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Sabbath Rosh Chodesh lyar Readings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 12:1-15:33; Num.
28:9-15.
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 66.
Apri I 17, 1931
Nisan 30, 5691
sade of Hatred Must Be Stopped.
1
the course of his sermon from the pul-
1 the Free Synagogue in New York, on
ay, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise warned of
[angers that accompany the prejudice
discrimination against Jews in employ-
: and declared :
f tens of thousands of young Jews are
ed the right to enter lawful occupations
will be forced into lawlessness to gain
elihood. This will be tragic to society
will be infinitely more tragic to us as
I. I would rather see them dead than
rer to lawlessness."
le employment situation is becoming
sgically serious that there is no time to
at. Young Jews are compelled to stare
horror at the future, and many al-
y speak of suicide as the best way out
all. No more serious indictment could
ade of the non-Jewish community than
many thousands of Jews are without
d because Christians deny them the
to earn an honest livelihood.
the face of these tragic conditions,
r Jews continue to ape their bigoted
itian neighbors by refusing to employ
sh help. We repeat that the very last
we would advocate would be that
should hire only Jews. But in the
sense it is doubly criminal for a Jew
'actice discrimination, and against his
kinsmen at that. Jews should be the
to put a stop to such practice. And
[evils owe it to society and to the honor
e American community to put a stop
ch unworthy discrimination.
every community in the country where
ead of bigotry has raised itself -in em-
nent,—and there are few of any im-
ince where it is not felt,—Christians
Jews ought to convene to view the
lem fairly and justly and to appeal to
dyers to put a stop to such a discrim-
ng policy. By means of an education-
mpaign it ought to be possible to rem-
le existing tragic conditions.
our community the tragic situation in
oyment has been neglected entirely
ong. It is admitted that in Detroit,
out of every ten jobs are closed to
1. Such a state of affairs must not be
iitted to exist. We are now in the
t of an important campaign, and if the
oyment problem can not now be tack-
it should be the first business on the
nunity's agenda as soon as the drive
er. Unless the community does some-
; to remedy the situation, our leaders
I the risk of being branded by history
lying acted criminally in their attitude
e economic needs of our youth.
The Immigrant Bogy.
to appeal that politicians make to the
ments of labor by their attacks on al-
and by sponsoring anti-immigration
is in reality a false specter. The latest
rt from Commissioner General of Im-
ation Harry E. Hull proves that immi-
ion, used as a bogy to scare the hun-
per cent Americans, is a huge and silly
t.
immissioner Hull reports that aliens
leaving the United States in greater
ber than they are arriving. During
iary 21,566 departed from these shores
e only 12,815 were admitted. Of the
ber admitted, only one-third were al-
the remainder being visitors or non-
igrants. Of those admitted in January
330 was Jews.
et members of Congress encourage
udice against the alien and immigrant
sponsoring legislation completely to
a the doors of this country to immigra-
-a move which, as partially proven
he figures for January, would only tend
eep from these shores relatives of peo-
already here, thus separating families
breaking up home ties. In the words
:ongressman Samuel Dickstein, newly
isored legislation "would keep out con-
ers, not competitors."
he immigrant bogy only keeps the peo-
fooled on true conditions as affecting
entry in this country of relatives of cit-
s and declarants. The propaganda
inst the alien is as un-American as it
polish. Congress might have served the
atry better if it had tried honestly and
tcientiously to solve the economic prob-
and to find the root of the trouble
sed by the crisis. rather than to set out,
a Boy Scout Troop, in search of a hob-
lin.
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Aaron DeRoy—A. J. C. Chairman.
Conditions, economically, are much
worse than they were last year. In spite of
them, everything points to success for the
approaching Allied Jewish Campaign. The
enthusiasm of the workers equals the sen-
sational campaign of last year. The cam-
paign personnel will in all probability
exceed in number the large force which
was enlisted in 1930. More groups are join-
ing to help create unity in the community.
And to top it all, conies the news of the
appointment and acceptance of Aaron De-
Roy as chairman of the campaign. No
worthier leader could have been picked.
