DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
10
April 4, 1941
began a diary under the title of themselves to the train of Herzl
The Jewish Question. These were on his way to Constantinople. He
days of great intellectual and had to move through a mess of
(Continued from Page 1)
piritual excitement, in which all corruption to reach the throne
his conflicting ideas on Jewish of the Monarch; and sacrified his
contented, disappointed, always on matters struggled for clear ex- personal fortune in the effort
the verge of success, the idea pression. He was unaware of The idea was to propose a re:
becoming clearer and more real, where they were leading him. funding of the Turkish debt, tak-
ending in personal failure. He has Bein describes the situation as ing Turkey out of pawn, in re-
lost the battle.
turn for which a charter for Jew-
follows:
"Then suddenly the storm ish colonization in Palestine. would
This is the first real biography breaks upon him. The clouds be granted. The way was long
of Herzl's life. It is greatly re- open, the thunder rolls and the and devious. It was hard to see
duced from its German original,
the . reality . beneath the forms of
where it occupies 736 large pages. l ightning flashes about him. A oriental trickery. The advisers
impressions beat upon o
It is admirably translated into thousand
him simultaneously, a gigantic of
the Sultan were corrupt and
liars. The Sultan was evasive,
spirited, vivid English by Maur-
vision.
He
cannot
think,
he
can-
ice Samuel, who always does
leading him on with smooth words
. . . 20 PRODUCTS
not act, he can only write;
something to the books he trans- breathless,
unreflecting, unable to that seemed to make promises.
Kosher for PASSOVER
lates to make them come to life.
Herzl got two medallions from the
himself, unable to exec- Herzl but . nothing more; he was
The detailed story of Herzl- control
cise
the
critical
faculty
lest
he
held dangling for a long time
probably without the author's de-
the eruption, he dashes his
sign—makes the impact of a per- dam
thoughts on scraps of paper. He with the hope that something
would eventuate, but it never did.
sonal tragedy. It becomes an
,
•
over-powering human document notes on June 16th: During Thus, the road to Palestine was
these
days,
I
was
more
than
once
blocked. Herzl realized that he
and will be read with deep inter-
est even by those who are not afraid that I was going out of must make a detour. If the front
my
mind.
So
furiously
did
the
door was closed, he would come
affected by the cause which pre-
cipitated the tragedy. It has the cataract of thoughts race through in through the rear. He had
my
soul.
A
lifetime
will
not
been playing with the idea of
fascination, the mystery and
and then came the sug-
thrill of a Messianic legend in a suffice to put everything down.
. . Am I working it out? No, gestion of El Arish, which led
modern setting. It is the por-
it
is
working
me
out.
It
would
trayal of a dream-driven man who be an hallucination were it not him to England. There lie met
sought to redeem his people, but
Joseph Chamberlain, and found
found the burden too heavy for so informed by reason from be- an honest man eager to be help-
ginning
to
end'."
one man's shoulders. This Mes-
ful For the first time, he was
His first act—when stability in a ' position of announce that
siah did not die betrayed or
AT
repudiated by his idea. He died was restored—was to address a he had received a direct proposal
saturated with faith, more confi- letter to Baron de Hirsch, the from a government that was pre-
dent than ever, more closely re- great philanthropist, the founder pared to perform any contract it
lated to his people than he was of the Argentine colonies. To entered into. In these negotia-
WILL BE
at the beginning. His premature de Hirsch he wrote of no specific tions, Cyprus was excluded; El
death served to evoke the first territory; he stressed a great Arish became impossible because
real organized national struggle migration, planned, organized, of the objections of Egypt, and
for self-liberation. Bein's book financed. The Baron was im- finally there appeared the offer
illuminates the period and inter- pressed by the enthusiasm of the of Uganda.
You are assured of this fact by the direct supervision of the
writer. Three letters were writ-
prets the tragedy.
This was the first concrete pro-
VAAD HARABONIM OF DETROIT
ten to him, in the course of which
Herzy
expounded
his
"solution."
posal
Herzl was able to make.
What drove him so with cease-
He came to that Zionist Organi-
saw
de
Hirsch.
