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UNDERSTANDING OF
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greater insistence of Manuel Joseph.
son, the then president of the Phila-
delphia congregation, caused the
honor to fall to Philadelphia.
The other congregations had agreed
to the plan, but so much time was
consumed in the correspondence, and
the weather being hot in August, and
for other reasons, Washington went
to Newport. The Newport congrega-
tion, of course, could not refrain
from seizing the opportunity of pre-
senting an address to Washington
upon their own account. The con-
gregation in Savannah, Ga., fearing
that they were being overlooked,
drew up a separate address and sent
it to Washington by the Georgia dele-
gate in Congress. The Charleston
congregation, not to be behindhand-
ed, prepared its own separate ad-
dress, but in the meantime the joint
address had been agreed upon and
was presented to Washington on be-
half of the four congregations of
Philadelphia, New York, Charleston
and Richmond.
I am narrating this to you, not be-
cause the anniversary of the "Father
of His Country" is so near, nor be-
cause it is my intention to make this
an historical address, but to indicate
that more than a century and a quar-
ter ago, with only six congregations
and a Jewish community reasonably
likeminded, it was still found neces-
sary to present three separate ad-
dresses to the President of the United
States and, of course, to put him to
the trouble of making three separate
replies.
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sentation of a memorandum, which is
virtually an ultimatum, to King Fer-
dinand with respect to the Jewish
situation was decided upon at the
general congress of Roumanian stu-
dents.
The students demand a plebiscite
on the question, to be accompanied
by new elections. It is further de-
manded that the government publish
the result of this plebiscite, the stu-
dents threatening they will resort to
acts of violence until these demands
are granted.
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The Congress "Demands."
An examination of the list of dele-
gates to that congress will show that
with few exceptions the line was
closely drawn and the congress rep.
resented the foreign-born Jews in the
United States, the native-born Jews
in the main declining to take part
in it.
Much has been claimed for this
congress and the success of its "de-
mande—a favorite term in those
days. But it can be said with com-
plete accuracy that the principal
point upon which the congress insist.
ed, namely, the demand for national
rights, was rejected by the Confer-
ence of Versailles, while the remain-
der of the minority clauses had been
proposes! and agreed to by Jewish or-
ganizations in America, England and
France before the congress was ever
held. The real history of the effort
in Paris has not been written—maybe
it will be a long time before it can
be written or should be written. The
public has, however, heed fed with
propaganda in the form of history,
notably in the book of Dr. Kellen,
which in certain matters of high im-
portance shows a lack of knowledge
or distortion of the facts.
Now, my object in reciting this is
not at all for the purpose of stirring
up feeling or causing a revival of an-
cient quarrels, but solely in the hope
that the past may point a way to the
future.
Given by
The Ladies' @Auxiliary
of the B'nai B'rith
(I. 0. B. B.)
Tuesday, June 12, 1923
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The myth of the Stadlan in early
America which had been invented by
As the ocean never freezes, so the
journalists, demagogues and pseudo- gates of repentance never close.
historians is thus dispelled in the cold The Talmud.
light of the facts. We were free,
-open, disunited and reasonably inef-
fective. It is true that we have pro•
gressed somewhat since that time.
There was founded in 1859, this time
as the result of the Mortara incident.
the organization known as the Board
of Delegates of American Israelites,
which for a period of 25 years did
act, and apparently was permitted to
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act, as the spokesman of the Jews in
this country in matters which they
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had to bring to the attention of the
Federal government.
When the Union of American Ile-
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brew Congregations was formes!, this
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Board of delegates was gradually ab-
been given to the owner's safety.
sorbed into it, and for a time at least
continued to act in a representative
This is particularly evident in the
capacity. But this board gradually
became a hoard only in name—it did
brakes, which, with their 14-inchdrums
not meet and its affairs came, also for
and VA inch lining, are appreciably
personal reasons, to be mingled with
larger than the average. The extra
those of the Independent Order
-surface thus provided develops greater
B'nai B'rith. A feeling subsequently
friction when the brake bands contract
arose that this board and the Inde-
pendent Order B'nai B'rith no longer
over the drums —and it is this friction
represented a considerable group of
which stops the car.
the Jews of this country, especially
the overwhelming majority on the At-
Connecting levers are designed to
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transmit the maximum of power with
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I may be permitted to give another
incident which re-enforces the point.
