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The International .
Jew---As the Jew ,
Interprets the Term

what flag they owed allegiance. In
other words, the spirit of interna-
tionalism which one might have ex-
pected to play no insignificant part
in a war in which men of so many
nations were fighting one fight, ac-
tually became a challenge to the pa-
triotic
spirit and he who proclaimed
By Rabbi Leo M. Franklin.
himself an internationalist was
(President, Central Conference of
marked as a man without a country.
American Rabbis.)
Challenge to Patriotism.
Under such circumstances, it was
The Jew has many times been
but
natural
that to the term interna-
called the miracle of history. He has
suffered but survived; he has pro- tional, there should tome to be at-
gressed in the face of persecution; he tached a certain opprobrious implica-
has maintained his religious identity tion, a challenge to patriotism and a
'though scattered to the four corner s suggestion of unworthiness. Hence,
"of the earth. In the mere fact of the the very term, "the international
4 Jew's survival, however, there would Jew," may rightly he said to be a
t
be no element of the miraculous. ern conceived in malice and popular-
Other peoples there have been—the ized with the intent to harm the cause
Samaritans for instance—who a mere of the Jew. The more significant it
.handful of individuals have main- is, incidentally, that the foremost
tained their group integrity through Anti-Semite of our day in defending
his own questionable patriotism some
Centuries.
But they have left no mark upon time ago, upon the witness stand pro-
their environment. Touched by the claimed himself an internationalist.
changing forces that have played up- Thus does ignorance sometimes play
on them. they have not quite suc- tricks upon its victims.
But more significant perhaps is the
cumbed; but neither have they grown
in numbers or in influence. In the fact that in relation to the Jew, the
natural order of things, another few term "international" is of Germanic
origin. I have in my possession at
generations will find them extinct.
In the case of the Jew, howeevr, this moment certain pro-German
the contrary has taken place. Not propagandist literature in which ref-
only has he touched many nations at erence is made to the "international
many points, but touching them, he Jew," and it is almost beyond ques-
has influenced them, while he, though tion that it is out of the very heart
by no means immune to the influence of this same pro-German propaganda
Of racial and national contracts, has which in due time, it will be shown is
yet maintained with but the slightest closely related to the prevailing anti-
—if any—appreciable impairment, his Semitic propaganda, that the term,
"the international Jew," was taken.
religious identity.
However, it is not at all a part of
Now, both of these facts need to be
emphasized today. To say that the my purpose this morning to cross
Jew is the same everywhere is to deny swords with those, who victims of a
what observation establishes as an hideous nightmare to which the so-
elemental fact. Indeed, I question if called Jewish internationalist is cen-
there is another group which having tral, would re-enact upon this sacred
characteristics as pronounced as have soil, scenes that have turned back the
been produced by toe psychology of tide of civilization and denied to
• the Jew's history, yet tends to assimi- humanity every claim of moral and
late no quickly and•completely as the spiritual progress.
Dream of Brotherhood.
Jew, the qualities of his environment.
Of course, when, as has been.the case
Rather, I would intimate, to you in
since the Russian persecutions, Jews this hour in What sense—if in any—
have immigrated into new lands by the Jew is in truth an international
the hundreds of thousands and have in sympathy. Bearing always in mind
been compelled by economic circum- the fact that basic to Jewish phil-
stances to live their lives in seques- osophy is the thought of unity, it is
tered quarters and out of constant not at all surprising that the Jew,
contait with the larger life around through the ages, should have
them, the protess of asimilation goes dreamed the beautiful dream of the
on, but slowly. The character of the establishment on earth of a universal
New York Ghetto for instance, seems brotherhood, of a day when the differ-
to remain the same from year to year, ences that divide men should have
though investigation will prove, that been minimized and their common in-
the personnel of that Ghetto 'is' in a terests and their common hopes and
state of constant flux. The Jew who their common aspirations emphasized.
half a decade ago, lived in Grant or Corollary to the Jews' teaching of the
Division
street it likely -.today, one God is of necessity the dogma of
through dint of industry and decent the one humanity. To the spread of
ambition, to have made a plate for this idea and ideal, all the prophets
himself far uptown.
of Israel dedicated their lives. It is
A similar movement out of the the one thought that like a scarlet
Ghetto is observable in every one of thread is woven into the very web and
the great centers of population. It is woof of Jewish teaching. Into a
sometimes said that the child of the world dominated by the tribal idea of
Jewish immigrant to this country has deity, the Jew proclaimed his message
a tendency to out-American the na- of monotheism. But the monotheistic
tive American. Even if this state- idea—that is to say—the thought of
ment be an exaggeration of the truth, one God falls absolutely to the
it is none the less true that hit assimi- ground without the corresponding
lative tendency—I speak TIOW,.so far thought that all men being the chil-
as national and racial characteristics dren of that one God, arc brothers.
are concerned—is
very
clearly It is upon this point more than upon
marked.
any other that the Jew takes issue
Takes Character of Country:
with the Trinitarian ideal of our sister
But this becomes even more clear faith.
when one studies' the characteristics
Now, under the inspiration of his
of the Jews in other countries. The lead of the oneness of God and the
Jew who has livedllongrin China and corresponding oneness of humanity,
who would emigrate to this country, the Jew wandered forth into the
would be marked far less as a Jew world to be a sponsor of a larger