He
made
a
less unrest? What gave the halt- He
record of the conversation. It zation which he had prepared to
ing journalist the power to ar-
rhea instrument to serve
was
evident that the great phil- be ans,
n-
rest the thought and catch the
nd found that it was uhis
anthropist
was
not
persuaded.
eye of Princes and Kings? What
to accept his first suc-
plillin
g
w
Then,
once
more
the
"storm"
gave him the strength and ob-
cess. In effect, they rejected the
stinancy to impose his will upon breaks over him, the clouds open;
the
thunder
rolls
and
the
light-
idea
of a them.
detour.
could and
not
a stubborn people? What made
persuade
He He
pleaded
flashes
about
him.
He
in-
him naive and shrewd, honorable ning
serted in his diary a 65-page argued with them. But sentiment
was more powerful than logic.
and unscrupulous, majestic and
pamphlet which he called Address
querulous?
NOTE: We extend you a cordial invitation to visit our
to the Rothschilds. This contained They could not be budged. A
He thought that he had dis- the essential points of the book people could not allow the nega-
modern and ultra sanitary plant at
covered the "solution" of the called The Jewish State. Herzl tion of its objective even for a
Jewish problem. The "idea" in- tells the Rothschilds in this Ad- brief period. It could not forget
7426 FENKELL AVENUE
fected and consumed his mind. dress that their en for- its prayers and aspirations. The
It took possession of him and tunes can be rescued only through hope of Zion could not be sus-
made him forget everything that the creation of The Jewish State. pended for the sake of political
was personal—his family, his All Jewish fortunes are like a maneuver.
work, his life. He poured all his tower, which grows without a
By now, Herzl was utterly ex-
energy, all his thought—all that correspondent broadening of the hausted, physically and spiritual-
there was of him to give—into base upon which it rests; the two ly. He had carried on a stren-
the realization of the idea. The dimensions must be harmonized uous effort for ten years with
strangest thing about the whole through the single idea of "the an impaired heart. He knew that
story is that the process began exodus from Egypt." Neither Bar- his days were numbered. He had
in 1894 and ended with his death on de Hirsch nor the Rothschilds been sustained by an inner ex-
in 1904. In a decade, this man would respond to his exciting citement—the chances of the
transformed Jewish history—and arguments. He came to the con- struggle; the joy of overcoming
himself. In a few mortal years elusion that the "exodus"' would obstacles; the overwhelming de-
he set his people upon a new not
“ be promoted from above. sire to reach the end of the road.
road. So strenuously had he
There is only one reply to this Now that he had reached the
lived, so much had passed situation," he wrote. "Let us terminus, and the road was
through his mind, that already organize our masses immediate- blocked; now that a detour was
in 1901 he felt that his life was 137.
possible and his own people re-
finished. "It is now six years
Out of this disappointment jected it; his desire to live went
since I began this movement," came a new formulation. The out of him and his heart ceased
he wrote, "which has made me Address to Rothschild was re- to beat. The Promised Land was
Jew- far off; he stood where he first
old, tired and poor."
written, rearranged. The ew-
ish State appeared in book-form. started. But he had created an
He was born in Budapest on Thus, the Zionist movement be- instrument of redemption that
the left bank of the Danube in gan, the calling of the Zionist would live long after him. At
the beginning, he thought free-
May, 1860. It was a comfortable
the creation of the Jew- dom
the Jew-
Jew-
dom could
could be
be brought
brought to
to the
Jewish home, but his education Congress,
sh ish
National
Fund and the as
Jew- a grant. It could
people
in Jewish matters was scant and i
ish Colonial Trust—the begin- i
superficial. He carried with him, nings of the Zionist Organiza- be won through a charter,
in-
all his life, many of the Jewish tion. These were re-enforcement through funds, through alien in-
memories of his childhood and for political activities; he needed fluence. But as the field of expe-
youth. When he was about sev- these agencies to further his quest rience was enlarged, he realized
that redemption rested with his
enteen years old, the family
own people. Not the millions of
moved to Vienna. He was ad- for recognition.
