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Image of the Jew in Negro Community Holiday Greetings to our Jewish Friends and Clients (Cont. from page 10) ity among men, of the brotherhood their: 'considering their people su­ of all men UllIler one God, have not perior, ours inferior: considering Jews did work for equality, the been hearki9"ed:to too often in the theirs; eonsidering their people su­ Maisonneuve Shoe Supply Co. Liel. majority were more than hedging. past. They have helped t:reate a gent, ours innately retarded; con­ TASHLICH 4281 Iberville Street LAfontaine 6-7759 Jews llave it in their organizational climate of opinion that is favorable Sidering their people superior ill she was living in exile~. She didn't seem to . power to respond massively to the to abolishing all practices of dis- manners and behaviour, ours inferior LAfontaine 6-7750 ever stop meditating, would pause to examin~ plight ot the American Negro on ~ erimination. The impetus for mak- in all ways. As it was a lie when ., broad a scale as we have to the ing this appeal'comes not juSt from 'applied to us, so is it a lie when . , trees and would reflectively start down well , Reprinted from TbeJewisb Chronicle , . .' shafts. I kept trying to meet ,herb~tcouldn't needs of Jews overseas., ~t Mr. personal observation but from reli- applied to the Negro. Translated by the author anll- Cecil Hem1ey . think of a plan. Moreover, I was ashamed, of Worthy was saying is that job. dis- 'gioUs co~tnlent' as 'well.. People 'As·strongas 'the 'religious argu­ '. TO . oim.. ,JEWISH FRlENDS· AND .... ,. erimination, housing discrimination, have observed &lavery and" brutality ments are, the economic ones should my appearance, decked out, as I was in a CUSTOMERS: OUR MOST CORDIAL ,, 'v.elvetcap, a long gabardine and red earlocks. renting diserimination, the over-all fOr thousands' of years and not· re- not be omitted. The economic solu­ . . 1 I knew that I must seem to her just another deprivation and uprootedness of the acted to it the way we do. tion to the troubles of the Negro in C~NUKAH GREETINGS AND . AARON the watchmaker did not live. on our' chassidic boy. How.. could she guess that I Negro in America,is just as urgently Our personal observation is itJ- America doesn't even require our SINCERE·. WISHES FOR street, but when I climbed to 'the highest was reading Knut Hamsun and Strindberg in need of solution as the problem fused with a long religio\l.S'tradition moneyc-Only our firm support. and , . branch in the lime tre¢ .that grew in our garden, on the sly and studying Spinoza'sEthics in ,of the uprooted Jews of North' of .the truth of the equality of all co-operation. And we get a return HAPPINESS :AND PROSPERITY I could see his house clearly ; it was the only one' a Hebrew translation? In addition, I owned Africa. The. one' problem gets all men. We also have had a long his- from our investment of faith in the in the village that, had a small lawn in front of a work of Flammarion and was dabbling in our attention, the other very little tory of suffering beca~ of ability .of the Negro to succeed; if . it. The shutters of Aaron's house were painted the cabbala. In the evening, when I perched of it: . . invidious con1p~on People have given a chance. The more jobs we green; flower pots' ·stood in the windows; there . on the highest branch of the lime tree, I The religious arguments for equal- made between our r Ii Ii g i o,n and open to the Negro, the better' his I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~===~·~~=~~=~ incoine, the mo~e he can buy, the were sunflowers in the garden. Aaron and, his gazed up at the moon and the stars like an • OUR HEARTIEST' CHANUKAH GREETINGS TO THE JEWISH better the economy of the country GAULTS family lived on the ground floor, this is with the astronome:r. Feigele's window was also vis­ PEOPLE OF WESTERN CANAD,I}. and th~ more jobs " will then be exception of his daughter Feigele; she had a room ible . t() 'me and just as ,inaccessible as the " in the attic. At night.a lamp burned in Feigele's sky. I had already been matched with. the An All Canadian Manufacturer Qf created. 