Possessing organization ability, having
achieved glory in the business and sports
worlds, we have no doubt that his leader-
ship in the forthcoming campaign for so
many worthy causes will help to guaran-
tee the oversubscription of the assigned
quota of $215,000.
Retaining in the ranks of the Allied
Jewish Campaign the tried campaigners
who last year brought success to the com-
munity's effort to raise the necessary funds
for the outstanding local, national and in-
ternational causes, Mr. DeRoy heads a pic-
turesque group of workers. Henry Wine-
man, Clarence H. Enggass, Maurice J. Cap-
lan, Adolph Finsterwald, and scores of
others who distinguished themselves last
year will again be in the campaign line-
up. As a result of their efforts we antici-
pate success equal to last year's.
Mr. DeRoy is in fact a very worthy sym-
bol of the tradition created by the Detroit
Allied Jewish Campaign. A high degree
of sportsmanship marked the drive of 1930.
It cemented friendship and created interest-
ing competition for honors among the many
groups who sought, as a result of a com-
mon goal, to glorify the community by
bringing aid to the needy and by strength-
ening the agencies they set out to help. As
a sportsman, Mr. DeRoy emerges in the
present campaign a symbol of this tradi-
tional spirit of friendship and competition
and good sportsmanship.
Truly, everything points to our having a
great and interesting and successful cam-
paign.
Why Not Tax Yourself Now?
Not possessing a police force authorized
to collect taxes, or to compel individual
members in the community to contribute
towards the upkeep of communal institu-
tions, Jews have fallen back on the tradition
of "Maaser"—the Biblical Tithe. In many
ages this tenth of the income of Jews has
been paid by self-taxation, without waiting
either for solicitors to beg for the due share
in the community's responsibilities; or for
police officers to enforce such payment.
The late Dr. Solomon Schechter, in his
"Studies in Judaism" (vol. 1, p. 139) quotes
Rabbi Solomon, son of the martyr Isaac, of
the fourteenth century, who described his
own scrupulous way of paying the tithe in
the following words:
I shall also, between New Year and the Day
of Atonement in each year, calculate my profits
clueing the past year and (after deducting ex-
penses) give a tithe thereof to the poor. Should
I be unable to make an accurate calculation,
then I shall put aside, together with the other
money for religious (charitable) purposes, to
dispose of it as I shall deem best. I also propose
to have the liberty of employing the money in
any profitable speculation with a view to aug-
menting it. But in respect of all I have written
above I shall not hold myself guilty if I trans-
gress, if such transgression be the result of for-
getfulness; but in order to guard against it, I
shall read this through weekly.
In Detroit we are on the eve of an impor-
tant campaign for funds to aid needy in this
community, nationally and overseas. The
sum of $215,000 has been assigned as a
quota, to be collected not by compulsion.
nor through the aid of a police force, but
by appealing to the conscience of the indi-
vidual, and to the pride of Jews as Jews
and as citizens of this community, to whose
institutions they are obligated individually
and collectively.
To make the task of the volunteer solici-
tors easier, and to adhere to a worthy tra-
dition, we urge that every Jew and Jewess
in this community, who is in position to do
so, should not wait for the solicitors, but
should now, even though three weeks in
advance of the date set for the opening of
the campaign, take an account of one's cir-
cumstances, as compared with those of the
vast number of unfortunates, and tax him-
self or herself according to one's means.
We can think of no nobler way in which the
community could greet the volunteers, be-
ginning with May 10, than with the smile
they deserve, and with the glad news that
the prospect for a contribution had taxed
himself or herself to give nobly, unselfishly
and within the means at his or her com-
mand.
In justice to the many worthy causes
represented in the forthcoming Allied Jew-
ish Campaign, we ask every person of
means in this community:
Why not tax yourself now to aid the
needy and to support our worthy institu-
tions?
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BY-THE-WAY
Tidbits and News of Jew-
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
A STRANGE PARALLEL
It is it singular fact, which ap-
parently no one has noticed, that
the careers of both Robert Morris,
the Superintendent of Finance of
the Revolution and Ilaym Salomon,
who is supposed to have rendered
him much aid, had many similar-
ities.
For one thing, controversy runs
through the life of Morris as it
does that of Salomon.
