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DO JEWISH WOMEN MAKE
THE BEST WIVES?
ARABIC FELLOWSHIP,
during six months of the academic IN CHARGE OF U. A. H
. C.
year 1931 - 32.
I REGIONAL CONVENTION
Examinations for degrees, which I
will be awarded for the first time I Max Y. Shallek, president of
Applications Must be Sub- since the establishment of the uni- Central Synagogue, New York
versity in 1925, will be held on City, and chairman of the New
mitted to Hebrew Uni-
As Told to Sarah Fox
Oct. 12, according to the an-,' York committee for school eaten-
versity by Nov. 30.
nouncernent received b D r . R
By DR. ABRAHAM A. BRILL
senbach from the university. De-
Dr. A.'S. W. Rosenbach, presi- I grees corresponding to those
awarded in American universities,
dent
of
the
American
Friends
of
EDITOR'S NOTE.— Dr. Brill, the note
on her family, expressing herself the Hebrew University, announced including both Bachelor of Arts,
psychistri,t. tran•lator of Freud, olocho
through her family.
snalvees the Jewteh women. lie the....
Monday that the fellowship in Master of Arts, and other post-
her problems, her needA, her abililee. TM •
Children Mean More to Her Than Arabic studies established at the graduate degrees, will be awarded
dign1.1,101% rongtitute. •n an.wer to th
to Other Women.
Ilebrew university would be award- at the end of the academic year
fa , einstinte queettow "Do Jewish worm, n l
make the beet wives 1'
Her chief outlet for expressing ed this year to a graduate of an 1931-32 to students who have com-
American, English or European pleted the requirements.
The Jewish woman today i s herself was her children. The or college. The fellowship, which
The Einstein Institute of Phy-
passing through an acute and cru . thodox father and husband was un- was founded in honor of Lord flu- sics will be opened to undergradu-
dal transitional period. She is th a demonstrative. Sex love was con- mes, formerly high commissioner ate students for its first courses
last of the western women to pas s sidered a sin. Although I know of Palestine, carries with it an this year, according to the an-
award of $40, and was estab- nouncement from Jerusalem. In
through the transition from a slat many Jews will object to thes e lished to promote Arabic studies, ; ' addition
to the research carried on
in which she was generally re . statements, they are nevertheles • Moslem history, religion, art and in biology, the department of hy-
stricted to the task of ministerin • true. My own father and mother archeology.
giene and bacteriology will offer
Dr. Rosenbach stated that ap• courses to undergraduates.
to her husband's needs in the horn e were happily married and lived so
Word has been received from
and attending her numerous chil until their death. Yet I can never plications most be submitted to
dren, to a state in which she ha s remember my father's saying any- the Ilebrew university in Jeru• Chancellor Judah L. Magnes that
I'rof. Gotthold Wed, professor of
few children and is free to do more thing endearing to my mother. The Salem before Nov. 30, and that Semitics at the University of
or less as she pleases. And she i • Jewish women's children, there- the successful candidate will be Frankfort, has been elected to
expeeted
to
engage
in
research
finding the readjustment paitifu ', fore, meant more to her than any
head the School of Oriental Stu•
This, in part, accounts for the in - thing else, RA the only medium work along the line of Arabic stu- dies, to succeed the late Prof. Jo-
tensity with which she is attackin g through which she could express dies. The holder of the fellowship seph Horowitz.
social work, golf, bridge and the ✓ her love. In them, her sun rose is expected to reside in Jerusalem
MAX L. SCHALLEK
divertissements in a poor effort t O and set. Her "familiensinn " as a
Joseph A. Rosengarten Opens
substitute something for her feint result of environment, was stron
New Supper Club.
sion of the Union of American He-
nine life which she ilo longer live a , And today, although circumstance e;• tion, for since time immemorial,
brew Congregations, will be in
through completely, as did he ✓ have changed--exterior condition cs Jews have held learning above dia-
The opening of a new supper club, charge of the northeastern re-I
mother or grandmother.
are not 00 adverse to the Jew, an mends and lucre. A boy was an under the name of "Club Astor," is gional contention which will take
horetz," an ignoramus, if he
Before saying anything abou t the husband may be more affec "am
was not learned.
Girls were announced by Joseph A. Rosengar- place on Nov. II, at Hotel Astor in
Jewish women, I want to say tha t tionate—yet the conditioning o f brought
up only to be prepared for ten. It is located at John It. at New York. This will be the sec-
I myself was brought up by one thousands of years has left its im - the marital
I and regional union to be organ-
ceremony.
