Vienna Before the Swastika
(Continned from hage 18)
erime, for every lapse from good taste,
give me of course—may at times denote
for every indiscretion for which every
he better aristoerney.
eI yon needn't
Jew is responsible throughout the world.
look at me so pitifully, he added with
That, of course, easily makes one unjust,
am not ulways 80
abrupt rudeness.
1
I have other moods in Which
but those are touches of nervousness and
sensitive.
Then onle
sensitiveness, nothing more.
nothing can affect me in ang way nor
pulls oneself together again. That can
any person either. Then 1 feel simply
not be called anti-Semitism. But there
this—what do you all know—what
610
are Jews whom I really hate, hate as
yon know about me
* *
Jews. Those are the people who act be¬
Heinrich later attempts to explain to
fore others, and often before themselves,
his friend, George, the youthful Baron,
as though they did not belong to the rest
why Jews so often express contempt 10
at all. The men who try to offer them¬
selves to their enemies and despisers in
their fellow-Jews.
The conversation
800
the most cowardly and eringing fashion,
came up while Heinrich was deseribing
and think that in that way they can
one Winternitz, a would-be poct with pe¬
escape from the eternal curse whose bur¬
culiar ideas of his own outstanding ge¬
den is upon them, or from what they fee
is equivalent to a curse. There are, of
nius, as one of those persons who have
60
course, always Jews like that who
alwavs got an d voi on their lips.
about with the consciousness of their ex¬
What is always on their lips?“ in¬
treme personal meanness, and consequent¬
Quired the Baron.
y, consciously or unconsclously, would
Heinrich smiled. Vou must know the
Of
like to make their race responsible.
story of the Polish Jew who was sitting
course that does not help them the least
in a railway compartment with an un¬
bit. What han ever helped the Jews?
known man and behaved very conven¬
the good ones and the bad ones.
I mean
tionally until he realized by some remark
of course,“ he added hastily, “those who
need something in the way of material
and on the strength of it immediately
And then he broke off
or moral help.“
proceeded to stretch out his legs on the
in a deliberately flippant tone:
Yes,
seat opposite with an d soi of relief.“
my dear George, the situation is some
Quite good,“ said George.
what complicated and it is quite natural
It is more than that,“ explained Hein¬
rich sternly, “it is deep; like so manz
cerned with the question should not be
other Jewish storles it gives a birds-eye¬
able to understand it properly.
view into the tragi-comedy of present¬
day Judaism. It expresses the eternal
The death of Heinrich’s father, who
truth that no Jew has anz' real respect
lost his nrind following petty persecutions,
for his fellow-Jew, never.
As little as
which drove him from the Liberal party,
prisoners in a hostile country have any
produced another impassioned outburst
real respect for each other, particularly
when they are hopeless. Envy, hate, yes
when the two comrades got together
frequently, admiration, even love; all that
again. Heinrich had called his father a
there can be between them, but never
tragi-comic figure and went on to explain
respect, forthe play of all their emotional
why to the Baron:
lile takes place in an atmosphere of fa¬
Ves.“ retorted Heinrich unhesitatingly.
millarity, so to speak, in which respect
“a Jew who loves his country
can not help being stifled.
mean in the way my father did, with
4
Do you know what I think?“ remarked
real feeling of solidarity, with real feel¬
George. That you are a more bitter anti¬
ing for the dynasty, is, without the slight¬
Semite than most of the Christians
est question, a tragi-comie figure
know.
vit
mania of yours,“ replied
A
Do you think so?“ he laughed;
but
George.
You really very often give one
not a real one. Only the man who is
the impression that you have quite lost
really angry at the bottom of his heart
the capacity of seeing anything eise in
at the Jews’ good qualities and does
the world except the Jewish question, von
everything he can to bring about the
always see it everywhere.
If I were as
further development of their bad ones is
discourteous as you happen to be
a real anti-Semite. But you are right
times, I would
vou'll forgive me
* * *
up to a certain point, but I must finish
ourse, say that you were suffering from
by confessing that I am also an anti¬
persecution-mania.
