The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-25
Will 0REN OF THE GHETTO.
.,-,,sT ZANGWILL TELLS OF
~ ruFIR LIFE AND HISTORY.

-. Were no Newspapers.
n-nep Left Alone He Takes
p-omtnent Part In All the Activi-
.,.s of Idfe-III Treated In Litera-
-..a ~ Well as In Life.
From the Baltimore Sun.
..,,,,eantative audience was at Music
o.. hear lecture by Mr.. Israel Gang
a. ~. eminent novelist and critic, whose
'5'.nrs descriptive of Jewish life have
=, much to wipe out Iong-establish-
.r.ioljses against his race. His
.rb,l5ren of the Ghetto and "Dreamers
~. Ghetto have attracted widespread
t.rrion 10th in this country and in Eu
and he has been hailed as a modern
s,optet of Judea.
his r4rsonality is striking, both in voice
i nj manner. and his appearance is almost
,.ortric He is slim and gaunt, with
4 vac insistent features, and he wears
his black hair in curls, which cluster
hout his shoulders. His figure is not
rsct and he looks the student and the
biol.er. His accent is decidedly Britou,
bra he speaks fiuently and rapidly, round
no his perfect sentences without hesita-
on or evident effort.
Mr. Z1ngwin, when he arrived, wore
as,gle-breasted black frock coat and trou-
,rs OF very wide pattern. At the lee
Isure he appeared in evening dress. When
sen AT DR.. Hollander's house, before the
be,mre. he confessed to being tired, and
Indicated in a testing way that he was q
hi,tim of the great American habit Of
Interviewing.
"Yes." he said, when mention was made
h. him of the controversy which has fol-
lowed some of his recent utterances upon
american literature and the American
.jrama: yes. l have been unfortunate
4 nougb to disagree with some gentlemen
II bout these things, but there is no rea-
'sor why there should be any further con-
Iroyersy about them. I have said what I
Relieve. and what l still believe.
There has been some discussion, too.
concerning my disagreement with Toll
setoi's art for arts sake He says, you
know. that art is something that unites
sal men That is not so. Art is there for
san men, and the love of art and its high
5r ideals are there for them if they want
7them but they do not all take them
sI0ts of things unite all men-the eating
'Of a dinner every day, for instance, but
4 the eating of a dinner is not art. If l see
u beautiful painting and others see tiff
I've appreciate it We are united by II in
that respect But there are others who
fare united by the enjoyment of the red
|and yellow illustrations in the Sunday
newspapers"
Il Ill
Ding to discuss Tolstoi and the drama and
literature indefinitely but DR.. Hollander
Feminded him that he had to eat one of
|the dinners of which he had been speak
Ping, and that il was waiting for him La
|tor those who were at Music Hall had the
pleasure Of hearing him discuss most in
Iterestingly several other things, the life
|and history of his own people being his
Theme. 1t was a popularized discussion
Iof many of the things which he has writ
Iten in his books, and he took for the title
Iof lecture the title of the most purpose
.fu Of his books-"Children of the Ghet-
no
The stage presence of Mr.. Zangwill is
graceful and natural. He uses few ges-
stures as he speaks, and his voice seems
10 be loud and clear, but, nevertheless,
.fhere were many not very far from the
slase who were not able TO follow him
throughout
4 The ghetto" he said in part, twas
fne home of the Jews in many of the
h lies in Europe in the sixteenth, seven
Eeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was
Sually a place i'm an obscure part of the
4 !y lnterlaced with narrow lanes and
leys and inclosed by a wall with q
4 arge iron gate, and within these gates
ne Jews We're compelled to live. To give
Eefe tonight a brds-eye view of Jewish
Il story | should have to say many things
k" mch would displease Jews and Chris
8,ahs as we'll There is much to be said in
\ gsuHeation of the Christians who shut up
NE Jews In the ghetto and there is much
70 say for the Jews who for centuries were
r. lnjustly prosecuted.
Iae Jew has always colored and been
'o'Vied by his surroundings. He has been
T. enormous service to every country
"hch has harbored him. His enforced
iSolation caused bitter hatred to spring up
ln his breast and the bitter hatred caused
Iitner isolation. The Jews chung to-
se'her for mutual protection. When the
Vnurcn and the state were bound to-
es'ner the Jew, not being of the church,
1'I'i not De of the state. The ghetto was
q lUIe city within a larger city, and its
V,J'ct was quite as much as to keep the
y -'ISuans from the Jews as the Jews
! ,oh the Christians. Various explana-
IONS are siven of the etymology of the
ora ghetto but in modern American IL
i'snt be believed TO be derived from
sel-they We're told TO get you know.
I'D these early centuries, when the Jew
was beng driven from country to coun-
HE, ne was often the bearer of news, and
Ill nus Wanderngs he would be enabled to
~ one people what another people was
U1'us' He was the newspaper of those
,,'"es "hen there were no newspapers.
~ was the intermediary between the old
.'nzauon of the East and the newer
H'Hzalion of the West. He was the orig
iiliof OF the system of lending money on
,.''Iest' which now rules in all the big
l"Siltss enterprises of the world. He was
"'HonS the early slave dealers and often
,-e Jews were the best physicians of the
'''-e. Inc royal physicians of many of the
Noa,ts OF the middle ages were Hebrews.
sometimes there has gotten abroad an
I,.l itSslon that a Jew does but two things.
is' he lends money and wants ii back
477a'h' second, he deals in old clothes.
'1I MS history has proved this idea err
ioHe9us When left alone the jew has
'@hen a prominent part in all walks of
i,ls' IN Italy and the East the Jews We're
ae largest silk manufacturers and, their
mes were recorded among the largest
ool and wine dealers.
AT another period the Jews served as
.oEai taX-gatherers. They would be sent
around as a sponge to sop up the gold, and