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The English Jewish Press
From page 6 j
a Jewish paper became not only a his
torian of the scenes hot a maker of his
tory, for the paper no doubt helped make
passible the building of the Reform Ju
daism movement. Rabbi Wise profited
from the wave of German immigration
which started about this time. Cincin
nati took the laurels away from the
much more populated centers of New
York and Philadelphia. This Is perhaps
not so inexplicable. A Jewish paper be
came really a more vital thing to the
Jew in a mm-Jewish environment. The
literary contact replaced the absent
human one and the Israelite lowed much
of its strength to the diffusion of its
circulation.
Among those whose writings appeared
in the Israelite was a young woman '
named Ada Isaacs Menken. She wrote
poems’calling for the .Jews to arise and
rebuild their state. She was a poetic
Herzl ahead of the time. From her writ
ing, one suspects that ' she sometimes,
envisioned herself as a herald of the
Messiah. Later she was to become the
big taboo — a naked lady. Actually,
she was dressed in tights as she rode a
horse on the stage in the Byron play
Mazeppa. She created a sensation like
the nudists of today. She was damned
and idolized in turn. A militia company
in Texas elected her their honorary
sergeant. She died in Paris at 33. She
had done a lot of living in her brief life.
She had gone through three husbands
and among her admirers were Swin
burne, Longfellow and Mark Twain. On
her tombstone she ordered inscribed
only the words HE KNOWS. So the
secret of her life was never revealed.
EXPONENT APPEARS
In 1874, Philadelphia realizing that it
couldn’t rest on the laurels of the paper
called the Declaration of Independence,
launched the Jewish Exponent. Its
principal backer, if we recollect our his
tory correctly, was Sabato Morais. The
Exponent represented a more conserva
tive trend that was beginning to assert
itaelf. i ^ ,
The same trend was to be evident in
the American Hebrew founded a half
dozen years later by Philip Cowen,
whose cousin was the Americana classic
author, Bret Hhrte. Backing Cowen
were also some five sponsors who could
look back to American Revolutionary
ancestors.
It was the time of the Russian Jewish
wave of immigration and it was in the
American Hebrew that the Epistle to
the Hebrews of Emma Lazarus appeared.
Her message was the same as that of
Ada Menken, but Emma Lazarus did
not ride bareback on any horses. How
ever, her poem about the immigrants is
inscribed on the marble statue of the
Goddess of Liberty in the New York
harbor.
MANY JEWISH WEEKLIES
The Jewish population was then reach
ing its peak in America and Jewish
weeklies began to appear all over the
country. In Chicago, Rabbi Hirsch,
whose grandson is the president of the
University of Chicago, edited the Re
form Advocate. /
In Boston, Jacob de Haas, a colorful
figure, a kind of unofficial emissary of
Herzl, began editing the Boston Advo
cate. In this instance, we also have a
case of a paper not only recording but
making history, for de Haas won over
Louis D. Brandeis to Zionism. (There
is a street in Tel Aviv named after de
Haas.) v
In Rochester, a young man named
Lipsky, started a weekly called the Sho-
far and he was to sound his blasts louder
to the nation later.
In New York, Bernard G. Richards,
edited a Magnes-sponsored paper calling
for the creation of an American Jewish ~
Congress. Richards also infused some
thing of a much needed vein of humor
in the journalism of a people calling
themselves descendants of Isaac, which
means laughter.
Contemporary Jewish journalism is of
course a story by itself. A historic mark
in that development occurred when a
young fellow, Jacob Landau, arrived
from Vienna. He had stopped off briefly
to start a career in Jewish journalism in
England but arriving there, he conclu
ded America was the place where things
were more likely to happen, so he moved
on to America to establish the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency. The World War
with the dislocation of the Jews of many
countries had made clear the importance
of better communication of the news.
Landau was also the co-founder of the
Palestine Post and the Overseas News
Association.
Copyright 1970, JTA
Norman Pazol
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