Aryan. Every race as such is naturally
Persecution-mania
replied Hein
„
repulsive, only the individual manages at
rich dully, as he looked at the wall.
#1
times to reconcile himself to the repulsive
see, so you call it persecution-mania, that
elements in his race by reason of his own
Oh well.
And then he continued
* *
personal qualities. But I will not deny
suddenly with clenched teeth:
Say,
that I am particularly sensitive to the
George, I want to ask you something on
faults ef Jews. Probably the only reason
vour consclence.'
is that I—like all other Jews, we Jews,
I'm listening.
I mean—have been systematically edu¬
He placed himself straight in front of
cated up to this sensitiveness. We have
George and with his eyes pierced his fore¬
been egged on from our youth to look
head.
Do vou think there’s a single
upon Jewish peculiarities as particularly
Christian in the world, even taking the
grotesque or repulsive, though we have
noblest, straightest and truest one von
not been so with regard to the equally
like, one single Christian who has not in
grotesque and repulsive pecullarities of
some moment or other of spite, temper
other people.
I will not disguise it—if a
or rage, made at any rate mentally some
Jew shows bad form in my presence or
contemptuous allusion to the Jewishness
behaves in a ridiculous manner,
I have
of even his best friend, his mistress or his
often so painful a sensation that I should
wife, if they were Jew or of Jewish de¬
like to sink into the earth. It is like
scent?“
without
walting
for
1330
a kind of shame that perhaps is akin
George’s answer:
There isn't one,
tothe shame of a brother who sees his
assure yoll.
Vou ean try another test
sister undressing. Perhaps the whole
also if you like. Read, for instance, the
thing is egotism, too. One gets embit¬
letters of any celebrated and otherwise
ered at always being made responsible
perfectly shrewd and excellent man and
for other people’s faults, and always be¬
observe the passages which contain hos¬
ing made to pay the penalty for every
tile and ironic expressions about his con¬
temporaries. Ninety-nine times out of a
hundred it simply deals with an individ¬
BERING CIGARS
ual without taking any account of his
Mavana
descent or creed.
In the hundredth case,
where the miserablt victim has the mis¬
Corral, Wodiska & Co.
fortune to be a Jew the writer will cer¬
Manufacturers
tainly not neglect to mention that fact.
That’s Just how the thing is, I can't help
The Stearn Co.
it. What you choose to call persecution¬
Distributore
mania, my dear George, is in reality
35 Wall Street, New York City
simply an extremelv intense conscious¬
ness that has been kept continuously
awake of a condition in which we Jews
happen to find ourselves. And as for
talking about persecution-mania, why !t
would be much more logical to talk
THE SEYNOUR COMPANT
about a mania for being hidden, a mania
for being left alone, a mania for being
Adbertising
safe; which though perhaps a little less
NEW VORK
sensational form of disease, is certainly
a much more dangerous one for its vie¬
503 Fifth Avo.,
tims.
at 42nd St.
Vanderblit 8763
For those who are fed up on the rabid
anti-Zionists who dismiss the question
with the
overworked stock-phrase,
America is my Zion,' and on the just
Headquarters for
as rabid Zionists who see in a JTewish
*COLUMBIA“ Bicyeles
State the solution of all the world’s ills,
AND
we recommend the debate which takes
LCOLUMBIA“ Cyclets
place between Heinrich Bermann and Leo
Terminal Cyele and Sperting Geods Co.
Golowski, who had a year before at¬
41 Cortlandt Street
New Vork
tended the first Zionist Congress at
Basle, as the two young Jews were rest¬
the
ing with their friend, the Baron, on the
Jewish Chautauqma Society and
slope of a hill outside Vienna, during
founder of the organization, sent a
the course of a cyeling journey. It is
greeting.
one of the cholcest passages in the book.
The address of welcome was de¬
Lco, the militant young Jew, had fonghit
livered by Rabbi Abram Simon of the
several duels because of insults, direct
Washington Hebrew Congregation
or indirect, which he had chosen to set¬
and Arthur K. Stern, of Philadelphia,
tle by pistols; one duel resulted when
President of the Socicty, responded.
