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CONTENTS

FRONTISPIECE : M oses on M o n u tSinai . By A . Wo lfson .

A SOLDIER OF LIBERTY . By JohnCournos.

A NEW POET. SOLOM ON BLOOM GAR

DEN 30 3

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Co lony . By E. W . Lewin -Ep ste in

OLDNEWLAND . A Romance . By Dr

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MOSES ON MOUNT SINAIBy A . Wolfson (aged

Vol. IV. Sivan 5663

A Soldier of Liberty.

BY JOH N COURNOS.

Tribes o f the wandering foot and weary breast ,H ow shal l you flee away and be at rest

The wi ld - dove hath her nest,the fox his cave

,

Mankind the ir country— I srael but the grave !BYRON .

HE fact that he was ap p roach ing his twenty -first year p reyed heav ilyup on Ep hraim Levi . Day by day he grew more

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somber, taciturn and

unhap p y . To be sure there is no cause for unhap p iness when one

becomes of age— a man— and there is much cause for rejo icing.

‘

But for p oor

Ep hraim the event was not a matter for rejo icing ; for a few months hence he

knew that he would be obl iged to leave the p aternal roof and shoulder the musketin the Rouman ian army ; and there was noth ing that he dreaded more. Yet,

Ep hraim ‘

was far from being a coward .

Say, Ep hraim ,

” yel led at him one day one of his Christ ian neighbors, a

certain Step hen Ku rza.

Ep hraim , who was crossing one Of the thoroughfares, stop p ed for a moment ,and, seeing Kurza, only qu ickened his footstep s .

Kurza was a man who always took del ight in tormenting the Jews,’

and

esp ecial ly Ep hraim . H e held the p osition of medical insp ector in“

the army and

examined new recru its.

‘

Say, Ep hraim ,

” yelled he again ,louder , I want to ask y ou someth ing .

Th is t ime Ep hraim,

p aused and looked quest ion ingly at the Jew- baiter.Ep hraim , says Ku rza,

is it'true that you don ’t l ike soldiering in our

army ? I wouldn ’t bel ieve it when“

they told me that , and I thought I ’d ask you

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mysel f . And in uttering these words he could not resist a mal ic ious grin , though

i t cou ld be seen that he made an eff ort to look serious .

Ep hraim grew red in the face,and did not rep ly at once. Kurza seemed to

enjoy his discomforture.

Look here, Kurza ; you need not jeer at us Jews, and you knowwel l whywe don

’t l ike to serve. Judaism is a crime in y our eyes and all Jews are born

criminals, and must therefore suff er for their terrbile crime wh ich they have

inherited through generat ions and generations. When we enter the army we are

treated l ike dogs ; we cannot become ofi’icers, no matter howbravely we fight . We

are beaten , sp at up on , not only in the army, but among the p eop le. Why shou l d

we love to serve in the army?”

Kurz a’

s eyes gl istened during th is recital . You are treated so, because

you are not p atr iots ; you are strangers in th is country .

”

Not p atriots ! strangers ! ” exclaimed Ep hraim, bitterly . Do you know,

Kurza, that we settled here almost after the destruct ion of Jerusalem, even before

you p eop le. But we were always weak, and molested ; we ,too , can love our

country i f you only treat us l ike men . But how can a mouse love a cat, or how

can the Op p ressed love his op p ressor ? I f we are not p atriots it is because we are

not p ermitted to be p atriots.

Say ing these words, Ep hraim walked qu ickly away, but the scornful laugh of

Kurza, wh ich he had heard behind his back p ursued him until he reached home

and even after he had entered his room .

SO we are strangers in th is modern Egyp t,” muttered Ep hraim, and his

thoughts at once reverted to the disagreeable p rosp ect in the army . Sold iershad Often p assed through the l ittle p lace in wh ich he resided ; he had often w itmessed the Cruel p unishment his co - rel igionists had to undergo , and his blood

bo i led in him as in M oses, who slew the Egyp tian that had molested the Jew.

H e had w itnessed the heatrending p artings of the p oor boys from their homesthey all knew their fate, the fate Of I srael to be the lamb and suff er . H e began

to think, to dev ise someth ing by wh ich he could escap e serv ice . H e cared not

so much for h imsel f, but he had often seen his mother weep ing . Why do youweep , mother ?”

he would ask, caressing her careworn face. Oh , nothing,

my son .

”H e knew ; one of her sons— a weakl ing— had already died in the army .

,

God’s ways are best ,” thought th is p oo r old woman .

But one day the sun shone bright on Ep hraim’

s future. A letter hadarrived from America. I t contained a p assage to America, that new land of

milk and honey. I t was'

his father who had sent it, and Ep hraim’

s joy knew no

bounds. H e was free. H e had o ften thought of America. H e had heard fromsomeone that it was the land of Op po rtun ity . No forced soldiering for him ! nobeat ings ! no more op p ression !

Ep hraim’

s dreams had assumed great p rop ortions, but these were sweet

dreams, for man in his imagination oft l ives and enjoys l i fe, even amidst the mostsordid

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surroundings . TO get out of modern Egyp t, however, was no easy matter .

Not only would not the Pharaos give the Jews straw to make bricks w ith , but

they Would also not p ermit them to dep art. ‘

Ep hraim undertook to cross the frontier by night .

June, THE MACCAB/EAN. 3 0 I

A ided by his co - rel igionists l iv ing on the border he succeeded in crossingsafely, and once on the other S ide he breathed easier .

H ere he met many l ike himsel f— all with their faces ' to the west ; but whenthey said their p rayers, their faces, accustomed as they were for centu ries, turnedtoward the East : Wil l the Lord cast off forever ? and wil l he be favorable no

more ? I s his mercy gone clean forever ? doth his p romise fai l forevermore ?Whole famil ies there were of wandering Jews. The tots kep t up a dis

cordant din, wh ile the mothers, ,who gave the infants suck, gave vent to their feelings : Oh , weh is mir ; Oh, weh is mir.

” Oh , woe to me ; Oh, woe to

t raim p itied them from the bottom of his heart . I n H amburg as he step p edaboard sh ip his heart gave a joyful bound and when the sh ip started his heartgave another bound . H is thoughts reverted to the times when the Jews weredrvien from Sp ain . On August 2 , 1 492 , eighty thousand Jews, leaving all theirgoods in the land of their bi rth , started on their new ex ile. On August 3 , Of thesame year, Christop her Columbus set out, w ith the aid Of Jew ish money, and

several Jewish sailors among his crew , to d iscover a new land— destined to be

come a refuge of all op p ressed . A p ecul iar co incidence of h istory . And for

who, if not for the Jews, d id Columbus discover America?thought Ep hraim ; yes,even as the Talmud says : God p rov ides the remedy before the p lague.

”Yes,

and he was going there ! Blessed be Columbus !As the sh ip tossed from side to side, Ep hraim felt miserabable in his berth .

I t seemed to him that the vessel was going over, and he would curse his fate and

murmur : “Oh God, why d id I leave? To find a watery grave? Why wasn’t Iw ill ing to die l ike my brethren? Later he wou ld rep ent of his words and deedsWhat a sinner am I . H ere I am going toward freedom, and yet I blasp heme

the Lord’

s name in vain ! M ay the All-

p owerfu l One forgive me ! ”The sh ip arrived in NewYork at night . Ep hraim could observe the torch Of

the Liberty statue fl ickering brightly . H e had heard of th is remarkable statue,and now as he saw it, it seemed to have a sp ecial sign ificance to him . What didhe not see in it ! Liberty , hap p iness ! I t seemed to beckon to him to come. The

fi red imagination Of Ep hraim saw in it the torch of God h imsel f. Yes, Liberty ,”he kep t on murmuring, wh ile stil l keep ing his eyes on the l ight, to -morrow I

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be w ith you , one of your soldiers, and his thoughts once more reverted to the

Roumanian army.

There was hap p iness in his soul . What had he not escap ed ! TO-morrow!

Would it never come? Most of the p assengers slep t on board sh ip that night ;but therewas no sleep for Ep hraim ! HOW could one enjoy hap p iness when asleep ?

The whole night he sat there watch ing the l ight of the Liberty statue. I t held

him in fasc ination and as his eyes were riveted on the one sp ot he seemed a statuehimsel f. Yet he could not take "

his eyes off . Liberty ! Liberty ! ” he kep t onmurmu ring . As it neared toward morn ing the l ight went out . With it Went outthe heart of Ep hraim . H e felt a curious foreboding of ev il ; why, he h imsel f could

not exp lain .

I n the morning all the p assengers were landed on Ell is I sland . H ere thingswere in a chaos. The insp ectors were rush ing to and fro examin ing baggage.

Physicians were examining the immigrants. Final ly it came to the turn of Eph

3 0 2 THE MACCABE AN. [June, 1 90 3 .

raim. Sound body ! said the doctor, as he p roceeded to examine the eyes, and

Ep hraim felt that the ordeal was over . You have to go back ! ” exclaimed the

doctor, the next moment . You have trachoma in y our eyes. And even as

the doctor uttered the words Ep hraim felt a darkness in his eyes, abitterness inhis sou l and a weakness in every organ . When a man anticip ates hap p iness,when he has it with in his grasp ,

and when some sudden blow shatters his hop es

into so many infin itesimal fragments— it is only that man who can describe the

feel ings of Ep hraim ! Poor Ep hraim ! From a distance he could stil l observe thestatue o f Liberty ; was it only a p iece of stone after all ?

Ep hraim was sent into the dep ortation dep artment . An idea came into hismind . H e asked to see the doctor . The doctor ap p eared . Ep hraim exp lainedthrough an interp reter that he wanted a note from the doctor in wh ich the lattershou ld state the bad cond ition of his (Ep hraim ’

s) eyes. The doctor comp l ied withth is strange demand . Well ,

” thought Ep hraim,as he received the note,

“

I

have fai led to become a soldier o f Liberty, but th is wil l at least , when shown to

a medical insp ector in the Rouman ian army, exemp t me from serv ice there . They

don ’t take p eop le with p hysical defects in the army .

”

Ep hraim was home again . The t ime came to rep ort at the recru iting ofiice.

Ep hraim and many other recru its waited for the ap p earance o f the insp ector .

A s Ep hraim exp ectantly waited he p laced his hand in his p ocket . The p reciousnote was stil l there . The insp ector ap p eared . I t was Ku rza. Finally came

the turn of Ep hraim . The latter undressed . Sound ! ” p ronounced Kurza insevere tones

, after a short examination .

But th is note ! ” exclaimed Ep hraim,handing Ku rza the document given

him by the American doctor.Kurza rap idly glanced over the note and threw it into the waste basket .That’s all it is worth ; th is is Rouman ia, yel led be with vehemence .

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Outdoors, the wind moaned p iteously, and in its fury swep t everyth ing in itsp ath ; but the wind ’

s terrible moan ing was not as p iteous as the moaning of the

ch ildren of I srael in the land,and its fury was not as terrible as the wrath wh ich

God sent against his p eop le.

June, THE MACCABE AN.

3 0 3

A New Poet — Solomon Bloomgardenintroduce to our readers a new Jewish p oet , the first Russo - Pol ishJew,

a bo rn Jargon ist, who has found the Engl ish language as facilea med ium for exp ression as his nat ive Yiddish . M r. Solomon

Bloomgarden , who is known to readers o f Y idd ish l iterature by the nom de p lume

Jehoash ,

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was born in Wirballen, a Lith

uanian town on the Russo - Prussian fro ntier,on the direct route used by travelers, crossing from Germany into Russia.

Our p oet saw the l ight in 1 87 1 ; his p ar~ ~

ents were strictly orthodox , and he is

descended from Talmudic scholars. H e was

educated for the rabbinate, but in his youth

started , with the aid of d ictionaries,to read

H eine and Byron in the vernacular of these

p oets . They are still his favorites,and they

exerted a remarkable influence up on his

trend of thought .

Later he met J . L . Peretz,who described

him as the Jewish Byron ,

”and p ub

lished Bloomgarden’

s p oems in his Juedische

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Bibl iotheca.

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H e thus gained a

rep utation as a rare singer,who ‘

could

turn Y iddish into sweetness and p ower .H e settled in New York about ten years ago ,

sp ending seven years - in N ew Yorkand Brooklyn

,forsaking the muse and p lunging into business. I n 1 899 ,

he broke down under the strain of a p ulmonary affection and left for Co lorado,where he now resides . I n th is natural ly desp ondent mood

,he met with Jacob

M arinoff, a Jargon p oet whose first Engl ish eff ort ap p eared in the M ACCABEAN ,

and who aroii sed Bloomgarden from his torp or and urged him to return to his

p en .

Since then ,Bloomgarden has written some score

,o f p oems, mostly of a

legendary typ e, of wh ich meter he is an undoubted master, both in Engl ish and in

Yiddish . H is Yiddish p oems are much p rized by the New York Jewish journals,for wh ich he writes. H is attitude is p ract ical ly d istinct from his Yiddish brothers o f the p en . H e is a Singer of p ersonal so rrow and as wil l be seen uses the

simp lest and easiest methods of exp ression as against the venate strop he and an

te-astrop he wh ich makes the descrip tive p ower o f most Yidd ish verse.

The following are Bloomgarden’

s first p oems in Engl ish . I t will be noticedthat his p oems are not sp ecifical ly Jewish ; yet the whole cu rrent of thought isJewish , t inged with the sorrow and suff ering of the Jew, striking a desp ondentnote wh ich has been current among Jewish writers for some years

,l it up with that

bitterness, sarcasm or waywardness wh ich we owe to H eine, who h imsel fowed his gi ft to the weltschmerz and the Judenelend . To those who understand

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the d iffi culty of mastering a foreign to ngue, the l iqu id character of our p oet’

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Engl ish wil l come as a surp rise. And as a testimony of what the Russian immigrant who so often a p p ears before our eyes, visually and mentally, as a beggarclothed in rags, neither a farmer nor a laborer, p oor in muscle but big in brain,

can ach ieve. These verses and others that will be p ubl ished in TH E M ACCABE ANmay we]! stand as a tribute.

THE PHANTOM OF DEATH .

But meager comfort wi l l affordTo me thy p h ilosop h ic lore,

The reason ing mind bel ieves each word ,

But stil l the ach ing heart is sore.

You tried a sooth ing balm to give,By tel l ing me that noth ing d ies,

But what is l ife, when I don ’t l ive,What matters l ight to glassy eyes?

And can I ever sel f forsake,M y inmost consciousness d isown ?

And in Creation’

s shoreless lake,My own minute existence drown ?

My soul is but a help less th ingThat cowers ’

neath the gaze of Death ,

And l ike the drowning man w ill cl ingTo wan ing l ife w ith l ingering breath .

AT Q UARANTINE.

The n ight is cold ; through grayish cloudsThe stars are sadly p eep ing ;

The sea-wind howls and sends the waves

I n foaming anger leap ing.

There, far from shore or bay removed ,Where waves are wildest flocking,

W ith yel low flag and ghastly l ights,

A lonely sh ip is rocking .

NO l iv ing voice on deck is heardThe baleful silence breaking,

H er smokeless funnels. sp ectre- l ike,

Their mourn ful heads are shaking .

She has on board the angel grimO f dire d isease

,commanding,

A stricken sh ip at quarantineAh outcast kep t from landing .

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the general organization , with the admin istrator as p resident ; and the M'

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nachlah

undertook further to p ay a ful l share o f even such exp enditures as were o f no immediate

benefit to the association , as the p ump ing o f water, the maintenance o f teachers, a shochet,

etc. All claims and d isp utes. it was decided, should be submitted to the Board, whose decision, through the p resident . was to befinal .

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PLAN OF THE. COLONY OF REHOBOTH .

Then the work began. An area of over 80 0 dulums was selected and divided into fourstreets, two o f them over 90 0 meters and the others 5 1 4 meters long , and all o f them 3 0

meters wide. Acacia and mulberry were p lanted, and the center o f the colony was left op enfor the p lanting o f a boulevard . A p lanters'

society was organ ized from young men, withthe Obj ect o f cultivating various p lants and sup p lying the colon ists with them at a smal lcost .

An eating house was erected for the hired laborers, where good , substantial meals weresold at a small charge, and this, together with all the utensi ls, was subsequently made overto the laborers’ association . This association establ ished a fine drug store and handed it over

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to the Board of Management, and, with sp ecial donations, bui lt a commodious bath house forthe use of the colon ists.

I n 1 895 the Ezra Society of Berl in, up on a p rop osition o f the writer, bought 50 dulums ofland in the v icinity, divided it into five equal lots, and p resented them to the five most de

serving fami lies of Poelim (workers) after p roviding each lot with a brick dwel l ing and

stable. This new street was named Ezra.

At the time that the co lony was founded“

, Baron Edmund de Rothsch i ld had started the

building of his now famous wine cel lars at Rishon - le- Zion. The craze for vin iculture wasthen at fever heat, so that during the first two years o f its ex istence Rehoboth was p rettywel l covered with v ineyards, but when the v ines yielded their fruit, it became evident that thecolon ists did not p ossess the necessary means for the bui lding of an adequate wine cellar.On rep resentation, Baron Edmund de Rothschild agreed to accep t the Rehoboth grap e in hisRishon - le—Z ion cel lars, but the admin istration stop p ed the further development of this cul

ture, and instead began p lanting a large number of almond trees. The Yechidim, however,continued to p lant the grap e, and the unwisdom of th is p ol icy was shown in 1 895 when Baronde Rothsch i ld rep orted that the sale of the wine was very slow, and that he could no longeraccep t grap es from colon ies not under his p rotect ion .

