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A PASSOVER DELIVERANCE • • (PALESTINE WOMAN LEADER TO BE
GUEST HERE BEGINNING APRIL 10
An Episode of Bonaparte's Campaign

e 1 Joyous Passover
to All

Pa, BIltier (6rrefitto
to mu mull .31rtulgll frirOa
in all 5iturrilli

By CECIL ROTH

The name of Fossano is familiar
c:
one family of especial prominence
: to all students of Jewish literature.
was named Cohn, Italicized as Co-
I It is not that the little north-ltal-I
lombo, and Latinized on occasion'
ion city ever harbored a community
I of peculiar numerical importance, as Columbus... Who knows?) But
above all they clung with pathetic
r .
I or that it gave birth to any person- I
tenacity to the French rite of pray-
age of especial distinction in the
ers which their fathers had fol-
annals of Hebrew life and letters.
lowed in the old country—different
I It was never even the scene of a
from both the Italian ritual em-
massacre or persecution of extra•
ployed by the original inhabitants
, ordinary virulence to signalize it
and from the German or Ashkena-
in the record of Jewish martyrdom
sic introduced by some immigrants,
Far from it. The history of the t
hough not altogether dissimilar
community was a humdrum one;
from the latter. Their numbers
Si much no that it has not as yet
never justified the printing of this
been deemed worthy even of fossi-
irayer-book. But it was indus-
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lary preservation in a learned mon. t riously copied by hand
by the ex.
°graph. It is not the vicissitudes, I
wrienced local scribes, and so pre-
but the origin, of the community s
owed even to our own day. Schol-
which provides it especial interest, a rs speak of this as the rite of
est.
APil (really AFam), after the
j Fossano is situated in Piedmont, i
nitials of the three towns where it
on a little hill at the foot of the was formerly followed. When in
Twelfth St. at West Grand Boulevard
Alps, at the very gateway to It- 1 918 Galician prisoners of war in
DETROIT
aly. Standing in its citadel, one t erned in the fortress of Fossano
Euclid 2200
may see close at hand on the one
iorrowed the congregational prey-
side the bleak snow-capped peaks e
r-books for the Iligh Festivals,
which separate the country from t
hey noticed with suspicion and dia-
France, and in sharp contrast to d
sin the textual differences from
it on the other the typical monoto- t
he formula to which they had been
; nous landscape of the Piedmuntese a
ccustomd, and wondered to what
plain, flat as a marsh and verdant
utlandish country the y had come.
, with intensive cultivation. And,
Now, the same passes which
standing there, the history of the h
ad brought the Jews over the Alps
Jews in the place becomes clear.
CHANA CHIZIK
ay open to other migrants whose
When in the fourteenth century 0 bjects were less
pacific.
Nearly Chaos Chizik, leader of the women pioneers in Palestine, is com-
there took place the great expul e
sions from F ranee, the majority of , s very community of Piedmont pre- ing to Detroit, for a few days' stay, in the interests of the Pioneer
the refugees made their way over- s erves in mural inscriptions in its (('omen's Organization. On Friday, April 10, she will address a meet-
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land to Germany or Spain, or took lel ynagogue or in certain anual col- ing at Hotel Statler. Other events are planned in her honor.
• ship for the greater freedom of , io 'rations the memory of some lime-
lential deliverance at the time of
!southern Europe and the Levant. , a bygone siege by invaders from therefore
ed settled
down' to a formal 1 it did no great material damage.
Some hands however crossed the th e north. Fossano, occupying an ie e and, bringing up their artil- I But the attackers, terror-stricken,
Alps and settled down with a sigh i
lery
mmensely imported strategical ' went. 'began ' a destructive bombard- I tick to their heels
fled, throw -
of relief in the very first spot to p osition, was no exception in this
ing, away as they ran a great part
TED POTTER
which they came. One of the placesIn
D. JORDAN
The time of trouble, even in the of their spoil. The community was
;sped. Thus it came about that '
JUDD POWER
Prehldent
in question was Fossano—the first I in the spring of the year 1790 the eighteenth century, an almost uni-
See. &
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city
of
the
Piedmontese
plain.
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n
ty was summoned to surrender versal
expedient was to assault the tsheve(Fi'ren‘c'herentsih
LINEN, UNIFORM
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and
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the armies of the French Revd • , •' , w 8 ; They were unpopular, they the Jews were finally out of dan-
the neighboring towns of Asti and
n
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general with were defenceless, and (what was gee.
M oncalvo. In these three havens of !aon under a French
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the curiously Italia nname of Buon- more) they were reputed to be
This marvelous escape seemed a
refuge, the French fugitives long a parte. The natural position o f w
e Searching of '
althy. Moreover, in the present direct act of God.
preserved something of their an the city was strong, and the inhabi-
case, they were suspected (not conscious and internal re pintan•
central type and traditions, and
ants none too sympathetic to rev-, without reason) of a cordial sym- seemed to be a poor way of conv-
