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sacred work. William Jennings Bryan, of sainted mem-
ory, found that his poverty was such that he required
$11,000 in one year to help make both ends meet. Even
the call to destroy the demon rum was not strong
enough to enlist those champions of purity, gratis.
Senators, congressmen, evangelists found that an
honorarium released their dammed-up eloquence.
As Senator Reed of Missouri put it when he chided
Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League
of America:
How To Kill Anti-Semitism
By WALTER RATHENAU
_ .
Published For the First Time in English by Permission of
Maximilian Harden.
revived interest has arisen in Walter '
(Editor's Note
Rathenau, German Jewish statesman who was assassinated sons.
years ago. The publication of his letters to his mother has thrown
a new light upon the Jewish quality in the renowned tinancier-eco-
,nomist. It is because of this renewal of interest that this article
takes on unusual significance. In 1095, when Walter Rathenau was
at the age of 29, he brought to Maximilian Harden, editor of the
Germany.
Zukunft, a long essay treating of the Jewish question in
Harden published it that year—under a pseudonym, as per the re-
quest of its author, who was already a prominent industrial captain.
This is a translation eef the most salient points of that article, which
,
until recently hail never been credited to the assassinated Jewish
statesman. It was written when German Junkerdom was in full
flower. It is a sincere, youthful, perhaps naive appeal to German
Jewry to educate itself and assimilate in order to please its country-
men. But at the same time it emanates a passionate desire for a
beautiful, morally and physically pure Jewishness. Rathenau hated
the Mauschel Jude, the posing, boasting, paranoic type who tried
to be more German than a German. Writicize and educatw'S'ourself
regardless of consequences" is the pathetic outcry of the young
Jewish aristocrat, Rathenau, who was killed 25 years later by the
very countrymen whom he sought to please.)
They don't take vulgar money, they take honorariums.
Its the coin of the realm and the same coin that the
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Of course, it is, but the sacrosanct, hypocrites who
would save America, are so mealy-mouthed that when
they are confronted with an everyday, ordinary fact
of paying for service rendered, they prefer the soft
The Detroit Jewl•h Chronicle invites correspondence on Goblet. of Interest
te the Jewish People, hut disclaims responsibility for an Indorsement of the
word, honorarium, rather than the hard one, pay.
•Iews expressed by the writer.
There are many honest and sincere men and women
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of America who believe that alcoholic liquors are the
July 30, 1926
cause of most of our ills. These beliefs are so strong
Good News from Russia.
After reading the report of Dr. Maurice Hexter on that they contributed money to disseminate information
Id hard- ncerning the evil. The beneficiaries of prohibition
Mexico, one could readily conclude that ne suss
ly approve any scheme for settling the Jews on the land gave the impression that they were in the sacred work,
Unywhere. While he recommended the discourage- not because they were paid, but because they would
ment of further migration to Mexico in a manner that save humanity.
We have known and do know men an
left no room for doubt, his unconcealed enthusiasm for
usually receivee
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body will notice you.
At the very outset I wish to con-
Less that I am a Jew. Do I need jus-
suffer and feel ashamed to be con-
tificationbecause I shall write in 3
sidereal foreigners and half-citizens,
nun-apologetic tone? Moony of my
and who yearn to liberate themselves
colleagues know themselves only as
of the ghetto atmosphere. To these
Germans, not as Jews. There are
latter alone I speak.
Jews who, by profession and inclina-
You ask me if I contemplate con-.
time, come into contact more with
version to Christianity. Of course
Germans than with Jews, who ex-
Nut long ago I happened to
not.
ternally cannot be differentiated
glance through a membership list of
from their German friends—still,
the Jewish community. I came across
sonic of these Jews prefer not to tot-
old, well known names. But strange-
lose any longer after their philo-
ly, I found no acquaintances anions'
Semitic protectors. I am one of
the younger generation. All have
them.
been converted, and areas now em-
These philo-Semites always de-
ployees of the state ? or military olli-
chore: "There is no Jewish problem.
There is very
sers. And why not
When Jews do any harm to the coun-
little difference between the liberal,
try in which they live, it is always
evangelic minister and the reform
due to the irresponsible actions of a
rabbi. The Christian teachings are
few individuals. New laws can be
so natural to the intelligent Jew that
made to apply to these people, or the
m
people easily convince themselves
old ones can be made tort
tort severe."
that it has been abstracted from the
My philo-Semitic fri ends are not en-
Old Testament. So, in most cases the
tirely wrong. True, the answer to
conversions have nothing to do with
the economic question is the law, but
religion or conscience.
