted reports,
hundreds of ritual murder lies were charged against
our people, many resulting in serious losses to Jewish
life and property. In these fashions also the stupid
and ignorant prejudices against the Jews even resulted
in the blood lie at Massena, N. Y., last year. And when
the libel penetrates even these free United States and
cultured Germany, it justifies the sentiments of the late
Achad Ila-Am, in his essay "Some Consolation" writ-
ten in 1892, that "this abominable charge, old though
it is, strikes us, and will always strike us, as something
new; and since the Middle Ages it has always pro-
foundly agitated the spirit of the' Jewish people, not
only in the actual place where the cry had been raised,
but even in distant countries where the incident has
been merely reported.... Even today the blood-accusa-
tion comes as a rude and violent shock, which arouses
the whole of Jewry to a passionate repudiation of this
outrageous charge. Clearly. then, it is not a question
of mere regard for personal safety or dignity: the spirit
of the people is stung to consciousness and activity by
the sense of its shame. In all else it might be said of
us, that 'the (lead flesh feels not the knife ;' but here
the knife cuts not only the flesh—it touches the soul."
Poor Idealism, Poorer Investment.
In memory of a recently deceased secretary of a
Brooklyn chapter of Hadassah, the national board of
the Women's Zionist Organization is planting five trees
in the Herzl Forest in Palestine. Which is, in itself, a
deserving and laudable tribute. But t he Hadassah
publicity department has instead set out to mar the
idealism of this move. and to make a poor investment
of the planting of these trees, by releasing a story to
the press about it and thus involving the organization
into an expense exceeding the price of planting five
trees.
It costs a dollar and a half to plant one tree in Zion.
Certainly, however, the expense involved in sending a
release to all the Jewish papers throughout the coun-
try, including the pro rata of the publicity agents' sal-
ary, the price of mimeographing and of postage, is far
in excess of the $5.50 for five trees. Which mars good
intentions and transforms them into poor idealism, and
which is responsible for a very poor investment. Cer-
tainly Palestine does not benefit by such methods. A
national movement like Hadassah should be careful
not to involve itself in such a foolish expenditure.
The Tharauds Capitalize on the Jews.
Two Frenchmen, the brothers Jerome and Jean
Tharaud. have discovered a simple way of making cap-
ital out of cheap and poor literature, by taking the
Jews as the subject for their writings. In the past five
years, in one volume after another, one more mediocre
than the next, the Tharauds have been dissecting and
incidentally maligning the Jew. Whether intentional-
ly or out of sheer ignorance, these two brothers have
heaped insult upon insult upon our people by pretend-
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which serve to condemn an entire people.
ThIlS, in their latest work, The Chosen People,"
which is purported to be "a short history of the Jews
in Euro"
pe, but which is in reality a horrible fraud.
the authors attempt, in a little more than 200 brief
pages, to dissect a body they do not understand and
(10 not begin to know, and to describe it as a most dis-
eased specimen of humanity. Thus they try to explain
the Ghetto as the deliberate fabrication of the Jews
themselves which was later imposed upon them by the
outside world which said to them: "You wanted to live
in your special quarter with your Law, your ideas and
your customs? Well, then, stay there forever. All
other parts of the town will be refused you .
Your
ghetto will no longer be a voluntary refuge; it becomes
an obligatory jail!" So there you have it, fellow Jews,
you wanted a ghetto and you have it!
Similarly false is the Tharaud explanation of the
works of Maimonides, and similarly misrepresentative
is their explanation of Mendelsohn and his influences.
But particularly fraudulent is his review of the period
in German Jewish life marked by the influence of lien-
dealt Herz and her consequent conversion, together
with the two daughters of Moses Mendelssohn, to Cath-
olicism. The authors would have the uninformed read-
er believe that "in Jewish society it is usually the worn-
en who are eager to seek out the Christians," and in al-
most the same breath they refer to Henrietta Herz as
"a fine example of the emancipated Jewess," and de-
dare that "her salon influenced the emancipation of
Israel." In two chapters of the eleven that comprise
"The Chosen People," they rehash some of the facts
about Madame Ilerz from Graetz's "History of the
Jews," without beginning to understand the back-
ground that caused the conversion of a number of
Jews in the Herz group, and without an attempt at
analyzing the reasons so clearly stated by Graet• in
describing the immoral conditions of the times: "Jew-
ish youths of wealthy houses followed the general in-
clination to sensual pleasures. Not secretly, but open-
ly in the light of clay, they overleapt all bounds, and
with contempt of Judaism united contempt for chas-
tity and morality. They aped other apes."