On the one hand, we have 8111111C
saying that Morris was an im-
mensely wealthy man—a million-
aire, and on the other hand. we
have such a nom as John Adams
saying that he wasn't wealthy at
all.
BOTH ENDED POOR
That is one parallel, There are
quite a few others. For instance,
the thread of misfortune—misfor-
tune and disgrace wedded to glory.
Today, we all stand with bowed
heads when the name of Robert
Morris is mentioned. None but
will honor him. And yet some
years after the American Revolu-
tion, Robert Morris was in prison
for three and a half years—for
bankruptcy.
I.ike Salomon, he ended his days
in insolvency. Salomon fortunate-
ly was spared imprisonment. Mor-
ris spent nearly four years in pris-
on.
FROM GLORY TO JAIL
It is pathetic as one teads his
words as he expects the sheriff to
come and put hint under arrest—
he, the man, whom, some said,
twinn'd with Washington as being
the two most important figures in
America's struggle for independ-
ence.
Morris was made a sort of
"Hoover" as far as the material
side of the Revolution. And when
'Washington organized his cabinet,
he invited Morris, and Morris de-
clined and recommended Hamil-
ton.
Yet in the latter years of Morris'
life, he cries: "My money gone, my
furniture is to be sold, I am to go
to prison and family to starve."
WASHINGTON VISITED HIM IN
JAIL
And to prison he went—and
stayed for nearly four years. I'ris-
on in Philadelphia. And when
Washington came to Philadelphia,
he was sure to visit the place where
Morris was jailed. M'hat a piece
of drama. The Father of the Coun-
try visiting the Financier of the
Revolution in a jail!
And even Jefferson, when he
came to the presidency, although
he had BO use for the political
ideas of Morris for Morris was a
Federalist of the
' aristocratic type,
yet Jefferson lamented that but for
his imprisonment, he might have
invited him to his cabinet.
BOTH SPECULATED
Thus, Morris like Ilaym Salo-
mon ended his days, a poor man.
The age in which they lived was
one in which great fortunes were
born and died overnight. It was
an age of high speculation, and
Morris with great confidence in the
future of the country, speculated
too much. The bankruptcy laws
of those days were of course more
severe than today. Today, one
dosen't go to jail as in Morris's
day for bankruptcy.
MAX KOHLER, the American Jewish historian,
is certainly in a scalding hot bath as a result of
his rather bitter denunciation of the movement by
the Polish Jews of America to erect a monument to
Haym Salomon, the patriot of the American Revo-
lution. I am in no position to challenge the accu-
racy of Mr. Kohler's statements as to the validity
of the claims of Ilaym Salomon to immortality in
the Flail of American Fame, but I do think that
unless he has absolute evidence he should not have
charged Charles Edward Russell with writing his
story of Salomon because he was in the pay of the
Salomon Monument Committee. I have always
cherished a high regard for Mr. Russell and always
believed that he would never compromise with his
convictions for any amount of money. Mr. Kohler
has apparently added to the indignation of the Salo-
mon adherents by charging Professor Albert Bush-
nell Hart with being an anti-Semite. There, too, is
an indictment that 1 am in no position to challenge,
though it runs through my mind that at some time
or other I have heard others say the same thing
about Professor Hart. But in the interest of fair
play I would not care to conunit myself definitely on
the subject. 'rhe only word I wish to contribute to
the controversy is this, that there seems to be suffi-
cient evidence from reliable sources of Ilaynt Salo-
mon's sacrifices during the Revolution for the
benefit of the hard-pressed Colonies to justify
monument, and that perhaps Mr. Kohler i his
excessive zeal for historical accuracy may be e nd-
ing back too far.
SOMEONE says that Max Steuer is being promi-
nently mentioned as a candidate for the gover-
norship of New York State on the Democratic
ticket. In my opinion Max Stever has just about as
much chance of being nominated as I have of being
named a Nobel I'rize winner. To be "mentioned"
for a high office on a political ticket is as easy as
getting one's name in a list of "invited guests."
