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Bernard G. Richards. Discourses of Keidansky
Discourses of Keidansky
Table of Contents
I Keidansky Decides to Leave the Social Problem Unsolved for the Present
II He Defends the Holy Sabbath
III Sometimes He is a Zionist
IV Art for Tolstoy's Sake
V "Three Stages of the Game"
VI "The Badness of a Good Man"
VII "The Goodness of a Bad Man"
VIII "The Feminine Traits of Men"
IX The Value of Ignorance
X Days of Atonement
XI Why the World Is Growing Better
XII Home, the Last Resort
XIII A Jewish Jester
XIV What Constitutes the Jew?
XV The Tragedy of Humor
XVI The Immorality of Principles
XVII The Exile of the Earnest
XVIII Why Social Reformers Should Be Abolished
XIX Buying a Book in Salem Street
XX The Purpose of Immoral Plays
XXI The Poet and the Problem
XXII "My Vacation on the East Side"
XXIII Our Rivals in Fiction
XXIV On Enjoying One's Own Writings
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Bernard G. Richards
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"Scientifically analyzed, you are a bore," Keidansky broke forth infuriated, "and don't interrupt me when I am solving problems and making history. Be consistent, boys, and do not ask me to be so. Give me, at least, the right that you grant to a character in fiction, the right to be irrational, illogical, and, above all, superbly inconsistent. I am a character in life and nothing is so fictitious. At times, I want to be with all, feel with all, believe with all, see the beauties of all ideals, and also point out the great fact about them—that they are all fatal—and yet that to be without ideals is baneful and deadly. I cannot be partial, and that is why they expelled me from DeLeon's Socialist Labor party. Partiality is destructive to art, and I might have been an artist, if I had had the patience and self-abnegation and a lot of other requisites and things.
"But to return to the larger vision, which eclipses the dreamlet of Zionism. The Jew must not be relegated to an obscure corner of the world, to a little platform whereupon he will recite a piece in an unknown tongue. I want a big stage for him—the world. I want a great play for him—all its multitudinous activities. For he is a wonderful actor. He has versatility, illusion, imagination and dramatic power. It is an inspiring part he plays in the world-drama. So let the play go on, and do not ask him to waste his energies and bargain with the Sultan for a bit of barren land that has been taken from him so long ago. He has a bigger task to perform, a larger mission to fulfil.