The Situation was, therefore, critical . The writer p roceeded to Warsaw, held a meetingof the M

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nachlah, and they determined that their own co lony should no t fai l ; and,sp urred by the necessity of making a strong efio rt in order to save the entire Palestinean

colon i zation movement, it was decided, with the help of other p rominent members o f the

Chovevi Z ion, to establ ish a national comp any for the sale o f the wine. I n th is wise, thenowwel l known Carmel Wine Comp any was started. and the p roducts of the colon ies sp read

over Europe . The colonists, however, mistaking the enterp rise, began over-

p roducing . Con

sequently Baron de Rothschi ld had to reduce the p rice of the grap e. The owners of Rehoboth, being sti l l resident in Europ e, were not much affected by this sudden change, but theYechidim were left without means. The Russian Chovevi Zion came to the rescue of several ,and the Jewish Coloni zation Association advanced loans to twenty- three fami l ies.

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The future of the co lony, as o f many others, dep ends up on the finding of adequate markets for thei r p roducts. Rehoboth has now a p

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op ulation of three hundred souls. I t has 39

brick and 6 wooden dwel l ings, 26 brick and 1 0 wooden stables, a synagogue built of wood, a

school bui ld ing, a mi l l and a bath house . About dulums are covered with nearly one

mill ion vines of the finest descrip t ion .

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About almond trees are p lanted over an area

of 70 0 dulums, and another 3 0 0 dulums are covered with O l ives. Each fam ily owns cows ,

horses, mules and all the necessary agricultural imp lements. The cl imate is excel lent, and

convalescents from Jafia and the surrounding colon ies are sent there to recup erate.

I n founding the colony, the colon izers had in mind the moral as wel l as the material indep endence oi the colonists. This was necessary in order to disp rove a view then prevai l ingin certain quarters that the p resence of a French- bred adm in istration and teach ing p ersonnel l in each co lony was a vital necessity. The Jewish day laborers received their first training in Rehoboth, and from there sp read all over the colon ies. They organized circles forthe study of the Bible, Jewish h istory and for other educational p urp oses. A kindergarten

was also establ ished and H ebrew made the med ium of instruction.

I n 1 90 0 the Carmel W ine Co. p resented the colony with a brick school build ing at a

cost of five thousand francs, and anually contributes two thousand francs toward its maintenance. A l ibrary and reading room have been added , with an excellent selection Of

books for chi ldren. The general moral and ' intellectual standing of the colony may be interred from the fact that it now maintains a free loan society with a cap ital of threethousand francs, a sick- v isiting society, a Chevra Kad isha, a Chevra Schas, where Talmud

is studied one hour dai ly in the l ibrary and p ubl ic school .The schoo l curriculum covers a seven hours’ course in Hebrew and grammar, Bible

catechism, Jewish h istory, un iversal history, arithmetic, geograp hy, p hysics and A rabic .

The boys of the two highest classes devote two hours daily to gardening under the super

vision of a special instructor, who exp lains everyth ing in H ebrew. The schoo labout sixty boys and g irls.

ALLOTT INO THE LAND

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Eleaz ar Cap lan E.W . Lewin Ep steinMattathias Cohen

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Oldnewland”

BY DR. THEODOR HERZL

THE PASSOVER

CHAPTER V .

FTER a brie f interval , David returned and he asked the company whethe rthey desired to continue the p honograph ic address, and as they agreed , heset the mach ine in motion again. The unseen Joe Levy continued

I set about a new scheme . My actions were at first regarded as sp ort

and we were much criticised . What I d id was to equip the Sh ip of W isdom . I

would let the returning Jews see th is vessel, and its ap p earance in the M editer

ranean should denote the new age. I t p resented no great d ifficulty . I askedthe rep resentative Of a big tourist agency in England to arrange the details ;and in less than a for tnight all

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the estimates were laid before me . I h iredfrom an I tal ian comp any the magnificent boat Futuro wh ich p lied betweenNap les and Alexandria. The sh ip should be at my disp osal on the 1 sth of M arch ,in Genoa. I t was leased for sixweeks. The conductor of the trip arranged for

rooms forfive hundred p assengers, in the best hotels in I tal ian , Egyp tian,Levan

t ine and Gr eek towns. The voyagerswould meet the vessel in Genoa or in Nap les.

Their tickets were good for all I talian railways and for all first class hotels. Outwardly, the exp edition took the form of the usual summer trip to the Orient butit was much more than that .

The ladies and gentlemen whom we invited for th is six weeks’ trip to the

morn ing lands were our guests, and they were the nobil ity Of ideal ism in the

culture world?A committee of writers and artists had drawn up the l ist of these

guests. The best were inv ited , without question of nat ional ity or rel igion . The

best were called and they came readi ly , not because they were p romised a p leasanttour, but because they had a remarkable op p ortunity of meet ing their equals.

On the Futuro poets, p h ilosop h ers, inventors. and exp lorers, artists of

all crafts, statesmen , economists, p ol iti cians"

and journal ists met . The ch iefofficer p rovided all the luxuries of the age, so that the guests on the Futuro ’

should for six weeks enjoy the hap p iness Of a cloudless day ; and from the orchestrawh ich played to the guests at dinner to the sh ip ’

s journal p rep ared every day,

noth ing was forgotten . The vessel touched at many coasts, and in every harbor

the latest news awaited the vessel ; and so the telegrams ap p eared in the sh ip ’

s

journal . But a far more valuable p art of th is p ubl ication was the literary p ortion ,

for the life on board was described bythe most brill iant pens of the p eriod . The

table talk was reduced in p rint and later on was known as the New Platon icDialogue. The great th inkers on board th is vessel discussed every human issue .

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They sp oke of creat ing a real world, commun ity educated through art, they dis

cussed the reform'

o f p rop erty laws, the organization of p h ilanthrop y , the relations of cap ital to labor , the p art of woman in the civil ized world, and sp oke of

mechanical development in theory and p ractice. The table talk of the Futuro

has long since become one of the most valuable contribut ions to l iterature. I

only know it through its publ ication ,for I ~ had no op p ortun ity of joining the p arty

on the vessel . I had no time to jo in in an excursion . I was in Haifa even before

the‘

Futuro anchored in Genoa, but I have read this table talk with muchattention and many thanks. I am not a ph ilosop her, and devoted even less attent ion to abstract thought then than now. Whatever seemed p ractical to me in the

table talk of the Futuro ,

’ I endeavored to util ize, for it seemed to me that fromthe Futuro there sp oke a sp irit of humanity to the Jewish p eop le as it was aboutto create for itself a new existence . And the value of the ideas exp ounded on

the sh ip increased when the tourists reached Palestine .

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The Sh ip of Wisdom touched the coasts and the tourists were allowed to

land at their free will , making small group s and indulging in exp editions. Every

th ing had been p rep ared to meet th is. The geologists did not want to see what

the electrical engineer wished to insp ect . The botan ists sought other p aths thanthe arch itect . The sculp tor devoted h imself to other interests than the p ol iticaleconomist . They went out, and they came back to the Futuro as they wished .

I n some cases, the social sp irit wh ich was created , kep t the guests aboard the

sh ip for the larger p art of the journey . Some, indeed , saw noth ing of land but

the coast l ine between Genoa and Jaffa, and the land from Jaffa to Jerusalem .

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One deep th inking writer, I am told ( I do not know whether it is true),did not leave the vessel one moment of the journey . H e is sup p osed to have saidthat ‘ th is sh ip is Z ion .

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H e, however, p ubl ished a very full descrip tion of the

land and its p eop le . H e could get the material from the very best sources, sincethose who did leave the vessel brought back a sup erabundance of material gatheredbv scientific and artistic eyes.

So it came about that the table talk took the form of wonderfu l dialoguesas to what could be done in Palestine . I have read that p ort ion very often ; in fact ,I could rep eat it by rote . The deep est imp ression made up on me was the advicegiven by the art ists, because I am not one myself. I n p ractice, only simp le com

mon sense would be requ ired to transp ort what existed to other condit ions. I

have to thank the artists for the thought that our beautiful country was allowed todevelop its natu ral beaut ies. I t shoul d be beauti fu l everywhere, beauti fu l for all ,for beauty always rejo ices the heart of mankind .

One of my most remarkable exp eriences was that I never saw the Futuro .

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I p rep ared its journey, and thought out the welfare of its guests. I was always

th inking about it and followed the words of the wise but I did not see it ; at anyrate, not clearly . I t hap p ened thus. When the Futu ro ’

arrived on the coast ,I was in the interior . Fischer, Steineck and A lladino received the sh ip ’

s comp any

in the name of the NewCommunity . I wanted to introduce myself to our guestsas soon as I could get clear of some of my work , but it was a t ime when I had to

work day and night , and journey from one center of activity to another . I'

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slep t in my motor car as it took me from p lace to p lace. Of the traveling comforts

that we now p ossess there was, of course, no talk at that time. When I knewwhen: I was going to sleep I had a tent p itched, but I could not always decidethat in advance. I t was even exp edient that I should arrive in p laces unexp ectedlyin order that I might W itness the p eop le at work , making the roads, dividingo f the land and at agricultural labor . Plans and instructions were issuedfor everyth ing, but I wished to convince myself that everyth ing was going on in

p rop er order . And the whole time I kep t ‘ in touch with my headquarters at

H aifa. Rep orts comp elled me to go from p lace to p lace, to and fro . With all our

careful p lans, doubts and difficult ies arose with the workp eop le in the settlements,so that changes and new arrangements were necessary . Now and then th ingswere t ied up in knots that only I myself could unravel . At the few farms of the

New Commun ity they were sowing the sp ring seed ; at the outset we introducedthe econom ic features of coop eration accord ing to the Rahaline system .

But the p eop le were new to these ideas ; they requ ired authority and de

cisions. There was noth ing unusual in all th is ; simp ly attention was requ ired .

The sowing of wheat , barley , rye and maize is no art , but all kinds of d ifficult iesp resented themselves. We had to reckon with the disused so il emp loyed ; themost modern methods were brought to bear and, according to the will ingnesswith wh ich we laid siege to the earth , it became our friend . Organization wasthe ch ief th ing ; and th is we had comp leted before the mobil ization began .

The working day was l im ited by the New Community to seven hours, but

they were hours of concentrated effort . One made road s, another dug canals,the th ird removed the stones from the fields

, wh ich the electric p lows cast up ,

the fourth bu ilt houses, the fifth p lanted trees and so on ; everyone knew that therewas work for all and that he worked for all . They went to work singing and

in song returned to their homes. I t was an early sp ring, such as one sometimes

meets in nature, when the trees suddenly burst into bud ; and every day the re

sults of our labors became more and more clear .

The first th ing I had done was to sp read telegrap h ic and telep honic con

nections all over the country for communicat ion between our offices. The whole

work was central ized in ‘

H aifa, and the wires followed the l ine of work . A teleg

rap hist , in a wagon ; always followed me, so that I could always get immediatelyinto touch with my office in H aifa, and direct with the London center . I t was

only in th is way that I could sup ervise the work of men and the use of ma

terial

Day by day the immigration rose from five hundred to one thousand and

two thousand at

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the d ifferent harbors from Jaffa to Beyrout . The day after theirland ing the men were

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disp atched to d i fferent centers. We requ ired not less

than ten thousand men for the laying of the railways. Ten thousand were re

qu ired for the p utting up of p ubl ic bu ildings of the new community ; offices,schools, temp orary hosp itals and so forth . Once p rop er p lans are p rep ared , as

was the case with us, the carrying out of all th is is not a conjuring trick . Those

who labored on road making,the railways, and on other p ubl ic works were not

only p aid a wage based on an arrangement made with the imp ort houses, but

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were entitled to p rivileges in connect ion with the colon izat ion wh ich was to follow. The man , who ,

land ing at the harbor,was comman deered to d ifferent kindsof work , shou ld be in a p osition to establ ish his home by the au tumn and send

for his family . I t was a very simp le matter“ A ll it requ ired was a p lan ; the

mi l itary arrangements of the great states in the nineteenth centu ry p resented far

more diff iculties and it is rather imp rop er that I should comp are our work to such

affairs. What we had to do was to land half a mill ion p eop le in the country bythe autumn , and by that time we could exp ect the first harvest . The commanders

in - ch ief of armies in the p revious century had to p rovide for m illions, p rosp ectivelyin the enemy ’

s country , and at least in times when trade and traffic were stop ped

We,however, were in a friend’s country ; no ! in our fatherland , and noth ing

was stop p ed . On the contrary , trade and traffic went on at a tremendous p ace .

The p eop le, indeed , began to look after themselves. Factories were bu ilt , whichin the autumn were roofed in . Other sensible p ersons could reali ze what industrialOp p ortun ities this country p resented , situated as it is between Europ e and Asia.

And when , after the first harvest , wh ich was not a p articularly good one, but just

fair,I took a survey of the whole situation , I decided there was no need to stop

the immigration . I had p rep ared for such a situation , but , thank God, it wasunnecessary .

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I telegrap hed that informat ion to our associates, and I date the victoryof the NewCommuni ty from that first harvest . Afterwards there were much better

harvests. The land imp roved , but never d id we feel so deep ly the sense of harvest

home, for we reap ed then the confidence of our brothers throughout the world .

Barely twelvemonths had p assed since I .had establ ished my general office in London , and I could tell my colleagues in my ch ief office in Hai fa that the first y earhad been a good one . 1

Our bureau in Haifawas certain ly roofed in by the autumn, but it was not

vet comp leted . I t was to be fu rn ished in the second sp ring . St ill I co ul d say to

my watchful assistants, Our house is under cover .

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I meant thereby the whole

New Commun ity . I t was only necessary not to leave anyth ing undone and to con

tinue doing our duty with every nerve strained . Ou r undertakingswere increasedin number but they were much easier to carry o ut . The mach inery existed ; weon ly had to keep it in good working order . Ou r greatest engineering work wasstarted that of laying a wate r system throughout the country . We came here

into touch with one of the old traditions of our p eop le, Solomon’

s wells, wh ichshowed us the abil ity o f our forefathers . But we had to p rovide more thandr inking water for Jerusalem and the cit ies . We requ ired water for hydraul ic ’

p u rp oses and for l ight .

The Dead Sea canal p roves that ou r engineers d id not blunder, and at the

head o f it all was the never to be forgotten Fischer . But another stream p oured it

sel f fru itfu l ly over our land —cap ital and credit . Our zealous work and our first

ach ievements created trust , and as soon as we had started the agricultural p roduce co - op erative organ izations and set the p easants in the midst o f the so il , weneeded the modern form o f agr icultural credit . Fo rmerly it was bel ieved that weco uld not create money for settl ing our p eop le , p rov iding them with houses, with

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steam, but we were too late. At Cyp rus, which came in sight in,

the morning,I saw in the distance a sh ip mov ing in the contrary d irection . Lightn ing- l ikethe thought struck me that th is was the Futuro. I rushed to the cap tain ’

s bridge,and gazed through the telesc’ op e. I had need to be a good sailor to recogn ize a

vessel at that distance . The cap tain h imsel f was not on the bridge, but in his

cabin . Before he came on deck , the vessel had di sap p eared from v iew. To

tu rn back at a venture was not w ise. I t was a question whether we could catchup to .

the sh ip . Perhap s she was not the Futuro, wh ich might sti ll be in Beyrout .

So we remained up on our course. I n Beyrout I received the news that Ihad guessed correctly . The sh ip I had seen in the dawning l ight, near Cyp rus,was the Fu turo. I was p ained at the reflection, and from that day it is my w ishthat it may be granted me to see the reutrn of the Futuro. For, twenty-five yearsafter her first voyage, the Futuro is to sail the same seas. Not the same vessel ,for she is now out of date, but a beautifu l sh ip w ith the same great name. Not

the same voyagers, for many are dead , but we will select in add ition to thosewho are al ive from among our first guest s the g reatest of the civ il ized world to

make this other voyage. And every twen ty - five years such an argonaut , namedthe Futuro, before whose argosy we shal l bend , shall come to our shores. We wil lnot p resent awattle model village to great exh ibitions. The whole land w i ll be on

exh ibition , and the guests of the Futuro shall be the jury . And when they againcome

, and the good God enables me to see them ; and Josep h Levy has in some

measure comp leted his simp le, but heavy tasks, then— I will ret ire. And when Idie , lav me beside my friend Fischer, the re in the Carmel cemetery, whence youhave a view of my beloved land and my beloved sea.

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CHAPTER V I .

The p honograp h ic storv was at an end . The last words had imp ressed all

p resent .

Kingscou rt coughed : Seems a charming fel low, Joe ; a very charming

fellow. Pity he isn’t here. Would l ike to shake his hand . Wel l , I hop e to see

him before we go much further afield . I n one th ing he interested me very muchabout the Dead Sea Canal . Seems to be a world wonder . When shal l we see it ?

Dav id p romised to take him directly after the Passover . They sp ent thefestival qu ietly in T iberias. Kingscourt took kindly to the unleavened bread ,swearing in the meant ime that he, a

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Christian and a German nobleman, wasbeing Judaised . H is imp recat ions were the loudest concerning the tyrrany of

l ittle Fritz , who seemed to th ink that the old man was to end his days as a horsefor his d iversion . But for all that , Kingscourt seemed miserable when the ch ildslep t , and his face l ightened up when the l ittle ch ild shouted, Otto .