Recently I spoke to Mrs. Carol Miller, the famous
feminine Democratic leader of Pennsylvania, who
at one time was "nominated" for vice-president of
the United lutes. She said to me, "It's quite a
difference between being nominated and getting a
place on the ticket." Steuer is a shrewd, clever
criminal lawyer and he may be "nominated" but as
for getting on the ticket, well, that's another and a
very different story. As for Lieutenant Governor
Herbert Lehman, well, that's still another story.
Ile has made a place for himself as a real leader in
the political life of New York and it would not be
a surprise if he were to receive the nomination.
I
HAVE been asked to serve as one of the judges
in an international essay contest sponsored by
the A. Z. A., the junior B'nai B'rith order. The
subject is: "Unemployment Discrimination Against
the Jew." The essays must be in by June 1 and
already a great many of the Jewish youth are
busily engaged in competing. The subject is an
interesting, and surely a use one. And further-
more, no Intelligent Jewish boy should have any
difficulty in obtaining plenty of material for such an
essay. Ile will find it in the classified columns of
almost any large city paper; he will find it in the
columns of the Jewish press; he will discover it if
he wishes to experiment in personal experience.
I
shall look forward with interest to the contribu-
tions, hoping that I may find some illumination on
a subject which is proving to be a real menace to
American Jewry.
I IIAVE a high regard for Dr. John Ilaynes Holmes,
the pastor of the Community Church of New
Yorok City. Ile is, above all else, a Christiap in
the true meaning of the term. Recently, Dr.
Holmes made a significant contribution of Jewish
value under the title, If I Were a Jew." But so
few people read long articles or sermons so I am
lifting a paragraph from Dr. Holmes' address that
may have passed unnoticed by the readers of this
column:
If I were a Jew I would not confine myself
to the Jewish world. I would not turn my
home into a ghetto, nor my family into pariahs.
JEWISH FRIENDS OF MORRIS
Browsing around among some
old musty books, I have come across
a little item, which so far as I
know, has been overlooked. It is
a paragraph in a little biography
of Robert Morris, issued I believe,
in 1811. The writer goes on to
praise the personal generosity of
Robert Morris and instances the
case of a loan of a thousand pounds
he once made, without any genu-
ine security, to a Jewish friend.
Who this Jewish friend is I have
no means of knowing. But I give
the paragraph, for whatever it is
worth, and I think it is worth a
good deal:
"A gentleman of the Jewish per-
suasion who had lived on terms of
intimacy with him, fell into sud-
den embarassments and became
greatly distressed. As soon as Mr.
Morris was acquainted with the
matter, he advised an immediate
removal to Baltimore, for the pur-
pose of attempting to retrieve his
broken fortunes; at the same time,
placing in his hands five hundred
pounds, with a written agreement
never to demand its repayment,
and taking as a nominal security
the personal bond of the party
obliged: to this sum, he subse-
quently added another 51)11 pounds,
neither of which loans were ever
repaid him."
Morris, it seems, from this old
biography, had persons "of the Jew-
ish persuasion" who were on terms
of intimacy with him, to such an
extent that he lent one of them
$5,000 with only nominal security.
THE DAUGHTER OF BARUCH
Washington papers during the
past few days have been having a
heal deal to say about a rumored
romance of Belle Baruch. daugh-
ter of Bernard Baruch, with
Charles Davila, Rumania's minis-
ter.
As Mark Twain said about his
death, the "report seems very much
exaggerated,' so Minister Davila is
quoted !my The Washington News
as saying that the rumor is with-
out truth, but adding, "I wish it
were so."
In Rumania, by the way, says
the news, the rumor got about that
the young woman was not Belle
Baruch, but Belle Borah. It hap-
pens however, that Senator Borah
has no children.
ASKING PARDON
The anecdote recently printed in
this column anent Sam Hellman,
well-known Saturday Evening Post
writer hasn't a leg to stand on. It
is completely untrue, Mr. llellman
writes
to me.
The story, it will be recalled,
captioned "How Hellman Hap-
pened" stated that when the paper
on which Mr. Hellman was em-
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Fifty Years After Disraeli, Maker
of Eqropean History
✓ Charles H. Joseph
ish Personalities.