In 1840 there arose an incident in
Damascus which stirred the Jewish
people throughout the world. In
February of that year the charge of
ritual murder was brought against
the Jews in Damascus. A number of
Jews were imprisoned and frightfully
tortured, riots occurred in the city
and synagogues were pillaged. News
traveled slowly in those days, but the
Jewish citizens in New York held a
meeting on Aug. 19, the Jews of
Richmond, Va., sent a letter on Sept.
4, and other documents of like na-
ture were forwarded to the President
of the United States asking him to
use his good offices on behalf of the
persecutes! Jews in Damascus. No
effort was made to ascertain at the
seat of government whether any ac-
tion had been taken. Replies were
received to these communications en-
closing dispatches signed by the Sec-
retary of State on Aug. 14, 1840, 10
days before the earliest communica.
lion was sent from New York, direct-
ing the famous Egyptologist, James
Gliddon, our Consul-General at Alex-
andrai in Egypt, to intervene on be-
half of the Jews.
I cite these two instances to indi-
clue that it could not have been a
question of large numbers, nor di-
versity of origin, which prevented the
small number of Jews in those days
in America from uniting for the pur-
pose of bringing a matter to the at-
tention of the government.
one important matter—the denuncia-
Silence is the fence round wisdom.
tion of the Treaty of 1832 with Rus- —The Talmud,
sia, which involved a fundamental
Without law, civilization perishes.
American question in that, under the
tyeaty, Russia claimed the right to —The Talmud.
discriminate among the citizens of
the United States with regard to the
viseing of their passports. This ac-
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States, national in scope, with a view
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the Jews of the world which it was
foreseen must arise during a conflict
involving the whole of Europe. That
attempt failed.
As one who participated very inti-
mately in the negotiations, and who
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of Europe and of Palestine. There III
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was a time during the early period
of the war when it would have been
possible to unite all the Jews of
America in behalf of their brethren
throughout the world. That oppor-
tunity was lost on the plea that the
organization which proposed it and
the methods which where followed
were no sufficiently democratic.
though I may be allowed to doubt
whether this was the real reason.
There was instituted, in its stead, an
instrument called the American Jew-
ish Conr2ss, which did not succeed
in uniting the Jews of America, al-
though some of the leading Jews in
America took part under the pres-
sure of the war atmosphere.
the minimum of effort. The slightest
pressure on the brake pedal has an
immediate effect. This pressure is
distributed evenly between the two
rear wheels by a highly efficient
equalizer, which prevents skidding „
because it retards both wheels ilyiriW "t1
simultaneously.
For there had grown up in the
meantime many other Jewish organ-
izations whose operations extended
over the whole of the United States,
and other fraternal orders whose
membership far exceeded that of the
original fraternal society, the Inde-
pendent Order B'nai B'rith, came
into existence. A union of Orthodox
congregations, was founded., The
growing Jewish immigration estab-
lished federations according to their
lands of origin, the various parts of
Russia, Poland, Galicia, Roumania,
etc.
A natural spirit of each desiring
to have its own organization promi-
nent in Jewish affairs produced a
great medley, not always harmonious,
which expressed itself through the
newspapers and to the government, in
all manner of affairs. It was to cor-
rect this, or to obviate it, so that
Jewish affairs might not become a
nuisance to the government and to
congress and to the state govern-
ments, that the American Jewish
Committee was initiated as a clear-
ing-house for all these organizations,
with the specific object of safeguard-
ing the rights of the Jews.
It grew out, in a way, of the Kishi-
nef massacre, and the emergency
steps which had been taken hurriedly
to bring together a group to meet the
needs of that great disaster. These
steps were successful, but the men
who took part in them declared that
they never again would individually
assume such a responsibility.
The sole purpose of the American
Jewish Committee was to Secure a
representative body which might,
when occasion required, speak for all
Israel in America.
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That attempt has met with only
partial success. At the outset a num-
ber of prominent organizations did
join, and their delegates were mem-
bers of the executive committee, but
some of them withdrew, probably
either fearing that their indepen-
dence of action would be limited, or
that when action was taken their in-
dividual organizations might not re-
ceive full credit. Nevertheless, the
American Jewish Committee is the
authorized spokesman of quite ■
number of national Jewish organiza-
tions.
Still, co-operation was secured in
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