The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-28
FallaCieS About
Jews.
Are Greater in Other Lines
Than in Commerce.
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Is. o. Howes in St. Louis Mirror)


inent in commercial pursuits only is SO
/ widespread that 10 dispel it were al
most Iltantc task. Statistics, ever
/ the uncOmprOmiSing foe of fallaciOus
/ belief clearly dispTOve this paramount
/ cy IN wealth, for of all civilized nations
/ the Jews are least free from pauDerism
/ The 100000 living in Asia and Africa
| are poor according 10 our standards Of
! living. The vast majority of the $500
/ UuJ living in eastern Europe are IL
/ Straltened circumstances. Among the
/ 5.UyjO00 Russian Jews only a scatter
/ ing few have managed to lift them
/ selves above the level of their imDOv-
! erlshed brethren. Some years ago the
/ New York Herald published a list OF
[ american mliltOnaires. From A to =
/ out one Jewish name was recorded
! tthat OF Seligman BTOs) on the con-
/ tlnent, besides the ROthschildS, not
more Tnau fifteen Instances can be cited
/ Of Jewish families acquiring vast
/ wealth UnaSsailable figures point our
that Jews everywhere have Iarger
/ proportion of persons dependent upon
charlty than surrounding popula tons
/ In Amsterdam, in 1877 out of a popu-
ldJlOn OF $3.50 Jews, no less than 1900
subslsted on the bounty of their CO
| fenglonlSts. OF LOndOn's Jewish pOpu-
latloH of $4,000. in 1882, II ,099 were OBJ
| Jects of charity.
This much in rebuttaI of the familiar
2
what really splendid achievements the
Hebrew has made in the sciences and
the arts of music, letters and the dra-
ma In sculpture and painting he has
slguiarly enough, shown no proficiency
There are Jewish artists it is true bur
no one of the number has attained to
! any distinction.
IN reviewing the other than CONNER
ctal exploits of the Jews it would ba
UNFAIR TO confine myself to the follow
ers Of the Israelitish faith A proper
estimate of Jewish ability should en-
brace racial as well as religionistic in
stances And it is not without interest
70 note the number Of celebrities of half
Jewish blood. A few corpuscles of Jew
ish blood in the veins of an alien race
nave often proved to be a most precious
heritage.
Helne. the modern incarnation of
Hellenic paganism, rightly called the
brother Of Catullus and ViIlon and
Burns was GeTmany's greatest lyric
poet Writing in torture upon his mat
JreSS grave this Graeco- GerTuanic lew
cried out IN bitterness OF defeat: "AIasl
the irony of God weighs heavily upon
me- the great author of the universe
the Ar1stoPhanes Of heaven, wished to
snow the petty, earthly, sO-calIed Ger
man ATlStOphaneS that his n1ightieSt
SdrcaSms are but feeble banter COM
pared with his. and how immeasura bIx-
he eXcels me in humor and in colossal
Wit The best English translations OF
Helne's verse have been rendered by
q poet Of his own faith. the gifted EN-
ma Lazarus Another Jewish poet
whose life spelled q tragic poem was
Amy Levy This weaver OF sad phrases
Of undenia BILE beauty clipped with
fateful shears the thread of her own
life before her 30th year.
VI living French literateurS there is
10 one of more varied gifts than the
Jew, Catulle Mendes, who can tell
story or pen a sonnet of hawless beau
~ with equal facility. In Venice
ThOmpsOn'5 interesting if somewhat
prosalc French Portraits l find this
sketch Of NeIdes. He has played a
very important TOle-if not the most
impOrtant-in the French literature Of
the last twenty-five years; he created
y mode that attracted and Influenced
all the poets OF his generation He is
the most accomplished man OF letters
liE5ng-masJer of all the articles and
secrets of literature"
Mr.. H Spielmann, an IsraeIite, has
given US an interesting chronicle OF
London Punch, that much laughed at
and laughed with journal
jules Verne. whose marvellous imag-
nation has anticipated modern science,
and NJ. de BlOwitz. whose equally in
VentiVe imagination has so long flu
Ihunderer, are both Of Abraham's seed.
In the mimetic art no one has
achieved fairer renOwn than Rachel
and Sara Bernhard, and, though = star
Of lesser magnitude, our own poor Sc
Ina DOlarO. also a JeWeSS. ShOne re-
splendent some dozen or more years
ago. OF writer's of the drama not one
IS more trenchant and Withal more sat
Istying III his critiques on the player
than Charles Frederic NiTdHngeT
In the art that Pater and Balzac
agree in calling the art transcendent
the Jew has shown marked proficiency
Mere mention OF their names must SUI
fee, each one Of which possesses its
own talisman. Mendelssohn, Meyer
beer MOschles, Salaman. Offenbach.
RUbenstein and Paderewski would
adOrn the annals of any race.
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Political economy also has attracted
here and there a Jew whose name is
writ high on the scrolls of this dismal
science-RicarGO, Ferdinand I.asalIe
and Karl Marx.
Cesare LCmbrOsJ, the Italian Grim
inclCslst, Is . lew, and 50 were Frofes-
sor Darmesteter, the French Oriental
list; Emin Pasha, the blazer OF new
paths amid African jUngles, and the
HeESCheiiO. who discovered new worlds
in that inverted bowl we cali the I
sky"
he HlSlillB ulSneQ EnElSn ttskIOTlSf.
Joseph jacobs. IS Jew, as is alsc Sid
neg Lee, the celebrated Shakespeareau
scholar and editor Of the Dictionary of
National Biography.
1t was the Jewish race too that
gave to England her great premier and
the other DisraeH who left behind him
"Curiosities of English Literature
Another Hebrew who wrought well IN
letters was the German novelist, AueT-
bach.
Though less well known to English
speaking races, there are two Jews in
continental Europe who are recognized
the world over as authorities in their
several lines I refer to Jean De Bloch
and GeOrg Brandes, De Bloch. actual
councillor of state of Russia and mem
Der of the cOmite des savants of the
ministry of finance, has built many ,
thousand verses OF Russian and Polish
railways and written number OF able
and Informative works on war. His
War of the Future" greatly impressed
the car and was widely commented |
upon in this country during the ses-
Stons OF The Hague peace conference
GeOrg Brandes, a native of Copenha-
gen, IS better known in America /
through translatiOns of his critical
studies on Shakespeare and Ibsen. 1t
is an unfortunate statement to have
TO make, but truth cOmpels it. that nei- |
Their America nor England has today |
literary critic comparable with this /
Danish professor
With mention Of I. ZangwiH. whose |
Without Prejudice so long made the |
pages OF the Pail Mall Magazine !
shall pass on to the celebrities of part /
Jewish blOOd-nO mean array Of names. !
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