The day of Ebenezer Sugarman's _Bar-mitzvah_ duly arrived. All his sins would henceforth be on his own head and everybody rejoiced. By the Friday evening so many presents had arrived--four breastpins, two rings, six pocket-knives, three sets of _Machzorim_ or Festival Prayer-books, and the like--that his father barred up the door very carefully and in the middle of the night, hearing a mouse scampering1 across the floor, woke up in a cold sweat and threw open the bedroom window and cried "Ho! Buglers!" But the "Buglers" made no sign of being scared, everything was still and nothing purloined2, so Jonathan took a reprimand from his disturbed wife and curled himself up again in bed.
Sugarman did things in style and through the influence of a client the confirmation3 ceremony was celebrated4 in "Duke's Plaizer Shool." Ebenezer, who was tall and weak-eyed, with lank5 black hair, had a fine new black cloth suit and a beautiful silk praying-shawl with blue stripes, and a glittering watch-chain and a gold ring and a nice new Prayer-book with gilt6 edges, and all the boys under thirteen made up their minds to grow up and be responsible for their sins as quick as possible. Ebenezer walked up to the Reading Desk with a dauntless stride and intoned his Portion of the Law with no more tremor7 than was necessitated8 by the musical roulades, and then marched upstairs, as bold as brass9, to his mother, who was sitting up in the gallery, and who gave him a loud smacking10 kiss that could be heard in the four corners of the synagogue, just as if she were a real lady.
Then there was the _Bar-mitzvah_ breakfast, at which Ebenezer delivered an English sermon and a speech, both openly written by the Shalotten _Shammos_, and everybody commended the boy's beautiful sentiments and the beautiful language in which they were couched. Mrs. Sugarman forgot all the trouble Ebenezer had given her in the face of his assurances of respect and affection and she wept copiously11. Having only one eye she could not see what her Jonathan saw, and what was spoiling his enjoyment12 of Ebenezer's effusive13 gratitude14 to his dear parents for having trained him up in lofty principles.
It was chiefly male cronies who had been invited to breakfast, and the table had been decorated with biscuits and fruit and sweets not appertaining to the meal, but provided for the refreshment15 of the less-favored visitors--such as Mr. and Mrs. Hyams--who would be dropping in during the day. Now, nearly every one of the guests had brought a little boy with him, each of whom stood like a page behind his father's chair.
Before starting on their prandial fried fish, these trencher-men took from the dainties wherewith the ornamental16 plates were laden17 and gave thereof to their offspring. Now this was only right and proper, because it is the prerogative18 of children to "_nash_" on these occasions. But as the meal progressed, each father from time to time, while talking briskly to his neighbor, allowed his hand to stray mechanically into the plates and thence negligently19 backwards20 into the hand of his infant, who stuffed the treasure into his pockets. Sugarman fidgeted about uneasily; not one surreptitious seizure21 escaped him, and every one pricked22 him like a needle. Soon his soul grew punctured23 like a pin-cushion. The Shalotten _Shammos_ was among the worst offenders24, and he covered his back-handed proceedings25 with a ceaseless flow of complimentary26 conversation.
"Excellent fish, Mrs. Sugarman," he said, dexterously27 slipping some almonds behind his chair.
"What?" said Mrs. Sugarman, who was hard of hearing.
"So they ought to be," said Mrs. Sugarman in her thin tinkling29 accents, "they were all alive in the pan."
"No," Bessie interposed. "What do you mean?"
"At home in my town," said Mr. Belcovitch impressively, "a fish made a noise in the pan one Friday."
