itEperRorr - own 71 1fEbETROITEI L LflAtteMONIGLE Ja Published Weekly by The Jewlids Chronic!. Publishing Ca.. Inc, stts Th President Secretary and Tre•surer Managing Editor Advertising Manager JOSEPH J. CUMMINS JACOB H. SCHAKNE PHILIP SLOMOVITZ MAURICE M. SAFIR Entered as Second-class 'wt., March a, 19111. at the PostaRice at Detroit, Mich., under the At of March 8. 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle London Office: 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England. Subscription, in Advance $3.00 Per Year To insure publication. nil correspondence and news matter must reach this Mb. by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly use one aide of the paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subject. of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the mews expressed by the writers. Nisan 9, 5689 April 19, 1929 A New Era in Philanthropy. The step taken by the seventeen Jewish leaders of Boston to wipe out the existing deficit of $500,000 hanging over the Beth Israel Hospital and the Feder- ch i ated Jewish Charities is indeed a new era in philan- thropy. By subscribing $300,000 towards the existing deficits, this group has established an important prece- dent. It is an acknowledgement on the part of the recognized leaders that the communal obligations do not begin and end with "drives," but that their duties continue throughout the year toward existing institu- tions which must be permitted to function without de- ficits. eilYMMVEMMWMgMl The falling short in revenues by important institu- tions is not always wrong, and is certainly not crimi- nal. There are times when the required quotas are not supplied, and there are other times when the de- mands during a fiscal year by far exceed all advance expectations. In such instances it is certainly the re- sponsibility of the community to honor the debts in- curred. Under all and any circumstances, however, it is important that institutions be made free to function for the purposes they were organized and that they should not be handicapped and hampered by defici- iencies. Several months ago a group of public spirited Pitts- burgh leaders met for a purpose similar to that in which Boston now takes the lead. The action of Bos- ton's leaders and the steps that are evidently soon to be taken in Pittsburgh to wipe out the deficits of the Jewish institutions in that city are a welcome sign that a new and very happy era is being ushered in by men who not only feel and know their responsibilities to the Jewish community, but who are ready to live up to their obligations. Symptoms of Prejudice. In two different parts of the country two symptoms of prejudice were reported last week. In Connecticut Orthodox Jews are compelled to con- duct a campaign against a proposed anti-Schechita bill. The Connecticut Humane Society is sponsoring a bill which provides that persons engaged in slaughter- ing of cattle for food "without stunning such animals before or immediately after the slaughtering stroke shall be administered, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than six months or both." In Georgia, the State Supreme Court reversed a de- cision of the Superior Court of Bryan County which permitted the Bryan County Jury Commissioners to exclude Jews from jury panels. The Jury Commis- sioners were charged by affected complainants with "hatred, malice and religious prejudice," and were upheld in this charge by the Supreme Court. These are sad signs of prejudice, anti the fact that they are combatted before they show their ugly heads too visibly is to be commended. Do They Really Love the Jews? Among the feature articles received by the editor this week is one from the United Jewish Campaign, entitled: "Like the Jews? Why Shouldn't We?" It describes the relations between Jewish and Christian neighbors in the Ukraine and the conclusion that the writer comes to is that the Christians love their Jew- ish neighbors. But do they? With the same mail that brought the U. J. C. story came a number of Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports from Russia revealing a sad state of affairs for the Jews in Soviet Russia. Here are some samples: At Odessa two workers are being tried for sabotag- ing a factory because the manager was a Jew. Tchervone, superintendent of a hospital in Minsk. was found guilty of anti-Jewish practices and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Seven Jewish houses of study were confiscated and converted into labor clubs in Vitebsk. The Minsk Communist daily Oktiabr reports that the rabbi of Beresina is being expelled from the town on charges of counter-revolution. 6 bt •, bc .