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No. 17. / Vienna, 26 April 1901. / Fifth Year

For purposes of agitation, older numbers of the volumes for 1899 and 1900 are supplied upon remittance of the postage (for Austria and Germany, 72 Heller per 5-kilo parcel, about 100 numbers).

The Passover double number, excellently suited for agitation, may be had of the Administration so far as the stock allows.

The Pamphlet Competition of the "Welt".

Some 30 competitors took part in the prize competition of the "Welt".

Unfortunately, the examination of the pamphlets sent in has shown that not a single one could be favoured with any of the three prizes. Although many of the pamphlets had been worked out with much expert knowledge and great diligence, they could nevertheless not be taken into consideration, because all of them without exception lacked the popular tone, the liveliness and freshness of presentation, and the brevity of diction.

The editors of the "Welt" therefore find themselves moved to renew the prize competition upon the former conditions, set forth below, and fix the 15th of June 1901 as the closing date for the sending in of the manuscripts. The pamphlet shall be no larger than one printed sheet (16 octavo pages), and shall set forth with the utmost possible clearness and precision the conception and the aims of the Zionist movement.

Three prizes are to be distributed:

a 1st prize to the amount of 200.— Frcs. in gold, " 2nd " " " " 100.— " " " " 3rd " " " " 50.— " " "

The jury shall be at liberty, should works of equal merit be forthcoming, to undertake another distribution of the prizes, and also — in case still other successful works should come in — to propose their purchase and publication in the "Welt".

Everyone may take part in the competition. The prize essays must be composed in the German language or in Jargon, and are to be submitted, postage paid, to the editors of the "Welt" in the form necessary for printing (the paper written upon on one side only, and in a legible hand), furnished with a motto. An enclosed sealed envelope, bearing the same motto, shall contain the name of the author and his address.

The envelopes will be opened only in the event of a prize being awarded. Works not crowned with a prize will be returned to the sender free of charge.

The prize-crowned works become the property of the "Welt", to which belongs exclusively the publication in whatever form it may think fit, as likewise the right of translation into foreign tongues.

Vienna, 15 April 1901.

For the editors: Berthold Feiwel.

The Jewish Family*).

The Jewish Woman.

By Berthold Feiwel.

I.

If it be true that those women are the best of whom least is spoken, then the Jewish woman must have grown very bad indeed. Were one to clothe the matter in more gallant words, one would have to say: of late a great deal is spoken of Jewish women, and in particular of the Jewesses of Berlin, Paris and Vienna and of their sisters in the lesser great cities. Much is said of them, and what is said is assuredly no praise of women. Nor is it any longer, by a long way, the caricature of the "Fliegende Blätter", which with malicious good nature makes merry over the ludicrous and sorry weaknesses of Jewish Commercial Councillors' wives; no longer the oft and oft repeated variation upon some Baroness Rebecca or Sarah, who turns and twists and spreads her fingers that the tasteless overloading of her jewellery may glitter.

The tone in which the Jewish woman is nowadays spoken of, ever more frequently in newspapers and books, in the theatre, and even from the speakers' tribune of public assemblies, is far removed from the almost harmless raillery of earlier times. That it

*) We herewith open the discussion upon the questions of the Jewish family, and hope that our readers will take a lively part in it.