There are two sides to this business of Jewish
segregation. There is the side of the Gentile,
who drives the Jew in scorn and contumely
from his presence. There is also the side of
the Jew who despises the Gentile, flees from his
world, and now that the physical ghetto is gone,
straightway proceeds to build a social and
spiritual ghetto of his own. And if ever this
segregation is to end there must be work upon
both sides of the wall of separation • .. So if
I were a Jew, while I would not sacrifice one
iota of my Jewishness, I would deliberately
seek contacts with the larger world. I would
be a man among men. a citizen among my
fellow-citizens.
seems to me to be the opposite of what the
T HIS
Nationalist Jew- in this country desires. Ile
wants to be segregated more than ever. Ile wants
to have an "ingrowing" Jewish life. I would be
very much interested in having an expression of
opinion from Dr. Holmes with regard to the dis-
cussion of a Jewish University in this country,
which is now so much to the fore. I am sure that
Dr. Holmes is well enough acquainted with condi-
tions today to appreciate the fact that in most in-
stances the barriers in this country are erected by
the Gentiles. If he would care to receive corro-
boration of this statement I am in a position to fur-
nish him with plenty of data. While it is true the
Jew likes to live among his own people, it is equally
true that that desire is fostered because of the out-
spoken hostility of his neighbors when he seeks to
establish just such econtacts of which Dr, Holmes
speaks.
I
DO NOT believe that Jews should join Young
Men's Christian Associations. The very name
itself should make a Jew hesitate before desiring
to join. So I see no special point in the story told
by the authors of the book, "Christians only," who
tell of a Jew and a non-Jew applying for member.
ship in order to play handball; the former being
held up, while the latter was accepted immediately.
It is also said that the Y. M. C. A. conducted a
questionnaire . among its members on matters of
policy and in many cases the answers were that
Jews should be limited; and we are told that the
general policy of the New York Y. NI. C. A. is to
hold the Jewish quota down to 5 per cent. But why.
in the name of common sense, should 5 per cent or
1 per cent want to join? After all, the purpose of
that organization is to promote a Christian life
among its members. The general activities are
secondary and are only feeders, so to speak, for
their religious program. There might be an extenu-
ating circumstance in a small community where no
athletic facilities were available outside the Y. M.
C. A. that a Jewish boy in order to develop himself
physically could without compromising his con-
science take advantage of these activities. But
generally speaking, there should be no reason for
Young Men's Christian Associations to establish a
Jewish quota. That's almost as humorous as the
well-worn and oft-told story of a fashionable
Episcopal Church in New York which Was
obliged
to t the number of its Jewish members, fear-
ing that eventually the Protestants might be out-
numbered!
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By P. W. WILSON
(Editor, Notei—April 19 marks the
fiftieth year of the death of Benjamin
iiisn«li. Ili' aerwirer to the British Em-
pire nisi'« European history •Mi some-
thing of his career,
Jishneos
ew
and
hi* oilmen), statecraft •re described in
this a ual article specially written for
the Jexi-h Telegraphie Agency •niI The
Detroit Jewish Chroniele by I'. W. Wil-
son, prominent Englirh journaligt. a for-
noir member of the British Parlaiment
and 110W • member of the stag of the
New York Times).
Amid the Jewish people through-
out the world, this fiftieth year
since the death of Benjamin Dis-
raeli stirs a deep emotion. His
long, brilliant career, culminating
in an earldom and the office of
prime minister in the British em-
pire, was, from first to last, a tri-
umph of personality over racial
prejudice, and as victor in the most
exacting of all conflict, the glory
of Disraeli has grown with the
years. It is on Mount Zion that
his jubilee is celebrated.
In that day, his father, Isaac,
a great character. As it
writer, he was prolific, versatile
and amusing. In society, he was a
general favorite, and it was from
him that Benjamin inherited the
satirical geniality which, through-
out his life, was his passport into
the most exclusive circles.
Was
Towards Hebrew orthodoxy,
Isaac Disraeli stood in a peculiar
relation. Today, he would be de-
scribed as a Liberal Jew. But he
lived most of his life at a time
when Liberal Judaism had still to
be organized. Hence, he adopted
an attitude of indifference to the
forms of all religion, and when the
Bevis Marks Synagogue elected
hint warden, he ignored the office.
