Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-10
THE ITO In AMERICA
JEWISH TERRITORIAL oRaANI-
zATIoN TO BE FORMED.

NEW YORK, March 10-The movement
which has been on foot In this city for
some time for the formation Of an Ameff-
can branch OF the Jewish Territorial Or
ganization. otherwise known as the Ito.
has at last taken shape. and 1t is expected
that the movement will soon gain a good
footing In this country. That there are
many Jews In this and other American
cities in sympathy with the objects Of the
Ito. is we'll known. Mr.. Israel Zangwill
has for some time been corresponding with
friends here concerning the possibilities of
launching the movement in this country
In practical manner. On Sunday, March
20, a meeting will be held at the home of
Cyrus L. sulxberger, SIC West End avenue,
With the object of considering steps to or
ganize general territorial movement In
this country: Quite number OF men ac-
tive in Jewish affairs, will be present at
this meeting. Among the well-known
American Jews who have recently become
converted to the idea of the Ito are Messrs;
Gugenheim, Rabbi Stephen NJ. Wise. DR.,
g. Solis-Cohen. Mr.. Louis Loeb. the artist
and intimate friend of Mr.. Zangwill. and
several others.
stated by DR.. SOlis-Cohen, Is to establish
an autonomous Jewish settlement in a
territory now unoccupted, preferably in
the colonial domain of Great Britain, and
and development OF the country chosen.
Its official declaration is as follows:
!. The object of the Jewish Territorial
Organization is to procure a territory upon
an autonomous basis for those Jews who
cannot or will not remain IN the lands in
which they at present live.
2 To achieve this end the organization
purposes:
(a) To unite all who are in agreement
with this object.
(b) To enter into relations with govern
ay,I 10 md ,rtx to inst f,ft
(c) To create financial institutions, labor
bureaus and other instruments that may be
found necessary.
Morris Resented. the Yiddish poet, who
Is known the world over wherever the Yid-
dish tongue is spoken, and whose work has
been translated in half dozen languages,
has been stricken with paralysis, and 1t Is
feared that his literary career is at an end.
His right arm, as well as his right side, Is
paralyzed. and his physician says that,
even under the most favorable ctrcum-
stances, he will not be able to write line
for a whole year.
Rosenfeld's Songs OF the Ghetto" trans
lated into English by Prof. Leo Wiener
of Harvard. attracted wide attention !. a eN
sweatshops, who worked as tailor even
when he wrote his best poems, was lifted
into a fame that extended to many coun-
tries Soon afterward Rosenfelds poems
were translated into German. French. Rus
sian, Roumanan and other languages.
Resented Is perhaps the best known Yid-
Q1Sh poet ana JOurTdliSl tOUdy, diio liio
news OF his illness Is the cause OF much
grief among his admirers in the Ghetto.
Rosenfeld was born in a small Russian
village of poor Jewish fishermen about
forty years ago. He came as q poor imni-
grant first to England, then afterwards to
America, and worked in the sweatshops or
Whitechapel and the East Side of New York
nearly ali his life. Even long after he be-
came famous Rosenfeld was SO poor that
he was compelled to work in the sweatshops
as a tailor. For the last couple OF years
Mr. Resented has been living In Yonkers
and contributing to the leading 4iddish pa
pers of this country and of Russia. Rosen-
field is now lying i'll and helpless and for
saken by the socialist publishers to whose
publications he contributed most recently.
Mr. Rosenfeld is at the New York Surgical
and Physical Hospital, 465 Lexington ave-
nue.. His wife is constantly by bis side.
In response to an appeal made in behalf
of Resented through the Yiddish press by
Eliakum Zunser the aged Yiddish bard a
movement has already been set afoot for
the purpose of rendering material aid to
the stricken poet, whose family Is now left
without means of support Mr.. Zunser has
been appointed chairman of the relief COM
mittee and the secretary is Mr. Joseph
Goldberg.