The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09
DR. KRAUSKOPF TO COME,
The Eminent Hebrew Divine
Will Visit This City
Shortly.
HIS LABORS IN THE EAST.
Solution of the Russo-JeWish
Problem.

Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf of Philadelphia,
one of the noted American Hebraists, will
arrive in this City about the 10Th inst. The
reverend gentleman will deliver his first
address at the Temple Emanuel on the
evening of Friday, 21st of June.
DR.. Krauskopf, who is graduate of the
Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, has,
by his aggressive and progressive ideas,
together with his uncommon energy and
rare persuasive powers, advanced himself
In very few years to the front rank among
the preachers of the land. He has not
confined himself to pulpit work, but in the
belief that the church and the synagogue
should not restrict their influence to their
own membership, has reached out and has
so broadened his work as to make it of the
highest influence to the greatest number
He is the founder of the Philadelphia Per-
sonal Interest Society, which has accom-
plished splendid work in the direction of
arousing an active interest on the part of
the wellto-do in the welfare of their poorer
neighbors.
He is one of the earliest promoters of the
Jewish Publication Society, which has
done good work in giving to the world
modern jewish thought upon Jewish his
tory and Jewish literature.
He was the first to take up the matter
OF model tenements in Philadelphia in the
interest of those forced to live in the slums.
he succeeded in raising a large sum,
which Is soon to be used for the erection of
the first model tenement in Philadelphia
In 1928, when the Russian persecution
of the Jews was at its height, he took the
stand that the proper place for the Russian
Jew was Russia. With that idea in view
he decided to go to Russia for the pur-
pose OF laying before the Russian
government a plan to COLOMBO the
Russian Jews either in Siberia or
in some other available part of the
empire; undertaking, if the matter met
with the approval of the Russian Govern
ment, to raise a fund of money from
among the Jews of the world to bring
this idea to a successful issue. Knowing
that under the Russian law no Jew was
admitted into Russia, he made application
through the State Department at Wash
ington for special permission to visit
Russia for his philanthropic purpose. In
response to Secretary of State Gresham
request, made to the authorities in ST.
Petersburg for such permission, the an
swer came that the request could not be
granted. DR.. Krauskopf determined to go
without such permission and to demand
entrance into Russia as an American citi-
1 zen. His intention having become known
the matter was generally and widely COM
mented upon by the press throughout the
Congress to the effect that unless Russia
saw tit to respect the treaty and to admit
American citizens within her lines, regard.
less of their religious beliefs, the treaty
then existing between the two coun-
tries should be abrogated. The Russian
Government, evidently not caring to risk
such an unpleasant controversy, deemed it
best to offer no opposition to the admission
OF DR.. krauskopf.
As a result he entered Russia without
interference and spent several weeks within
the empire was given an audience with
laid his plans. The Minister received them
in a most favorable spirit and promised to
lay the matter before the Gar.
Meanwhile the doctor visited the Jewish
settlement and agricultural colonies in
Russia, where he was surprised to find the
very condition existing that he had hoped
TO establish. He found Jewish agricultural
colonies numbering over $4,000 souls that
had been founded during the time of
Nicholas-nearly hundred years ago. He
found that in spite of a poor soil and no
available water supplies, the colonists by
their thrift, their industry aid their sobri-
ETY., were prosperous and their history
made it plain that large numbers of Rus
sian Jews were peculiarly fitted to succeed
as agriculturists. Meanwhile, however,
the Gar died, and no action was therefore
taken.
w nat LIZ. hfduSkOpI saw III Russia so
filled him with the merit of the idea pro-
posed that he is more enthusiastic than
ever concerning the wisdom OF COLOMBIA
ton of Russian Jews, now forced into the
over-populated pale of Russia somewhere
within the domain of the Russian empire
and it is quite likely that he will persist
in agitating the plan until some tangible
result follows.
AS an outcome of his visit to Russia, be
now proposes to establish somewhere neal
Philadelphia model farm, with a view
of educating orphans and youths, regard
With such calling he believes a bright
future will be open to them. They vii
likewise be fitted to serve as superintend
ents of agricultural colonies, which ar,
soon to be founded on a large scale, il
America and elsewhere. To help raise tn,
necessary means the doctor devotes all hi
perquisites and lecture fees to the Mode
Ea rra fund