: ':. ,"(-; .. , , " ,','. ;" i Thursday, December 11, 19;j2 ~ursday, Dec;ember 11, 1952 " ___,____ ,______: __~_T_H..;.E __ J_E_W~I .... S.... H~..:P_O.:...:S_T ______--" ______Page Eleven THE JEWISH POST Page Ten PRECIOUS ARCHIVES RESTORED A STUDY IN CONCENTRATION

:" · Ch8 ld By,\ By RACHEL BETH-ZION ren ALLAN FIELD" the most popular of Sir Germany, telling h:m of the Jews living From Their, I Scott's romances, was pub- there in almost medieval conditions. .. n work and ideals but who alien- in .J)e<)ember, 1819. Before this This turned Scott's attention to the t h elr ow ' . J' h ' S f fi d CCORDING to the "London Jewish Chron­ ated their children from thmgs eWIS, In co tt' s arne was con ne to Scot- Jewish people, and with the magic of A icle" Sholem Asch recently complal~.d . stances to the extent of actual for his works had dealt in the main a great creative artist, he began to to a friend that he has n? "nache~"lr~~ n~~ hso~e d mNow I'm well aware of it that that Scottish history. The scene of Ivan- , weave into the pattern the story form- son Nathan, who was thnce maSrrl~ ad esn't o~er~a~'t be too sure hoV:' one'shchildtrhenbwiltl is laid in England; the archaic Scot- ing in his mind, exotic, colorful Jewish once to a Jewls. h gJr. . I A s.ch emor" 0 turn out, even if one .g1ves t edm e t.llS terms, the,wild Highland chieftains, characters .. It was then that Washing- mind the divorces, but that hiS ~on. dldn t ev~~ and most inspiring guIdance an ed uca 1O~1. savage 'grandeur of moor andglim, ton Irving's account of' his friend once choose a Jewish bride-thIS IS too mu We all know of cases where ~?e parents"rlld place to the gentler English scene, Rebecca Gratz became transmuted into thing possible to make mentshen of castle and court of the Norman Rebecca of York, the heroine of Ivanhoe, for him. h rt h f par- I well understand the ea ac eo. ~~:~ children and f~i1ed. :sut the~e are in the reign of Richard the Lion- Early in 1820', while trav,elIing on ents . whose childr~n. marry away from their exceptions. The rule IS that If you brmg up h,il,iu1;ed. the Continent, a package containing the people and its rel1glOn, but I can t .see wh.y your kids right, they turn out as y:ou J;!ope,':The character in Ivanhoe whiCh wins volumes of the recently published Ivan­ Sholem Asch should grieve wh~n hiS so~ IS Not one to take words as eVldence,.1 "" ',,' heart of the reader, holding a popu- hoe,reached Washington Irving. With marrying three Christian girls m. S?CCeSSlOn. have gone into a number of cases of par- , .",' which persists to this very day, is it was a note in, Scott's hand: "How do After all didn't he write three ChrIstian novels ents who are sorrowing tha:t they have no, ,,' the beautiful daughter of Isaac you like your Rebecca? Does the Rebec- in succe;sion falling in love with "The Nazar­ "Jewish naches'~ from theIr chIldren. !nYork. This dark-eyed, gentle though ca I have pictured here compare well ene" "The Apostle" and "Mary"? Ou~ sages ch and every one of these cases I dls- J ewess immediately captures the with the pattern given?" . held that a man sins in a~cordance With t~e ~~vered that it was the parents' fault. of the reader as does no other How does it compare with the, ori- drives and instincts of hiS years. S,o whl!e Parents' Oblfgations ' female characters. Her beauty, ginal? Asch the father, was having a platolllc affaIr Thanks to the Canadian Jewish Congress, the well known Jewish Chronicle '11 .d t'f strength of character, her charm and . Rebecca Gratz, seventh child of of ~ondonJ ;England, again has a bound copy of .volwne one (1841-42) of the paper. with'the "celestial Mary," Asch, the son, ,,;as Raising a child so. that ~e WI I en I '~ intense loyalty to her own people are Michael and Miriam Gratz, was born T.t;'e Chrorucie, ol<:iest Jewish periodical in the world) lost its files during the playing at getting married and unmarn~d his ideals and life's alms WIth those, of hI' vividly portrayed, that one feels&ne in Philadelphia on March 4, 1781. Her bll~z. The ol~ volume Ol?