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July 16, 1926

Ab 5, 5686

A Dignified Answer.

The Joint Distribution Committee answered the
attacks made on it at the Zionist Convention held in
Buffalo in a forthright, though dignified, manner.
In his opening speech at the convention, Mr. Lipsky
characterized the activities of the J. D. C. as a menace
to Zionism, because they periled the priority of Pales-
tine colonization.
The resolution, as finally adopted by the convention,
reads as follows:

This convention endorses the views extended by the
chairman of the Zionist Organization of America in his
annual address to the convention with regard to the at-
tempt which has been made, in public utterance and in
organized propaganda, to give the agricultural relief meas-
ures for the Jews of Russia a significance tending to
counteract the efforts of 'Zionists extending over it whole
generation, to mobilize the public sentiment of Jewry
in favor of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

If the temper of the convention was not adequately
expressed in the resolution, the illuminating statement
of Mr. Lipsky during the debate on the resolution indi-
cates clearly what he thinks of the Russian colonization
scheme, for he said :

What we object to is something in the propaganda. This
propaganda for the colonization is being conducted in such
a way as to destroy the unity of American Jewry. It
IS being used for the purpose of counterfoil of the Pales-
tine project.

4

leled by any group of non-Jews in America, the com-
mittee has done a splendid piece of work in helping to
relieve the distress of Polish Jewry and settling thou-
sands of Russian Jews upon the land.
If there is one thing over-enthusiastic Zionists must
learn, it is that Zionism is not synonymous with the Jew-
ish people.
This controversy was bound to come. The lack of
acrimony and the generous dignity of the J. D. C. should
recommend the work of the organization to every Jew
who is interested in the good life for the Jew wherever
he may live.

The Sesqui and Klan Parade.

Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick was confronted with
a case which required Solomon's wisdom when he had
to decide whether the Klan parade, which was sched-
uled for Sept. 10, should be permitted or banned.
During the Centennial, many organizations will par-
ade, for it is the purpose of the committee in charge to
persuade as many parading organizations as possible
to avail themselves of the advantages offered by the ex-
position. Not the least advantage of an exposition is
the fact that the paraders have a large audience from
all over the world as spectators. As long as the pur-
poses of the parade itself are lawful, there is no doubt
that the mere issuance of a permit is not discretionary,
but is a purely administrative act.
There is nothing inherently illegal in an unmasked
Klan parade, but because of the protests of many Jew-
ish rabbis and lay leaders, the parade has been forbid-
den.
The reasons advanced by the Jewish leaders were
sound and persuasive. The exposition celebrates the
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence. That document, although not much
read, announces that all men are created free and equal
and have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. - It does seem not a little incon-
gruous and inconsistent to permitan organization dedi-
cated to the principle of inequality and denial of free-
dom to flaunt its banners in the face of those who have
conic. in a festive spirit to enjoy the triumphs of free-
dom and equality.
We certainly have no use for the Klan and have
condemned its purpose, ideals and practices upon all
occasions, but yet the denial of the right to parade,
when the parade is entirely legal, violates a fundamen-
tal. That two wrongs do not make a right is a vener-
ated bromide, but yet such is the situation. The Klan
is wrong, unqualifiedly and inexcusably in its whole at-
titude toward American life and practices—but was
the mayor of Philadelphia justified for that reason in
forbidding the parade?
Insistence upon freedom may have become a
fetich with us, but yet when the by-products of denial
are impartially examined one is convinced that this de-
mand for freedom cannot be urged too often or too
much. The exposition is dedicated to the restatement
of the doctrine of freedom and liberty, not only ex-
pressed in the Declaration but implicit in the theory of
democracy.
We cannot with a knowledge of the facts and with
an appreciation of the spirit of the Declaration approve
the action of the mayor even though it is directed at one
of the most meretricious and odious organizations
which have flowered in post war America. It would
have been much better to have attempted to teach the
Klan members some lessons in freedom and equality.

