The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-08-17
PARTS JEWS HAVE PLAYED
IN GREAT WARS OF WORLD
(New York Tribune)

ed their proportionate quota on regis
tratlon day; neither does it suffer the
slightest doubt that as good patriots
and, in gratitude for having found
here a place of safety against the
hatred of their brutal enemies, the nAGi
tive and foreign-born Jews were no
slackers in subscribing for the liberty
loan. But how many of them will APP
pear in khaki, how will they behave
In the trenches, how many will return
hrssst9 m,sh the war medal pinned tsptheir
There is yet insufficient authA ,tie
material on the part played by tho
Jews in the present war, but the rec.
ords of the past are known.
The Old Testament is fortunately
still very accessible and pretty were
known book. Therefore, why waists
space and time in proving that tn
judges and kings were valorous wan.
rlors before the Lord? And who doe
not know the story of the Maccabe, % %
and the desperate defense of Jerusas
lem against the powerful legion OF
Vespasin and Titus in the year 70 A
D.! who is not acquainted with the.
heroic stand at Bar Kokba, the He
brew Garibaldi, and his followers a.
Bethar 135 A. D.? But probably very
few readers will know that the Jews
were not only brave soldiers in their
own country, but that the marital fe-
yer drove thousands of them to serve
as volunteers in the armies of Alex
ander the Great (356-332 B. C.) and
of the Syrian kings, that Ptolemy of
Egypt (323-309 B. CO. employed them
with preference as garrison troops in
his fortified places, thus recognizing,
at the same time, their bravery and
loyalty.
Ptolemy Philometor (died 145 B. CO.
and his Queen Cleopatra committed
their whole kingdom to the two Jew
lsh generals Orias and Dositheus, for
they were the only ones in the whole
army on whom they could implicitly
rely. Two other Hebrew generals,
Helgias and Ananias, saved the same
queens throne from the onslaughts of
her own son, Ptolemy Lathyrus.
He who desires to read the story in
detail is referred to the wtrks of the
famous Judeo-Roman historian, Jose
pnuS flaVuS (37-95 A. d.
Even julius Caesar was Obliged to|
speak in terms of high praise of the
valor displayed by the 1900 jewish
soldiers engaged in his wars against
Egypt and Mithridates of PergamorI
Herod helped Mark Anthony with five
Jewish cohorts.
But who, unless he made a speciaI
study of the subject, would dream Of
looking for sturdy jewish warriors
the Arabia of Mohammed? It
nevertheless, a fact that when thu
prophet came to Medina he found thl
whole country full of Jews ready +k
resist him, arms in hand. He - Iesk.
make of them his alfres, but II ss,,t 80. =.
fused. Aeut.-Co
Under King Alfonso vi of Casti,eh1
in 1908, more than 10000 Jews fought
against Yusuf ibn Teshufin at the bats
tie of Zalaka.
The famous traveller, Benjamin Of
Tudela Twelfth century,, tells of the
existence of an independent Jewish
warrior tribe living in the highlands
of the Persian province of Khorasan,
numbering many thousand families
and living under a Jewish prince of
the name of Joseph Amarkala.
In the thirty years. war the Jews
defended the city OF Prague against
the Swedes (1648).
About 100 years later (1742-1743).
Rabbi Jonthan Eibenschuetz, a famous
Talmudical scholar, together with
the rabbis of the Bohemian capital,
stood on the walls, encouraging their
corellgionists to defend the city
against the attacks of the French
army.
When, in 1894, the population of
Warsaw rose in arms, a whole Jewish
regiment, under its own colonel, of the
name of Burke, was fighting in the
suburb of Praga against the Russian
General Suwarow. Il
Jewish sailors in the Dutch navy ex.
celled in courage in the conquest of
Brazil. n
And now, to come to this countryy
there was only handful Of them In
the time of the revolutionary war. But
the names of 46 Jewish soldiers ar@
known, "a of them being officers. Coll
onel Isaac Franks and Colonel David
Salisbury Franks occupy a place OF
honor in the military history Of ouI
country.
Brigadier General Joseph Blood
field and eight other Jewish offic{ /
distinguished themselves in the war !
1912.
The American navy carries on
roll of honor the names of Commodt
Uriah Phillips Levy, Captain Levi nv
ers and Commander Adolf Mark.
Throughout the Civil war Jew1
patriotism and gallantry shone