The Jewish outlook. (Denver, Colo.) 1903-1913, 1905-10-06


school from now-existing institutions by en-
phasizing research rather than practical
aims.
While the Gesellschaft EUR F0rderung der
Wssenschaft des Judentums is assisting in
the publication of important scientific con-
tributions, the new English translation of
the Bible has been placed by the Jewish
Publication Society in the hands of reor-
ganized board of seven editors with DR.. S.
Schechter as chairman. A fund of $4,000 is
being raised to meet the expenses and an
early publication of the Pentateuch may be
looked forward to.
There have been agitations against the
Jewish method of slaugntering animals in
Austria and in in England. The governor OF
Lower Austria has annulled the order of DR..
Lueger prohibiting the killing of animals
cording to the Jewish method in the public
slaughter houses in Vienna. In England the
method of casting" employed by Jewish
butchers has been objected to.
At the end of December Adolf Won Son.
nenthal the great actor, celebrated his sew
entieth birthday. Every right-feeling man
remains true to the end of his days to the
religion in which he was born"-these were
the words he addressed to a Jewish deputa-
ton. On January 9th Rabbi Moses Bloch
of the Landes-R abbnerschule in Budapest,
celebrated his ninetieth birthday Former
students presented him with "Gedenk-
buch." The famous bard of folk-song, Ella
KUN Zunser (the "Badhan') celebrated his
golden jubilee as singer on March Goth.
Jewish science sustained a great loss in
the death of DR.. Meyer Kayserling, chief
rabbi of Budapest, who was scholar of
worldwide reputation and the author of
many historical, philosophical and exegetical
works Of lasting value, among which his
biography of Moses Mendelssohn and the
history of the Portuguese and Spanish Jews
deserve special mention (bOrn June II, 1929,
died April 81, 1909, and in the death OF
Isaac Hirsch Weiss, lector at the Bet ha-Mid-
rash in Vienna, editor of various books and
author of the monumental work on the His
tory of Jewish Tradition (born 1875 died
June /, 1905) We also mourn the loss of
such eminent men in Israel as Prof l. N.
Baxt, Russian Psychologist and publicist,
who. since 1886, had been a member of the
committee of experts attached to the Rus
sian Ministry of Education, a pupil of the
defunct Rabbinical School in Zhitomir, and
a faithful Jew (died December II, 1900;
Frederic David Mocatta veritable Prince
in Israel, a recognized leader in British
Jewry, not only in charitable but also in
congregational, communal and literary af-
fairs; it was at his initiative that Graetz's
History of the Jews was translated into Eng
lish, and the publication in England was at
his EXPENSE he wrote 1.-The Jews of
Spain and Portugal and the Inquisition"
1877 (died January 1Gth); Baron AL
phonse de Rothschild of Paris, who on
the occasion of the marriage of his son.
in letter to the Jewish Consistory of Paris,
gave expression to his sentiments of devo-
ton to Judaism: More than ever in these
troubled times in which we 1--we is it a duty
to remain faithful to the religion of ones
fathers (Dorn February 1, 1927; died May
&C. 1860.
The seven hundredth anniversary of the
death of Maimonides, in December, and the
eight hundredth anniversary of the death of