The synagogue imposed on him a
fine of $200 and the war was on!
Isaac announced that his children
should be baptized as Christians,
and immediately after the death of
his father, the threat was carried
out. Benjamin Disraeli received
a ceremonial admission into the
Church of England. When it oc-
curred, the formality was cynically
casual. But to the career of the
convert it made all the difference.
Avowal of Jewish Descent.
In the year 121)0 the English
Jews, numbering about 16,000, had
been brutally expelled from the
country, and it was only under the
protectorate of Oliver Cromwell
that their presence was officially
permitted. Even so, they were
excluded from Parliament and
public office. It was thus because
of his baptism that Disraeli was
able even to consider a political
future. To the closed door, an ac-
cident had put into his hand the
key, nor was it long before that
key was in the lock.
With his prospects in the bal-
ance, there arose the question how
he would behave towards the faith
of his fathers. He was unflinch-
ingly loyal and it was a loyalty
that cost him something. Daniel
O'Connell, the Irish leader, de-
nounced young Disraeli as "the
impenitent thief" on the cross.
Carlyle indulged in a characteris-
tic tirade against the "superlative
Ilebrew conjurer, spellbinding all
the great lords, great parties,
great interests of England." At
fiercely contested elections, he was
assailed in the streets by cries of
"Shylock" and "Old Clo" (or
clothes). But, despite his un-
doubted ambition, Disraeli never
flinched. Every insult against his
Hebrew descent was met by an
avowal of it.
Boasts of Ancestry.
Of what he believed to be his
pedigree, he published a full ac-
count. Ile told how there ran in
his veins the best blood of the
Villa Real, the Medina, the Lars,
the Mendez da Costa and other
Sephardic families who found
their homes on the shores of what
he called "the midland ocean."
Further, he recalled • the tradition
that the persecutions of Torque-
made and the Inquisition had
driven his forbears out of Spain
and Portugal into Italy and the
very Venice whence Shakespeare
had derived his Shylock. Then,
with especial pride, he stated that
"grateful to the God of Jacob"
for their preservation, the exiles
"dropped their gothic surname"
and adopted Disraeli, "a name
never borne before or since by any
other family in order that their
race might be forever recognized."
Courageous words for a politician
in those (lays to use!
Into his novel, "Coningsby," he
introduced a character, Sidonia,
who clearly was a kind of rhap-
sody on himself; and on the Jews,
Sidonia delivered his soul. The
Hebrew people, declared Sidonia,
were essentially monarchial, deep-
ly religious and essentially Tories.
As a Caucasian community, they
would be obliterated by persecu-
tion. The leading ministers in
nearly every state in Europe were,
he declared, of Jewish descent.
Jesuits owed much to the Jews. So
did the Czarist diplomacy of Rus-
sia. So with the arts. So with
letters. Mendelssohn was a Jew
Meyerbeer was a Jew. Neander .
and Wehl were Jews. Disraeli
even included Napoleon's mar-
shals, Soult and Mussena, in his
roll of honor—a claim that is dis-
puted.
It was no vague anti-Semitism
that Disraeli had to face. Among
all the political issues of that day,
none aroused more vehement'
emotion than the appeal for the
abolition of Jewish disabilities,
and Disraeli was seeking to lead
the Tory party which, on the
whole, was least inclined to con-
cede this act of justice. If ever
there were a list of what, in a fa-
mous play, Galsworthy described
as "loyalties," here it was, and
out of that ordeal Disraeli
emerged with triumphant fidelity
to a cause which, though it no
longer affected him personally, he
made his own. Others asked that
Jews be allowed toleration. But to
Disraeli, a grant of toleration we..
not enough. Ile did not wish
merely to be tolerated. Ile de-
manded a full admission of all
Jews to all the opportunities of hu-
man life, and he based his demand
on merits. Mankind has a right to
be served by all who are capable
of rendering service.
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He Played the Game.
There were severe heartsearch-
ings among the Tories, but to give
England her due, she admired Dis-
raeli's courage, and the experience
did him no harm. Disraeli was
seen to be a public nun who, in a
situation that might have been to
his disadvantage, played the game.