According to all this and much more which can be
adduced, the J. D. C. is a rallying point for all anti and
non-Zionist propagandists.
But do the facts give any color to these assertions?
Of the $60,000,000, raised by the J. D. C. prior to the
present campaign, $7,000,000 were allocated for Pales-
tine. In the budget of $15,000,000, decided upon at the
Philadelphia convention last September, $1,500,000
were for Palestine.
If the J. D. C. movement is a counterfoil propaganda
against Palestine then surely it moves in a most curi-
ously inexplicable fashion to achieve its end when it
gives millions toward the very thing it wishes to destroy.
Another serious complaint made against the J. D. C.
is that it conducted its propaganda in such a way as
to destroy the unity of American Jewry. We frankly
are amazed to learn that there is or was a unity of
American Jewry. Let us assume, for the sake of argu-
ment, that the Zionist movement has labored faithfully
to achieve this much-desired unity. What was the net
result of all this effort to consummate this devoutly-
wished-for unity on the basis of Zionism prior to the
appearance of the J. D. C. propaganda. The total Zion-
ist membership, including the Zionist Organization of
America, Hadassah and Order Sons of Zion, is 71,000.
This was an increase of 7,000 over 1925. In other
words, out of the 3,600,000 Jews in America in 1925.
less than two per cent had been unified under the ban-
ner of Zionism.
The fact is that American Jewry is sundered anti
separated by the same schisms, conflicts and differences
as obtain among non-Jews. We have conservative anti
radical, religious and non-religious, Zionist and non-
Zionists working and capitalist Jews. If at any time a
semblance of unity emerged among American Jews it
was during the period of relief drives when $60,000,000
were raised for overseas sufferers. Since then the finest
concerted effort was manifested during the latest
U. J. C. campaign, which succeeded in raising over
$15,000,000 toward a $25,000,000 quota.
The men and women in charge of the J. D. C. are
primarily interested in the Jews who are suffering from
the economic collapse of Poland and Bessarabia anti the
dislocations in Russia due to the revolution. They are
not unmindful, however, of the needs of the Jews in
Palestine. If many of them cannot see the possibility
for establishing the Jewish Homeland in Palestine, it
is not because they do not appreciate the idealism and
heroism of those who have undertaken the task, but
rather because they do not believe that it can be done.
The reasons why they so believe are so multifarious
that even mere enumeration is beyond our present
scope.
The appalling conditions in Europe were brought to
their attention and in the words of the answer they
say: "More than a year ago we were reluctantly
convinced that the condition of the Jews of Europe
was such as to give reality to the fear that they were
approaching a cataclysm." The committee was not
responsible for the catastrophe, and only reluctantly
was it convinced, bid the unhappy condition did exist
and it was nece. ry to take steps to relieve and
liquidate it.
After the J. D. C. had decided upon a fund-raising
campaign, it certainly had to prosecute it with as much
enthusiasm and diligence as it was able to command.
The men in charge are accustomed to doing things ener-
getically and efficiently. Money had to be raised to
relieve the indescribable misery of Polish Jewry, while
the Russian situation could only be met by a land settle-
ment movement. Were they to say to the Zionists: "By
your leave and craving your indulgence," or were they
to make the strongest possible appeal to American
Jewry so that even the most indifferent and calloused
would respond.
The essential difference between the J. D. C. and the
Zionist Organization consists in the fact that the former
is interested in world Jewry and its manifold problems,
while the Zionist Organization is interested mainly
in the creation of a Homeland for Jews in Palestine.
The J. D. C. recognizes the needs and requirements
of the 7,000,000 Jews of Europe as well as the 150,000
' In Palestine. With a fine generosity and, if we may say
without that putting so commonly employed, unparal-