"Nothing of the kind," said Belcovitch angrily, "A real living noise. The woman snatched it out of the pan and ran with it to the Rabbi. But he did not know what to do. Fortunately there was staying with him for the Sabbath a travelling Saint from the far city of Ridnik, a _Chasid_, very skilful32 in plagues and purifications, and able to make clean a creeping thing by a hundred and fifty reasons. He directed the woman to wrap the fish in a shroud33 and give it honorable burial as quickly as possible. The funeral took place the same afternoon and a lot of people went in solemn procession to the woman's back garden and buried it with all seemly rites34, and the knife with which it had been cut was buried in the same grave, having been defiled35 by contact with the demon36. One man said it should be burned, but that was absurd because the demon would be only too glad to find itself in its native element, but to prevent Satan from rebuking37 the woman any more its mouth was stopped with furnace ashes. There was no time to obtain Palestine earth, which would have completely crushed the demon."
"The woman must have committed some _Avirah_" said Karlkammer.
"A true story!" said the Shalotten _Shammos_, ironically. "That tale has been over Warsaw this twelvemonth."
"It occurred when I was a boy," affirmed Belcovitch indignantly. "I remember it quite well. Some people explained it favorably. Others were of opinion that the soul of the fishmonger had transmigrated into the fish, an opinion borne out by the death of the fishmonger a few days before. And the Rabbi is still alive to prove it--may his light continue to shine--though they write that he has lost his memory."
The Shalotten _Shammos_ sceptically passed a pear to his son. Old Gabriel Hamburg, the scholar, came compassionately38 to the raconteur's assistance.
"Rabbi Solomon Maimon," he said, "has left it on record that he witnessed a similar funeral in Posen."
"It was well she buried it," said Karlkammer. "It was an atonement for a child, and saved its life."
"Ah, laugh not," said Mrs. Belcovitch. "Or you might laugh with blood. It isn't for my own sins that I was born with ill-matched legs."
"I must laugh when I hear of God's fools burying fish anywhere but in their stomach," said the Shalotten _Shammos_, transporting a Brazil nut to the rear, where it was quickly annexed40 by Solomon Ansell, who had sneaked41 in uninvited and ousted42 the other boy from his coign of vantage.
The conversation was becoming heated; Breckeloff turned the topic.
"My sister has married a man who can't play cards," he said lugubriously43.
"How lucky for her," answered several voices.
"No, it's just her black luck," he rejoined. "For he _will_ play."
There was a burst of laughter and then the company remembered that Breckeloff was a _Badchan_ or jester.
"Why, your sister's husband is a splendid player," said Sugarman with a flash of memory, and the company laughed afresh.
"Yes," said Breckeloff. "But he doesn't give me the chance of losing to him now, he's got such a stuck-up _Kotzon_. He belongs to Duke's Plaizer _Shool_ and comes there very late, and when you ask him his birthplace he forgets he was a _Pullack_ and says becomes from 'behind Berlin.'"
These strokes of true satire44 occasioned more merriment and were worth a biscuit to Solomon Ansell _vice_ the son of the Shalotten _Shammos_.
Among the inoffensive guests were old Gabriel Hamburg, the scholar, and young Joseph Strelitski, the student, who sat together. On the left of the somewhat seedy Strelitski pretty Bessie in blue silk presided over the coffee-pot. Nobody knew whence Bessie had stolen her good looks: probably some remote ancestress! Bessie was in every way the most agreeable member of the family, inheriting some of her father's brains, but wisely going for the rest of herself to that remote ancestress.