Lord Lorley has let it be known
that, as he proceeded with the
great task of writing the biogra-
phy of Gladstone, the deeper be-
came his respect for Disraeli. De-
spite the rivalry that separated the
two men, it was a respect that
Gladstone himself confessed, nor
must it be forgotten that there is
a letter well known to the his-
torian, in which, on one occasion,
Disraeli offered to eliminate him-
self from the prospective- leader-
ship of the Tory party in order
that Gladstone might enter upon
that inviting responsibility.
It is characteristic of Isaac Dis-
raeli that, having had his son bap-
tized an Anglican, he proceeded
to hand him over to the Unitarians
for an education. Under a pro-
cess of development wt illogical it
would have been no matter of sur-
prise if Disraeli had emerged a
skeptic, ready to believe anything
or nothing.
What actually happened was
just the reverse of this. It is a
simple fact that Disraeli lived his
adult life as a Christian who had
never ceased to be a Jew. He in-
sisted that Christianity arose out
of Judaism, and every ecclesiasti-
cal historian knows well that there
is nothing in Christianity which
has not been Jewish. One half of
the world, Disraeli would declare,
worships a Jew, and the other half
worships a Jewess, which was his
playfully provocative way of dis-
tinguishing between a Protestant
and a Catholic. To the church of
his baptism, and the bishop whom
he nominated, he was devoted. But
to him, that church was to be re-
spected as an expression of the
English mind in terms of faith.
It was the church, by law estab-
lished. Like the throne and the
peerage, it was a national institu-
tion, and it contributed to a
pageantry, ancient and impres-
sive, that included a coronation
and the Lord Mayor's show.
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Loved Old Prayers.
Of the Jewish tradition, never
for one moment did Disraeli sur-
render one jet or one tittle of the
essentials. Indeed, his theology
was fundamentalist, and faced by
Darwin's evolution, with the sug-
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gestion that man shares his peel'.
gree with the ape, "Dizzy," in the
words that became history, retort-
ed "My Lord, I am on the side of
the angels." Ile was entranced by
the orient with its mysticism and
was far too partial to the Turk.
Many a time did he make his way
to the home of the Rothschilds and
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confess his love for the old pray-
ers and hymns. It is believed.
moreover, that when he lay on his
death-bed, his last muttered words,
in a language unknown to his list-
eners, were "the great avowal.
as his biographer, Sir Edward
Charge, called it "Hear, 0 Israel.
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the Lord thy God, the Lord is one."
In early years Disraeli included 0 :
the Near East in what used to be
called "the grand tour of the con-
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tinent." The picturesque magic
of the Ottoman empire fascinated
his imagination and to the end of
his life he held the view, common
in England, that the Turk is the
gentleman of Asia. When, there-
fore, Russia began to force her
way to the gates of Constantinople,
Disraeli was wholehearted in his
demand that the aggression should
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Word was received in Riga that King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia had
appointed G. Feitelberg Jugo-Slavian consul to Latvia. The appoint-
ment of Feitelberg raises the number of Jews in the diplomatic corps
here to three, the two othere being M. Brockman and M. Kleugman,
consuls of Portugal and Bulgaria, respectivly.
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Pio Tagliacozzo, Jewish attorney in Rome, received word of his ap-
pointment as a government commissioner for the Rome Jewish com-
munity under the new Jewish communities law.
He replaced Angela
Sereni, who was president of the Rome community for 40 years.
Lottie Lehman, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera Company,
received word that she had been decorated with the Cross of Knight
of the Legion of honor. Not only is she
one of the first Germans to
receive the award since the war
but she is also one of the few so
honored.
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Dr. Leo Jung, eminent scholar and rabbi, has been appointed pro-
fessor of Jewish ethics at the Yeshiva (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo-
logical Seminary) and Yeshiva College, Dr. Bernard Revel, president of
the faculty, announces. Dr. Jung:, who is rabbi of the Jewish Center of
New York City, was educated at the Yeshivas of Eperies and Galante,
Hungary, and the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary of Berlin. Ile
studied at the Universities of Vienna, Berlin and Giessen; received the
degree of M. A. from Cambridge, and the Ph. D from London Uni-
versity.
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