536                  A. M. E. REVIEW.

    In law, mathematics and philosophy, the Jew is peculiarly
at home, especially as an expounder. In chess he literally
sweeps the board. There is never a contest for the champion
ship of the world in which both rivals are not Jews. Even the
first man to fly (and die) was the Jew Lilienthal.
    But to gauge the contribution of the Jew to the world's
activity is impossible here. To mention only living Jews, one
thinks at random of Rothschilds with their ubiquitous financial
and philanthropic activity, Sir Ernest Cassel financing the irri-
gation of Egypt, Mr. Jacob Schiff financing the Japanese war
against Russia and building up the American Jewry, Herr
Ballin creating the Hamburg American Line, Maximilian Har-
den's bold political journalism, the Dutch jurist Asser at The
Hague conference, or the American statesman and peace-lover
Oscar Straus, the French plays of Bernstein, or the German
plays of Ludwig Fulda, or the Dutch plays of Heyermanns,
or the Austrian plays of Schnitzler, the trenchant writings of
Max Nordau, the paintings of Solomon and Rothenstein, of
Jules Adler and Max Liebermann, the archeologic excavations
of Waldstein, Hammerstein building the English Opera House,
Imre Kiralfy organizing our Exhibitions, Sidney Lee editing
the Dictionary of English Biography, Sir Matthew Nathan
managing the Post Office, Meldola investigating coal-tar dyes,
the operas of Goldmark, the music plays of Herr Oscar Straus
and Humperdinck (Herr Max Bernstein,) the learned synopses
of Salomon Reinach, the sculpture of Antokolsky, Mischa
Elman and his violin, Sir Rufus Isaacs pleading on behalf of the
Crown, Signor Nathan polemizing with the Pope, Dr. Frederick
Cowen conducting one of his own symphonies,  Michelson
measuring the velocity of light, Lippmann developing color
photography, Henri Bergson giving pause to Materialism with
his new philosophy of Creative Evolution, Breal expounding
the science of Semantics, or Hermann Cohen his neo-Kantism,
and one wonders what the tale would be both for yesterday and
to-day if every Jew wore a yellow badge and every crypto-Jew
came out into the open, and every half-Jew were as discover-
able as Montaigne or the composer of "The Mikado."  The
Church could not even write its own history; that was left




			

OHS/National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center Serial Collection

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

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