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we are unmercifully flayed for the very things we were so highly
commended when he was in our midst.
71.11111.2*
However, this picture does not fit Israel Zangwill in any
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particular. Ile certainly does intrigue us! Ile came to America
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as the principal speaker for the Jewish Congress, and what a
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113relt's 7. dos
Jacob H. Schakne, Bus. Mgr. storm has broken loose since that memorable day when he ad-
Metered as second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, dressed the mass meeting at the Carnegie Hall, New York!
Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
From that day down to the very present, he has made enough
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
"copy" to satisfy the greediest reporter, and he has kept the
General Offices and Publication Building
"melting pot" boiling at such a high temperature, that even the
Germany's pogroms did not come
850 High Street West
most fastidious and exacting person could hardly ask for more. unexpectedly. Propaganda of the sort
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Cable Address:
Zangwill has been asked his opinion about America, and disseminated by anti-Semitic groups
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Chronicle he, in no uncertain language, has told us what he thinks of us. during the past few years was des-
roan, and God-fearing, a( d self-re.
tined to bring evil fruit. The seeds
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specting, that one lie 1' must rr.
He is not here to please our vanities, to cajole and feed our of
race hatred have brought 30,000 to
14 STRATFORD PLACE
member it, child."
By Isabella R. Hess,
bump of egotism. But as a stalwart, honest, tough-minded the Jewish quarter of Berlin, where
LONDON, W. 1, ENGLAND
"I will remember!" And a sob crept
the mob carried out its first pogrom
critic,
he
shows
us
our
short-comings,
puerilities
and
superficial-
up
into the childish voice,
Subscription, in Advance
Little Moishe Lebowitz, his cold lit
33.00 Per Year ities. Many thought that his caustic and knife-like criticisms in the history of the German capitol,
"Tomorrow," continued the man,
Poor Germany! Where the patriotism tie hand tightly clasped in that of th e "will be Thanksgiving Day in Amer.
would be confined to Jewish affairs, and that he would hardly of the Jew was shouted loudest, loy- friend he had made on ship-boar i 1 ica. You do n
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach
o t even knoa almt it is.
dare to criticise our literature, drama and politics, but it ap- alty was rewarded with rifle blows stood close to t he railing and broke( A whole nation
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
stops its
11Ork
f r across the dark water that super
and
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to pears that when you ask Zangwill what he thinks, he tells you and humiliation. The Jewish quarter ated him from the wonderland tha thanks God
of
Berlin
is
like
a
beleaguered
city,
t
as
the
Jew
does
onS,u
i
Ike Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the so. It may be hard to swallow, but is it not much better to
t,,, ctiit,h,:,:d(nleoc.s
had
filled
his
thoughts
ever
since
tha
r t y g
i A ;tut n i estr
only bright light reaching it being
c r ,:ei i tt a . ttf a
ktt,ohnG
i
view expressed by the writers.
be told to your face, rather than behind your back, as has the
when
the statement of the United Trade day, two years before, when his futhe
the soil,
been the practice and custom of too many European lecturers Council of Berlin in which the work- had left the little Russian village to
thank
who
have
come
to
America
to
reap
the
golden
harvest?
Zang-
ers are appealed to against participa- seek a livelihood and a home in Am
November 16, 1923
you than ymi und er.
Kislew 8, 5684
a home that now awaited hi- w
sta a Tt n ch d he . , "dho
will is interested in telling the truth, naked and unadorned, as ting in the attacks on Jews and which erica,
pale-faced mother, and her little chit
in part: •
hay's 8 hand in his, toget
he sees it. And if perchance, he loses the golden harvest by so rends
her they
tators have incited the working dren, what wonder that Moishe ask
far-away light grow
doing, he does not seem much concerned by the loss. Truly a
Lest We Forget.