-e fanned part of the valuable collection of Jewish his­ with girls who pray to "Mary." As I see It, parents requires first of all that dun,ng t~e reading of a real person and not a family came originally from Silesia in tOrical mate~lals housed In the archives of the Congress. Shown at the ceremony Sholem Asch got the fullest meas~lre of few decisively formative years of theIr child , in fiction. Germany. Though' Ashkenazim,they of presentatlOn held in ~ontreal) are,. fran: left: Capt. W. Sebag Montefiore, Me, " Saul Hayes, Congress. natlOnal executive duector, and Rabbi Charles Bender who "na;(lhes" from his son, for .he saw him. fol­ the parents give him first claIm on ther ::' And, in true fact, Rebecca i,n Ivanhoe, belonged to the Sephardi synagogue, the represented the publishers of the Jewish Chronicle, lowing in his footsteps, allowmg for the differ­ free time and attention .. But the .troub e . . d d d II d I' . sephardic then being the only organized with our leaders and wnters an~ mteUec- III ee mo e. e on a Ivmg person, ence in years, of course, 'S that they think it is more Impo,rtant gracious and"charming Rebecca Gratz Jewish community in Philadelphia. Children Not Good .T ews tllals I h f J .Philadei-phia. As daughter of one of the, leading Sholem Asch is not the only prominent Je:v to address a meeting, spin a 17 eory ,0 e\~- It was her friend, Washington Irving merchants in the city, Rebecca's lot was Ask any Wirutipeg oldtimel~ what his most p~pular Jewish Clo~;; who sorrows that he sees no "naches" from ~IS ish education or an ideology of JeWish SU!- on a visit in 1817 to Abbotsford, a happy one. She had many friends, ' munit organization is and he's bound to reply Golden u. vival than spend so.me,. hours ~~el'Y d~Y f S· W It S tt k f and inevitably, the ,Jewish community Ag~ son The American Jewish scene teems WIth 0 0 Make You a Name wI.th thel'I' children. m 'mformal, and, Jet, Ir a er co, spa e operaloo by the National Council of Jewish Women, ably as,slstedfih~ Jev.:ish leaders of all sorts who complain that h t th gs Gratz to the then still anony- being so small, this circle of friends , d' 'd Is gl'OUpS and programs the oldbmers sometImes n 111, By NAOMI BEN-ASHER many m IVI ua " .J • t d h Hank their children· aren't "good Jews." If these formative and informative' cas on. author of the Waverley novels. He included a number of non-Jews. When ime for less elaborate forms of entertainment, pIC UTe ere.. . . Jewish. I don't mean a,ctual. teachmg · of her beauty, of her loyalty to her still very young, she already showed ~osenthal, of the YMHA-Community Centre staff, IS club dllector. men weren't so egocentrically w!Capped up hlt ... for I will make you a name and a praise amon~ all the people in their own leadership-leadership m what school is for that -'-- but gettmg the c .1 (, ' and told of her renunciation of zest for work of a charitable nature. of the e:u·th when I turn back your captivity. .. -Zeph. r: 20 . goes by the name of "Jewish affairs," ~ead,; to the point where he "falls in love With personal happiness. She had given In 1801 'she became secretary of the ership in "Jewish culture ~nd. educatIOn, things Jewish," as Solomon Schecht;1 heart to a non-Jew, and because of non-sectarian "Female Association for RE~T antiquity and history in the making, bitter tragedy and leadership in Hebrew and Ylddl~h letter~­ termed the ideal receptiveness to Jewl,h 'passionate adherence to her faith. the Relief of Women and Children in G lyrIC poetry, subjects and shapers of history-all