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March 12, 1926
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Under the circumstances it is not at all surprising
to find that there exists a dull area in the field of social,
The United Palestine Appeal.
economic and political thinking at Yale University. It
On Thursday, March 4, the campaign to raise the is equally not surprising to find that compared with
Detroit quota of $125,000 was opened in Detroit. The England we are woefully deficient in our understanding
city and state will be thoroughly canvassed by the of these questions.
The unanimity on the part of scholars and observ-
workers, the message of the needs and importance will
be brought by Maxa Nordau, Chaim Nachman Bialik, ers from within and without indicates the obvious char-
acter of our shortcomings. It means too that the prob-
i‘ Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Shmaroyha Levin, Nahum Soko- lems will immediately become so acute and pressing
low and others who are in this country for the pur- that some consideration will have to be given to them,
pose of acquainting American Jewry with the work or else we shall find ourselves swamped by the crea-
being clone in Palestine, amid the pressing needs of the tures brought into existence by the very culture we so
Chalutzim, the Iladassah, the National Fund and all industriously but unthinkingly'produced.
To meet these with some measurable prospect of
other agencies of reconstruction.
One cannot help but feel, after reading the reply of success, we must inevitably develop a tough mindedness
the Palestine government to the demands of the Na- and analytic technique. These latter qualities have
tional Assembly that the whole burden will have to been conspicuously absent in our sentimental muddling
be borne by world Jewry and in particular American policy of "all is well," because we enjoy material pros-
perity.
Jewry.
The simultaneous rebuke from the Angell's should
Taxation and budgetry reforms are promised, but
have a salutary effect.
not immediately, and from slow-footed even though
well-intentioned authorities one cannot hope for too
much, or too quickly.
Showing the Way.
Then, too, proportionate civil service appointments
The Joint Distribution Committee reports that C.
are promised as well as an allocation of waste and Sterling, the owner of the Houston, Texas, Post-Dis-
crown lands, but this shall be done only after careful patch, made an unsolicited contribution of $5,000. This
and mature consideration of all the conditions.
may be a surprise to many Jews because they conceive
In the demands of the National Assembly there is
the Joint Distribution Committee Drive as a strictly
a definitely realistic note, which excludes the idea of Jewish undertaking. The expressions from non-Jewish
politics, while the answer clearly manifests all the de- sources indicate that the land settlement scheme for
vices which an adroit though powerful mandatory can liquidating the bankruptcy of Russian Jewry appeals
employ. At the present juncture it must be evident to all men and women who able to envisage a problem
that the single concern of Palestine Jewry is economic which is beyond the limits of -their -own, national
assistance.
frontiers.
The story of the splendid heroism and idealism of
We are unable to discover any valid reason why
the chaluzim has been told so often that anyone with the non-Jews of America, especially those who think
a most superficial knowledge of Palestinian conditions in terms of humanity and international good will,
must by this time know that rarely in the history of should not help to rehabilitate Russian Jewry. This
humanity has a finer co-operative effort been under- does not mean that the responsibility of the Jew is in
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taken and carried on. These people, inspired by the any manner lessened, should others decide to assist.
ideal of cultural values, freed from chauvinistic poisons, The reasons for this are obvious. The unforseen ca-
want to orient themselves under conditions chosen by tastrophies of Polish and Bessarabian Jews makes it
themselves.' Then, too, the intolerable conditions pre- imperative to raise a larger amount than originally
vailing in Europe were no inconsiderable factor in driv- planned.
ing them to 'Palestine. But they endure all smilingly
The extent and ramifications of the land settlement
and hopefully and are anxious to create a polity and
movement are so great that should the J. D. C. raise
society from which the hateful patterns of despotism $50,000,000 it could all be used to excellent advantage.
will be absent.
We believe that practically all people capable of
From the expressed views of those working in a critical and objective judgment are by this time con-
Palestine it must be apparent that political Zionism is vinced that the people of a country are often power-
for the present not a live consideration except with that less to direct the policy of their government. Before
small revisionist group headed by Jabotinsky and America entered the war the distinction was made and
Gruenebaum, who would have no Zionism unless it rightly that the people were a separate and distinct
emphasized the political aspects even though the cul- entity, and not to be confused with the military hier-
archy which then ruled Germany. For a time, due to
tural and economic had to be minimized.