"The German Voelkische a i- ed innumerable questions of the tat I lighter as the dusk (larkenisl into
magnificent figure of whom we are justly proud!
masses to pogroms, spreading ter- man whom they had met on the steer- night. They watched the stars creep,
Details of the first and very serious pogrom in Berlin are
ror and horror in the Jewish quar- age deck, 1111(1 who, since he had been one by one, from the (limbos:: of the
now at hand. When the first cable dispatches informed us that
ters of Berlin. These Voelkische in the new land before, knew all there early evening into the clear darkness
a serious pogrom had taken place in Berlin, we were compelled
demagogues have deliberately en- was to be known about it! Moishe of night. There, in the shadows he-
gineered
these disorders in order to had never liked a stranger so much hind T otrhneorlriogr,hot.,,, uslis id Atnhi, e . riit i -t a
to strain our Imagination and to call upon our credulity to be-
i. n. „you
justify a reactionary dictatorship," before--this pleasant, kindly man,
lieve that such a thing as a serious pogrom could occur in Ber-
who could talk the marvelous English and I will get up early, at we
and yet knew so well the familiar watch the morning come to th will
lin. Thirty thousand pogromists participated in the shameful
Sample of Christian Charity.
e new
While machine guns and tanks are home tongue!
affair in which thousands of uor co-religionists suffered bodily
land. We will watch all the great
"And the schools are very big?" and
uarding the devastated Jewish quer- queried
little boats wake up in the har-
injury, deprivation of property, insult and abuse.
HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION
the
boy.
•rs of Berlin, and professional
bor, and soon we shall see the peopl
Oh, very!
e
This pogrom was not a spontaneous outburst of indignation
assumed the man.
HELPED 412 NEEDY IN NINE MONTHS hieves continue to loot Jewish shops, "Why
in the school where I went to on the shore waiting for this ship th
on the part of the unemployed workers of Berlin, but was
report from Berlin states that
come in—waiting for you and me!
the
night
lessons,
there
came
more
e
f1
1
,
1
definitely prearranged and calculated demonstration of th
the period from Jan. 1 to Oct. are the right kind of folks and they Christian shopkeepers resorted to •
than 4,000 children in the day time." And we will remember that it is
anti-semitic forces aided and abetted by the police of Berlin • 1 t h e Ilebrew Free I,oan Association are the sort of men and women to the expedient of putting up signs Moishe gasped. Four thousand! Thanksgiving Day, and we will give
assisted 412 needy persons with whom it is a delight to loan money 'Christian Shops' over their places of
to God that here is America,
For weeks prior to the outbreak the Vossische Zeitung, the lead - small
How many more souls were in his lit- thanks
waiting and ready for us!"
karat which were made to them
tide them over their difficulties. business." Such is the modern ex- tle village?
ing nationalist journal of Berlin had been printing inflamator p without interest charge. Of these, to "A
With a long, deep intaking of breath
number of persons have con- ample of Christian charity. While
"And the Jewish toys and girls?
pogromist articles in which the Jews were accused of hording 330 loans were secured by jewelry tributed 6260 each to the society in plunderings continue, the Jewish sec- They
are like the rest, you say?" He the boy gave forth a quivering sigh,
speculation and extortion. They were charged with responsi • or other merchandise and 82 were the form of life memberships. This tions are reported to be mournfully said it slowly, as if he loved the say- and his eyes were wide and bright as
- secured by endorsed notes. The is the money that is being loaned. quiet. What better means of protest ing.
they looked up earnestly into his
bility for the acute food shortage and at their door was laid th p range of necessity for these loans
"I think," he said, "that here in
" Like the rest exactly." The man
must have considerably more against cruelties of an organized mob
blame for the disintegration of the already precarious Germs n was a wide one. It went from help- We
encouraged
by
government
officials?
however and our appeal is to those
laughed. "Just like them. IS'hy, if a America I will make every day such
republic.
ing needy men and women to buy good folks who have money and who It is fur Christians to speak in pro- Jewish boy did not
day. I will say to myself, 'Here is
Mlle to school, A mei- icon—and my father and no
. Hooligans, bandits, criminals and pogromists were able t o shoes for their children to the bring- should help no make the path a bit test.
they would send for hint to come!"
ing over from Europe and re-uniting caller for those who deserve this
The boy said it with a deep mother are here with nits—and always
rob indiscriminately, to pillage stores and dwellings, to injur e member.
Danger
in
Bavaria.
of their family. In the kind of help. We will gladly accept
can go to school and there is no one
sigh of content. They won't need to
and abuse, because many of our co-religionists were Eastern _ period referred to, the organization these
to hurt us—America will not It them.'
While the danger is not yet over in send for me! I'll
life memberships in install-
before the Then I know my sould will say, over
European refugees who were residing in Berlin, without oflicia I turned over its capital of approx- ments covering five years if the con- Berlin, the gravest anxiety is ex- teacher and sweep be the there
floor,
and
put
and over again, 'Thank God! Thank
tributors so desire. At any rate, pressed over the fate of the Bavarian it wood in the stove, and—"
sanction and consequently were unable to protest because o f J imately $17,000 three times.