Gabriel Hamburg and Joseph Strelitski had both had relations with No. 1 Royal Street for some time, yet they had hardly exchanged a word and their meeting at this breakfast table found them as great strangers as though they had never seen each other. Strelitski came because he boarded with the Sugarmans, and Hamburg came because he sometimes consulted Jonathan Sugarman about a Talmudical passage. Sugarman was charged with the oral traditions of a chain of Rabbis, like an actor who knows all the "business" elaborated by his predecessors45, and even a scientific scholar like Hamburg found him occasionally and fortuitously illuminating46. Even so Karlkammer's red hair was a pillar of fire in the trackless wilderness47 of Hebrew literature. Gabriel Hamburg was a mighty48 savant who endured all things for the love of knowledge and the sake of six men in Europe who followed his work and profited by its results. Verily, fit audience though few. But such is the fate of great scholars whose readers are sown throughout the lands more sparsely49 than monarchs50. One by one Hamburg grappled with the countless51 problems of Jewish literary history, settling dates and authors, disintegrating52 the Books of the Bible into their constituent53 parts, now inserting a gap of centuries between two halves of the same chapter, now flashing the light of new theories upon the development of Jewish theology. He lived at Royal Street and the British Museum, for he spent most of his time groping among the folios and manuscripts, and had no need for more than the little back bedroom, behind the Ansells, stuffed with mouldy books. Nobody (who was anybody) had heard of him in England, and he worked on, unencumbered by patronage54 or a full stomach. The Ghetto55, itself, knew little of him, for there were but few with whom he found intercourse56 satisfying. He was not "orthodox" in belief though eminently57 so in practice--which is all the Ghetto demands--not from hypocrisy58 but from ancient prejudice. Scholarship had not shrivelled up his humanity, for he had a genial59 fund of humor and a gentle play of satire and loved his neighbors for their folly60 and narrowmindedness. Unlike Spinoza, too, he did not go out of his way to inform them of his heterodox views, content to comprehend the crowd rather than be misunderstood by it. He knew that the bigger soul includes the smaller and that the smaller can never circumscribe61 the bigger. Such money as was indispensable for the endowment of research he earned by copying texts and hunting out references for the numerous scholars and clergymen who infest62 the Museum and prevent the general reader from having elbow room. In person he was small and bent63 and snuffy. Superficially more intelligible64, Joseph Strelitski was really a deeper mystery than Gabriel Hamburg. He was known to be a recent arrival on English soil, yet he spoke65 English fluently. He studied at Jews' College by day and was preparing for the examinations at the London University. None of the other students knew where he lived nor a bit of his past history. There was a vague idea afloat that he was an only child whose parents had been hounded to penury66 and death by Russian persecution67, but who launched it nobody knew. His eyes were sad and earnest, a curl of raven68 hair fell forwards on his high brow; his clothing was shabby and darned in places by his own hand. Beyond accepting the gift of education at the hands of dead men he would take no help. On several distinct occasions, the magic name, Rothschild, was appealed to on his behalf by well-wishers, and through its avenue of almoners it responded with its eternal quenchless69 unquestioning generosity70 to students. But Joseph Strelitski always quietly sent back these bounties71. He made enough to exist upon by touting72 for a cigar-firm in the evenings. In the streets he walked with tight-pursed lips, dreaming no one knew what.
And yet there were times when his tight-pursed lips unclenched themselves and he drew in great breaths even of Ghetto air with the huge contentment of one who has known suffocation73. "One can breathe here," he seemed to be saying. The atmosphere, untainted by spies, venal74 officials, and jeering75 soldiery, seemed fresh and sweet. Here the ground was stable, not mined in all directions; no arbitrary ukase--veritable sword of Damocles--hung over the head and darkened the sunshine. In such a country, where faith was free and action untrammelled, mere76 living was an ecstasy77 when remembrance came over one, and so Joseph Strelitski sometimes threw back his head and breathed in liberty. The voluptuousness78 of the sensation cannot be known by born freemen.
When Joseph Strelitski's father was sent to Siberia, he took his nine-year old boy with him in infringement79 of the law which prohibits exiles from taking children above five years of age. The police authorities, however, raised no objection, and they permitted Joseph to attend the public school at Kansk, Yeniseisk province, where the Strelitski family resided. A year or so afterwards the Yeniseisk authorities accorded the family permission to reside in Yeniseisk, and Joseph, having given proof of brilliant abilities, was placed in the Yeniseisk gymnasium. For nigh three years the boy studied here, astonishing the gymnasium with his extraordinary ability, when suddenly the Government authorities ordered the boy to return at once "to the place where he was born." In vain the directors of the gymnasium, won over by the poor boy's talent and enthusiasm for study, petitioned the Government. The Yeniseisk authorities were again ordered to expel him. No respite80 was granted and the thirteen-year old lad was sent to Sokolk in the Government of Grodno at the other extreme of European Russia, where he was quite alone in the world. Before he was sixteen, he escaped to England, his soul branded by terrible memories, and steeled by solitude81 to a stern strength.
