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PREJUDICE AND
HOW TO MEET IT
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lance. There is of course the danger
of making mountains out of mole
hills, of elevating a matter of purely
local significance to national import-
ance by too much publicity. It is un-
necessary to use a sledge-hammer to
kill a roach . . .
And, thirdly, we must retain—and
this is very important—our ancient
spirit of pride, which comes from an
intimate acquaintance with the spirit
and history of our people. We most
curry no favor, we must not worm
and eel and maneuver ourselves into
places where we are not wanted; we
must tnaintain, and more especially
must we inculcate, in the souls of
our children that precious sense of
Jewish dignity; we must inspire our-
selves and our young ones with the
thought that no people on God's
earth has the heritage, the precious
as well as • great many reputable physicians, will gladly testify as to
legacy and culture. the civilization.
the ancestry, the records of seers and
the wonderful results derived from these scientifically constructed
martyrs and heroes that Israel has.
shoes.
\Ve most convince ourselves fully and
vividly, and more especially must we
convince our children. of the thought
that two-thirds of mankind are wor-
shiping our God and reading our liter-
ature. You must have your young
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men and women. your sons and your
daughters, realize with a sense of in-
finite pride, that their people had pro-
duced a culture that was rich and
ripe and noble when the English and
the Germans and the French were
half-naked barbarians. So that when
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wart manhood of him will not he
dragged through the mire of self-de-
basement for the sake of a certain
preferment in some one fraternity or
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When I visit universities and I
0 meet these fine, young Jewish boys,
that somehow are lost—miserably un-
happy because they know not their
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own people and are not received or
welcomed by others, I know the
fault is not therms but that of their
parents.
So many of us, unfortunately, have
lost our spirit of Jewish pride and
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dignity.
I read a little while ago a mani-
festo that was issued by the Jewish
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deputies in the parliament of Poland.
Poland has discovered a new way of
destroying the Jews in Poland. The
majority of the three million Jews
0 in Poland are orthodox—observant
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Jews—and the Sabbath is their day
of rest; and from time immemorial
their places of business have been
closed on the Sabbath and open on
the Sunday, and the religious life of
Poland did not stiffer in consequence
of it. Now that Poland has become
a republic, free Poland has. suddenly
received a religious revival and has
decided that keeping the places of
business open on Sunday is destruc-
tive of public morals, and so a law
was passed that the Jew must keep
his place of business closed on a Sun-
day; which means that the Jew must
keep his place of business closed two
days a week, which means economic
ruin for him.
These Jewish deputies issued a
statement to their co-religionists of
Poland narrating in detail what had
transpired in parliament—that not
one of the Poles had the courage
to stand tip to defend Jewish rights;
and they conclude their manifesto,
which is bound to become historic
in Jewish annals, with this immortal
phrase—"They can break us but they
can't bend Now, that is what I
call a spirit of Jewish pride—they
can break us, but they can't bend
the spirit that is ours.
In this land of ours I know on
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clubs, the great majority of whose
members are Temple members, who,
for the sake of five or ten per cent or
atheistic Jews who may belong to
them, have not enough of religious
pride or racial pride to abstain from
the ordinary amusements of daily
life on the high holy days of the
Jewish calendar. These social organ-
izations are wide open when millions
of their fellow-Jews are performing
their devotions, fasting and praying
to their Father who is in Heaven,
And these same broad-minded, tol-
erant, emancipated Jews, who can
afford publicly to degrade the holy
days of the Jew, would be the first
to howl if their Jewish neighbot
would venture to clean his sidewalk
on a Sunday! Unfortunately, there
is a miserable lack of pride, of dig-
nity in us, the descendants of the
prophets and the Maccabees.
And then conies discipline—loyalty
to our faith, loyalty to the fine prac-
tices and beautiful observances itif
our people, and knowledge of the lite,
of the literature, of the history of our
people, in order that we may know
the reason for our continuous ex-
istence as a separate and distinct
people. I am frequently asked why
I insist upon keeping Hebrew classes
in my school here. Is it not a dead
language. I very frequently answer,
"Hebrew is dead to those who do
not know It." I frequently say that
the value of a Hebrew educatto•
cannot be translated in terms of dol-
lars and cents. But man does not
live by bread alone. A language is
the soul of a people, a language is
the reflex of the people's life. And
I want the Jewish boy and girl to
feel that contact with the eternal soul
of his people; I want him to get a
bit of the Shechina, of the holy spirit
of his people, through the language
of his people. I want him to go into
life armored, protected against the
slings and the arrows of hate and
prejudice. I do not want him to be
thin-skinned so that he will come
back to you broken hearted and mis-
erable; I want him to go out with
his mind filled with the glories of
his people and his soul thrilled with
the wonderful promises of his people.
And, finally, faith! Faith, my
friends, in the ultimate triutnph of
our cause, faith in the ultimate ac-
knowledgment which we shall re-
ceive from the world, faith that our
ideals will ultimately receive univer-
sal sanction—faith in ourselves, in
our cause, in our missions, in our
life, in our ideals, in our institu-
tions—faith in the nobility of Jewsh
life, faith in the dignity of Jewish
life, faith in the worth-whileness of
Jewish life.
And, also, faith in this, which to
my mind is the all-important creed of
Jewish life—that we are an eternal
people. Nothing can destroy us. All
our enemies of antiquity could not
break us. The hosts of Edom and
l'hilistia, of Moab and Aram, swirled
around us and over us, but receded
broken and discomfited.
We are an eternal people! Thus
path it been declared by the pro-
phets and seers of old, and thus
bath it been established throughout
all the revolving cycles of time. Bab-
ylon and the wrath of God. Assyria,
and the warriors of Memphis, and
Thebes and the flying hosts of the
Scythians, and the greaved and
armored hoplites of the Greeks, and
i the iron legions of the Romans were
hurled in mighty cohorts against us.
I They triumphed for a moment and
i in their triumph perished.
We are an eternal people. The
Cross and the Crescent could not pre-
vail against 114. The fury of intol-
erance, the violence of fanaticism,
the studied cruelties of fifteen cen-
ouries—the rack and the stake and
'the yellow badge, the Crusades and
the mobs and the massacres could
not bring us low. For we are an
eternal people. Many of us shall fall
by the wayside, and many of us
shall perish for want of faith; some
of us may grow cold, and many shall
chase after some will-o-the-wisp and
be lost to us, but a remnant shall at-
ways remain—tlie seed of a new
resurrection. We are an eternal peo-
ple!
When the first light broke upon
struggling mankind we were there,
and when the last night shall fall on a
dying world in the ultimate cycle. of
time, we shall be there. We were
nomads and slaves and conquerors
and princes and outcasts and vaga-
bonds and kings! We are humble
servants of the great Godl We are
an eternal people. "For thus saith
the Lord, who created thee, 0 Jacob
and the God who fashioned thee, 0
Israel, fear not, for I am with thee.
I have called thee by name. Thou
art mine. When thou shalt pass
through the waters I shall be with
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