Herzl was able to carry on sim- the Rothschilds, nor the charter
mitted to the Bar in 1884. In
his early youth he felt the call ultaneously a variety of parallel of a corrupt Sultan, held the
of the theatre, the call of jour- activities. He was engaged in secret of renascence. Before he
nalism. He wrote plays, feuille- preparing the ground, at all died, he saw a rising young peo-
tons, stories, and some of his times, for alternative proposals. ple recovering their nationhood
essays were published in local He worked with the idea of en- through pain and struggle. Out
journals. Then he served as a listing the interest of the Kaiser, of the will' that their hope should
legal functionary in the courts of the Sultan, of the Pope; he not remain a dream, they would
SHORT AND LONG TERMS
at Salzburg, and married a girl was engaged simultaneously in establish a foothold in the Prom-
of good family, eight years young- pursuing the lead that brought ised Land; and upon that foot-
REPUBLICAN TICKET
er than he, in 1889. Like other him to Palestine, to Cyprus, to El hold they would create a Jewish
Jewish young men of the period, Arish. He twisted and turned State. What they built would
For 23 years Wayne County Highway Engineer . . .
he was annoyed, humiliated and like a prisoner seeking an escape, serve, better than charters, man-
For 9 years engineer and Deputy State Highway Com-
disturbed by anti-Semitism. Much a landing-place for the adven- dates and what not, to evoke
missioner . . . Built the country's finest County highway
of the anti-Semitic literature tures of his imagination. He from an indifferent world ulti-
came to his attention and pro- wrote to Bismarck but received mate recognition of their right to
system . . . Michigan's outstanding highway engineer
yoked reactions varying with his no reply. He developed a friend- a place in the Sun.
. . . Knows State, County and Municipal problems best.
mood. He knew nothing of what ship with the Grand Duke of
was being said or written among Baden, and through him met
Contributed by Friends
All this—and more—is revealed
Jews with regard to anti-Semi- Count Philip Eulenberg, Von Bue- in the engrossing life Alexander
tism. He knew nothing of the low and Hohenlohe. He succeed- Bein has written of the Great
works of Pinsker or Moses Hess. ed, ultimately, in meeting the Adventurer, the founder of the
In 1891, when thirty-one years Kaiser in Constantinople and in Zionist Organization. The truth
A FINE JUDGE SHOULD BE RETAINED
old, he was appointed Paris cor- Jerusalem, and held interesting is more arresting than the Leg-
respondent of the Vienna Neue promising conversations with him.
Re-Elect JUDGE HENRY G. Freie
The Publication
book (issued
by the
Presse, which was owned The Kaiser played with the end.
Jewish
Society
of
by a group of assimilated Jews. thought of intervening with the America) should serve to place
In Paris, all the latent thoughts Sultan on behalf of the Jews. Theodor Herzl in the center of
evoked by brooding over the Jew- He was dreaming of the road to Zionist thought of the day. It is
ish question led him more and Bagdad, but in the end his ad- both instruction and inspiration.
more to express himself on the visers succeeded in putting the
problem of Jewish life. The Jew- idea to sleep. Nothing ever came
CIRCUIT JUDGE ish
THE SABBATH
question began to precipitate of it. Herzl confessed, "We shall
His Record for faithfulness, fairness in literary forms. It was referred not achieve our Zionist goal under The custom of celebrating the
to in passing in some of his cor- a German protectorate."
and competency is unsurpassed."
respondence to the Neue Freie
From the first, he directed his Jewish Sabbath from sundown to
HENRY G. NICOL
Prem. He wrote "Das Neue attention to the task of interest- sundown is based on the recur-
CIRCUIT IUDGE
Ghetto" in 1849. The Dreyfus ing the Sultan, Abdul Hamid, rent phrase in the biblical crea-
case was an incident which crafty ruler of a totttering em- tion story, "It Was Evening,
bruised his spirit. Finally, in pire. As always, the way to Yildiz and It Was Morning," evening
I 1895 he wrote a letter to Baron Kiosk was paved with back- always preceding morning in
• de Hirsch and on the same day sheesh. Many parasites attached mention of the day.
HERZL
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