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"Come now and let us reason to-
, get , er,' Isaiah reports God as saying.
Lechu Naa Venivavehah. What God,
(Continued from page 3.1
ace rding to the prophet, was willing
delegation under the Zionistic Judge to do, even the Grand Dukes—as I
Mack to the Peace Conference, and used to call our European bigwigs—
that Mr. Louis Marshall, • non-Zion- may do without loss of dignity.
Mt, as head of that and all the other
Ti ese Grand Dukes are not malefl-
Jewish delegations, had contributisl scot like the see f old Russia: they em-
to make history at Paris. But that shtste a beneficient autheraey. Only
Congress, I am now told, was only a their existence in America seems to me
war baby.
duel more un-Amerisan t' an this
The return to acrimenr 'us dehate, to C! neress. An, Mr. Philip Kerr, fors
the shattering of unity already achiev- the 1y 1,1 pi fie irge's secretary put it:
ed, is as strange a way of profiting by "America wants the average man o
the peace as our insane Europe has. carry the responsibility." I know Mr.
found. I hope that an impartial anal- Marshall's idea is first to make Jewish
ysis of the situation may contribute to , democracy safe for America, but all
show that sill these disputes rest large. I the same the great American Jewry
ly upon mitiunderstandongs or an am-, cannot live under Marshall law.
biguitiea or language, and that where
It to true the value
democracy is
one party is clearly in the wrong, it ix now being questioned in Europe—
not beyond the power of friendly dis- materially by men like Mussolini or
eusaion to persuade it of its error.
the Spanish militarists, intellectually
by men as different as Dean Inge and under whatever name. At Plymouth,
eschatological.
Rightly or wrong ly, 1 manian Jews, even though Zionists peas
E veanggarsegraeg! a o n
r d a s t,
Bernard Shaw. The latter atilt be- whence I sailed hither, they wereust
he ,?... N :t ii., F .uu,,, it o,;1
these
Rabbinism made the law of the cou n- anu prosperous in other lands, have
lieves in "Government of the people holding the Church Congress; in J July
where
try Israel's law. If in the Mid die told me how acutely they suffer from Nationalism" Is in ord
for the people," but after the mob ma- London saw an Anglo-Catholic Con-
e r, t is foo
er,
l.
Ages, Jewry had a special stat us, tne miseries and humiliations of Rim- ish to imagine that any . Jok
nias of the war he would now delete gress of 1,000 at the Albert Hall.
er of
whether under Christendom or and er sia and Roumania, their whilom lands (thretT actoualndy c,oniheereoif
the phrase by tee people" from your For Methodism the annual confer-
n pa d . ; ! ! ,1 11 d 1 o,fly
Islam religion, not nationality, w
was
of
persecution.
formula of freedom. This is exactly ence is the chief assembly and su-
!,!irki:e,t1N
, p
:h: i a l o 'tit:a:la:I In y
h ,thhwaeistshod!!1,1 , !!,,,:!!,!,,! ! I d ! t hle:
the view ef ysur beneticient autcrats, preme court. The Calvinistic Meth- mutually felt to be the differentiati ng A Jewish millionaire in Roumania Iblii,n
factor. But even such quasi-auto n- has just left his estate of $5,500,000
though only se far as the Jewish odists send representatives to the
ir:a
n li Is: hri,s!ji eu, dtihait s,iis si! „ fihi
mass are concerned. For my part I Pan-Presbyterian Alliance. The Bap- only or sub-nationality as develop ed to Roumania; in the part of Rou- lianrsge rf n
,,,,!to:
am net a die-hard Demscrat. I have tists and the Congregationalists have through Judaism in Poland and Li th. mania just annexed from Ilungary a
for mally
always, indeed, more or less humor- a federal organization, and the latter uania when the local Kahals and t he rabbi goes to prison for proclaiming
so-called
"Council
of
the
Four
Land
s"
himself
a
Magyar—while
in
Ilungary
cusly defined myself as a Democrat has held international councils. Every
w'th a Profound ro'strest of the pro- spiritual movement must in fart administered the affairs of the ma in itself the conversion of 16,000 Jews ton, but as even he
n ena tilns oar recent
pie. But I ree-gnizr thst Democracy lour t the polit cal both by its con- aggregation of Jewish life, eras ed to Christianity in the last decade re- t"h' e i hnont%
In' tius, 1.'1 . :.! !! ',,t,f:, !f, ' n;
ov
wt:ne
is the least bad f ism f g •vernment. crete incarnation and by its objects when t !ese bodies were dissolved by yeah rather their love of Ilungary his movement,
e me
nricah ,t.!
