pen for my nation—O, such a poor, poor nation!—and God willed me to observe closely all its ways and works, and to know the whole gamut of its life. So He whispered to my soul: "Fly, fledgling, fly about the world, wretched of wretched ones, of Jews the most a Jew on earth!" And lo! the winds lifted me and drove me up and down upon the billows of life. He humbled
me to the poorest of my brethren, to a life of privation and need and pains; and of these sorrows I took double measure. Then He carried me again to the loftiest heights of life, and let me live among the rich to observe and to describe their manners and life.
(These Memoirs are not concluded.)
The Yiddish Press Fund
The Yiddish Press Publication Committee has issued the following appeal to Zionist societies:
The Tenth Zionist Convention decided, by a unanimous vote, that a Zionist weekly magazine in Yiddish shall be undertaken. For this purpose, a stock company is to be organized with a capital of fifteen thousand dollars, in five dollar shares. The larger part of the shares will belong permanently to the Federation, in order to ensure its control of the publication. The weekly magazine will appear as soon as one thousand shares have been paid for in cash. Every Zionist society is requested, according to the resolution of the Convention, to purchase at least five shares, and to pay its full contribution of twenty-five dollars not later than December 1, 1907.
Comrades! We believe that you are convinced of the absolute need of a Zionist organ in Yiddish, which shall be our own. Without such an organ, it is impossible to place our organization upon a better footing, and to bind together our societies; we cannot agitate properly for the National Fund, for the Colonial Bank, for the Bezalel, and for all other Zionistic enterprises; it is not possible to intensify Zionist thought so that our comrades shall understand Zionism fundamentally and how better to agitate and to work for it; we cannot increase our ranks and attract the Jewish masses who are already here in America, and those who daily come to these shores from the four corners of the earth.
We approach you, comrades, therefore, not only to support the resolution of the Con-
vention, and to send in immediately your twenty-five dollars for five shares, but we ask you also to do much more. Every society should undertake to make an affair of some sort for the benefit of the Press Fund, which may bring in more than twenty-five dollars. Every society that earnestly wishes it, may also find such private Zionists, members or not, who will purchase, if approached, one or more shares in their own names, and from this source, we may hope for a considerable sum. Every society should make good use of the subscription blanks for the collection of small donations, which were sent out to all societies last year. These lists may be secured on application to the Committee. For each five dollar donation will be apportioned a share in the name of the society making the collection.
In conclusion, we ask you not to hold the money which you collect, but send in as much as you have at once, in order that we may at once publish the account, and in order to provide an example to all the societies.
Comrades! Show that you respect the resolutions of your Convention in the way you support its resolutions. The Convention—it is yourselves! Obey your own mandates!
S. ABEL, Chairman; DR. CH. WORTSMANN, M. BRODSKY, DR. H. I. EPSTEIN, I. MALTIN, D. B. TIERKEL.
All money should be sent to the FEDERATION OF AMERICAN ZIONISTS, FOR YIDDISH PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, 108 Second Avenue, New York.