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A Short Story.

Section Three

!Rosh Hashonah With Amsterdam Sephardics W'LPI61

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our
Many Friends from

by NINA KAYE
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From the day that Elias Gol
I berg, dealer in scrap meta
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shook out his morning paper in t he
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front of his delapidated but payin g
junk shop and read in tiny type h is
drI-
name, ElMs Goldberg, among t he
$100 contributions for the ne w
Talmud Torah of his congregatio n,
ihe was a changed man. Eager ly
he read it, again and again, view ed
it from all angles and then Carrie d
the paper back to his wife, Rebe e-
I t
ca, who was preparing the childre n
for school in the room behind th
shop.
Rebecca, dutiful wife, after du ly
exclaiming her pleasure at seein g
his name in the paper, paused t
level upon her beaming spouse a
calculating eye. "One hundre
dollars, Elias? There are riche
men in the congregation wh
who would not give $100. An
where will you take it?"
"Don't worry, mama. It wi
be all right. Two dollars a wee k
for one year. There is your hun
dred dollars. And for that ther
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it is, Elias Goldberg, $100. I neve
thought they wuld put it in th e
paper."
His daughter Madeline, hardl y
able to read, bent admiringly ove
the newspaper. But Elias guarde
it
it greedily. "Here," he displuye d
it to his other offspring who, be
lng in the fourth grade, was abl e
to read it. "Look who your fathe
is."
The boy, sulking over his oat
meal, cast a sullen look at th e I
paper. "What's a hundred dot
INTERIOR OF SEPHARDIC SYNAGOGUE IN AMSTERDAM
tars? There's a boy in my clan
DAVID WHITNEY BUILDING
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has his own roller skates. Ili
The first Maranon settled in Amsterdam in 1593. Soon thereafter other Jews came from Portugal,
father don't give away good
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mainly relatives of the first comers. On Atonement Day 5357, October 2, 1596, they met together for V-T
money."
Feeling that his position was worship, probably for the first time, in the house of Don Samuel Pulache, Ambassador of the Emperor of ,M7.5N5
challenged, Elias produced the dol- Morocco to the Netherlands. The congregation sum bored 16. Soon afterward a hall for worship was '"'"d"
lar for the skates and went back secured, named "Beth Ya'akob," after one of its founders, Jacob Tired°, and consecrated on New Year's
to his post in front of the shop Day , '3'8
There he stood beaming, often
The cornerstone for the famous Portuguese Synagogue at Amsterdam, reproduced above, was laid in
gazing at the item in the paper to 1671, and was consecrated in 1675, following the am algamation of the groups that met in the first twr
convince himself it really was Sephardic synagogues to be organized in the historic city. This synagogue is to this very day the moat
there—Ellas Goldberg, $100.
famous Jewish place of worship in all Europe. The congregation became a focus towards which all liter-
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All
Jewish
Elias Goldberg went about the ary endeavors converged.
succeeding days wrapped in the
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glow of his own importance. When
ry, now nearly grown, demanded Rebecca's noodle soup with a fa-
he came into the synagogue, he that they move away from the miller relish.
sensed a new deference on the part neighborhood.
Goldberg
held
Best Wishes for a
"Oh, yes," he explained.
of his fellow-members. He beamed
"I
when he' heard—of course he was tenaciously on. Ile was president like the way you cook. I used to
Happy New Year
supposed not ti ear—"Goldberg of his little congregation. He had attend all the dinners, kosher and
must he doing pretty good. Ile continued to make contributions otherwise, when I first started re-
hives a hundred to the Talmud to the synagogue and was known porting. It was great—the food,
for a rich man long before this I mean, not the speeches."
Torah. We must name him on our was
true. Each year he had added
board."
"You heard," Elias leaned for-
to
his subscription, each year his ward, "our leaders speak?"
Goldberg was named a trustee sense
of importance and dignity
"Oh,
sure.
and in recognition of this honor
I never listened
he handed to the president a check grew. Often he would take out very closely until they started an-
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the
yearly
clippings
and
proudly
nouncing
the contributions. That
in full for $100. "Of course," he
display them to anyone who would was all I had to get for my paper,
said, "this isn't for the Talmud give
his attention.
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Torah. It's extra."