e i h!, ,, th,,y
the Po'ish government in 1784, a nd than of Christ. It is the American il,),,i!Isn :1,!: ioNuasit ) una
Is is, of course, pe-uliarly liahle to be
j tillias t s t }1 ,
Su long as the political ends sought Her of Bolechuw, whose Hebrew m
e. Jews from Lithuania that were the
exploited by demagogues, who instead are within the state, and not sub-
einnt, America,
amiss
have
just
been
Englished
by main factor in securing fur their old
of uplifting the masses, use them as a versive of it, it is the positive duty
means for lifting themselves up. But of the religious body to seek political Dr. Vishnitzer, lamented in his din ry home the port of Memel. And do merely sentimental symputh
:ell with
whereas there ia no way of correcting ends. In England, for example, we that the last vestige of national li fe i you think the American Jews from the Palestinian Jewry, as Irs,11-Anter.
a maleficient autocracy save by hear a great deal of the non-conform- and dignity had passed from the Je w- , America will grow up less passion- Wens ar"e with Ireland, but !hat they
ish
people.
. ately American? No, a merely racial
smashing it, a maleficiset democracy
i t uialol in
s uebjetcht(syoifint!!!I!!,'
ist vote. It seems that Baptists,
! ! leuw!!..
Macaulay in his famous speech in Judea has in America no seed of life. ish
contains the cure far its own evils. Methodists, Congregationalists, etc.,
For the people has a sound instinct will not permit legislation that goes the British Parliament on behalf o f You have only to think of the iron ally give up their American eitizen-
e
d
faith
that
clamped
our
people
in
the
in the long run. I note, for ex- against their conscience. At this very Jewish enfranchisement rightly urg
ship and all rights save these apper.
ample, that in a plebiscite recent. instant we are hearing of the non- that the remote future hope of Pale s- past, you have only to think how, say taming to resident aliens; ., status
ly taken by a New York Jewish pa-
tine cherished by the Jews of En 1., .. in the Strassburgh Massacre of 1343, which when proposed by a I:, .1s! they
conformist vote in connection with
per as to the greatest living Jews, a proposed tax on gambling, which land could not be taken as scrip u s Jewish mothers jumped with their are the first to cry out torso t. The
the Arch-Duke, Mr. Louis Marshall, seems to these churches to legitimat- contemporary politics, diniinishi ng !children into the flames rather than tragic humor of the situal! .., I. that
ew i sh Nationalists
(—flies out tsp of all American Jews. ize an evil. You yourselves once their patriotic interest in Englan d . . see them baptized, you have only to
e J
t themselves ta:tst :,A
What does this mean but that he helped to clean up American politics. Now, however, that Palestine is ne I remember how an orthodox Jew sat trnlgg
11
! I:i iti ! 1!-!!,
I : 4' !J!,:slt!!,.!,l!
would be elected head of an American If there is noJewish votetoday it is longer so remote, and the millenni a l , seven days on the ground for a child inational
i s to the
Jewish Congress. 'Pay he a distant a disgrace, not apolicy to be com- has changed back to the political, t h e married out of the faith, to see that
Arch-Duke whenyou can have the mended. If Jews will neither use situation calls for reconsideration. To no effective conserving substitute can reinfo rced by the White Pular, Clause
identical power as II popular idol? their vote to protect themselves nor deny that the Jews were once a p 0- be found in a pseutlo-American ideal Four, is "Palestinians," a
which
i i f life, liberty and the pursuit of they share with the Palesta Stabs
Will my ducal friend pretend that he to express their ethical conceptions, litical people is as foolish as to arse
h
would nst be able t use this position
r-appiness.