'windowJong after the lights downstairs' had been daughter ~of a rabbi. Every (lay my father PLUMBING' & HEATING EQUIPMENT The more we extend ourselves to LIMITED extinguished. Occasionally I caught a glimpse of read me a lesson from the Shulchan Aruch make sure that the alinost totally her shadow passing across the curtain. Mottel,on how to become a rabbi. The villagers Negro-less suburbs allow Negroes to Feigele's younger brother, had 'built a dovecotEl watched me constantly to make sure ,that I com- ... alorig as if they were rushing from their women­ entel', the more of thein will move on. the roof and often stood on the top of the . mitted no transgressions. My father complained folk and temptation. I had been raised among alit of ·their present slums and into a more. wholesome environment, Wholesalers of Dry Goods, S~wares building chasing pigeons with along stick. Leon, that my frivolity jeopardized his·livelihood. All these people, but now I found their dishevelled , . Fewer will end up as juvenile d~lin­ the older boy, was studying at a polytechnic in I needed was to, be caught talking to agirI, par- beards, their ill-fitting clothes and their insistent .. Cracow, rode around the village on a horse when ticularly Aaron the watchmaker's' daughter. . clannishness odd. They ran from the Evil One quents as might ,the children of DAN KENNEDY he came home on vacation. There was nothing '. But when I sat· in my tree at night watching like sheep from a wolf. , doctors, lawyers," professors, that that emancipated family did not 'possess:' Feigele's 'window. I knew indubitably that.' my After the' Chassidim came the ordinary Jews, high-rating civil servants as well Presldimt they had a parrot, canaries, a dog. Aaron played longing for. her must somed~y bring a response. and after them the women and gii:ls. Most of the as Indian and African students who . the zither; his wife 'owned a piano - she came. I already believed in telepathy, clairvoyance, 'mes- 'older women wore. capes and gowns which dated want to move, out now but can't. from Lublin and didn't wear a wig. Aaron the merism. I would narrow my eyes until the light from the time of King Sobieski; they had tiaras To those who claiin that they fear watchmaker; who was also both, goldsmith, and from Feigele's lamp became thin, fiery filaments.' and bonnets with ribbons ,on their heads. Their ANtHES-IMPERIAL LIMITED· their white tenants' or their workers' Jeweller, was the only man in the village With a My psychic 'messages, would speed: across, the jewellery consisted of heavY gold chains., long l350 Ave. . .Winnipeg 21 reactioris: with a little effort you telephone in his house; he could speak directly to blackness to her, for I was seeking toemtilate' earrings soweiglity 'they almost tore the l<;lbes can' inform these people that 'you Our Best Wishes to· all our Jewish Customers for a Very Happy St. Catherines ~Toronto· - Montreal Calgary - .. , intend. abiding .by the law of the , and Joyous . Chanukah from the Management· Zamosc..· .Joseph de la Reina, who by using the powers of of their ears, andbr.ooches inherited from grand- " arid Staff of ' • ' ...... Holy Names. had 'brought the Grand' Vizier's mothers and great-grandmothers that vibrated ;::::::~~~~~~~~~=~~~~;:=~~~~~ state as well as your own personal . J was not a native of that hamlet. I had been daughter in a trance to his bed. I called out to as the ,women walked. My motherhadon.a.gold convictions" (And don't raise prices,) brought up in Warsaw but when the war came, Feigele, trying to invad.e both her. waking· silk dress and pelerine decorated with rhine­ Such efforts will improve the Ne­ a gro's image of the Jew. . my, p'arents left the city and went to live with . thoughts and dreams. I wrapped a phantom net stones. But the younger ,women had studied the , ... my grandfather the rabbi.. There 'we were struck around her like some