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during the days of the revolu-
tion. His aide-de-camp was
Colonel Isaac Franks and it
was in the Germantown home
of this Jew that the General
made his headquarters for two
months during which the yellow
fever epidemic raged in Phila-
delphia.
Ilaym Solomon, a Polish Jew,
rendered invaluable and incal-
culable aid to the revolution
as the chief co-worker of Rob-
ert Morris in handling the
finances of the revolution. As
a broker, he raised money
through bills of exchange ne-
gotiated abroad, thus providing
funds needed to finance the
war.
At the beginning of the revo-
lution there were some 2,000
Jewish settlers spread through-
out the 13 colonies. Serving
under Washington in the Con-
tinental Army were a number
of Jewish officers and soldiers.
The names of more than 40
are known, 27 of whom were
officers.
According to available rec-
ords, Francis Salvador, a lead-
ing figure in South Carolina,
was the first Jew to be killed
in battle. Philip Moses Russell
was the only Jewish surgeon to
have served in the army. Three
Jewish staff officers — Major
Benjamin Nonesof Philadelphia,
Captain Jacob De Leon Of
Charleston and Captain Jacob
De LaMotta of Savannah—are
supposed to have carried the
mortally wounded Baron de
Kalb from the battlefield.
Major Nones was a French-
man who, like Lafayette, came
to this country to aid the fight
for independence. The Shet-
falls of Georgia, father and
son, were important figures in
the quartermaster department
of the army. Mordecai Shetfall,
the father, became a member of
the army's general staff and
during the British occupation
of Savannah was imprisoned
by the British and described on
as "a very great
rebel."
One of the founders of the
Society of the Cincinnati, a
charter member of one of the
proudest American patriotic or-
ganization of which George
Washington was a member, was
Colonel Solomon Pinto of Con-
necticut. Rabbi Seixas, who
was present at Washington's
inauguration, was known as
"the patriotic Jewish minister."
As rabbi of Shearith Israel,
the Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue, it was he who per-
suaded his congregation to dis-
band and close its temple in
1776 with the approach of the
British to New York. On going
to Philadelphia with his parish-
ioners, he became rabbi of Mik-
veh Israel Synagogue, oldest
Jewish congregation of that
city. After the war, he re-
turned to New York where he
is buried, along with several
other Jewish participants in the
revolution, in the first ceme-
tery of the congregation on the
Bowery, below Chatham Square.
One of the most personal
manifestations of Washington's
friendliness to the Jews was his
visit to the Newport Synagogue
in 1790. Located on Touro
Street, and known by that
name, the building still stands
today as it did then through
the munificence of the Touro
family. A reception and ball
was help for the President.
The earliest known Jews in
this country—with the excep-
tion of Luis de Torres, the in-
terpreter who accompanied Col-
umbus on his first voyage of
discovery—were a group of 27
Portuguese Jews who came to
New Amsterdam in 1654 from
Brazil after the Portuguese
took the country from the
Dutch and began persecuting
the Jews.
When the revolution took
place, there were six established
congregations or communities
of Jews: New York, Philadel-
phia. Newport, Richmdnd, Sav-
annah and Charleston. Shortly
thereafter communities were
founded in Baltimore, Mary-
land and Lancaster, Pennsyl-
vania.
Jews were among the earliest
of American settlers and as true
pioneers contributed to the de-
velopment of the colonies un-
der King George Ill. When

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ing a statement made in 1915 by the late Jacob
H. Schiff, in which the formation of "a large
separate Hebraic group with national aspira-
tions" in this country is strongly attacked, Jus-
tice Proskauer said:

There is and there can be no such thing
as Jewish unity except in the bounds of re-
ligious and cultural interests. When it comes
to international action, American Jews must
act through the American State Department
and through the Congress of the United
States, and not through any other congress.
We of the conservative group,understand
perfectly that propaganda can make the
voices of a very small group sound very
loud, and perhaps it is just as well that this
opportunity is afforded me to say that the
American Jewish Committee, speaking with
authority for the substantial part of Ameri-
can Jewry, has taken the sound position to
render unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar's and unto God the things that are
God's.
Politically and patriotically Americans
through and through, we recognize that here
we have been given home and asylum. We
have become bone of the bone and flesh
of the flesh of America. We know no divided
allegiance. We are not hyphenated Americans
but Americans. The only Jewish unity we
recognize as valid is a unity of religious
belief, of defense of freedom, of philan-
thropic conduct and preservation and de-
velopment of our cultural and religious
ideals.

The reaction to this statement is to blush for
shame and to smart under the resentment that
must come when brother assails brother. Justice
Proskauer speaks as one of a group of extremely
assimilated Jews who are to be found in every
country. This group has failed to learn two things;
1. that it is futile to expect to be accepted in
the entire body politic even though one's own
group is repudiated; 2. that it is not only bad
taste and extremely humiliating to place one's
own people on trial before the tribunal of pub-
lic opinion, unjustly to make a spectacle of them,
and to assume the role of tale-telling—and there
is nothing worse than being a tale-bearer-
especially when the charges made are not fac-
tual.
Thus, when Justice Proskauer speaks of
"we of the conservative group" being "politic.
ally and prtriotically Americans," the implica-
tion is that those not of his group are not pa-
triots, are hyphenated Americans with divided
allegiance.