God'!"—(Ark.)
These facts were disclosed in the more money must be raised and w e Jews. With Hitler's forces in con-
their illegal residence. This pogrom had rofo II d'
The other checked him. "Not in
annual meeting of the association are in hopes that many who read trol, time alone will tell to what ex- these schools! They pay men to do
every person with a knowledge of life in Berlin. It is no exag- held at the Jewish Institute Building this will voluntarily offer their sub- tent the anti-Semitic Fascisti leader just those things. Boys study, only."
The outlook and the aims of the
Ilebrew genius have never been ma-
geration to say that it was almost inconceivable to persons ac- last Sunday morning.
scriptions. If one wishes a demon- will carry out his promise of several
The younger one had no answer— terialistic.. Nay, more; the bent of
The
association
is
being
re-organ-
weeks
ago
that
as
soon
as
he
came
stration
of
the
value
of
the
work
of
quainted with life in the German capital that such an outrage ized and re-vitalized and is going to
it was too amazing! How he would
power he would inaugurate a study! Who could tell—as his mother t he Ilebrew mind has never been
could be perpetrated there. And yet, despite the incredible, be made even more useful to the the Ilebrew Free Loan Association, into
t
let that person come over to the forced exodus of the Jews from Ger- had said dreamily, he might even he urned even towards the spiritualize('
the thing happened.
materialism which finds its expression
community than it has been in the Institute Building any Sunday morn- many that would make the exodus a Ray some day'
i n beauty of form and language, but
of
the
Jews
from
Egypt
appear
as
In another section of Germany, in Bavaria, the Voelkische past.
ing and note the class of men and
"My father," he said slowly, after a
"The great need of the Ilebrew women who come to make loans or child's play in comparison. Already Mauve, has already a home fir us. always to the discovery of funds.
Beobachter, the leading Faciste-nationalist organ, has carried Free
Loan Association is for more
re-pay loans. It would do their hundreds of families have been ex- When he nicety us, we go right away mental truths about the universe, and
on a bitter, uninterrupted malicious anti-semitic campaign, and money to loan," states Jacob Nathan, to
hearts good to know the men and pelled, the exiled Jews being forced
i . There are three rooms in it, a the embodiment, in actual life of
the fruit born by this vile tree is expulsion, arrest and abuse of newly elected chairman of the as- the desire to make good on the part to leave their property in Bavaria. big one
fundamental principles based un
and two little ones. And a
sociation. "If we have $50,000 in- of those who are asking for and And as war is declared on the Jews wonderful thing is in it too—a place these truths. Thus the Hebrew spirit
thousands of our co-religionists.
stead of $17,000, we could do a tre- should receive this temporary assist- by the newest combine of reaction— where the water runs into, where one is essentially religious and moral. It
We have always considered Germany the land of scientific mendous piece of work in this com-
has expressed itself not in the build-
Detroit should not make it that of Ludendorf and Hitler—pro- sits down and washes himself!"
anti-Semitism, where discriminations were made against Jews, munity. Assuredly there is no ser- ance.
ing up of an empire, not in the elabo-
necessary for as to say no to appli. tests from foreign centers include one
bath tub," said the man quietly. ration of political institutions, not in
where invidious distinctions were carried to the point of vice that is so valuable or no im- cants for loans merely because we from Madrid, the renter of Middle- "In "A America
they are common. In the perfection of mechanical
Age
devices,
Inquisition. Whether the finger fact, there is a law which says that
making the Jew appear ridiculous and inferior, but it had never portant as that which helps a man have not the money. Detroit should
a woman retain his or her self see that we have it because there is of time, pointing from Madrid and men who build houses must build bath not in the production of works of art,
gotten beyond the point of the phillipic or caricature, but it ap- or
t f,,he
but in the search after God, and in
respect. There is no service that sufficient money for this as well as foreboding disaster to Germany for ,h
,,, t bs
t
u .' t ,
pears that even in "Kultured" academic, scientific Germany, means more to the individual and
the attempt to found a social order
her treatment of the Jews, will pre-
other purposes in this city."