I do not wish to speak
the eco- . But conversion does not solve the
More of
threatening
nomic question.
Even if the indi-
is the social, the cultural problem, 'Jewish question.
victual can create better conditions
whose manifestations can be seen at
for himself by conversion, the group
any performance in the lobby of a
cannot. If half of all Israel were
Berlin theater. A strange vision. In
converted. a passionate "Anti-Semit-
the midst of German life there is an
ism Against Converted" would begin.
isolated, foreign human species, brit-
What is the solution? A process
liantly and sensationally ornamented,
.
which has never been tried in all our
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lie made a four weeks' survey of the colonies and their compensation, not in the form of honorariums or
reports that none of the reports does justice to the fees, but in the knowledge and joy of good work clone
astounding achievements of the colonists. As a social for wrong-headed and stupid humanity.
Nothing is more likely to make one suspect in any of
worker and economist, he is primarily interested in the
economic factors, for without a sound economic and in- the movements for social transformation, than the
of fees larger than the wages of the men
dustrial basis, all other factors are of little or no con- acceptance
whose cause you espouse. In moral, ethical and religious
sequence.
Despite all calamitous predictions anent the social movements where the ideal is supposedly freed from
and religious life, he finds that here too the problems the odors of materialism, the acceptance of large hon-
are being solved by the older settlers. He confirmed oraria should be even more strongly condemned than
the previous reports on the friendly relations existing in those causes where the end to be attained is admit-
between the Jews and non-Jewish settlers. The non- telly material.
If anything makes is question the sincerity of Hob-
Jews are receiving the benefits of the technique, meth-
ods and modern machinery introduced by Dr. Joseph
A. Rosen and his corps of able agronomists. He cannot
praise the work of Dr. Rosen too highly. In Dr. Rosen
we find the rare combination of scientists, practical
agronomists, social philosopher anti idealist who en-
visages a Jewry emancipated from all those corrosive
influences which poisoned its life under Czarism.
Ile finds that the government is co-operating with
the colonists, through timber grants and credit exten-
sions. The Soviets are trying to make amends for the
Underprivileged status imposed upon them by the Rom-
anoffs. Jewish nationalists may think that they are
prompted by other reasons and will base it upon Ka-
lenin's statement. No doubt Kalenin expresses official
opinion when he says that the government is opposed
to Zionism, and that it is moved to assist in the present
colonization work to counteract Jewish Nationalism,
but he further and in detail points out that the Soviets
are primarily interested in taking the Jews out of the
unprivileged categories. The Soviets realize that the
Jews are the least responsible for their present status —
d e -
therefore, they are anxious to right the grievous
voted loyalty to essentially Jew is h
s
snt
together
with
principles,
but Judaism receives its
s f Bos o ,
p
logical fruition in contemplating
Kalenin explained the reason for the existence of Charles E. Asnis of Philadelphia, by the Emergency mot
lifein
r its totality. We wontr . whi etth
anti-Semitism among some of the peasants. They think Committee of Jewish Refugees, to investigate the con
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and sunshine with fertile ditions of Jewish immigrant residents in Mexico and to op.
the Crimea a land of warmth and
gogal persecutors, a Mendelssohn,
soil and cool streams. They want to know why they report their findings whether further Jewish immigra- rather than the Sadducean represen•
f a formalized and finalized
should go to Siberia and the Jews be granted land in lion should be encouraged.
ttives
a
" in
• o It seems to us that Visee
careful and full survey, Dr. Hester reached
Crimea. When the facts become known, anti they sure
After
a
Cincinnati,
Geiger in Berlin, and
the conclusion that colonization in Mexico should not Too rn et enfxs) rnetsi nofLoorileolsorn are i the i logical
ly will be, with the adequate machinery for the dissem i
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nation of such information at hand, then it is safe to only be encour ged but definitely discouraged, and he
o did not hesitate to incorporate an
w h n o
assume that every vestige of anti Jewish feeling will further states that only in the minds . of steamship
.