When it was decided at the end of the Passover to make the trip throughthe Jordan valley to Jericho , David decided to leave the ch ild with his grand

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p arents. The old‘man raised object ions. The ch i ld ought to see s ometh ing

of the country, and it was a p oo r sp ecimen of a father who would leave his chi ldto the mercy of other p eop le . I n fact, he (Kingscourt) would not go to the

Dead Sea Canal if l ittle Fritz did not form one of the p arty . H is earnestnesscaused David to yield his consent that the ch ild should go . Then Kingscourtbegged them to note that he was qu ite indiff erent ; his attitude had been thatof one who simp ly w ished to p rotect the interests of a help less ch i ld .

The arch itect, Steineck, and Reschid Bey had, meanwh ile, returned to Haifa.

Reschid Bey wanted to see his fami ly and p romised to meet them early in

Jerusalem . The arch itect was deep ly interested in the election of delegates to the

ensu ing Congress. I n accordance with the newsp ap ers and p rivate information,

the Geyer p arty was making a strenuous effort . So , Steineck had to be at his

p ost in Haifa, wh ich was the center of the po l it ical intel l igence dep artment .

Dav id, however, had to attend to some p rivate matters at Dscholan before

he could travel to Jericho . H e therefore invited his friends to join him. Friedrichaccep ting,

he was joined by M iriam and Prof . Steineck . Kingscou rt remained inTiberias, as he would not al low M rs. Litvak and M rs. Gothland to travel alone

in a motor car to Besan . The others smiled at his attachment to the ch i ld .

They were all to meet after two days at Besan in the Jordan val ley .

A smart electr ic boat carried the four voyagers across the sea of Genezareth .

The old man went w ith them to the landing stage, and as he shook hands withFriedrich said , in a hard vo ice, Do you know,

Fr itz,that we are facing a

change ? For twenty years we have not been sep arated for a single day. M ind ,don ’t fail to meet me in that p lace with the A rabic name . Otherwise, you wil lhear many p ickled oaths. And you , .

M iss M iriam , p lease don’t use the Op p or

tunity to turn that young man ’

s head . H e is only forty- three years old. That isa most dangerous age . And

,now, God keep you . I n Besan we w il l meet again .

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Both M iriam and Friedrich co lored at the old man’

s observations. They

were confused as they step p ed into the boat . Kingscourt glanced at M rs. Gothland most exp ressively, and he was exceed ingly hap p y that he had made the

younger p eop le feel uncomfortable.

I t was a so ft sp ring day, one of those beautifu l days wh ich make Genezarethso charming . The boat flew over the waters, wh ich were sl ightly ruffled by a

breeze. The mansions and vi llas of Tiberias became smal ler and smaller , and

the heights of the eastern strand came nearer and nearer . The v iew of the snow

cap p ed H ermon to the north was magn ificent . The many vessels p assing to and

fro suggested much l ife. The trip was l ike a dream .

The boat landed at the j etty, and the voyagers had only to walk a few p acesto the electric railway . They journeyed in the salon carriage to El- Kunetra,

where David had to do business. The train had to cl imb a thousand feet abovethe sea level: Th is town was the center of a network of railway s of the east

Jordan rai lway system , and being between Safed and Damascus, it was an ex

cellent junction for traffic . As they left the train , they not iced another leav ing forBeyrout, one car of wh ich was filled with ch ildren who were singing . They

were boys from about fourteen to sixteen years of age .

They are en joying a l ittle excursion ? ” queried Friedrich .

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Yes, they are enjoying a l ittle excu rsion , around the world , said Pref .

Steineck, smil ing .

M iriam exp lained , to Friedrich’

s astonishment, that this was a jou rney of

scho lars, follow ing the examp le set by the Benedictine monks who, in the p re

vious century, had sent caravans of scholars under their p rotection to manylands, so that the youngsters m ight learn languages and customs. Educationand p leasure were thus united . Youth was more cap able than formerly, and

educati on was not only general but economic . The fin ished p roduct of the

schoo ls was younger, and so , whatever the New Community sp ent on these

scholastié tours sp edily bore interest .The school p arty consisted of the best p up ils of the various schools, and

the tour was p ractical ly the h ighest p rize awarded to scholars, the natural de

sire of youngsters for adven tu res and travels being thus tu rned to good p urpose .

The arrangement was thoroughly systematized, and houses for the recep t ion of

the p up ils existed in the cit ies near all the great cap itals.

How about the gi rls?”

asked Friedrich , smil ing .

Girls don’t make these voyages,” said M iriam. We bel ieve that thep lace of the girl is beside her mother, if she wishes to be useful and carry out

her duties in the New Commun ity .

”

Wh ile David attended to his business, Prof. Steineck, M iriam and Friedrich made a trip through the town , v isited the bazaar, wh ich was not very Or ientalbut rather Eu rop ean in character, and they came across an excellent Engl ishhotel .

Fr iedrich was in a hap p y mood, to wh ich the p resence of M iriam undoubtedly contributed . H is hosts exp lained to him the great advantage wh ich the

east Jordan d istrict had through the existence of the watershed . The engineersof the community had taken advantage of every op p ortun ity natu re afforded

them, of develop ing the p owers of this natural watershed . They had adop tedmuch the same system wh ich, in America, had enabled the fal ls of Niagara to beused at a d istance of one hundred and six ty- two kilometers ; and from the St .

Bernardino hills to Los Angeles in South Cal i forn ia, p ower had been develop ed at

a d istance of one hundred and th irty kilometers,from the water without much loss

of energy . I n the same way, the water p ower of the Dead Sea Canal and the h il lsp rings of the Lebanon and the H ermon had been util ized .

Our hydraul ic engineers were the real founders of Oldnewland the drainage of the country and the system of irrigat ion,

together with the creation of

water p ower, these did exerything ,

”said Dav id .

A fter travel ing an hour and a hal f, they came up on an enormous factory

wh ich , under the direction of the New Community, had been founded at the

exp ense of very rich p h ilanthrop ic corp orations. T he d irector exp lained every

th ing to them, but Friedr ich found h imsel f most interested in a striking telep honeexchange, at wh ich two young women were continuously connecting and dis

connect ing wires. Th is, it was exp lained to him, enabled them to d irect motivep ower in any and every direction without the loss of any energy .

They were thus sup p lying, in addition to the p ower needed in the fields,

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energy to a sugar factory, brewery, disti llery, mi lls, and a large number of fac

tories, all of wh ich were being run from th is center .

I n th is bu ild ing, as in all others which they had v isited , they met an almostp ainful cleanl iness, and there was an absence of noise. The mach inery d id not

seem to hum lou der than was absolutely necessary . Friedrich noticed th is esp e

cially when a smal l group of workmen in un iform cloth ing ,w ith strip es on their

shou lders, p assed by. They seemed cast down and sad , and some o f them ap

p eared shy. Two ind iv iduals seemed to fol low them, and they greeted the director in mi l itary fash ion .

You w ill p erm it me to make o ne criticism, said Friedrich . We haveseen so much that is beauti fu l in Oldnewland that a strange thought now strikesme

Certainly, said Dav id, what is it you want to say?”

These laborers seem to be rather op p ressed , as though the beauti ful mach inery they serve op p ressed them . What is the ut il ity of all the magn ificenteconom ical arrangements i f the p eop le are not hap p y ? When I saw these p eople,I remembered the factory hands of the p revious century . I t is qu ite true, thesep eop le do not look qu ite so sad as those,

‘

and they look health ier than factory

hands. But, st ill , there is some similarity, and that is, that they are d istressed .

When I th ink that th is belongs to a p h ilanthrop ic organ izat ion, I exp ect to findhap p y peop le . I admi t I am somewhat surp rised .

”

The director was aston ished and turned to the others. Does not Dr. Lowen

berg knowwhere he is?”

No,”said Dav id . We wanted to imp ress him first , so we did not tel l him

that th is big inst itution is a p enal colony .

”

“

I s it possible that this is a p enal settlement ?”

said Friedrich . Thatchanges my op inion . And what are the results of you r endeavors to imp rovethese p eop le ?”

The director rep l ied , The p eop le become moral ly and p hysical ly healthy.

The majority enjoy the work in the fields, and do not leave it . They e itherremain here as'

p aid laborers or become farmers and go to some d istance. We use

our p rofits to help these p eop le, and they rep ay us. We make human beingsof the fal len .

When , the next day, they met in Besan , Friedrich described what he hadwonders hap p en ; the water runs up the h i lls and p rison is constituted of free

dom .

”

-The motor car sp ed southward through the Jordan valley . The river wasfu ll , and the land was decked in green . They p assed v illages, and towns, andvil las, wh ich caught their eyes to the east and west on

'

the heights, wh ile now

and'

then train s p assed them on the r ight side of the road .

There was, indeed , considerable traffic on the main tho roughfare, for it Wasthe p er iod of the year when the majority o f the w inter guests were leav ing Jericho .

I t was too warm in the val ley for the Eu rop eans, who made it their w inter headquar ters. M any motor cars passed them , travel ing southward , for ina few daysthe season at the Lebanon would commence. U sually at the end of Ap ril, the

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society folk made for Beyrout to return to Europ e, if they were not in such a

hurry as to need to use the Asia M inor railways. But while it was too warmfor ho l iday makers, at th is p eriod of the year there was p lenty of strong and

healthy l ife in that district .Under modern conditions t he Jordan valley yielded even more fru it than in

ol den t imes. I t p roduced rice, sugar, tobacco and cotton wool in great quantities. The engineers of the water system had here disp layed their great ingenu ity ,in making the condu its across the h ills. I n th is way not a drop of water waslost of

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the great natural rains, and so it hap p ened that milk and honey flowed

in the old new home of the Jews, and it was what it had been, the beloved land .

The util itar ian had everywhere been beautified . I n the midst of the green gar

dens were the wh ite marble walls Of the villas ; the cottages were bu ilt of the

stone cut by the Dead Sea.

Kingscourt and Friedrich exp erienced a continuous series of surp rises on

the road to Jericho.When they came to th is magn ificent town, even Kingscourt

found h imsel f sp eechless before the beauty and the number of hotels, mansionsand v illas, surrounded by_

trop ical p lants and bu ilt in the midst of alleys of p alms.

They d id not exp ect to find th is health resort so beauti fu l .But Kingscourt d id not w ish to enter the hotel . H e wanted to make at once

for the Dead Sea val ley and so made another trip . Before them was the deepblue mirror of the Dead Sea. A continuous roar smote their ears

.

as the water

from the M editerranean ,carried through tunnels, rushed into the canal . David

exp lained the situation in a word .

The Dead Sea was the lowest valley in the world , the surface water beingthree hundred and n inety meters below the level of the M editerranean Sea. I t

was therefore, one of the simp lest of ideas to use th is fal l to some p u rp ose. The

d ivergence in the level from the coast to the Dead Sea l ine was eighty meters,so that there remained a fal l of fu lly three hundred feet from the canal head . A

width of ten and a dep th of three meters yielded fifty thousand horse-

power .

Kingscourt would not be imp osed up on . The p ower at the station of the

Niagara Falls H ydraul ic Power Comp any recorded forty thousand horse-

p ower

in my time.

”

David resp onded , We do not p retend to comp are ourselves w ith the

Niagara Fal ls and the mil l ions of horse-

p ower that it yields, although the NiagaraFal ls is only fifty meters h igh . But I th ink ours is a very good record at the

diff erent p ower stations on the Jordan ,and the Dead Sea, we obtain hal f a mill ion

horse-

p ower.”

“

You are qu ite right , most resp ected water'

conjurer, said the old man .

I t is very fine ; but I do not understand one th ing : so much water is rush inginto th is basin wh ich has no ex it , or have the. conditions changed ?

Your question is not un intel l igent, said Prof . Steineck . But you mustknow that we draw as much water f rom the Dead Sea as we p ut into it .

,We

draw off the water and p ump it into reservo irs for those districts where thereis ascarcity . You understand ?

Yes, I understand . And there was not a susp icion of doubt in his face.

You are confoundedly shrewd fel lows.

”

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They had reached the p ower houses ; and the Dead Sea, as large as the Lakeof Geneva, w ide and blue, lay before them . On the north side, where they stood,they had before them a stretch of rol l ing earth . I t was from beneath there thatthe water leap ed from the canal and lower down were the turbines and a num

ber of factories. There were factories on every hand as far as they cou ld see ;

all kinds of industries hav ing taken advantage of the energy here at their disp osal . The canal had cal led the Dead Sea to l ife.

Kingscou rt recalled the Niagara turbines and noted some twenty here. They

entered one of the turbine houses, where Kingscourt entered into long exp lana

tions wh ich , however , owing to the roar of the water, no one could hear ; but

they p resumed from his gestures that he was excel lently satisfied . The waterrushed over the buckets, and the wheels p rov ided p ower, wh ich was carried bywire across the country .

And so, an Oldnewland had been created that had blossomed into a garden

and had become a home for p eop le who had once been p oor, weak , hop eless and

homeless. Friedrich at length found words.

“

I feel crushed by this greatness.

”

And we,” resp onded David , very earnestly, have not been crushed by the

g reatness. I t has raised us.

JERUSALEM .

CH APTER I .

Once Friedrich and K ingscourt had entered Jerusalem at night and

from the west ; now they came by day and from the east . Once they saw the

c ity weighed with sorrow, lying on these h il ls ; now they saw the city rej uvenatedand beaut i ful . Once Jerusalem was dead ; now Jerusalem had awakened .

They had traveled from Jericho and stood on the'

M ount of O l ives, the '

old,remarkable h ill , from wh ich a great and broad view of the surrounding scenerywas obtained . Stil l , it was the land of humanity

, stil l the seers sp oke who hadgiven rel igion to many ages and many p eop les, but a new, powerfu l , p eaceful forcehad entered here— Life.

Jerusalem had become a‘

giant and breathed w ith l i fe. The old city betweenthe revered wal ls had, as far as they could see from here, changed very l ittle.

They saw the —Chu rch of the Sep ulchre,'

the M osque of Omar, and the othercupo las and roo fs that had alway s been there, but many th ings had been added .

There, before them,.was the magn ificent bu ilding known as the Palace of Peace.

A great qu iet lay over the old city.

The scene was qu ite diff erent in the‘

other d irection. A modern town hadsp rung up , threaded by electric l ines ; broad , tree-

p lanted streets and rows of

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houses only broken by green boulevards and parks ; educational institutions,stores, show p laces, and resorts for amusement.

David named the bu i ldings as they saw them. I t was a world city of the

Twen tieth Century; but ever and anon they tu rned back to the old c ity. Before

them, on th is side of the Kedron yalley, it lay in the so ft afternoon l ight, and itwas a magnificent p icture. Kingscourt had1 p ut eve ry possible question and David

had given every answer, and then they asked concerning one remarkable and

beautifu l st ructure, resp lendent in wh ite and go ld, wh ich reflected from the p ol

ished marble of'

the roof, seemed as a silver p lain covered with golden sp ears ;

and Friedrich was deep ly moved when David said , That is the Temp le.

”

at

I t was on Friday even ing that Friedrich Lowenberg, for the first time, enteredthe Temp le of Jerusalem. They had been housed in an excellen t hotel near theJafia Gate, and when the evening drew near David called his friends to come tothe service.

Friedrich walked ahead w ith Mi r iam,Dav id and M rs. Litvak fol lowed .

They went through the fine streets of the new city , sti ll full of l ife. Of a sudden

the traffic slackened . The number of wagons dimin ished and the stores closedrap idly. The Sabbath fel l slowly and qu ietly up on what had been a city of

mercantile no ise.

The p eop le streamed into the synagogues in great numbers, for beside the

Temp le, there were in the old, as in the new city, many houses of p rayer to the

unseen God, whose sp irit I srael had for thousands of years carried throughout theworld . As they entered up on the p eace of the Holy City , they felt moved insp irit ; for what now lay w ith in the ancient walls of Jerusalem was not the

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un

cleanl iness, the no ise and the odors of twenty years before. Then , every p ilgrimwho , after long voyages, reached here to satisfy his yearnings, was irritated ‘

by

much that he saw in the deso late streets. Before a rel igious tou rist could reachwhat was most sacred to him, he had to p ass through much that was antagonisticto his ideas. All th is had changed .

The streets were p aved and clean ; there were no pr ivate houses in the old

city . All the bu i ldings were either connected w ith chari ties or were memo rials,or p ilgrim houses of all con fessions : Christians, Mohammedans and Jews hadthe ir institutions there, houses of rest and ho sp itals ; and the great square was oc

cup ied by the p alace of p eace in wh ich the international congress of the Friendsof Peace and the

’

leaders of science met . The old city was an international centerand a home to all peop les, for here what was most human was at home : Suff er

mg .

And here all the forms of help were assembled wh ich human it y had ,in the

course of history, establ ished against s uff ering : Bel ief, Love and Knowledge.

One could not help be ing imp ressed , whatever one thought of religion ,in

p assing through these streets . Peop le greeted each other qu ietly and in friendlyfashion . I t was a Sabbath in the heart .

Friedrich and M iriam p assed an old gentleman who leaned on his st ick .

M iriam bowed to him , and he joined David and his wi fe, wha, for his sake,slackened their pace .

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When the seats in the temp le were allotted , said David , I sought the

last, and I wou ld have no other.

”

The sound of voices and of instruments began to resound through the bu ilding , and Friedrich felt intensely moved . The chant comp elled him to p onder

over the most remote recol lections o f his own l ife and up on other p eriods of Jew

ish ex istence.