Leo introduced himself to à Connt as
Leo Golowski, Cracow Jew. Leo fecls
that Heinrich hasn't given sufliciently
thorough thought to the question, else he
Mcoopnans
would not be so dead set agains: Zionism.
PUREEGG
and he explains why. Quoting from the
ACDNOODLES 65
lovel:
He (Leo) then told them of his ex¬
perience at the Basle Zionist Congress in
Which he had taken part in the previous
year and where he had obtained a deeper
insight into the character and psyehologi¬
Balancing a Meal
cal condition of the Jewish people than
he had ever done before.
With these
Goodman's Pure Egg
people, whom he saw at close quarters fol
the first time, the yearning for Palestine,
Noodles served as a dish
he knew it for a fact, was no artiflcia!
by themselves or with
Dose.
genuine feeling was at work
A
within them, a feeling that had never be¬
Soups, Fish, Fruit, Vege¬
come extinguished and as now flaming un
afresh under the stress of necessity.
tables, Puddings, etc., sup¬
N0
one could doubt that who had seen, as
ply the full nourishment of
he had, the holy scorn shine out in their
looks when a speaker exclaimed that they
selected egge and wheat.
must give up the hope of Palestine for
A great aid to the house¬
the time being and content themselves
with settlements in Africa and the Ar¬
wife in preparing properly
gentine.
Why, he had seen old men, not
uneducated men either, no, learned and
balanced meals.
wise old men, weeping because they must
needs fear that that land of their fathers
Send for valnable recipe boek—il’s free
which they themselves would never be
able to tread, even in the event of the
A. GOODMAN & SONS,
realization of ihe boldest of Zionist plans,
INC.
would perhaps never be open to their
634 East 17th Street
children and their children’s children.
New York
The Leo Golowskis throughout the
world have now opened the land of their
fathers. But are there cnough Leo Go¬
lowskis to safeguard it and build it up?
Albert F. Gescheidt & Son
One hundred and fifty delegates rep¬
Real Estate, Insuranoo and Oonveyanding
resenting congregations in 19 states
Money to Loan on Bond and Mortgage
ALBERT F. GESCHEIDT RALPH GILLRTTN
and 33 cities, from Connecticut to
Connsellore-at-Law
Texas, and from Michigan to Mis¬
Beuth Neurch Ave.
Ml. Vernen, M. V.
souri, were present at the Thirty-Sec¬
ond Annual Assembly of the Jewish
ODELL and WATT
Chautauqua, which closed in Wash¬
MEN'S FURNISHINGS
ington on December 27th. Unable to
be present in person, Dr. Heury Berk¬
200 Main Stress
22 Go. Ach Avenue
owitz of Philadelphia, Chancellor of
New Rochelle. N. V.
Mt. Vernon, N. V.
NOKTHAVENCEBANK
North Avenue and Huguenot Street, Neu Rochelle
Atthé Hub of New Rochelle. Oapital 9150,000. Surpfus 970,000. Safe Deposlt and Storage Vaults
BEST BANKING AND TRUST DEPARTMENT BERVION AT
V
FAE MATIUNAE CIT! DANK
MAIN AND LAWTON STRHETS, NHW ROCHRLLN
OAPITAL AND BURPLUS 8600.000
TOTAL ABSKTB. OVEN 60.500.000
Authorised to Do Trust Company Businese
CONSERVATIVE, OBLIGING and PROGRESSIVE.
ACCOUNTS BOLIOTTAD
CHEWING GURT
TICKS
en r
NATCRAE
Saratoga Mineral Water
Insures Your Good
HLALIIT
Hathorn—Strong Cathartic
Coesa¬
Mildly Laxative
Geyser
Sparkling Table Water aids
digestion
SAMUEL GOLDSTEIN
GIAN
110
STURAL.
