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WHAT IS ANTI-SEMITISM?

By JOSEPH LEFTWICH

(Copyright, Jewish Correspondence Bureau, 1922.)

(Here is an attempt to survey an old position from a new angle;
a treatment of a banal question in a refreshingly new manner. Nil-
laire Belloc's The Jewa" stirred English Jewry. The reaction of
one of them, even if it represents the view of a minority, ahould in-
terest American Jews.—Editor.)

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Mr. and Mrs. Matt Behrmann an
nounce the confirmation of their son,'
Bernard, at Temple Beth El Sundayl
morning, June 4. Reception aft their;
home, 30 Elmrust avenue.

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Marks, 25
Tennyson avenue, announce the con-
firmation of their son, Burton, on
Sunday, June 4. At home to their
friends on Sunday afternoon and

What is Anti-Semitism, anyhow? truth. It is true of the Jews and of evening.
Immediately one speaks a the Jews, the Jews alone, that they alone have
Mr. and Mrs. Mandel Meyers, 1144
and does not use the sentimental maintained, whether through the spec-
phraseology of "Nathan the Wise," sal action of Providence or through Calvert avenue, will be at home to,
he is dubbed an anti-Semite and con- minis. general biological or social law their friends on Sunday afternoon
demned forthwith. There may he all of which we are ignorant, an unfoil. and evening in honor of the confirma-
sorts of persons for that. The Jews ing entity and an equally unfailing tion of their daughter, 511dred Ber-
have been so constantly subjected to differentiation between themselves and nice. No cards.
attack that they may be forgiven for the society through which they cease-
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Golden, 230
flinching from every one who conies lessly move. It is not true that con-
up to them as if he were a foe. But ditions in the past differed from prey-, Cedarhurat avenue, will be at home,
that does not alter things. The child ant conditions sufficiently to account to their friends Sunday, June 4, in'
who has been stuffed with dangerous for so strange a story. There have honor of the confirmation of their
foods will grow up to be a cantanker- been generation and even centuries son, Norman.
ous old nisin, with a ruined digestion. (not co-incident indeed throughout the
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pearl of 504
It is not his fault perhaps, but it does world, but applying now to one noun-
not imnrove him anyway. The pee- try, now to another) where every op- King avenue will be at home to their
pie in Eastern Europe who are strick- portunity for absorption existed; yet friends on Sunday afternoon and
en down with loathsome disease are that absorption has never taken place. evening in honor of the confirmation
the victims of circumstance, but they There was every chance in Spain at of their daughter, Gertrude.
are not a bit more pleasant company one moment, in Poland in another, but
Mr. and Mrs. Sol. Gittleman of
there was the best chance of all in the
for that reason.
short but brilliant period of Liberal Second boulevard will be at home on'
What do we Jews' gain from that policy which has dominated Western Sunday, June 4, in honor of the con-
smug philo-Semitism current among .urope
during the last three genera- firmation of their daughter, Corinne.
e
sentimental Liberals, who close their bona. That policy has had the full-
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Rabinowitz of
respectable eyes to the fact that any estday; it has left the Jews not only
Jewish problem exists, that we should unApiorbed, but more differentiate's! California avenue will be at home to
denounce what we please to term anti- than ever, and the political problem • their relatives and friends on Sun-
Semitism, which merely accepts what they present more insistent by far , day afternoon and evening, in honor
we ourselves are anxious to get accep- than it wan a century ago. The thing' of the confirmation of their daughter,
ted, that there is a distinctive .lewish might hove come where there was a Josephine Magdalin.
problem which must be faced?
chaos of peoples as in pagan Alexan-
Mr. and Mrs. Julius E. Wartell of
Mr. Belloc writes in hip latest bok, dria in the four centuries from 200
"The Jews," of "people who spoke of B. C., to 200 A. D., or in modern New 583 Woodland avenue will be at home
the Jew as nothing oth er th a n a citi- York. It might have come where to their friends Sunday afternoon and
zen with a particular religion. It had there was a particularly friendly at- evening, June 4, in honor of the con- 1
become odious to nineteenth century tit u de , as in mediaeval Poland or mod.; firmation of their son, Tearl. No I
thought that religious differences ern England. It might even have , cards.
(which it regarded nothing more than come, paradoxically, through the very
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blumeno of
FRIGIDAIRE,