"This
is not a very nice home, my based on God's will.—Ahad Ma'am.
that an aggressive, consistent campaign 'carried on by venomous to the community than that which all At
the annual meeting, the follow- vent the demoralized German mob-
writes"—so continued the boy.
keeps
a
man
or
a
woman
from
be-
leaders
front
bringing
greater
dis-
anti-Semites results in the same bloody and disgraceful excesses
ing officers were elected: D. W. Sim-
.onts very much money. Think,
The sad, yet glorious story of Jew-
coming an object of charity. Con- ons, honorary president; Jacob Na- aster upon their Fatherland is doubt. only three rooms! But
my mother says
which have made of Poland, Ukraine and Hungary a veritable sequently,
when right minded people than, chairman; David 'Lemon, vice- ful. But history deals with the na- that love can make the walls stretch— ish suffering has stirred the respect
shambles for our suffering brothers.
conic to an institution to borrow a chairman; Louis Stoll, second vice- tions as the nations deal with the that, you know is just a joke; but we of the world, not only for the con-
All of this is not without interest to us here in America, small amount of money to tide them chairman; :St 1113 Bessie Steinberg, Jew, and ruined Germany is writing will be all together, and she says that stancy of the sufferers, but for the re-
where anti-Semitism has taken the form analagous to that in over a temporary difficulty that recording secretary; Joseph Ehrlich, herself down to greater doom for her will make up for anything that isn't ligion that has inspired it. It has af-
forded, moreover, an example of de-
money should be readily available treasurer; and S. Wetsman, financial treatment of our people.
just right."
Germany in as much as it has confined itself to denunciation, and
there should be no charge what-
and assistant treasurer; and
"It will, indeed!" The man held the votion to Judaism that will live in
discriminations and invidious distinction, although more blatant soever for the loan of that money. secretary
the
Israelite's memory in every age,
In Self-Defense.
the additional members of the board
little hand more tightly. "But see!
and crude than the German form, and not so scientific and "There is practically no loss in of directors: Julian Krolik, Michael The consequence of every outbreak what do you see aver there, far and strengthen his loyalty to the an-
cestral faith. "The blood of the
this vital relief work. Either mer- Krell, Jacob Friedberg, Jacob Lowen- against the Jews is the organization away?"
academic.
martyrs," it has been said, "is the
chandise or notes secure every loan berg, Joseph Wetsman, Morris Fried- of Jewish self-defense groups, and
"There?" The boy peered through
But a new menace appears upon the horizon in the form of and
the vast bulk of these loans are berg, J. B. Lasky, Fred M. Butzel, the German upheaval was no excep- the falling dusk." Why, only a light. seed of the church." It is especially
the leading New England journal, the Boston Transcript. In redeemed because the persons who Morris Enggass and Bernard Gins- lion. Members of the Jewish Front A ship's light, likely."
true of the Jewish church, which
an editorial anent the official reception of General Haller in borrow the money in the first place berg.
Soldiers Association are prepared to
"Ni,!" The tall one's voice alma a draws today no little of its vitality
dat.nd themselves and their fellow bit, and the words came slowly. "Child from the stimulating example of
Boston, the editor exhausts his vocabulary of contumely and
those who suffered and died for it in
it
is
America!"
Jews.
It
is
interesting
to
note
that
denunciation, and not satisfied with this, he advocates deporta-
of the population of Lithuania and
olden times.
The boy caught his breath sharply,
the whole taxation system ix so united Jewish action is secured only
tion of Jews whom he is pleased to call "aliens" who abuse Claims Lithuania
in
the
event
of
greatest
and
most
and
suddenly
clung
close
to
the
man.
framed that it virtually all falls on
In the eighth century, B. I'., ••• the
hospitality and freedom. This is not very far removed from the
threatening dangers. It is reported "America!" he whispered.
Unfriendly to Jews Jews.
hearts of a world of idolatro, 1,1y-
from Berlin that a section of the
advocacy of actual pogrom, and unless the Boston Transcript
"America!" The tall man put his theists, the Hebrew prophets poi forth
"A Lithuanian tax official," said German Jewish war veterans opposed
is made immediately to see the error of its ways, we may expect
Mr. Matz, "said in a friendly sirit to separate action in defense of Jews arm about the boy's shoulder. "To- a conception of religion which appears
morrow morning you shall see the
Persecute for Pleasure of Caus- a friend of mine there: 'Well, you on
much more severe and vitriolic outbursts on its part.
the ground that it was the business great statue that holds that light. It to nu' to be as wonderful all al - pire.
needn't worry this year about paying
of Phidias
ing Misery, Israel Matz
As many of us are just as certain that no such thing as a po-
of the Reich to protect all citizens. is there to welcome you. 'This light is tion of genius as the art
your
taxes.