Many American Jews are fearful lest the Zionist propaganda, fear, hatred and revenge, we forgot all
movement becomes a purely political one and conse- about the distinction and the German people were
quently they are chary about helping with their money excoriated with the same viciousness as was that sym-
and moral support. If eventually the political Zionist bol of militarism, the kaiser.
The war ended, but the accumulated venom and
idea should become the dominant note yet from all
present indications there is a remote prospect of such fear had not spent itself entirely. Bolshevism pre-
sented itself as a menace even more ominous and dan-
a contingency.
gerous than militarism, and once more the people of
The campaign for $5,000,000 has no political con- Russia and the government were lumped together.
notations. That much is obvious. Help from Britain
Gradually the information seeped through that the
in the matter of subventions or loans is not on the im- Russian peasants objected most strenuously and de-
mediate horizon. The Jews of Palestine must receive terminedly to grain requisitioning, central control, and
funds from somewhere.
commisars. The people were not seeing eye to eye
Europe is out of the question inasmuch as Poland, with the authorities. The authorities found a solidarity
which was the generous contributor, needs assistance
among the peasants which had to be reckoned with
in the worst sort of a way. It devolves entirely upon and there followed changes. But the outside world
American Jewry to raise the $5,000,000. Detroit Jewry did not know that the people and those in control were
is asked for $125,000 and that means not a part of at loggerheads. The people of Russia are not respon-
Detroit Jewry, but all of Detroit Jewry. The self-sac- sible for many of the indefensible practices of the dic-
rificing idealists of Palestine call upon all who have any tators and least of those responsible are the Jews.
responsive feeling, so that they may soon be self-suffi-
No group has been as hard hit as have those who
cient and self-supporting.
depended upon trade and commerce. Russian Jewry
in the main knew no other occupations and conse-
quently when state ownership and control were legal-
Student Dull Areas.
ized and the co-operatives established the Jews found
President James Rowland Angell of Yale Univer- themselves deprived of all possibility of earning a live-
sity in his annual address, finds that the student is lihood. They belonged to the least privileged cate-
growing "more sensible to the finer values of college gories, for they were not productive workers.
life and he manifests a health and seriousness in liter-
Is the practical economic annihilation of a people
ature and drama which is refreshing, and a ready re- the concern of the immediate relatives only? Can the
sponse to the religious and philanthropic appeal."
non-Jewish world say to our people, who are least re-
There is another side not so bright and promising sponsible, that this is your problem and you must find
for President Angell discovers an area of dullness a way out? For those of liberal mind and good will
which he describes in the following words:
both questions can be answered in the negative. They
know that Russian Jewry was for centuries the pariah
If there is a dull area, it is perhaps in the field of
political and social thought and action. A few ardent
under Czarism. They know that no opportunity for
souls are always stirred by the unrighteousness of social,
substantial economic rooting or social orientation was
industrial and political conditions. But, in general, the
alloi..ed them. Should the non-Jewish world say to
undergraduate Is ill informed about political questions,
and notably indifferent to them, except in the presence
them this is your cataclysm and we will have nothing
of an election.
to do with it.
Whatever may be the shortcoming of America, it
This indictment of the Yale student is also drawn
against the citizenry of the country generally. In a does have a marked sense of fairness and decency.
lecture before the Council of Jewish Women, Norman In the present situation this fairness and decency.
Angell makes the same charge against "Babbitt" who should be called forth in an effort to increase the
amount which is needed for salvaging, actual life sav-
represents America politically and socially.
Our adult population made an industrial and social ing and rehabilitation.
The owner of the Post-Dispatch•'of Houston has
revolution in the last 30 years, but the significance and
connotations of this revolution have escaped it almost shown the way, others will surely follow if the matter
is brought to their attention. We suggest to the lead-
entirely.