The congregation bowed and p rayed . A German verse ‘occurred to him

fromthe H ebrew M elodies of H einrich H eine, The Princess Sabbath , who isknown as the qu iet Princess.

”

The Temp le cho ir began to sing the song that the Jews had sung these manyhundred years, in all their synagogues all over the world , the song of the noble

p oet, Solomon ben H alevy, Lecho dodi likrath kallah.

”

And as H eine had written

Kom gel iebter deiner harret,Schon die Braut die d ir enschleiertI hr versch

'

amtes Angeschict.”

Yes, H eine felt as a real p oet of romance, moved by the dest iny o f his own

race ; and that he sang the most German songs d id not h inder his discovering thebeauty of the H ebrew melod ies. Then Friedrich thought of a shameful time whenthe Jews were ashamed of being Jews. They felt themselves most resp ectablewhen they were not recognized as Jews. Butx they had not been accep ted ; theyhad never real ly ap p eared to be what they were not. They had no sel f- resp ect ,and they were p unished ; theywere den ied ; and yet they d id not all learn theirlesson ; for those who were successfu l in business left the faith of their fathers,endeavoring to bury their p ast and their racial ties. Ah, it was a mean th ing to

have bel ied father and mother— and to have gained noth ing by the falsehood .

Then he thought again of the M arranos, the converted Jews of Sp ain in the

M iddle Ages, whose state was that of being in quarantine. And the Jews had

suff ered more and more. They became elend in the full sense of the old Ger

man word, outlanded, strangers in the land , all p laces being to them the resortfor the banished . So the Jews came into their own p ossession burdened withstrange debts : elend

, goluth, Ghetto, words in all languages for the same idea.

Desp ised and sel f - desp ised !And out of th is terrible condition they had raised themselves. Everyth ing that

Friedrich saw showed him how it had come about . Judaism seemed changed only

because the Jews were no longer ashamed . Not onlv the,beggars and the schnor

rers devoted themselves to it w ith a one- sided , susp ected sol idarity. No, the

strong,the free the successfu l had returned home, and t hey had received more

than they gave . The world thanked them when they d id someth ing useful . But

the Jewish p eop le asked noth ing of them excep t that they should not disp aragethemselves. The world thanks the great when they bring someth ing— they mustbring someth ing. But the father’s household is thankfu l to the p rodigal son evenwhen he brings nothing but h imsel f .I t was in th is train of thought , insp ired by the H ebrew melodies, that Fried

rich understood the mean ing of the Temp le. Once, in the t ime of Solomon, the

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Temp le was decorated with gold and p recious stones as a sign of the p ride and themight of I srael . Costly woods, the ol ive and the cedar and the cyp ress, had

decorated the bu ilding so that it should be a del ight to the eye. But, howeverbeautiful the p icture may have been ,

it was not for the v isible and magnificentbu il ding that Jews had wep t for eighteen centuries. No ! They yearned f or

someth ing inv isible, for wh ich the Temp le was merely an outward form ; and

th is inv isibi l ity Fr iedr ich real ized as he stood in the Temp le of Jerusalem . His

sp irit rose . There stood the p rodigal sons of God’s ancient p eop le, who raisedtheir souls to the Unseen . They stood as once their fathers stood on M ountM oriah .

Solomon ’

s words had become l iving . The Lord said H e wou ld dwell in

the th ick darkness. I have surely bu ilt Thee a house to dwel l in , a settled p lacefor Thee to abide in forever . ”

They had p rayed in many p laces with more or less devotion ,in all p arts of

the world, in beautiful and in p oor synagogues in all the lang uages of the Diasp ora. Their invisible God must be equal ly near or far to them everywhere ; here

alone was H e always n igh , th is was the Temp le. Why? Because,

here, for

the first t ime, they were l iving in free community, in such free commun ity as

enabled them to devote themselves to the serv ice to mankind .

They knew of commun ity in earl ier times, through p ersecution and op p res

sion inGhettos. Later they knew of freedom when the nations gave them equal

ity, but in the Jewish streets it was worthless, w ithout honor and w ithout r ight.

And when they left the street they ceased to be Jews ! Both had to exist : freedomand the feel ing of commun ity . Then only cou ld they dare to erect a house to theI nv isible and All- p owerful , Whom ch ildren p icture in one way and the w ise inanother ; but Who is omnip resent, as the Wi ll - to - do- Good, to all humanityWhen the service was at an end and the p eop le greeted each other, Gut

Shabbos,”

Friedrich said to David , Yes, you were right when you said on the

M ount of Ol ives, Th is is the Temp le.

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( T0 be continued . )

THE MACCABZEAN. [June, 1 90 3 .

A MONTHLY RECORD OF JEWISH PROGRESS

(MAY 1 TO JUNE 1 )

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The month of M ay, 1 90 3 ,

A Month w il l find a p lace in Jew ishof Tragedy h istory beside that of the

May of 1 882 ; the latterbecause it has given its name

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to the

cruel laws, framed by I gnatiefli, for theop p ression of the Jews, wh ich in Ap ril ,1 90 3 , have p roduced such d irect and

fel l work in Bessarabia, the t ruth of

which , in all its lurid details, only came

to l ight during th is month, and re

united the H ouse of I srael in an at

temp t to give succor and rel ieve indescribable affliction .

Apart from the remotercause that makes the Jewin Russia a p ariah , the

massacres and ou trages inKishineff are due, accord

ing to most authorities, to two circumstances. I t is establ ished beyond a

doubt that the aff rays of Sunday , M on

day and Tuesday, Ap ril 1 9 , 20 and 2 1 ,

in the streets of K ishinefi‘ were the re

sult of the sup p osed ritual murder doneby the Jews of Dubossari . As noticedin our last issue, the son of a Russianmy steriously disap p eared , and the

Blood Accusat ion was accordinglyraised . The dead bodv was found

, and

the authorities of Odessa were satisfied

The Genius

of the

Trouble

that no blame attached to theJews. The

Bessarabetz , theonlynewsp ap er in Kishinefi

'

, however, flung at the Jews the

old charge and excited the p op ulace ; sothat, wh ile the Odessa and Kherson officials p roceeded to Dubossari to qu ietthe p eop le and p revent an attack up onthe Jews, the brunt of the attack wasbeing p rep ared in K ishineff itsel f.There seems

, too , some ev idence in favor o f an organ ized p lot to make a ho locanst of the chain of Jew ish communities from K ieff , down through Bessar

abia, to Odessa. There have been out

rages in Bendari , and the news of Tirosp ol has been sup p ressed ; so

,that the

story of K ishineff stands significantlyalone. Wh ile, however, the Blood Accusation stirred the mob to meditatev iolence, the Jews themselves wereaware of what was intended . The gov

ernor- general was warned, and the

p ress censor urged once to use his gen

erally ev il p ower for the good of the

commun ity . The governor- general igno red this request, and it is to his indifference that the grievous death of so

many p eop le is to be set down. The ex

p lanation vouchsafed as to the cause of

his non- interference is the alleged fact

that Von Raaben asked the banker,Perlmutter , who is at the head of the

June, THE MACCABE AN.

THE RUSS IAN PALE OF SETTLEMENT IN WH ICH JEWS ARE COOPED UP

(The scene of the recent troubles are be tween parallels 5 0 and 45)Rel ief Fund

, to advance h im eightythousand roubles. The advance was re~

fused,so it is said, because Perlmutter

coul d not get other Jews to jo in him in

raising the loan .

During the r iots th is banker and twoothers obtained p ersonal p rotect ionfrom the governor at an exp ense of

twenty thousand roubles. I t must be

remembered , in studying the situation,

that the Bessarabian Jews have only

come under the heel of Russia since1 878 , when the Roumanian po rtion of

the p rovince was . ceded to Russia,and

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that these Jews have ever been betweenthe dev il and the deep sea of Rouman

i an and Russian p ersecution .

K ishinefl is a great op en city,ordinarily very p rosp erous, and has attractedconsiderable numbers of Jews from

Rouman iawho have fled from the more

active p ersecution of their native conn

trv. The M oldav ians are, as a rule,

p eaceful and qu iet ; and by no means

disaffected toward their Jew ish co

townsmen . K ishinefl'

has a large mi l itary garrison . M asses of troop s are

w ith in easy cal l , the gendarmerie is

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armed and the governor has p ower, um

der the Russian code, to sup p ress riotsat the p oint of the bayonet . Neverthe

less, he p ermitted the great and gloriousdrunk of the Russian Easter to beturned into a story that shocks the human race .

The ghastly details of a

three days’ murder and

p i l lage are unequaled

even in the stories of Russian Tartarbutchery . We must go back to the fal lo f Jer usalem to find a p arallel for the

ap pall ing stories of the murder of ch ildren . And the terrible element in it allis that the refined classes of K ishineff

watched the brutal sport of flaying and

quartering women after they had beenoutraged . I t is difficult to real ize the

inhuman ity that p ermitted a band to

p lay at one end of a thoroughfare, wh ileat the other the massacre was in full

sw ing .

The Russian Government has done itsbest to m in imize the facts, although, bya curious oversight , the censor p ermitted the St . Petersburg Viedemosti, No

wsti,and even the Bessarabetz to p ub

l ish the ghoulisli details of the threedays of terror . The British Government rep orted on the l gth, that the deadnumbered at least one hundred . The

exact number w il l p robably never be

known . The very latest rep ort p lacesthe number of dead at two hundred and

th irty-five. There are three hundred

and fifty- four v ictims in the K ishinefl

hosp itals, a thousand received sl ightwounds, ten thousand Jews fled to

Odessa and Tirosp ol and Jassy. Four

thousand Jew ish famil ies were renderedhomeless. The loss of p rop erty is est imated at two mill ion dol lars, and not a

Jewish house in the quarter remained

The Riots

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COUNT VON PLEHWE

Russian M inister o f the I nterior

unscathed . A ll business was susp end

ed for many days ; for, in the words

of one corresp ondent, the only abiding p laces for Jews in K ishineff were

the hosp itals and cemeteries.

I n th is way, what beganAfter the on Easter Sunday as a

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OI‘

street brawl has ended inshocking Russian Jewry

to its center ; and has sp read fear andterror in every d irection after the mas

sacre. According to the official accountdrawn by the K ishineff Jew ish com

mun ity as a p etition to M inisterVon Plehwe, the mob had been in

cited by the information sp read, no

one knows how, that the Czar°

would

look w ith p leasure on the slaughter of

the Jews. The M inister h imsel f hasbeen charged w ith sending a secret order to the governor of Bessarabia,wh ich while warning him of imp endingtrouble , p lainly h inted that he shouldnot be over - zealous in the p rotection o f

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the Jews. The M in ister, however, p erhap s because his h int was carried out

w ith too great freedom, sent the order

for ending the riots, and sent his dep utyto inqu ire into

,or hush up , the affair .

About seven hundred p eop le were ar

rested for p art icip at ion in the assault,many of whom p rotested that they um

der stood they had l icense to kill ; and a

fund was op ened for the sup p ort of thefamil ies of those who had been so ar

rested . But the un iversal indignationbrought about Von Raaben’

s recall . H e

was rel ieved of his p ost, but not severely p un ished ; for he has been attached tothe M in istry of the I nter ior.The Jews of Odessa, who were

threatened , armed themselves.

.

And of

the Jews of K ieff, two thousand Z ionists formed themselves into a mi l itiaguard . However, th is has been of no

avail , for a d irect order was issued fromSt. Petersburg commanding the Jews tod isarm. The rel ief of th is situation isthat both the governor of K ieff and the

mi l itary Governor of Odessa are not

p arties to these St. Bartholomewschemes. I n both cities mil itary law

p revails, and p ubl ic assemblage is, for

the time, p roh ibited . And had it notbeen for the movement of troop s fromOdessa to Kieff , Von Raaben would, in

all p robabil ity, have ignored the St. Petersburg order to shoot, in the same wayas he p roh ibited the Jews ap p eal ing toSt . Petersburg for assistance.

The real attitude of the

Official Russian Government is

Condonation betrayed in the suddensup p ression of the Was

chad, the leading Russo- Jewish newsp a

p er : the last issue received here wasp ermitted to p ubl ish the oflicial rep ortsof the riots.

,I van Chamolinsky, Ch ief mom PICTURES W ITHOUT woaos n

of the K ishineff p o l ice, has been dis By M - Okin in“D le Welt ”

missed, but the l ight p unishment of

Von Raaben , and the resp onse made to

American ind ignation by Count Cassini ,the ambassador to Wash ington,

who

threw the onus of the massacre up on the

Jews by charging them with beingmoney lenders instead of farmers ; and

alluding to the efforts of Nicholas I tohelp the Jews, shows the intolerant temp er oi official Russia.

This same Nicholas was once de

scribed as hav ing bathed in the tears

of Jew ish ch ildren ,on account of his

wholesale kidnap p ing of these ch ildren,

who afterwards formed the celebrated

Nicholaev regiments. H e cert ainly p ermitted the Jews to settle in Kherson and

become farmers. And, marvel lous to

relate, desp ite every attemp t on the p artof the bureaucracy to destroy thesefarms, the Kherson settlements were

fairly successful .

Beyond that, the Novosti has been

p un ished for condemning the riots,wh ile the Nam e Vremya, S

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zziet, Zaamya and the Bessarabetz are, at this moment, p ubl ishing incendiary articles.

The news of these terriThe Public ble p roceedingswas, up toConscience the beginning of this

month and wel l into it ,confined to the Jew ish , and p articularlyto the Y idd ish p ress. I n New York ,however, the first real interest was man

3 28

PICTURES W ITHOUT WORDSBy M . Ok in in Die We lt ”

FROM

ifested by the New York Journal andAmerican,

wh ich has since kep t up , dayby day, agitation defending the Jews,

p ubl ish ing cartoons against Russia, imp loring the Wash ington Government toassist by intervening and lending its

biggest typ e to make clear to the p ubl icthe fiendish stor ies of Russian barbarity.

From the 1 3 th inst . , the p ress generallyreal ized the tr uth , and has help ed to

form a healthy p ubl ic op inion, wh ichhas stirred the nation . The London

Jewi sh Chronicle p ubl ished a weightyp rotest on the 1 sth. The Times and the

Pall M all Gaz ette of London swung

their verbal broadsides at Russia, and

the first ful l details of the storv were

brought to l ight by a sp ecial corresp ondent of the London Standard . M r.

H earst , b esides op en ing a rel ief fund,has sen t M ichael Davitt, I rish agitatorand Engl ish p ressman, to Russia, as thesp ecial commissioner of his newsp ap ersand voice after vo ice has been raised incondemnation of the Russian Government , and the non- Christianity of Rus

sian Christendom . The A ll iance I srael

THE MACCAB/EAN. [June, 1 90 3 .

We are too near the dateof action to be in any wayable to define w ith exacti

tude the consequences of

this outbreak . There are in Russia and

The

Aftermath

ite and the Anglo - Jewish Associat ionhave voiced Jewish sent iment in Europ e.

Q uestions have been raised in the British Parl iament, p etitions have been sentto President Roosevel t , and even the

French p ress fears that the great ally of

France has disgraced itsel f by committing and condoning deeds even worsethan those of the great Commune.

The first resp onse to the

Organizing ap p eal made by Dr. Ko

Rel ief ham- Bernstein was at

temp ted in New York ,and p articularly by the Jew ish DailyNews . A committee was organized, ofwh ich M r. K . H . Sarasohn is the chairman ; and by a ser ies of benefit p erformances, at wh ich remarkable scenes were

w itnessed , including one p roff ered bythe Ch inese inhabitants of New York .

Fifteen thousand dollars was raisedwith in a very few days. The A ll ianceI srael ite ap p ealed to America for

money. Funds have been raised for

K ishinefl in p ractical ly every Jew ishcommunity throughout the world ; and,in all p robabil ity, noth ing short of halfa mill ion dollars has al ready been transmitted to Kishinefl

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. The heart of theJewish p eop le have been touched , and itis noticeable that,whereas every form of

Jewish organ izations has lent itsel f freely to the work of th is benevolence, theI ndep endent Order of the B

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nai Brithstood alone, ap p eal ing via Wash ingtonto the Russian Government for a tr uestatement of the facts, and its p residenthas contented h imsel f with adjuring themembers to keep calm .

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3 3 0THE MACCAB/EAN.

THE MACCAB/EAN SCHOOL, JAFFAThe First Z ionist School in Palestine

As long as the chi ldrenstudy

,

”to abbreviate the

Rabbinic maxim. Away

from the gr ime of Russiawe look to the effort made by a few

young enthusiasts in Jaffa to found thefirst Palestinean and Z ion ist school . We

hop e to revert more ful ly to th is under

taking in another issue, but a good dealof what schoo l means w il l be gatheredfrom the fact that congress ann iversaries and Dr. H erz l

’

s birthday are school

hol iday s. The Al l iance I srael ite has notmet this schoo l w ith diffuse affectionits p up ils are being H ebraised and Judaized before all th ings. The Jew ish future must rest w ith such efforts.

O f general interest durj. c, A. ing the month has been

SOOPCOY the effort to unravel themysteries of the Jew ish

Colon ization Association . The p rop osal

failed owing to the general confidence

[Jm e, 1 90 3

exp ressed in M r . Claude G . M ontefiore.

