'd Biography of Emerson and Two New Pantheon
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Emerson, poet, the life of the great author, also teresting biography, well illustra-
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
By
philosopher, lecturer, author of adds to the reader's knowledge I ted by Douglas Gorsline. enriched
(Copyright. 1964. JTA. Inc.)
by many excerpts from all his
Why is the fifth of the Five works that are endlessly quoted, about early America.
Emerson's travels, his associa- works.
Books of rinses called "Deuteron-. had an interesting life that was
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. linked with the great American tion with many eminent men in ,
omy?"
This is the name by which it is events of the early part of the last England, his friendship and collab- i Pantheon Books also has is-
oration with some of the best ! sued two new books for very
called in the Septuaginta (the century.
He was the teacher of another known leaders in American pout- young readers. The first reader
Greek translation) and the Vulgate
(Latin translation). The expression great American writer, the social ical and literary circles, provide and the one to whom stories are
to be read will be enchanted by
valuable reading,
is taken from the Hebrew refer- rebel Henry David Thoreau. He
Emerson is described as a reli-
- Tic° and the Golden Wings. -
ence to "Mishnah ha-Torah" (Deu- worked closely with Henry Wads- gious man who "loved a priest of story and pictures by Leo Lionni:
teronomy XVII-18) which means worth Longfellow, Louisa M. Al- whatever persuasion." It is known and "Taro and the Bamboo Shoot -
`a copy of the Torah" in its origi- cott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, that he had many Jewish friends— by Masako Motion°, illustrated by
nal sense when the Bible com- .James Russell Lowell, and be-
manded the king to have a copy friended Carlyle, Wordsworth, Col- .Emma Lazurus' poems were among Yasuo Segawa,
"Tico- is an adventure story
his favorites and he encouraged the
of the torah with him at all times. eridge, and others.
.Jewish poetess—and it is a pity about a bird. It is based on an
The Septuaginta ' and later the
He was a friend of Abraham that Wood did not acquire material Indian tradition which inspired the
Vulgate versions seemed to have Lincoln and many other great '; about that for his biography.
author who is an expert on graphic
mistranslated this term as refer- Americans and he became famous "- Nevertheless, this is a most in- arts and became acquainted with
ring to only the fifth book of the for the great oration, on the intel-
five Books of the Torah and con- lectual declaration of in d epen d ence
Protestant School Board in Montreal to Accept Jews
sidered the fifth Book as a repeti- from the Old W orld delivered at
tion of laws found in the other Harvard in 1837.
MONTREAL (JTA)—T. Palmer ant School .Board. He points out
books. While this is not completely
that "since one out of every four
the full sense of the term, These facts are recorded in ac.. Howard. solicitor of the Protestant
true trl
Jewish children of elementary
since the Book of Deuteronomy fine biography by James Playsted School Board of Greater Mont-
does indeed contain new items, in Wood' published by Pantheon real, indicated that he "was pre- school age attends a Jewish day
pared to submit a proposal to the , schdol. the Protestant School
part it is true that there is a repe- Books (22 E. 51st, NY 22), as a Canadian Jewish Oongress that Board is relieved of a substantial
tition of a number of items from joint effort in children's book pub-
would legally permit the meeting cost."
the other books in the book of lishing with Random House and
In addition to Jewish represen-
Deuteronomy. They have there- Alfred A. Knopf, under the title of Jewish representatives on the
education body" and that he felt tation on the Protestant School
fore called the fifth book 'Deu- -Trust Thyself."
that "his proposed solution would Board of Greater Montreal discus-
In this life of Emerson for satisfy Jewish demands while sions were held recently with the
teronomy" and characterized it as
a repetition of material from the younger readers the author quotes maintaining rights granted the Board with regard to the implica-
t►ons of the changes in school tax-
other four Books of the Bible. many of Emerson's most famous Protestant minority."
Even among Jewish writers in sayings. He traces the family back-
Dr. Samuel Lewin of Congress ation structure proposed by the
later times has the fifth book of ground of the Emersons to 1635, in a newspaper interview stated Catholic School Commission and
Moses been c a 11 e d "Mishnah when Thomas Emerson. his fore- that he "holds firmly to the opin- embodied in a bill before the Leg-
Torah," which is the Hebrew for father, arrived with the Pilgrims. ion that the Jewish day elemen- islative assembly of Quebec. •
"Deuteronomy" because there is Thus, this biography, in addi-
tary schools also have a strong
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a certain amount of material from tion to being an evaluation of • claim for support by the Protest-
the other books which is reviewed
in the fifth book.