•ZMV4`41 The Moscow Trud states that anti-Semitism has manifested itself in many factories. The paper points especially to the factory Krasny Tekstilschik where anti-Semitism is rampant. The Central Labor Insti- tute has also evidenced the presence of anti-Semitism and the paper demands an investigation. In Sembin, in the government of Minsk, a group of religious Jews invaded a meeting of Communists where a discussion was going on about a resolution to confis- cate the synagogue. The religious Jews are quoted as having shouted: "Blood will flow, but the synagogue will not be surrendered." In view of these reports the question is naturally raised: "Do the Russians really love the Jews?" An.1 if what is transpiring is evidence of love, we may be permittea tne parapilicisiwg sion: "Love, love, what crimes are being committed in thy name!" RAQX-9.Q, • HROXICHE Nj Honoring Emile Berliner. Emile Berliner, inventor, of Washington, D. C., is without a doubt one of the most interesting Jewish per- sonalities in this country. One of the world's outstand- ing discoverers of most important inventions in the modern scientific and mechanical world, he has, at the same time, placed himself in the front ranks of the workers for Jewish causes. He has devoted himself to efforts for Jewish education and to Zionism and has given his heart to his people. Therefore his people greets him on the occasion of his receiving from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia of the Franklin Medal, the highest honor awarded by that body. For inventing the Gramophone, or Victor Talking Machine, in 1887, Mr. Berliner was previously award- ed by the Franklin Institute with the John Scott Medal and the Elliot Gresson Gold Medal. Ten years prev- ious to that, in 1887, he discovered that a loose con- tact will act as a telephone receiver and was first to use an induction coil in connection with transmitters, and this helped usher in the radio age. Ile is the in- ventor andperfector of the present method of dupli- cating disc records. Among his numerous other achievements and contributions is his invention of the accoustic tile for insuring good accoustics in public halls. Mr. Berliner has translated his devotion to the Zion- ist cause in the form of large contributions to the funds for the Hebrew University, the Jewish National Fund andthe Keren Hayesod. He has also translated his Zionism with a devotion to Jewish causes outside of Pal- estine, particularly devoting himself to movements for the return of the Jew to the soil. The National Farm School was especially favored by him for that reason. But a general reason for this interest is the statement he once made: "I am a Jew and I want the world to know that I am a Jew." = GIAS A well-known Jewess residing in New England writes me concerning my comment on the Goodwill Meeting held recently in Providence, H. I. She wonders if there is not an element of risk in this Goodwill movement making for the weakening of Jewish solidarity. The Jew mellowing under the sunshine of Christian goodwill is likely to become expansively generous in his attitude toward Christianity and suggest that perhaps we could dispense with some of our "stiff ne•kedvdness" and traditional ceremonialism. It may be that some of our Christian friends might mistake the extreme friendly advances of the Jew in his effort to be as affable and congenial as possible, and imagine that he is willing to take a more "Christian" attitude toward Christianity. What do you think about it? Do you believe that the Jew is likely to become more assimilable material because of his "get- togethering" with his Christian neighbors in a religious way? Always glad to receive information that may be of interest to my readers. Now conies B. G. Morris, of Detroit, who writes that "in one of your Random Thoughts you referred to a Jew- ish Grand Master of Masons of Illinois, as the only one which canto to your notice." So he informs me that Missouri had a Jewish Grand Master in the person of Jacob Lampert, formerly of Detroit, and that his cousin. Moses Morris, was Jewish Grand Master of Masons of Montana. This is news indeed. It indicates to what extent the Jews have been honored in Masonry. Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, is always a good "news item." The first time I ever saw Adolph Ochs was in the Temple of his late father-in-law, Isaac M. Wise, in Cincinnati. I don't like to disclose my age but I happened to be there on the occasion of Isaac M. Wise's eightieth birthday. I recall the services quite well. And I remember Mr. Ochs, who was a fine looking man of middle age, sitting right along side of me. At that time he was not such a figure in the newspaper world. lie and his brother, George, were running the Chattanooga Times, and if I am not mistaken, George used to get quite a great deal of notice in the Jewish papers because he had been elected mayor of Chatta- nooga. In fact, he was better advertised in the earlier (lays that his now much more famous brother. In a recent issue of Times I discovered these few interesting items concerning Mr. Ochs: For some time Ittamar Ben Avi, Palestine journal- ist, son of the late Eliezar Ben Yehuda, the