Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-09
JEWISH EDUCATORS
ANNUAL SESSION OF CHATEAU
QUA AT ATLANTIC CITY.

present last night at the evening session
| of the tenth annual assembly of the Jewish
Chautauqua Society in the casino of the
Royal Palace Hotel at Atlantic City. Amer
| lean flags were used in the decorations. In
the absence Of President George Ochs of
Philadelphia Vice President Israel Cowen
of Chicago presided, and the presidents
address, dealing with the future and re-
viewing the past, was read by Secretary
Edwin Fox.
Mr.. Ochs, after referring to the encourag-
ing outlook for the coming year. the society
being free from debt and assured af a SYM
pathetic and active support from rapidly
increasing body of workers, called attention
to the plans for the ensuing year. These,
he said, contemplated vigorous and ag-
gressive campaign in all states east of the
Mississippi. He predicted the organization
of one hundred circles. with an aggregate
membership approaching 5000.
Some Of the Delegates.
Thirty eight of the forty-fve circles were
represented. Some of the delegates pres
ent are: Miss Julia Hess, st. Paul; Miss
Isabella R. Hess Troy, N. Y; Miss Bertha
Silverberg, I. Silverberg, Niagara Falls;
Rabbi Henry Barnstein, Houston, Tex;
Rabbi Max Curick, Erie, Pa; Rabbi Samuel
Goldenson. Lexington, KY; Rabbi Nathan
stern. Trenton, N. j.; Miss Ella Jacobs.
Philadelphia; A. Thalheimer, Hartford:
Conn; Alexander Weiss. Cincinnati; Rabbi
Louis Wolsey, Little Rock. Ark; Rabbi
Moses Cries. Cleveland, Ohio; Dr..
Margolies. Philadelphia; Charles Bloch,
New York; Mrs. Henry Berkowitz, Phila-
delphia; Henry Lasker, Springfield, Mass. /;
Frank Confeld; Springfield, Mass; Louis
Boston; Miss Elise Markell. Baltimore;
Rabbi William Rosenau, Baltimore: DR..
Morris Harris. New York; Miss Esther
Goldstein Baltimore; Miss Sarah Cussy,
ris Sesser, JonesborO, Ohio; Rabbi Julius
Morgenstein. Lafayette, Ind; Rabbi Henry
Levi, Wheeling, w. Va; I. Scheeline, AL
toona' Pa Miss Carrie Wolf Philadelpha;
Fay Miller Miss Goldie Rosenbaum,
Samuel Grabfelder, Alfred Klein, Rabbi Jo-
seph Krauskopf, Perry Frankel Fannie
Muir, Mrs. Charles Heildeberger, Myer
Israel Cohen, Chicago; Charles Edwin Fox,
Chancellor Henry Berkowitz. Abe Schafer,
Miss Rose Goldberger and Miss Fannie
Schlossman, Philadelphia.
Judge Sulzberger's Address.
The important event was scholarly ad-
dress on American Jewish history by Judge
Mayer Sulzberger of Philadelphia, who said
in part:
1.-THE Jews have always cultivated his
tory. The Bible of the Jews, which is by
far the most widely circulated book in the
world, is largely history Of the people
from its beginning: and. If we may use the
word without paradox, before The Jews
1t may well be concluded, were gifted with
a sensitive historic consciousness, manifest
ing itself on the personal side In that care
full attention to the purity OF lineage, Which
has persisted from the toledot or genealo-
gies of the earliest days to the yichus or
pedigree of our own. When the modern
European nobility lay pretended stress on
being born they initiate a real and vital
feeling of the Jewry of all ages.
"Ths history of the Jewish people Is In
many respects the most significant and i'm
portant of all histories. Even In the pres
emit age, when things spiritual are momen-
tarily eclpsed by enormous material tr1-
umphs there are incomparably more civil
lized people whose grammar OF thought 1s
derived from Jewish history than from all
other sources put together.
New Congregations Formed.
Everywhere new congregations are being
formed in every corner Of this broad land
and as the march of events and the result
of calculated efforts distribute these 1mmi-
grants more and more widely, new forces
In American Jewry will grow and intensity.
LET it be calmly allowed that our own
organization is i'll adapted to meet the
questions thrust upon us for solution.
tary prejudice, formless but persistent. OBJ
sessing the non-Jewish mind. The civiliza-
ton Of our age has advanced to the point
of justice to the Jew, but with mental
reservation that 1t is not his quite Of right,
but partly at least and somehow Of grace.
To-day our Secretary Of State and some
of our ablest men are fraternizing with
South American brethren Of various faiths
and languages Within our own borders
people of a large number Of stocks are
amicably settled in neighborly harmony
Each in his house church speaks the
vocabulary Of speech, thought or belief
which suits him, without slavish fear Of
the displeasure of others. Until this breadth
Of tolerance is cultivated by experience 1t
cannot grow.
1.-The period Of American Judaism now
approaching is full of promise. The mate
rails for it's construction are numerous and
varied; the structure will not be monoto-
nous, but rich and composite. 1t will in
a way parallel the building up of the coun-
try from its heterogeneous sources, each
adding something to the value Of the
whole"
The chancellor Of the society, Rev. Dr.
Henry Berkowitz, in a brief greeting to
the assemblage, said the Jewish Chautau-
qua has been necessitated by the existence
of an anomalous condition-the fact that
so many Jews take deep interest in the
history and literature of other people, but
ignore their own, though that Is conceded
by all the world to be the most fascinating
In interest and most priceless in worth.