Distributor of
MSANEA TUETT EEII N
3
senid Paker
Saratoga Natural Mineral Waters
TEEIN ET
127 Greene St., New York
Spring 8050 and 2916
Evening Phone: Orchard 7389
(Continned from hage 18)
erime, for every lapse from good taste,
give me of course—may at times denote
for every indiscretion for which every
he better aristoerney.
eI yon needn't
Jew is responsible throughout the world.
look at me so pitifully, he added with
That, of course, easily makes one unjust,
am not ulways 80
abrupt rudeness.
1
I have other moods in Which
but those are touches of nervousness and
sensitive.
Then onle
sensitiveness, nothing more.
nothing can affect me in ang way nor
pulls oneself together again. That can
any person either. Then 1 feel simply
not be called anti-Semitism. But there
this—what do you all know—what
610
are Jews whom I really hate, hate as
yon know about me
* *
Jews. Those are the people who act be¬
Heinrich later attempts to explain to
fore others, and often before themselves,
his friend, George, the youthful Baron,
as though they did not belong to the rest
why Jews so often express contempt 10
at all. The men who try to offer them¬
selves to their enemies and despisers in
their fellow-Jews.
The conversation
800
the most cowardly and eringing fashion,
came up while Heinrich was deseribing
and think that in that way they can
one Winternitz, a would-be poct with pe¬
escape from the eternal curse whose bur¬
culiar ideas of his own outstanding ge¬
den is upon them, or from what they fee
is equivalent to a curse. There are, of
nius, as one of those persons who have
60
course, always Jews like that who
alwavs got an d voi on their lips.
about with the consciousness of their ex¬
What is always on their lips?“ in¬
treme personal meanness, and consequent¬
Quired the Baron.
y, consciously or unconsclously, would
Heinrich smiled. Vou must know the
Of
like to make their race responsible.
story of the Polish Jew who was sitting
course that does not help them the least
in a railway compartment with an un¬
bit. What han ever helped the Jews?
known man and behaved very conven¬
the good ones and the bad ones.
I mean
tionally until he realized by some remark
of course,“ he added hastily, “those who
need something in the way of material
and on the strength of it immediately
And then he broke off
or moral help.“
proceeded to stretch out his legs on the
in a deliberately flippant tone:
Yes,
seat opposite with an d soi of relief.“
my dear George, the situation is some
Quite good,“ said George.
what complicated and it is quite natural
It is more than that,“ explained Hein¬
rich sternly, “it is deep; like so manz
cerned with the question should not be
other Jewish storles it gives a birds-eye¬
able to understand it properly.
view into the tragi-comedy of present¬
day Judaism. It expresses the eternal
The death of Heinrich’s father, who
truth that no Jew has anz' real respect
lost his nrind following petty persecutions,
for his fellow-Jew, never.
As little as
which drove him from the Liberal party,
prisoners in a hostile country have any
produced another impassioned outburst
real respect for each other, particularly
when they are hopeless. Envy, hate, yes
when the two comrades got together
frequently, admiration, even love; all that
again. Heinrich had called his father a
there can be between them, but never
tragi-comic figure and went on to explain
respect, forthe play of all their emotional
why to the Baron:
lile takes place in an atmosphere of fa¬
Ves.“ retorted Heinrich unhesitatingly.
millarity, so to speak, in which respect
“a Jew who loves his country
can not help being stifled.
mean in the way my father did, with
4
Do you know what I think?“ remarked
real feeling of solidarity, with real feel¬
George. That you are a more bitter anti¬
ing for the dynasty, is, without the slight¬
Semite than most of the Christians
est question, a tragi-comie figure
know.
vit
mania of yours,“ replied
A
Do you think so?“ he laughed;
but
George.
You really very often give one
not a real one. Only the man who is
the impression that you have quite lost
really angry at the bottom of his heart
the capacity of seeing anything eise in
at the Jews’ good qualities and does
the world except the Jewish question, von
everything he can to bring about the
always see it everywhere.
If I were as
further development of their bad ones is
discourteous as you happen to be
a real anti-Semite. But you are right
times, I would
vou'll forgive me
* * *
up to a certain point, but I must finish
ourse, say that you were suffering from
by confessing that I am also an anti¬
persecution-mania.