pioneer in the movement for the revival of Hebrew as the spoken tongue of the Jewish people, has been advocating the Latinization of the Hebrew script. Mr. Ben Avi claims that the present square (Assyrian) script employed in writing Hebrew is not the traditional Hebrew script, and that the Latin alphabet is a direct descendant of the old Hebrew script even more than the Greek. "As a matter of fact," Mr. Ben Avi tells us, "a careful study of the four alphabets (old Hebrew, new Hebrew or the square script, Greek and Latin) reveals conclusively that Latin is much more closely related to old Hebrew than to the square script." Adolph Simon Ochs was a teacher's son who had begun on his own as a newsboy and printer's devil. Working on nearly every standard news- paper he had bought the Chattanooga Times when he was 20, paying for it $250 (borrowed) and as- suming its debts of $1,500. For $75,000 and his services he got half of the stock of the New York Times. The present-day Times is his creation. People mocked at his motto "All the news that's fit to print." They scoffed at his plan to cover fully phases of news that had never been to cov- ered before. . . . At his refusal to accept the trend toward sensationalism, muck-raking, fun- nies and "Yellow" headlines, his contemporaries and competitors snorted. Ile printed about 20,000 copies of his first issue. Half of them came back unsold. The Sunday circulation of the Times last week was 752,689. It is unquestionably the greatest United States newspaper, with special empsasis on the "news." Perhaps it is the world's greatest. Why should not the Jewish nation be proud of the greatest invention of mankind of all ages—the science of writing? It has a right to emphaziz with pride the owner- ship of the mother script of all Western civilization. Has not Professor Grunne of Germany proved conclusively that it was Moses who first used it on Mount Sinai—the Canaanitcs then taking it over from him? This Palestinian journalist therefore favors that Jews should follow the example of Mustapha Kemal in ordering, last December, that all Turkish newspapers appear in Latin type. And although Ben Avi's pro- posal has not been taken very seriously anywhere, we now hear a competitive echo for the change of the He- brew script from Arabic quarters. The Jerusalem Arab weekly, Al Mustakim, editorially makes "A Pro- posal to Our Israelite Brethren," urging that if the Assyrian (square) script is to be changed as advocated that Jews adopt the Arabic alphabet. This course is urged upon the Jews by the Arabs as preferable to "imitating the westernization efforts of the Turks by adopting the Latin alphabet." It is of interest to note that the Arabic "proposal" is argued on the ground that "the Arab characters are similar in origin to the Hebrew and, besides, the adop- tion by the Palestine Jews of the Arabic alphabet would tend to create a better understanding between the Jews and the Arab peoples." On the other hand, Ben Avi builds a defense for his own proposal around an historical background : "If Isaiah or Jesus were to arise today and walk through the streets of Jerusalem, now thriving anew, they would certainly be unable to read a single sign or even a syllable of the Hebrew daily papers. For the present day Hebrew alphabet is, ill its final analysis, nothing but a script taken from a foreign people. Ezra the Scribe, returning to his land from captivity in Babylonia and finding most of his remaining people ignorant of the original alphabet, deemed it necessary to adopt the foreign script for his writings." Perhaps the best answer to Ben Avi is the indiffer- ence with which his proposal is met in as well as out of Palestine. Where interest is being shown it is only aroused by curiosity, and the result is ridicule of the proposal. The competitive offer made by the Arabic Al Muskatim is a very natural one. in view of an effort to replace a script used for so many centuries with what is today generally accepted as a "foreign" script. Granting that all the historical proofs presented by Ben Avi are correct there is, after all, something to be said for the sentiment that rules the Jewish ranks in favor of the script now in use. The mere fact that Ben Avi makes his proposal on the basis of a compari- son of Hebrew with Esperanto is certain to stamp his efforts for Latinization of Hebrew with failure. Be- cause the prayers of a people are read in the "square" script at present in use, and the traditions established and accepted by two thousand years of usage are not to be wiped out overnight, just as these traditions are not to be replaced by the obsolete ones of twenty cen- turies back. And if Isaiah or Jesus would. upon aris- ing today, be unable to read a syllable of the Hebrew at present used, it is equally as true that they would not recognize anything else that would today strike their eyes. Ben Avi's proposal does not differ from that of the Jerusalem