The question,however, remains that the

I . C. A . keep s from those it p urp orts toserve most the means of criticism and

counsel . The accentuation of the situat ion in Russ1a may, however, change

th is as it is changing so many other cur

rent methods of admin istration .

Dr. M . Friedlander, p rinAnniversaries cip al of Jews’ Col lege,

London ,has celebrated

his 7oth birthday . H is orthodoxy, love

of p eace,scholarsh ip and kindness are

unquestioned, he stands one of the

unique figures in the turmoi l of LondonJew ish l ife - of another kind is the an

niversary of the Jewish Comment, of

Baltimore . Newsp ap er birthdays havea tendency to be artificial celebrations,but the Comment, stands head and

shoulders above all its American Jew ishcontemp oraries, and well merits all the

congratulations its editor receives.

June, THE MACCABZEAN. 3 3 I

Dr. Gustav Gottheil— A Tribute

BY L. LI PSKY.

The Federation of Amer ican Zion ists, in common with the Jews of th is Continen t,mourns the death of Gustav Gottheil. H e was the p atriarch of the movement in America.

With the energetic and viri le old mah, Dr. Bernard Felsenthal , Dr. Gottheil gave the stampof venerableness to the movement , wh ich is as old as the memory of Bar Kochba, and whichdep ends for its success to- day on the youthfu l enthusiasm o f its workers . He stood for thevisible l ink wh ich bound the movement to the greatness of the past. The relation o f thesetwo men,

in their mel low old age, help ed to g ive a p ubl ic firmness to the Jewish nationalmovement of to - day, a movemen t wh ich in the short time of five years has made such rap idp rogress, that the sup p ort o f old age was p erhap s necessary.

Dr . Gottheil made mani fest, in his enthusiastic concern for Zionism, and his lofty con

cep tion of its ideals, that there was noth ing contradictory to his rel ig ious v iew p o int in

Jewish national ism. H is sagacity and his deep - seated Jewish consciousness, which never forsook him, led him ever to hop e for the triump hant p rogress o f the Jewish p eop le from the

g loom o f disp ersion to the bloom o f a bri l l iant national existence. H e held his rel ig iousOp inions dear, but he recogn ized the futi l ity of exp ecting that rel ig ion to flourish whi le hisp eop le were the

,

dust wh ich every Europ ean broom, at its p leasure, could scatter to the

winds. Dr. Gottheil stood as a p rotest.

against that hasty and unwise declaration of his col

leagues in the reform movement, wh ich p resumed to assert the fragmentary self- comp lacency of the Jewish p eop le in the lands where they were p ermitted to breathe with ease.

The loss of Dr. Gottheil to the Jewish national endeavor cannot be measured. The

influence of patriotism is never to be est imated by rule. But his value would have been as

noth ing if he had not by his enthusiasm and devotion fired the sp irits o f hundreds o f the

young men of our p eop le to emulate his p atriot ism, his enthusiasm, and to nold his high op inion of the destiny o f ‘hi s p eop le .

When that venerable figure, with the sp lendid head, typ ical of the ruggedness of his character, the p ersistence o f his p atriotism, the strength of his p urp ose, and the tenacity of his

race, stood before a Jewish audience, of the working force of our p eop le, old, orthodox,foreign , begr imed, but hop eful , and he sp oke, even in his last day, tremulously, p erhap s,whi le his eyes p eered into that shadow land of whose mysteries we know l itt le or nothing ,

for Zion and its h i l ls,” fo r the “ land of our sires,”and for our noble her itage,” which he

would not have the Jewish p eop le forget in disp ersion,wi l l any one say that the winds bore

away his utterance of his soul and there was mere si lence? The Jewish national ist wi l lnot bel ieve it . Rather would he bel ieve that to every one who heard his voice there came

that consciousness of national ity, wh ich in days to come would flower and g ive motiveto endeavor and endeavor to real ize the dream which the old, time-worn, rugged, yet hop eful old p atriarch so often dreamt and for the real ization of wh ich he so earnestly strove in

the last years of his useful l ife.

3 3 2 THE MACCABE AN. [June, 1 903 .

K I SH I NEFF .

AVOC, a rain of blood, and p it iless storm

Changing, in one fell hour,'

the human form ;

What erst breathed l ife,now aimless flows

Flung into gutter streams, by low coward blows.

H ell closes ; order is restored again ;The dead to earth, the dying writhe in p ain ;The l ivid sun sets, in vapory, cloudy gray .

H as not H igh H eaven— one glowing ray?

Tear stained , bloody, bru ised , we fall low,

Reap ing the death that others for us sow;Strong hands, icy with hate or unctuous with p ity ,Force us into qu iet p it, or offer Satan ’

s city .

Sp at on , sp at out— Jonah on tideless water,M angled

,martyr

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d,wearing shameful halter .

Sinking, a scarred corp se into stony grave,Our gap ing wounds cry who can save?

Dead , I srael dead ! Who blunders in the saying?That bl ind world wh ich made the bloody Maying .

The dead cry, from Abram, from age to age,

Life’s tooth bites in death ’s own rage.

Wounded, crip p led , broken , bent in yearsWe find old courage, born of our new fears .

Dead voices cry from out the sleep less n ightAnd bid us don armor for another fight .

The p hantom legions of our race form rank .

See ! Ghostly armies on each broad flank .

The war shout sounds : Judah is a l ion ’

s whelp !Dead mem

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ries. and l iving hands, are Z ion’

s help .

June, 1 90 3 THE MACCABE AN. 3 3 3

Kishineff Relief Fund

MMEDIATELY up on the receip t o f the news o f the massacre in K ishineff , the p residentof the Federation issued an urgent ap p eal through the p ress to all Zion ist organizations to col lect funds for the rel ief of the sufferers. This was fol lowed by the issueof a further ap p eal directed to indiv iduals. At a conference of the New York organiza

tions it was decided to hold a house- to - house col lection on Sunday, M ay 1 0 ; and to inv itethe Jewish business houses to give two p er cent. of their gross receip ts on Monday, May

1 1 , to the fund.

I n addition, an urgent ap p eal was also addressed to the Zionist societies direct, to lendassistance, and p lace thei r organi zations at the disp osal of all local rel ief comm ittees. The

resp onse has been remarkably satisfactory. I n the matter of the house- to- house canvass, inwh ich the stamp s, p rinted on th is p age, were used, the Chavei Z ion and the Buai ZionKadimah , of New York, have

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made esp ecial ly p raiseworthy efforts ; one member of the

former organization, Mr. S. H orwitz, col lected $68 in smal l sums.

Our acknowledgment in resp ect to the two p er cent. scheme is l imited to the amountsreceived in this office. A much larger sum was p aid in by business firms, who accep ted our

idea, to the New'

York Jewish newsp ap ers, or direct to Mr. Arnold Kohn, general treasurerof the K ishinef’f Rel ief Fund, to whom all the sums mentioned below have been remitted.

We give, in addition to the l ist of donations received by us, p articulars forwarded us

by Zionist organ izations who remitted to New York, or, in many cases,di rect to Russia.

NEW YORK— I NDIV IDUAL DONATI ONS .

Si lverstein Bros., $25 ; Paul Gottheil, $25 ; M . Warley Platz ek, $25 ; Hon. Jacob Can

tor, $25 ; J. B. Kleinert, $ 1 0 0 ; Dr. Jos. Si lverman , $5 Rev. Morris H . Harris, $5 ;A l ida Drefous, $5 ; J. W. Kurtz, $5 ; J . Unterburg, $ 1 0 ; M rs. A . Sel igman, $ 1 0 ;

Jefierson M . Levy , $50 ; H on. Oscar S. Straus, $ 1 0 0 ; U riah Hermann, $1 0 ; Sam

uel Schrier, $1 0 ; Beatrice S. Bernheimer, $ 1 0 ; H . Curiel , $ 1 0 ; S. Dober, $ 1 0 ;H . Rubin ,

Brooklyn , $1 0 ; I gnatz Wasserstrom, $ 1 0 ; Bel le Skirt C0 . , emp loyees,Jul ius Sokolower, p er Ohavei Z ion, $5 ; Jos. J . Corn, $5 ; Brown

H erzog, $5 ; M rs. M . D. Lou is, $5 ; E. Gosler, $5 ; Dr. A . E. I saacs, $5 ; Edw.

Jacobs, $5 ; Miss Fanny Sterl ing, $2 ; ‘

Rev. Dr. Brachman, $2 ; E. W. LewinEp stein, $3 ; S. Abel , $2 ; Hyman Fish, $2 Mr. Nelson , $1 ; H . Ansorge, $ 1 ;Mr. Sadler, $ 1 ; Sol . Cohen , $ 1 ; I . L. Bri l , $ 1 ; Amos P. Dushaw, $1 ; Miss L.

Levensohn ,. 50 ; Miss S. Markowitz , . 50 ; E. Antin, W i ll imantic, Conn , $ 1 ;

Messrs. Masserofl Passell, Erie, Pa. , $1 ; J. Goldenhorn,Jersey City , $2 ; S.

Morgenstein , Chatsworth, I l ls $5 ; Mr. W i l l iam Hal loway, Jr. , $ 1 ; Mr. Max

Eisman, $1 0 ; Mr. Augustus Op penhym, $25 ; Miss Rosie Bernheimer, $25 ;

Mr. Louis Stroock, $3 0 ; A . Friend, $25 ; G. Ris Br0 . , $5 ; De Witt Sel igman, $25 ; Martin Bi rnbaum, $3 ; Greenp o int Metal l ic Bed C0 . , $25 ; R. San

ders, p er Bnai Zion,Kademah, N. Y . , $5 . Total

ORGAN I Z ATI ONS —NEW YORK .

Roumanian Chevra Achei Josep h, $ 1 0 ; Harlem Sick Benevolent Society, $ 1 0 ;Enei Z ion ,

Bouni Zion,Harlem, Ohavei Z ion, $1 5 ; Benoth Zion

Ci rcle Hadassa, $1 0 ; Erster Galatz er Frauen Unt. Verein, $5 ; M efitza

3 3 4THE MACCABE AN. [June, 1 90 3 .

Sfassver Society, Daughters of Zion and Dorshei Z ion,Brooklyn ,

$56 ; Dorshei Zion,Brooklyn , Shoshanos Zion,

Brooklyn , $3 ; Do rshei

Z ion,Junr. Brooklyn, $ 1 ; American Daughters of Zion,

Ben H ur So

cial Club, $2 . Zion Benevo lent Society — I . D. Morrison, $5 ; AbrahamRadin

, $2 ,Kalman Radin, $ 1 ; Max Cohn, $2 ; Louis Cohen, $1 ; M . Doanay , $ 1 ;

M. Greenman, $ 1 ; I gnatz Randel , $ 1 ; Jacob Phi l l ip s, $ 1 ; I saac L. Weinstein, $5 ;I saac Kap lan, I . Ettlestein, .25 ; Lou is Ki rschbaum,

N . H orwitz , . 50 ;

Jacob Aaronson, .25 S. Duntz ky, .25 ; Max H enderson, .50 ; I srael Lewisohn, $2 ;Abr . Schwartz, .50 ; A . Seydeman,

.50 ; B. Bisco, $1 ; I . Rosenthal , $ 1 . Total

,

Mt . V ernon Lodge No . 7 1 , I . O . F. S. of I . . p er I . D. Levy , $25 ; Ladies’Aux . Society , Bath Beach, $25 Downtown H ebrew Ladies’ Benevo lent Society,

$25 ; Dist. Grand Lodge 1 , I . O. F. S. I ., $50 . Total

H OUSE TO H OUSE COLLECTI ON .

Ohavei Zion ,N. Y.

— Col lectors, S. H urwitz , A . Steinman, S. W. Goldstein ,M . Suss

man, J . I . Goldstein, Abr. Felder, C. Littvin , J . Massel , Asheroff, Rosenbaum,

Le

vinsohn, Jul ius Steinman, Rosenberg ,Z evy, Fuchs andWenerman , amount

Enei Zion Kadimah, $57 ; Glory of Zion , p er B. Prismann, Dorshei Z ion ,

Brooklyn, $30 ; Enei Z ion, col lectors, S. Lip p itz , R. Jacobson , M . Stone,Bouni Zion

,Harlem, I . M . Rosenthal , $ 1 0 ; Miss Wellikoff, Am . Daugh

ters of Zion, $4. Total , $325 .25 . Dorshei Z ion,Brownsvi lle, $20 ; New York

City Col lege Students, $20 . 50 . TotalBROWNSVI LLE— Col lected by Dorshei Z ion : East N. Y. Lit. Soc. , $5 ; Young Lad ies

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M ut. A id Soc. , $5 ; Lincoln Lit. Debating Soc. , Monroe Social Soc. , $2 ;Young Ladies

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Friendsh ip Soc. , $3 ; Sisters of Z ion, Young Ladies’

Lit .

Soc ., $ 1 Young Friends, $2 ; Baroness de H irsch Club, $2 ; Young Friends Pro

gressive Circle, .50 ; Young Daughters of Liberty ,.50 ; General col lection,

TWO PER CENT. COLLECTI ON .

H . Anz elewitz , MarcusBros. , I . Marcus,three p er cent. H .

Selechnik, D. B. Ogniz , $ 1 ; F. Hammer, $ 1 ; Z . Sundelew1 tz , $ 1 ; Sul

Elder Br0 . , $3 ; Gri l l C0 . , .76 ; B. Sachs, J . Go ldberg , $ 1 ; P. Meln ik ,

.50 ; J . Blumberg , Kal iski ’s Dry Goods H ouse, $ 1 ; N. H erman ,

Geiger Braverman,

Adolp h Prince, Brownsvi lle Fru it Disti l l ing C0 . , Penner Friedberg , $ 1 ; To lk Bernikow, PerlmanRosansky , $5 ; I . Picker, .42 ; Elkin’

s Music Store, Cohen Bros., . 52 ;

S. Rosenfeld, $ 1 ; B. Kohn,

L. Cohen , $1 ; Bocker Newman, $2 ; Basi lCafé $ 1 H . Adler, . 50 ; I . D. Schlachetzky , Chas. Cohen,

.50 ; S. Bunkin ,

.50 ; L. Friedman , .50 ; M . Gross, $2 ; H . Lewis, $ 1 ; E. Ep stein, $2 ; L. Levinsky ,

$2 ; M rs. M . Porges, $2 ; J . Solomon, S. Ep stein, Miskin Ruderman, .65 ; Berger C0 .

, $ 1 ; H . Levy , $ 1 ; Klonsky Cohen, $1 J . Korkes, .50 ;

P. Steinberg , $ 1 ; S. Mehlman , $ 1 M . Scribner, $ 1 S. Kantrowitz .75 ; ShulmanSons

, $5 ; S. Gossner, E. Frank, $ 1 M ax Mandel , $5 ; A . Aaronowitz ,

$ 1 ; D. Greensp an , $2 ; S. T . Z insler, $5 J . Katz,

. 08 ; K . Rees, $20 ; H . Schafferman, . 50 ; Co lumbia Hat C0 .

, . 1 5 ; Mr. Gottl ieb, .25 ; A . Kassel, .90 ; M ax Tischler, $ 1 ; G. Frank , . 50 ; J . Mishkin, $ 1 ; Morris Go ldberg , .30 ; N. Shon , .25 ;

S. Klap p er, .25 ; S. A lp ern, $2 ; H . Sh insky Son, $ 1 ; J . Katz , Max

Schwartz , .75 ; Cohen Siegell, .85 ; A . K osower, J . Potash, $2 Eisenb

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erg Minder, $ 1 ; J . Liberman, .75 ; J. Rabinowitz , $ 1 ; Bokschitzky Bros$ 1 ; H . A . Wellikof, $ 1 ; A . Schulman, $ 1 ; I . Reifl‘ en, $1 ; Feder Mishkin, $1N. Streich, H . Ganz , $2 ; Frank Rosen, $7 ; M . Goldberg , S. H orowitz, $2 ; A . Goldberg , $1 B. Badaness

, .50 ; M . Reiser, $1 ; Roth Berkowitz,$4 ; Cash , .25 ; E. Rosenblum , $ 1 ; M ax Stone, $ 1 ; David Kass, Carmel

June, 1 90 3 THE MAOCABZEAN. 3 3 5

W ine C0 . , $1 0 ; Freudenheim -Bros. Levy, Livingston Levy, $ 1 0 ;Mi l ler, Straus C0 .

, $2 ; Rubensky, Landes C0 ., $28 ; Krol l Sons, Brook

lyn, 5 . Sobel , $2 ; M . Rachkin, .25 ; H . Sklave, . 52 ; Z . I srael ite, $2 ; A .

Roth , $ 1 ; Af Levenson, .32 ; Lewis Slutsky, . 50 ; J. Lohrs, M . D. , $3 ; B. Weisman, Lurie Bros, $5 ; N. Prensky , $4 82 ; J . Sh irl ine, $ 1 ; Mr. Shulman,.25 ; Cap ito l Hal l , .63 ; J.

