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about 16. My mother soon followed. They
knew each other in the old country. My
parents both became active in radical
movements here, particularly the anarchist
movement.
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in those days — in the 1920s and 1930s —
meant selling raffle tickets for helping the
Spanish Civil War. It meant collecting
money for the Kentucky miners on strike.
I never heard either one of my parents or
any of their friends who were anarchists
ever speak in terms of violence. It was
always a dream of how they could attain
a society in which people lived together
without the need of a state which told
them "You've got to do this."
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18,188
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When I was five or six my father told me
the story of the imprisonment of Eugene
Victor Debs, and I decided I had to do
something about it. So I collected as many
friends as I had in the neighborhood on the
back porch and began speaking to them in
Yiddish on the injustice of the imprison-
ment of Debs. We celebrated Jewish cul-
ture. On Pesach, we'd have a dinner. If we
did do any of the ceremony, it was the four
questions. It was a joyous thing, nothing
serious. We celebrated Chanukah. We
always took off from work on Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur because my
father wanted people to know that he was
Jewish. While crossing the ocean, he threw
his tfillin into the ocean. He was not a shul-
going person, but as an individual he was
very, very religious. I didn't go to shul; I
didn't go to cheder. My folks never went
to shul.
Humboldt Park had soapbox speakers
on the corners. Some were in Yiddish. The
biggest problem was the commies, who
tried to break up meetings of anybody. At
soapbox meetings you'd get instant
analysis of the news, like you get on televi-
sion now Immediately, somebody would be
on a soapbox, and you had some good
speakers there.
We discussed Palestine. There was a lot
of antagonism among socialists toward
Zionism. The socialists felt the Jewish
question was not a question unto itself. In
other words, for the Jewish question to be
solved,ou've got to solve the working-
class question, et cetera. With Hitler, a
complete change came over the Jewish
socialist movement. Many of them took on
a Zionist tinge.
Jews primarily have this sort of radical-
ism. For our last book on Darrow — that
my wife and I wrote — we found a state-
ment by him to the effect that he would not
want to live in a world where there weren't
Jews, because the Jews are always there to
protest. They're always there to arouse, to
make you think.
I think I still consider myself a philo-
sophical anarchist. I've got to emphasize
that while I may not have been identified,
except at the Arbeiter Ring, as a Jew, I
was always conscious and always aware
that I was Jewish. And I never denied it.
Jews in the Middle
M
ost Jews in the small towns of
the Midwest are gone or have
assimilated to the point of no
longer identifying as Jews. They,
like other Americans, have migrated to the
bigger population centers of the Midwest
or have been washed away in the constant
waves of opportunity that carry Midwes-
terners to the coasts. In Columbia,
Missouri, for example, I had been told that
the Barths were the pioneering Jewish
family, so I wandered into Barth's Clothing
Company, Incorporated, on the main
street, only to learn that the Barths had
sold the store in 1936 and that all known
relatives had long since left Columbia. The
then owner, Jimmy Hourigan, whose
father had worked for the Barths, sent me
"A Case Study of Pioneer Immigrant Mer-
chants" by the historian Harvey A. Kan-
tor. I would have loved to interview a
Barth.
The founding Barth merchant, wrote
Kantor, had owned three female slaves
before the Civil War. And as I was to learn
several times over from the descendants of
pioneer merchant families whom I did in-
terview, the Barths were very typical of the
German Jewish immigrant. They began as
peddlers; accumulated capital and opened
a store; married within the family, often by
arrangement; and brought their seed from
Europe to be sown in an ever-widening mer-
cantile arc of the original establishment.
Nephews and other relatives kept arriving
from Germany; as Kantor wrote, "Soon
there were clothing stores run by a member
of the Barth family in Rocheport, Colum-
bia, Boonville, Mexico, Lamar, and Tren-
ton, Missouri, as well as Atchison, Kansas,
and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma."
In describing his years growing up in a
small midwestern community, Martin
Bucksbaum, a shopping center developer,
summed it up by noting: "You had a small
synagogue which, at one time, was up over
our grocery store. We had a little
neighborhood grocery store and you just
thought that was the way it was every
place. On the holidays they would rent the
Eagles' Lodge or the Moose Hall or some
large facility and that would become the