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What is the meaning of the word
"treif?"
The word "treif" which is now
colloquially used to denote any
food which is not kosher and
therefore not to be eaten by a
Jew. originally was used in the
Bible to mean "torn." The word is
found in a verse which commands:
"Thou shalt not eat any flesh that
Is 'torn' by beasts • in the field"
(Exodus 22:31). In this 'original
sense it would be limited in mean-
ing to the meat of animals which
had been torn or killed by other
processes than the traditional
method of Shechitah (ritual slaugh-
ter). In the aforementioned Pas -
sage in the Bible the term is
"Treifah." Colloquial usage of late
shortened it to "Treif." In the
Talmud the expression Treifah in-
eludes animals which have been
'found to be diseased or injured or
possessing an abnormality which is
regarded as affecting the health of
the animal before it was sIdugh-
tered. In such a case even Shechi-
tah (ritual slaughter) does not ren-
der the animal fit for food on the
Jewish table. It was much later
that the expression "treifah" or its
short term "treif" became used to
designate any food forbidden by
our dietary laws. The , term used
in Talmudic or Helachic litera-
ture to indicate the notion of for-
bidden foods (or for that matter
anything forbidden) is 'Assur."
Children's Stories
life in India on his recent trip
there.
- Taro - is a remarkably fine tale
adapted from the Japanese. The
: text and the pictures are
fascinating.
Israel Treasury Declares
Hike in Capital Transfers
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
'JERUSALEM — Capital trans-
fers to Israel increased by $100,-
000,000 during the past year to a
total of $239.000,000, it was re-
ported Tuesday by the, foreign
exchange department of the Israel
Treasury.
The department. which denied
rumors of any "flight of capital"
from the country. reported that
foreign currency reserves now
totaled $620.000.000.
Orthodox Jews Alerted
to "Freedom" Group
Orthodox Jewry was warned to
take immediate steps to effectively
counteract the projected activities
of a newly formed "American
Friends of Religious Freedom in
Israel, - in a statement issued by
Agudith Israel of America.
The national Orthodox movement
scored the new group as "a sister-
organization of the Israel-based
League for Religious Freedom,'
which bears the major responsi-
bility for the recent unprece-
dented attacks on Jewish religion
in the Holy Land."
DAIA President Airs
Argentine Anti-Semitism
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- Dr.
Isaac Goldenberg, president of
the DAIA, the central representa-
Argentine
tive organization of
Jewry. reported on the recent
spate of anti-Semitic incidents
plaguing Argentine Jewry. Addres-
sing the convention of the Feder-
ation of Jewish Communities here.
Dr. Goldenberg noted that until
last August, anti-Semitic incidents
averaged two per day.
Another speaker at the conven-
tion was Mark Turkow, representa-
tive of the World Jewish Congress
in Latin America. He commented
on the current debate in the Ecu-
menical Council and reported on
the position of the Jews in the
Soviet Union.
Little fish that are preserved
will sometimes cause death, but if
fried, they are harmless.—Bera-
choth 4.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 20, 1964-19
Horner in Illinois
Henry Horner, born in 1878, was a
grandson of one of the Jewish pioneers
of Chicago. In 1914, Horner gave up a
successful private law practice to become
judge of the Cook County Probate Court.
He served as presiding judge of the busi-
est court in the world until 1932. In the
depths of the Great Depression, Horner
stepped out of political obscurity into the
limelight. He campaigned for, and won
the Democratic nomination for gover-
nor. In the subsequent election, Illinois
gaVe Horner a tremendous majority,
100,000 more votes than Franklin D.
Roosevelt. It was the first time in nearly
a generation that normally Republican
Illinois had gone Democratic.
During his first term, Horner devoted
himself to sponsoring progressive legis-
lotion on behalf of the people of his state.
He also instituted economies in govern-
ment and political reforms that incurred
the active hostility of the Democratic
machine. Nevertheless he was renomil_
nated and re-elected to a second four: :
year term in 1936. He died in office in.
1940.
Henry Horner's dedication to his fel-
low men is, perhaps, best summed up by
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these lines from the inscription on his
monument in Chicago's Grant Park : "...
governor of his state in an hour when
doubt and fear gripped the nation, he
restored faith in the American way of
life ... Like Abraham Lincoln, to whom
he devoted a lifetime of study, he gave
himself as freely to the obscure and help-
less as to the strong and wise." •
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