Even the Ku Klux Klan,
(Continued on next pase.1
then they do but cumber the ground. that they have maintained that cha
to disabuse the 1883.'s of their dan-
!, with all its absurdities, is to me more
octet
for
2,000
years,
and
that
C
Such a Judaism is, in the phrase of
gerous and un-Ameri-an fallacies if Tolstoi, a "living corpse." It is in comparative religious unity of t h e respectable than a racial Jewry that
n. has
In any event this
fallacies they be? He has iust had a
fact a disbuised Marronoism, the pol- Diaspora was a political nationalis
cheap Diaspora Nationalism, logical
Once, however, Jews have a Cerrito
Cr tigress rf his own for the high cause
icy of Brer Rabbit, who sometimes
I again, they can take their politic a t enough in the historic European ag-
of pia rusting Judaism, the five hun-
spells his name without a "t."
Four-pasernirer coupe, in III.
dred members of which were not OK.
nationalism out of storage, and r e- gregations, has no legitimate place in
lor , rible condition. A tr.
But while Judaism as a religion nas store it to its soil; they can in add !_ America, for the genius of America is
ted but collected. This method is not
really so radically different from elec. a right to organize itself nationally Lion develop local sub-nationality in ' to give a square deal to the hall-
n, since the men were all eminent in and!even internationally, no less than any country of the Diaspora in whk '', vidual, not to the group, and those
their respective spheres and cities, and Catholisism, the case forpolitical na- the treatment of minorities in th e !Jews who o emigrated t this country
who does eminence mean butthat tionalism. in the Diaspora is far rinse 811133, and not as 'individuals, is th (knew, or should have known, that
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tional.
od of election. What, however, Mr. nationalism—constantly speaking of regation does not always remain r
Israel
as
God's
people,
incorporating
Marshall's Congress lost by thin meth-
ligious, at least negatively; but the
94:4, rrorportkOptryWriterpo.: a
od was that its members must go its past history in feasts and fasts, American Ilebrew'a view that the
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home and then begin to pump their en- looking forward to an ultimate re Zionist form of it is—in the scientific I
. thusiasm into their fellow-citizens, gathering in Zion, and even differing jargon of the day—"a Ghetto corn-
whereas, if they had been elected ,their from the civilization around in its plex on a national scale" is nonsensi-
esnstituents—thsusards of Jews in chronology and its calendar—that to ! cal unless Mr. Landman also applies
every city—would already have been be an orthodox Jew inevitably in-, his pathological concept to America.
caught up into the campaign, the valves some element of Jewish na- Indeed the broader the territory, the
spadework would have been half done tionalism.
narrower the nationalism, the more
Orthodoxy was in fact the way de- morbid the complex. The real com-
in advance, the battle half won.
liberately chosen of preserving Jew- plex is anti-Zionism. There has never
But whether Democracy is the best
ish nationalism—driven by the Ro- been any sensible argument against
form of governing men or not, for
man might from its one healthy seat, a Jewish state except that it may
good or ill, America is founded on it.
be
a Jewish territory—till such time as • impracticable.
And the onus of explaining why they
it could be reunited to its soil. A
Equally open is it to the Jewish
object to it in Jewish affairs rests on
very brilliant young Zionist, Maurice people to follow the German reform-
the opposition. Their case seems to
Samuel, has suggested that the Jew ers and cut out Palestine from the
be first that the mass-s are tainted
of the Diaspora should live mentally prayer-book, and my only complaint
with Diaspora nationalism, and sec-
ondly that Judaism, being a religion, in Zion. But this "Zionism as an art"! against the mission Jews is that they
was discovered by Jochanan ben Zak- do not stick to their principles, but
and Re mission purely spiritual, its
ka 1,800 years before Mr. Samuel.)
