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sculpture they are now copiously represented in every gallery
and movement, though only rarely as initiators. Indeed the
Jew is a born intermediary and every form of artistic and com-
mercial agency falls naturally into his hands. He is the con-
noisseur par excellence, the universal art-dealer. His gift of
tongues, his relationship with all the lands of the Exile, mark
him out for success in commerce and finance, in journalism
and criticism, in scholarship and travel. It was by their
linguistic talents that the adventurous journeys of Arminius
Vambery and Emin Pasha were made possible. If a Russian
Jew, Barenson, is the chief authority on Italian art, and George
Brandes, the Dane is Europe's greatest critic, if Reuter ini-
tiated telegraphic news and Blowitz was the prince of foreign
correspondents, if the Jewish Bank of Amsterdam founded
modern finance and Charles Frohman is the world's greatest
entrepreneur, all these phenomena find their explanation in
the cosmopolitanism of the wandering Jew. Lifted to the
plane of idealism, this cosmopolitan habit of mind creates Social-
ism through Karl Marx and Lassalle, an international language
through Dr. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperant, a prophecy of
the end of war through Jean de Bloch, an International Insti-
tute of Agriculture through David Lubin, and a Race Congress
through Dr. Felix Adler.  For when the Jew grows out of his
own Ghetto without narrowing into his neighbor's, he must
necessarily possess a superior sense of perspective.
   As a physician the Jew's fame dates from the Middle Ages,
when he was the bearer of Arabian science, and the tradition
that kings shall always have Jewish physicians is still unbroken.
Dr. Ehrlich's recent discovery of "606," the cure for syphilis,
and Dr. Haffkine's inoculation against the Plague in India, are
but links in a long chain of Jewish contributions to medicine.
Nor would it be possible to mention any other science whether
natural or philological, to which Jewish professors have not con-
tributed revolutionizing ideas. The names of Lombroso for
criminology, Benfey for Sanscrit, Jules Oppert for Assyriology,
Sylvester for Mathematics, and Mendeleiff for Chemistry
 ("The Periodic Law") must suffice as examples.




			

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, Vol. 28, Num. 2

Volume:  28
Issue Number:  02
Date:  10/1911