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July 25, 1924

Tamuz 23, 5684

Jews and Business.

Upon examination of anti-Semites one will find nc
belief more fixed and deeply rooted than the one that
all Jews are interested in business. Some go so far as
to maintain, and with no little heat, that Jews are born
with a predilection for commerce, trade and particu-
larly money lending. The whole credo is as sound as
the theory of ritual murder, Jewish world domination
by the Elders of Zion, Nordic supremacy and the whole
structure of anti-Semitic bigotry and hatred, It will
be quite interesting to read the replies of our special-
ists of hatred who may happen to come across a news
report from Riga anent the choice of trades, occupa-
tions and professions made by 804 Jewish children in
Odessa.
Of the numer 15.3 per cent chose factory work;
13,4 per cent elected medicine; 12.3 per cent want to
be engineers; 22.4 per cent have a predilection for car-
pentry, tailoring and similar occupations; 7.2 per cent
chose the liberal professions; 3.5 per cent would like
to be sailors; 3 per cent think the life the transport
worker very attractive; 20 pe/cent have, chosen the
army; 1,9 per cent are attracted to the land and 1.6
per cent are lured by politics as a, career. Not one of
the Jewish children wants to enter business.
Could a more crushing, smashing argument against
the anti-Semitic credo be found? how can this qual-
ity so prevalent and profoundly rooted in the Jew be
so completely extripated that not a single Jewish child
cares to make profits in trade, commerce and money
lending? Will the anti-Semite recognize the facts or
will he with his age-long blindness and casuistry try to
find some way out to prove his absurdly stupid
position?
To us the matter is quite simple. In Russia the bus-
iness groups are classed among the inferior; the term
bourgeoisie is a term of reproach and opprobrium. The
non-productiv• worker is denied political rights and
has no social status. What is the consequence of the
changed social system? Just what we find among the
Jewish children. Lest we be misunderstood, the same
attitude toward business was shown by the non-Jewish
children although the percentage varied, due to group,
social and economic point of view'.
. The Jew, in the past, in nine cases out of ten, spurn-
ed non-productive, parasitic occupations when he hail
a choice of a productive, self-respecting and creative
occupation. The history of Russia is one long, harrow-
ing picture of restriction and discrimination in the mat-
ter of occupation and residence. With the dawn of a
new era, with restrictions removed and free choice al-
lowed, we discover that Jewish children answer the
call of their creative intelligence and genius with the
same healthy choice as do their non-Jewish brothers
and sisters.
Jews as well as non-Jews are moved by biological
necessity and will choose business when it is legal and
socially approved as a means of earning a livelihood.
When all work is open to us on equal terms we shall
be found ever contributing our share to the social wel-
fare.
.
.
Evidences of this sort will silence anti-Semites more
effectively than all the reasoned arguments we could
possibly muster.