coquet with the Territorial Judaism
followers cannot comb!ne for politi-
One can hardly say of anything that once denounced as obsolete. It is a
cal ends. The hitt , e n.-renamt, which
"1 also Iva , to th' enfranc h ised remained so emotional, that Jewish fatal flaw in our people, as Elijah dis-
All new, this season's
Nationalism was put in cold storage! covered, to halt always between two
Jewries of Europe. is an entire mis-
But in storage it was put, and for so opinions, like those converted pagans
conception. All religious bodies have
models — in Caracul
long a period that by a chemical! who continue secretly and supersti-
organizations for protection and self-
(all shades), plain
change the political became trans- tiously their devotions to their out-
expression, with annual congresses
formed into the religious and the cast dirties.
and trimniec. with Vi-
We are told that Diaspora Nation.
atka Squ irrel and
alism is dangerous. So it is. So is
Diaspora Judais rn. Internatio - il
Kolinsky. Others in
bodies have always been exposed to
Summer Ermine and
suspicion—for example, the Knights
Hospitallers, founded originally at
Hudson Seal.
Palestine in the eleventh century to
protect Christian pilgrims visiting
A tremendous values-
the Holy Sepulchre, or the Knights
Templars, who, like them, possessed
giving event.
castles, and whose masters and priors
ruled various provinces of the world,
or the Jesuits, who, like the Jews,
have been expelled at one time or
other from almost every country of
Europe, and at whose calumniation
by Pascal and popular legend, Mr.
Benue waxes so indignant. Even the
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pora Nationalism is dangerous that I
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find the Grand Dukes in the right
for once. "Safety First" is no prin.
iple for a great religion or a great
people. I have always admired that
Id Amsterdam Jewry which refused
ivil rights, foreseeing these preclud-
d the doom of its beloved way of
ife, and I cannot but be touched by
he Diaspora Nationalism of the great
lebrew poet, Bialik, whose lamenta-
ion over the decay of his people and
heir language curiously recalls that
f his poetical ancestor, Ibn Gabirol.
But Gabirol was a synagogue poet,
hereas Bialik is purely racial, and
his neo-nationalism seems to me no
abler than the Balkan spirit which
avages Europe today. The eternal
uel between Judaism and national-
sm is the drama of Jewish history.
ant you cannot reduce a people
hose faith and literature have nour-
shed continents to the category of
mere political nationality. "Sinn
ein," we ourselves, is not the final
surd either of the Jewish or any oth-
✓ people. "A Jewry that has for-
aken its language, is a Jewry doomed
o death," says Bialik. It is false. Only
Jewry that has forsaken both its
aith and its land is doomed to death.
f,
Bialik says, Western Judaism
es like a corpse, it is not because
he tongue but because the spirit of
ur fathers has gone out of the cor-
us vile. That is why, as Dr. Cyrus
dler tells us, two-thirds to three-
ourths of your children receive no
ewish education. To revive this
pirit the 500 chosen Jews are abso-
tely impotent unless a way is found
as by the old rabbis it was always
ound—of equating Judaism with
fe. And, for this a single inspired
postle could outweigh Dr. Adler's
ongress. There is the same des-
crate quest of a cure for dryrot in
ngland, where, under the strange
uise of a War Memorial, a fund has
een found but not a faith. No land-
ss, faithless Jewry can maintain its
eing in the Diaspora unless so dense-
aggregated that it is almost on soil
its own. Of this species of na- ;
onalism, however, no pure example
t exists; it is only a tendency. Your i
wn East Side in this city comes
crest to it. If, however, it thinks
rely on aggregation alone, it is, I
✓ all its pother of Yiddish life,
urnalistic, literary and theatrical,
merer lingering survival from Eu-
pe, mere food for "The Melting
t," destined to melt still more
iftly as the gates of immigration
use. Without • vision the people
rich. . It is easier to die in a crowd
an to die alone, and this apparent
ing together is only a may of dying if
inlessly. en masse. There is noth-
g more American than a Yiddish
wspaper.
Unless your East Side Nationalists 1,
uld be absolutely segregated from
e general life in a close-baried
etto, they, and still more of their I;
ildren, educated in your public
ools, would be found responding to
the mass-emotions of the majority, 4,
great is the power of Place that
t the most consuming passion for
lestine could swamp the influence rI
the actual seat of residence. It
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