Mr. Monday and other tales of Jewish Amsterdam

120 Air. Monday and Other Tales of Jewish Amsterdam

Nearby lie the Jewish neighbourhoods. The inhabitants with their fierce interest in public affairs long to free all slaves from the capitalistic Egypt. They dash into the fray with the pointed rapiers of their oratorical talents. Among them are Christian-socialists, free-socialists, revolutionary-socialists. There are anarchists and free-anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists and ordinary syndicalists, there are Tolstoyans and Lutherans (the latter are not the followers of Martin Luther but of Barry Lutheran).

The Jewish debaters have studied the subtle art of dialectic oratory from three-cent pamphlets. They are utterly self-confident, their insight in history gives them strength. Their Christian opponents have historical insight as well, but unfortunately their history does not go so far back...