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to save the world for Kultur. This whole structure is
in the dust ; it came tumbling down over their heads,
but they will not have it that there were not gangrene
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
spots of non-German origin responsible for the catas-
trophe.
Only after all the specious reasoning and unfound- ranummannoranumamaimaannumaa
the Church of Rome he would have
Judaism hits often been referred to
ed excuses have been dismissed and the German people
Business.
been chcsen by acclaim, for no man in
realize that the fault of their defeat lay in their crass D OUMANI A of late has learned t a s a social religion and the Jew, by public life since Roosevelt had indi-
lie same token, is from the standpoint
materialistic and militarist position will the world know IN some valuable lessons. It has
cated a more positive statesman-like
f his religion a social being, just as
that they have at last reached a point from which they come to believe in Roumania for Rou-
strength than Smith and no man is
=Mans. On the basis of this doctrine h e is a creature with a distinctive out-
may proceed to build up a healthy imperishable nation it has passed a law requiring that SO
more beloved by his constituency- 'E' 'h
ook on the relations that exist be-
which will live in amity with the sister nations of Eu- per vent of all foreign companies be
and his constituency is the :nighty
ween man and his Creator. But the
owned by Roumanians. Quite a consist-
stale of New York, a stole as big as '.<
em is also a political being of a very
rope.
ent law this statute is, when it is oh-
We are glad that the men who commanded our co- served that Roumanian capitalists a relent sort. Whether it is be to his many a European nation and more in- i
religionists had the courage and honesty to repudiate lack sufficient money to buy up SO per a entient sscialisity, if the coining of fluential, materially and spiritually.
cent of the foreign investments. Were
But the World, as for as the advo-
such accusations as were made against the Jewish sol- it not for the fact that the American a new word be permitted, or to his
cacy of Smith was coneerned, lost out
diers in the German armies, This attitude on the part interests aggrieved are chiefly the personal absorption in the develop- and another Kew York paper, headed
ment of nations as political groups, or
Oil and Baldwin Locomotive
of the military experts presages a return to sanity. Standard
by a Jew and easily the world's most
Companies, the sovereign state of
his especial love for country, Jewish
The whole investigation when completed may show Queen Marie, the bright-eyed sorcer-
thoroughgoing chronicler of events,
nterest in politics is of a striking
and prove to the German people that they must accept ess in imperial European circles, .haracter.
won. The nomination of John W.
might be assumed to devise methods
their full share of the blame and responsibility for the by which she could control foreign
Davis constitutes a tribute not only
Recent occurrences in the political
defeat. When they do this in the spirit of profiting businesses operating within its bord- arena are a case in point. Just what to a superior statesman but to the
from experience and mistakes, the scapegoat complex ers without the prosaic proceeding of part Jews played in the dramatic con- public power of a great newspaper.
out 80 per cent of their hold-
For several years the Times saw in
vention of the Democratic party has
will be dissolved and this people whose genius is of a buying
ings. But since the Standard Oil Com-
high order will really attain to a position in the sun pany and the Baldwin Locomotive been lost sight of in the tense whirl John W. Davis a man fitted by educa-
tion, scholarship, moral character and
Company, not to mention lesser fry
that kept the convention in a state of
which no one will either deny or begrudge them.
in the category of international busi-
legal ability to hold office as president.
With the prospects of a real peace now in the off- ness, are involved, it is logical to sup- fever heat for many days. And I re- That Adolph S. Ochs, the publisher of
fer to the Democratic convention be-
ing we may now hope that this will be the last blood pose that Washington will bring such cause (unlike the Republican conven- the Times, should espouse the cause of
to bear on Premier Brati-
libel emanating from Germany against our co-religion- pressure
such a singularly capable man as Da-
tion, which was a staid and clearly
ano's government as to result in an
abatement of the rigor which Rouma-
vis does not surprise a Jew who knows
ists.
fore-ordered affair and lacked the

AS WE GO
ALONG

nia has imposed on foreign enter-
prises. Bratiano, out of the goodness
of his heart and in view of the con-
cord that long has subsisted between
America and Roumania, may con-
clude to allay the difficulty which his
parliament created.
Speaking of Roumania, it may be
recalled that quite a number of Jews
were done to death and others were
thrown off running trains recently in
a sort of holiday outburst on the part
of Roumanian folk. The perpetra-
tion of the outrages was definitely
proved, despite the fact that the Rou-
manian minister to the United States,
son-in-law of Herbert Henry As-
quith, former prime minister of
Great Britain and leader of the Lib-
eral party, persistently denied it. The
upper regions in Washington diplo-
matic circles were not set a-flutter
when the reports of the Roumanian
debauch were being broadcast the
world over.
We must not fail to point out, how-
ever, that in the language of inter-
national affairs the word pogrom,
which usually refers to attacks on
Jews by organized bands of ruffians,
not infrequently acting in response to
the conniving wink of officials, pos-
sesses It trivial meaning.

Our Awakening.

