Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-29
D ESTiNY OF THE JEW
As Pointed Out in a Lecture BY DR..
Joseph Krauskopf
The Contrasts In the History of the
Race-AmbitIous to He Lead
ers of Thought.

phia lectured last night at the Eighth Street
Synagogue, under the auspices of the Young
Mems Hebrew Associa ton. His theme was
! Only Jew" By way of Introduction he
narrated an incident which had suggested
the theme on which he was to speak. 1t
| was the day before Christmas three four
years ago. 1t was bleak, cold day, anG
the sidewalks were icy and slippery. But
despite this the streets were crowded with
people hurrying to and fro. At one of the
! cC-rers the eagerness of large crowd at
tracted his notice. On inquiring the reason
of the excitement, two young men answer
| ed 'Oh. only jew
He pressed through the circle of bystand-
! ers and stood before gray-haired peddler
who, under the burden of his pack. had
fallen. He was bespattered with mud ana
little drops of blood trickled down his
cheek. Two men were helping him on his
| feet. but even they, together with the whole
| crowd, were INDUCING in raillery, banter
and uncomplimentary epithets at the ex-
| pense of the old Jew. The venerable fell
/ low owned only the pack that was upon
his back, and on that there remained a sum
/ unpaid. With sales from this he had to
| support not only his own family but that
! of his daughter, whose husband had diea
while being driven across the frozen STEP
pes OF Russia He had seen better days be-
fore the issuance Of that ukase which had
| banished him from his home for the helm
Gus crime OF being only Jew.
| Rothschild "a Jew.
The lecturer said that he bought a paper
and the first thing that met his eyes wa:
an editorial saying that Russia would have
been involved in a bloody war had not
| Rothschild refused a loan. "Who is this
mighty man who rules the destinies of ma
/ lions and holds the crowns of Europe in his
hands?' Only a Jew. Then it occurred IL
him that it was Christmas. What is
| Christmas, thought he. An annual celebra-
/ ton of the birth of Jesus who is wor-
| shipped by one-half mankind as their
Savior. And who was this Jesus? Only
| Jew. And yet the story of his life is the
| inspiration of the world He marveled at
the wond-ousness of the Jewish race The
Jews had from their very beginning as a
race been cursed and deified, feared and
eourted. No people other than the Jews
mad outlived or could have outIived the
treatment to which they had been subjected
for 5000 years. Pharaoh had cast them out
and yet at the same time had raised for
them their leader.
While Plate was mailing the gentle Rabbi
OF Nazareth to the cross with one hand
with the other he was raising a kingdom
whose subjects would be all the people of
the earth. While Ferdinand and Isabella
were exiting the Jews from SPAIN with the
same pen and on the same day they We're
I
opened up a new world and gave a home of
freedom to the Jews. While the Car of
russia and the Sultan Of Turkey were in
hlcting impcsitions on the Jews. they were
extending welcome to the great men of the
race. In an art gallery in Europe he had
stood before a picture representing Fagin
teaching little children to thieve Next to it
was one of the Christians Savior teaching
little children. In the face of the Savior
there was a resemblance to the Fagin and
vice versa.
The FnEin Type.
This led him to observe that in all typical
Jews there was part of the countenance of
Fagin. He did not meansthe type of Jew
caricatured in Puck any more than he did
the ethereal image which hung on the walls
OF Sunday schools. The prosecutions OF
three thousand years was responsible for
this FaSin feature. Cunning, sagacity and
aequisiuvenesS were the only weapons which
the Jews had had against the brute force of
their enemies. On all Jewish faces there
We're stamped cunning, intelligence morality
and spiritual grandeur Common, everyday
expressions were mean a Jew" tricky
as Jew, dirty as a jew" cunning as a
jew" rich as jew" The Jewish race had
furnished Shylocks and lscariots. A picture
or the historic Jew without these dark col
ors would be as untruthful as a picture of
Christianity that painted everything as
saint-like and omitted the horrors of the
stakes at Smithfield, Geneva, Rome and
senses, the massacre of st. Bartholomew
and the Inquisition.
Other nations had succumbed to persecu-
ton, but today the Jewish race stood the
intellectual and moral peer of any, He
should not be censured for the Fagin fea-
ture: The wonder was that he was not all
Fagin. This feature had been painted on
him by priests and monks, fanaticism and
bigotry. What great transgression had the
Jew committed that had brought upon them
hatred and outrage that had endured for
centuries?
The Gifts to the World.
He was guilty of having given to the world
a Gcd. and of having given to a greater part
OF 1t Savior. He was guilty of having
nrst acknowledged one God. He was guilty
OF having first traversed land and sea to
spread the new faith. He was guilty of hav-
ing given the world a Sabbath. He was
guilty of having given the human race a
Bible, a decalogue and golden rule. He
had given the world great prophets bards.
singers and lawgivers. The Jew was puiItv
of being the most law-abiding, peaceful and
arectfonate of people, of paying taxes for
the support of penal institutions which he
had no use for; he was unknown to aims
houses and inebriate asylums; the prisons
did not know him, and the scaffold had
hardly ever heard his name. He had been
taught that money was the only weapon
which ne could employ against his enemies
His clannishness was because he had been
made an outcast. Ills lack of social finish
even though such was the case. was because
he was in transitional position passing
from degradation to social equality
DO not blame the Jew because he be-
ieyes himself to be the chosen of the Lord |
Blame the Bible, which tells him that nc
is" To prove that they were the chosen
of the Lord, DR.. krauskopf said that his |
race was the weakest and most defense
less of all the races. and yet the sword of
every great nation had been blunted when
drawn against the Jew. All the mighty ma
tons of antiquity had tried it. but the Jews
lived on. The Jews had discredited Christ's |
Messiahship. because in those times the
Jews wanted not preacher or a teacher; |
they had those things; they wanted a fight
err to lead them in throwing off the CALLING
yoke of Rome. They wanted a military
savior.
The jews and Christ.
The Jews were not responsible for the /
punishment of Christ. The crime of which |
Christ was accused was not punishable by
death under the Jewish law; crucifixion was
not Jewish method of inhicting DEATH |
and in the time of Jesus the Jews had no /
jurisdiction over life and DEATH because |
Judea was a Roman province and under |
Roman rule. The Jews had voluntarily |
spread themselves over all the face of the |
then known world long before Christ came |
upon earth. All nations, all peoples recog-
nlzed 4 supreme power. Almost all peoples |
naQ an intermediate savior. If .TpS1S t'np-