Arabic paper. Both ignore sentiments rooted in the hearts of the Jewish people in twenty centuries. Both forget that tradition supersedes law, if we are to grant that the present Hebrew script was not the law two thousand years ago. Traditional usage and the literature created in it have surely stamped a mark of invincibility on the present script. ,.4)sVf4S.Vf.o.cf.FW AW.T.M si4-4TVV.If I sometimes wonder when representative Christians are so quick to mention the Jews who have corrupted journalism they seem to forget that the New York Times is controlled by a Jew. I am going to ask the consideration of the readers of this column if I reduce the number of subjects to be commented upon in this instalment in order to present to this wider audience a part of the stenographic report of the first of a series of lectures given by Rev. John Haynes Holmes, on his observations in Palestine, which appeared in the Jewish Daily Bulletin. To my mind it is of tremendous value in giving the man standing on neu- tral ground the opinion of a non-Jew who is completely without prejudice and who may be trusted to be uncom- promisingly honest. It will come as a shock to many Zionists in this country, I am sure. And it will also serve to confirm the opinions of many non-Zionists as to England's real motive in obtaining a mandate over Pal- estine. Said Dr. Holmes: First, I am convinced that the English govern- ment is pro-Arab and not pro-Jew. That was denied every time I put the question straight and direct. It was denied, I believe, honestly and sin- cerely. The Englishmen are good sportsmen. The Englishman wants to be fair, without prejudice to himself, of course—the Englishman wants to be fair. I believe, in Palestine, that he is trying to play fair but interprets the game of fairness in- evitably in favor of the Arabs. He regards the Arabs as the native population. He believes that the Arab is the man who is actually living on the land. Ile believes, therefore, that the Arab must be saved from exploitation by the Jew. There- fore, how-ever fine and sure and sincere his mo- tives, he is standing there, I am convinced, today with a sheltering hand around the population which he regards as helpless as that population faces the invasion of the highly-trained western- ized Jews coming in there to take over the land and establish their own country. Secondly, I am convinced that England in l'alestine doesn't like the Jew and doesn't know how to deal with him. The Englishman in Pales- tine is an imperialist, raised in imperial admin- istration with the far-flung colonies of the world. Ile is used to dealing with the members of a native population. But he doesn't know what on earth to do with a man living in a colony who enters his office and looks him straight in the eye and, in- stead of asking him a favor, tells him what he has got to do. That is what the Jews are persisting in doing in Palestine. Week after week they send their committee's to the office of the high commissioner. They enter that office as men who walk straight and tall, without any favors to grant, speaking in the name of justice; and they present careful re- ports, many of which I read, specifying with the utmost particularity that the English government has got to do that and that and it has got to do the other. The English government, imperially speaking, won't stand for that sort of thing. So the English government doesn't know how to handle the Jew, doesn't understand the Jew and, God knows, he doesn't like him. So you find a government pro- Arab on the one side and with a certain degree of prejudice springing from misunderstanding, confusion and bewilderment against the Jew on the other. In the third place (and now I hate to say it, but I believe I have the testimony and evidence which I wish I could give to you), I am profoundly convinced that the Englishman has no confidence in the success of Zionism. His attitude (let me put it as frankly as I can) is the attitude of "the man from Missouri." He has got to be shown. And up to the present moment he isn't being shown, or at least he won't tell you that he sees anything that convinces him of the thing that you really believe in your own heart is so true and so sure—skepticism, skepticism, skepticism on the question of nearly all the enthusiasms which I myself brought to certain Englishmen from the standpoint of the things that I had seen and which had thrilled me to the very core. Lastly, I am convinced that the Englishman's prime motive in Palestine is the motive of the empire. Ile is not over-interested in the Arab, not over-interested in the Jew; he is tremendously interested in the empire, and he recognizes the supreme imperial importance of Palestine lying half-way between England on the one hand and India upon the other. And, don't fool yourselves, she is never going to get out as long as the English empire endures. The problem of Zionism, I am convinced, has got to be worked out in terms of the permanent imperial sovereignty in that country. - €1+ A Review of Ludwig Lewisohn's "Mid-Channel." th dos EP Ft. Ben Avi's Pet Idea Finds a Competitor. To Ben Avi it should even be a source of pride for Jews to return to the use of the old Hebrew, or the present Latin. lie asks: "THE GREAT STUDY" lb 0 01f94T5 ay- "1-744:44A1 :71 f..W.