At Sugarman's he spoke little and then mainly with the father on scholastic82 points. After meals he retired83 quickly to his business or his sleeping-den, which was across the road. Bessie loved Daniel Hyams, but she was a woman and Strelitski's neutrality piqued84 her. Even to-day it is possible he might not have spoken to Gabriel Hamburg if his other neighbor had not been Bessie. Gabriel Hamburg was glad to talk to the youth, the outlines of whose English history were known to him. Strelitski seemed to expand under the sunshine of a congenial spirit; he answered Hamburg's sympathetic inquiries85 about his work without reluctance86 and even made some remarks on his own initiative.
And as they spoke, an undercurrent of pensive87 thought was flowing in the old scholar's soul and his tones grew tenderer and tenderer. The echoes of Ebenezer's effusive speech were in his ears and the artificial notes rang strangely genuine. All round him sat happy fathers of happy children, men who warmed their hands at the home-fire of life, men who lived while he was thinking. Yet he, too, had had his chance far back in the dim and dusty years, his chance of love and money with it. He had let it slip away for poverty and learning, and only six men in Europe cared whether he lived or died. The sense of his own loneliness smote88 him with a sudden aching desolation. His gaze grew humid; the face of the young student was covered with a veil of mist and seemed to shine with the radiance of an unstained soul. If he had been as other men he might have had such a son. At this moment Gabriel Hamburg was speaking of paragoge in Hebrew grammar, but his voice faltered89 and in imagination he was laying hands of paternal90 benediction91 on Joseph Strelitski's head. Swayed by an overmastering impulse he burst out at last.
"An idea strikes me!"
"You live by yourself. I live by myself. We are both students. Why should we not live together as students, too?"
A swift wave of surprise traversed Strelitski's face, and his eyes grew soft. For an instant the one solitary93 soul visibly yearned94 towards the other; he hesitated.
"Do not think I am too old," said the great scholar, trembling all over. "I know it is the young who chum together, but still I am a student. And you shall see how lively and cheerful I will be." He forced a smile that hovered95 on tears. "We shall be two rackety young students, every night raising a thousand devils. _Gaudeamus igitur_." He began to hum in his cracked hoarse96 voice the _Burschen-lied_ of his early days at the Berlin Gymnasium.
But Strelitski's face had grown dusky with a gradual flush and a deepening gloom; his black eyebrows97 were knit and his lips set together and his eyes full of sullen98 ire. He suspected a snare99 to assist him.
He shook his head. "Thank you," he said slowly. "But I prefer to live alone."
And he turned and spoke to the astonished Bessie, and so the two strange lonely vessels100 that had hailed each other across the darkness drifted away and apart for ever in the waste of waters.
But Jonathan Sugarman's eye was on more tragic101 episodes. Gradually the plates emptied, for the guests openly followed up the more substantial elements of the repast by dessert, more devastating102 even than the rear manoeuvres. At last there was nothing but an aching china blank. The men looked round the table for something else to "_nash_," but everywhere was the same depressing desolation. Only in the centre of the table towered in awful intact majesty103 the great _Bar-mitzvah_ cake, like some mighty sphinx of stone surveying the ruins of empires, and the least reverent104 shrank before its austere105 gaze. But at last the Shalotten _Shammos_ shook off his awe106 and stretched out his hand leisurely107 towards the cake, as became the master of ceremonies. But when Sugarman the _Shadchan_ beheld108 his hand moving like a creeping flame forward, he sprang towards him, as the tigress springs when the hunter threatens her cub109. And speaking no word he snatched the great cake from under the hand of the spoiler and tucked it under his arm, in the place where he carried Nehemiah, and sped therewith from the room. Then consternation110 fell upon the scene till Solomon Ansell, crawling on hands and knees in search of windfalls, discovered a basket of apples stored under the centre of the table, and the Shalotten _Shammos's_ son told his father thereof ere Solomon could do more than secure a few for his brother and sisters. And the Shalotten _Shammos_ laughed joyously111, "Apples," and dived under the table, and his long form reached to the other side and beyond, and graybearded men echoed the joyous112 cry and scrambled113 on the ground like schoolboys.