shades of doubtfully h e ld private persecution and strain of times and
opinion) should be the concern of the places where the Jews suffered the 1892 West Philadelphia avenue will be
The automatic and sanitary elec-
State. A large number of people most hostile treatment; for their ab.iat home to their relatives and friends
thought of the Jews, not as a race, but sorption might have been achieved un-Ion Sunday afternoon and evening,1t ric refrigerator for the home, model
only as a religion; and regarding all der pressure though it had failed to June 4, in honor of the confirmation 113 -5 of the new apartment size Frig-
religions thus, they co nclud ed that it be achieved under attraction. As a of their daughter, Frances. No cards. I i daire shown herewith, has been de•1
igned for use where floor space is at'
would involve no diminution of citi- fact it has never come. The continu-
zenship." What have we Jews to do ous absorption of outlying fractions, I Mr. and Mrs. Ben Tannenholz will a premium, as in smaller homes and
with such? Are these o ur friends and a process continually going on wher-Ibe at home to their relatives and a partments. It has the same high-
is Belloc the enemy? Are we not at ever the Jewish nation is present has friends on Sunday afternoon and g rade workmanship as the two larger
one with him in his denunciation of not affected the mass of the problem evening, June 4, in honor of the con- models.
The insulation of this new model is
these most shameless lies—Abraham at all. The body as a whole has re- firmation of their daughter, Areta
Cohen, a Pole, M. Mosevitch, a dis- mained separate, differentiated with May. Mr. and Mrs. Tannenholz will t wo inches of cork board, sealed in
receive
at
the
home
of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
1
lydrolene.
The refrigerating mech-
tinguished Roumanian, Mr. Schiff and a strong identity of its own under all
anism is identical with that of the
other representative Americans, M. conditions and in all places, and the M. Nathan, 932 Pingree avenue.
larger
models,
with the exception that
Bergson with his typically French a priori reasoning by which men come
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Sidder, 1695 the brine tank is placed horizontally.
lucidity, Maximilian Harden, the Ger- to think this solution reasonable is
Virginia
Park,
will
be
at
home
Sun-
This model is also equipped with a
man,—and the rest of the rubbish."
by an experience apparent
day afternoon and evening, June 4, hand-operated damper. It can be fur-
throughout history, that experience
How many points of agreement we throughout
in honor of the confirmation of their nished in either ivory white or na-
have with Mr. Belloc! Listen to this, is wholly against any such solution.
daughter, Constance.
tural wood finish.
"of the special forms of courtesy with It cannot lie."
The dimensions of the newest Frig-
which the Jew is treated, the courtesy
Exactly. It cannot be. Is not that
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Fineberg of 1015 idaire product are 32 inches wide, 61
expressed by those who have no inti- with as the first and last principle? East Warren avenue will be at home
mate relations with them. it is almost Is the man who puts to us such a case to
.' ' relatives and friends on Sunday, inches high, 24% inches deep. It has
invariably, in those who commonly to be denounced as an enemy? What June 4, in honor of the confirmation 6.7 square feet of shelf space, 1.2
square feet of space for milk bottles
avoid the Jew, a courtesy which ex- would you say, that absorption can
of their 8011, Newton. No cards
and tall containers. The shelves are
'
presses patronage on the surface of it. be? Who is the anti-Semite? What
movable, leaving storage space 231/2
It may be compared with the courtesy interest would we Jews have in the
Mr. and Mrs. George Cohen of
that rich men show to poor men, as Jewish race if absorption were possi- 1766 Ferry l'ark avenue will be at
offensive a thing as there is in the ble? Of what use to as is a dying or- home to their relatives and friends
ganism? Sneer if you like at rats de- on Sunday afternoon and evening,
world."
And again, "the problem of Jewish setting a sinking ship, but if the ship June 4, in honor of the confirmation
immigration. We mask it under false is sinking and you give up hope, what of their son, Myles Phillip. No cards.
names, calling it 'the alien question,' good is it to stay on it? It is only our
'Russian immigration; 'the influx of unwavering faith in the existence of
Mr. and Mrs. L. Goldberg of 2002
undesirables from Eastern and Cen- the .lewish people that we remain Gladstone avenue announce the con-
tral Europe,' and aso number of tim- Jews. These who hold that the Jews firmation of their daughter, Clara.
orous equivalents. The process is one are a dying people, why to them they At home Sunday evening, June 4.
of cowardly falsehood, but the false- are a dying people, and they are dead

