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THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

Friday, March 31, 1972

Today's Love Columns Matched By 1845 Book

By JACOB R. MARCUS of Letters. It was advice to the In the early part of the lovelorn, twentieth century the Yiddish Actually it was more than newspaper, the Forward, ran a that; it was a clearing house very interesting column. It was for all sorts of communications called “A Bintel Brief” — Pack to the editor asking for advice

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on anything and everything touching on human experience. For instance, a wife might write in pouring out her heart: she respects her husband, she has affection for him, but he is so ugly and unattractive that she does not want to live with him. What shall she do? Or a man might write to the Forward signing himself “A Despondent Son-in-Law.” His mother-in-law is coming to live with him and she is truly a snake in the grass and will turn his wife against him. Please advise me, Mr. Editor. R E S E A R C H E R S at the American Jewish Archives on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College have found that this was not the first Jewish column of its type. About 75 years earlier, Mordecai Manuel Noah occasionally wrote vignettes or feuilletons, beautiful succinct word sketches on personal and intimate matters. He did not wait to be asked: he anticipated questions and supplied answers. Included in a collection of the best of Noah’s miniscule essays published in 1845 in a small volume entitled “Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest” is a little gem, “Money and Matrimony.” It tackles the problems s of courtship and marriage. Too many girls in our day, he wrote, are extravagant and scare off young men who want to marry them. The young men are even worse. They spend huge sums for clothes, a horse and buggy, tickets for the opera, full dress, and expensive trinkets like rings, seals and chains. If young men and women are extravagant it is the fault of the parents who indulge them. There is some excuse for indulging a girl, none for indulging a young man. SHOULD A MAN marry for love or money? There is no question that he should get married. Marriage is the only road to trie happiness, but if a man marries merely for money he will end up with “pride and ugliness.” And in spite of the wealth he secures he will enjoy “no happiness, no content, no satisfaction.” It is best to marry a girl who brings no fortune, whose wealth consists of virtue and economy. A good girl is one who is amiable and industrious. A proper young man is one who is honest and capable. Should a man avoid a girl whose father wants to endow her? Not at all. If a father is rich and can afford to give her a handsome fortune he ought to do so making provision for her and the children, for a husband may lose all and may not be able “to place her beyond the vicissitudes of trade and commerce.” “Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest” went through two editions in less than three years. A copy, formerly owned by Simor. Wolf, the official and unofficial Washington lobbyist for Jews from the time of the Civil War till the early years of the twentieth century, is in the Rare Book Room of the Hebrew Union College Library. MORDECAI MANUEL Noah was one of the most important Jews in (he United States in the days before the Civil War.

Noah was bom in 1785, and died in 1851. He was a grandson of Jonas Phillips, a fighter for civil liberties at the time the Constitution was being written, who wanted to be sure that in the new United States the Jews would have the freedoms which had been denied them in the old American colonies. Noah’s cousin, Uriah Phillips "Levy, rose to command the Mediterranean fleet in the years shortly before the Civil War, despite

the fact that he was fought every inch of the way because he was a Jew. Noah was a great American playwright and a widely read newspaperman — one of the best known in New York City. Like many others, he went into politics. He was the head of Tammany, a good liberal organization in his day, Surveyor of the Port of New York, a judge, a consul in Tunis, a (Continued on Next Page)

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