If the responsible leaders of trade, commerce and ers of the J. D. C; that this fruitful field should not
industry have not been able to orient themselves among be neglected because the fun i s are needed; the non-
esponsibility and wants
the complexities which the industrial revolution has Jewish world recognizes i
aterlally help in
brought in its wake, how can we expect out adolescents to help in the work which shoo
s in the world.
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MAX NORDAU

By PIERRE VAN PASSEN

Palestine and Zionism.

The reply of Lord Plumer, high
commissioner of Palestine, to repre-
sentatives of the Arab Executive has
been noted with satisfaction by sev-
eral Yiddish newspapers.
The Jewish Daily News thinks that
the high commissioner's words to the
delegates of the Arabian agitators
were fair to the Arabs and in strict-
est accordance with the spirit of the
law. They will have far-reaching re-
sults. They will bring certain Arab
elements to reason.
"In this reply," says the News,
"there is a world of political wisdom,
and it will be well for the Arabs to
study them long and thoroughly. It
is exhaustive and does away with all
the unfounded complaints of the Ar-
abs that the Palestine administrtion
is partial and against the interest of
the Arabs, seeking only the interest of
the Jews and fostering the founding
of a Jewish National Homeland in
the country. Lord Plumes is a mil-
itary man and is not too talkative.
He contented himself with but a few
hints on several previous occasions,
when Arab delegations attempted to
approach him with their eternal and
unjust complaints. This time the
high commissioner did talk, and his
words were weighty and impressive.
They should have impressed them-
selves upon the minds of the Arabs
that the Palestine Mandate will not
be changed, and that it inn° way in-
jurious to the Arab population. In
assuring the Arab delegation, that
the government will do much for the
industrial development of tht Arab
settlements, and in warning them
that the authorities will take the se-
verest measures, if need, be, to se-
cure law and order in the country,
the high commissioner gave the anti-
Jewish agitators among the Arabs a
dignified reply in unmistakable
words, which should convince them
that it is in the best interests of the
Arabs in Palestine that these agita-
tors liquidate their aitivities of incit-
ing the Arabs against the Jews."
A similar opinion is expressed by
the Jewish World of Philadelphia, in
an editorial of Feb. 25. "The result
of the interview of the Arab agitators
with the high commissioner, Lord
Plumer, was awaited impatiently,"
the paper writes—"If the latest re-
ports are correct, we may feel satis-
fied that the high commissioner's re-
ply to their complaints was what it
should have been. Of course, the
Jews can have nothing against a pro-
gram of industrial development for
the Arab population. This the gov-
ernment should do, provided it is
done not for the Arabs only. The
high commsisioner, however, was
very tactful in making use of this
opportunity to warn the Arabs, that
order will be secured in the country
even if the most drastic steps will
have to be taken, and that if they
are honest in their political activities,
they should use their influence with
the Arabs to refrain from any dis-
orders."
The fact of the recognition of the
Palestine Mandate by the govern-
ment of Egypt is discussed by Ab.
Goldberg in the Jewish Morning
Journal of March 1. Mutual friendly
relations between these two neigh-
boring countries will be of the great-
est benefit to both. On the other
hand, the Egyptian nationalists are
perfectly justified in seeing in the
Palestine Mandate a lessening of the
burden upon Egypt. The British Em-
pire and people are not prepared to
give up their most vital artery, the
Suez Cane'. Egypt was hitherto the
key to that artery. Now, however,
with a loyal Jewish population in Pal-
estine, Britain can depend upon Pal-
estine for the defense, of the canal,
and so the military burden will be
shifted from Egypt to Palestine,
where but a small force will be need-
ed for this purpose.
"At the same time, it must be re-
membered that Egypt had been a nest
fors Arab agitation against Palestine.
Now that the government recognized
the Palestine Mandate, it thereby
made an end, or at least weakened
the dreams of an Arab Empire.