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If it is true that anti-Semitism
open or disguised exists wherever
there are .lows, Tunis is certainly no
exception to the rule. Tunis, a bar-
barous counts y still, after -15 years
of French occupation, was before the
occupation subject to an anti-Semi-
tism as brutal and as stupid as that
of any country Of Eastern Europe, an
anti-Semitism provoked sometimes by
erumvmie or religious reasons, but al-
NV ays at bottom a matter of "cash."
Anti-Semitism in Tunis showed itself
tothe every-day round of .lewish life;
sometimes it took the form of n stu-
dents' rag, sometimes it Was more vio-
lent in method and more humiliating
in its results, and very frequently it
consisted of a flagrant case of dis-
crimination against the Jews, a wieh-
drawal of the nest rudimentary of the
Jewish population.

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Anti-Semitism
In Tunis

By JACQUES BELAIS
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(Copyright, 19'26, by Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

■ WII•lb

The Ascent of American Israel

By LOUIS MARSHALL

(Editor's Notet—The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence con-
stitutes an epoch-making date in the history of America and in the
history of the American Jewish community. This great event, cele-
brated by Americans of all persuasions, has it particular significance
for the Jewish community, as the principles proclaimed by the new
American republic 150 years ago had not only a far-reaching effect
(on the further progress of the highest ideals of mankind, but also
constituted a turning point in the history of American Israel which
since that memorable date has grown and developed under unparal-
leled conditions of freedom and equality. Louis Marshall, president
of the American Jewish ('ommittee, in an address delivered on the
occasion of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anni-
versary of the settlement of the Jews in America, has given expres-
sion to sentiments and thoughts which are appropriate today on the
occasion of the sesqui-centennial celebration.)

