The Frankfurt Journal

The famous poet and man of letters of A. Hasim's penetrating insight into pre-war Germany's panorama and his humoristic interpretation of his observations."the renowned Heidelberg university happens to be within the spiritual circle of it; the world-famous baths like of Wiesbaden, Homburg and Nauheim of Europe frequented by ancient Russian princes and English millionaires, the vast public parks, the white and black swans, the statues and fountains throng the entire city. To say that the Jewish community forms two percent of the population is an irrefutable evidence of its character as a thriving business center. Jews are like gigantic birds: the course on which they move in the sky shows the directions that major trends of life take upon the earth beneath. The fact that the Jewish population have started to migrate northward is indicative of the drastic decline of Frankfurt's former grandeur."