The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-29
TO RESTORE JERUSALEM
PLAN TO MAKE ANCIENT CITY MOTH
Err OF MODERN JUDAISM.
Hopes Of Palestine Israelites Ex-
planned by DIR. David Yellin-
University Proposed.

LONDON. Oct. 2s.-Jerusalem as the
mother Of Judaism is the hope of the
rising generation of Palestine Israelites.
Without the desire for political sovereign
ty promised by the Zionist movement. the
Jews of the Holy Land are working to re-
store to the historic capital it's ancient
glory as the foundation of the intellectual
and religious life for the Hebrews of all
the world They aim at the establishment
OF great academy or university. where
every branch OF Jewish learning would be
cultivated and taught by men of exalted
reputation, attracting Jewish students
from the four quarters of the globe.
DR.. David Yellin, a native Palestine He
brew. has come to London to tell the Jews
OF Great Britain Of his countrymen's
ideals and aspirations. and of what has
been done In the direction OF their realiza-
tion- Dr. Yellin, who is a professor of the
Won Laimel College in Jerusalem, had
planned to visit the United States on the
same mission. but having been promised
the support OF the B'nai Birth organiza-
ton of America, he has changed his in
tention.
In an interview DR.. Yellin, who speaks
Hebrew, German, French. Turkish and
English with equal fluency, and who is a
striking type of the Iatter-day Jerusalem
lite, said: Despite the restrictions which
the Sultan imposes on exclusively Jewish
subjects we are making resolute progress.
Our brothers from foreign lands cannot
enter the country without a liberal distri-
button of backsheesh, or gratuities to the
frontier officials. Even then they become
only disfranchised tenants, and strict reg
ulations bar us from being on an equal
footing with others
Our political, civil and religious life
however, is entirely unhampered. We are
altogether the architects of our own for
tunes, and the conditions are entirely IA
vorable for growth. We are embracing
them very substantially
Our technical and industrial schools are
turning out skilled artisans and agricul
turists. We practically dominate such
manual trades as woodworking. tinsmith
ing, tailoring, shoemaking and coopering.
In the arts of architecture and sculpture
Jewish men and women are making their
mark. In the vineyards, which are to Pal
estine what the wheat fields are to the
great American Northwest, Jewish working
people are in the majority, and are fire.
quently found as proprietors.
What We need most in our educational
system are facilities for the higher Develop
ment of our peoples mental faculties. We
want to train our doctors. lawyers and
teachers. In this direction we have made
a start by establishing the Central Ii
brary, which even i'm its infancy has be-
come a potent factor in the life of the CONN.,
try.
I'VE want to make the Jerusalem of the
fathers a modern source of inspiration we
want TO bring the law back TO Zion. We
want TO have it said no longer: Palestine
land of graves, We offer but sacrifices to the
dead. The library has given an intellectual
stimulus TO our people and aroused in them
spirit Of self-reliance and self-respect
THE new generation of Jerusalem is de-
termined TO cast off the reproach that II
depends on European and American CO.
religionists for charitable doles We can
and will work out our own salvation.
I'VE welcome the Zionist movement of
DR.. Herzl and Max Nordau not so much
because we believe in its practfaability
which is open to question. but on account
of its undoubted influence in bringing back
TO Judaism many who have become alien
ated from 1t.
I'VE believe that our most substantial
progress Will come under conditions where
we are freed from the whitening Influences
OF jalousies of the temporal power
DR.. Yellsn adds that Germany is acouir
ing sphere of influence in Palestine He
says that the political effect of the Kaisar's
visit 10 Palestine has dwarfed its assumed
religious aspect. The German influence
dominates three colonies of the country
two agrartan, one industrial. and the Teu-
tons are waging a commercial campaign
which promises to capture others.