In a very unreasonable manner, two Frenchmen
are capitalizing on the Jews. But what is more difli-
cult to understand than the unfairness of their works
is that Jewish reviewers, in the Jewish Daily Forward
of New York and the Jewish Guardian of London, Eng-
land, to quote two prominent examples, laud "The
Chosen People" and their authors. The reviewer in
the Forward labelled his article "The Unknown Peo-
pie." If our own men of letters were all as informed
as they should be to retain the positions they hold, per-
haps they could help non-Jews better to know and un-
derstand on , instead of encouraging misunderstanding
and misinterpretation.
The Hebrew University—Four Years Old.
The Ilebrev(' University of Jerusalem, four years
old on April 1, is drawing tributes from many quar
tern. Sharing in the glory of the highest institution of
learning in the Jewish Homeland is the University's
dean, Dr. Judah L. 1■ Iagnes. In its issue of April 3,
the Nation paid the following compliment to both:
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1:1•C
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CiOSEPH-.=—
A physician sends me the following:
ti-.
Dear Mr. .loseph:
Your recent comment on the Gottheil medal
award of the Zeta 'feta Tau fraternity occasions
this letter It may interest you to know that the Phi
Lambda Kappa fraternity, a strictly Jewish meth-
cal fraternity embracing 40 chapters and 1,100
members, awards each year a medal to the Jewish
1111111 of medicine who contributes to or rather has
accomplished the greatest (olvancement in scion-
title medicine for the preceding year. Last year
Dr. Solonton Soils-Collen of Philadelphia was
«warded the honor. 'INe next award will be made
in Pittsburgh in December. You may also be
interested to know that our fraternity is a combi-
nation of the old Aleph Yudh Ile and the I'hi
Lambda Kappa. .‘11 you have to do to heroine a
member is to be a Jewish student in any Class A
medical school, To my knowledge OLIN is the only
Jewish fraternity in the country and, strangely
enough, I feel rather proud of it
I am inclined to think that my correspondent is going
to be challenged in his statement that the Phi Lambda
Kappa is the only Jewish fraternity in the country.
-.1.-•
Here is a CO mmii(m front the secretary of Tem-
pie B'nai Israel of McKeesport, Pa. It t haw's evidence of
sure ill and the case in point is quite unique. I am
Jews and Christians will find the following inci-
b
sure bath
dent of interest:
Last Sunday morning—Easter Sunday—our
rabbi, Dr. Isadore Rosenthal, having been tempted
by the beautiful spring weather, was ant for a walk
in our residential hill district. When passing the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, the largest in
the city, he noticed a crowd entering for the
Easter services. As he had not been inside of a
church for more than 20 years, curiosity impelled
him to enter, and being ushered to a seat, appar-
ently unknown to anyone, sat there quietly during
the service listening to the beautiful music and the
eloquent sermon delivered by Rev. 1.. D. spongy.
Y ■ iu can well imagine his surprise and consterna-
lion when just before the conclusion of the service,
Rev Spaugy arising to give the benediction, said:
"If I am not mistaken, I see Dr. Rosenthal of
Will he
Temple B'nai Israel in the
kindly step up and deliver the benediction? "
There was created a spectacle perhaps unique in
the world of a Jewish rabbi delivering the tame-
diction in a Christian church on Easter Sunday.
"It was a gripping experience and thoroughly ap-
preciated," as Rabbi Rosenthal puts it, "a mant-
festation of goodwill and fellowship." Incidents
like these touch the heart and go a long way
towards making all religions kin.
I am sure that you, to whom all people carry
grievances, will be pleased to hear of such an in-
stance of good fellowship.
Very truly yours,
TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL,
H arriet Gene Farkas, Sec'y.
A reader writes to me to ask if I think that anti-
Jewish feeling in this country is decreasing. Well. there
are so many angles to that question that it is difficult
to answer "Yes" or "No." In my judgment social dis-
crimination is on the increase to an alarming extent. It
is really becoming irksome for a sensitive Jew to travel.
Wherever he goes he finds evidence of intense anti-Jew -
ish feeling. And only if he has the hide of a rhinoceros
is he' able to ignore the slings and arrows of prejudice.
