The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 1, 1909 Page: 3 of 10
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HOUSTON TEXAS JULY I 1909
tuted by other words of another people
differing in character Thus Zangwill
often has recourse to the original Jew-
ish expressions as none other will ex-
press the exact meaning
The Ghetto itself due to external
and into influences has undergone
modifications and specializations and
scenes portrayed in Mopees works
are real no longer but are strange un-
der present conditions The allegor-
ical scenes depicted by Mendele
Mucher Sphorim that attracted the
youth of a generation ago are no long-
er sought for by the present genera-
tion
It seems as if it were Ieserved for
the latter to bequeath to the Ghetto
the best the richest legacy of all his
works His Grandson Scholem Ale
ichm the Jewish Humorist or as he
is often called the Jewish Mark
Twain
Jewish humor differs from that of
any other people as joy from sorrow
It is sweet herb immersed in poison
a smile mingled with pain and agony
a laugh whose echo is a sigh As the
Jew himself expresses it You may
laugh tho It causes a pain at heart
Scholem Aleichem is not an in-
tegral part of but represents the whole
of the Jewish people His sketches
are not imitations but reproductions
of the real Thus when he visited the
Russian Ghetto last year people trav-
eled for miles to hear him recite his
own sketches because true to their
daily conversations thoughts hopes
and disappointments
It took a child of the original Ghetto
Scholem Aleichem to penetrate
into the innermost soul of the Ghetto
and to depict its life in its dialect So
too only a child of tho Ghetto can
fully appreciate the talent displayed
in the portrayal of tho real charac-
ters revealed in those simple humor
istic sketches
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REALISTIC PHASE IN JEWISH LITERATURE
A COMMENT ON MR I SCHAFFERS JEWISH RECITALS OF SCHOLEM ALEICIIEM BY LOUIS DAILY
The Jewish Gass has boon for
many centuries the fountain wherein
great writers have imbibed and iilled
their beings with inspirations for
sketches novels and dramas
The multifarious traits habits cus-
toms the whole complex life of the
Jew is intertwined from beginning to
end with the general history of the
world He was an eyewitness and
took prominent part in the evolution
of our modern civilization he incul-
cated and propagated law religion and
philosophy He is a living fossil a
valuable specimen for the archaeolog-
ist through which he is able to de-
cipher and record events thousands
of years old Who can tell but that
his melancholy look is inherited from
his progenitors who bore the yoke of
Parrohs and his rebellious spirit
from the manifold oppressions of the
ages
The Jewish Gass is a goid mine
whose top only has been scraped
Those Jews or nonJews who have
studied Jewish character and Jewish
psychology have found a superabund-
ance of material to tax their talents
but not all have succeeded in diving
into the innermost recesses of the Jew-
ish hearts and in bringing forth or-
iginal characters Even in Zangwills
sketches we observe points where the
artist has used his brush to touch up
and thus spoil their originality
Zangwill was reared in the London
Ghetto which is but a modified form
of the Jewish Gass Also it was im-
possible for him to paint realities with
colors foreign to the original scenes
the English language
The origin and development of articu-
late language is blended with the evo-
lution of a race Certain articulate
sounds i e words used to express cer-
tain complex emotions characteristic
of a people cannot be substi
WHY THEIR NAMES WERE NOT
THERE
1 had occasion not long ago to look
over some divorce statistics and one
significant fact stood out very prom-
inently the almost entire absence of
Jewish names Why is that I won-
der a friend of mine asked It is
not so strange when we remember a
few silent facts that are however all
too little known When a Jew be-
comes engaged to be married for in-
stance he sends out cards announcing
thp fact often he pays for an an-
nouncement in the newspapers He
makes his engagement known with the
result that few Jewish engagements
are broken And if we will notice the
courting of a young Jew we find that
he is not allowed the run of all the
Jewish homes in his neighborhood
where young Jewesses live he is not
engaged to half a dozen Jewesses be-
fore he is twentyone Couitship and
marriage are sacred and ancient cus-
toms among the Jews not taken light-
ly not entered into promiscuously
And a strict adherance to this custom
leads to one or two results that stand-
out very prominently in any investi-
gations of Jewish womanhood that
there exists a higher standard of purity
and virtue among Jewish women than
among the women of any other race
that there are fewer divorces among
the Jews than with any other race In
all the investigations made by this
magazine into the fearful results of
the parental policy of silence with
children on the question of their phy-
sical selves we invariably encountered
but one condition among Jewish par-
ents they had dealt frankly and hon-
estly with their children There is a
world of food for thought and study
in those incontrovertable facts about
the Jews and their wise handling of
their young on the marriage question
It is all done quietly but with such
marvelous effectiveness that some day
when tho divorce figures are analyzed
it will amaze the American people to
discover how infinltcsmal a part the
Jew has contributed to the American
divorce problem Ladies Home Jour-
nal
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Goldberg, E. The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1, Thursday, July 1, 1909, newspaper, July 1, 1909; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth84775/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .