the minds of the people and a new generation will arise which will feel keenly the bitterness and tragedy of the Goluth, its disintegrating and humiliating influences, to look forward for the dawning of such a period is as impracticable as the advice of the extreme pious orthodox to wait for the coming of the Messiah. How can we expect, amidst the distracting influences of the Goluth, in an environment entirely unfavorable for fostering higher Jewish ideals and sentiments, to raise a type of proud Jews who will abhor the Goluth and who will not rest satisfied until they witness a free Israel in the land of his fathers? An educational crusade in Palestine, though in itself a very desirable thing, will not materially increase our holdings in the land nor will it raise much higher the standard of our movement in the eyes of those whom our ideal has failed to reach. Educational work will appeal only to phi- lanthopists and a few idealists while the great majority await real and practical results.
Achad-Haam is confident that the material support for establishing educational institutes in Palestine will be forthcim-ing, but by some peculiar coincidence the very periodical in which Achad-Haam's article was published offers good reasons for doubt. During the two years of its existence, the Ha-omer has had to struggle and could not appear regularly because of lack of funds. In vain did the self-sacrificing editors appeal to the lovers of Hebrew and to all Zionists interested in the establishment of a good literary periodical in Palestine—and it was generally conceded that the Ha-omer merited the support of the public. In a letter to the Ha'Poel Hazoir, Mr. Sh Ben Zion informs the few friends of the
Ha-omer that he is constrained to discontinue its publication because of lack of means. And yet Achad-Haam innocently tells us of a spiritual conquest of Palestine and advises us to take lessons from the young Turks. What would the young Turks think of us, the unschooled ch'l- dren of the prophets, coming to learn from them how to conquer Palestine with the Bible in hand? Was their army that entered Constantinople a mere spirit with Koran in hand or had they guns and cannons with them?
MORRIS LEVENE.
GUSTAV KARPELES DEAD
Gustav Karpeles, the noted Jewish historian, litterateur and critic, died the last week in July at the age of sixty-one.
Karpeles was born November II, 1848,in Moravia. He studied at the Universityof Breslau, where he also attended theJewish Theological Seminary. He becamea journalist and was connected with anumber of Breslau newspapers. In 1870he was co-editor with S. Enoch on theJuedische Presse. In 1883, he removedto Berlin, where he became editor, in 1890,of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums.
Karpeles was widely known for his writings on Heine. He edited several editions of Heine's works, and published a large number of monographs on his life. He stimulated the life of Jewish literary societies in Germany by numerous writings and lectures, and wrote “Die Frauen in der Juedische Literatur,” “Gesch, der Juedischen Literatur,” “Ein Blick in die Judische Literatur,” and also several dramas. Two of his works have been translated into English by the Jewish Publication society. He was a very prolific writer.