You
may
not
have
enough
Declares.
Bu even this section has been won the light of liberty! All your life must or the science of Aristotle. "And what
grom can possibly occur in America as were certain that it could
money, but then you can sell your
loth the Lord require of the,. but to
not occur in Berlin. Let us not be filled with horror and amaze-
furniture and so on and raise the over in view of the reality of the be so clean that when the light falls do justly, and to love mercy, and to
upon it there will be nothing to shame walk humbly with thy God?" If any
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—That money, but really I don't understand pogrom menace.
ment by the accomplished fact, but nip the thing in the bud, steps
America! And because you are a Jew, so-called religion takes away (rata this
be taken so that the Lithuanian how you will pay your taxes the year
for it is as much a fact today as it ever was that an ounce of ministry in the United States apprise following.'
Was Jabotinsky Right?
your life must be even cleaner, you great saying of Micah, I t!• '.k it
prevention is worth a pound of cure. We must use every means its government that the American "When Jews make protests, they Vladimir Jabotinsky, one of the must even try harder always to its the wantonly mutilates, while if it adds
right, because here in America the thereto I think it obscures tt••• per-
at our command to compel the Boston Transcript and such other world is aware of its persecution and are told to 'make no noise' or it will organizers of the Jewish Legion that Jew
must prove that when any one in
ridiculous discriminations be worse for them.
fought with the British forces in
fect ideal of religion.—Thonia• Huy.
organs as may subconsciously or consciously feel as does the almost
the
world says the Jew is not right-
against the Jews is urged by Israel
Palestine, advocated the formation of
ley.
Boston Transcript from printing such defamatory, scurrilous Matz, one of America's leading medi- "The non-Jewish population is al- Jewish defense corps throughout
most entirely illiterate and as a re-
and vicious editorials.
cal manufacturers, who has just re- sult the propaganda of anti-Semitism Europe. One of the reasons given
We have unbounded faith in the principles upon which turned from a visit to his old home- carried on by the demagogic press for his resignation from the World
and the church is swallowed com- Zionist Executive Committee was his
America is founded and we know that everything will be done land.
activity in behalf of such units, which
Lithuania, said Mr. Matz in an in- pletely by the ignorant populace.
by the American authorities to protect all its citizens, and yet, terview
with a representative of the "The native normally is not tin- was interpreted as having been done
with an incessant barrage of anti-Semitic slander, the people Jewiah Telegraphic Agency, is like friendly to the Jew. If the Lithu- with the consent and approval of
of some communities may be so enraged, that some pogromist the little boy who pulls the cat's tail anion government wants to get rid Zionist leaders and therefore resent-
in Jabotinsky'a
act may be perpetrated. The editorial in the Boston Transcript merely for the pleasure of bearing of the Jews, its acts certainly do not ed by them, resulting
Now the question may
is the most provocative, brazen piece of anti-Semitism that has it squeal. It gives the boy a sense indicate it. It is extremely difficult resignation.
of power. for a Jew to get a passport to leave well be put, was not Jabotinsky right
yet appeared in any American journal, and lest we forget it is
"It is all well enough for a person it. Graft must be paid all down the after all? Would it not have been
who has not arrived at full mental line in order to get out. As a mat- better, in lands where Jews are
proper that we keep ever in mind Berlin and Munich.
PIE bEFROVEWISII OiRONICLE
*
digesting
Ciarrit's Grua.
Birds of a Feather.
Henry Ford, the ultra-pacifist, is host to General Joseph
Haller, the Polish butcher. What have they in common? Anti-
Semitism. We had hoped not to devote any more space in our
paper to Henry Ford, because we were of the opinion that
Henry Ford had really listened to the advice if his most intimate
friend, Thomas A. Edison, and was definitely out of the presi-
dential race. But when we read in the Detroit Times of Nov.
19 that Henry Ford was to be the host of General Ilaller, we
could not contain ourselves.
Even the richest man in the world must be consistent at
some time. Henry Ford, who has had the obsession that he
was actually going to accomplish that which Jesus of Nazareth
preached, the peace of the world, can hardly claim that his in-
terest in General Haller is based upon any common ideals of
peace and good-will, for the infamous and notorious Haller has
been guilty of the most gruesome atrocities and fiendish sadistic
acts ever perpetrated. One of the approved inhumanities, sur-
passing in the refinements of cruelty the Spanish Inquisition,
was the burial of live men and women.
