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The Southern Israelite Invites corresDondence and literary contributions
Editor Is not to be considered as sharing the views expressed by the
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The Southern Israelite
But it is pointed out, Spain is now under a dictatorship and
Dictator Prima de Rivera has abolished the Spanish constitution.
With that abolition what is the status of peoples of non-Christian
Zlief who venture into the realm from which Queen Isabella exiled
more than 150,000 people 437 years ago in the name of religion?
On March 30, 1492, Isabella signed a document which decreed
that by July 30th of that year not a single Jew was to remain in the
united realm of Castile and Aragon or in the Islands of Sicily and
Sardinia constituting Aragonese possession. The same document
further decreed that any Jew who remained after July 30th was to
forfeit his life, unless he yielded to baptism.
“In the same month in which their Majesties issued the edict
that all Jews should be driven out of the kingdom and its terri
tories, in the same month they gave me the order to undertake with
sufficient men my expedition of discovery of the Indies,” wrote Co-
r u not to De conna«r«q <•• ■— - ■. • ii lumbus, in opening his diary, nariating the beginnings of activity
writer, except those enunciated In the Editor,., column.. J in the discovery of the New World.
Many world-shaking events have transpired since Columbus
penned the lines. Spain was to rise to even greater worldly eminence
and then sink to a level of comparative insignificance in world af
fairs.
Columbus and the secret Jews or new Christians who accom
panied him on his voyage would have found it difficult to believe
that descendants of the very Jews of the neighboring kingdom of
Portugal who nominally adopted Christianity as the result of the
brutal policies of the age of Isabella, but secretly remained loyal to
Judaism would openly become Jews, more than 400 years later and
establish synagogues for the open observance of their faith.
This remarkable event is a matter of so recent occurrence that
in the Marx and Margolis History of the Jewish People issued in
1927, Marranos of Portugal are merely referred to as a group of
people “in whom a knowledge of their origin still glimmers.”
Spain in recent years has likewise evinced a disposition to wel
come Jews.
As a matter of legal and formal rejection of a hideous evil that
had its inception in dark age passions, the request that has come to
her should be met with a frank, cheerful, and complete compliance.
WARBURGS ARRIVE IN PALES
TINE
Jerusalem (J. T. A.).—Mr. and Mrs.
Felix M. Warburg, of New York, ar
rived here today to spend the Pass-
over week in Jerusalem.
The banker and philanthropist will
meet Dr. and Mrs. Chaim Weizmann
here.
“Absolute Freedom As Citizens
A newspaper, published in Rome, recently suggested that Mus
solini banish the Jews from Italy and close their synagogue. The
only probable reason for this sort of advice would no doubt be
termed a “religious motive,” and such counsel, if followed up, would
kill all patriotism and ties of kinship that have grown as the Italian
Jews have been assimilated during their long residence on Italian
soil. Such a suggestion which would mean the expatriation of a
peaceful people, could be conceived only by a blind ignorance to rec
ognize the right of any individual to worship the God of his choice.
And it was to such encouragement that Mussolini so intelligently
replied, “The Jews have been in Rome since the time of the Cae
sar’s, and it would be ridiculous to consider any measure such as
banishing them. There were 50,000 Jews in the time of Augustus
and they asked permission to weep at Caesar’s grave. The Jews will
remain undisturbed.”
Even more recently the Italian senate passed a bill guarantee
ing liberty of worship to non-Catholic cults simultaneously with the
vote for the ratification of the Later an Treaty of Accord between
the Italian State and the Vatican. To make the passage of this bill
more forceful, Mussolini again used his remarkable judgment in
assuring the people that by reason of the Lateran treaties, Italy
was not Vaticanized nor was the Vatican Italianized. The Catholic
Church is again proclaimed as the State Church in Italy, but he de
clared that this does not diminish in any way the absolute freedom
of individuals as citizens to follow their own religious inclinations.
Once again Mussolini showed keenness of judgment by refer
ring to Christianity in connection with Palestine in this same ad
dress. He declared that if Christianity had remained in Palestine,
instead of coming to Rome, it would have remained merely a Jew
ish sect, and would have died out, like the sect of the Essenes.
This statement may or may not have been occasioned by the
fanaticism expressed in the Rome paper, but regardless of its mo
tive the broadmindedness and saneness of this powerful man will
not only see to it that the Jews are not molested, but that full re
ligious liberty will exist in Italy.
I he Spanish Edict
The “Jewish Independent” of Cleveland discusses interestingly
the question of the Spanish edict of expulsion in relation to the
present status of the Jew in Spain. Says the “Jewish Independent:”
Is the Spanish edict of expulsion signed by Queen Isabella in
the Moorish palace of Alhambra in the year 1492 still a living and
enforceable document ?
That is the question which the Bulgarian Jewish League of Na
tions Society desires to have answered by the present Spanish gov
ernment.
A reply in the negative is the requisite for the Jewish organiza
tion’s participation in the Congress of the League of Nations Socie
ties to be held in Madrid in May.
It is pointed out by Dr. Saul Mezan in a letter to the Inter
national League of Nations Union that since the advent of the con
stitutional era in Spain, Jews have on more than one occasion
sought to secure an official abrogation of the edict which drove
myriads of men, women and little children; the aged, the suffering,
the sick and the helpless, from the realm of Isabella and Ferdinand.
Each request has been met by the Spanish government’s assurance
that the Spanish constitution secured the liberties of peoples of all
faiths, Jews and Gentiles, and that this situation automatically
nullifies the ancient edict.
lira” was sold yesterday at auction
for 270 pounds.
The manuscript was long believed
to have been lost.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Warburg, of
Hamberg, met the New Yorkers in
Italy and preceeded with them to Pal
estine.
maimonedes m a n u s C R I P T
thought lost, sold in
LONDON
London (J. T. A.)—A thirteenth
century parchment manuscript, con
taining a commentary by Maimone
des on the Talmudic tractate “Hul-
STUDENTS ON TRIAL FOR ANTI-
SEMITIC ACTS
Odessa (J. T. A.).—The trial of a
group of students charged with per
secuting a fellow Jewish student was
opened here. The students at the Poly
technic Institute persecuted the Jew
ish student Rashkewitch. The de
fendants are Emil Ianchenko, Samar
sky, Dudnik and Lusuk.
Before the trial Samarsky sent a
letter to the Institute heads declar
ing that he would commit suicide be
cause of the charge of anti-Semitism
brought against him.
JEWISH CALENDAR
1
Fast of Either
Purim
Roeh Chodeah Nissan ZTZ
* r, 1 Day of Pessach
5689—1929
Monday. March 26
Tuesday, March Zb
Thursday. April 11
Thursday, April 26
E«*hth Day of Petsach
Thursday. Mat *
Koah Chodesh Ivar
B Omer
Roah Chodeah Sivan
Sunday, June 9
Shavuoth
•Roah Chodeah Tammui
*
Saturday, June 1&
Tueaday, July 9
Faat of Tammui
Roah Chodeah Ab
WwInMiliT. Auguit 1
Tiaho B Ab
•Roah Chodeah Elul
Friday September, •
Roah Haahonah
5690—1929
Faat of Gedalia
Yom Kippur
Succoth .
Monday. October 1
Monday. October
Shemini Azreth
-
Sunday, October 2
Roah Chodeah Chesvan
Sunday. October *•
UnnHiT November *
Chodeth Kitlev
Tueaday December ■
I*irBt Day of Chanukah
FriSS. December 2-
NOTE: Holiday, begin in the evening preceding
•Roah Chodeah also observed the previoua day.
the datea designated.