to the community, but he supported
A survey of the civilized world, as
by their own nation."
it existed 250 years ago, indicates that
And so they found II spot upon the
se, for as the Jew was concerned—
olove on which the right to live and
politically, materially, socially—his
to remain Wits granted to them.
fortunes were at the lowest ebh.
Driven from England in 1290, for 365
Hut to live, oftimes means but to
years no Jews had been permitted to
Vegetate; to crave and beg; to slink
live in the land which has become
with downcast eyes before a master's
the mother of freedom. Driven fruits
frown; to sow in terror and to reap
Spain in 1.152, and shortly theretifter
in dread; to see the bows of promise
Phrases like "Jew Dog" or "Curses
from Portugal, none of the Jewish
fade and die. This, too, might have
on the reLgi, n cf the Jews" were som-
stock.
save
the
Marranos,
whose
out-
been
the fate or our pioneers had
mooplace in the mouth of an Amit y se-
there not been among them a man of
eded like a sort of i•antation When- • ward live: were the inca•nathon of
falsehood,
dwelt
upon
the
Iberian
heroic
stature., of Titanic mold,
eve! he met a Jew. If a Jew stew(' up
Peninsula, la Lust, the cossack up-
worthy to (occupy a commanding po-
against the insulter, he was lin-
rising
under
Chielnicki
transformed
sition
in
the Walhalla of our early
niediately
surrounded by a hostile
the dream of mace and prosperity of
American history. Iligh looms up the
crowd, stones flew left and right and
the
Russian
and
Polish
Jews
into
the
figure
of
Asser Levy, whose name I
lee was lucky if he escaped lynching.
horrible reality which has ever since.
can never mention without &Toe: t
The best thing the Jew could do was
ovet•whelint
(I
them
with
an
avalanche
reverence,
the protagonist of Jewis:i
to hide somewhere out of the way, far
of Misery, WI 44'114 dlieSS and degrade._
rights and liberties in America, em-
if he were caught by the molt—the
tion.
The
Jew-
or
Germany
and
Aus-
bodiment of the Jew militant, proto-
mob meaning any gathering of Arabs,
type of the American revolutionist,
the intellectual dreamers of the Theo- - tria dwelt within the ghetto walls,
and suffered from every species of
than whom there is no one in the his-
logical Seminary attached to the
insoolt, contumely, and discrimination.
tory of our people more worthy to be
Mosque and the French-educated civ-
In Frame and Italy the Jew was it
held in honored memor•. The record-.
il servants just as much as the rabble
Pariah and an outcast.
of New Amsterdam (overflow with
of the streets—he was• not finished
Holland lens the sole oasis in the
civic rictuses attained by him, more
with after he was beaten uncOnqiiitit•
desert of human malevolence. There
potent in their consequences than
stripped of his clothes, and robbed of
the Jew and the Puritan, the ancient
those won on the bloody fields of
his 1114.11ly, but thousands of witnesses
and the modern people of the book,
battle.
would tome forward and swear that
found a haven of refuge, and behind
Stuyvesant, smarting under the re-
he, this that of a Jew, had blasphemed
the dikes of toleration of that enlight-
x ersal of his policy by his superiors,
the name of Mohamet and had thrash-
ened country, were afforded protec-
became a strict constructionist of rho
ed in:tomtit Arab children. The un-
tion from the wild sea of persecution
grunt which enabled the Jews to trade
fortunate Jew against whom such an
which menaced them.
in New Netherland, and forbade them
allegation Wau made would find him-
Pt trade at Fort Orange, the present
From Holland sailed the Mayflower
, self promptly thrust into prison and
city of Albany, or iii the direction of
with its precious cargo of humanity.
it was a question of how long he would
the Delaware•. Promptly the Jews ap- r
Thence sailed a party of Jews, to
he kept languishing there. Generally
pealed to Holland, and promptly canoe
bound n colony in Brazil, which then
he was not released before he had of-
a decree permitting trade to be car-
owed alit giance to the Netherlands.
Need alt indemnity to the family of
ried on throughout the Dutch posses-
For a tins. fortune smiled on the col-
the imaginary Arab child and to the
sions.
onists, They prospered. They were.
prison guards.
The rights given to the Jews were
happy. Their he-arts were filled with
The Jews were confined to a special
then declared by Stuyvesant not to
gratitude to the God who had enahle•I
quarter—the Hasa, the ghetto of Tu-
include that of holding real property.
C. limbos to discover (he new conti-
nis. The y Were compelled ti wear
Once more an appeal was taken to the
nent, not with the aid of the jewels
a black skull cap, and whenever one
authorities, and again the Jew pn-
of them ventured out of the ghetto to • of Isabella, but with that of the Jews,
vailed, and Asser Levy became the