than as a Chinaman. The Ayssinian brotherhood among men than had
Jew—known as the Falashas—are ever yet been realized save in the
black like their fellow Abyssinians. visions of his own prophetic seers.
In other words, they have taken on And it is by this fact and by this fact
consciously sometimes and uncon- alone, that may be explained the
sciously in most instances, the essen- Jew's persistence as a religious per-
tial character of their suroundings. sonality simultaneously with his well
But that fact has not impaired the re- defined tendency to assimilation of
ligious identity of the Jew either in the characteristics of the groups
America or in France or in Germany amid which he lives. For this idea
or in China or in Abyssinia. That is of the one God and of the one human-
the fact that I am trying to bring out ity is soul and center of the Jew's
to you this morning. In everything, religious mission. If in any way, the
the Jew is an assimilationist except in Jew stands out a being different from
the matter of his religion. But on the his, fellow men, it is because of the
other hand, if the Jew has been af- working upon his soul of this central
fected by his envieonntent, so, too, and all-controlling religious ideal.
has he left his mark upon his environ- Apd for this idea of a unified human-
. merit. Had he failed in this, his mis- ity, the Jew stands wherever you find
sion in the world would not have him. Here in enlightened America,
been fulfilled. For; fOr this was the and in the heart of the dark conti-
Jew sent into the world. His it was nent, if there are Jews, you will find
from the beginning to go into the them equally swayed by the two-fold
highways and the byways of the na- sentiment embodied in what may in
tions and to preach into the ears of very truth he called the watchwords
men, his message of the living God. of Israel: "Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord
From the hour that there sounded our God, the Lord is one and thou
into the soul of the patriarch Abra- shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
ham, the mandate to "become a bless-
Prays For One God on Earth.
ing," through the years of his bond-
Here and there and everywhere,
age in Egypt and of his exile in where the Jew dwells, you will find
Babylon and of the so-called Dias- him breathing the common prayer for
pora that carried him to the four cor- the time when God shall be known as
ners of the earth, the Jew has felt one throughout the earth. Yea, and
himself to be the wanderer—but not you shall hear him echoing from his
the aimless wanderer; not the am- soul, the prayer of the prophet for the
bitionless wanderer, but the wanderer day when "swords shall be beaten
with a message and a mission to the into ploughshares and spears into
peoples with whom in the course of pruning hooks and nations shall learn
his migrations he might be brought war no more." In this sense and in
into contact.
this sense only, the Jew is an interna-
What a misinterpretation
the tionalist. His religious ideal of the
church has given to Jewish history corning of that day when all men will
when it holds that for his rejection of recognize one God and see themselves
the Christian Saviour, the Jew was as part of one humanity, binds Jew to
punished by being made the wanderer Jew with bonds of sympathy that are
over the face of the earth. Truth is the symbols of .his strength.
that it is only as such that he could
But mark you, this hope, this
at all fulfill his mission among men.
dream, this prayer, for a better day
Now all this has very direct bearing of universal understanding makes the
upon an interpretation of a phase of Jew not less but ever more the patriot
Jewish life that just at this time is to the land in which he lives. For he
very much to the forefront in men's appreciates the fact as history proves
minds. Men are speaking much to- at every stage, that it is only through
day of what they call "the interna- the fullest allegiance to the ideals of
tional Jew." Particularly in a now his country, that each can contribute
famous or infamous series of Anti- to the realization of the ideal of a
Semitic articles has the term been world-wide brotherhood. One needs
popularized. But there are certain not to be an exact student of Jewish
words and phases in any language history and literature to know that at
which under given circumstances. be- every stage of his career, the Jew has
come—as it were—magic words to stood out a patriot par excellence.
conjure with or they become terms of Basic to all law was the rabbinic law.
opprobrium and suggestive of disre- "The law of the land is law." In the
pute. Such a term since the war per- ethics of the fathers. the so-called
iod is "international." One needs not Pierke Aboth, it is stated that were it
to enter very deeply into the philoso- not for allegiance to the government,
phy of the World War to realize that men would swallow one another alive.
during the past five or six years, the The declaration of conference after
spirit of nationalism has been ascend- conference of Jews in every country
ant as never before. Patriotism dur- of the world tells of their devotion to
ing the war period was deep, but it the patriotic ideal. What was laid
tended at times to become very nar- down at the great I'aris Conference
row. In this country, for instance, called by Napoleon in 1803 is indica-
the sentiment "humanity first" gave tive of all the rest. Therein it is
way to the apparently more patriotic, stated:
hut certainly less humane sentiment
But why increase examples? Why
"America first." While we fought point to the fact that even in Russia,
shoulder to shoulder with the Allies where the Jew was dragged through
because our cause was common and the very pit of hell, where he has been
while in the thick of the battle and the victim of rapine and murder, even
where" sacrifice was .demanded, no there he has been the patriot. Argu-
Mari in fighting the brave fight asked ments like these are unnecesary to the
for Or eared for the nationality of the fair-minded student of history, and to
raan•whp fought next to him, in mo- those who claim that they do not be-
isten(' when the stress was lightened, lieve in history, they mean nothing.
men remembered who and what they
. Bond Not Political.
were that foto.say—they remembered
I speak of these things merely to
to what nation they belonged and to Indicate that the international bond