these are The Ascension of they might realiz.e that they, are JeWIsh lore and life. . " ." , .' rather to remain unmarried Reduced Circumstances," She was no enmeshed in the place-names of Israel. Some are the manifest record failures themselves for th~y, dl? ,not prac­ Anybody with the "gIft of the gab. call either to marry a non-Jew, or some- less interested. in dancing and the social ~f the land, and a schoolboy might con his lessons in history and tise at ,home and with their chIldren what impress an 'audience that has ney;er heaed· of her own faith whom she did not activities. She was a strikingly beauti- lIterature from road markers and street signs. Others are' disguised Moshe Rabinowitz they wrote and' spoke' in the places where him 'before and will not 'hear hlID .agaln ful girl with dark curly hair and large by the shapes which time and the march of nations have trodden the limelight is shining. " ,. , for years. B~tguidil!g a y?un?,ste:- m. the ',Scott did not make any use of this black eyes, traditionally Jewish in type. into the soil. Mingled with traces of prehistoric peoples are those By ISRAEL ,BEN-CHAIM' Every now and then som~body asks me paths of Jewlshness, m all Its Impl!cat~ons, ,. with Washington Irving The early years of the century saw of the mighty empires that crisscrossed this cradle of civilization' is as hard as speaking from the pulpIt to. .. he began the story of Ivanhoe in the beginning and end of Rebecca Gratz' Tel Aviv, how come the children of this or that prom­ the. stone-imprisoned evidences of Pharaoh's armies and Rome'~ inent Jewish leader, ,writer or educator are the same ,congregation. week after weel" He was then slOWly recovering romance. Samuel Ewing, lawyer son of legIOns 'c~owd close to the footprints of the prophets and, kings of ' OSHE RABINOWITZ died in Lilienblum Street. He was so'" un- J eWlS'h" . .' . month after month, year after year. II " a . stroke which forced him the Rev. Dr. John Ewing, first Provost Israel. VIllages and towns bear the names sprung from Zionist b>aji_ ,M killed by the shock of being offered dollars for pounds . When I am faced WIth thIS question requires preparation and planning anu from his couch. ,It was while of the University of Philadelphia, was breaking and Arab folklore. The pledge of hope, the promise of -toil at the rate of one-to-one. ..'. . there comes to my mind ever, so Il,lany thought because the Rabbi always faces thl ~l~",fay on his couch that his friend James her ardent admirer and devoted to her. and the purposive sacrifice of visionaries have given character to He had long wanted to go abroad, and thIS .was h.lsopJ?Or­ Jewish leaders of stature, as weH as wrIters self-same audience. Unlike a speaker, who. the well-known antiquarian, re- She was no less devoted. to him. Differ- the place-names of Israel. ' , .' ::',' tunity. His family was provided His WIdow can travel on the same speech, the Rabbi. to Scott the story of his tour in (Continued on page 15)' ~or. I~hent~~ and bhinkers of real impo~anc~, who I?ot (Continued on page 13) A poetic joui'ney through the land, disregarding time, spiv;eand ' his gazoz-stand on Allenby Road. HIS eldest son was a black- only failed in inspiring their chIldren With topography, might well begin in' the valley rightly named Sharon:-c­ building laborer.