Hellenicideal into the book of Job or
agents, petty Jewish politicians, certain
of Ecclesiastes. "Receive th e
h re b
disappear.
n i rce," said
trk matter
o r ft
w Lat i int sou
ficials and harassed suffering and desperate Jewish im
do ctuotr
the
migrants, does such a thought as colonization prevail.
diverse sources, word comes from Reuben Brainin, hon
The prophet who stood by the high-
orary vice-president of the Zionist Organization of
He sums up his conclusions based upon economic
F • t and Syria who
way e• ee
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roes.. That is the first sten to self-
There is the undiscussabl truth
'd that
he
that the best Ger ans have
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eli.t. ille;11.10k it a l mustt a l ‘ i othdamtitWe
revulsion against m the Jew an d 11 eie
group. cannot dissociate our'eeiver1
acts. This contempt is especially
from the action of any individual in
speak
t awitcowneover sli
ofe am t u nsiti naal r s v o a (\fin Yisti rt b leilt
n o
e:nuromo idnis it(ist W
(sroPuisirenInactchrose
as strange phenom pena. AIX:I/per i f
aj
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strong race. our Asiatic . a nnearan
we Jews try to close our eyes to the
a
direction
of the current, we c nnot "our negligent, limning nostures are
• When we sec
not very
rid ourselves of the suffocating feel -
esrnize that
'that one ;oft; Oriental shy:
ing of discrimination and — isolation.
oique is a symbol of our physical de•
. But what does Israel do to liberate
generation,
we will be willing to
Int oset lf of this hatred? Less than
sneered a few generations on our physi-
hin g. Of course you (Jews) gave
cat
renaissance
alone.
u the idea of being the selected peo-
You will give on wearing the
p e. You do not any more pretene
clothes
of
the
Anglo-Saxon,
in which
to be superior in intelligence or can
You look like a parody, like a Dachs-
ning. But you think yourselves above
hund
aning
a
greyhound.
You
will
criticism. Do you believe that God
will send King Mersin to help you? 4 take off your sailor costumes while
on
the
beach;
you
will
remove
your
Have you not noticed that or the
golf stockings when in the Alps. First
last 2,000 years He has not been par-
learn how to run. to swim. to climb.
titularly anxious to have anything to
I do not know how the Jewish na-
do with you? The God of Vengeance
tion looked in Palestine. But one
and Victory had a lenient heart for
thing
is sure: that 2,000 years ago
a people of warriors; He has no in-
were enough to burn traces into us
terest in a people of shop-keepers
which
no chemical can remove. Our
and brokers.
women have forgotten to smile. Now.
You who pretended to be wise and
their
laughter
is shrill and unpleas-
worldly said: "Who possesses wealth,
ant, and their beauty saddening. Jew-
possesses might." Now, you have
ish
women
have
a beauty of their
wealth; but your wealthy ones are
own, if they would not strangle it in
less respected than your poor. Your
silks
and
clouds
of
embroideries and
eloquence was selfish and your props-
nests of diamonds.
ganda vain. You have founded so-
If
you
would
only
forget your con-
cieties to defend instead of to at-
stant desire to represent. If you
tack. You have made life miserable
would
see
yourselves
as sportsmen,
to the best of yours, and now they
as Maecenas, as political figures, you
have turned away from you. The
would
laugh
at
yourselves.
you with
state has made citizens of you and
your pointed sarcasm and uncanny
raised you as Germans. I know that
powers
of
observation.
you have paid your taxes and gone
But all this is self-accusation.
through military service. Neverthe-
Whether we will be accepted by our
less, you remained strangers, clamor-
countrymen is unimportant.
mg for equal rights. You speak of
Work for a better, more aesthetic,
the rights of the weak, but this right
more tactful Jew and the grandchil-
must be obtained by aggression. If
dren
of today's indifferent parents
you prefer to parade with martyrs'
will follow you.
crowns on your heads, go to it—no-
garnered the thought of the caravans
that came from and journeyed to ev-
ery nation of the world was much
more appreciative of Jewish values
than an American whose chief solid-
tude was the preservation of a cult
and the excommunication of the pro-
gressively-minded seer.
More than ceremony is the ethic of
faith, greater than the ritual is its
(V'Chai bokem.)
commandments.