sorcerer from the "Thou- . fashion magazines (which always showed up in HAPPY HEALTHY CHANU~H in a village which was on no railroad and was sand arid One Nights." My incantations must . the village a year or two after they had been MO$T . CORD.IAL CHANUKAH surrounded by pine forests. My father was ap- inevitably kindle love in her heart and make her issued) and were dressed in ,what they considered GREETINGS TO ALL OUR · pointed assistant rabbi. I never stopped longing, . desire me passionately. In return I. would give to be the latest·stYle. Some of them wore narrow' COLONIAL· HOTEl JEWISH FRIENDS for Warsaw, its streets, its trolley cars,' its iIIu-' her 'caresses such as no. woman had ever received skirts that scarcely covered their knees and even minated ,show windows and its tall balconied resi- before...... bobbed their hair. The ladies' tailors stood to one AND MINERAL" BAT.HS 900 KING EDWARD STREET' WlNNIPEG~ MAN. dences. Aaron the watchmaker .. and his. family side commenting on the dress of the women. They , MOUNT CLEMENS, MICHIGAN TheCronk.hite represented for mea fragment of the metropolis. .. I would adorn her with jewels dug from the. contrasted their handiwork with that of their COMPLETE TERMINAL . FACILITIES Aaron had a library, containing bo.oks written in moon. We would fly together to other planets and competitors, and not only ridiculed each other's One of the finest Hesort Hotels in the Mid-West. Situated Company Ltd. "FORWARDING OUR SPECIALTY" several languages. In his store one could put on she would d.well a queen in supernal pll:laces. For qesignsbut the clients who wore, them. I kept on a five acre private park. Unexcelled Food. Beautiful ALL CA,RGOES INSURED · earphones and listen to the radio. He subscribed' reasons whIch I was unable to explain I became looking in vain for Feigele. My sorcery had new cocktaH lounge. Dietary Laws strictly adhered to. .. Wilf Kravetsky, Traffic ·Mgr.Mrs. E.Kravetsky, Pres. , , , to two Warsaw newspapers, one in Polish and one convinced that the beginning of our friendship " failed and I walked with downcast eyes among Free transportation ·fr.om the depots or airports in "Whole~ale Plumbing and . ,in Yiddish, and was always hunting for a chess would date from the" reading of the Tashlich the stragglers. Some of the townspeople stood Detroit directly to Colonial Hotel. Reduced. Rates riow Phone SPruce 4·7446 , • • I partner.. Feigele had attended the gymnasium in prayer on Hosh Hashonah afternoon. This pre- . on the wooden bridge reciting the Tashlich; others in effect. Heating Supplies Lublin, boarding with an aunt while she was away monition, was totally illogical. " Probably an en- lined the river's. banks. The young 'women took DO,MlNION STORAGE' COMPANY LTD. Phone SUnset 3.6262 from home, but now having received her diploma, lightened girl like .Feigele would not even attend out their handkerchiefS and shook out their sins. Write or Call had returned to her parents. the ceremony. 'But the idea had entered into me' Boys playfully emptied their pockets to be ·sure 900 King Edward St. . Winnipeg Aaron the watchmaker had been a student of like a dybbuk. I kept counting the days and hours that no transgression remained. The village wits Your Host phone WHitehall 3-8431 my 'grandfather and had been considered ,a reli- . until the holiday, formulated plans, conceived of ' made the traditional Tashlich jokes.' "Girls, shake , ". gious prodigy until he had been caught reading the words I. would say to her. Two or three times as hard as yon want, but few sins will remain." MAX ELKIN 90 MARKET AVE. a Managing Owner the Bible in German. translation; a sure sign of ,perching among the leaves and branches, I noticed . "The fish will get fat feeding on so many~rrors." , . heresy. Like Mendelssohn, Aaron was a hunch- Feigele standing at .the window looking out. I I made .no attempt to say the prayer but stood' Phone Mt. Clemens - • Winnipeg Manitoba Metropolitan. back. Although he had not been officially excom- could not se.e