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man who wants to work for himself private settler Jews and about one-
moves on, on, as soon as he has learned half to the Jewish National Fund.
his trade, to an individualist colony; This half is unalienable, but is let on
another goes if to friends or relations long lease to the settlers at rent,
at another kvutzah; another moves on which shall not depend upon the On-
By THE RT. HON. JOSIAH C. WERGWOOD, D. S. 0., M. P.
to see life or seek a husband; another provement affected by the settlers. To
is moved o n as a failure. Only grad- induce the Turkish Effendis to sell the
(Copyright, 1927, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)
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ually, as the kvutzah becomes pros- J. N. F. had to pay about twice as
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perous, does roving cease. Few of its much as the land was worth economi-
None of the Jews who go to Pales- ceives wages. The existence is that inhabitants will want to leave Dag- tally, roughly they paid £20 an acre
tine know anything worth knowing Of the Desert Island, and those }mit- aniah or Merhaviah now, and such fur
f aThen h
about agriculture; most of them want zoth are lucky which have an admir- communit ies can pick and choose land
s
a a
fit d al
r ii acailullr
to cultivate land; and as there is avail- able crichton to guide them. The whom they will have.
bu h lI kntgs
able neither sufficient land, nor suffi- elected committee (sand) rule, which
to
It will lie observed that the kvutzoth
consists generally of the specialists
such as Bal-
■,1 4 ; cient capital, nor sufficient education, in the various lines of production. get provide education in agriculture, a Except
most of them have to put up with the
very necessary service.. In every tonna, . the' settlers had nothing to
t w o •ith. will
towns. On balance some 90,000 Jews together in the evenings and decide other case of successful colonization
be holding of each fain-
The
what
work
shall
be
done
the
next
day.
have settled in Palestine since the war,
averages 25 acres of which per-
the immigrants have known something
and of these not noire than 10,000 Unpleasant jobs, like cooking, are of the trade, but here the men and Napa two
sooner or later irri-
in rotation; that is why the
gated.
have found any work on the land and taken
feeding is so uncomfortably primitive. more emphatically the women, know
not more than 5,000 are working as
The
cost,
therefore,
per family
Let me take an example, and I ad- nothing. The Zionist leaders tried to works out somewhat as follows.
free men or women in the new free
p l eased provide an education abroad which
Land
colonies. But that is where most Jews mit that it is the one that
Otto
should instil essentials before they
Buildings
of Palestine and most Jews of Eastern me best. Daganiah A. is a kvutzoth landed i in Palestine. But that did not
320
Live stock
Europe would be if they could—free of 24 families lying beside Jordan and work, conditions were so different.
91
Fodder for the same
men in the free colonies of Palestine. the Sea of Galilee. No man who loves They have established training schools
40
Tools, ncachine s
It is not merely the getting back to his fellows can fail in this beautiful for boys and girls and orphans and
73
And petrol for the year
the land from the economic slavery of spot to imagine that at last he has youths all over l'alestine, and still the
10
Fencing,, draining, manure
the city-2,000 years of the city. It found paradise. They cultivate 333 supply of trained settlers is all too
hit
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Seeds, plants, wind belts
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small. Often the raw immigrant is
Victuals for family I year
land from somebody else's city. After 1921 the gross value of the produce sent as a laborer at 15 piasters a day
42
Unforeseen expense
34
/ I + seeing these colonies one can under- worked out at over £4,000. A more on the plantation of the rich Jews at
stand their seeing in them the opening recent and immature example is the Mach Tikvah or Rehoboth, so that he
great kvutzah of Ain Herod (Gideon's
£1200
up of the doors of heaven.
may learn his trade. But admittedly,
On all this capital, interest has to
There is nothing very exciting about well in the Emek) where 81 families the best education of all is a year in
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•.y the old Jewish colonies which were cultivate 1,425 acres and produced a kvutzah. There, under each special- be paid, interest has to be paid at
£9,100 gross. Each of these colonies
about 3 per cent together with a sink-
being founded by Baron Edmond de
ist
in
turn,
a
man
may
learn
his
job,
3
has a reserve of land at present un-
Rothschild from 1878 onwards. The
and though he will not get 15 piasters ing fund, and the chief criticism of
the Jewish colonies must be that so far
first wave were plantation colonies, cultivated amounting to about one- a day, he will he one of the family.
third
of
the
whole.