how much money was raised and
With the first appeal for Money, who were the largest contribu-
During the night he reasoned
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for
the
war
sufferers,
Elias
had
tors."
with himself. "Two hundred dol-
Near Elizabeth
"Is that so?" Elias enunciated
lars, where will I take t? Busi- stepped forward in all the glory
of
his
position
and
announced
his
the words slowly, neglecting his Room 412 Francis Palma Bldg.
ness isn't so good." But the
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It was large , but
pleasure of giving was great. And contribution.
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when he sought his name in the
the papers!
He was out at dawn for the pa- papers, his gift had been lumped ,
pers. Eagerly he scanned them, with many others.
Elias stood adamant neighbor-
but as there was no occasion to I
against
list subscribers, as had been the moving away from the
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case in the appeal for the Talmud hood until his son Harry presented
a new argument. "Anyone can be
Torah, he sought in vain.
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fee, nor was thehe a general re- gogue you're so proud of being
clothing of the family at Pass- president of?"
over. But Elias did not feel the
"It was in the papers," its presi- 0_
sacrifices.
dent defended.
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ELas Goldberg emerged from
"Once a year, when they raise
th war a rich man. His metal some money. What's that?"
at raps had led to sheet metal. His
The family moved to an apart-
contracts with the government for ment uptown. After all, he now F-2-
supplying nails had yielded him had a position in the busine“
good profits. Gone was the room world—in the sheet metal world.
b e h' ml h
te store, gone the little at least.
junk shop itself.
Goldberg joined an uptown
The children, Madeline and Ham synagogue and found his attempts, ='
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at recognition unrewarded. He
gave to the congregation fund, for, ="-
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1 which he was thanked with that=
usual nod from the president. He
resorted to his wife Rebecca and i
Wishing You All a
urged her to take part in the wo-,
Happy New Year
men's auxiliary. "Let then, know
there is a Mrs. Elias Goldberg.'1
Rebecca declined. She feared the
unfamiliar faces.
ladeline came to her father
with more than One demand. She
asked to be taken out of high
school and put in a finishing school
In the fullness of hsi heart and
pocketbook her father agreed.
To
Harry was not so willing to go
to school. He finished high school
and refused to go to college or to
work. "Hey, Dad," he expostu-
lated, "rich men's sons don't have
to work. People'll think you need
my salary."
In panic that such an impres-
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sion might arise, Elias gave in.
Need Cleaning?
They compromised on Ilarry's corn-
ing into his father's business.
Harry never came down and Gold-
JOSEPH P.
Longfellow
Proprietor
berg never again challenged him.
He had the boy's name put on the
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payroll and each week his cheek
was mailed to him. Elias preferred
not to hand it to him himself.
Longfellow
Elias Goldberg knew only one
way to gain the recognition he
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craved—to give money. When he
saw that his name was often
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omitted in the papers, rather than
order and installed. No
that of a man giving a smaller
contribution but who had long .==-
charge for estimates. Our
been a member of the congrega-
autos will call in any part of
r tion, he decided to resign. He
Greater Detroit.
joined a fashionable congrega
tion.
His contribution to the building
fund—Elias always found a build-
ing fund to which he could con-
Rosh Hashonah Greetings tribute—gained for him the usual
appreciation.
He neglected no opportunity.
He gave generously to all causes,
he was active in all directions, or- .F= -- -
phan homes, schools, hospitals,
Talmud Torahs and seminaries. ..-,=-
He gave to all unstintingly. All
Manufacturers of
he asked in return was — recogni-
tion.
Through Harry he joined a
country club and went painfully
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around the golf course with never
an idea what it was all about.
It was Harry, too, who brought g
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home Jack Donovan, whom he de-
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scribed as a writer. Harry had lit-
erary inclinations which he was -='•
PERRY FEIGENSON, President
BEN FEIGENSON, V.-Pres.
wont to put forward in justifies-
HILTON BERNSTEIN. Ser.-Treas.
of his idle ways.
ack, who EL=
was obviously not Jewish, enjoyed

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