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right hand wither, if I forget thee,
Jerusalem.”
Even while considering baptism,
he repeated his expression of his
eternal adherence to his people.
Only a Jew can so lovingly write
down the touching story of poor
Moses Lumpchcn and his heart
breaking sufferings in the walled
ghetto, torments mitigated only by
the holy, soul-filling joys on the
Sabbath Eve that made Rothschild
exclaim, “Were I not Rothschild,
then I should have liked to be such
a Lumpchen.” Heine called the
Bible “the Book of Books,” empha
sizing the indelible impression it
had made upon him in his "Hebrew
Melodies” of the Romanzero (1831),
which represents the ever-lasting
memories of his always affection for
everything Jewish.
In “Princess Sabbath,” he loving
ly recaptures the deep, healthy
Jewish philosophy of life. He fully
realizes his passionate, undying
love for the faith of his fathers,
yet never follows its command
ments and suffers beyond all en
durance. Heine the Jew is despised,
hated and discriminated against
and he is too weak a character to
suffer it proudly. An apostate him
self. he violently attacks the bap
tized Jew because they “disparage
Israel more than its born enemies.”
And he confesses: “I make no se
cret of my Jewishness, to which 1
have not returned, since I never
left it.” In a satirical mood, how
ever, he bitterly states in “Ludwig
Boerne”: “It is the ‘tsolnt’ alone
which unites them still in their old
covenant.”
Heine, the sensual (Red Staffe-
chen. Cousin Amalie, Therese, Ma-
thilde la Mouche, and so many,
many others , whose strong physi
cal and indiscriminating loves
threw him on a mattress of pain
for ten long years, from which he
never recovered. Heine the drinker,
the opium-eater, attuned his heart
to faith during his cruel sufferings
(he was paralyzed and half-blind)
and confessed: “I have come back
to God.”
The master of the German lang
uage who commands lyrically tend
er, spiritually grave, mockingly
gay, satirically biting and cruel
tones, who wrote poems the depth
and sublime beauty of which no
translation is able to render ade
quately, was a central figure of his
time. His works, a true outcome of
his ever-conflicting personality,
are a summation of his epoch’s in
tellectual and literary currents.
Proudly he calls himself “a Ger
man poet," yet his most scathing
satire “A W inter’s Tale” is directed
against philistinism in Germany.
Banned from Germany during his
life time, his books burnt by the
Nazis, yet his tender love songs
and prophetic utterances will live
forever.
Rest Wishes for the
Passover Holidays
SHIRLEY
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209 Pryor Street, S. W.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Mr. and Mrs. T. Makover,
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan A. Makover
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For This Season
And Always . . .
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ATLANTA. GEORGIA
WA. 1694
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