The Jew in American Politics

feeblest vestige of uncertainty and

what the traditional Jewish attitude

emotion) it offered an opportunity

always has been to men who are to be

for the projection of individual power

vested with executive powers. I am

and the display of psychological prow-

not insisting that Mr. Ochs looks to

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zion-
Jewish tradition as the lodestar of his
ess.
ist Organization, was tendered a public reception upon
mil pities as a publisher, but in his en-
It is perhaps not generally known
thusiasm for i man of the type of
that the Democratic phaform was
his return to London after his American tour on behalf
DaVis he was 'entirely consistent.
written largely by the virile and bril-
of the Koren Ilayesod. Among other things he sold,
Adolph S. Ochs is not only a great
liant pen of Samuel Untennyer, even
newspaper
publisher but he is not the
"American Jewry as I observed it, is alive to Jewish
though he may not have been on the
least significant Jew among the Jews
committee which framed the alocu.
problems and to Palestine. This is due to the increase
of America.
went. Indeed, I do not recall that he
The nomination of Davis is to be
of anti-Semitism, the new immigration bill passed by
was even n delegate to . the convention.
credited to the unflagging publication
. .
.
.
But his ability as a writer of forceful
Congress and to the realization which is growing great-
his
achieve-
S.
English, his widely accepted lender-
er that Palestine is the only place where the existence
ments as member of Congress, as' so-
ship in the liberal political forces in
1 icitor general of the United States,
,
of the Jewish people can be secure."
his party and in the country at large
as ambassador to Great Britain, as a Q
and his eha mpionship of movements
As to any increase of anti-Semitism in America we
highly intelligent statesman and as a
for breaking down monopolies and the
figure free from attitudes that an hon.'
are persuaded that despite the Ku Klux Klan, Henry
influence of what fromently has been
°sable num need quibble about. His
referred to as "invisible government,'
Ford and the pseudo-anthropologists such is really not
selection may also be credited in part
,Pd
explain the frequent use made of Mtn •
the case. There has been a marked heightening of
to the "discovery" of him made by
by hiS party in New York State and
other
newspapers
but
it
is
generally
te
Jewish consciousness with the consequent responsive.
at the national conventions.
agreed that nothing worked so vigor-
ness of greater numbers of our co-religionists to any
But a more interesting phase, per.
ous a magic on the imagination of
haps, of the national Democratic sit.
the delegates, once they had been re-
discriminatory expression or action. This responsiveness
uation was the part which two Jews
lieved of the dark influence of the
on the part of our people may be easily construed as
played in the pre-convention tints and
Elan question, than the clear-cut edi-
indicative of a wide-spread anti-Semitism in America,
during the convention itself. Those
torial advocacy made by the New-
who
followed
the
development
of
York Times,
and no doubt Chaim Weizmann, who is after all a
events know that the New York World
Who Calvin Coolidge and Robert
stranger in America, may have easily confounded Jew-
has set its heart on the nomination of
M. La Follette are is 'known . to the
Career.
ish consciousness and sensitiveness with anti-Semitism.
Governor Alfred E. Smith. Why the
American public and will he more ful-
HE death of Israel de Haan, the
World, which may he said , to have
ly understood as the forthcoming cam-
leader of the Agudath Israel who
Ile may have been led to believe that anti-Semitism
been transformed into the mast cour-
paign develops. • Jews will study the
carried on vehement warfare against
has increased because of the antics of the Klan, the ful- the Zionist movement, serves to bring ageous new:paper in America by one qualifications' of candidates ' as not
of
the
youngest
but
not
the
least
bra-

