The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-13
JEWS THE WORLD OVER
RABBI HELLER IN ATHENAEUM
 DISCoURSES ON HIS TRIBE.
Adaptability, Strength and Endur- ance of Hebrews as Race-Posi- ton Occupied by Them in
 Turkey and Morocco.

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 Rabbi Max Heller delivered a very in- teresting and thoughtful lecture at the Atnenaeum last evening before a large audience: By the presentation of a num- Der or facts gathered during the past years. he showed how the popular con- ception of the Jew has been more or less at fault especially in the belief that his activity and eminence have been con- med to certain, restricted lines. Rabbi weller illustrated his lecture by magic lantern slides. Toward the end, the car bon gave out. and the latter slides had to be rushed through. The lecture was entitled: Jews in odd Corners"
 pr. Heller opened his address by say Ing that few years ago he had re- ceived from Jerusalem, in the Hebrew language. communication having refer ence to the charity fund, which is each year sent from all parts of the world to support the Jews in the City of David ard solomon. Contributions to make up the million dollars or more sent each year to Jerusalem came from all parts of the world. from Siberia. from Australia, from Turkey. from South Africa and from all parts of Asia. It is astonishing to see how the Jew is settled in every part of the world. and to note how he had always accommodated himself to his surround ings. adopting in most instances the dress. and in some instances, even undergoing a modification of feature.
 It was mistake, made by Jew as we'll as Gentle, to suppose that the Jew has confined his activity only to the
 
 business. Investigation would show that Jews today, in different parts of the world. were eminent as politicians. doctors. sol- diers. lawyers, scholars and artists, and that in some countries they were success full farmers and herdsmen, and even, in countries south of Morocco and Algiers, could accommodate themselves to a life of robbery and piracy.
 Such was the strength and endurance of this race that it's members were able. to live and thrive under climatic conditions absolutely fatal to other branches of the white races In Dutch Guiana, where the climate is a continual Turkish bath, colony of Jews had lived for two or three hundred years. All other white people who had gone there had perished in the second or third generation.
 Rabbi Heller said that he would en- deavor to show on the canvas some of the types of Jews in foreign countries, illustrating the diversity of the race. He would skip over the Jews of the United States and Europe. as these were well known by his audience and needed no elucidation.
 etans were very fanatical, and had through ages shown intolerance toward the Jew, yet Turkey, the headquarters of Mahometanism in the present day, was very tolerant toward the Jew, and per- mitted him to hold positions of great inn portance in the government Rabbi Hell Ter showed the picture of q fine military looking man. with orders all over his breast who at the present is administra-
 
 tor of the Island of Rhodes. having been appointed to this high position by the Sultan. The picture of the physician to the Sultan, another Jew, was shown.
 Rabbi Heller described the Karaites, a community of dissenting Jews living in the Crimea. These Jews had rejected the traditions of the Talmud; they lived in different manner from other Jews, and were protected by the laws of Russia, which had for so many years perseeuted their orthodox brethren.
 Rabbi Heller then passed to Morocco. where the fanatacism of the Mahometans renders the hfe of the Jew very miserable. Morocco had long been an eyesore to the world. and it was probably only ques- tion of time when France or some other power would do little regulating in that direction. A Jew in Morocco was not al- lowed to ride a horse. If he happened to be riding mule and saw Mohametan 1t was necessary for him to dismount and wait until the Mahometan had passed by. A native might murder Jew without having to answer to the law for it. The Jew was compelled to wear a certain dress as a badge of degradation
 In Algiers there was strong anti Semitic movement A few newspapers there were devoted to the propagation of this movement There were anti-Sematic cafes, certain stores would not sell to Jews and they were persecuted in other ways This persecution had been mainly brought about by law which had per mitted the Jew to have voice in the government
 To the south of these countries there were bands of Jews who had adopted the marauding tactics of the people of these religions. They went about on horses, fully armed; were governed by sheiks, like the tribes of those regions, and ac- qulred the material delights of life by taking them away from others.
 Rabbi Heller said that the strangest and most wonderful community of Jews was that of the Falashas. In Abyssinia. These people had without doubt moved to Abyssinia before the second destruction of Jerusalem They still preserved the ancient customs of sacrifice. When mis- sionaries went among them and told them that the Saviour had arrived they sent an embassy to the high priest at Jeru- salem, not knowing that there was no more high priest and no more temple. asking if 1t was really true that the Mes siah had come, and whether they should move back to Jerusalem. Rabbi Heller read a prayer which these people say be- fore meals. It sounded like an invocation out of the Psalms. These people, how ever. have entirely lost the Hebrew tongue. using only the Ethiopic.
 Rabbi Heller showed slides of syna- gogues in different portions of the world. The synagogue in Johannesburg was con- secrated in the name of Jesus Christ by old Paul Kruger Kruger had been ask ed to participate in the solemnities of dedication. and, being a preacher as well az a President. he had wound up his ad- dres by the conservation to Christ. Cecil Rhodes had donated S2.500 to the syn agogue at Kimberley.
 Photographs of Jews who had taken prominent part in the defense of Kim berley and Mafeking were shown. Col. Max Well had made il possible for Mafe- king to hold out by dispbeying the orders of the Government and sending ip at his own expense more provisions than had