° Kahansky , .22 ; F. Sap an, .3 5 ; Sussman . 50 ; Suss

man Bros. , Brooklyn, Jos. Prensky Bro . , Grand TotalGENERA L COLLECTI ON

DAVENPORT,_

I OWA .— Max Ruben

, $5 ; M . Brady, $3 ; Chas. Brady, $2 ; Josep h Whitebook, $ 1 ; Meyers C0 . , $ 1 ; M . Kromer

, $ 1 ; B. Goldstone, , $ 1 ; T. Sm ith, $1 ;Z . Meyerson, $ 1 ; Geo. El lman, $ 1 ; I ke Estess, $ 1 ; J. Estess, $ 1 ; Meyer Stone,$ 1 ; M rs. Sarah Harris, $ 1 ; D. Markus

, $1 ; M . Tennenbaum, $ 1 Mr, Greenberg ,

$ 1 ; L. K omanitz , . 50 ; T. Goldstone, . 50 ; M . Doctorman 50 ; Dr. J . Raphaelson,

.50 ; Mr. Dorn 50 ; J . Glassman,

.50 ; M . Kanter, . 50 ; Dr. B. Coffman ,. 50 ; J .

Goldstone, . 50 ; M . Citren , .50 ; Meyer Tennenbom,.50 ; Pol ice Officer El lman,

. 50 ; M . Kovensky, .25 ; Mr. Kop chofsky , .25 .

ROCH ESTER, N. Y.—Ohavei Zion, S. Carson, $1 Abr. Simon and Ben Zevi, $4 50 ; H .

Josep h, $ 1 ; H . Levenson , $1 ; M . Gordon , $ 1 ;W. Gordon , $ 1 ; S.

Lap idus, $ 1 D. Goodman, . 50 ; D. Nathanson, . 50 ; H . Simonson, . 50 ; Feinberg , . 50 ;

M. Srednik, . 50 ; Jacobson,

. 50 ; J . Gold, . 50 ; J . Kavelesky, . 50 ; M. Hyman,. 50 ;

N. Kaufman , . 50 ; smal ler sums,

TotalROCK I SLAND

,I LL— Per Morris Lewis, Morris Lewis

, $ 1 0 ; M . Sosna C0 ., $5 ;

S. Baker C0 . , $5 ; 5 . Lewis, $3 ; H . Ruben , $2 ; H . Horblit, $2 ; Harris Bros. ,

$2 Gelerman Bros.,

M . Coop er, $ 1 ; Rev. M . Goldman, $ 1 ; D .

,

Werger,$ 1 ; M. Greenberg , $ 1 ; D. Z iffern, $ 1 ; A . Rubner

, $ 1 ; M . Finkelstein , $ 1 ; S.

Si lverman, $ 1 ; I . Kotchky, $ 1 ; L. Marks

, $ 1 ; Harry Morris, $1 M . Frankel , $ 1 ;S. Frankel , $ 1 ; S. Rich

, $ 1 ; M . Si lverman, $ 1 ; I . Rimmerman, $ 1 ; F. Frahm, $1 ;

H . A lter, $ 1 ; Meyer Cohn, $1 ; J . M. Sigel , $1 ; A . D. Harris, $ 1 ; Meyer Taxman,

$ 1 H . Mintz, $1 ; S. Gottl ieb, $ 1 ; 5 . Dubinsky, $1 ; M . Taxman, $ 1 ; J . Goldman,

$ 1 ; J . Si lverman, $1 ; I . Levinstein‘

, $ 1 ; B. Rachman , $1 ; B. Goldman , $ 1 ; E.

Weinroot, $ 1 ; K. Z iffren, $ 1 ; M . Schneider, $1 ; M . Z it’fren, $ 1 ; D. Z itifren, $ 1 ;

L. Bernstein , $ 1 ; A . Rotkofsky , $1 ; M. Cop p erstein , $ 1 ; M . Marblestone, $ 1 ;

S. Z iff ren, $ 1 ; H . Cohn , $ 1 ; H enry Morris, $ 1 ; V ictor Fletcher, $ 1 ; S. Gold

berg , $ 1 ; Frank Katz , $1 ; Jake Lifstein, $ 1 John Brady, $ 1 ; Otto Patting, $ 1 ;M rs. Goldie, $ 1 ; L. Livingstone, $ 1 ; S. Falkovitch, $ 1 ; Morris W

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einstein, .75 ;

H. Cop eland, . 50 ; P. Sosna, . 50 ; A . Katz, . 50 ; W. Shap iro, .50 ; H . Lisman,

. 50 ;

Abe Frankel, .50 ; M . L. Baker, .50 ; S. Tucker, . 50 ; M . Lifstein, . 50 ; The London

Cloth ing H ouse, $5 ; Simon M osenfelder, $ 1 ; J . M rs. SarahZ indelewich, $ 1 ; Z. Cohn ,

.50 ; Z. Leman, . 50 ; Mr. Slabodo fsky ,. 50 ; I . Meyers,

.50 ; N. Bronstone, . 50 ; H . Gelerman,. 50 ; H Rosenfield, . 50 ; S. Lifstein, .50 ;

D. Light, .50 ; M . Cohn ,. 50 ; S. J . Gould, . 50 ; J . Frankel, . 50 ; G. Dlugsh, . 50

A . Shomer, .50 ; M . Tap p er, .50 ; 5 . Fisher, . 50 ; M . Bergman,

. 50 ; W . Rich, .50 ;

M . Ginsberg ,. 50 ; A . Lemon , . 50 ; P. Byroth, . 50 ; Mr. Schneidman, .50 ; Mr. Res

n ick, . 50 ; Meyer Litickman , . 50 ; B. Futterman , . 50 ; B. Weisman, . 50 ; H . Finkelstein

,. 50 ; Mike Rosenfield, .50 ; M. H . Finkelstein, . 50 ; L. Stein, Go ld

berg, . 50 ; J. Taxman, .50 ; Mr. Greenthal, .25 ; M . Baker,

. 1 0 . TotalKALAMAZ OO, M I CH .

— Co l lecti0 n p er Mayor Folz, S. M . Folz , $5 ; H . H . Desenberg,$5 ; Sam Rosenbaum Sons, $5 ; J. Gumbinsky , $5 ; Geo . Polasky , $5 ; FlexerBros.

, $5 ; Sp eyers, $5 ; E. B. Desenberg , $5 ; I saac Goldberg , $5 ; A . So lomon,

$1 ; L. I senberg , $2 ; M. Cramer’s Sons, $2 ; E. B. I saac, $ 1 ; Mr. Groz ep in, $ 1 ;Meyer Frankl in, $ 1 ; M ittenthal Bros $2 ; S. Stern , $2 ; Jake Levy, $ 1 ; MeyerDesenberg , Jr. , $ 1 ; Morris Cohn, $2 ; M . Si lverstone, .50 ; Ben Weisberg , $2 ;Ben Nathan, $2 H . Rathner, $2 ; A . Cohen, .50 ; Dave Rose, $2 ; Sam Rosenblum,

$2 Max Gussenoff , $ 1 ; Dora H ofer,

.50 ; A lbert Worch, $ 1 ; I I . Newman , $1 ;

3 3 6 THE MACCABZEAN. [June, 1 90 3 .

M . Desenberg , Sr. , M . Sternfield‘

, .50 ; H . Fishel, $ 1 ; A . Go ldberg , . 50 ;

H . Shulman, .50 ; I . S. Si lverman, $2 ; I da Fishel, .25 ; P. Stemfield, $2 ; Sam

Cohen , $ 1 ; Frank Piet er, $ 1 ; Harry Hyman, $2 Max F. Wittelle, $ 1 ; Chas.

Holt, Cash, $ 1 ; B. Solomon, $1 ; C. Friedman, $ 1 ; E. Go ldberg , $ 1 ; M .

Leuz,

.50 ; A . Colanfas, $ 1 ; S. Simstem 50 ; J . Lewis, $2 ; A . Brand, $2 ; A . Buck$2 ; J. Si lverman, $ 1 E. Lefkowitz , . 50 ; H . Gard, $ 1 ; John Rodin,

. 50 . TotalWACO

,Tax—Daughters Of Zion : M rs. H . B. Cohen, $ 1 ; M rs. J . M . Freeman, $ 1 ;

M rs. T . Segal , .50 ; M rs. S. W ise, .50 ; M rs. I . Lyons, .50 ; M rs. H . Gilber, .50 ;

M rs. J . Rosenberg , .50 ; M rs. F. Kap lan, .50 ; M rs. D. Levenson, . 50 ; M rs. M .

Cohen, .50 ; M rs. M. Harris, . 50 ; M rs. F. Berkman, .50 ; M rs. M Danzig ,. 50 ;

M rs. D. Berlowitz , . 50 ; M rs. B. Norrich, .50 ; M rs. G. Phillip owsky ,. 50 ; M rs.

N. Wood, .50 ; M rs. M . Adams, . 50 ; M rs. J . Go ldberg , . 50 ; M rs. S. Levy , .50

M rs. I . and G. Gen i Kov, .50 ; M rs. M . Harris, .25 ; M rs. J . L. Levine, .25 ;

M rs. D. Adams, .25 ; M rs. H . Adams, .25 ; M rs. N. Freeman, .25 ; M rs. G.

Cohen, .25 ; M rs. A. Norich, .25 ; M rs. D. Hawtof, .25 ; M rs. L. Lazarus, .25 ;

M rs. S. Greenberg, .25 ; M rs. I . Seltzer 1 5 ; M rs. A. Adelman, . 1 5 . Total .DETROI T, M I CH .

—Enei Z ion, Gate NO. 2 1 , $ 1 1 ; Treas Gate NO. 2 1 , $ 1 0 ; Young Men’

s

Zionists Gate 57, Maccabees (Ladies), $ 1 0 Maccabees (M en),HebrewProtective Union, $1 0 ; Mr. Koram, Mat ienne

,I nd .

,Mr. Shewsky ,

Phi ladelp h ia, Pa. ,Total

PH I LADELPH I A, PA .—Friends of Z ion ,

Dorshei Zion, $ 1 1 ; Bnai Zion , $ 1 0 . TotalBOSTON, MASS—Defenders of Zion, $35 ; Sons of Zion, Daughters of Zion ,

HAVERH I LL, MA SS— Sisters o f Zion, $5 ; Blossoms of Zion, $5 . TotalROCHESTER, N. Y.

—Y0 ung American ZionistsBALTI MORE

,MD.

—Daughters Of Z ionWESTERLY, R. I .

—Sons Of ZionI NDI ANAPOLI S, I ND.

—M evassereth ZionCH ARLESTON, S. C.

-General CollectionNORMA , N. J.

—United Z ion istsSI OU X CI TY, I OWA .

—Davidson Bros. C0 . , $ 1 0 ; Adas Yeshuren Congregation, $5 ; TheH ebrew Charity Society , $ 1 0 ; Ladies

’

Hebrew Friendsh ip Society, $ 1 0 ; Sons of

Zion, $5 ; H . Levin, $5 ; J . Kritchener, .25 ; B. W . Prusiner, .25 ; L. Baron. 65 ;

I . Brodkey, . 50 ; P. Z athman, .50 ; Brodkey Goodsite, $ 1 ; M rs. C. Davidson,

$ 1 ; H . Brodkey, $1 ; B. Sherman, .50 ; P. Mi l lman, . 1 0 ; Morris Leafchein, $ 1 ;

Mike Kugstein, .50 ; Abe Rozen, .25 ; Mr. Flashman, Omaha, Neb. , $2 ; 5 . Syn

kin, $ 1 ; D. Brown, . 50 ; A . Kruger, . 50 ; J . N. Kruger, .50 ; H . H urwitz, .50 ;

Abe Galinsky, .50 ; A. D. Davidson, .50 ; B. Reingold, .50 ; H . Brodsky, . 50 ; Max

Orkin,.50 ; Rabbi Rabinowitz, .25 ; S. Kaufl’man, . 50 ; I . Gothstein, .50 ; S. Smith

Son, $1 ; W. Rabinowich, .50 ; Max Brodkey, .50 ; Mr. Orkin, .50 ; H . Galinsky,

.50 ; H . Brown ,.25 ; J . S. Kruger, . 50 ; J . Kauffman, .50 ; Chevra Kadisho Soci

ety, $5 ; M rs. Nathan Mi l ler, .50 . TotalWHAT CHEER, I OWA .

- J. Gel lman, $2 ; Wm. C. Windett, $ 1 I . Ogden, $1 ; H . Buchman, .50 ; H . W. Clark, .25 ; Lou is Kop p , .50 ; Chas. Leonard, .25 ; R A . Baylor,.25 ; J . Luttchie, $ 1 ; W. H . Orr, .25 H . L. Mitchell , $ 1 ; H . Wyp p er, . 1 0 ; Myncri,

. 50 ; Houlu H otch , $ 1 ; J . Riddles,

. 50 ; R. S. A lexander,

. 50 ; Wm. Ridley, . 50 ;

W. Thomp son, .50 ; A lex. Walker, .50 ; W . F. Moul , .50 ; J. H . Robison, .25 ;

H . B. Lawrence, .25 ; A . Gernesse, .25 ; C. S. Citley, .25 ; W. R. Reed, .25 ; L. C.

W i lson, .50 ; James Leich, .25 ; John Ford, .25 ; G. P. Bains, .25 ; J . C. Wi l l iams,.50 ; H . J . M . Bauhonts, .25 ; D. L. Lawson, .25 ; G. P.

’

Baylin 25 ; J . Sunf’fa, . 50 ;

Val ley Fibre C0 . , $1 ; Lambert Bros. 25 ; Flasity 8x Myerby, .25 ; Harbison 81

Lignes, . 50 ; Lows Friedman, .50 ; Mr. Millburn, . 50 ; Anonymous, . 1 5 . Total . .

DES MOI NES , I OWA .—C. Si lberman

CROSWELL, M I CH .—M rs. Johanna Stern

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The Ez rath Zion, of Portsmouth, Va. , raised and sent the money on to K ish ineff direct.

The Port land, Ore. , Zion ists help ed to raise for this Fund.

The Bnai Z ion,of A l l iance, N. J. , raised $24 50 . among the Jews Of that city.

The Officers Of Chave Zion, Cincinnati, raised by the 24th net, and undertook to raise by the first week in June. Mr. H i lf, the corresp onding secretary adds

characteristically : “

Let Dr. H erzl make p ubl ic that Palestine belongs to our nation as soon

as a certain amount of money is raised and you wi l l find that our 1 70 members wi ll havecash l isted with in 30 days.

The Rochester col lection is due to Rabbi Kap lan,who

,over and above the sum referred

to above, col lected one hundred dollars.

The Detroit, Mich , organ ization raised $225 , over and above our account. The money .

was sent direct to K ishineff . The work of col lection was much aided by the strenuousefforts of Rabbi Kap lan and Mr. M . Go ldgleid, p resident of the Bnai Zion.

The Kalamazoo co llection owes its initiative to the Mayor, Mr. Samuel Folz.Mr. A. L. Schi ller, of the Scranton Chovevi Z ion , rep orts a col lection of col lected

at Carbondale, South Flats, Pittston ,Duryea ; and donations from the Ahawath and the

Sp insters Aid Society ; $ 1 25 was cabled to Kishinefi.

The Ahawath Zion and the Chevra Beth I srael , of Los Angeles, Cal. , forwarded $20 0to the New York Central Committee.

The Daughters Of Zion,of New York, held a concert in aid Of the Fund on May 2 1 , at

the New Pythagora Hal l .A col lection in aid Of the suff erers was made by the Zionists o f Worcester.The Z ion ists Of St. Paul, Minn , held a mass meeting and $2 1 3 was raised in aid Of the

Fund.

The Stamford Zion ists contributed $77 to the New York Central Fund.

The initiative Of raising money in Providence, R. I . , was taken by the local Zionists,and the sum forwarded to the New York Jewish World.

’

The Portsmouth , Va. ,col lection was forwarded direct - to Kishineff .

The col lection in Memp h is, Tenn was organ i zed by the local Z ionist Society. One

hundred and twenty - nine dol lars was col lected and forwarded to the American I sraelite.

The United Zion ists Of Cleveland held a house—to - house canvass.

The Z ion ists Of Cincinnati were most active,and a thousand dol lars was raised.

The Dorshei Z ion,of Bridgep ort, Conn , organ ized a committee to raise funds.

The Tip hereth Z ion , Of Anson ia, Conn , made a col lection in aid of the suff erers.

The Z ionists of Wash ington,D. C. , in addition to the col lection of the Young Peop le’s

Union of Z ion,raised

A mass meetnig was held on the’

1 0 th ult., by the Bnei Zion, of Denver. Addresses were

del ivered by the Rev. C. H . Kauvar, Dr. Phi l ip Hilkowitz , and Mr. Phi l ip H ornbine. The

col lection amounted to Forty members were enrol led in the Enei Zion .

The Sons of Z ion, Of Elmira, raised and forwarded the sum to the New'

YorkCentral Comm ittee.

The Tikwath Zion Society , Of Pittsburg, raised $20 0 for the K ishineff sufferers.

A mass meeting, organized by the Zion ist societies of Newark, at wh ich Mr. Dienard p resided, resulted in the col lection of Money is sti l l being raised in that city.

The total sums referred to above amount to bringing the sum which the Zion istshave been instrumental in raising up to

June, THE MACCABZEAN.

The l’

laccabaean

J . DEHAAS, ED1TOR

J une , 1 9 0 3

THE CONVENTI ON

HAT wi l l be said? What wi l l bedone? All our thoughts are turning

toward meeting in Pittsburg, where a rightroyal recept ion awaits every delegate. We

look to a great, rousing convention, one thatshal l flash electric sp arks into every Jewishbreast in which to - day smolders some feeling for Zion, some emotion for I srael . And

who is really without one or the other wh i lelurid and blood curdl ing tales of horror fillthe newsp ap ers.

A convention is a p lace of meeting, wheremen and women come to th ink and workout issues. This surely wi l l be at Pittsburg .

