Ghetto Comedies

Jew. Was it Heine or another who said 'The people of Christ is the Christ of peoples'? At any rate, such was the idea that began to take possession of me as I painted away at the sorrow-haunted f

till be my model, but after

he figure in its native gaberdine, there would be little to re-draw. And so I fell to work with renewed intensity, feeling even safer now that

Israel, the people. Israel it was whom Isaiah, in that famous fifty-third chapter, had described as 'despised and rejected of men: a man of sorrows.' Israel it was who bore the sins of the world. 'He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.' Yes, Israel was the Man of Sorrows. And in this view the

ach,' he declared suddenly, an

me,' I said, p

with the word of the moujik:

are what is called

h on the white ass, they do not really believe it, but they won't let another believe otherwise. For my ow

d me. He seemed unconscious that he was doing work, journeying punctually long miles to my studio in any and every weather. I

al delay. But it was not till Kazelia was eulogized by one of these gentry as a very fine man that both the model and I grew suspicious that the long chain of roguery reached even unto London, and t

f one eye-was prepared to journey alone to Rotterdam, as the safest way of

ael appeared, transf

ost?' he cried. 'When he

st,' I cried, now accustomed to his metho

he replied unexpectedly. 'As the Psalmi

was dashed from her lips, for I had only given her ￡9. But she went to the Rabbi, and offered if he supplied the balance to repledge the Sabbath silver candlesticks that were the one family heirloom in