whose funds supplied the caravels
i r w,olsostons
ourchaso i
or on Ire bust-
first Jewish (owner of real property
which formed the discoverer's convoy.
he
f
But
their
jay
tv:is
shoortlived.
In
within the United States, and it will
o
es
getting
Ara
ele7ey
st
r
o
lln
u
t
r
t
y
e
tr
oha
kcl
lls
ge 'lts it(tra
be interesting to know that this ac-
16 1 Portugal wrested from Holland
which any Arab meeting hint would
quiktion
of property took place in
the
Brazilian
territory,
and
these
chil-
administer with the very amiably a,
1661, in Albany, one year before a
dren of the tribe of the wandering
cempanying remark: "One %Mask for
Jew
became
the (owner of real prop-
foot
were
once
more
compelled
to
take
you; one for your father, and one for
erty in the city of New l'ork.
up their pilgrimage to seek more fa-
your ancestor." Raids on the Jewish
At
this
time,
life in New Amster-
vorable
skies.
A
party
of
23
set
sail
quarter were frequent occurences.
dam was far from secu re, The ene-
on the St. Catarina for New Amster-
Jewish houses were pillaged, Jews
mies
of
!holland
threatened from the
dam,
believing
that
Holland,
with
were assassinated, Jewish women vio-
sea, and the Indians from the land,
which they had united their fortunes,
lated. Justice in Tunis did not exist
and
it
became
necessary for the
owed, to them, somewhere, a resting-
for the Jews. The common rule was
burghers to stand guard for the pro-
pla•e. In their hasty departure they
"Baksheesh." It was encouraged by
tection
of
their
homes.
Stuyvesant
were compelled to sacrifice their pos-
those in high authority, and it was the
would not permit the Jews to exercise
sessions, and, to secure the captain of
only effective way 'of preventing
the
right
of
municipal
defense,
the vessel for their transportation,
and
trouble, unless it happened that an un-
imposed on them, in lieu of that obli-
each of that band of refugee, became
usually courageous man tinning the
gation, a special tax. The tax collector
sponsor for the others and pledged
Jews at very great personal risk de-
came to Asser Levy, with his warrant.
his person and his gooda to attain
manded intervention by a foreign con-
"Is this tax imposed on all of the
sul.
that harbor, around which the-re now
residents of New Amsterdam?" was
dwells the largest Jewish community
The French occupation of Tunis and
the world has ever known.
the question propounded, "Ni,' was
the strengthening of the authority of
the reply; "it is only imposed upon
It is a source of inspiration, nut
the foreign consulates which followed,
only to their descendants, but to the
the Jews, b•eause they do not stand
put an end to this tragic position of
entire country as well, that the grand-
guard." "I have not asked to he ex-
the Jews of Tunis. It is a well-au-
children of the Pilgrim Fathers an-
empted," said Asper Levy. "I am not
thenticated fact that France's inter-
nually celebrate their historic landing
only willing, but I demand the right
vention in the destiny of Tunis was
on Plymouth Rock, and dwell upon
to stand guard." "But you are not a
precipitated by an anti-Jewish out-
the virtues of their ancestors, their de-
citizen," was the objection which met
rage committed by a member of the
votion to the principle, their willing-
him. "Then what is there to prtivent
Forty eight of the most prominent writers and jour- entourage of the Bey of Tunis.
ness tut make every sacrifice for the
my becoming a citizen?" was his proud
Since
the
occupation,
the
anti-Jew-
nalists in Russia sent an appeal to the Perez Society
•
right to exercise their
consciences,
rejoinder. A new contest arose; Stay-
ish manifestations by the Arabs have
requesting that the Jewish writers in America work
their struggles and their triumphs.
vesant quailed before the resolute man
become less frequent, although they
It will serve equally as an inspira-
and Asser Levy became the first Jew-
are still very much in evidence. But
for the land settlement movement now going on there.
tion to us, and as a valuable lesson
ish citizen in America, acquiring that
some time past, the Jews of Tunis
A people is being transformed from a bartering, for
to our fello•-citizens of other denomi-
priceless badge of manhood which, it
have had to meet an anti-Semitism of
huckstering people to a creative laboring one, accord- another kind, that of the French col- nations, to become better acquainted was then contended, had never been
the Jewish Pilgrim Fathers who,
completely conferred even on those
ing to the manifesto. A genuine effort is being made onists. The settlers who have come with
when the inhabitants of what is de-
Jews who resided in Amsterdam it-
France to live in Tunis are full
to right the inverted pyramid which has always char- from
stined to become the cosmopults, con-
self.
of envy of the Jews and their intel-
Levy, having thus the right of a