friendly to those elements which were not in his
"conservative" class'. had he lived today Mr.
Schiff would, we believe, have repudiated his
ealrier views.
We said that the charges made by Justice
Proskauer are not factual. Because those ele-
ments in Jewry who are not a part of his con-
servative camp are also "bone of the bone and
flesh of the flesh of America." Because those
whom he rejects also recognize the "unity of re-
ligious belief, of defense of freedom, of philan-
thropic conduct and preservation and develop-
ment of our cultural and religious ideals." Ex-
cept that there is a slight difference in the in-
terpretation of the term "philanthropic" and
that his opposition group recognizes another
truth which it is well to touch upon at this time.
To Justice Proskauer philanthropy may be
a means and an end in itself. But to the mass
of Jehis who know the meaning of suffering,
and are therefore able more keenly to appreci•
ate the freedom enjoyed in this country, charity
is an effort incidental to securing justice and to
alleviating want and misery.
Furthermore, those who do not belong to
'
Justice Proskauer's exclusive group—whom he
is so anxious to describe as "speaking with au-
thority for the substantial part of American
Jewry"—have not as yet had their vision clouded
with the smoked glasses of special privilege.
They see the position of the oppressed Jewish
masses throughout the world and realize that if
it is just and permissable from the point of
view of true Americanism to unite in raining
funds on a charitable basis, then it is just as
just, and certainly just as human, to invoke the
principles' upon which this country was founded
and to unite in an effort to secure human rights
for our people everywhere.
Justice Proskauer commits one other wrong:

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when he presumes to tells us that "we recognize
that here we have been given home and asylum."
It is tantamount to suggesting that we ought
to bow down and sing "zemiroth," in "mah•
yofis" fashion, and to say "thank you" to every
American legislator because we enjoy those in-
alienable rights which have been handed down
to us by the great founders of this nation
who would have given us courage in our efforts
to secure for our kin and kith in lands of op-
pression, rights similar to those which we enjoy
in this great land of freedom. The vast differ-
ence between Justice Proskauer and his opposi-
tion group with which we have no objection' to
be associated is that he emphasizes his privileges
and his Americanism, whereas we are inclined
Charges Are Not Factual
Could anything be more damaging than to to take them for granted.
The views expressed by Justice Proskauer
charge that those who desire to organize Jewry
in the hope of securing equal rights for our in the interview he granted to the New York
oppressed kinsmen throughout the world are in World-Telegram do a great injustice to the Jews
reality disloyal Americans? And to hide behind of this country. But Justice Proskauer's state-
the mask of the late Jacob H. Schiff in advanc- ment has done even greater damage to his own
ing these charges is far from commendable. group—especially the American Jewish Commit-
Justice Proskauer forgets that the late Mr. tee—by inflicting such serious injuries upon the
Schiff came much closer to the Jewish masses sensibilities of the Jewish masses in this coun-
just before his death. He began to contribute try who are as tragically maligned in his ill.
to Zionist causes and was inclined to be more advised views.

SILVER FLOSS
SAUER KRAUT

"Cabbage At Its Best"

for salt at

ALL GROCERS

An American School Teacher in Palestine

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crops. I learned to say "Ani Aye-
fah" (I am tired), but my com-
panions always laughed and burst
out in incomparable Hebrew-Kvut-
zah philosophy, "Ain davar!" (It
is nothing).
And the days rolled on. Each
morning I was awakened promptly
at 4:30. And had to coax myself
out of bed. Every day saw me
again under the pitiless sun, work-
ing the soil and growing to love it
And each evening I wearily return-
ed to await the next day's work.
And so gradually I lifted my-
self from Rousseau and Thoreau.
The "Back to Nature" stuff was
wearing off. Could one love a Coue
happiness of incessant toil and
hardihood?
I began to look about me. What
do these people think? What
makes them remain on the farm,
working without receiving a penny
in return? Was it Thoreau? Im-
possible. What keeps them aloof
from the artificial lure of the cit-
ies? Pretty delicate Gardos with
brighter and sweeter faces and men
with the energy of conquerors!
Why do they toil in this hinterland?
And with such zest, and love and
song?
When my little bug-bear, "back-
to-nature" wore away, my eyes
were suddenly opened to the lives
of the people around me. I saw
Dorka, a delicately shaped flower
with arms of shining steel, digging

and shoveling and raking and sow-
ing and weeding with the incessant
drive of energy that was remark-
able. She was no more than 23,
blonde, pretty, with a frank smile
and sparkling blue eyes.
"How long are you here?" I ask-
ed in choppy Hebrew, after we had
grown more friendly.
"Two years." She answered
quickly, but without interrupting
her work.
"Do you like it here?"
"I love it here. I will never
leave." Her face glowed deep pink
as she struck a stubborn weed.
I saw Leah, the Latvian girl,
whose dark eyes never stopped
laughing, yanking carrot roots
from the earth. I watched Tchia,
the Palestinian born, a buxom,
beautiful woman, whose fierce en-
ergy made her the envy of all. I
soon fell in love with the people
about me, and they got used to me.
I learned that they had devoted
themselves to the land, which un-
equivocally they claimed not as
their own but as the property of
the Jewish people. They called
themselves agents of the Jewish
people, and as such were ready and
willing to die before they would
leave the soil. The farming im-
p lements were the property of the
K eren Ilayesod II learned later, the
Palestine Foundation Fund) but
they themselves felt one and parcel
' with the body and with the new na-
tion they were helping to build.

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mann, Strindberg, Chekov and Gor- a very unfavorable sales report de-
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derson to the limelight and also book.
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The son of a rabbi, this 58-year- , ure, are all chosen in the sems
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