other part of the American electorate.
mination of Ford-the-saviour and the exalters of Nor- to the attention of the Jewish public
liant journalists in the country, Welt- • The instinct for independence mid the
man, a strange career and
dicism, but he mistook noise for substance and cross n an singular
er
Lippman,
should
have
desired
the
desire for men properly fitted for pub-
almost pathetic revelation of the
burnings for the stake. The Jew is accepted in America, vagaries that recur in Jewish life. selection of Governor Smith is clear, lie service nre sufficiently marked ill
It
knew
him
to
be
one
of
the
ablest
but that is not sufficient; mere toleration is not the goal Beginning as a Zionist, he deserted men in American public life. It PAW Jewish totes to be a cause for rejoice
ing. They will search out the merits
Zionist movement after quarreling
of Jewry. Equality in all matters where equality is the
in him an honest and wise statesman. -: of candidates., and inquire into what
with the leader in Holland, where de
possible must be the ideal which American Jewry must Hann was born. In his youth he wets It observed in him a sagheious inter- they stand for. They will demand
preter of political progress and social
justice and clarity of view with regard
atheist and, to be consistent, mar-
ever hold before it.
advance. But it desired him for other
to vital issues. They Will exact abso-
ried a Catholic girl, Ten years ago
Is Dr. 1Veizmarin correct when he says that the re- he reverted to Judaism and became an reasons but equally insistent. It want- lute candor of statement upon the
ed
hits
to
be
the
sttindard
bearer
of
a
alization is growing greater and greater that Palestine intensely observant Orthodox Jew. great party heat more than any question of the right of men in Amer-
ica to live that religious life which
,
now that he is dead, his C atholic
is the only place where the existence of the Jewish And
other man, Ile arms the symbol of the
history, tradition or personal intelli-
wife comes forward to claim his body
people can be secure? Are the Jews of America really and prepare it for burial in a Catho- emancipation of political interests gence and inclination render becom-
the subtle, venomous and indi-
ing to them.
coming to the conclusion that the only place where they lic cemetery. Next to his death, which frisn
rect bigotry of those elements in Am-
In an address before the Jewish
was caused by an assassin's bullet, the
can live as Jews is Palestine?
erica who as communicants of Protes-
Historical Society of England in 1520,
most pathetic thing about de llaan
tant
faiths
haws
just
begun
to
think
Mr. Davis, who was then Ambassador
The implications of this statement are numerous, was his life.
in terms which Cardinal Torquemada
to Great Britain, said in part:
In some respects de Ilaan's life par-
far-reaching and profound. What are the Jewish peo- allels that of the distinguished Jewish and Ferdinand and laabella of Spain
"Washington, addressing the Jews
ple of America doing to substantiate this statement? publicist, Nathan Birnbaum. Birn- (teemed worthy of mankind and pleas- in 17511, expressed the hope that the -
ing, in the eyes of God. .
baum,
too,
sought
intellectual
freedom
sons
of Abraham might firid there a
Are any large numbers who believe in security in Pal-
land in which they would find no man
in negation and substituted atheism
The World -and when I say the
estine only making preparations to leave this country,
for positive belief. But In his biter
to molest them and make them afraid.
Wart(' I mean Walter Lippman-
let alone actually leaving the land? We unhesitatingly years he became successively a nat- wanted so to clarify the American po- And tram that (lay to this, there is no
and a foremost member of the
office, however lofty, to which a Jew
litical situation as ti, leave no rem-
say "no." And are those who are making no such prep- ionalist
Agudath Israel in Europe, visiting
may not aspire: no public duty, how-
nant of doubt in the mind of the think-
arations and who are not leaving, acting as though they America several years ago with a ing voter as to the genuine content of ever humble, which the Jews of Am-
intended to abandon their Judaism in America, to lose group of rabbis. Birnbaum donned American citizenship and as to the erica are not willing to perform. And
shawl and phylacteries and
these men are with you not only be-
duty of the man and woman who
their identity? To both these questions our answer is prayer
found his final goal in devout prayer.
cause you both profess the sante creed,
would consider first the welfare of
an unambiguous negative.
Different people will view men the
reverence the sante traditions, cherish
America and its institutions and not
and de Ilaan from a var-
the same ideals, sound across the same
those loyalties which are separate and
If Weizmann had stated that Palestine is one of Birnbaum
iety of points of view. Some will see
sea the same cry 'the God of Israel is
distinct from matters of government.
