MIIIMEMMENEE=
By D. BLACK
This year marks the centen-
nial of the birth of Schmaryahu
Levin, a great "traveling sales-
man for Zionism" as he was
once described.
I recall a story which gives
a capsule description of the
magnetism of his oratory.
One time after speaking in
Philadelphia, a Jew came up
to him and told him how much
he loved his speech.
Schmaryahu Levin turned a
wry face. "Listen,- my friend, I
saw you in Brooklyn and also
at a New York meeting. Quit
following me around from town
to town. Because of you I have
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On his mother's side, Schma-
to change my speech in every
ryahu Levin came from Hasidim
place."
Not all were so magnetized who had followed the Luba-
by his oratory as to follow him vitcher, while his father was an
around of course, but no one ardent Misnagid.
He had the usual lied& train-
could be impassive listening to
ing. He recalls in his autobiog-
him.
Levin did not indulge in ora- raphy the time when one of his
torical platitudes. He was not fellow Heder pupils was being
theatrical. He would get . up, whipped, word came that the
look his audience over and, wife of the boy being spanked
seemingly after a general survey, had just given birth to a child.
in those
center his eyes on some
' mother as mar-
..
dividu al and can:
of 14.
ried at the
with him.
were a cony
But if his ly e cation
ce which once had
was this
- sort,
ng aftermath in the was of the p imit .
an
took of
-'stages of his career. He later at Berlin, he ed kind.
the mor sophist -
• ered his talk on a young It
ring bells
ntire
n'
roman—and a grea•omai ce
Levin. He
sued between t
rman students
He could be ruth
e amount of beer
aye
At the time he
. Unless you could
peaking
about the co
own 15 glasses of beer
e
better
of
for Zionis
even if you had a Ph.D.
iters of the Je
known st
you weren't regarded as
rward eau'
ish Daily
t the amounting to anythin g.
continuous tira
Goethe and Lessing and Kant
0 i t
me, this anti-Zionist were no longer German idols.
Instead, they gloried in Von
came up and said to Levin,
Bismark. Power
"Schmaryahu, don't you remem- Moltke and .
ber me, I am So and So from alone they respected.
Schmaryahu Levin as a young
your home town, I changed my
name in America. I write those man had planned to settle in
articles against Zionism now." Eretz Israel, but most of the
Levin looked at him. So, he early Zionist leaders themselves
said, "abie ich hob gemeint es in private were not very encour-
seinen zwey paskudnakes. Es is aging. Levin recalled the story
of another young man who had
gor ein paskudnak."
read that shells were found in
wimmoomeeemmoseeft abundance on the beaches of
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• idea of going there and opening
button factory. But one of the
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Zionist writers said to
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It was not an easy problem.
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LU 2 1442. Later, after Schmaryahu Levin
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done his work winning
femmessomomesofomme • had
American Jewry over, he settled
in Jerusalem. For a time, I be-
lieve, he took part in some agri-
Happy New Year to Our
cultural activities. Later, he
Friends and Patrons
helped Bialik launch a publish-
ing 'house.
But the intense, dynamic
Levin was restless. I used to see
him come in to the Vienna
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Cafe in Jerusalem in his last
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years - early in the morning look-
ing for someone to play chess
with.
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His place was on the podium
Holiday Greetings
and the Jewish population there
Edith Eckstat, R.E. at the time was too small to re-
quire much oratory or s - tates-
Albert Wolgin, R.E. men as Levin might well have
been.
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57 - THE DETROI T JEWISH NEWS -- Frid ay, Septemb er 8, 1961
Schmaryahu Levin-a Centennial Portrait
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