Today, the Broadway.
and would therefore be inclined ;' press, and the Jewish women o f, Jewish woman is indeed hard hit
Mr. Rosengarten announces spe- ' ized, the first being in the south-
be biased. However, I shall tr today is apt to be over fond an d by our modern civilization. The
; eastern district.
cial
rates
for
clubs
and
organiza-
to view them impartially in an e watchful of her children, eve a man can still go to his desk and
fort to depict veraciously the) r more so than women of othe r sit before it all day, but the wo- tions, and the management assures
' races.
groups of specially arranged ac-
Paramount Theater.
problems, behavior and traits.
man, unless she desires a business comodations,.
Again, Jewish women are more career,
In truth, Jewish women are
The answer to many a maiden's
must adjust herself to the
Jack
Warr
and
Frank
Gaygen
emotional
than
women
of
other
prayer is to be found in the team-
basically the same as other women
new leisure and freedom which
Germans, Eskimos and all others. Western races. This is due in part she has. It will require a few and mi. musicians, formerly of ing of Greta Garbo and Clark
In Kipling's words, they are all to their Semitic, Oriental heritage more generations until she has the Oriole Terrace, are featured at Gable in "Susan Lenox: Her Fall
Club Astor. Their music is sup- and Rise," now playing at the
"sisters under the skin." But and in part to the behavior adapted herself successfully.
plemented by a complete musical Paramount to record breaking
there are individual differences. through the centuries of the Jew
(Copyright, 1911,J. T. A.)
revue every night.
audiences.
These distinctions are perhaps in asserting himself individually
more emphatic when applied to lest he, as a member of a minority
Jewish women than to others, for group, be completely annihilated
the Jew, himself, is singled out as by hostile dominant groups. No
being singularly different. In matter how blond or Nordic ap-
the course of the discussion I shall pearing the Jewish woman, I can
point out a number of these peculi- always sense her Jewishness in her
arities, explaining their origin and emotional expression. To a trained
observer, the delicate display of
effect.
of the Jewish woman is
To return to the modern Jewish emotions
obvious although another
woman and her problems, she is quite
might
not
discern it. Always she
sorely tried to find a substitute can be recognized
by one trained
for the complete feminine life in the observation of behavior, by
which her predecessors lived. Her her more delicate display of emo-
own mother probably • married tions.
young and had six, seven, eight or
StuMakes a Better Wife.
more children. Or if not her moth-
As to whether the Jewish wo-
er, certainly her grandmother had
a whole brood of children. Besides man makes a better wife and mate
this, she cooked and maintained a than the non-Jew—yes, she prob-
large household with very little as- ably does because she is more
, sistance, if at all, from servants. steady emotionally in the give-and-
By the time her own children were take relationship of marringe.
adults and no longer needed her, This is due to her training In the
there were grandchildren to occurs; past. She learned to accept fate,
to adjust and adapt herself to con-
her. Iler life was replete.
Recently, Jewish women have ditions. For centuries, she was
not consulted in the selection of
generally abandoned this sort o , her
betrothed. Usually she had
life, and are finding the adjustmen t never
seen her husband before she
to new conditions difficult. Th e confronted
him at the altar. The
modern Jewish woman seldom has whole affair had been previously
more than two or three children. arranged through a schadchen.
When she is about 35 years old When she was led to him for the
with servants to care for menia t ; first time, she did not know
household tanks and few childre a whether he might be some gro-
to demand her attention or time tesque ogre or a Prince Charming.
she must seek occupation else • It required a great deal of ohne-
where to replace a frustrated femi - gatlon on her part to accept such a
nine life.
situation. She learned to resign
The case of a woman I am now herself to the destinies and adjust
treating typifies the situation , herself to any condition. Ilence,
She is now 33 years old. Her bus - her ability to adapt herself to her
band is a prosperous business man . married existence. To be sure, the
She has two children. Her second Jewish girl of today may say, "I
child is five years old. She, her- won't marry him because I don't
self, was one of nine children. In love him." Still, when she does
an effort to find a feminine outlet , marry, the conditioning of thou-
she turned to voluntary soma / sands of years counts and enables
service work. In her perregrina - her to adapt herself more easily to
tions, she flirted with a man and marriage conditions, and to de-
went a little too far with him in mand less of her husband. Because
their relations. Then she came to of this she makes a better wife.