Egypt should also become now a cen-
ter for a propaganda among the Ar-
abs and the Moslems everywhere with
the aim of making clear to them the
real object and significance of Zion-
ism"
Referring to a news item published
in the Yiddish newspapers through-
try that "the Council of Ministers of
Poland has recognized the Jewish
Homeland in Palestine," The Day ex-
plains that the action of the Polish
Council of Ministers was but an in-
ternal affair aiming at the legaliza-
tion of the Zionist organizations in
the country, which were on many

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ities on the ground, that the Zionist
organization was not legal The step
taken by the Council of Ministers
to be greeted as one of importance to
Polish Jews and Zionism in Poland.
It will once for all do away with in-
numerable and endless abuses and
misunderstandings which added much
to the suffering of the Jews in that
country. The Zionist organization is
from now on a legal political party
in Poland."
The Jewish World of Cleveland
discusses the movement inaugurated
at Tel Aviv for a $50,000,000 loan
for Palestine guaranteed by the Brit-
ish government. The paper compares
the project with the recently pub-
lished news of a similar loan advised
by Henry Morgenthau with the finan-
cial backing of American Jewish capi-
talists. "The Tel Aviv plan," says
the World, "is much sounder in every
way. The Morgenthau plan is essen-
tially philanthropic, and the carrying
out of that plan was quite doubtful
for various reasons. While such Jews
as Julius Rosenwald, Felix Warburg
and Herbert Lehman do donate for
Palestine, such donations are not
made for the building up of a Jewish
national home in Eretz Yisroel. The
Tel-Aviv plan, however, is entirely in
the intreseta of the national home,
and of the British government as
well. The Jews of Palestine have
within the past six or seven years
demonstrated their absolute reliabil-
ity as upbuilders of the country. They
have Converted the Balfour Declara-
tion into a reality. The present Jew-
ish national wealth in Palestine is
surely not less than the amount of
the projected loan, which would
; thus lave the soundest basis."

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Revealed by His Daughter Maxa.

(Editor's Note:—Mlle. Maxa Nordau, noted French painter and
lecturer, is to be the guest of the Detroit Zionist District on Sunday,
March 14, when she is to lecture to a local audience on the subject
"Reminiscences of My Father." We are printing an article on Max
Nordau, as revealed by his daughter, by the famous American
columnist, Pierre Van Passen, co-editor of the New York Evening
World.)

"The gods were generous with
of genius, which in other instants,
their gifts of talent and genius to the
furnished the Christian world with
Nordau family. They had not reached
christologists who were of Jewish
the limits of their bountiful bene-
blood and the Hebrew world with
ficence when they endowed Max Nor-
grammarians of Grayish antecedes!.,
dau with a mind that was almost
Mlle. Nordau revealed her father
cosmic in its consciousness, universal
man intensely interested in Hint
in understanding and cosmopolitan in
mysticism.
sympathies. They filled the cup to
And yet when we recall that
overflowing. To his daughter they
great Hindu leader, a contemporary
gave an esthetic vision, that, ex- of Nordau, uttered those stirring
pressed in her paintings, has become
words about the Satanic nature of
intellectual and poetic to a rare de-
the civilization that dominates Eu-
gree. But what is more, the daugh- rope, in which every canon of public
ter's talent is not confined to a mas-
morality has been broken by victors
tery of the painter's brush. In her
in the name of virtue; where no lit.
lecture in Town Hall on Saturday
has been considered too foul to be ut-
night, she enriched her audience with
tered, where the motive behind every
a word-picture of her father's private
crime is not religious or spiritual but
grossly material then we see a har-
life, of his joys and sorrows, of the
idiosyncrasies of his genius and the
mony of spirit, a modicum of ap.
unutterable sadness of his disillu-
prochement between the philosopher
sionment.
and critic of Paris and those Hindus,
The anecdotes she told of her fath- who have given the world that dazz-
er did not detract from the philosoph-
ling and self-renewing mysticism.
er's austerity and loftiness that was
In her balanced description of her
Max Nordan's,•but rathe•her•paint-
father, Mademoiselle -Nordau brought
er's instinct applied needed decora-
home more than ever to this writer
tive treatment of color and form.
the striking resemblance that there is
With deft, ethereal, "spiritual"
between him and men like Tolstoi,
strokes she worked out and present-
Ghandi and Rolland. With Max Nor-
ed a canvas of Max Nordau that was
deo that triumvirate has been strong-
distinguished because of its reality of
est in their condemnation of Euro-
arrangement and because it brought
pean and Occidental civilization, but
out a closer semblance to the human
they have also more than any other
men represented the conscience of
form.
