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Menorah Is Product of Eighteenth Century Jewish Art.
The Union Museum of the Ile- teenth century, the hand-work of
brew Union College recently Sc- this description must have been
quired a valuable heirloom. Some very costly
time in the eighteenth century,
The Feast of Lights.
Samuel Ilirsch, a wealthy Jew liv- The imagination is stirred by
ing in Germany, perhaps a mem- this large and impressive Menorah.
bar of a branch of the late Baron It takes one back to the days when
Maurice de Hirsch family, had in Jews could not make a public spec.:
his home a unique and beautiful tacle of their worship of God, when
hand-wrought silver Chanukah they dared not openly display their
Menorah. Later the descendants treasures for fear of confiscation.
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Will Give New Content
to Western Ideals.
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sword and physical beauty, there
are now words strange in his
mouth: "The holy burden of divine
presence.' In his, as in the rest
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of theprophetic
voices of the age,
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we find a prophecy of the future.
Palestine Provides Prophecy
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GREETINGS
"Would we discover other signs
of the days that are to come, then "4'
most we turn to Palestine. We
, find them in the life of the youth
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of Palestine. There in Palestine
there is an advanced front of Jew- '
ish life. There we find a self-ini-
pelling, autonomous Judaism, an
' authentic Jewish life.
In Eretz
Israel, we behold a strange phe-
nomenon in the deep religiosity of §7 ,
the child. The l'alestinian child
forces his parents and teachers,
Who have rationalized religion out
of their lives, to observe religious
rites and ceremonies. The language
itself of I'alestine is a religious
organ. There are no secular He-
brew. There is no creediess He-
brew. The whole substance of
expression, the spirit of the lan-
guage, the figures of spech, are h -
all permeated with religious con-
tent Far off generations of Israel ,
speak through the syllables of Ile-'
b rew. In Palestine emergent and
n the lives of Israel's greatest and
°blest men , we apprehend what'
he morrow to be.
• "What is there for you to do
who are Westerners by birth?
Future in Lives of Great.
"One may find the hints of what What is your specific task? It is
the morrow may be in a searching to Judaize the Western Jew and to
study of the great men of the era give Jewish content to Western
—to be sure, not in the vulgarians values. I understand how difficult
of the popular taste, but in the it is to transmit Jewish values to
lives of the seemingly lonely great students within the course of four
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ones of every age. In art, there years. But we possess the West-
were, for instance, Van Gogh and ern virtue of method, which should !
Cezanne. They were failures in compensate for the limites of time. _
their generation. Yet in their One key will open the treasures, of
work, there may have been discov- the Jewish spirit to you. That key 'il'!"1:4KiIRAKM4:4:4:
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ered an inkling of what the art is Hebrew. No translation can'
of the future would be. Consider give you the burden of spirit of
the
Ilebrew
word.
Hebrew
itself
Zionism, it is easy to be a Zionist
today. I3ut in 1896, to discover is a creative force. Not only does
that Rent was not a madman, but it teach you by its content, not
a prophet of his age, to dare to only does it inform you, but it pre-
enlist as a young rabbi under his pares you, it forms you for the
banner required both courage and task. Whoever knows Ilebrew, the
was t e spaces of his soul become
vision,
"In the lives and works of Her- fruitful.
"It cannot be diffic i
mann Cohen, Achad Ila-am, Martin
for you to
Ruben, Berditchewsky, A. I). Gor- l earn Hebrew for t is in your
don, Bialik,
yes, Ludwig
and even Lewisohn,
Tcherni-
kowsky
and
blood you carry' its law, its
rhythms within yourselves. Know
there are some tokens of the emer- Ilebrew and you possess the knowl-
genie
edge
• of a new religious passion. edge of four thousand years. You
Distributor of
These men began with a revolt may be a clever writer, and epi-
against their ancestral heritage. grammatist in any other language,
Berditchewsky,who could see noth- but in Hebrew, you may be a cre-
ing in the past but a cemetery be- ator. The institute tries to pre-
gan with the aim to break the pare you for this golden chance of
tables of the law, and ended by youth. Take it, and bring of what
finding himself, to his own sur- you receive from your teachers and
prise, an integral link of the Ion g of what you are yourselves to
chain of treasured tradition. Bia- American Israel, that it may live a
lik who followed the secular trend ric h er,a more creative Jewish
of modern Hebrew letters, to the life'
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exc'usion of everything else, en-
tered at maturity on what may be
Samuel Einsaft, historian of the
ST. ANTOINE AT ATWATER ST.