They were given to us that we might
live by them—and liberalism stands
for life. Liberalism looks upon the
Jew as a moral priest of God's truth
rather than as a sinner in exile, and
rejoices when our Jewish words are
cast upon an American Liberty Bell,
and engraves upon the tablets of an
America's heart. We are not a par-
ochial people; we are "a light unto
the nations."
As life evolves, so Judaism develops.
Ile who denies it the right to reconcile
the Torah with the thought of the
newer day, is more interested in self,
and privilege) and prerogative, than
he is in Judaism. An Abraham who
turns a deaf ear to the progressive
revelation of a living God, who teaches
a new and better way of worshipping
God, is an Abraham more concerned
with pride of opinion and with sloth-
fulness of mind, and priestly pomp,
than he is in being the instrumental-
ity, through who m all the nations of
the earth shall be blessed.
In Judaism, ceremonials were never
final or sacramental. It is not Edicts
that dissolve or modify ritualistic in-
stitutions. A Sanherin or Din Torah
neither create or abolish a custom of
Israel, when life itself decrees other-
wise. When a norm stands between
life and religion. life is either unin-
fluenced by religion, or religion be
comes simply one of the departments
of a man's consciousness, or a mecha-
nized and magical instrument of his
social life, or an obsolete revelation
of • God who does not command that
the children of Israel shall go for-
ward.
Because the liberal Jew of America
has met the challenge of life, is he a
potent factor in the intellectual, the
civic, the educational and the philan-
thropic life of the land. His word is
listened to in every area of human cul-
ture. And he is a force for the es-
tablishment of a better understanding
between group - and group. He has
not alone not lost his Jewish con-
sciousness: his liberalism is but an ex.
pressica of It.
Therefore, I bring to this interna-
tional group, the hearty greetings of
ray colleagues, their gratitude to the
distinguished leaders of this Liberal
Religions Union that has called on to-
gether. and their earnest hops. that
through his conference, the liberal
movement in international Jewry may
grow in strength, in high purpose, and
in glorious achievement.
1C:a001SE
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The Heart Of Jerusalem
By DR. M. ROBINSON.
A Colorful Description of the Oldest Center of the Modern
Upbuilding of Jerusalem.
(Editor's Note:—We present herewith one of the moving de-
scriptive articles of pioneering life in Palestine, written by the
well-known European-Jewish journalist, Dr. M. Robinson, now living
the life of the pioneer in Palestine.)
The center, the heart of New .1e)
rusalem, is the large district of 51,11
Sheorim. If you pass by the magnifi-
cent buildings of the Italian Hospital,
you will emerge into a long noisy
street. You immediately become
aware of a firm, deeply-rooted Jew-
ish settlement. The traditional Jew-
ish expansiveness of Galuth origin.
the refined piety of old Jerusalem
and the new civil liberties created by
the advent of the national home, are
all merged here. And over all quiv-
ers and palpitates the turbulent roar
of a specifically Jewish economic
force...seeking new outlets.
Mea Sheorim is a sea of shops and
booth., overflowing with a wealth of
merchandise waiting for customers.
Every conceivable article of merchan-
dise or fond can be purchased here.
The variety ranges from Galician
money-changing tables and mothy
collections of Vilna sephorim and
"sanctified" tzitzis to apparel for all
climatic exigencies. Here a barber
is clipping • pious "sidecurl," a scribe
is tracing his inscriptions on phylac-
teries, and there a mill grinds out
fluiir for Passover matzos.
On the outskirts of Mea Sheorim
stand stone fortresses, long struc-
tures with narrow windows and doors
and innumerable Moorish balconies.
These are the great barracks for im-
poverished Talmudic scholars. Here
are found the centers for Warsaw,
Vilna, Harodna and Bucharest Jews,
and especially for Hungarian Jews.
These are immense buildings, larger
even than the great fort at Prszmysl.
Hundreds of scholars and their Noti-
fies dwell here in little rooms. The
pious Jewesses carry on their house-
wifely duties in the vast paved court-
yards. The Hungarian center has a
mikvah. a synagogue, Hebrew schools
and a Yeshivah named after Chasam
Sopher. More than 1.000 families
live in these centers and ant only do
they not pay any rental for their
lodgings, but they even receive small
occupy
subventions. The fathers
themselves with sacred studies and
theft sons strive to acquire profes-
sions. The old Chalukab spirit is
(Continued on seri page.)