Friday, September 27, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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MAIN STREET--THE JEWISH THOROUGHFARE
By PHILIP RUBIN
Main Street — an outgrowth of
the old market-place—is still pri-
marily a place fo'r the sale and
exchange of goods. But it is some-
thing more than that. It is also
the place where the bright lights,
the glamor of a town are con-
centrated and where entertain.
ment and culture, of some sort, is
distributed for a price.
It is not the place where the
most important work of the world
is done. On Main Street are not
located• the world's farms and
factories and mines, nor are books
written or music created on that
thoroughfare. Main Street does
not produce. It only exchanges
and distributes, whether the things
it handles be material products
or human services or the products
of culture.
This is not to say that Main
Street is an altogether useless
place, only that its usefulness is
not primary and fundamental, but
secondary. Main Street facilitates
our economic life, It makes things
easier for all of us but in a pinch
we could live without it, so we
could hardly live without the farm
or the factory or the mine.
On Main Street are most of the
Jewish business establishments.
We Jews are attracted to Main
Street, and quite naturally so.
Since we are a people with a
commercial tradition, Main Street
winks to us as the place to do
business in. Our whole history in
the Diaspora has been the history
of our attempt to get out of the
Ghetto and get on Main Street
where the chances for advance-
ment were bright. At times the
results were very tragic — the
"goyim" got jealous and kicked
us right back into the Ghetto, if
they didn't do anything worse to
us as they recently did in Ger-
many and Poland. But in most
countries the so-called Jewish
Emancipation of a century and a
half ago succeeded in establishing
and maintaining us pretty tightly
on Main Street. And so we are
there still.
Perhaps what has also attract
us Jews to Main Street, besides its
commercial possibilities, are the
aforementioned bright lights,
glamor, bustle and, as in the case
with the bigger Main Streets, the
very noise of it. Most Jews seem
to dislike and fear the very quiet
places; they might take out their
cars for a drive in the country
and whisk by the farms and fields
on the side roads, but they would
not like to live there. As between
the highways and byways of the
world, Jews much prefer the high-
ways. It must be our specific Jew-
ish nourosis, our restlessness, that
is attracted by tumult and re-
pelled by quiet. Perhaps it has
something to do with our passion
for being in the limelight or to
bask in the reflected glory of
others, this passion for the bright
lights of Main Street which we
cial animals, and Main Street,
where everybody meets everybody
else, finally became our Jewish
gathering place, once the walls
of the Ghetto had crumbled and
once the synagogue lost a great
deal of its importance as the Jew-
ish House of Assembly (Both Ha-
Keneseth) and became only a
House of Prayer (Beth Hatefila).
I've said that we Jews are so-
cial animals. But that doesn't im-
ply that we are very sociable.
Outside of Palestine, and perhaps
Russia, we cling to each other,
not always because we want to
NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE
from
FRANK X. MARTEL
Permit me to take this occasion to felicitate the Jewish peo-
ple upon this, the 5707th New Year of the Jbwish calendar.
The Jewish people of America, many of whom are members
of our Federation of Labor, and the Jewish people generally
throughout the world, arc receiving more interest this year as
a result of world conditions which have witnessed untold suffer-
ing of the Jewish people and outrages beyond the comprehension
of the human mind.
That these devilish depredations were carried on openly by
the fiendish leaders of anti-social movements is, beyond question,
one of the darkest pages in the history of the human family.
But that the leaders of so-called democratic nations continue
concentration camps for Jews and a denial of their national as-
piration for the re-establishment of a home for Jews in Pales.
tine is a contradiction of the high-sounding principles that the
leaders of the democratic nations have so often enunciated..
Let us all unite in hope that these evil days that have vis.
ited such hardship on the Jewish people will soon pass and that
humanity and justice will recognize the rights of the Jewish peo-
ple to be treated on an equal basis with God's children every-
where.
May your people continue to have the courage and fortitude
to bear with their problems and to continue to struggle for
Rosh Hashonah
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secutions, because we Jews always
Jews so often exhibit.
Our Jewish restlessness, the re- had to huddle together for our
sults of centuries of abnormal life survival, we became extremely so
among people who didn't want us,
has made us ever-ambitious and
this in turn has given rise to a
superficial vanity, to a lack of New Year's
modesty and poise, which is only Greetings to all
the outward expression of uncer-
tainty and an inferiority complex.
First it was others who did not
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allow us to till the soil and to
strike deep roots in the lands of
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came accustomed to this and un-
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certain and finally, as human iner-
tia will always exhibit itself, we
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justice. Frank X. Martel, President
DETROIT AND WAYNE COUNTY
FEDERATION OF LABOR.
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