called the way to the mothers of Jewish labor movement, died in
Jewish life, to the sources of ear- Moscow following a long illness.
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Detroit Mich.
tier mediaeval religious poetry. Ile was the author of several
Even in Tchernikowsky, this bard books.
I)r. 8holom Spiegel, isiting lec-
turer for this year at the Jewish
Institute of Religion, West 68th
street, New York, was the princi-
pal speaker at a luncheon, given
in his honor by the students of the
institute. I)r. Spiegel, who comes
to the institute from Palestine,
where he has been living and teach-
ing for a number of years, moved
the students by his appeal for a
love of Hebrew and its use in bring-
ing Jewish content to Western
ideals.
Youth Has the Golden Chance.
"To American youth," said I)r.
Spiegel, "conies the golden chance
to make of America a worthy cen-
ter of Jewish life. The question
arises, Is it possible to train youth
to meet the future? Can one know
what the morrow is to be? I be-
lieve that one can. If a little of
Jewish history is known, it is not
dificult to pdenct what Jewish life
is to be. There are prophetic in-
dications in every age. Men who
are not hampered by too much
bookishness may learn the signs.
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LEGE MUSEUM
of the owner became impoverished;
heirloom passed into the hands
of the collectors and ultimately was
purchased by Adolph S. Rico, li-
brarian of the Hebrew Union Col-
, lege.
The lamp is unique for one thing,
that it is the largest known of its
kind, being 27's inches high, 22
inches wide, and 5'S inches in
depth. It is a creation of marve-
lous workmanship and interesting
details, wrought in solid silver, and
some parts are gilded.
Pictures Magnificent Palace.
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' This Samuel Hirsch was obvious.
ly a man of great wealth. We
might almost picture him, seated
with hois wife and family in the
great hall of his palace. The cur-
tains drawn for every friend was
an enemy in those days of suspic-
ion and hatred. It is the season
of Chanukah—the Feast of Lights.
One light is to be lit the first night
and an additional light each suc-
cessive night until all eight are
burning as a symbol of Judaism's
belief in the gradual but constant
increase of intellectual light.
The little groups of celebrants
have been recalling to mind how
centuries before, Judah Maccabeus
had conquered the Syrians, and re-
claimed the Temple of Jerusalem.
At the purification of the Temple,
the altar was sanctified and dedi-
cated anew. Lamps and torches
were kindled and a celebration of
eight days was ordained, to be re-
peated annually. This was to com-
memorate the little cruse of oil
that seemed hardly enough for one
night, but which burned brightly
for eight days until a new supply
of sacred oil could be obtained.
At first glance, the lamp resem-
bled an Ark of the Law. Large
lanterns adorn the sides. These
are typical of the German Archi-
tecture of the day, as is the foun-
dation Near the apex is engraved
the family crest, supported on each
' man for deer.) A Ilebrew inscrip-
side by a deer. (Hirsch is the Ger-
tion near the top similar to a verse
in the bible, plays on the owner's
name: "And Samuel took the cruse
of oil and poured it on the Menor-
ah." (Samuel Ch. 10, V. 1)
In the central portion of this in-
teresting art object are the eight
oil lamps which are lighted in con-
Many Unique Lamps.
nection with the Ilanukkah cele-
Jewish artists have always given
bration. In the background is a much time and talent to the fash-
magnificent palace, which may have ioning of these Chanukah candel-
been the owner's own home. Doves bra. This one, now in the Union
are flying above it. In the fore- Museum, is especially interesting;
ground flows a majestic river.
it is important as an object of
Dates to Napoleonic Era.
