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eiROMICLE
AMERICAN JEWRY AND THE FUTURE
By CONGRESSMAN CI.ARENCE J. McLEOD,
Thirteenth Michigan District.
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the past and inspecting the present, for the roots of the
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present and future lie deep in the recesses of the past. At
a time when certain sinister forces are at work seeking to
destroy the co-operation and position of mutual advantage
Ivhich those of the Jewish faith have heretofore enjoyed,
as Americans, with those of other peoples and beliefs, it
is best to throw off speculation and argument, and appraise
the fact,..
The Jcv - s have always been a migratory people but
the few million of them who have migrated to the United
States, for the first time have found a country in which
they hope to stay. Many of them are interested in the
new project to people and develop the Jewish stronghold
of Palestine, and have supported it with money and labor,
but very few of our American Jews have any desire to re-
turn to Palestine for life. A great people of an ancient
state, passing through a tortuous history and patiently
bearing persistent persecution, they have nevertheless
steadfastly clung to their own principles of right and con-
tinued to maintain their particular racial qualities.
Natural endowments, coupled with thrift, devotion to their
respective labors, have made and kept them a strong and
influential element in modern civilized society.
The history of their development, which has been both
militant and submissive, seems to find a true climax in
the history of our own nation. As a struggling nation in
our early trials we welcomed the business sagacity of the
Jews and accepted gladly the great benefits which they
conferred. All through the annals of our history appear the
names of men of Hebrew descent who have contributed
much, not only in linanci a l circles, but in other lines of
industry as well, to the successful development of the coun-
try. The history of our wars shows that the Jews have as
large a percentage as any other nationality in responding
to the call for the protection of our commonwealth. The
statement that the Jews can be true to no country and
are lacking in the capacity for patriotism has been con-
tradicted by their record in American history. Our sym-
pathy has in the main been sincere—our business rela-
tions cordial. With such an interlacing of material inter-
ests and blending of common purposes, what person de-
sires deliberately today to destroy this foundation and
thereby wreck an inherent part of the American state
and society ?
The future presents one thing—which must be pro-
tected and preserved from the poisonous darts of those
secret workers whose apparent aim is to inject hatred in
our American social life--and that is continued and ever-
developing union, with mutual understanding and co-oper-
ation. Therein is the theory of American social and bus-
iness success and the insurance of peace and prosperity.
It is the only course which satisfies and accords with our
true wishes, and the only one which can, through the
changing future. remain consonant with the spirit of our in-
stitutions.
By GERALD GINSBURG
The stir aroused over the question c ssentially Jewish art, because no
of the nationality of Columbus seems Gentile could have painted it.
to us quite a useless bone of conten-
"And that is the test which I would
tion. After all what difference does apply. It is a matter of feeling. A
it make whether an Italian, Spaniard, J ew can recognize Jewish art much
Portuguese or Jew discovered Amer- n the same way as he can recognize
ica? The important thing is that he Jewish physical type. Yet it is
America was discovered, even though r liflicult to define. It is not easy to
a leading Parisian daily recently say 'This and this are the distinguish-
doubted whether Christopher Colum- ing, marks of a Jew." Nevertheless
bus performed such a public service one Jew can generally tell instinc-
after all. And, although Jews are tively when he' is in the presence of
sometimes laughingly accused of another.
claiming every great man as their
'It is when I apply this teat that I
ival, it might be pointed out in pass- become convinced that Rembrandt
ing that it was a Spanish historian, must have been a Jew. Ills work, or
a non-Jew, who has Mien most in-
sistent as to Columbus' Jewish origin.
Of much more interest and value
is the nuint recently raised by Her-
mann Struck, the eminent Jewish art-
ist, in a discussion of Jewish art, that
Rembrandt must have been a dew.
Struck's assertions regarding the na-
tionality of the great painter will
probably cause a tempest in the artis-
tic feared'. Ile otters no proofs of
Rembrandt'S Jewishness. Ile does
not claim to have any. He no-rely
states quite earnestly and sincerely
that he feels Rembrandt', Jewishness
when examining his paintings of Jew-
ish subjects. Struck, who is probably
the foremost Jewish artist of today,
feels that no one but a Jew could
have painted Jews and Jewish scenes
as Remigandt did.
It was in en interview in the Lon-
don Jewish Chronicle that the distin-
guished Jewish artist expressed his
views ton those qualities of Rem-
brandes work which convinces him
of his Jewishness and also gave an en-
lightening definition of what he con-
siders Jewish art. He declared:
"Were I asked if there is a Jewish
art, I would answer in the affirmative,
with this, perhaps obvious, reserve
thin, that it does not follow that a
Jew who paints, and even one who
paints Jewish subjects, is necessarily
an exponent of Jewish art.
"Josef I-rails, the famous Dutch
painter, once said: 'I am a Dutch
artist, Max Liebermann is a German
artist, but Struck is a Jewish artist.'
I appreciated and highly valued such
a compliment from such a source, and
I think I know what Israels meant.
Yet, I would say that Israel's own pic-
ture. 'A Son of the Old People,' is
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"Jeremiah Mourning the Destruction
of Jerusalem," there is an expression
of such tragic resignation and despair
on the face of the prophet that, as
Struck points ton, one feels at um , e Plan to Deve'op Cultursi Cultists
that here is a Jew who is using his
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at any rate some of it, possesses qual-
ities which impel me to regard it as
Jewish art. I could not, perhaps,
with precision give my reasons for
this impression. It is, as I :say, a
matt• of feeling. Rembraialt turned
to Jewish subjects and painted rabbis
and scenes in the Jewish quarter, not
merely because he saw' iu them pic-
turesque subjects for his brush, but
because the Jew in him sought means
of expression,. which naturally took
an artistic form.•
Many of the master's Jewish Can-
vases illustrate strikingly Struck's as-
sertion. There is an essential Jewish
,ititliry to the p remits. It rall't
leserilted, but it is felt. One seems
to know instinctively that a slew
painted them, for they do not seem
to he thirwork of a master painter,
who has merely found a good subject
to depict, but of an artist who is giv-
ing expression to the very soul of his
people.
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