[⭘] The Jewish Home—Cf. Morris Joseph on the question of intermarriage.
‘Every Jew should feel himself bound, even though the duty involves the sacrifice of precious affections, to avoid acts calculated, however remotely, to weaken the stability of the ancestral religion. It is true that occasional unions between Jew and Gentile do no appreciable harm to the Jewish cause, however much mischief they may lay up, in the shape of jealousy and dissension, for those who contract them, and of religious confusion, for the children. But a general practice begins as a rule by being occasional. Every Jew who contemplates marriage outside thepale must regard himself as paving the way to a disruption which will be the final, as it will be the culminating, disaster in the history of his people.’
[⭘] Szold: ‘What has Judaism done for Woman?’ in Judaism at the [Chicago] World’s Parliament of Religions, Cincinnati, 1894.
[⭘] Cradle Song: quoted in Schechter, Studies in Judaism, i, 1896. ‘The Child in Jewish Literature.’ Another version in I. Zangwill’s They that Walk in Darkness is as follows:—
Sleep, my birdie, shut your eyes,
Oh, sleep, my little one;
Too soon from cradle you’ll arise
To work that must be done.
Almonds and raisins you shall sell,
And Holy Scrolls shall write;