Life — February 6, 1908 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Ye A Poet Passes T# foreigners in New York are dis- concerting people. Their ways are not our ways. They have much to learn from us—much to unlearn before they can fall in step with the onward march of our Gvilization. And then again — When Abraham Goldfaden died, the other day, in his home on the lower East Side, all the Ghetto swarmed to his funeral. Unlike the Irish and Italians, the Jews spend little money on funerals; a pine box instead of a casket commonly encloses their dead. But this was the funeral of a great man. So a band of singers preceded the hearse, and the long line of carriages— yes, and of automobiles—that followed was as nothing to the crowd of men and women on foot—a crowd so numerous that it overflowed and blackened the spaces of Second Avenue where it widens at St. Mark’s. * * * HAT was Abraham Goldfaden’s title tosucha demonstration of the people’s grief and respect? Only this: that he was a poet, philosopher, playwright, and that all his life long (in Russia, Buda-Pesth, Paris, Manhattan) his philosophy, poems, plays, were informed with one dominant idea—the greater glory of Zion. Money was never Goldfaden’s god. Three years ago the manager of a Yiddish theatre in the Bowery found him slowly starving in Paris on the pension of 4o francs a month that proclaimed him a Rothschild bene- ficiary. New York has four theatres de- voted to the Yiddish drama; Goldfaden, enriched with a subsidy of $600, came here and wrote s for them. People called him the Yiddish Shakespeare. He had long been famous, and now he was fed; the Yiddish theatre is not, after all, a Broadway temple of the drama; and Gold- faden was content with his salary of $20 a month. * * * S WE remarked before, these for- eigners in New York are disconcerting People, and their ways are not our ways. It is true that we have no American Shakespeare. 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