The situation in the south during the winter months is
becoming increasingly serious. Hotels are shutting their
doors in the faces of Jewish applicants. Apartment
houses go so far as to have one price for non-Jews and
a higher price for Jews—a hint that is as forcible as
the kick of a mule. There is another place where anti-
Jewish feeling exists but because of the public nature of
the enterprise it is kept carefully under cover and at
this time I have no desire to bring it in the open. If I
people
were to do it, it would make a great many of our peope
quite uncomfortable and deprive them of a certain
amount of pleasure. In this case where ignorance is
bliss it would indeed be folly on my part to put them
"wise." In all my years of journalistic experience I
have never known anti-Semitism in a social way to be as
boldly displayed as at the present time. I could write
a (treat deal more on the subject but i twould lead to an
endless controversy and if I spoke my mind, I probably
would have to flee the country to save the peace of that
very mind.
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When Judah L. Magnes left this country for Palestine
liberals had cause for regret. Whether it was the hard-
ship of the sweated needle-trades worker family sufferers
in Europe. or world peace, every forward movement could
count on the active assistance of his brilliant and moving
eloquence. Liberals can now rejoice that perhaps Dr.
Magnet( went to a larger sphere of influence. During four
years the Hebrew University has made rapid strides under
his chancellorship not only as a center of Jewish learning,
I cannot publish the letter I received from Dr. Louis
but as a meeting pl ace for all people of the Near East,
C. Stern of Sauk Center, Minn., because I feel it is a bit
Moslems and Christians as well as Jews. The fostering of
too intimate to be spread before the hundreds of thou-
Arab scholarship in the Institute of Oriental Studies—one
sands of readers of Random Thoughts. But I do want to
of the six institutions already organized at the university
take the opportunity publicly to express my appreciation
—should go far to mitigate the friction which is inevit-
of the friendliness of his letter, and to assure him that I
able between old settlers and . newcomers in the early
appreciate the confidence he places in me. There is noth-
stage of colonization. The research which has been car-
ing that gives me quite the satisfaction or more cow-
rind on in the diseases of the Near East—the study and
pletely compensates me for the time and labor spent on
control of malaria and sand-fly fever have already reached
an advanced stage—will be universal in its beneficial
scattered
over
the country
feel thousands
flat I am a
effects. Fur the hounded Jewish students and scholars this column
than
to know
how many
of friend
Jews
though I probably will never have the opportunity to
of Eastern Europe the institution offers the facilities of
meet them personally. But their letters are most wel-
a modern university where research and study can be
with
their
problems.
come even though they be freighted _
pursued in a free and favorable atmosphere. It is a roman-
tic undertaking, this Hebrew University, and to the credit
Here comes a letter from the chairman of the Social
of the Jew that in the first years of their return to their
service Committee of District Grand Lodge No. :3, Inde-
homeland it has received as much attention as irrigation,
pendent Order B'nai B'rith:
afforestation, and p romotion of industry.
The university's anniversary recalls the fine evalua-
tion of it penned by Ludwig Lewissohn in "Israel:"
East, on the top of Scopus, they are building, ton,
these Jewish masons and cutters of stone. They are build-
ing the Ilebrew University. The two completed buildings,
with their tall, airy rooms and arcades for coolness and
vision, shred in a grove of trees. Science is the first need
of a new land, or in an old one that is to be reclaimed.
Thus the rooms of the university are laboratories today.
Chemical, bio-chemical and micro-biological research is
vigorously pursued. In the laboratories glisten the glass
and steel of the most modern instruments from America
and Germany. From these you turn to a window. The
chemist or biologist who look up, sees in the distance the
blue and mauve and brown hills of Moab. Nebo is one of
the peaks—Nebo, from which Moves saw the Promised
Land. A little farther west lies the village in which Jere-
miah was born, and the hill to which Joshua once pointed
his javeline. And from another window the vision em-
braces the Dead Sea like a great glittering shield, and the
Jordan flowing between the hills. A micro-biologist bends
over his test-tube. In the stable of an agricultural group
in the Valley of Jezreel the cattle are threatened with
sickness. By the time that the sun sets over the Mediter-
ranean the men of Jezreel must have an answer to their
question of that morning: \'hat ails the cattle; what are
they to do? The answer will come to them. The man of
science works with profound intensity. The land of Israel
is waiting for his message; the dispersed of the House of
Israel are waiting; the nations are waiting—none too
friendly—for that message which shall help to reclaim
the land.... The New Jerusalem is not a city of temples
and shrines. Let the Christians pray in their holy places
and the Moslems guard forever the Dome of the Rock.