This writer has more than once ex-
humanity.
pressed the opinion that he would
Max Nordau was not a follower of
sooner spend another night on lis- the fashions of his day. As Mlle.
tening patrol in a shell-crater of No
Nordau sketched him, we saw a short,
Man's Land than face an audience as
stocky, short-legged individual, limbs
critical, we may as well say it, as • encased in baggy trousers, disregard.
mercilessly penetrative and analyti-
ing the dandyism of the boulevard-
cal, as one composed of members of
iers, a man concerned with weightier
the Jewish intelligensia. Ile could
matters than the frills and fancies of
therefore enter fully into what must
"la mode de I'aris." But he was
have been Mademoiselle Nordau's
punctilious in the upkeep of that
mental agitation, when for the first
aristocratic white beard. He took
time in her life she ventured to ad- pride in it and cared for it with a sort
of lovinse.kindness.
dress an audience in English, to her
an alien tongue. Yet outwardly she
It was not astonishing to hear that
maintained from the beginning a per-
he was a man of extreme kindness of
fect calm and composure. As a mat-
whose sympathies went out to all
ter of fact her performance was an
those who were suffering either the
act of extraordinary courage If
physical ills or the pangs of storm-
there were disturbing emotions surg-
tossed wayfarers, who seek the truth
ing through her head, she did not be-
in the gloom of.noctural shadows that
tray their presence in the least If
loom over the path of life.
that most difficult variety of human
Her picturization of this sage as a
speech, the English language, sought
Peter Pan who never grew up, of a
with its pitfalls and hidden traps to
philosopher addicted to Tom Sawyer-
ensnare her Gallic idiom, it was for
ism, who could not resist the tempta-
once foiled to a fine and satisfying
tion to push a cat into a barrel of
perfection For Mlle. Nordau spoke cooked spinach and then "run home
almost without a trace of an accent.
to tell us about it" was a delightful,
And yet that does not mean to say
charming and convincing attempt at
her address was formal or stilted. To
humanizing the possessor of such a
sublime intellect.
the contrary. It was punctuated and
enlivened with piquant Parisian hu-
While the world was seething with
mor, it abounded with sparkling and
intrigue and the rehancellories of Eu-
racy gauloiseries and captivating
rope puzzled with excited whispers
French shrugs and gestures, often
and the way was paved for the great
more eloquent and expressive than
criminal assault upon mankind that
the spoken word.
matured in 1914 and of which Max
She was a breath from Paris. Not,
Nordau was aware even in its small.
to be sure, the Paris that is constant-
est detail, he still found time to read
ly being sought and explored by the
the Bible. His daughter said he pre-
parvenu tourists of the world, but
ferred the Latin version of the Scrip.
the Paris of the artists, who claim
tures. Like no many luminous spir-
the absolute and limitless liberty of
its, Nordau also found that the Bible
dreams. The Paris of an air so pure
is the foundation, the crypt on which
and rarified that it is difficult to ab-
the whole fabric of true civilization
sorb and breath its atmosphere for a
rests. Ile found the crypt alone was
being of coarse fibre.
durable. The rest is temporary and
This is the Paris that in a sense
only designed to serve during the
produced her illustrious father, whose
transition years, until the plans for a
universalism made him kin to that
cathedral worthy of the Hebraic
little band of noble souls, and lumi-
groundwork could be worked out.
nous minds 'who are fighting for a
In the plan of a reconstructed so-
living faith, whatever faith it be
ciety, he also saw an honored place
struggling eternally to reaclf the sum-
for his own people, back on its own
mit in their holy war against ignor-
soil, where it could take up the inter-
ance, disease, poverty and prejudice.