little if any interest or sinking fund
and Petach Tikvah, Richon-le-Zion,
The Elders of Zion had also to think has been paid. The excuse has always
A whole storm of controversy has
Zichron Jacob and Bosh Pinah have
of
expense—common
rooms,
common
done well enough commercially on arisen over these kvutzoth. The Jews farm buildings, are cheaper than a been that the colony or holdings has
oranges, wine and tobacco. They are just hate to be associated with any- number of individual houses and not yet been fully equipped. For it
pleasant places with their great thing that anyone could call Bolshe- sheds, and in a new fight with nature must be observed that the above fig-
eucalyptus trees, and sun, and moun- vism. Since the war, since this "Bol- two men are more than double one. ures are only an ideal estimate. It is
To the Jewish Community of Detroit I extend my
tains. But most of the old Jewish shevism" became so unpopular with Moreover the capital could not be made not a government with unlimited
settlers are not now working on the subscribers, most of the colonies all available at once; the equipment of credit that is financing these settle-
heartfelt greetings on this important occasion.
land; they are following the example founded have been on the lines of in- one colony had to be spread out over ments. It is the voluntary subscrip-
of the old Wurtemburg colonists at dividual cultivation. Nahalal is a many years. That delay is not prac- ions of the Jews throughout the world.
May the Passover be a joyous one and bring to
Barone alongside; they are directing, striking example of individual success. ticable in the case of individual hold- You cannot borrow money on the se-
curity of annual subscriptions, and the
them above all that which I am sure they prize most:
and leaving the natives to do the work. But as each year passes by and the
Zionist Organization has simply never
Every true Jew knows that Jews will kvutzoth (there are 22 of then[) con- ings.
Of course, one would think that had the 01,200,000 required to put on
Ample opportunity to be of service to their fellow
time
to
survive
and
even
to
progress
never be natives of Palestine till they
they would quarrel in these kvutzoth, the land the 1,000 families that have
attention
is
inevitably
directed
to-
do the work themselves.
men.
wards the new experiment. An un- but they are voluntary communities, gotten there. It seems extraordinary
The next wave of the Rothschild natural "crank" scheme must have col- and those who do not fit in leave. One that they have had no government help
colonies, called I'ica colonies (Pales- lapsed in ltt years. The kvutzah must would suspect slacking, but public in this work, not even an agricultural
tine Jewish Colonization Association) somehow be natural to Jews, and yet opinion seems to be as strong a pro- bank to help with the advances or to
dropped the expensive plantations and the Jews are notoriously individual- pulsive force as private gain. Lack give loans on the security of the land
of care in the use of the tools and that has been bought. The whole posi-
went in for growing cereals like the
machinery of the community is classed
natives, but on a larger scale. They ist s.
It seems probable that the individ- as a drawback of the kvutzah, but the tion of the Jews in Palestine is irregu-
ran to 800 acres of land per family,
lar and peculiar. The government
and there again the family has sublet ualism of the Jew is chiefly expressed workers of the kvutzah are the raw- seems to wash its hands of them and
the hard work to natives for a share by a marked dislike of working for eat material for agriculture, much to let them $9, their own way in every-
of the proceeds. It is easy to be land- someone else, for a master. In the more raw than the educated worker thing, so that they have come to con-
lord anywhere. Nor are these colon- kvutzoth they are not working for a who has taken up an individual hold- stitute a state and government of their
ing at Metullah or Hezekiel.
ists so very prosperous; they tend to master.
own inside the state. The British gov-
Then, these Jews have all come from
In fact the kvutzoth must be re- ernment has now given them powers
sink to the native level of comfort;
they are sinking to the native, and old Russia where there have imbibed gamed as schools where they teach to compulsorily tax themselves. Tel
;It Jews cannot afford to sink in their a strong "community" feeling in the each other with little help from nature Aviv township is a little reliable of
homeland. Pica colonists are still be- ghetto, and that strong hatred of the and being thrown on their own, "car :
inhabitants, providing its own
tattitAMMIAMMIMM.R4AVAMS3444:1:44443:0ZiA ing started an d now on thoroughly capitalist system which is so marked ing for nobody, no not they," they have 13,000
police and justice and schools and
satisfactory lines, as at Benjaminah. a feature of European social democ- a jolly, a friendly and a free life. revenue. This abnormality cannot con-
So matters stood when the Zionist racy. They are passionate Zionists, They have brought with them a dance tinue, and seems only to have arisen
Organization began to take in hand and as passionate libertarians. To from the I'olish country side, the Hora. through carelessness.
The dual parallel existence of two
the colonization of Palestine. They build up the Jewish home land they They dance it in Palestine with noise
founded Daganiah in 1909 and Merha- will suffer any hardship, to build up and zest. I doubt if they ever danced civilizations—Jew and Arab—which
an
economically
free
society
they
will
it
so
in
Kovno
or
in
Kishinev.
