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PANORAMA .... By David Schwartz
A Man Named Shmooel
Copyright 1968, JTA
A
the
man named Shmooel died
other day. The Yiddish
papers had a little story about
it. I didn’t see anything in the
English press, although there
might have been.
Shmooel is not a name that
specially attracts interest. It is
not like Mortimer or Seymour
or Ferdinand or anything like
that. It is a very common Jew
ish name. It is a good American
name too. There was Shmooel
Adams in the American Revolu
tion, although we call him Sam
Adams in English, the man who
is called “the father of the
American Revolution” and there
is of course your old Uncle
Shmooel or as we say in Eng
lish, Uncle Sam. This man of
whom I am speaking had he
lived in America, would have
been called Sam, very likely.
Sam Adams, when the Amer
ican Revolution started, had a
litttle shop where they sold
malt for brewing. The sign
read: Sam Adams, malt shop.
Maybe if this man of whom I
am speaking had lived in Amer
ica, he would also have been a
merchant of some kind, with his
name Sam on the front, too.
But he didn’t live in Amer
ica, so they called him Shmooel.
He lived in a little town in the
Ukraine, in Russia. There was
a lot of anti-Semitism in Rus
sia, so many Jews to escape it,
went to America. But Shmooel
didn’t go to America. Maybe it
was because the anti-Semitism
in the Ukraine was worse than
in other parts of Russia. There
was so much anti-Semitism in
the Ukraine that Shmooel de
cided there was no alternative
but for Jews to build up their
own country.
So he and a few others de
cided to leave for Eretz Yisroel.
They were driven in a wagon
to the station and almost the
entire three hundred Jews who
lived in the little Ukrainian
town came to the station to see
them off. And many broke
down and wept.
Jews are an emotional peo
ple, you say? Why should they
break down and weep when
somebody takes a train? Well,
don’t be so smart. In the first
place in those days, you must
remember, they didn’t take trains
so often. Today, you take a
train to get away from home
for a little while. In those days,
when a Jew took a train, it
meant he would never see
home again. There’s a differ
ence. If you know American
history well, you will know that
in the early days of the found
ing of America, the same thing
happened. When an Englishman
left for America, his friends
broke down and cried seeing
him off.
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Well, coming back to Shmooel,
he took the train and after that
the boat and finally arrived in
Eretz Yisroel . . . There was no
committee there to greet him.
There was no job for him. Like
John Kennedy said, ask not
what your country can do for
you, ask what you can do for
the country. Shmooel decided if
the country couldn't do any
thing for him, he would do
something for the country. So
he and some others went out
to a place and decided to start
a settlement.
When they came to the place,
Shmooel and his companions
were not exactly exhilarated by
what they saw. They saw an old
Arab passing and they asked
him about it.
He said there had been a set
tlement there before but all of
the settlers had fled.
“And before that?” asked
Shmooel .
Yes, he said, there had been
a colony of Germans and they
were all gone or dead.
If you drink any of the water
here, the old Arab said, your
belly will swell and in three
days you will be dead.
It didn’t look cheerful, but
at least, there were no anti-
Semites around. There were
Bedouins around who took a
shot at you, but you couldn’t
call them anti-Semites, because
they were Semites too.
So they decided to settle
there and they called it Naha-
lal, a name from the Bible,
which means, I believe, “pleas
antly watered meadows” or
something like that. Whenever
they were discouraged, they
thought of the name.
They had their ups and downs
but they developed it into a nice
place. Shmooel was married to
a nice girl named Deborah and
they loved each other. One day
though, Shmooel got very sick.
It was felt that unless someone
could go to town and get the
medicine the doctor ordered, he
might pass away. A fellow by
the name of Moshe Barsky vol
unteered to get the medicine.
They didn’t have any cars or
anything like that but Moshe
Barsky got on his donkey and
went to town.
They waited for Barsky and
the medicine and they waited.
Finally, the donkey came back,
but not Moshe Barsky, Later
they found Barsky’s body,
showing he had been murdered
by seme Bedouin, near the
roadside.
Shmooel and his wife vowed
that if they had a son, they
would name him after Moshe
Barsky.
That’s how Moshe Dayan, the
son of Shmooel and Deborah,
got the name: “Moshe."
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