· I" t t '~JH.AAKEY ZEDEK WOMEN LEARN FACTS. Th!') Straight' or Plain. It stretches from the deep blue Medite.r­ So Moshe Rabinowitz died to go to Heaven. ,le wen 0 NEW HOME FOR 'BlBLlOTEK'? the office of the Archangel Gabriel to apply for the necessary ranean at Jaffa to the verdure-stained spur of the Carmel range . . . He was he said a good and gentle Jew. Henever that comes down to the sea at Haifa. King Solomon knew no greatei' permisSIOn., " f . t b' k her ate black market meat unless he was sure o. I s emg os, ' praise for the beauty of his beloved Shulamite than to call her "the and he never pushed a woman off a bus WIthout, first saymg rose of Sharon, the lily of valley." Now the village Havatzelet Ha­ Sharon links the Sharon with the Valley of Hefer. "exC'fe ~~~~ons from others wishing to enter Heav,:n filled Isaiah prophesied the day when "the ransomed of the Lord shall , Wles 20 feet thick, but the angels at the CelestIal Em- return" and intoned "the splendour of Carmel and Sharon." Today, the men and women who escaped thE charnels of Europe and settled :~~~ were?olite tahnedyht~~f~~st:~o~a~it ~~!h!i~:r I~~gm~~~ in the Valley ofBharon have clothed their villages in beautiful names: weary expellence ' . 't' Beer'. Ganim-The Well of Gardens, Raanana-The Verdant One , Ein no a~~~~~:~~~isn~~i~~ ~e~ft~~~~>~f~~'~, e:; t~;:t~cal dO~c~ ~f Vered-T·he Sprmg of the Rose. , the Del;artment of Immigration. :rhe dOO\ and In South Judea, the people have named a village Bat Yam-' v:::.a cs~~~~nl~ Daughter of the Sea, while down in the parched Negev, the village battered on it softly for ~ fM~s~~nl;~~d 1is throat seized by Nirim-Fields, is neighbored by the Dew of Revivim. High up in ~~~l~;~st~forh~ d~~~i{:~per-an angel hired on a temporary the hills of Galilee, reflected in the cobalt water of Kineret-a lake named for its lyre-shaped contour-is a well-established kibbutz. Its basis with a rating ~f Glmefhink you are?" asked the angel. name, Ayelet Hashachar, rejoices in two meanings: the Morning .. "Listen, whe;e 0 ,!ol!- ? A cinema'l 'Your own house?" Star and the Hind of Dawn.' , "What do ?doM th~ngfi;~i/~~d banged his head on ~he steps. , A quick response is evoked by the euphony of Poriya-the Fruit­ He he tOSb e dead already he would certamly have ful One, and Afikim-Streams. Afikim is named for a pail' of gushing Had Moshe no een ' currents that push back the desert and fructify the valley of the been killed. th' 0 one here? Don't you see we're Jordan-the Descender. , "Don't yOU see ere IS n . on leave? And don't you 't see everyone IS . 11" In the Jordan Valley, just below the Kineret, are a pair of Corn­ busy? D on Y°l!- nd isn't here any more? You foo. .. flowers-Degania Aleph and Degania Beth. Less poetic but more know that the ofl'1ce movbed a th "Take your hands from my Moshe gasped for rea. . illustrative of their, ll1shfert,ility is the other meaning-"granarY." In the early years afte~' its establishment, the mainstay of Degania throat," he said withddhl~llItY;'What do you want?" was corn, and the ArabIc name for the place was Umm Jl1ni-'Mother The angel release 1m. (or source) of Corn., ' Moshe explr;inehd. I with the rating of Gimel, eyeing A cultural arm of the local community in which all Winnipeg may well take pride is the ;, Mrs. Max Cohen and her dapght~r, Mrs. lvlei ~ub2rman, were in charge of the table set­ It was natural that from theheginning of Zionist colonization "What?" SaId t e ange h' h he had practised for the last e for Sukkot the Feast of Tabernacles which was one of eight . settings featured recently at C Bibliotek, a longtime occupant of inadequate quarters in the 'basement of the Aberdeen branch, I. L. Per :: " , , ;. ' of Palestine in the 1870's, the names given to the new colonies should him with a look of scorn, w t1h re's a queue? Don't you know Folk school. With the changes in location of many Jewish commUnity offices occasioned by the opeI1ln: ': presentation of the Jewish Home Beautiful by the Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood. . , (Continued on page 13) "Don't you see e \ 3,C'00 years. (Continued on page 15) of the new YMHA ... Community Centre, calls are heard for more adequate quarters for the Yiddish hbraD .:

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