Aryan. Every race as such is naturally
Persecution-mania
replied Hein
„
repulsive, only the individual manages at
rich dully, as he looked at the wall.
#1
times to reconcile himself to the repulsive
see, so you call it persecution-mania, that
elements in his race by reason of his own
Oh well.
And then he continued
* *
personal qualities. But I will not deny
suddenly with clenched teeth:
Say,
that I am particularly sensitive to the
George, I want to ask you something on
faults ef Jews. Probably the only reason
vour consclence.'
is that I—like all other Jews, we Jews,
I'm listening.
I mean—have been systematically edu¬
He placed himself straight in front of
cated up to this sensitiveness. We have
George and with his eyes pierced his fore¬
been egged on from our youth to look
head.
Do vou think there’s a single
upon Jewish peculiarities as particularly
Christian in the world, even taking the
grotesque or repulsive, though we have
noblest, straightest and truest one von
not been so with regard to the equally
like, one single Christian who has not in
grotesque and repulsive pecullarities of
some moment or other of spite, temper
other people.
I will not disguise it—if a
or rage, made at any rate mentally some
Jew shows bad form in my presence or
contemptuous allusion to the Jewishness
behaves in a ridiculous manner,
I have
of even his best friend, his mistress or his
often so painful a sensation that I should
wife, if they were Jew or of Jewish de¬
like to sink into the earth. It is like
scent?“
without
walting
for
1330
a kind of shame that perhaps is akin
George’s answer:
There isn't one,
tothe shame of a brother who sees his
assure yoll.
Vou ean try another test
sister undressing. Perhaps the whole
also if you like. Read, for instance, the
thing is egotism, too. One gets embit¬
letters of any celebrated and otherwise
ered at always being made responsible
perfectly shrewd and excellent man and
for other people’s faults, and always be¬
observe the passages which contain hos¬
ing made to pay the penalty for every
tile and ironic expressions about his con¬
temporaries. Ninety-nine times out of a
hundred it simply deals with an individ¬
BERING CIGARS
ual without taking any account of his
Mavana
descent or creed.
In the hundredth case,
where the miserablt victim has the mis¬
Corral, Wodiska & Co.
fortune to be a Jew the writer will cer¬
Manufacturers
tainly not neglect to mention that fact.
That’s Just how the thing is, I can't help
The Stearn Co.
it. What you choose to call persecution¬
Distributore
mania, my dear George, is in reality
35 Wall Street, New York City
simply an extremelv intense conscious¬
ness that has been kept continuously
awake of a condition in which we Jews
happen to find ourselves. And as for
talking about persecution-mania, why !t
would be much more logical to talk
THE SEYNOUR COMPANT
about a mania for being hidden, a mania
for being left alone, a mania for being
Adbertising
safe; which though perhaps a little less
NEW VORK
sensational form of disease, is certainly
a much more dangerous one for its vie¬
503 Fifth Avo.,
tims.
at 42nd St.
Vanderblit 8763
For those who are fed up on the rabid
anti-Zionists who dismiss the question
with the
overworked stock-phrase,
America is my Zion,' and on the just
Headquarters for
as rabid Zionists who see in a JTewish
*COLUMBIA“ Bicyeles
State the solution of all the world’s ills,
AND
we recommend the debate which takes
LCOLUMBIA“ Cyclets
place between Heinrich Bermann and Leo
Terminal Cyele and Sperting Geods Co.
Golowski, who had a year before at¬
41 Cortlandt Street
New Vork
tended the first Zionist Congress at
Basle, as the two young Jews were rest¬
the
ing with their friend, the Baron, on the
Jewish Chautauqma Society and
slope of a hill outside Vienna, during
founder of the organization, sent a
the course of a cyeling journey. It is
greeting.
one of the cholcest passages in the book.
The address of welcome was de¬
Lco, the militant young Jew, had fonghit
livered by Rabbi Abram Simon of the
several duels because of insults, direct
Washington Hebrew Congregation
or indirect, which he had chosen to set¬
and Arthur K. Stern, of Philadelphia,
tle by pistols; one duel resulted when
President of the Socicty, responded.
