The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-04
KOHLBERC,
STRAUSS g.
FROHMAN,
Io7-loo POST STREET
1920 MARKET ST.
IN THE GHETTO.
Rabbi Levy breaches on
the Late Gar.
The Rabbi Predicts That the New
Emperor Will Deal Kindly
With His People.

1.-THE Life and Death of the Gar" was
impresSively used yesterday morning as
the theme for a sermon by Rabbi Levy at
the Geary-street synagogue. II was the
life and death of Alexander III, especially
in its relation to the Hebrews The rabbi
said:
The mission OF the Jew is mission Of
peace. For centuries lie has gone ont into
the world proclaiming this mission, and
to-day there is a reasonable hope that it
will be fulfilled. On the Tostrum, in the
novel. In The world the Jew is becoming
the center of attraction, and the world is
beginning to realize that the mission that
the. Jew has for centuries given his life for
is about to be accomplished.
''But did | say the whole world? /
should have said the world west of the
Cars domnions. Medieval rule still
holds sway there. The ghetto still rules
there. more horrible than ever il was in
middle-age Rome or Prague. II is a ghetto
within ghetto, and ! will say that the
persecution that my people have suffered
since 1882 is u disgrace to the nineteenth
century"
The preacher then gave some account of
the ghettos II set boundaries wherein the
Jews are still confined in the Cars do
minioDs. He said there were nfteen oil
them in the entire empire, and named
large tracts of territory, such as Great
Russia. Finland and Astrachan, whence
the Jew is entirely extended. Even in The
pale of the ghetto they are permitted 10
dwell in the cities onlv-a pale within a
pale. ut was the father oil the late Gar,
Alexander II, who tried TO give the Jews
greater privileges, and made an effort 10
let them dwell In any part of the land. In
1882 a change came; the laws protecting
them were revoked aud the order came.
You must leave. Ii your property is not
sold Within the gwen time It will be con-
fscated' 1t was then that America and
Western Europe raised their voices and
protested.
1.-The protest was effectual, and it seemed
that the Jew might dwell in Russia, but
when the Greek church took possession OF
the reigning Gar the Jews suffered and
we're persecuteG."s The life of the late
Gar was then sketched by the rabbi, and
his disappointment in love described as g
factor that tended 10 embitter his life and
make him severe in his dealings with has
w-beings.
at must be said of the late Gar that he
was a good husband, in snite OF his nav
ing been forced to marry the Princes:
Dagmar against his will. lie was good
father, and beloved by the ma jOrty of nj:
people, and he was also man Of peace 10
his foreign policy, hut to the Jews
were treated? Has he never witnessed
with his own eyes some OF the scene:
within the pale? Mothers we're separated
from their children, spoliaton, violation
and scenes of violence were Of constant
occurrence, and he permitted it.
81 bear him no hatred now that he is
dead, and / say it is not good on the part
OF Jew 10 feel any pleasure because his
enemy is no more@, He will have To stand
before the Judgment seat OF God NAV he be
judged mercifullg; il IS not for us 10 pass
sentence on him. The King is dead
live the King Now there is another
Gar, and this man, Nicholas II, believe.
will not only emancipate the Jew, oul
will be his friend and protector. He has
seen and travelled mncn, aud every wher,
outside OF Russia hs has beheld the Jew
an h0nored man. When he returned from
his tour around the world he said to the
Gar: Father, [ have seen the Jew, an(
he is human. Il is blot on the Russian
name that he is not treated as the othe
citizens are trea ted.
Intelligent and highly educated, | be-
lieve Nicholas has sense enough to see il
my people loyal citizens. and that be will
DO their friend"