acterized Jewish life in Russia. When this inverted lectual emancipation. The Jews are sisted of a mere handful. landed here,
as the pioneers of Jewish settlement.
asked tit become one of the
more
successful
in
their
lousiness
un-
pyramid toppled as it always threatened to do, then dertakings because they are more They were poor and humble, as were burgher,
sworn butchers of the community. He
the plight of a people living under such precarious con- closely connected with the native pop- the Fathers of the Knickerbockers. had refused because of his religion,
They were unfortunate, as were most
but, as usual, he fought, and the right
ulation whose language they speak
ditions became evident to everyone.
of t he dwellers in the infant colony.
was accorded to him, with the added
fluently and with whose habits and
Czardom with its sordid ghettos, its restricted customs
They were imbued with a deep and
condition, upon which he insisted, re-
they are well acquainted, be-
areas, its limitations upon occupations made it impos- cause they are themselves natives of abounding trust in God, a virtue pos- ligious Jew as he was, that he should
sessed by the greater part of our early
not he compelled to slaughter swine.
sible for the Jew to live a normal economic life. He the- country.
American colonists. They differed in
There are records extant of upward
Two Arabs came to a Jewish mer-
was compelled to eke out an existence by huckstering
one respect only—they were the vic-
of 70 litigations in which this remark-
chant, bought a number of articles
and bartering; speculation and usury. It is no wonder, and went out without paying. The tims of the prejudice and of the in- able man was engaged. He was his
tolerance of the entire world.
own counsel, and, almost without ex-
tried to stop them, but for
therefore, that when czarism fell that those whose eco- merchant
Their greeting in New Amsterdam
ception, he succeeded in his conten-
his pains was beaten unconscious and
nomic base was most unsound should be the greatest
was inauspicious. Their goods, which
tions, because they were right and
left lying in a pool of blood.
had been pledged for their transporta-
consisted merely of a demand for jus-
In the twinkling of an eye his shop
sufferers. Despite the fact that they knew how
tice. He Was
tion, were seized. Two of their num-
was surrounded ley an Arab crowd
a respecter of per_
wretchedly they lived under the huckstering and bar- preventing other Jews from coming to ber were imprisoned as hostages until sons, he even not
sued a member of the
tering regime, yet they clamored for the meager flesh- his assistance and the two Arab as- the funds should arrive with which to governor's; family for enticing away a
the obligations of the party.
servant, and withal he gained the re-
pots of czardom when they had been deprived of every- sailants were well on their way to meet
Peter Stuyvesant, the hardheaded and
spect, not only of the community in
making goed their escape. A police-
thing under the new scheme which placed producers man who happened to pass by, how- the irascible, moved by the bigotry whit+ he lived, of its inhabitants and
of
the
age,
gave
notice
that
the
new
its governing body, but he was even
ever,
arrested
them.
They
told
him
a
in the most favored categories.
arrivals were not only unwelcome,
story about the Jewish
called into Connecticut for the pur-
According to the manifesto, however, the Soviets cock-and-bull
but would not he received, and that
pose of adjusting differences and of
merchant having taken their money
are deeply concerned about the rehabilitation of the and then demanding payment again. they must once more cross the dreary proteeting the rights of his brethren
in faith. His civic and tolerant spirit
Jewish masses, not as slaves to petty traderism and The policeman, unconvinced, took the waste I if waters to seek anew, if such Was
there were, a place to rest their weary
evidenced by the fact that he
two Arabs to the police station, but
speculation, but as self-respecting, solidly rooted pro- the sergeant on duty there decided feet.
leaned money to the Lutheran congre-
Surely this was a condition more
gation to enable it to build a house
ducers on a plane of equality with the non-Jews. To that the whole affair was not worth
serious than the hyperborean blasts
of worship, a spirit subsequently man-
out a charge-sheet for, and
achieve this result, the Soviets have alloted laud worth making
of winter, tlw defiant war cry of the
ifested in 1711 by the Jews of that
he allowed the Arabs to go, forthwith.
$50,000,001) and are subsidizing each family with as Next day, the jaspers appeared giving savage Indian, the terrors and priva- time, who rontributed a substantial
much cash as can at this time be spared. The plan is the facts of the ease and the police- tions of the wilderness. But that amount for the erection of a steeple