Our holy place is the earth of Israel, and our city the city
that we are building; our rock is the rock of work and
vision which can be Scopus as well as Moriah, which can
be Tabor or Carmel by the sea ... .
There are, of course, those, notable among them
Dr. Melamed of the Reflex fame, who prefer the farm-
er to the scholar; who insist on politics in preferance
to culture as the foundation for the Jewish Homeland.
But experiences of the past decade of efforts in Zion
prove that the two must go hand in hand ; that a Jewish
settlement without its cultural enhancements will lose
it charm. And the Hebrew University, small though
its present status, is a source of genuine glory for Is-
rael.
In the forthcoming United Jewish Campaign the
maintenance fund of the Hebrew University is includ-
ed. Its inclusion is a further argument in favor of
unanimous support of the funds asked for by the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation of Detroit.
Dear Mr. Joseph:
I note your statement in a recent issue of the
Philadelphia Jewish Times suggesting that the
dedication of a chapel at the Ohio State Peniten-
tiary by the B'nai B'rith was the second of the
kind in the country. May I inform you that a
Jewish chapel was erected under the auspices of
the B'nai B'rith Council of Philadelphia, at the
Eastern State Penitentiary, some nine years ago.
And that under the auspices of the Pittsburgh
Lodge a chapel was dedicated five years ago at
the Western State I'enitentiary (of Pennsylvania).
Through the columns of the B'nai B'rith News we
are making inquiry of the existence throughout the
United States of additional Jewish chapels in penal
institutions.
While it is true that the statement appeared in this
column the information came to me from a source that I
considered reliable. But I am very glad to make the cor-
rection in the interest of the I. 0. B. B,
I recently asked the readers of this column who in
their judgment should receive the Gottheil Medal for
the most distinguished service rendered to Jewish life
during the year 1925. The name of Julius Rosenwald
has been suggested. And a gentleman by the name of
Levinson living in Dorchester, Mass., suggests that
"while he is no relative of mine" the name of Salmon
0. Levinson, author of the "Outlawry of War" and the
man most responsible for the Kellogg Peace Pact should
be named. Then Rabbi Samuel T. l'hillips of a Jewish
congregation 11 do not know where it is located because
the town or city is not mentioned on the letter-head-
better call the secretary's attention to that omission)
urges Nathan Straus as worthy of the honor. He says
that Mr. Straus is the "Grand Old Man of Jewry." So he
is. And he is right when he says that his efforts to bring
goodwill among Jews and non-Jews is an outstanding
achievement. But he believes that
Mr. Straus' last act in sending the Rev. Dr. John
Haynes Holmes to dedicate the Straus Health
Center in Jerusalem and his motive in selecting
fur that purpose this great liberal Christian should
entitle him to the reward.
I am sure the members of the committee, who are
editors of Jewish newspapers, will be pleased to receive
these suggestions. I know that I have been influenced
and may change my vote before the final ballot is taken.
Now that Mrs. Hoover took Mrs. Adolph Ochs for an
automobile ride, driving the car herself, there can be no
longer any occasion for worry on the part of our sensi-
tive co-religionists that perhaps the President is not
friendly to the Jews. Now all that remains for some
member of the Hoover family to completely prove its
freedom of religious intolerance is to take a Catholic for
an outing. It may be interesting to know that Mrs. Ochs.
wife of the publisher of the New York Times, is a daugh-
ter of the late Isaac M. Wise, founder of Reform Judaism
in this country.
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A Praiseworthy Project
By HARRY LEVIN
Special Correspondence to Detroit Jewish Chronicle from Keren
Kayemeth Jerusalem Office.
Among the host of other evils eagerness and immediately the I
begot by the land speculation that E. C. gut to work. The dwellers
was so rife and deplorable a fea- of Shehunath Ilazafon were di
Lure of the growth of Tel Aviv vided into several groups, each of
which was to elect a legally recog
was the creation of quarters on
sized representative committee to
the outskirts of the town consist-
act for t hen( in all dealings witl
ing of barracks and tents. Unable
the corporation. The I'. E. C. in
to pay the high rentals then ob-
stituted it competition arming al
taining. it number of petty artisans
Palestine architects for the lies
and their families settled on the
sands outside the town, erecting design for a suitable house at a
temporary wooden barracks or cheap price; ultimately the hes
features of a number of entries
tents. Soule bought, on terms, the
plots on which they lived, others were co-ordinated and a new type
rented them, in both instances of house evolved costing an liver-
though far above the normal value age of 0150 and adapted to cli-
matic and other conditions in Tel
of the land. None, however, were
Aviv. The cheap cost was possible
able to build proper homes at the
as a result of the standardized pal-
artificial building prices prevail-
tern in which all the houses were
ing at the time.
be
. •r,,
of
lt,lif,n
though
i bw the
,,,
tI.,,,Inie,i,
varied
In t he years that followed the
n one and
building boom collapsed, affecting
nut only those most intimately three according to requirement.