"_Leolom tikkach_--always take," quoted the _Badchan_ gleefully.
When Sugarman returned, radiant, he found his absence had been fatal.
"Piece of fool! Two-eyed lump of flesh," said Mrs. Sugarman in a loud whisper. "Flying out of the room as if thou hadst the ague."
"Shall I sit still like thee while our home is eaten up around us?" Sugarman whispered back. "Couldst thou not look to the apples? Plaster image! Leaden fool! See, they have emptied the basket, too."
"Well, dost thou expect luck and blessing114 to crawl into it? Even five shillings' worth of _nash_ cannot last for ever. May ten ammunition115 wagons116 of black curses be discharged on thee!" replied Mrs. Sugarman, her one eye shooting fire.
This was the last straw of insult added to injury. Sugarman was exasperated117 beyond endurance. He forgot that he had a wider audience than his wife; he lost all control of himself, and cried aloud in a frenzy118 of rage, "What a pity thou hadst not a fourth uncle!"
"A greedy lot, marm," Sugarman reported to Mrs. Hyams on the Monday. "I was very glad you and your people didn't come; dere was noding left except de prospectuses120 of the Hamburg lotter_ee_ vich I left laying all about for de guests to take. Being _Shabbos_ I could not give dem out."
"We were sorry not to come, but neither Mr. Hyams nor myself felt well," said the white-haired broken-down old woman with her painfully slow enunciation121. Her English words rarely went beyond two syllables122.
"Ah!" said Sugarman. "But I've come to give you back your corkscrew."
"Why, it's broken," said Mrs. Hyams, as she took it.
"So it is, marm," he admitted readily. "But if you taink dat I ought to pay for de damage you're mistaken. If you lend me your cat"--here he began to make the argumentative movement with his thumb, as though scooping123 out imaginary _kosher_ cheese with it; "If you lend me your cat to kill my rat," his tones took on the strange Talmudic singsong--"and my rat instead kills your cat, then it is the fault of your cat and not the fault of my rat."
Poor Mrs. Hyams could not meet this argument. If Mendel had been at home, he might have found a counter-analogy. As it was, Sugarman re-tucked Nehemiah under his arm and departed triumphant124, almost consoled for the raid on his provisions by the thought of money saved. In the street he met the Shalotten _Shammos_.
"Blessed art thou who comest," said the giant, in Hebrew; then relapsing into Yiddish he cried: "I've been wanting to see you. What did you mean by telling your wife you were sorry she had not a fourth uncle?"
"Soorka knew what I meant," said Sugarman with a little croak125 of victory, "I have told her the story before. When the Almighty126 _Shadchan_ was making marriages in Heaven, before we were yet born, the name of my wife was coupled with my own. The spirit of her eldest127 uncle hearing this flew up to the Angel who made the proclamation and said: 'Angel! thou art making a mistake. The man of whom thou makest mention will be of a lower status than this future niece of mine.' Said the Angel; 'Sh! It is all right. She will halt on one leg.' Came then the spirit of her second uncle and said: 'Angel, what blazonest thou? A niece of mine marry a man of such family?' Says the Angel: 'Sh! It is all right. She will be blind in one eye.' Came the spirit of her third uncle and said: 'Angel, hast thou not erred128? Surely thou canst not mean to marry my future niece into such a humble129 family.' Said the Angel: 'Sh! It is all right. She will be deaf in one ear.' Now, do you see? If she had only had a fourth uncle, she would have been dumb into the bargain; there is only one mouth and my life would have been a happy one. Before I told Soorka that history she used to throw up her better breeding and finer family to me. Even in public she would shed my blood. Now she does not do it even in private."
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