' .. • . , , " ~y, Deeewber ~n~962=.-,-_____________---:T:..B~l\l_J_B..;.W;..I_S_B_P_O_S_T ________________ ----p-Me..::.:....;,.\SeVeJJ..;....~te-erI Thursday, December 20, 1962 Page Sixteen THE JEWISH POST 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 MONTREAL 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. WINNIPEG MANITOBA 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 Saskatchewan 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 - Edmonton .. , 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.