rupted task of creating again a con-
Mademoiselle Nordau represents
scious unit. Hence his fervent ardor
that France that is forever giving
for Zionism, his never wavering faith
in his own people. For Nordau con-
new life to poetry and painting and
sidered
the task of Zionism not only
music, the France that is always the
enemy of dim, crepuscular life, and
the redemption of Eretz Israel, but of
tantamount significenee the prepara-
that has this in common with the
tion of Israel for the land of Israel.
sages of the Jewish people that it
And where Max Nordau touched
champions liberty and justice and
seeks the light of reason.
fleetingly upon the characteristic. ,
Mademoiselle Nordau dispelled a and home life of her father, Louis
myth. Her father, she said, was of-
Lipsky, who was the chairman of the
evening, complimented the tableau of
ten regarded as a sceptic, a merciless
critic and a destroyer and in fact his
that brilliant career, with a searching
and profound tribute to Nordau, the
first works, attacking as they did the
tribune of his people, who had caught
moral decadence of Europe, had
the reflection of Herzl's dream. who
largely contributed to this belief, but
had recognized the hero who had of-
Max Nordau was also a builder, an
fered himself as the interpreter, the
idealist with a fervent hope in the
exponent of the great Zionist adven-
future, one who had not lost faith in
ture.
the essential goodness of man. "Con-
sciously or unconsciously he had map-
Mr. Lipsky evoked a picture of
Nordau with settled features, its va-
ped out a task for himself and his lit-
rinhy , heroism , .. chivalry
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illumined by the
l e magic light that '
.troy, and later he would build. Con-
the perspective of years can lend to
temporary criticism has not paid the
same attention to the second period so variegated and manifold a person-
ality.
of his activities," she said, "and con-
"As destiny has robbed us of the
sequently I am afraid he is often mis-
opportunity of looking into the eyes
understood."
of the father, we welcome tonight the
To her audience she revealed her
daughter who combines in herself s o
father in the days of his glory; when
many of Max Nordau's qualities and
princes and statesmen consulted him;
whose
presence stirs again the embers
when his far-seeing and keen concep-
of resemblance of that dominating
tion of the European situation made
the position of Paris correspondent of personality in Jewish life."
the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, which
he occupied, more important from the
standpoint of international politics • PATROTISM AND PIETY
than the Austrian ambassador's post
in the French capital. At that time
How some Jews have deteriorated!
every scientist and every scholar
passing through Paris came to pay his Their ancestors sacrificed property
and person to conserve the Sabbath.
respects at the Nordau home. She
Themselves refuse to sacrifice even
sketched him also in the days of ad-
the convenience. In no doing they -
versity, when he rose to the sublime
do
not realize that they are not only
height of placing his conscience
damaging the present and future of
above the dictates of the earthly
their
own people religiously and mor-
fatherland and he, along with Romain
ally, they are also injurious to their
Rolland paid the price exacted by
social
environment. An observant
chauvinist patriotism, banishment
Jew is a better citizen than one who
from France.
is
lax.
Accordingly
both patriotism
She portrayed an old man, perhaps
e
somewhat bewildered by the momen- and piety counsel proper observanc
tous changes of the great war, a man of • day of rest. To have such duly
consecrated
and
conserved
ought
to
twice disillusioned, first by the mass
be the ambition of Jew and Christian
insanity that drenched Europe in a
working together—Rabbi Alexander
sea of blood and secondly by the
Lyons.
merciless savagery of the conquerors,
who had earlier waved the banners of
justice and self-determination before
FOR CRITICS
the eyes of the war-worn and ex.
haunted peoples. The Balfour Dec-
laration had also been ■ disappoint-
It taken a big person to recognise,
acknowledge and rejoice that some
ment to Max Nordau. In that docu-
ment he did not see the reality of one else is bigger. Little people pre-
fer to find others smaller than them-
which he and Theodor Ilerzl had
selves. Critics will kindly ponder
dreamed together.
this —Rabbi Alexander Lyons.
By one of these unexplained twists