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in rooms where the temperature is kept constant. Then to the
big ovens where the bread is baked under controlled heat to
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Highlights and Sidelights
Gossip and News of Jewish Personalities
Ba MARTIN GOLDE
We were gabbing about the de
cline in gifts to Jewish communal en
terprises. Naturally we talked about
Jewish losses in the real estate and
stock markets. And just then Louis
Lipsky, Zionist leader, who is as ex
cellent a raconteur as an orator, told
me a rather pat story about a Jew in
an East European town. He lived in
a small village and was the only Jew
in the place. Things were going badly.
He couldn’t make enough for his fam
ily to live. In desperation he went to
the rabbi in a nearby town. The rabbi,
a hoary and pious patriarch, gave his
blessing to the poor fellow and told
him to go back and God would pro
vide.
Just then the villagers decided to
build a real church. At once prosper
ity invaded the community, and the
Jew, sharing in it, was happy. Other
Jews began to come into the town.
To express his appreciation he vis
ited the rabbi, who, he believed, had
brought on his good luck. Several
months passed, and again he came to
the rabbi. This time the Jew com
plained bitterly about conditions.
“What’s the matter?” his host
asked. “Has the church been com
pleted so soon?”
‘‘No, but the trouble is that the
foundation for a synagogue has al
ready been laid.”
Being in the presence of Louis
Lipsky you can be sure that sooner
or later the conversation will get
around to Zionism and Zionist per
sonalities. Talking about the forth
coming World Congress, Lipsky got
to reminiscing about leaders of the
past. Then came this anecdote about
Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist
movement.
Herzl and his friend, David Wolff-
sohn, who was later his successor,
were on their way to Palestine. Herzl,
as everybody knows, was a Conti
nental person, an intellectual boule-
vardier. Wolffsohn, of course, was a
fine blast European Jew, who knew
very little about the ways of the
Western world.
Herzl decided to stop in Greece
for a brief visit to look at some of
the cultural landmarks there. As he
went from relic to relic he became
so enthused by the sight that he be
gan to quote long passages of Homer
in the original Greek. Wolffsohn
didn t know what it was all about.
He didn’t understand a word.
W hy, how can you be so inspired
by this stuff, which is alien to you?”
he inquiied of Heizl.
The latter cast a pitying glance at
his companion, as though to say:
\\ ell, what can you expect from a
Litvak Ghetto Jew?”
^ hen the two arrived in Jerusalem
at last they went first to the Wail
ing Wall. As he reached ti passage
way and touched those anci.-nt stoned
Wolffsohn was so moved that he he'
gan to recite one of the Psalms in
the Hebrew. Herzl didn’t know what
it was all about. He couldn’t under-
stand a word.
And then he reached over and
grasped Wolffsohn by the hand, and
said in an apologetic voice: “I’m th*
fool.”
They’re crediting a lot of things to
Emil Ludwig these days. Among
them that he decided to change his
name to Cohn, his original signature.
But apparently that’s a pipe dream.
But whether the famous historian
himself did actually tell the story, it
doesn’t affect its flavor.
It happened in Germany where such
things do happen frequently in this
era of Hitler. A Jew entered the com
partment of a train. Two Christians
were also there. He moved to the side
opposite them. Intent on annoying
him, however, they came over to his
seat, placing themselves one on each '
side of him.
“Listen, Jew,” one fellow bluster-
ingly demanded, ‘‘let’s know the truth.
Are vou a swindler or just a simple
ton ?’’
For a moment the Jew made as if
he hadn’t heard, and then he re
marked, very calmly: “Well, I should
say I’m somewhere between the two."
A very wealthy New York Jew died.
He was known as a philanthropist. It
was said that he had left vast sums
to those he liked. As is the custom
at such public funerals, numerous
poor Jews came to the cemetery to be
present at the burial.
On the fringes of the bystanders
one could observe an elderly Jewess
who was weeping quite copiously. At
last a sympathetic observer came
over to the lady, who seemed to be
genuinely moved, and asked: ‘ were
you a relative of the deceased?
“No,” the woman sobbed, “that
what I’m crying about.”
This has been passed on to me as
an authentic tale of the Woodrow
Wilson period. It was just before the
U. S. had entered the war and the
president was making a swing aroum
the Middle West. One rather large
sized town got up a big reception °
Wilson, who was scheduled to pass
through. In order to give every one
a chance to show their patriotism
local committee arranged to have
Protestant, a Catholic and a e
clergyman extend greetings- to
guest of honor. It was in tha tr
that the ceremonies went off-
Some time later the Iiotesta^
minister, who w’as inclined u > ^ e
eral in his views, approache _
rabbi and asked if he hadn e n-j
miliated that the Jew had b* n
on at the very last. To "Teh
Jewish cleric replied: .
‘ But why should we Je\'s
miliated? After all, Judaism ^ ^
mother of Christianity. Ai
uial for the children to v.
the mother.”
Copyright 1931 by S- A.