small band was composed of that stuff
was seen to have acted
for Trinity Church in the City of New
to settle within 10 years 500,000, of which number sergeant
York.
which builds states and nations—men,
wrongly. The Arabs have been re-
self-respecting, dignified, permeated
70,000 are already settled.
arrested, but their case has n t)"
The colonial Jew availed himself of
•
with the Maecab•an spirit: men cog-
come
up
before
the
court.
his
rights. He freely engaged in trade
The writers and creative artists of Czarist Russia
The second event concerns the stu- nizant of their rights, devoted to prin- and commerce on a large scale, as an
dreamed of the day when the Jew would not have to4
de nts at the cole Colonials d'agri- ciple, seeking justice, who were will- exporter and importer. His merchan-
ing, if nesd were, to fight for the rec-
schoo l founded by the
dise floated on every sea. His enter-
play the role of sycophant and groveller. They had in c ult ure,
ognition of their manhood. And so,
govern
government
a
for the sons of
prises were extensive. He invaded the
mind a time when the Jew would be a creative* laborer French
when Stuyvesant,hreate.ned d•porta-
French colonists. These students very.
wilderness and added largely to the
who could take his place with all the other group s -in ,, trt . li u tently arrange "rags," going tion and sought to slam the gates of productive wealth of the country with
America in the faces of these Jewish-
the city, shouting "Down with
which he became identified. During the
Russia because he too had contributed his share to
immigrants, they did nut tamely or
Revolutionary War he cast his for-
material and creativeproduction of the land. That day
the
cringingly stilmit, they did not fawn
ag:;.;., je"l'
•;•Jat:,:. of at ch tenn f
protested
turoes with the infant !mobile. Ile
has really come to Russia and, if we should even dis -
action
the ett
a udats x.. A. or bend the suppliant knee, but they served in the Continental Army. In
appealed to the Dutch west India
the dark days, when the British seized
count some of the exuberant enthusiasm, yet it is self Jewish journal published
c ompany, which Was the controlling
town about 150 kilometers from Tun-
New York, the majority of the lead-
evident that the problem of the Jew in every land will
p:iwec over the colony, insisting upon
(:..rftirh
eder,
against
ing Jews, leaving their property lee-
their right to to•come inhabitants of
agriculturists,
ctuh elt rist
A
hind them, removed to Philadelphia,
be near solution if not entirely solved, when he cannot
h
New Netherland.
couple of days later.
students
loyal to the country which they felt
longer be called parasite anti non - producer.
As a result, in April 26, 1655, a
b
e,lown. in force to Sfax, where
to be their own. When the treasury
The Jewish writers of Russia may be assured that, th ey
glorious
clay in the history of Israel,
.y tr
themselves
was well-nigh empty, Ilaym Salomon
rime from Holland the charter of our
p le v
rand-'
t t
tathVr icci:(;
loaned out of his private fortune,
not only will the Jewish writers in America do all with- of this reWisth epat
ewith sti and stones and anything liberties, halted not on sufferance. but sums of money which in those days
in their power to assist in this renaissance, but every
on ctnsideratit na of equity and jus-
y
d lay their hands un. The
seemed enormous, a large part of
Gee, in which was proclaimed this mes-
Jew in America who is not completely blinded by preju-sunny‘slycoem
a
sepal
wit h
which was never repaid to him or to
sage, replete with healing to these
life
has
lalgc'd
his
descendants. Not only did he fur-
dice, or personal spleen, will continue to support the the students with the French commis- aching hearts:
nish funds to the government, hut,
land settlement with all the material and moral backing soo ner.
"After many consultations we have
without his munificence, such men as
decided and resolved upon a certain
Anti-Semitism is deeply rooted in
Madison, as they themselves confessed,
at his disposal.
petition Made by paid Portuguese Jews
Tunis. It has grown to the proporo
would have been unable to hale given
Out of the cataclysm of the war anti the revolution
that they shall have permission
a n n a e pindiT ie very
to the cause of liberty the energies
sail to and trade in New NetherlsindK which they devoted to it
may yet come the solution of the perplexing and ap-
There are two w recent
me occurren
a a s
and to live and remain there, pro-
But why resits these instances of
parently insoluable problems which have for centuries which
will illustrate the position of
vided the poor among them shall not
the If patty of the American Jew to
vexed European Jewry.
become a harden to the company or
the JPWS in Tunis.
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