me, neurotic. What can I do for
Jewish women are reputedly less
her? If I should tell her that she passionate than the women of
ought to have more children to other races. This is really not so
satisfy her feminine desires, she although by training in the past
would say, "I can't have many chil- they are more repressed sexually.
dren for I couldn't give them A sense of shame in regard to sex
everything I want to." Modern has been inculcated in them by
standards are no high that most their Oriental background. Their
of us cannot afford to have many husbands would have been shocked
children. Not only do parents by any strong demonstration of
want to provide for their children p assion, for sex love was held to
during their own lifetime by giv- b e a sin. Up until recently, the
ing them good educations and com- Jewish women were very rigid In
forts, but today they want to leave their moral behavior. In Europe,
their children something after they , where I spent my youth up until
'the age of 14, I heard only one
die.
Or, if they can afford many case of a Jewish girl's giving birth
children, the woman will say, "Am to an illegitimate child. What
I nothing more than a child-bear- condemnation and opprobrium
ing machine?" So, the Jewish were heaped on this girl! During
woman is painfully trying to this time I knew of several similar
adjust herself to the new environ- instances among non-Jewish girls.
ment of modern civilization while but they appeared in public and
phyingeny — the force of the carried their burdens lightly. The
racial unconscious — is crying Jewish girl, on the other hand, was
within her for assertion of that trained to consider sex-expression
sinful, and so was ashamed to be
feminine life her mother lived so seen
after she had transgressed.
well. And the weakness in the
Although conditions have
present situation is that the wo-
man generally has plenty of food changed considerably, the modern
and comforts, and under these con. Jewish girl still suffers from the
ditiona the desire to mate is always past. Even though she claims to
more powerful. Against this de- be free, she is, as a rule, reluctant
sire to mate are arraigned the to utilize her freedom. I am now
new attitudes and economic condi- treating an attractive and intelli-
tions of the modern, civilized gent girl who claims to be perfect-
world. The Soviets are trying to ly free and sexually enlightened.
solve the problem by eliminating Yet she has lost a number of very
the family and freeing the sexual eligible young fellows for no other
life. But by doing this they de- reason than her deep reserve.'
stroy the very germ of present- Three young men whom she really
liked deserted her for this last
day civilization, the family.
year after attending on her a short
One of the reasons that the time, because she was too re-
Jewish woman is finding it so dif- strained in her conduct.
ficult to adjust herself to a new
Jewish girls, in an attempt
environment in which the feminine to Some
overcome this inherent retires
life and the family are not the' sion,
go
to
the other extreme; they
only consideration, is due to one bee,me "ausgelassen"—over
free.
of the individual differences of Particularly
those who have most
Jewish women which I commented recently broken
away from tIse
on before. A trait which is more bonds of the Orthodox b e lie fs, o f.;
forceful in Jewish women than in ten resort to the extreme in an at- I
women of ether races, is what the tempt to assert their freedom.
Germans call "familiensinn," a Then they come to grief and suffer
family sense. This strong family • nervous breakdown because they
consciousness, this love and feeling are inevitably incapable of as-
of obligation toward the family, is s imilating their new freedom. The
present in every female, animal or non-Jewish girl, on the other hand.
human, but it ie much more de- i s further removed from this sense'
veloped in the Jewish woman than o f culpability in regard to sex ex-
in women of other races.
p cession. Hence she makes a bet-
This strong family sense is the t er adjustment to her sex life. The
result of the exigencies of the life c ase of the Jewish girl of which I
which the Jews have lived for s poke, who gave birth without
many centuries. They had to de- benefit of clergy, was an anomaly
pend en themselves entirely. Ali n Judaism, and sae suffered the
the other races vented on the Jews P angs of remorse.
their aggressive, sadistic desires.
They Are Eager to Learn.
As mincrities in alien lands, suf-
Are Jewish women more intel-
fering from oppression, the Jews i s rtual
than non-Jews? What is
could give expression to themselves m
east by "intellectual?" To con-
only among themselves. "Kol ai der "intellect" would mean to
Yisrael chaverim" — all Jews are b
ecome involved in an intricate
brethren. Whether living in the a nd
pedantic discussion. If you
ghetto or elsewhere, they could m can, are they seeking more avidly
always trust each other more than i an d assiduously after learning—
others. Thus the Jewish woman, ye s. Jewish women today are
without even a business or career , an xious to go to college. They
to occupy her, came to lean entirely pa t a colossal emphasis on educe
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