= -1:stg.,%;. ■ J . his heights in "The Island With On April 17 Harper and Broth- in," wherein he made the best at - ers, publishers (49 East Thirty- ',roach to the Jewish problem; third street, New York), provided wherein he offered the best expl, • the literary world with material -S L nation for his virtual return to his which ought to arouse even more /f/,' people. spirited discussion than was oc- .1. 1 "Mid..Channel"—His Best Work. casioned by the publication last year of Ludwig lA••isohn's "The Now conies "Mid-Channel," and Island Within." This time it is it is safe to say that therein he "Mid-Channel." from the pen of not only definitely shows his met- the same author but vastly su- tle and his sincerity in his return perior in quality, vastly more im- to his own and natural fold, but portant as ft study of Jewish life. at the same time presents to the as the spiritual autobiography of world his very best work. "Mid- one of our greatest literary geni- Channel" is Lewisohn's second uses, as the narration of a transi• part of that American and Jewish Lion from utter indifference to chronicle which he began in "Up- things Jewish to the extreme love stream." From the point of view for the People of the Book and its of his contribution to Jewish Of Book. study it is by fur his best work tir In "Upstream" L•wisohn re- in that he emerges not only with vealed to the world his first suffer• a knowledge of his people's ings that came as a result of the characteristics and history, but conflict within him, as well as in with an understanding and devo- his worldly experiences, over his tion which is lacking in many who Jltwishness. His associations until have devoted their entire lives to the beginning of the present dec- similar studies. ade were not Jewish. Although of In "Mid-Channel" Mr. Lewi- sohn discusses with us the divorce Jewish parentage, he was brought up in a Christian environment, re- problem. He is frank and at the ceiving his spiritual teachings in a same time happy over his associa- Christian church and imbibing tion with Thelma. "Until I met strongest influences from Ger- Thelma I had wholly missed the mans and from German culture. experience of marriage and had During and after the war things therefore, in both speech and began to happen. His Christian writing, passed a number of judg- wife, his pacifism, his liberalism— ments which I now repudiate." He 4 these led to conflicts, inner and goes so far as to favor the re-intro- outward, which cost him much duction of the gett for the Jew in spiritual agony; which subjected America for the sake of the hap- him to prejudices at the college pier Jewish home, and whether he where he was a teacher of English. is agreed or disagreed with, it is He poured out his heart to the certain that he knows the sub- world at large in "Upstream." ject whereof he speaks, and is sin- The Return to His People." cere in its treatment. Then began an awakening. "The Great Study." "Israel" was the result of his kt(i There is one chapter in Lewi- travels through Palestine and sohn's new volume which is in it- Eastern Europe. The Jew in him a masterpiece. It is "The self began to stir, and in order to know Great Study," in which we are himself and his people he literally taken for a cruise through the began with the Jewish "Aleph finest gems in Talmudic literature. Reis," he began with the A B C Considering that it is only seven and traveled through the most im- years since IA•wisohn began his portant Jewish centers to study great—his Jewish—study, he has the ways and modes of Jewish achieved a literary and spiritual living. Ile went to Poland, he vis- triumph. By taking his readers ited his Galician brethren, he di- through the storehouse of Mish- rected his pilgrimage to Palestine. naic legends, he has contributed a Ile returned with a literary and valuable chapter to Jewish book- figurative love for Israel. Ludwig land. le•isohn of "Upstream" fame be- On previous occasions, in these gan his homeward march, the re- the editor has already turn to his own people. touched upon the numerous prob- In "Israel" Lewisohn in a sense lems reviewed by Le•isohn in appeared in a somewhat unnatural "Mid-Channel." The editor has garb. His return to his people followed "Mid-Channel" in the was rather sudden. Many refused monthly installments in the Me- to understand his virtual "conver- rah Journal, where this book sion." There was even that was first published, and a re-read- charge of his carrying a chip on ing of Harper's volume only bears his shoulder, of his having suffered out the