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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
PAGE SEVEN
PREJUDICE—HOW TO MEET IT.
sole the problem of prejudice. But
it is a matter of thousands of years.
It is not of tomorrow nor of the day
after.
Democracy—would that help? Yes,
Cleveland, Ohio.
a certain kind of democracy—and ul-
timately. Do you realize that the
FTER every social upheaval there de, and his intrusion is resented. It
democracy which France possessed
follows a wave of anti-Semi- is only in America that this passion twenty years ago did not save France
tism. When the fine fittings of so- for racial homogeneity does not exist, from that iniqpitous scandal of the
cial life are wrenched apart, there became no one single race alone en- Dreyfus affair: And that democracy
inevitably results a certain amount of tered into the early composition of here or in other lands may not save
friction. The latent and submerged America. But in Europe that i3 the its from these recurring waves of
prejudices and antipathies of races common and accepted standard of na- anti-Jewish prejudice? Public opin-
surge to the top. And where there tionalities—race. And the Jew is re- son may become a terrible menace,
is a storm there is a great deal of garded therein as a foreigner.
terrible tyrant. Democracy that
scum; where there is fever there are
To be sure, the religious element means loone license; democracy that
b ver sores. And these sporadic out- enters. It is folly to think that all feeds on mass sentiment and :sts,
breaks of anti-Jewish propaganda are the religious contentions and wars psychology; democracy that is ill-
the direct results of social unrest have passed beyond recall. 11'e insist formed by rumor is just as dangs r o t: ,
not pernyt ourselves to live in a
and unheaval.
as autocracy and frequently more Su.
The terrible black plague of the antic state of a fool's paradise. 'file
I recall that state,,, io of Thomas
thirteenth century was followed and monster of religious intolerance is lefferson in a letter which he wrote
was attended by persecution. The only slumbering, and may be stirred So Nlordecai Immanuel Noah.
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crusades, which stirred the whole into action at any moment. There is said,
"Public
opinion
sometimes
of Europe, left trails of exterminated su'dls a thing as r d 'giu"'
erects itself site an inquisition and
Jewish communities behind them. :old religious autocracy just as nuncio
syrcists its offices with as much
The Cossack rebellions in the seven- Is there is political imperialism; and fat,,ttie,sat as fan , the flame , of au
teenth century destroyed close onto :list as political imperialism and at, oida t . t.... Iliere must be a develop-
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three hundred thousand Jews; the
tocracy found its symbol in the meat along the right lines of demos:-
rise of nationalism in the Balkan —lows, and revolutionary aut°c "O' racy—democracy which teaches tol-
states in the early and middle half iound its NY mbol in the guillotine, and cranes- and sympathy and apprecia-
of the last century stirred the ember; I .eial intolerance found its symbol in, than o f ,t11 tht, diverse dements that
of tribalism in the souls of these the lynchings, so religious intoler-
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gt, into the duke-up of a people or
stm11 nationalities of Europe and re- Nice and autocracy and imperialism of a nation—democracy that is en
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sulted in anti-Jewish legislation and
hol in the .!ake and lightened. Enlightened democracy
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disabilities. And so has this last an I ateodaf• and in persection.
w.11 help to solve the problem of anti -
greatest of wars reulted in opening
To he sure, cultural elements enter Sctnitism ultimately. But that, too,
up the sluices of vile all;, -Jessi•h pro- loo the makeup of ami-Semitism. is a matter of generations and cen-
paganda the world over, especially in • v Jew is distinct culturally. That turies, and not a question of a day
eastern Europe and among the de-, .1h-conscious deposit in his soul, that or a year.
bested powers—in Russia and Poland., m (regate of centuries of a unique ex-
For all practical purposes, my
in Hungary, in Austria and in Ger- perience, that accumulation of the friends, anti - Semitism, in some form
many. I understand that organiza-
have given to the Jew a cultural or another, is here to stay for a good,
tints% have been formed in Ger-
litteness, and which is frequently long while, because anti-Semitism is
many with vast capital whose por- out of harmony with the culture of co-extensive with wiry form of in-
no, is principally to disseminate vile t he people among whom he lives.
tolerance and intolerance dies hard.
libels and slanders against the Jews
.\ lid to be sure economic causes Do not fool yourselves. One year of
iiniont the children of Germany so as enter
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into anti-Semitism. 'I'M Jew glowing sentiments of brotherhood
1,, poison the minds from infancy. A II most lands of Europe is a mer- and one tine phrase and one fine
Clay hardly passes but that sonic new chant and a small tradesman, and he hook will not scotch forever the ser-
crime against the Jews is committee(' s, therefore, looked upon with sus- pent of intolerance. It is a slow pro-
in Hungary, where the Jew: had here- picion by the farmer and by the cess of attrition, of corrosion, of un-
tofore held a position exalted and workingman. And aristocracy always dermining. of education, of democracy
sates the merchant and the burgeoise. —Ilse work of ages.
Ind an echo of that same anti-Jew-
'hat is why, when the working class
If my conclusions are true how
ish propaganda has been heard upon n c,ines restive, they turfs against the are we to 111,1 it How are we to
our own shores here its America. j ev
and that is why the farming meet prejudice? Why, in exactly the
riti Seinitism here does not, form- c lass. almost the world over, is anti- rame manner as we have met it for
slate h. express itself in legislation. in Jewish.