Th is convention, too , wi l l be our on ly p ro

test. A manly and dign ified p rotest againstthe evi ls that are p ut up on our p eop le.

Neither cring ing nor fawn ing, but standingsteadi ly, shoulder to shou lder, we can makethat p rotest wh ich the world can understandand does understand-A- the p rotest o f a unitedand a determined p eop le. We offer greetingsto every delegate. GO to Pittsburg and wo rkand . think and help p resent the real Jewishfront to the world . Do this and the conven

tion wi l l be worthy of the movement and thecause.

at

PAN- AMERICAN JEW I SH CONGRESS

HE Federation has received and has ac

cep ted an invitat ion to take p art in a

Congress which is to be held in Washingtonnext winter. The congress is the o utcome o f

a resolution moved at the last c onference of

the Union of American H ebrew Congregations, and is the first but most adequate rec

ognition that the Jews exist other than as a

rel ig ious body, and have interests outside of

the p urely sp iritual or rel igious domain.

Such a congress Can do noth ing but good ,

even if it accomp l ishes noth ing ; it wil l establ ish the p otential ity of the Jew and wi l l p lacehiin in

.

a better l ight than that in wh ich“

he

stands to d ay. Z ionists can accep t invitations to such gatherings without any hesita

3 3 9

tion, for they have g iven l ife to such ideas,and as such, must be interested in them. I t

is, moreover, characteristic o f the currenttrend of thought that the Advisory Committee have p ut the Emigration Q uestion for

ward as the issue wh ich claims p aramountattention from a Jewish congress.

Since Jacob went forth from his father’shouse, the eternal question has been,

Whereto? May this cong ress, when itmeets, find for the wanderer a resting a

resting p lace, such as the patriarch found on

his jou-rney to Laban’

s home.

«90

HORROR!

H ORRORS up on horror’s head accumu

larte ! Hour after hour adds to the

loathsome foulness o f a black bestial tragedy. .The mind cannot conceive the sharpfanged savagery that made the holocaust ofKishineff , and no novel ist in all the mad

j ingl ing descrip tions Of world wars has ven

tared to credit human beings or mere beastwith such cap acities as p ossessed the Kish ineff mob. The brute an imal is too sluggishlybrutal to make of his lower world such an

inferno—only the human p est can shame humanity, and p rove what is beneath the nineteen centuries Of modern civi l izat ion.

Our martyred race kneels in the bath o f

blood and shedding the hot and bitter tearsOf the accummulated centuries of suffering,cries once more to heaven : H ow long, oh,

Lord ; how long ? H ow long must we stayunder the lep er’s hand ; how long shall thisghoul ish p ower rule over us ; how long ere

the world shal l p rove its detestation Of thefiend incarnate ?

H ow long? Our verbal p rotest is but a

breath of air and our accusation o f Russia,from Cza r to ma mest official , but a blunt,badly aimed arrow. The con-science of the

world wi ll sp eak, and then l ul l itself to forgetfulness, unti l its nerves wi ll again become

taut by news o f the next outrage.

We are a weak, Old race ; yet, we have a

right to be a p roud race. Noblesse oblige.

Let us die with folded arms si lently, vain va

p orings are unbecoming ; or since we cannotfight let us out and quit the comp any of a

p eop le who se every breath is contamination.

And death is no t yet . We cannot—wil l notdie. Then to l ive, we have no other Choicebut to quit.

34 0THE MACCABZEAN. [June, 1 90 3 .

THE W INGS OF H I SERY

ZIONI SM is p rogressing on the wings Of

suff ering and sorrow! The death Of ourdearly ' loved vice-

p residen t, Dr. GustavGottheil, has Op ened the eyes of men l ikeDr . Voorsanger, Of San Francisco ; and he isnot alone in recognizing the rej uvenatingp ower of our ideal . And that is but a detai lin a great situat ion .

One- half the world knows not how the

other half l ives— and, if we are no t mistak

en, does not want to know. A weak generation quits the theater before the finale o f the

tragedy— it does not wan-t to see misery faceto face. And yet our fine skins sometimes,accidental ly, flush with the p ain of another’sbruises. Kishineff, Kieff , Odessa, Bendariand Tirosp ol ; p anic throughout Russia ; newstringent measures for the sup p ression of

the Russian Jews ; new schemes to stop immigrat ion to the Uni ted States. Fine headl ines for sensational newspap ers No ! Lit

eral facts h iding grim detai ls o f bloodybutchery, rapine and mental and p hysicalannihi lation ; and each fact a feather in thatwing of suff ering which carries Z ion ism ou

ward.

K ishineff ! Thousands have not on ly felttheir hearts throbbing, but men to whom all

has been darkness, have, through an electricsp ark, beheld the l ight. What else but Z ionism ? What other solut ion is p ossible ?They say it ; nay, they feel it . This is balmto the Jewish wound ; this, and that j oiningof hearts and outstretch ing of hands wh ichOnce more exh ibits the sol idarity of our

masses when face to face with misery.

There are those who could have sup p l iedwithout thinking the money that has so laboriously been raised by the p oor— but the p eop lehave given ! And it is a great trait in realJewish character, which p romp ted the question to K ishineff :

“

How is it wit-h yourp eace ? What do you need?

”The real

Jewish heart p erceived the facts even beforethe cable had brought them. I ts kins-hip to

suff ering has taught it understanding ; thatis why so many Jews have suddenly foundvoice for that Jewishness for which Z ion ismis but another name and cause.

SI

THE SHANE OF IT

E do not exp ress use less ind ignation at

these outrages ; we rai l neither at themob nor ofli cials ; we have the g loomy and

unhap py satisfaction o f saying, We to ld youso .

” Would we had no t been p rop hets of

woe, and that there had been no occasion to

p rop hesy that the days Of Jewish suff eringhad not ended .

Yet we gnash our teeth in humi l iation.

Any mob could, any day, riot in any city ifthe po l ice are neg l igent. Shal l we desp airbecause of K ishineff ? Not a wh it ! But the

shame o f it, the disgrace of it !With two thousand years o f conscious rec

ord behind us, we must beg Russian black

guards for mercy ; and, i f we are foo l ish,p lead with governments to endeavor to in

terfere in the internal affairs Of the Russianemp ire. We have no other measures o f selfdefense avai lable excep t the stick or the

p urse of the individual . We may individual ly hold Our heads h igh ; we may look as

kance at these facts ; the facts remain ; and,more p otent than all our castles in the air, of

education, of amel ioration, of p rogress and

what not, is the p atent truth that as a p eo

p le we are p owerless ; and in sooth, voiceless among the p eop les oi the earth. We are

l inked to Kish-ineff even though we havesnap p ed the l inks in the o ld chain . Slaveswere we in Egyp t - slaves we are sti ll .I t is no t the Kishineff cut- throat whom we

must blame—crude, bestial fool . What shal lhe, what can he know; '

-human ignorance and

stup idity force a martyrdom up on us. But

we, the Jews, should know, we man by man,and woman by woman, we, should know the

truth : that it is '

our fai l ing to help ourselveswh ich v isits up on us th is suff ering and dis

grace.

June, THE MACCABE AN. 34 1,

Official Information

TH E CONGRESS .

The‘

Sixth Congress wi l l be held in Basle,Switzerland, beg inning Sunday, August 23 .

The sessions wi l l last the who le week .

The regulations covering the election Ofdelegates wi ll be issued in the course Of a

few d ays. Societies so desiring can ascertainfrom the secretary the n ames of qual ified Z ionists, who are wi ll ing to attend the Con

gress.

THE NATI ONAL FUND DAY.

The attent ion o f every secretary is t e

quested to the need for forwarding the

National Fund Day co l lection and the l istsdi rectly after Sunday, June 7 . Notwithstanding the ap peal fo r Kishineff there is everyp rosp ect of an excel lent co l lection i f the or

ganiz ations second our efforts.

DUES , RETURNS, ETC.

The societ ies are again urged to forwardtheir returns and dues before the convention.

Any and every mistake in the statistical tableabout to be issued wi l l be due to fai lure on

the p art Of organi zations to attend to thesedetai ls in time .

PI TTSBURG H EADQ UARTERS .

All urgent mai l and telegrams intended forthe convention should be addressed betweenJune 4 and 1 0 , to Mr. J . de Haas, ZionistH eadquarters. 1 60 6 Centre avenue, Pittsburg,Pa. Z ion ist Convention,

Pittsburg, Pa. , suf

fices for telegrap hic p urp oses.

Ordinary mai l should, however, be ad

dressed to the NewYork ofli ce .

NATI ONAL FUND.

The ordinary National Fund receip ts during May wi ll be inco rp orated in the annualrep ort .

TH E SECRETARY.

NATIONAL FUN ACCOUNT .

From Ap ri l 23 to M ay 30 , 1 90 3 .

0 0 0 0 0 0

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

NewYork, N Y . Cards and FederationOffice Box

GOLDEN BOOK ENTRIES .

Lo s Angeles, Cal . , Young Zion ist

Lou isvi l le, Ky . , Daughters of Z ion .

Ph i ladelp h ia, Pa. , Friends of Z ion .

The late Dr . G. Gottheil

TH E LATE DR. GOTTH EI L.

The Executive Counci l thanks the societiesfor the numerous letters of condolence re

ceived on the death of the late Dr. Gottheil ;

esp ecial thanks are off ered to the Federation Of Eng l ish Zion ists.

May 29 , 1 90 3

Baltimore, M d. , Ezras Chovevei ZionBridgep ort, Conn , Dorshei Z ionDenver, COL, Bnai Z ionH averh i l l, Mass , M . Sadowit z .

Key West, Fla. , Chovevei Z ionNewark, N . J . ,

Young Men’

s Z ion istSociety

NewYork, Buai Z ionNew York, Cash ( 3 items)NewYork, Proceeds of Z ion ist Demon

stration, held at Coop er Un ion,

March 26 , 1 90 3

NewYork, Sisters of ZionSharon,

Pa.,Tiphereth Z ion .

U tica N. Y , Moses Z i lberman

THE MACCABE AN. [June, 1 90 3 .

Official Programme of the Sixth An

tion Of American Z ionists

HELD AT CENTRAL TURNERS'

HALL. FORBES ST

PI TTSBURG , JUNE 7th TO 9th , 1 90 3 .

(For Serv ices, Festive Gatherings , etc .,see Delegates' Gu ide .)

SUNDAY, JUNE 7m . MORN I NG SESS I ON, 9 A . M . m NOON .

Address o f Welcome by Mayor Hayes.

Annual Message by the President.Roll Cal l .Corresp ondence and Telegrams.

Rep ort of Permanent Committee of Convention on p rocedure.

Ap p ointment of Committees.

Executive Counci l Rep ort.Resolutions I n Memoriam.

SUNDAY, JUNE 7TE . AFTERNOON SESS I ON, 2 To 6 P. M .

I . Rep ort of Committee on Credentials.

I I . Debate on Rep orts.

I I I . Resolution by Executive Counci lWH EREAS, The recent barbarous outrages in K ishinefi and other Russian cities, which

have shocked human ity , have again exp osed to v iew the general ly Weak and defenselessp osition of the Jewish nation, and

Whereas, These massacres have p roved that the continued settlement Of the Jewishp eop le in Russia has been, and is, attended with serious p ersonal ‘

danger and unnecessary and

futi le martyrdom, thus demonstrating the need for action other than that - Oi p roviding rel iefafter such unfortunate occurrences

,and

June, THE MACCABEAN. 3 43

Whereas, The tendency of the nations is to restrict imm igration, Therefore, th is Convention, t e- afli rming the Zionist p rincip les, calls up on every Jewish congregation and com

munity throughout the United States, and up on every individual Jew to give heed to the

p iteous ap p eals of our p eop le ; and in the common interests of human ity and the p articularnecessities of the Jewish p eop le to help end their p resent p l ight by affording the Zionistmovement that cordial and financial sup p ort, which wi l l enable it to achieve the p urp ose forwhich it is organized, the t e- settlement of the Jewish p eop le in Palestine.

I I I . Rep ort of Committee on Amended Constitution.

MONDAY,JUNE 8m . MORN I NG SESS I ON, 9 A . M . To NOON.

I . Debates on Rep orts and Resolutions.

I I . Resolution by the Executive “

Counci llThat, I n v iew of the growing needs of the organ ization and the advisabil ity of ap p oint

ing lecturers and organ i zers whose time Shal l be at the service of the Federation,

Therefore, This Convention resolves that it is obl igatory up on every organization to

hold a gathering during the Festival of the Tabernacles,and that the gross p roceeds there

from shal l be remitted to the Federation .

That the total sum so col lected be divided into two p ortions, one- half to be used for

the bu ilding up of a reserve fund, and the other towards defraying the exp enses of lecturersand the issue of p rop agandist l iterature.

(b. ) That, as soon as the aforesaid sums have been received by the Federation, theCommittee on Organ ization shal l make arrangements for the ap p ointment of a p aid organ

iz er, p referably a Y iddish sp eaker ; and shal l devise a scheme for the equal izing of any

charges to be made for the serv ices of such lecturer b y the societies, or the rep ayment from

the sp ecial fund to the societies of sums exp ended for th is p urp ose.

(c. ) That a share club shal l be founded in every society not yet p ossessing such withinthree months of th is Convention for the p urp ose of increasing the sale of Jewish ColonialTrust shares on the instal lment p lan issued from the office of the Federation.

(d. ) That it be recommended to the di rectors of the MACCABE AN PUBLI SH I NG Cou

PANY that as soon as a further sum of cap ital be subscribed, step s shal l be taken forthe issue Of an official organ in Yiddish on l ines simi lar to the MACCABE AN.

(c. ) That all notices and information p ubl ished in the MACCABJEAN as“

Official I nformation” shal l be regarded as binding and obl igatory up on the affil iated organizations, and shal lstand instead of sp ecial circulars ; but th is resolution shal l not p revent the ExecutiveCounci l from issu ing such circulars as it may deem necessary from time to time

RESOLUTI ONS OF THE ENAI ZI ON OF GREENSBURG, PA .

I . That the President and oflicers of the Federation shal l issue a message, declaring theimp ortance, aims and p urp oses of Zionism,

and that o rganizations be sup p l ied with p ackagesof one hundred or more cop ies, of such message.

That the p resident of every Zion ist society shal l be resp onsible for the d istribution bymai l of cop ies of this message to Jews in his town .

That the Executive Counci l shal l have p ower to Offer a p rize not exceeding fifty dollarsfor the best original essay on Zionism,

and twenty-five dol lars for the best extract or translation into Yiddish or Engl ish from any wel l - known Hebrew Zionistic writing .

344THE MACCABE AN. [June, 1 90 3 .

That every society affil iated with the Federation,whose membership is not more than

twenty-five, shal l subscribe for two shares in the M ACCABJEAN PUBLI SH I NG COMPANY ; societies with a membership not exceed ing fifty shal l subscribe for three shares ; not exceeding sixty-five members, four shares ; and above that number, five shares.

The MACCABE AN shal l devote sp ace for the p ubl ication of congratulations or condolencesfrom Zionists or Zionist societies, who shal l, at the same time, remit donations for the

National Fund, and that a sp ec ial account be rendered at each Convention of money so

collected.

MONDAY, JUNE 8TH . AFTERNOON SESS I ON ,2 To 6 P. M .

Papers and Discussion on Jewish Education.

(a.) M iss Henrietta Szold, “The Education of the Jewish Girl .

(b. ) The Rev. Dr. Adolp h M . Radin,

“

How Can We Teach Hebrew?

(c. ) Dr. S. Benderly,“Hebrew and Education.

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(d. ) Pap er by Dr. Max Hel ler, “

The Rationale Of Modern Judaism.

( e. ) Mr. Louis Lip sky,

“

The A imlessness of American Jewish Education.

Unfinished and Miscel laneous Business.

TUESDAY, JUNE g m. MORN I NG SESS I ON, 9 A . M .

I . Discussion of Adjourned Motions.

I I . Ap pointment and I nstruction of Rep resentatives to the Sixth Congress.

Resolutions by the Executive Counci l .(a.) This Convention ap p roves the holding of Shekel and National Fund Days, and

urges uponthe Congress about to assemble in Basle the advisabil ity of establ ish ing a un iver

ml Shekel Day during the Festival of Chanukah, and a National Fund Day during the Passover hol idays.

(b. ) This Convention urges upon the Congress the advisabi l ity of so amending the

general const itution as to make clear beyond all cavi l, that the Executive Council of theFederation in each country ( landescomite), ap p ointed by a majority of the societies in suchcountry ; and that all attemp ts to injure such Federation and the work of its committees byorganizing sp ecial and unauthorized shekel and other col lections shal l be regarded as hosti leto the best interests of the movement, and that the V ienna Actions Comite shal l refuse p ayments from any organizations in any country, excep t same be transmitted through the

landescomite.

(c. ) That this Convention urge the Congresss, and through the Congress, the Counci lof Administration and the Board of Directors of the Jewish Co lonial Trust that

,in view of

the large Jewish pop ulation in th is continent, and its continued financial relationship s with theJews in Eastern Europ e, it is exp edient and advisable to Op en a branch of the JewishColonial Trust in the city of New York ; and th is Convention p ledges the individual support of every delegate to help further such branch when establ ished .

I I I . Nomination of Members of Grosser Actions Comite.