the places where the existence of the Jewish people the workings of an insistent theism The World had consecrated itself to One,' but because the Jews of the
can be secure, we would offer no dissent ; but when he in the minds of thinking men, provid- the task of rescuing American values United States, having entered Amer-
their intellectual efforts bring them
km, have become Americans, and those
from spurious doctrine and restoring
says the only place, he makes the Palestinian project ed
to the proper state of humility. Others
having lodged here have remained
the fair name of the great republic
next to impossible of accomplishment, for there is not will discern a process to which they of the west to its fernier glory.
British.
apply
anything
but
gracious
terms.
"Those Americans hold out to you
That
it
had
nearly
succeeded
is
a Zionist who has visited Palestine who would expect
the hand of fellowship, side by side
known to everyone who has sufficient
Placing the Blame.
that land to accommodate the whole of Jewry. Perhaps
Protection.
with
all our countrymen, animated by
intelligence to rend the obvious. Al-
HE Rabbinical Assembly, which
firm convictions and ideals of the fu-
fred E. Smith would have been 190111i-
Before the great war Germany had persuaded her- Weizmann did not mean this so literally, but in his en-
consists
of
rabbis
affiliated
with
ture. Less than this, I cannot find it
hated hail he not been a Catholic.
thusiasm he made an overstatement which is much
self that she was a nation of supermen. This same na- more serious than he had probably intended.
the conservative wing in Judaism, at
in my heart to say."
Were he anything but a member of
its recent conference resolved to con-
tion hail develdpcc•a scientific technique which carried
We emphatically deny that the existence of Jewry sider means for protecting Judaism
the Jewish public against the ir-
litters Drought to their attention
,
investigationN . of ri*
in America cannot be secure. We know that Judaism and
responsible acts of men who set them-
PAGANISM VERSUS HEBRAISM
h'. .y had ecome overbearing,
to the, last detail.'
can and will flourish and grow in America, creating its selves up as theological or communal
meticulous and rash to a poirrtiiiyond endurance. The own forms, developing its own particular genius and oracles. Many a so-called rabbi has
discredit upon the Jewish
contributing its share as an integral part of American brought
By RABBI LOUIS I. NEWMAN
war came. This unconquerable supernation was de-
name and not a few unprincipled was-
trels have fatted on the wide berth of
life.
feated. They cannot reconcile themselves to the crush-
privilege which Jews permit in relig-
Palestine offers a secure existence for the harried
ious end communal affairs. How the
ing loss of prestige and world domination. All sorts of
has not hero the foe of the spontane-
In the current controversies in the
pogrom-ridden population of Europe. It holds forth Rabbinical Assembly purposes to Christian
ous and gladsome enjoyment associ-
Church, one of the most in-
fanciful and bizarre reasons are now offered to excul-
-
check
the criminal freedom of irre-
ated with the Hellenic or Pagan tra-
for many American Jews the promise of a spiritual re
teresting points of debate has been the
sponsible men posing as iabbis has
dition. Matthew Arnold's famous dic-
proposal of Rev. Dr. Guthrie to revive
pate the Germans from responSibility.
birth, but it is not for us the only place where the Jew
not been made clear. It is apparent,
tum: the Greek stood for the holiness
the Hellenic and Pagan elements in
The charge was made before a parliamentary com- ish people can be secure.
however, that a step in the direction
of beauty and the Jew for the beauty
American Christianity. "('an the
of propriety will be taken when the
of holiness, does not signify that the
mittee investigating Germany's breakdown during the
modern
Christian,"
he
asks,
"afford
With the passage of the immigration bill we are Jews of America learn that they must
war, that the cowardice and unfitness of Jewish sol- made more alive to the greater responsibilities which set up n system of religious authority to have only one eye? The Hebraic Jew found beauty only in his faith.
eye is open. We must lift the eyelids
Men and women the world over are
diers caused the defeat of Germany. German military
devolve upon us to keep burning the religion, philos _ to be vested in men who will he re- of its Hellenic eye. There is no need virtually the sante, regardless of the
sponsible to Jewish law and Jewish
experts testifying before the committee stated that the
for war between our Hebraic and Hel-
creed which guides then,. When the
ophy, poetry and literature which is distinctly our con
honor. As long as the individual Jew
accusation was absolutely unfounded. In support of tribution to world culture, but with this greater con - considers himself competent to act in lenic heritage. Let there be neither ancient Hassidic Jew opposed sculp-
an Ilebraic nor an Hellenic monop•
ture and painting, it was not through
matters as a free lance and scoffs
their statements they cited the fact that 96.000 Jewish