even of their names. (At Fossano, olutionary ideas.
The French ' puthy with the invader. It was by • memoratin I., s so signal
. 1 a deliverance.
verance.
no means remarkable. The Jews I According, the ann Trsary of th
at
I of Piedmont had been kept cooped rate, the fourth night and day of
, up in their Ghettos under condi- Passover, was declared by the lead-
; tions of more than mediaeval de- ers of the community a special hol-
I gradation: but they knew full well iday, to be observed by the Holy
r
I that Jewish equality hod been the Congregation of Fossano in every
rule in France for some time, and generation for all times until the
had been carried by the Revolution- Messianic redemption. The rabbi
INCORPORATED
ary armies to every city of Italy the community, a certain Abra-
which they had penetrated. For the , ham, celebrated the event in a tur-
community of Fessano not to feel, gid memorial poem to be recited
and perhaps to express, some sym- year by year both night and morn-
s
with the invader would have ing, which was vilely printed in
been almost superhuman (there is pamphlet form on (apparently
in the possession of the writer a lo- wartime paper—probably in the
cal ritual the fly-leaves of which neighboring city of Turin. Of
are adorned with crude sketches of this, unknown to the biblio-
the tree and cap of liberty, with graphers, a solitary copy is
the tell-tale date 1789!) It may in the collection of the pres-
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be imagined that they were in- ent writer: it is hence, and from
spired especially by that worthy en- local legend auricularly collected on
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save whose life at a subsequent in a manner less commonplace by
period of reaction a worthy patri- far. The aperture through which
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clan sacrificed his wig; but that is the providential shell burst its way
quite another story. into the synagogue building has
Easter had passed with Its re- never been repaired. It survived
minder of the Passion. The per- the reconstruction of la years la-
ilous Passover season had arrived: ter, and is still to tie seen today by
and in the midst of the siege, the any person who takes the trouble
Jews had the audacity to celebrate to pay the pilgrimage (for the ab-
the festival of freedom with their original community is virtually
ancestral rites—assuredly, mani- dead). It now serves a useful pur-
fest token of sympathy with the pose as a window to throw much-
enemy. On the fourth night (Mon- needed light upon the internal ob-
day, April 20, 1790, when the ene- scurity. Around it is written in
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my opened his usual bombard- Hebrew in letters of would-be gold
went—apparently with more dead- the simple phrase: The Miracle of
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rabble of the city could bear it no credulous age, shall say it nay?—'
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The Ghetto at Fustian() (now the
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this itself, perhaps, an additional
cause to nourish a suspicion of
treachery. Against this the mob
rushed. They gained access with-
out opposition. Once entered, they
wrought their will as they pleased,
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power. They were absolutely shut
off from the rest of the town. Here,
moreover, the soldiers of the gar-
noon were otherwise engaged:
while the more moderate elements
in the population, alarmed by the
I bombardment which had just been
opened, remained cooped up in their
houses, with no thought left for
incidental matters such as the wet_ I
fare of the Jews. Thus all appeals
for assistance remained unan-
swered. All night long, until the
dawn, the sack continued. Mean-
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of their religious and social life,
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gained by a narrow staircase which
led into a little vestibule. From
the far end of this opened out the
synagogue itself—a small but pie-
turesque structure which still pre- I
serves its original form, in spite of
a restoration of 1812. The sanc-
tity of the place proved however no
deterrent for the rabble. Here
there was assuredly the best
of all chances of pillage. No
doubt jewelry of untold value
hung around the necks of the fair
Jewesses. Moreover, the massive
silver lamps which burned perpet-
upally before the Ark and the other
adornments used in Divine service
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Jew's were huddled together in the
little synagogue, weeping, praying.
and waiting for the end. A massa-
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cre such as those 'which took place
a little later under almost identi-
cal circumstances at Sienna or Een-
igallia seemed inevitable. Mean-
while, the flash of the bombard-
ment made the fading night almost
as light as day: while the roar of
the cannon and the shriek of the
shells, followed by the confused re-
verberation of the explosions and
of the falling masonry, added to the
terror of the scene.
The mph up the stairs pressed
with wild cries and threats, and en-
tered into the vestibule. Massa-
cre seemed unavoidable unless a
miracle intervened.
Experts in
According to local legend, that is
precisely what happened. Just as
the first members of the crowd ar-
rived at the top of the staircase, an
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