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It is curious that September 10
192I--the very day perhaps, on which
the first fruits are gathered in front
the fields of the Halbe farm as they
were in the time of the Kings—cur-
ious that September 10, 1921 should
mark the 25(Ith anniversary of the
Jewish community in Berlin. It was
on September 10, 1671 that two Jews,
Abraham Reif: and Benedict Veit
were given special permission to set-
tle in Berlin, from which place, hith-
erto, the Jews had been excluded.
The executive council of the Jewish
community at its last session planned
a fitting celebration to commemorate
this event, which also may be said
to mark the birth of Reformed Juda-
ism.
The following incident may well
have taken place in tolerant America,
but in a European country, a country
Willa raised the Jew rarely to places
of distinction and then generally to
shower hint with ignominy and dis-
grace, it is almost unbelievable.
One Professor Schreiber, leader of
the German Centrum or Catholic
party, declared here recently that his
organization was absolutely opposed
to anti-Semiticism, and that au anti-
Jewish policy could be of value only
to Junkers and the German Chauvin-
ists. The Centrum, he said, stood
for religious tolerance and it would
never support any policy leading to
race antagonism.
Of course, here and there arc out-
breaks still. The enmity of centur-
ies, the jealousy and hatred are so
many rocks to be eroded slowly by
the trickling stream, not merely mists
of river fog to he dissipated with the
first rays of a rising sun.
For some time Francisca Eichhorn,
a nurse in one of the Berlin hospitals
had been making a practice of sta-
tioning herself on the Berlin Kurfur-
stendamm and delivering anti-Semite
speeches. But so much commotion
arose that the city police were com-
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"disturber of the peace."
At Nuremberg, some fanatical anti-
Semites undertook to distribute proc-
lamations and handbills among the
patients. Attending physicians at
once protested, declaring that, their
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In Oldenberg, Erfurt and Stuttgart
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of terror—but behind the screen of
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is moving, quietly but firmly and with
resolution. Against these vestigia
traces of the old regime is to be bal
arced the Schreiber incident—and out
other.
In Munich, the Minister of the In
tenor, Endres, has issued a circular
to all police officials, in which he
calls their attention to the marked
anti-Semitic agitation which is being
carried on, and declares that agita-
tion is now become positively harm-
ful. lie directs the police officials to
be most strict in suppressing all anti-
Semitic instigations and directs them
to take all measures to apprehend
agitators and propagandists. Ile
asks, further, that all press-cuttings
from anti-Jewish papers, which con-
tain such instigations be send to him
for summary action against their ed-
itors.
But all is not gloom, strife and the
continual stress of Jewish and non-
lewish forces working each toward
"their separate ends. There was a bit
of humor, like a rift in the clouds,
that appeared the other (lay at Kiel
when members of the local Minyon,
following so many illustrations ex-
amples throughout the world, proced-
ed to walk out on strike with a de-
mand for higher wages. Those who
haul to say "Kaddish" felt rather put
out about the matter, but as no
strike-breakers were to be found in
the pious town, the strikers won their
point and in a few days were back
on the job. The sayers of "Kaddish"
had to be cootent with the fact that
the Minyon had not also demanded
shorter hours.
Assuredly, the future promises well
for the Jews in Germany. Long have
they waited for their measure of hon-
or in having contributed to the Ger-
many of the past some of her most
eminent poets and musicians, sol-
diers and sailors and statesmen, men
of law and 111C11 of science. And if
the sign of the times can at all be
relied upon, if coming events really
cast their shadows before, they have
not waited through the centuries in
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and other countries were waiting,
breathlessly to receive; they had with
them the lists of thousands of victims
of the pogroms.
Yet the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee invited them to no meetings, no
conference, no consultation of any
kind and when arrangements were
made to send delegates to Ukrainia no
steps were taken to have these dele-
gates meet with the representatives of
Ukrainian Jewry and to receive their
information and recommendation.
There was ample time for such a con-
ference and such action can be taken
very quickly in case of emergency. Dr.
Coralnick arrived on December 6, Mr.
Grossman landed in New York on
December 29. Messrs. Friedlander,
Fischer and Fine sailed on January 9.
Eleven days is certainly enough for
the most hurried consultation. Dr.
Coralnick and Mr. Grossman, on their
arrival here, heard about the plans for
the sending of commissioners to Uk-
rainia, learned of conferences and ne-
gotiations with regard to these plans,
gave their views to such organizations
of the masses as asked for the same
and wondered why the central office
of Jewish war relief agencies, wishing
to deal with the problem in Ukrainia
had no concern to find out anything
as to what the Jews in Ukrainia them-
selves felt and thought with regard to
their distressing situation. Meanwhile
the large Jewish masses were touched
to the core by the poignant tale of
woe told by the messengers from
bloodstained Ukrainia and were
moved to untold depths of anguish.
I presume that the saute time the
Gentile press agents of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee and some of the
other relief agencies were racking
their brains how to invent lurid ap-
peal which may beguile Jews into giv-
ing additional funds for relief work.
But be that as it may, the fact re-
mains that the American Jewish com-
missioners to Ukrainia failed to meet
with and to give a hearing to the
spokesmen of a large section of our
suffering brethren abroad and that by
this amazing act the joint Distribu-
tion Committee has completely ig-
nored the wishes and aspirations of
two million of our distressed brethren.
And I ask why is it that our leading
organizations are bent upon adding
insult to the endless injuries which
have been suffered by the Jews in the
war zones? Why do we thus hemcan
the noble work of feeding the hungry
and uplifting the fallen? Why is it
that we refuse to take into consider-
ation the wishes and desires, the hopes
and aspirations, the great spiritual
and intellectual forces of our brethren
in Eastern Europe who temporarily
happen to be in need of our help?
W'hy do we deliberately take upon
ourselves the guilt of depriving those
who have been bereft of everything
dear to them, of their last vestages of
dignity, self-reliance and pride? The
ideas and plans which the Jews in
Eastern Europe have for their social
and economic rehabilitation may or
may not he acceptable to us. But why
do we refuse to give them a hearing?
1 know that we have to be careful
and conservative—that we have to be
especially cautious not to say anything
when our brethren are being butch-
ered abroad—I know that the Joint
Distribution Committee has on its di-
rectorate men of eminence and lead-
ing, but I most respectfully submit
that the Jewries in Eastern Europe
can match the best minds and hearts
who direct our work of relief. The
Jews of Eastern Europe have not al-
ways been in such distress and it is
only unparalleled world catastrophe
which could reduce them to the cir-
cumstances under which some of our
cynical and self-satisfied public busy-
bodies may think of them as schnor-
rens. We have drawn much if not
most of our sniritual sustenance from
the Jews of Eastern Europe and the
communities which have produced the
Smolinskys and the Bialiks. the Har-
kavys and the Hessens. the Abramo-
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their voice heird in the affairs of
Jewry even to the extent of giving
their views as to the readjustment of
matters pertaining to their own lives.
Again and again, why did the mes-
sengers of mercy from America not
meet with the messengers of sorrow
from Ukrainia? Why did the Ameri-
can Jews add insult to the injuries of
the pogroms?