1occupy
st household
R() (u s,iu d
l( p'.11,),(.t • hh
whole a n(,(i f Tel
(„ini (,..ef in nl iffilii iiii g h
II T?
(A iS 4t','S ,, i a rti• '
t the tent
Aviv,
feet) space being thus allowed for
rack dwellers. The drop in build-
ing prices had come, but these un- a garden, outhouse. etc. The 110
that the cor-
per cent of the cost
fortunates were unable to avail
poration was to advance was re-
themselves of it, and instead of
ble in 12-15 years at 8 pe
their barracks and tent n giving payable
way to houses, these became deep- cent interest, after which the houso
er embedded in the sand, assuming was to be the exclusive property
an air of squalid and degenerate of the houseeholder.
The land, as stated, was to he
permanency.
the property of the Jewish Na-
The conditions into which these
quarters of Tey Aviv hail sunk Donal Fund, which leased it to the
tenants on its usual terms, name-
were reminiscent of the worst
ly, hereditary 49-year leasehold a(
slums; sanitation was unknown;
4 per cent rental. After 15 year:
the tents and barracks, already do-
the rental wits to be re-assessed I■ y
caging, were patched up with rags
a
commission representing both
and tins; .':tear,
with
difficulty,
had
w
to be brought in tins; roads, of the lessee and the lessors, and
course, were unknown, and to thereafter every 10 years.
')'hose whit hail themselves en-
reach the huts and tents one had
to plough
seemingly
end- tered obligations to purehase their
sand. through
In the fierce
summer
land and were Siw in diffi cult' ,
less
heat of Tel Aviv the effect of these
o donate their plots to the
conditions on the health of the were
t
National
Fund, which would cunt-
dweller could not but be gravely
p a te the necessary payments oil il
d bellir "donors'
I'. S.
In the meantime, too, the eco- would t
nomic depression, weighing par- C. fur the instalments they had
To
already paid on the plots.
ticularly heavy on these people
maintain
the principle, however,
i
and depriving many of the r em-
that the National Land Fund doe:
ployment. disabled those who had
assumed obligations for the par- not purchase at speculators' prices,
chase of theft plots froni paying the "donors," who had invariably
bought their plots at fancy prices,
the instalments due.
the Palestine
tic"- were obliged to refund to the J.
The plight of these
people came
manic Corporation of New York N. F.. over a period of 49 years,
to the 110i ice of
the difference between the prices
C
they had arranged to pay for the
(working in Palestine through its
e land—and which the Fund 'stolid
subsidiary body, the Palestin
Building, Loan and Saving Assn- be obliged to pay—and the normal
value.
elation, Ltd.), which delegated
Another interesting feature of
Prof. Dr. J. Kliger of the Jeru-
nv
conditions
in the to
largest
of the the wholy project is the fact that
salem
University
investigate
the Palestine Economic Corpora-
tion, a business body run on bank-
quarters, that known as Shehunath
ing lines regards a mortgage on
Ilazafon (the Northern Quarter).
Report,
revealing
the
hereditary leasehold right of
Dr. Kliger's
a National Fund plot as sufficient
the state of affairs, showed clear-
additional
security for repayment.
ly the urgency for providing
proper housing accommodation and This is but another refutation . of
the
idea
held
by some that the
(siautalirttaetrion for the dwellers of the
inalienably national character of
The Palestine Economic Cor- J. N. F. land renders it useless as
security for mortgage.
poration thereupon drew up a
scheme for granting to the dwell-In some respects this undertak-
ors of the quarter loans on easy ing of the l'alestine Economical
terms for the purpose of erecting Corporation is similar to that of
the "Binyan" Co. established in
Its chief stipulations
70 houses.
were two, that the householder Haifa by South African Zionists.
should himself secure 40 per cent
of the cost in a manner that would In both cases loans are advanced
not
encumber
other
obligations,
for terms
urban of building
purposes
on
should
belong his
to the
Jewish
Na- easy
repayment,
but the
n a..