(a.) Resolution by Executive CouncilThat it is the op inion of this Convention that th is Federation be rep resented by six,

instead of five members, on the Grosser Actions Comite ; and that the Congress instruct

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National Fund Day— June 7

The fol lowing are the first receip ts on National Fund Day account. The total re

ceip ts wi l l be used to enter the name of our great leader, Dr. Theodor H erzl, in the Go ldenBook

,on behalf of the subscribers ( l ists and checks are cal led for so that the p resentation

scroll'may be p rep ared).

Los ANGELES, CAL.

—Ahavath Zion H . Kine] , .50 ; B. Levy,.50 ; J . Finkenstein,

.25 ;

A. Perlberg , .25 ; H . Finkenstein,.25 ; L. Goldberg , .25 ; G. Bloom,

.25 ; Joe We

mourd, .25 ; J. Stortz, .25 ; M . Bo lon, .25 ; D. Cohen, .25 ; A . Robinson, .25 ; H .

Horowitz , .25 ; L. Levitt, .25 ; S. Levene, .25 ; S. Rose, .25 ; J . S. Weis,

.25 ;

M. Charitons, .25 ; Joe Handelsman,

.25 ; L. Beron,

.25 ; I . Margol ies, .25 ; Max

Wartnik, .25 ; Morris Sofski, $1 ; E. F. Gerscht

,.25 ; Ch icago Kosher Meat

Market,

.25 ; Fannie Laietsky , .25 ; H . Ptullif, .25 ; M . Gratz, .25 ; A . Goldstein,. 50 ; Harry Cohen,

.25 ; Abraham Lip kin,.25 ; H . Pevor, .50 ; M . Meyer, .25 ; S.

Dembowski , . 1 0 ; H . Wainer, . 50 ; S. Alexrod, . 50 ; Moritz Rap p ap orts, .25 ; J.Si lverstein, . 50 ; B. Forer, .25 ; R. Sp itz, .25 L. Forer

,.25 L. H i lman, .25 . Total

ROCHESTER, N. Y.-Chevra Bnai Zion Society, Lazer Berman

,.25 ; S. Kap lan, . 50 ;

Max Rosenzwieg , .25 ; S. Abramson,.25 ; H . Paley, .25 ; M . Kaufmann,

.25 ; A .

Bernhard, .25 ; H . Rosenberg, .25 ; K. Landy, . 50 ; S. K lousck, . 1 5 ; A . Bloom,

.25 . TotalASH LAND KY. AND I RONTON,

-OH I o.—H ebrew Unity Society, J . Nathan, Ashland, .50 ;

S. Loth, I ronton , .25 ; R. Greenberg , .I ronton, . 50 ; J. Josselson,

Ashland, . 50 ;

A . Josselson, Ashland, .50 ; Ben Josselson,Ashland, .50 ; Simon Harris, Ash

land , .25 . TotalNEW YORK .

—Bnoth Zion Circle Hadassa

BALTI MORE, MD.—Zion Association,

I srael Fine,in memory of his son,

Moses Aaron,

$3 ; M rs. E. D. Singer, L. H . Mi l ler, $ 1 ; E. Becker, $ 1 ; Lou is Finn , $ 1 ;I . Yofl

'

e, $ 1 ; M . Kerson

, $1 I . Ebel, $ 1 M . Cohen , of New York, $ 1 ; S. Sherr,

$ 1 A . Kohn, $ 1 ; I srael Fine, $ 1 M . H . Amrom, $ 1 A . Grinstein , $ 1 ; S. Ki rsh,$ 1 ; S. Reiff

, $ 1 ; L. Lesser, $ 1 A . YoiI e, $ 1 ; Ch. Lev inson , $ 1 ; I . Shuman,

. 50 ;

I . D. Cap lan, . 50 ; M . Stark, . 50 ; S. Mi l ler, . 50 ; J . L. I saac, . 50 ; H . Landsman ,

. 50 ; M . S. Kut’f,

.50 ; I . Berman 50 ; P. Lurie, . 50 ; I . Berger, . 50 ; M . Dorn, .50 ;

S. Stein 50 ; I . Dav idson, . 50 ; R. Blumberg , .50 ; A . Q uitz , . 50 ; P. Krammer, . 50 ;

L. H i l lman, . 50 ; S. Blaustein, . 50 ; Ch. I . Pump ian, . 50 ; L. Blumberg , . 50 ; E.

Cap lan,. 50 ; N. Schochet, . 50 ; M . D . Sherewitz , .50 ; L. Berman, . 50 ; Morris,

.50 ; N. Corn, . 50 ; D. Lip shitz , . 50 ; L. Singer, . 50 ; A . I . Ep stein,

. 50 ; H . Lavett,

. 50 ; H . Melman 50 ; S. Rabinowitz, .50 ; D. Halandsky ,. 50 ; S. D. Ep stein,

. 50 ;

S. H erman, . 50 ; M. Cap lan , so ; M . Si lverberg ,. 50 ; S. H il lman, . 50 ; M. Shap iro,

. 50 ; S. Blumberg, . 50 ; L. Lev in, . 50 ; M. K lavansky, .50 ; M . Ki rson,. 50 ; S. Sag

ner, . 50 ; I . Go ldstein, . 50 ; I . Sofier . 50 ; Weiner, . 50 ; N. Carp , . 50 ; A . H arrisson, . 50 ; A . Berkowitz , . 50 ; L. Natkm, . 50 ; M rs. Berman

,. 50 ; M rs. D . Blaustein,

.50 ; M rs. Lesser, . 50 ; M rs. A. H igger, . 50 ; M rs. M . Levy ,. 50 ; M rs. Z . Gottl ieb,

M rs. B. Garanz ig , .50 ; E. L. Ste in, . 50 ; H . Jacobs, .50 ; J . Berger, . 50 ; H . Schlossberg , . 50 ; Mr. Barnett , . 50 ; L. El inor, .50 ; M . Clipman

,. 50 ; J . Harke, . 50 ;

M rs. M . Adler, . 50 ; M rs. Ch. H igger , . 50 ; M rs. Wo llbarst, . 50 ; M rs. S. Ep stein ,

. 50 ; M rs. M . Fineman,

. 50 ; M rs. J . Badner, . 50 ; M rs. Z . V enden,

. 50 ; M rs. B.

Cap lan, 50 ; Anon . , .50 ; A . H ofi’, .45 ; H . Gudman, .30 ; S. Rubin,25 ; J . L. Lip nick,

25 ; M . Shap iro , .25 ; Chs. Friedman, .25 ; L. Grinsp on , .25 ; I . Cap lan , .25 ; S. Davidov, .25 ; S. Proser, .25 R. Aaronson, .25 I . Rap p ep ort, .25 ; N. Theodor, .25 ; I .

Hurwitz , .25 ; B. H oudelberg ,.25 M . Grausick, .25 ; L. Shador, .25 ; S. Perelinotf ,

.25 ; R. R. Jo ffe, .25 ; D. S. Magid , .25 ; Chs. Harris,

.25 ; H ummelfarb, .25 ;

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Kreiger, .25 ; H . Slusky, .25 ; W. Katzen, .25 M . Greenstein, .25 ; Chs. Katz , .25 ;

B. Ell ison, .25 ; M . H i l lman , .25 ; S. Barovay, .25 ; 1 . Richmond 25 ; I . Miris, .25 ;

J . Esterson,.25 ; S. Toker

, .25 R. D. Cohen, .25 ; W. Penner, .25 ; I . M erenblum,

.25 ; I . Yarshish, .25 ; B. R. Katz, .25 ; I . Berman, .25 ; L. V ise, .25 ; I . Blechman,

.25 ; D. L. Kap lan, .25 ; A . Bloom, .25 ; I . Ember, .25 ; Bernstein, .25 ; P. Saltzman ,

Freedman, .25 I . Leberman , .25 ; A . Givener, .25 ; D. Katzner, .25 ; Ch. M.

Smatritz ley, .25 ; B. Z . Sachs, .25 ; I . Kramer, .25 ; M rs. I . Korn,

.25 ; M rs. S.

Mirres, .25 ; M rs. I . H erzfeld, .25 ; M rs. A . Kirson , .25 ; M rs. S. Libovitz,

.25 ;

M rs. Annis Goldberg , .25 ; M rs. Z . Brodie, .25 ; M . Katz , .25 ; J. R. Levin 25 ;

A . Rosenbaum. .25 ; I . Fine, .25 ; A . Ch. Kamerowitz, .25 ; I . . Ludnick, .25 ; A . I .

Si lber, .25 ; I . Cap lan,.25 ; P. Z iontz , .25 ; A . Wasserstein, .25 ; M . A . Sachs,

Ch. Sachs, .25 ; M rs. Singer, .25 ; M rs. Q uitz , .25 ; M rs. D. H i l lman,.25 ; M rs.

M . Richmond 25 ; M rs. E. Shuman, .25 ; M rs. S. Bear, .25 ; M rs. J. Goldberg,.25 ; M rs . H i lman,

.25 ; M rs. G. Sachs, .25 ; M rs. I . Kap lan, .25 ; M rs. A . Schoem,

.25 ; M rs. K. Fineman, .25 ; M rs. Lap p in ,.25 ; M . Kerson , .25 ; Anonymous, .25 ;

I . Blechman ,. 1 5 ; M .

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Baisun, . 1 0 ; M rs. Kolter, . 1 0 ; M rs. Dube, . 1 0 . Total .Los ANGELES DI ST.

—Additional . .

HARTFORD, Comm—Bnei Zion (detai ls next issue)Los ANGELES, CAM—Young Z ions, Harry Fram, $ 1 ; Miss Sop h ia Fram,

. 50 ; MorrisKaufman,

. 50 ; Ben Davidson, . 50 ; A lfred Newman , .so ; A . Fram, .50 ; M rs. LinaFram, .25 ; Max Rabinowitz, .25 ; I saiah I senstein, . 50 ; A . M . Block, . 50 ; So lomonEl ias, .50 ; L. H urwitz , .25 ; H . Kaufman ,

. 50 ; Louis Meyer, .50 ; H . Nadro,. 50 ;

A . Fishbein, .25 ; The WOrkingmen’

S Friend Store, . 50 ; Chas. Weisbart, .25 ;

H . D. Gi lbert, Klibansky, Louis Weisbart, .25 ; H . Harris, Jacob

Deutch, L. Kretzer, .25 ; I . Kafka, S. Kafka, .25 ; Al. H orowitz,A. H . Horowitz, Total

Total to May

3 48THE MACCABE AN. [June, 1 903 .

[Corresp ondents must p lease note that all communications intended for p ublicat ion must be wri tten on one

side of the pap er only—En .)

New Societies have been organ ized at New

Haven, Conn ; New Brighton, 5 . I . ; New

Bri tain, Conn , and Oakland, Cal .

A memorial service in memory of the lateDr. Gustav Gottheil was held in Troy, N. Y . ,

on Sunday, May 3 . A col lection fol lowedfor the National Fund.

The Benoth Z ion Circle Hadassa, o f NewYork, held an info rmal recep tion and dance

at the H ermoine, on Saturday, May 23 , in

aid of the Kishinei’f Fund.

A new society was recently organized in

Baltimore, M d. , cornposed of ladies, with a

membership of 40 , through the efforts of the

Rev. H . Mi l ler, who is on a p ropaganda tour.

The American Daughters of Z ion, of NewYork, held a bal l on May 27, which was to

have been held on Ap ri l 1 7, but was p ostp oned on account o f the dem ise of Rev. Dr.

Gustav Gottheil.

The Rev. M . Copstein and the Rev. S.

F il

ber, addressed a mass meet ing at the BethMordecai Synagogue, Perth Amboy, N. J .After eloquent addresses had been del iveredit was dec ided to organi ze a Zionist society,and one hundred members were enrolled.

The NewYork Friends o f Zion wil l ho ld a

mass meeting in aid of the National Fund at

the Coop er I nstitute, June 7 ; all local societies should co- opera-te witu the above organization in order that a substantial sum shouldbe handed over to the National Fund.

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APE RETON . a recenAddress, MACCABEAN meeting of the Glace Bay Zionist Society Mr.

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3 3 0 BROADWAY J. Lighter was elected p resident . The new

the Societies

The Rev. M . Silver, who was recentlyelected Rabbi o f the June Street Temp le,Cincinnati, Oh io. , is doing good Zionisticwork. Professor Magnus, of the H ebrewUnion Co l lege, del ivered several lectures on

Zionism, at the Jewish Settlement, wh ichwere ver wel l received .

The Young Zionists Association, of Los

Angeles, Cal. , held a bal lon May 1 8. The ar

rangements were made by the Prop agandaCommittee, cons isting o f S. Pearlman, H .

Fram and A . H orowitz. Part o f the p roceedswas devoted to enter ing the name o f the S0

ciety in the Go lden Book of the NationalFund.

The Rev. Dr. Loeb made a stirring ap p ealto members o f the Young Peop le’s Union of

Zion, of Washington, D. C. , in aid of the

Jews of K ishineff , and the organization im

m-ediately ap p rop riated a substantial sum for

that p urp ose. The chairman, Mr. Max

Aaron , was unanimously elected delegate to

the convention.

I n Denver, Co lo , Dr. Kauvar, Rabbi ofthe Beth M -edrath Hagodol ; Mr. Ponsky,

president, Mr. T. H . S. Mendelson, the treasurer o f the E

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mai Zion Rel ief Committee, arestrenuously act ive for the Kishineff Fund,

and their effo rts are meeting with great success. A mass meet ing was held at Temp le

Emanuel on May 24, and Governor Peabody,Mayor Wright, Senator Tel ler, Senator Patterson, ex -Governor Thomas, Dr. T. H .

Kanvar and Rabbi Friedman, of Temp leEmanuel addressed the meeting . The trendof the sp eeches was decidedly Zionistic.

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board of officers are energetical ly p romotingthe movement in th is district .

OTTAWA , ONTARI O—The Jews of th is cityare about to build a large and handsome syn

agogue. The Zion ists are help ing the undertaking, wh ich wi ll redound greatly to the

credit o f the Ottawa community . A consid

erable fund hasi

been subscribed.

WAPEI LA , N. W . TERRI TORI ES—A new Zionist soc iety has been establ ished at Wap el'la,Province of Assinibo ia, Northwest Territories, under the name of the Jewish Agriculturists

’ Zion ist Society of Wap ella. Mr. S.

Barash has been elected p resident. The

members of the o rgan ization are co lonistswho were establ ished here by the Baron deH i rsch Fund, and who are engaged in the

cultivation of extens ive farms.

The Daughters o f Z ion of Montreal on

May 1 7 held its Q uarterly General MeetingAbout 1 50 members attended. The chair wastaken by M rs. Clarence I . de Sola, the p resident, who rep orted continued accession of

membership and substantial p rogress since

the last quarterly meeting . Several of the

ladies are taking an active interest in the

victims o f the Kishinet’f barbarities, and in

tend ra ising a fund to help al leviate thei r distress.

WI NN I PEG , MAN I TOBA—The Annual General Meet ing of the W inn ip eg Zion ist Society took p lace on M ay 3 . Considerable in

terest was shown in the proceedings, and

there was an animated discuss ion of means

of imp roving the effic iency o f the p ropagandain Manitoba, and more esp ecial ly o f the local

Th e M accaba—za n ,

3 20 BROADWAY , N ewYO RK .

(Paymen t shou ld not be made by check on ou t of town banks . )

wo rk in Winn ip eg . The election o f officersbrought return to office of a number of the

p ioneers of the movement in Man itoba, andresulted as fo l lows : President, L. Agrino

vitch ; vice-

p resident, Benjamin Zimmerman ;treasurer

, J . Udow; secretary, H . Wediman.

The Z ion ists of Winn ip eg have taken p raetical step s for the rel ief o f the K ishineff sufferers They have ap po inted a sp ecial committee to so l icit subscript ions, and have al

ready raised a good ly sum.

MONTREAL, CANADA .—The annual general

meeting of the Montreal Zionist SocietyAgudas Zion was held recent ly, and was verylargely attended . The p res ident,

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Dr. DavidA . Hart, occup ied the chair. The various re

p orts o f the p ermanent committees, after discussion were adop ted. The secretary’s statement showed a large membershi p , but recommended a new system of col lecting fees, andresolutions in th is direct ion were adop ted .

Several amendments to the by - laws were alsointroduced . The election o f officers resultedas fol lows : President, Mr. J . S. Leo ; firstv ice-

p resident, Mr. H . Ruttenberg ; second

vice-

p resident, Mr. M . Schap iro ; treasurer,Mr. I srael Rubenstein ; co rresp onding secretary , Mr. Wm . Levy ; recording secretary,Mr. M. Davis. Members of the Counci l : Dr.D . A. Hart, Messrs. H . Bern stein,

M . Carmen,

H . Levy , C. I . de Sola, Z. Fineberg , Sol.

V ineberg, H . V ineberg, I . Wienfield. Propa

ganda Committee : Messrs. C. A lbert, J.Chanan ie, M . Fisher, C. Fisher, A. Fal ick,N . Grudjinsky, N. B. Eliasop h, L. E. Heil lig,B. J . H ayes. S. Levitt, A . Levin, L. M . Rosenthal , J . M . Manonsol, J. L. Rosenweig , L.

Rosenberg , P. Waterman, J . Waterman, J.

Sp rince. Auditing Committee : Dr. Bacharach, Mr. E. L. Rosenthal .

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This means sp ecial contributions by Prof. R. Gottheil,

M iss Henrietta Sz old, Dr. Adolph M . Radin, Dr.

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