It may be possible that General Haller is interested in the
automobile industry, in hydro-electric development, in nitrate
plants, in a new financial system, all of which projects have
taken up much of the time and energy of henry Ford. We, how-
ever cannot be persuaded that General Haller, whose chief
stock in trade is pogrom, can
_ be interested in any constructive
projects, and we are therefore i irresistably driven, by the pro-
cess of elimination, to the conclusion, that the common ground
upon which they meet is anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism surely does make strange bed-fellows.
Zangwill Hits Hard.
The high-priced foreign lecturer and author comes to Amer-
ica, is met at the dock by the reporters, and for the first few
days, enjoys much free publicity ; delivers his lectures some in-
ocuous subjects; compliments our women upon their beauty;
speaks of the fine chivalry of American men; comments upon
our lack of artistic appreciation. And the next we hear of him
is after his return to Europe, where he writes a book in which
powers to be guilty of such practices, ter of fact, Lithuania would be in
but Lithuania should be above such an awful (flight without the Jews,
things," Mr. Matz declared. who are milked right and left for the
"The taking by Lithuania of Me- support of the officials of the govern-
mel and its obtaining of full Mende- mend. One on. of every four or five
penitence has gone to Lithuania's in Lithuania is on the government
head and, in addition to its extortion payroll and the Jews must pay the
of money from Jews on a hundred expense of supporting the whole
pretexts, it indulges in other practices regime.
merely to embitter the life of the
"But it is not only this effort to
Jew, taking pleasure in the misery it 'milk' the Jews for money that I am
is causing.
objecting to," said Mr. Matz, "but
"When Lithuania first obtained its the senseless, purposeless practices
independence," Mr. Matz continued, indulged in for seemingly no other
"there were none happier than the purpose but to enjoy the pleasure of
Lithuanian Jews. The majority of the Jews' discomfort.
them would not have exchanged Lith-
Culturally and from a Jewish
uania for Palestine. All sorts of point of view, Mr. Matz says, there
promises of absolute equality and fra- is much to be thankful for. Ilebrew
ternity were made. Not one of them is spoken quite generally among the
was kept, however. Jewish young, the manufacturer de-
"Jews constitute about 10 per cent dares.
"From Thee to Thee
11
When all within is dark,
And former friends misprise;
From them I turn to Thee,
And find I
When all within is dark,
And I my soul despise;
From me I turn to Thee,
And find Love in Thine eyes.
When all Thy face is dark,
And Thy just angers rise;
From Thee I turn to Thee,
And find Love in Thine eyes.
SOLOMON IBN GABRIOL,
aransItted by I A.)
hounded and denied rights of citizen-
ship, if an organization were main-
tained for the protection of the Jew-
ish population in the event of an im-
pending crisis? If such defense units
must be formed, why not be prepared
in advance?
Is Anti-Semitism Dying Out?
The sixteenth annual report of the
American Jewish Committee, of
which Louis Marshall is president,
contains an optimistic note to the ef-
fect that anti-Jewish activity is dying
out and in conceding Germany to be
an exception says:
"With anti-Semitism discredited
in the more enlightened countries
of the world, it cannot long survive
in Central and Eastern Europe."
Is not the American Jewish Com-
mittee's report in direct contradiction
to fact? Even in this country, is it
right to ignore the activities of cer-
tain groups, particularly the Ku Klux
Klan, and to froze ourselves to be-
lieve that anti-Semitism is dying out,
at a time when the dangers our peo-
ple are facing are becoming daily
more threatening?
Jewish Anti-Semites.
Whatever the dangers to Jewry, in
the long run it is the Jew's', anti-
Semite that we must fear most. It is
sad enough to read in the Bo ston
Transcript of "so-called 'Jews,' aliens
though they are, who are guilty of
abusing the hospitality of an all too-
patient and easy-going people," the
editorial later declaring these "Jews-
aliens" to be "fit subjects for depot-
lotion." But when Jews resort to dis-
tinctions in their own ranks as between
American and alien Jews, the damage
is greatest because more painful.
When a Jewish weekly like the Amer-
ican Israelite, in speaking of the
American Jewish Congress, attacks it
on the ground that "it represents at
best a small fraction of the Jews of
America and that portion composed
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