Now
has
caused this strange abnormality
viah in 1910, now remarkable insti-
tutions, and since the war they have even suffer ridicule. In the kvutzoth they need not bother what people will shows up the extraordinary difficulties
their heads and hearts are more in think of them—a great relief to a of this Jewish colonization. First the
settled the whole of the Emek from the skies than they are in individualist
— We Make
bubbling nature. Nor did they ever British government must regard itself
Mount Carmel to the Jordan, till there
Nahalal or Balfouria. They have been dress like this in Vilna. The Jew we as the protector and father of the less
are now 44 of their new free colonies,
and the whole prospect of a Jewish made exaltes by something more than know on the street is too well mani- efficient and more helpless civilization;
Zionism. You want this feeling in a cured and laundered, but the Jew of so that they feel themselves constantly
Palestine has changed.
successful pioneer people. It inspired Kfar Gileadi, standing beside the
They learned from the older colonies
the Pilgrim Fathers; in a way it in- grave of Captain Trurnpledor, has for-
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that their settlements must be based on
— ON —
self-labor and must carry on mixed spired too the voortrekkers who went gotten all about his clothes. Football
north across the Orange River 100 shorts are popular, none wear hats,
farming—feeding themselves. Plan- years ago. There must be something
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tations, even small ones, are too ex- worth making the sacrifice for, or no and the women have a lamentable
RESIDENCES, APARTMENTS
pensive, for they must take years to man would make the sacrifice demand- preference for the fields in breeches '
to
the
kitchen
in
an
apron.
Football
come into bearing; cereals require
AND BUSINESS PROPERTY
ed of chaluzim all the world over.
is universal; the children were sur-
too much land, and the Zionists had
So the spirit of co-operation and prised and delighted to learn that it C
neither the land nor the capital, so
self-subordination
has
been
found
in
end Give Good
that they were forced into mixed the Jews and used to the utmost. was largely played in England; they
Service.
farming, and they were forced into Even in the individualist colonies there had thought it was a Jewish game. E
the kvutzah or cheap communal colony. is as much co-operation as is to be I feel certain that for the word soccer E
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Necessity and experience worked to- found in Denmark, each is a little Re- they will find a Biblical derivation.
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Gaiety and self-respect seemed to me
gether to bring about the great public. The vaad looks after the
change. For the fact is the pioneers schools, the policing, the doctor; it to be so obvious. The children were
frank and civil instead of self-con-
of Palestine (chaluzim) are not mere- levies voluntary taxes, deals with the
ly revolutionizing their new country, government or the Zionist creditors. scious and silly. I suppose no Jew
they are revolutionizing our ideas of It has not yet built many synagogues, ever considers himself as belonging to
HERE is one su-
a peasant population and even of econ- for the chaluz being mostly socialist "the lower order," and here among a E
peasant population it did not seem
premely correct
omics.
are not much given to the older re-
rect place in De-
The kvutzah is a voluntary commune ligions; but at Nahalal they were necessary to stress the fact. In the E
rest of the world, even where men till
troit
for
private parties,
consisting
of
anything
from
eight
to
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putting one up for the old folks as
bridge dinners, or so-
80 families farming in common, any- they became prosperous enough to get their own land, the peasants are a
slow stagnant isolated breed, apt to
I'
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cial
teas.
Luxurious
thing
from
20
to
2,000
acres
of
mixed
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out these old parents of theirs from
' appointments and un-
land. Or, some kvutzoth farm noth- Poland and Roumania. It will be seen grumble and to hate cleverneas, and
their
women,
are
even
sadder
beasts
failing
service
grace
ing at all; they are the trades union that the essence of all this "com-
Correspondent
of burden. But in the new Jewish
every occasion at the
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with a common lodging huose—a sort munism" is that it shall he voluntary. colonies the men and women read the
of brotherhood similar to those work-
Palmetto.
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to Australia. As far as possible the kvutzoth suit the roving spirit of the ever discussing. "Too many lectures"
spacious ballroom and
people.
Settlers
shift
from
one
bout-
said
one
man
to
me,
laughing.
Or,
agricultural kvutzah supplies its own
banquet hall may be
wants—from food and doctoring to nob to another, or back to town. The again, "The Jewish nation must, it is E
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cigarettes and clothes. Nobody re- kvutzah educates and eliminates. The true, be to a great extent a nation of
the steward.
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peasants. But where is it written that
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children are well educated—being all
as it were "daughters of the Regi-
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are not being taught English—just
those whom we would so glady add to
improve the stock.
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time the Jews are about one-sixth of r
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about one-twentieth of the land. Of
Glendale 3000
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