hood is not more remark ible than the to the Je.vs• Mr. and Mrs. S. Newlander of 1723
Note particularly Mr. Belloc'e grasp Clairmount avenue will be at home
stupidity, for no one i . aken in and
of the essential issue in his considera- on Sunday afternoon and evening,
last of all the Jews tht niselves.
tion
of Zionism. No dividing up here, June 4, in honor of the confirmation
Throughout the hok, the agreement
is no less ate mg. "Absorption," no looking at the question through a of their son, Leon.
diminishing
glass:
writes Mr. Belloc, "has not taken
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Asher of 1575
"The one question which is at is-
place. It has had a better chance
than any corresponding case can show sue," he writes, "is this:—whether the West Grand boulevard will entertain
ample time in which to wc . k. wide dis- Zionist experiment will tend to in- the members of their immediate fam-
persion, constant inter-marriage, long crease or relax the strain created by ily at a 5 o'clock dinner on Sunday,
peri•ds of tolerant friendship for the the presence of the Jews in the midst June 4, in honor of the confirmation
Je v and even at times his r hcendaney. of a non-Jewish world. That and that of their grandson, Samuel Taft Bar-
nett.
If ever there were conditions under only is our concern."
which one might imagine that the "There is no question," he proceeds,
51r. and Mrs. I. Kleinsmith of 1698
larger body would absorb the smaller, "of establishing a State therein she
they were those of Christendsm act•world or even the great mass of the West Philadelphia avenue will be at
What ' home to their relatives and friends
ing intimately for centuries in rata- Jewish people shall reside.
in Sunday afternoon and evening,
• 'ion with Jewry. Nation after nation would be the status of the Jew nutside ,
lune 4, in honor of the confirmation
has absorbed larger, intensely h 'stile this territorial unit?
That is the •
minorities; the Irish, their sc ■ c.•essive i uestion which everybody hesitates to ' if their daughter, Rae. No cards.
invaders; the British, the pirates of
ace; yet that is the question which'
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer A. Pereira of
the fifth and eighth centuries and the will have to he faced sootier or later
French of three centuries twee; the as the main political crux of the whole 125 Richton avenue, Highland I'ark,
will
be at home to their relatives and
northern Gauls, their auxiliaries; the affair."
friends on Sunday afternoon and
Italians, the Lombards; the Greeks,
It has been a series of cycles,' he evening, June 4, in honor of the con-
tie Slav; the Damn has absorbed
even the Mongol; but the Jew has re- writes in another place, "invariably firmation of their daughter, Eliza-
following the same steps. The Jew bath.
mined intact
et me to an alien society, at first in
"However we explain this," he pro- sma ll num bers. li e theiye,„ ilia p res-
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ceeds,—mystically or •in whatever ence is not resented. Ile is rather Ki 114, ae Ns ar
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other fashion—WC cannot deny its treated as a f r i en d . w het h er (rem ,lay,. June 4, in honor of the con:.
mere contrast in type,—what I have firmation of their daughter, Leona
called 'friction'—or (ruin sonic appar- R oo ,
(sit divergence between his objects
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and those of his hosts, or through his
Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Goldman will
increasing numbers, he creates (or be at hors. Sunday, June 4, in honor
discovers) a growing animosity. lie of the confirmation of their son,
resents it. Ile opposes his hosts. They Leonard Bernard. Mr. and Mrs.
call themselves masters in their own Goldman will receive at the home of
e I house. The Jew resists their claim. Mr. and Mrs. I. Payne, 7337 Kipling
It comes to violence.
avenue.
"it is always the same miserable
Mr. and Mil. Charles E. Simon of
sequence. First a welcome; then a
growing, half-conscious ill-ease; next 5545 Second boulevard will be at
home
to relatives and friends Sunday
a culmination in acute ill-ease; lastly
catastrophe and disaster; insult. per- afternoon and evening, June 4, hon-
oring
the
confirmation of their son,
secution, even massacre, the exiles fly-
Luxurious two and three-room
ing from the place of pers,s•tion in- Nathaniel.
kitchenette apartments, beauti-
to a new district where the Jew is
Mr. and Mrs. Ira D. Jacobs of 699
fully and completely furrished
hardly known, where the problem has
never existed or has been forgotten. West Palmer avenue will be at home