Leo introduced himself to à Connt as
Leo Golowski, Cracow Jew. Leo fecls
that Heinrich hasn't given sufliciently
thorough thought to the question, else he
Mcoopnans
would not be so dead set agains: Zionism.
PUREEGG
and he explains why. Quoting from the
ACDNOODLES 65
lovel:
He (Leo) then told them of his ex¬
perience at the Basle Zionist Congress in
Which he had taken part in the previous
year and where he had obtained a deeper
insight into the character and psyehologi¬
Balancing a Meal
cal condition of the Jewish people than
he had ever done before.
With these
Goodman's Pure Egg
people, whom he saw at close quarters fol
the first time, the yearning for Palestine,
Noodles served as a dish
he knew it for a fact, was no artiflcia!
by themselves or with
Dose.
genuine feeling was at work
A
within them, a feeling that had never be¬
Soups, Fish, Fruit, Vege¬
come extinguished and as now flaming un
afresh under the stress of necessity.
tables, Puddings, etc., sup¬
N0
one could doubt that who had seen, as
ply the full nourishment of
he had, the holy scorn shine out in their
looks when a speaker exclaimed that they
selected egge and wheat.
must give up the hope of Palestine for
A great aid to the house¬
the time being and content themselves
with settlements in Africa and the Ar¬
wife in preparing properly
gentine.
Why, he had seen old men, not
uneducated men either, no, learned and
balanced meals.
wise old men, weeping because they must
needs fear that that land of their fathers
Send for valnable recipe boek—il’s free
which they themselves would never be
able to tread, even in the event of the
A. GOODMAN & SONS,
realization of ihe boldest of Zionist plans,
INC.
would perhaps never be open to their
634 East 17th Street
children and their children’s children.
New York
The Leo Golowskis throughout the
world have now opened the land of their
fathers. But are there cnough Leo Go¬
lowskis to safeguard it and build it up?
Albert F. Gescheidt & Son
One hundred and fifty delegates rep¬
Real Estate, Insuranoo and Oonveyanding
resenting congregations in 19 states
Money to Loan on Bond and Mortgage
ALBERT F. GESCHEIDT RALPH GILLRTTN
and 33 cities, from Connecticut to
Connsellore-at-Law
Texas, and from Michigan to Mis¬
Beuth Neurch Ave.
Ml. Vernen, M. V.
souri, were present at the Thirty-Sec¬
ond Annual Assembly of the Jewish
ODELL and WATT
Chautauqua, which closed in Wash¬
MEN'S FURNISHINGS
ington on December 27th. Unable to
be present in person, Dr. Heury Berk¬
200 Main Stress
22 Go. Ach Avenue
owitz of Philadelphia, Chancellor of
New Rochelle. N. V.
Mt. Vernon, N. V.
NOKTHAVENCEBANK
North Avenue and Huguenot Street, Neu Rochelle
Atthé Hub of New Rochelle. Oapital 9150,000. Surpfus 970,000. Safe Deposlt and Storage Vaults
BEST BANKING AND TRUST DEPARTMENT BERVION AT
V
FAE MATIUNAE CIT! DANK
MAIN AND LAWTON STRHETS, NHW ROCHRLLN
OAPITAL AND BURPLUS 8600.000
TOTAL ABSKTB. OVEN 60.500.000
Authorised to Do Trust Company Businese
CONSERVATIVE, OBLIGING and PROGRESSIVE.
ACCOUNTS BOLIOTTAD
CHEWING GURT
TICKS
en r
NATCRAE
Saratoga Mineral Water
Insures Your Good
HLALIIT
Hathorn—Strong Cathartic
Coesa¬
Mildly Laxative
Geyser
Sparkling Table Water aids
digestion
SAMUEL GOLDSTEIN
GIAN
110
STURAL.
Distributor of
MSANEA TUETT EEII N
3
senid Paker
Saratoga Natural Mineral Waters
TEEIN ET
127 Greene St., New York
Spring 8050 and 2916
Evening Phone: Orchard 7389