I two thousand years. We have evolved
political discrimination, but you find
And to be sure the spiritual ele-a strategy we have evolved a cats-
occasionally traces of it in press and meat enters into anti-Semitism. Thelpaign of defense and offense. We
pulpit, and in social relations. Now Jew has been, fortunately or unfor- succeeded in meeting it in its most
Olen often ask: what is the cause of
tunately, the leaven of European civi- loathsoine and hurtful form for two
it ? And men often give various ex- Ezation. Costsing irons a civilization thousand years, and we shall be able
planations for anti-Sensitism. There
that was older than any civilization to continue to meet it if we remain
is no one single explanation of anti-
in Europe, that was rich and ripe true to our program and to our strat
Semitiem extant—one that would ex- when Europe seas in a state of semi- egy. What is it?
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, plain it all. It is too complex and in- barbarism, and having a tradition that
First of all conies vigilance. Or-
volved a phenomenon to be explained
fostered intellect, inquiry and criti- ganize for defense. NVe most not,
by one fact.
we
dare not, permit prejudice to make
cism, and possessing a sort of de-
be sure, the racial element en- tacisment its every land in Europe, invasions upon our legal, political
tors into it. You most remember the Jew was by tradition and by po-, rights; we must safeguard these with
that the nations of Europe pride sition able to he the pioneer in in-!all the power that is within us. ''Eter-
themselves upon their racial homo- tellectual emancipation, in scientific' nal vigilance is the price of liberty."
geneity, upon their racial purity, their investigation, in religious criticism We must be organized and sufficiently
racial self-identity. The Jew consti-
and in economic reforms its Europe. alert to defend our rights in fists mat-
, totes a distinft and alien racial unit
Because the Jew Was scattered all ter.
unsung most of them. lie is like an over Europe and traveled extensively,
And secondly, we must scoch lies
intruder and stranger in a family tits-
Ile could become the channel through and beard falsehoods and pocket no
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which new' ideas passed from one slurs and swallow no gratuitous in-
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land into another. And so the Jew sults. NVe must be ready for a digni-
became the intellectual pioneer and fied but a determined defense of our
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this land as everywhere
pathfinder its Europe; and because of position,
that he invited the hostility of the else. An attitude of indifference, or
privileged classes, that hate new ideas, of cringing, or of mute submission
and that still hate new ideas and inno- will yield its no beneficent results.
vations. Because of his intellectual Organize for life, for liberty—vigi-
individuality, his very life, his very
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existence in Europe was a constant
challenge to religions orthodox; his
very presence in Europe disturbed the
neace and the slumbering quiet of
Europe. And Ile was hated for that.
So that no one single explanation
can adequately and confpletely ex-
plain anti•Semitism. it is rather fool(
ish to think as some of the more
timid among us think that the Jews
themselves are responsible for anti-
Semitism—or at least some of the
Jews. Some Jews, they say, are vul-
gar and dishonest and climbing, and
therefore anti-Semitism. Well. to be
sure, we have our rascals and fools.
I know a goodly number myself.
Every nation deserees to have some.
Whets a nation begins to speak of
its unparalleled and unexcelled in-
tegrity, like Germany before the war,
then you may be sure that it has
something up its sleeve. When a
city adtninistration begins to speak
H. FREEDMAN, Pres.
of the wonderful cleanness of the
city, and of its remarkable efficient
administration, you may know that
election titne is near. The prophets
or Israel never gave the pes.sle a
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clean bill of health; they never white-
washed the people of Israel; and the
saints of Christendom and the re-
formers of Christendom never claimed
perfection for Christendom. We strike
a pretty close average—we Jews and
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Christians—just enough virtue to
ke -p us out of hell and just enough
vice to keep us out of heaven.
No, it is not the shortcomings of
the Jew that are in the main responsi-
ble for prejudice. Were we of the
majority our shortcomings would not
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a solution was our old friend, Hainan
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—the first interesting anti-Semite. re
Haman had a very simple solution—
kill theni off) For a Haman that wit.
quite a solution.
L'nfortunately, or
fortunately, it did not work.
But
Hainan has his Jewish disciples to -
day. There is a group of Jewish
Hamanites itinong us who have some-
'
how stumbled across a similar solu-
tion, and these liamanitish disciples
are rather on a high social plane
among us—away up in our social life.
The Jew, they say, is responsible for
anti-Semitism; the solution is there-
forr very simple. Let us cease t o
be Jews. Our friend A has a tooth-
ache; it irritates him excessively .
A Double Service For The Price Of One.
%Ally, the solution is very simple—off
with his head! . . .
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The troubh• with that solution is
that it does not work. The world re-
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fuses to take these men seriously.
The world, that is unaccustomed to
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.Assimilation has never worked. As-
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to the largest extent in Germany, and
Germany today is a veritible cos-
se I of anti-Jewish iniquity.
What is the solution? Education?
Ye • ultimately—and the right kind
of education. Do you realize that
anti-Semitism very frequently finds
its strongest champions amongst the
most educated classes of Europe?,
That prejudice finds its house among
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