The Jewish advance. (Chicago, Ill.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-17


with the daughter of Rajah finding his
destruction through and with her, was
to remind of the Jewish outcasts who,
on account of a delusion were cursed by
the priests and hated by the people. It
is true, Michael Beer tells through his
hero some very harsh truths to the
naughty:
sThey coax their dog and their race-horse,
And avoid us, as if to us nature
But for mask has human form given.
Treat me as your peer and see if I'm your
equaI!'
have a fatherland, I'll give it protection.
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They avoid us, like those by pest infected,
Yet their blood rolls with impudent lust glow
ing;
All one it's to this relnorSeless generation,
III it's satisfaction it finds in Palace
Or in the Pariah's cursedly wretched cottage.
But Gadhi or Michal Beer acknowl-
edged the reproach Of his prosecutors
and the reprobatness of his own race as
partly justified. A curse rests on that
race.
Because once perhaps i'll hoary fable age
A Pariah you homage has refused,
The God taunted, who to the earth's trial.
His lightful being with glory surrounded.
This vexed Heine extraordinarily
This concession Jew should not have
made to Christianity, otherwise be de-
served his slavish fate Fatal highly
fatal was to me the main feature of the
poem, that the Pariah is a disguised
jew Everything must be tried to pre-
vent anybody from finding it out =.
and it is foolish to purposely point out
this resemblance Most absured and
most injurious is the neat idea that the
Pariah conjectures that his ancestors de-
served their sad condition because they
had committed bloody misdeed The
al]6iou 10 Christ may well please some
pegpla . : Wish Miehal Beer was.
baptized and expressed himself harshly,
in AImansor style in regard to Christ
iJaitz instead lat he is anxiously
sparing the same and is even ogling with
it. Heine could also have added that
out of self-conceit or want of fantasy
Michael Beer exposed his coreligionists,
from whom he outwardly did not desire
to alienate himself, to shame and falsely
imputed to them vices from which they
are most certainly free His ''pious
Rabbi represents a scholar well versed
in Talmudical lore, searching in the
dead books in a solitary country and
striving to fulfill all religious duties,
especially three commandments:
Three commandments are the highest
Practice hospitality. the sick attend
And to the grave with thy prayers
TO accompany the departed
Therefore the talmudist was clad
when a visitor came to his house to
whom he could show hospitality. But
he also tortured and wounded him to be
able to cure him and at last he lifts up
the murderous ak against HIM so that
he might be able to exercise the last Of
the three commandments. Michael
Beer made use of bad joke, worthy of
an arch-enemy of the Jews, to form an
accusation against the adherents of the
Talmud.
Poor Michael Beer kept distant from
his coreligionists and stood in close con-
nection with the prominent Christian
world in the deIusion that it will forget
his descent. The Christian world once
reminded itself and him of it SO irri-
tatingly thar he took the suffered insult
to heart and died Of it.
HEINE,s BAprIZN-
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