truth of his first judg- from a common Jewish complex ment that "Mid-Channel" is Lewi- which suspected anti-Semitism in sohn's best work and one of the the slightest show of unfriend- finest contributions of the year. liness on the part of Gentiles. But "Mid-Channel" is such a sincere Isewisohn did not let up in his work, it is so much deeper than work which revealed a complete "The Island Within" as a study about face in the activities of a of Jewish life, that it ought to be man hitherto known as a literary assured in advance of an excellent critic. In several works of fiction sale, exceeding even Lewisohn's he indirectly dealt autobiograpri- previous masterpieces. catty with the Jewish problem that P. S. became his problem. He reached 747 so books and Authors A FRAUD! THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. By Je- rome and Jean Tharaud. Pub- lished by Longmans, Green & Co., 55 Fifth avenue, New York ($2). The Tharaud brothers have for a number of years been posing as students of the Jewish problem. In a number of books they pre- tended to be revealing truths, un- known or hidden, about the mys- terious Jews. In reality their works are mere rehashes of certain farts minus the explanations of their backgrounds, plus the per- sonal touches of the authors, who fail to show the slightest under- standing of our much misunder- stood people. In "The Chosen People" the two Frenchmen pretend to be giving us, in not more than 200 very brief pages, "a short history of the Jews in Europe," and not only do they malign in the contents as well as in the title the people they are supposed to describe, but are fraudulent in the very claim of their work being "a history." The authors open with a sup- posed explanation of their posi- tion, and in the preface they deny that they are anti-Semites, RS is frequently charged against them. It appears as if "oif a ganef brennt die hittel," the Yiddish proverb meaning "upon a thief burns his hat," implying the bothering of a conscience, has much truth in it. For, immediately following the au- thors' arraignment of those Jews who fear criticism, they launch an atack on all Jews which they would have us tolerate. And, truly, it is about time that these two Frenchmen were stopped from capitalizing on the Jews as they have until now. In their first chapter they at- tempt to explain the rise of the ghetto, and they would have the reader believe that (page 28) "it was in order to put the Holy Torah . . . beyond all profanation that the Jews shut themselves up into the ghetto." In other words, we have built the walls around as ourselves, just to keep to our- selves, and in punishment of it the nations later matte it "an obliga- tory jail" (page 32) for the Jews And this they would have us swal- low as logic! The book contains misrepresen- tations after misrepresentations. The authors launch an attack upon the Talmud, revealing not even the slightest understanding of the work of the men who compiled it. In speaking of the Torah they con- tinually refer to sephorim- "books"—as scribes who write the Holy Scriptures. Throughout their volume they make use of Hebrew words, with very few exceptions misspelling or misusing them. For example, "haskalah" is written "haskata." The Tharauds pose as authori- ties on everything. They speak of (Turn to Next Page). Gems From Jewish Literature Selected by Rabbi Leon Fram. "JEPIITHAIUS DAUGHTER" "And it became a custom in Is- rael that the daughters of Israel went from year to year to lament for the daughter of Jephthah, the Gileadite. four days in the year." —Judge XI. "There in • lonely mountain-top, A curse upon it lies, upon it grow, No blade of No Rower% greet the eyes. Rut cold, bare cliffs of granite stand. Like sentinels of ,Inns. Year after year. through wind and snow, Around a craggy throne. And on the topm.t. coldest peak There is a spot of woe-- A little tomb. • 5 old ,tray tomb. Raised centurie s ago. For there within her era.. .he lies Plucked in •n evil hour— The martyred daughter of her race, braers fairest flower! There Jepthah • maid ! n eeeee sieeps- The •irtim that he vowed— four days in the dreary rear, The lonelinees i. loud. ,P;;.44.-Warl' • • • And Gile•d•. mournine daughters Up from the ‘•Iley throng— The rnounlain glen. reverberate With .orrow and with none! wail Oh. loud nod The light. untimely spent, dance upon the mountain-to• A choral of lament. And And as they dance they seem to see Another dancer, too, And hear, amidst themeasure ri•e. The voiee of her they ruer —Y F.110A811-.- (Translated by Alter Brody). "O'ER THE CITY'S HOUSES " Oer the city roof. The nigh•a soft spell I. wrought: Peering through the window Leans my child, in thought. Now he stand. on tiptoe. Stares from aide to side. And hi. cheeks turn ashen, And his eye. grow wide. In the wind. his ringlet. Curl to blond. silk folds •ine. elm.. know Why my child beholds! --REUBEN EISLAND (Translated by Isaac Goldberg)