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May 11, 1917 I HE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD 121 rage as inevitable. Not that we lime, covered with a coffin and lines, by linguistic differences, by feel that it is absolutely necessary then covered by the earth. I de­ religious variances,—"a kingdom for the regeneration of the world, sire only a modest stone marking of priests and a holy people." or that such regeneration will re­ my resting place and bearing my Is it any wonder that each gives sult from it. In these troubleous name, date of birth and death, to his or her limit when the wail times we see that women act in all and these words, 'He strove to be of hungry and cold children reach­ matters like the members of the a teacher of God's word and to es their ears, when the despairing sterner sex, are swayed by the live it.' I hope that neither you appeal of mothers is brought into same impulses, sentiments, and nor the girls will wear black gar­ their very homes, when before ideas, and are subject to the same ments after my death, and that their very mind's eye is shown the influences. But it is a matter of you will not indulge in the pagan halting, haunting, horrible soup simple justice. As long as some and heathenish mourning customs lines, when the tragic tale of fam­ women wish the ballot, they ought so prevalent in our day. Let there ishing families is borne to them by to have it. The governed must be be no eulogy pronounced over my witnesses who have seen, Suffered the governing at the same time. I body at the funeral or after. Let and speak truly. There is no other principle for a the funeral service consist only And still the cry goes out—Give democracy. Even a referendum is of the recital of Psalms XLIX, and Give Again. Yea, for these are unnecessary. XLIII, XC, Kaddish and Psalms my people.—G. L. XXIII. In memory of me, help AND STILL THEY COME. whomsoever you can on the high­ AMERICAN JEWRY'S HONOR Mr. Israel Zangwill returned to way to a better and holier life." ROLL. the Zionist fold; Mr. Jacob Schiff The following is a list of pledges has expressed himself in favor of a THESE ARE MY PEOPLE. emulating Julius Rosenwald's ex­ Jewish cultural center in Palestine; Generous souls in St. Paul and ample by giving ten per cent of Mr. Adolph Lewisohn approves of Minneapolis have contributed dur­ all the contributions raised for the Zionist program; and now Dr. ing the last few days $75,000 to war relief in their communities Joseph Krauskopf of Philadelphia charity. It all comes from Jews. by states and cities: in a lecture delivered to his con­ It all goes to Jews. gregation speaks of Zionism as a No questions are asked of the STATES: beautiful dream . that is quite giver. It does not matter whether Gov. Simon Bamberger..... Utah realizable. he is Orthodox, Reform, Radical or Gov. Moses Alexander Idaho Mr. Ben Selling Oregon Zionism is on the road to popu­ agnostic. He may or may not be a Mr. Adolph Ochs Tennessee larity. We may live to see the day Zionist. He may support or oppose Mr. S. R. Travis Oklahoma when a non-Zionist Jew will be a the Congress. He may belong or Mr. E. M. Chase....New Hampshire rare specimen, the survival of an be indifferent to the B'nai B'rith. He may be any brand of Jew. It is CITIES: extinct species. We should not be at Isaac H. Rubin all surprised if the next Conference enough if he recognizes himself as Minneapolis, Minn. of American Rabbis should go on one of the household of Israel and as such gives voluntarily. Jacob Dittenhoefer, St. Paul, Minn. record as approving of Zionism, at Morris Levy Omaha, Neb. least in its cultural phase. "The The giver asks no questions. The beneficiaries are to be Jews. It L. B. Finkelstein.—Wellsboro, Pa. Jewish Comment" of Baltimore, Jacob Epstein Baltimore, Md. will probably hold out to the very does not matter in what country they live so long as they are not M. G. Michael Athens, Ga. last. But, it, too, will ultimately I. H. Nakdimen...:Ft. Smith, Ark. see the light. alien enemies making war on the United States. It does not matter J. G. Joseph...... Buffalo, N. Y. Such is the power of a true ideal, I. W. and B. Bernheim an ideal that makes for the better­ in what religious strata they be­ long. It does not matter what the­ Louisville, Ky. ment of humanity, or any portion M. Gardner...:. Rome, N. Y. thereof. Especially an ideal cher­ ory of Jewish life or future they adhere to. They are Jews. They Falk Bros. .Pittsburgh, Pa. ished by a people for twenty cen­ I. Friedman Massena, N. Y. turies or more cannot be so easily are in need. That is enough. The Jewish heart responds. These are Leopold Adler ...Savannah, Ga. abandoned. It may be obscured, my people. Daniel Rothschild....Ithaca, N. Y. suppressed, all but extinguished D. R. and I. R. Travis........ for a while. But it will sooner or Judaism defies definition. The Jewish people are more than a na­ Kansas City, Mo. later reassert itself, and again tionality, a creed, a race. They can­ Harry Grubinsky point and light the way. Zionism not, they need not be defined or Kalamazoo, Mich. is furnishing one more proof of this classified. Whoever knows himself Simon W. Rosendale, Albany, N. Y. fact. to be a Jew—he is one. Whoever M. Brownstein Lewiston, Me. is a Jew—he feels, though he may Gustave A. Effroymson...... RABBI J. LEONARD LEVY'S not be able to analyze, the Jewish Indianapolis, Ind. WILL. bond. Samuel E. Rauh, Indianapolis, Ind. In a will made by him in 1909 This bond is an elemental feeling Isaac Weinstein, Waterbury, Conn. before leaving on his trip to Eu­ that is unique. Hunger, love, fear, S. S. Bloch Wheeling, W. Va. rope, a will that is in the nature of hope, admiration—these cannot be Davidson Bros Sioux City, Iowa a "tzavooh" to his wife, Rabbi J. described in terms other than Jacob Meyer Riverhead, L. I. Leonard Levy has left the follow- themselves. They must be felt. C. M. Guggenheimer ing instructions: The bond that holds Jew to Jew, Lynchburg, Va. "If my dead body- is brought that binds each to his people, that Felix Fuld Newark, N. J. back to Pittsburg, I desire that it makes all suffer through the Ralph Bros Easton, Pa. be interred in the cemetery of our wounds of one—try to explain it if Joseph Family. ..Cincinnati, Ohio congregation. I direct that the you want to. It cannot be done. Hark Livingstone Estate.... grave be lined with quicklime; But it is there. It is real. It makes Bloomington, 111. that my body be .-placed in the of Jewry,—divided by geographical Pollack Family....Cincinnati, Ohio .

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