her eyes but knew that she . had under a willow watching a huge red sun which' HOward 3.45(15 . , municated, it was almost as if'he had. been. He heard my call and ,was searching for me in the. was split in half by a wisp of cloud sinking in the' • had a high forehead, a mangy-looking goatee and,darkness.. I~' was the. ~onth of Ellul and every .. west~ Flocks Of "birds dipped.toward the water, large black eyes. There was something ancient day the ram shorn was blown in the study house their wings one. instant silver, the next leaden' Stores and half-forgotten in his gaze for which I knew to drive away Satan. Spider webs drifted through black. The colour of the river turned from green no name and which made me think of Spinoza and . the a~r; cold winds blew from the Arctic ice cap. to rose. I had lost everything that mattered here Uriel Acosta; When he sat at the window of his So brIght was the moon that night and day were on earth, but still found comfort in the sky. Sev­ In the Spirit 01 the ChaD""ah OF, LIMITED store studying some mechanism through a watch nearl! indistinguishable. Crows, 'awakened by' eral of the smallerclouds seemed to be on fire 1 'WE EXTEND TO 'NIE' JEWISH PEOPLE 'I1HROUGHOUT CANADA glass, he see.med to be. reading the wheels like a ~he hg~t, croaked. The grasshoppers were sing- and sailed across the heavens like ships with burn­ , . fortune teller does his crystal. All day his sad mg theIr final songs; shadows scampered across ing sails. I gaped at the sun as if I were seeing OUR SINCERE GOOD 'W1SiOt!I!Ol:S FOR PEACE AND !HM>Pl'NESS smile enunciated OVer and over again, "Vanity of the fields surrounding the village. The river it for the first time. I had learned from Flam­ 89 STORES FROM COAST TO COAST vanities." Feigele had inherited her father's eyes. wound through the meadows like a silver snake. marion that this star was a million and a half She kept to herself, was always to be seen stroll- 2 times as large as the earth and had' a temperature . I t II thO . 1 'th I al f e of six thousand degrees centigrade on its surface Sie.,.ens EdisoD Swan mg a one, a a, m glr WI a ong, p e ae It w.as Rosh Ha. shonah and I put on ·the new TImIFTYCAN:ADIANSFINJ) IT PAYS d thO d II' s She alway' ca 'ed t and hundreds of thousands in its interior. Every- an m nose an p. 'ck ands onerrl thl'n woA gabardme and new shoes I had 'been gl'ven and thing came from, it - light, warmth, the wood ,b 00 k s un d er "her arm one thl ' . brushed my sidelocks behl'nd my ears. What TO SHOP AT THE "MET." t tl ted fro h B th O for the oven and the food in the pot. Even life and (CaDada) Li... ited · st· rangeth genf h' eness bl emana. I t th . mer. h . y IS more 'could a young Chasl'd do to lool{ modern'l. suffering were impossible without it. But what lme ·e Ias lOna h'e glr s cub ' elrSh aIr Iau garcon, t k In the late afternoon I started to 101·ter on Brl'dge was the sun? Where did it come from? Whence . (AN A.E.I. COMPANY) b u t Fi elge e wore ers m a un. e a ways 00 Street, watch in, g the townspeople file by on thel'r . I HEAD OFFICE - WINNIPEG, MAN•. th d t th Rus 'a cemetery 0 e I did It trave, moving in the Milky Way and also e roa . 0 e Sl n . nc . way to the Tashlich ceremony. The day was with the Galaxy? EXECUTIVE OFFICES " . her'reading the inscriptions in the graveyard. ~unn:y, the sky as blue and transparent as it is ...... 419 NOTRE DAME AVE., WINNIPEG, MAN. - LONDON, ONT...... m mId-summer. Cool breezes mingled with the Suddenly I understood why the pagans had ..

. . I. was too shy to talk to her, wasn't even sure warmth exuded' by the earth.. First came the worshipped it as a god~ I had a desire to" kneel .. ..:: ~ - -- ...:-----=--" -'-""------she knew who I: was since she had a way of . look- Chassidi;n, marching tog~ther' as 'a . group, ,all and bow.' down myself., .Well, and could one be ing over people's head. But I knewt~at, like me, dressed m fur hats and satm coats. They hurried (Continued on page 32)

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