. nE.C
in,oi fstetht,e P .
i
sperhinecmilti al isfeattsure
and that the land of the quarter
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` 4 it
N.
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liana' Fund. The latter institu- tional ownership of the land.
which, of course, obviates possi-
lion at the time not having the re•
sources to acquire this land, the bility of speculation. Rare is an
Palestine Economic Corporation illustration of a private business
concern dovetailing its own inter-
granted it a loan for the purpose,
ests with those of the national
repayable in 20 years.
The scheme, needless to add, movement and regarding itself
was adopted with tremendous thereby in no way as the loser.
ANNA SHOMER ROTHENBERG COLLECTS
SONGS FROM THE LIPS OF CHALUTZIM
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Her "Songs Heard in Palestine" Is an Excellent Collection of Hebrew
and Yiddish Folksongs Which Reveal the Spirit of
the Settlers in the Jewish Homeland.
Jews who are lovers of folk-
songs, students of music, and par-
ticularly those who are interested
in the development of a new Jew-
ish life in Palestine, are offered a
genuine treat in the new volatile
published by Block Publishing Co.,
31 West Thirty-first street, New
York City. It is "Songs Beard in
Palestine," collected and sung by
Anna Shomer Rothenberg.
This volume tills more than one
need. In the first place, it sup-
plies the need of the classroom and
study circle. Many of the songs
in this volume have been set to
music for the first time, and are
excellent samples of what is being
sung in the Jewish Homeland.
Then again it offers an explanation
of the spirit of the Jewish settlers
in Palestine. The Diaspora Jew
very often hears about the dances
which the Chaluzim call "horas,"
but is unable to understand their
rhythms and spirits unless the
music to which they are danced is
understood. M me. Shomer Roth-
enberg's tine collection helps to
bring thin understanding.
Mine. Shomer Rothenberg was
not satisfied with merely publish-
ing a collection of songs, but has
helped to make her work much
more valuable with a series of PIC-
planatory notes and suggestions
for interpretation of the at; songs.
Her "Foreword." too, contains an
interesting message to her readers
and fellow singers:
"As I stood in the 'Emek'—in
the valley, surrounding the hills
of Carmel, Gilboa and Galilee, and
listened to the singing of the Chs-
luzim as they worked, I wondered
how I could bring back with me to
America a bit of the courageous
spirit, the inner happiness of these
. workers and builders of Palestine!
So I collected songs that were on
their lips.
"As in the days of King David
and King Solomon, song plays an
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Gems From Jewish Literature
Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram.
"CHARITY"
"All the virtues lie at her feet,
and she is greater than all of them.
She causes all sins to be forgiven,
and turns hatred away from hearts.
Through her man reaches all of his
desires, though they be far, though
they be in the heavens. With her
he purchases himself a good name.
and his memory is like a good
ointment. And he that lacketh
charity, his righteousness is not
righteousness, his goodness is er-
ror and his virtue is sin. His com-
rades shall despise him and his ac-
quaintances shall hate him, and his
friends shall remember him for
evil, and he shall be as a stranger
in his own household. But the man
of charity shall life up his face,
for his charity shall cover all his
sins. and shall wipe out all his
transgressions. His adversaries
shall love him and his enemies
shall praise him, the envious shall
praise him and those that curse
shall Mesa him. For with his char-
ity he conquers their hearts, and
droves out their love."—Judah a
Charizi, Tachkemoni.
"IIILLEL
AND HIS GUEST"
"Dille!. the gentle. the belo•ed •age.
Est,,,,, riding day by day the sacred potpie
To his disciple. in the how , of learning:
And day by day, when home at eve re-
turning.
They lingered, closeting round him loth
to part
From him whose gentle rule won eyerY
heart.
Rut evermore. when they were wont to
Plead
For longer eons eeee forth he went with
speed,
Saying earh day: • do—the hour is
lte--
To tend the guest who loth my coming
wa
Until at last they said: 'The Rabbi jeer
whsa
it... daily or hts two , .
That wait for him.' The Rabbi paused
And then made an •nsweri 'Think you
beguile
you with an idle tale? Not so. forsooth
I have • guest. whom 1 meet tend in
truth.
Is not the .rest of man indeed • guest.
Whn in this body deign. • while to rest.
And dwells with me all peacefully toils ,
Tomorrow—mar it not hair fed
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