to the last detail, including
He meets again with the largest hos- Sunday afternoon and evening in •
fully carpeted rooms, uphol-
pitality. There follows here also, af- honor of the confirmation of their
stered living room furniture,
ter a period of amicable interfusion, son, Charles.
four-poster mahogany beds,
a growing half-hearted ill-eas•, which
51r. and Mrs. M. J. Ramhar of 1341
next becomes acute and leads to new
mahogany standing lamps,
explosion, and so on, in fatal round." Ford avenue will be at home to
French draperies, dishes, gas
friends on Sunday afternoon and
And the solution? Is there then in
stove, icebox, kitchen utensils.
evening, June 4, in honor of the con-
life solution? Solution is death. What
firmation of their daughter, Edith.
Maid service. Everything that
will the generations of the future have
No cards.
refined and particular people
to look forward to, if the Messiah
should come? After solution, what?.
require. A new standard of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Pereira of 378
When the sun is solved it is finished.
character, service and equip-
Monterey avenue, Highland Park, will
And we wipe it off the slate.
receive
on Sunday, June 4, in honor
ment for Detroit. A few apart-
But Mr. Belloc does offer a solution. of their son, Mor•y's, confirmation.
ments for immediate occu-
Let us see what it is: "If the Jewish No cards.
pancy. Rentals moderate.
nation' comes to express its own pride
and patriotism openly, and equally
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ackerman of
openly to admit the the necessary 193 McLean avenue will be at home
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limitations imposed by that expres- Sunday afternoon and evening, June
sion; if we on our side frankly accept 4, in honor of the confirmation of
the presence of this nation as a thing their sons, Alfred and George.
utterly indlTierent from ourselves, but
with just as good a right to existence
as we have; if we renounce our pre-
the Jewish race save a few conven-
tences in the matter; of we talk of and
tional compliments or a few conven-
recognize the Jewish people freely and
tional and harmless jests." Other
without fear as a separate body; if
peace? Maybe other peace too. At
upon both sides the realities of the sit-
least, there will be frankness and op-
uation are admitted, with the conse-
enness in the dealings between Jew
quent and necessary dcfinits., which
and non-Jew.
thcse ream , st imply, we shall have
Maybe. If aspirations, even the
sec'
humblest could be realized. Mr. Bel-
What peace? Peace at ;ant it is loc has his solution of the Jewish
hoped from the "disingenuousness in problem. If the non-Jewish popula-
dealing with the Jew" which Mr. Bel- tion of the world, at least, were all
loc denounces, the "deliberately false replicas of Mr. Belloc, the solution
part in relations with Jews, the pe- would be plain.
culiar pretense, only practised with
Jews," as a result of which "the .Jews
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—Five thou-
who mix with the wealthiest classes
today, especially in London, have no sand marks have been voted by the
true idea of their real position in the Warsaw community to assist Israel
'-yes of their guests." Peace equally Belkind, the well-known Palestinian
from the deplorable habit of too many pioneer in the training and settle.
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Jews to label as anti-Semitic "any ment of Ukrainian pogrom orphans
statement of any fact with regard to I as farmers in Palestine.

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EDITOR OF THE LEMBERG
TAGEBLATT TO CONDUCT
BERENGARIA EXCURSION

The Polish excursion which will
embark on the newly reconditioned
"Berengaria" of the Cunard Line on
Slay 30 will be conducted by M. Fros-
tig, editor of the Lemberg Tageblatt.
Under Mr. Frostig's direction there
will be several entertainments and
dances on the way across the At-
lantic and he will deliver several lec-
tures on the' good brought about by
the new political conditions in Po-
land. Mr. Frostig is one of the fore-
most newspaper men in his country

and will write a series of articles
about the trip and the steamer. Ile
will accompany the excursionists into
I'oland.

Summer Night School.

Miss Mary Caplan, educational di.
rector of the Jewish Insttiute, an-
nounces that the summer night school
at the Institute will be open four
days a week during the summer, be-
ginning with this Monday evening.
School will be conducted on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings.

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