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between Jew and Jew is not in any that was anciently said to the Jew:
sense political. It is absolutely re- "Righteousness, only righteousness
ligious. The Jew is brother to his fel- shalt thou pursue in order that thou
low Jew wherever he may be only Mayest live" is now taken up by the
because and insofar as each is sponsor Jew as our message to all the world.
of the living truth that there is one
I have seen fit to bring this mes-
God and that humanity is one. To
sage to you today, my people, because
hold that the Jews of all the countries
I believe that there has been some
are bound together by any other ties
confusion created in the minds not
—political, economic, financial, pro-
only of many non-Jews but as well of
fessional, commercial—what you will Jews themselves as to what actually
—is utter nonsense. In all things
constitutes the bond of sympathy be-
save his religion, the Jew is essen-
tween Jew and Jew. I trust that I
tially an in'ividualist. In politics,
have made it clear and that as a result
Israel stands a house divided against
of that clarity, the bond of our re-
itself. In finance and commerce, the
ligious sympathies may be strength-
Jew has one law for dealing with his
ened to the end that through us, the
fellow-Jew and with his non-Jewish
day may be brought nearer when not
competitor. Three times in the Pen-
only the heart of Jew shall beat in
tatuch is the law repeated: (Ref. Ex-
keenest sympathy with fellow-Jew,
odus 12, Lev. 24, 22, Num. 15, 16 and
but when in truth the hand of fellow-
29). "One law shall there be for you
ship shall be extended from man to
for the stranger and for the native
man, from group to group, from na-
born, for I am the Lord your God."
tion to nation, in that sincerity which
And so throughout.
springs front the consciousness that
Between the obligation to morality in the last analysis, men are members
MI the part of the Jew and the non- of a common brotherhood and that
Jew, we recognize no difference. the Father of all is God. God—whom

some have called the God of Israel,
but in very truth that God in Whose
sight all men are children—God, that
God, to whom with equal fervor and Charge Their Aliens Are Deported
with ritual faith men of all nations
Under Unfair Circumstances.
and of all creeds may in their hours
of gladness speak their praises and in
LONDON. —T h e Parliamentary
the times of sadness bring their sup- Committee of the Jewish Board of
plications and all as with one voice, Deputies claims to have established
call Him by the living title—Our the fact that the conditions node'
Father.
which alien Jews are deported in this
country are highly unsatisfactory.
As a reward for meritorious serv-
The committee cites an instance of
ices to his country, rendered in the a Jewish young man who was forced
highest degree of efficiency and faith- to leave the country because lie failed
to notify the Home Secretary that
fulness, the War Department has pro-
he had changed his place of residence.
moted Dr. Louis Leonard Shapiro, of All those arriving in the country with-
Bridgeport, Conn., brother of Charles out the necessary documents, it Is de-
II. Shapiro, president of the Union clared, are deported even if the court
of Orthodox Jews of America, to the recommends that they be allowed to
remain.
rank of captain, being commissioned
Very unsatisfactory also, say the
to this honorable office at his present committee, is the manner in which
station, Tirana, Albania, where he is deportation cases are handled by the
director of the Red Cross Central courts. Often aliens are confined for
Medical Laboratories, experimental lengthy periods before their cases
department.
are taken up or they are released on

British Jews Protest.

bail. Board is now takin g the
up with the authorities in the ho matt er
of
bettering these conditions.

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Berlin is now facing a new
mayoral
election. Among the three most
popular candidates who have the best
chances of being elected there v
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no less than two Jews, the ex-premix,

of Prussia, Paul Hirsch, and
O
Fruend. The third candidate is also
far front being hostile to the Jess
He has already publicly 'proti.stel
against the anti-Semitic aaitatiial
ice
the city of Berlin, and Ins thildro
are married to Jews.

KOVNO.—Included in the Pella
Delegation which is at present a
Riga, to confer with the Russian des
gates, are a number of experte eq.
posed of the following: I)r.
Tanta,
baum, Felix Behr, and Dr. Simon
Rundstein, the last named being the
head of the \Varsaw Jewish Commun-
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