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Sir Asher glared at the bold questioner. 'That seems a worse waste of breath, added Barstein drily. 'I said you were a mocker, said Sir Asher severely. 'It is a Divine event I pray for not the creation of a Ghetto. 'A Ghetto! Barstein groaned in sheer hopelessness. 'Yes, you're an anti-Semite too like your daughter, like your son, like all of us. We're all anti-Semites. 'I an anti-Semite!
Here, by the banks of the Tiber, as of old by the Euphrates, sits the captive daughter of Judah; and I went one afternoon towards twilight to visit the Ghetto. It is a narrow, dark, damp, tunnel-like lane. Old Father Tiber had been there but a day or two previously, and had left, as usual, very distinct traces of his visit, in the slime and wet that covered the place.
In vain the Meassefim, save the exceptional few, refrained scrupulously from violent declamation against primary dogmatic principles. In vain their master Mendelssohn, contravening good sense and historical Judaism, went so far as to proclaim these principles sacrosanct. The secularization of Jewish literature and Jewish life had made a breach in the ghetto wall.
"Every feature of the book bears the stamp of truth.... Undoubtedly 'Yekl' has never been excelled as a picture of the distinctive life of the New York ghetto." Boston Herald. THE SENTIMENTAL SEX. By Gertrude Warden. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
Why, the Ghetto could not even realize such indifference to the heavenly tribunals so busily decreeing their life-or-death sentences! Barstein raised his glass. 'Here's a happy new year, anyhow! he said. The three men clinked glasses. Rozenoffski drew out a hundred-lire note. 'Send that to the poor devil, he said. 'Oho! laughed Schneemann. 'You still believe "Charity delivers from death!"
The Ghetto welcomed the Bride with proud song and humble feast, and sped her parting with optimistic symbolisms of fire and wine, of spice and light and shadow. All around their neighbors sought distraction in the blazing public-houses, and their tipsy bellowings resounded through the streets and mingled with the Hebrew hymns. Here and there the voice of a beaten woman rose on the air.
The plague was shut in. For three months the outcasts of humanity were pent in their pestiferous prison day and night to live or die as they chose. When at length the Ghetto was opened and disinfected, it was the dead, not the living, that were crowded. Joseph the Dreamer was half stunned by this second blow to his dreams.
Bear this silver to Eliezer the Jew, in the Ghetto at Venice, to the end the Circumcised may never say you are a bad surety." And pushing the bark afloat, he doffed his hat and cried softly: "Farewell, Madonna! farewell!" The vessel sailed out to sea, and long the merchant and the widow followed it with their eyes.
Life pursued during many generations in the crowded Ghetto; the sordid habits that grow out of extreme poverty and out of the assumption of the appearance of poverty, which is natural in a persecuted and plundered race, go far to explain it; but there is another and, I think, a more important cause which M. Leroy-Beaulieu has rather strangely neglected.
The day-to-day realities of education, housing, employment, and social degradation had hardly been touched. Finally, life in an urban ghetto, though lacking the humiliation of legal segregation, had brought another harsh reality into Afro-American life. Survival for the individual as well as for the family came under fresh stress in urban slum situations.
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