sciousness which is everywhere apparent we shal I all
oly."
disdain for beauty, but because of the
at the idea of national regulation, we
soldiers voluntarily enlisted, being 12 per cent of all achieve the unity and fulfillment of a praiseworty
demoralizing influences connected
Dr.
Guthrie's
preachment
is
of
spec-
shall witness from time to time the
therewith; when he refused to partic-
voluntary enlistments. Four-fifths of the Jewish sol- Judaism,
ial interest to us because of its his-
doings of self-styled sages who cause
ipate in Greek games, he did so as a
toric and contemporary background.
the Jewish cheek to burn with shame.
diers fought at the front, and over 12,000 were killed;
protest against laxity and license. But
Too many of the ills of present-day
— -
35,000 were decorated for bravery, 1,000 receiving the
today,
when our code of personal mor-
life
are
laid
at
the
door
of
the
"Hebra-
Canes.
The Prince of Wales, at the recent Olympic game s
ality is somewhat higher, and art and
ic" factor in Christianity. Thus in
Iron Cross. Twenty-three thousand received promo-
EXT to a vigorous shock of hair,
sports
are not synonymous with de-
the recent discussions concerning the
in Colombes. France, declared that British sports look -
preferably in an unkempt con-
tion to the first class, 2,000 becoming officers.
cadence, the Jew has entered zealous-
"Blue Laws" and the prohibition of
• dition, conies the cane as an index of
eel
to
Harold
M.
Abrahams,
the
fleet-footed
Jewish
These facts are not recited to prove that our co-
ly into the realm of the fine arts, and
amusements en Sunday, the rigorist
0 the man who would be beholden as
attitude has been stigmatized as "Pur-
has become a great devotee of health-
religionists are not cowardly or unfit or to prove that sprinter• for vindication. Abrahams proceeded to d
Men must be identified
learned.
giving sports.
itan" or "Judaic." In the field of
his
part
by
winning
the
100-meter
race.
Since
we
have
somehow.
They
cannot
resort
to
vo-
in all lands we contribute our share in times of war as
drama,
the
cause
of
"censorship"
has
In the realm of religion, we do not
on their achievements. They
well as in times of peace, but rather for the purpose of always regarded Wales a truly princely gentleman, we calizing
been
allied
with
"Ilebraism,"
and
the
stand for coldness and suppression.
would violate all the canons of good
showing how purblind and prejudiced are these people, hope that his admiration for Abrahams will not be con- taste, humility and true culture. They strict reform element, demanding a We have a warm Oriental apprecia-
and ascetic outlook on life,
tion of the beauty of living, and take
and to what an extent the illusion of grandeur held , strued by the Morning Post as a mark of decadence on must remain mute except when they suppressive
has been attacked as "Hebraic."
delight in the carnival spirit of Pur-
have legitimate cause for discourse.
them. It seems inconceivable to them that the defeat the part of the British crown.
The use of these epithets creates
im and our festivals of home and com-
And in the absence of the spoken or
false antitheses, harmful to the Jew
munity. The contrast between the
was due to their own limitations and weakness.
written word and until the careless
and unworthy of his neighbor. The
celebration of the Civil or Pagan New
world discovers whom it neglects, it
The theory of omnipotence and infallibility had be-
The lowly Nazarene preached the gospel of turn- is necessary, by means of fine and be- Christian world, as the great Unitar- Year, and the Jewish and spiritual
'come so thoroughly ingrained in the German mind of ing the other cheek ; Israel practices it with magnificent coming indirection, to suggest to men ian, Travers llarford, has pointed out, New Year illustrates most aptly the
the military caste headed by the Kaiser that in their gestures. The Straus and the Sachs families have that the votaries of culture are pre- has done an historic injustice to the contrast between the Jewish and Hel-
ancient exponents of Jewish "Puri-
pared for service to the several arts.
lenic interpretation of life. It will be
blasphemous arrogance they inscribed in their belts contributed one half million dollars to the ten million If a man be bereft of the gift of flow- tanism," "Pharisees", by making them a sorry day for Christianity when its
"Gott mit uns." They had not only a monopoly on dollar endowment fund of Harvard University. May ing hair, let him carry a cane and equivalent to hypocritical lip-observ- Greek elements will weaken the He-
it a part of his intellectual be-
ers who exalt the letter above the
brew tradition; from both ways of
brains, ability and scientific knowledge but even God
we ever return kindness for unkindness, magnanimity make
ing, no that all the world may see and
spirit. The Jew has stood for a stern,
life, the modern believer must choose
himself was aligned with them in their holy Crusade for pusillanimity.
know and understand.
self-disciplining view of life, but he
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