- Jewish art, showing Jewish motifs
On a rod near the base, attached in theAartistic style of the period,
to seven silver chains, hang the and the relation of the culture of
implements used for filling and' the Jews to that of their neighbors,
trimming the lamps, among them thus giving both the Jewish, and
are two cruses for the oil, a pair the non-Jewish aspects of the age
of tongs, a small shovel, and a fun- in which it was fashioned.
nel. Inscriptions engraved in Ile-
This ceremonial lamp is by no
brew on the lamp tell of the vir- means the only one in the collect-
tut s of the owner and his wife, in- ion of the Union Museum. There
dicating the possibility of this hav- are one hundred others, gathered
ing been a gift.
from all parts of the world, and
This lamp is especially interest- some of them dating back to the
ing because it dates back to a time fifteenth century. The Museum
during the Napoleonic era when the also contains priceless ceremonial
Jews in Germany were particularly' objects—some 10,000 items in gold,
wretched a n d poverty-stricken. silver, miniatures, engravings and
Flow did this one Jew have enough manuscripts illustrating the cultu-
money to acquire such an elaborate ral life of the Jews in many climes
ornament? For, even in the eigh- and ages.
JEWS SERVED U. S . sti lieved
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In the spirit of Chanukah we ex-
tend to all our Jewish friends,
patrons and neighbors best
wishes for a joyous Chanukah.
nidh aeternal
t fate 1'2,2r should
the Jews to be the most essential
instrument I for civilizing the na-
tions. If were an atheist of the
other sect, who believe or pretend
to believe that all is ordered b •
chance, I should believe that chance
h ad ordered the Jews to preserve
and propagate to all mankind the
doctrine of a supreme, intelligent,
wise, almighty sovereign of the
Universe, which I believe to be the
great essential principle of all mor-
ality and consequently of all civi-
zation."
Much has been achieved for lib-
eral Judaism, Rabbi Feuerlicht
said, but "it requires no flight of
fancy to picture what would have
been accomplished by now had we
had, one century earlier, Isaac
Mayer Wise, the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations, the De.
partment of Synagogues and School
Extension and the National Fed-
erations of Temple Brotherhoods
and Sisterhoods"
CINCINNATI, 0.— Spiritually
and materially, in peace and in war,
the Jews have served America in
distinguished fashion, Rabbi Mor-
ris M. Feuerlicht of Indianapolis
Hebrew Congregation, Indianapo-
lis, Ind., said Dec. 8, in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
He spoke in Wise Center of
Plum Street Temple on "The Jew-
ish Contributions to Vivilization,"
in an exchange of pulpits which is
a feature of the annual November
Tour now being conducted by the
' Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations. Rabbi James G. Hel-
ler, of Plum Street Temple, occu-
pied Rabbi Feuerlicht's pulpit for
the November Tour Friday eve-
ning.
Rabbi Feuerlicht is a past presi-
dent of the Hebrew Union College
Alumni Association, whose mem-
bers are co-operating with laymen COMPANY FORMED FOR
in the tour. David A. Brown is
DEAD SEA CONCESSION
chairman of the tour.
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of great influence in the days of tine Potash, Ltd., is the name of
the founding of the United States, the new company which was for-
Rabbi Feuerlicht pointed out. For ' mally registered in London with a
example, he cited the fact that the capital of $2,000,000 to exploit the
Liberty Bell inscription, "Proclaim chemical resources of the Dead Sea
Liberty Throughout the Land un- on the concession granted to Engi-
to All the Inhabitants Thereof," neer Moses Novomejaski and Major
is a translation from Leviticus Tulloch.
ire 10,
The Earl of Lytton will be chair-
de quoted this tribute from John man of the new company.
sham
Adams, the second president of the, have already been subscribed by
United States: the British and American directors,
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