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Prophetical portion—Ter. 16:19-17:14
decision:
May 24, 1935
lyar 21, 5695
The Campaign Result
Although the Allied Jewish Campaign
quota fell considerably below the total
goal, it must be recognized that this year's
drive was in reality a marked success.
In the first place it is well that we
realize that this year's drive netted
$80,000 more than last year's campaign.
This in itself is a triumph. It is an indica-
tion that we are beginning to return to
original standards of giving and that more
and more of our Jewish community are
beginning to, recognize their responsibility
to every important Jewish cause.
Another important element in the cam-
paign which must be recognized as a tri-
umph in this year's fund-raising effort is
that it is expected that the community
will come very close to raising the sum
needed for the maintenance funds of the
local, national and international agencies
Included in the drive. Being assured of
the continuation of our community services
we can feel happy that our institutions
will not suffer: Besides, an excellent be-
ginning has been made towards the gath-
ering of a fund for the erection of a new
building for the Jewish Old Folks' Home.
The fact that about 7,000 men and
women have contributed to the drive is an
unusual occurrence for Detroit Jewry. It
is the beginning of a genuine effort for
the creation of unity and for the enroll-
ment of every element for the support of
our important agencies.
Naturally there are elements of regret
in the drive. Entirely too many of the
financially more fortunate Jews either
failed sufficiently to increase their contri-
butions or to live up to their measure of
responsibility in the present critical hour.
But there is sufficient hope that this condi-
tion will be eliminated as time goes on and
that not only the middle class and the
poorer elements, but that the rich as well,
will know that they owe a sacred duty to
their community.
David Ben Gurion's Visit Here
David Ben Gurion's visit in Detroit
should be welcomed by all parties in
Zionism.
Aside from the fact that he represents
the most important single group in the
World Zionist Organization, Mr. Ben
Gurion is not only one of the outstanding
figures in the Palestine Labor Federation
but he plays an important role in the effort
to unify all groups in Zionism and to cre-
ate a spirit of understanding that will
solidify rather than divide Jewish ranks.
His address here will be awaited with
considerable interest. While it is our view
that the members of the Zionist Organiia-
tion and of Hadassah are obligated to turn
out in full force at the Zionist Congress
elections on June 23 and to vote for the
joint American Zionist-Hadassah ticket
for delegates, his Labor views must at this
time be listened to with the profoundest
respect for the sake of having every issue
clarified.
As the central body which should have
much more power than it now possesses in
order to eliminate civil strife in Zionism,
the central Zionist organization should re-
ceive the majority vote for delegates at
the Congress. Such an expression by Zion-
ist voters will not, however, belittle the
powerful position held by the labor ele-
ments but will rather guarantee their po-
sition against internal warfare.
By CARL ALPERT
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THE ETERNAL FIRE
Personal Meditations and Contemplations of a Christian
Pilgrim in 1935
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Copyright, 1530, by B. A.
)
Q. To whom does the Arab
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
saying, "More faithful than Sam-
UNPUBLISHED
uel," refer?—C. G.
Samuel Untermyer has opened
(Copyright, lain, Seven Art. Feature Syndicate)
A. This refers to Samuel Ibn
a deposit account at Macy's, as
Adiya, poet and warrior, who
evidence that he is satisfied that
lived in Arabia in the sixth cen-
EDITOR'S NOTE: Pierre van Paassen is without question one of the most gifted jour-
the New York department store
tury. A famous Arab poet, Amru
nalists of our time. His interest in or rather his passion for the Jewish problem has driven him
is adhering to the boycott. . .
al-Kais, left his cousin and his
time and again on strenuous travels to see and observe for himself the calvary which modern
However, a gentleman who is usu-
personal armor in Samuel's safe-
Jewry traverses in so many countries. Ile has visited Palestine many times in peace and in
ally in the know, insists—prom-
war, and has risked his very life to obtain valuable information from direct sources. Pierre
keeping and while on a journey
ising to bring concrete evidence—
was killed. An enemy asked that
van Paassen is now again in Palestine. This article is the first of a series of letters front Pales-
that Macy's is still handling a line
tine, dealing with the cultural, political and economic orientation of the new Palestine. In this
Samuel give up the dead man's
of German goods ... There is no
article, Pierre van Paassen, before embarking on his swing around the country, turns his
property and besieged Samuel's
question, however, that Alfred
eyes inward and meditates on his personal relationship to Palestine and the Jews.
castle to enforce his demands.
Friedman, N. Y., glove importer,
The besiegers succeeded in cap-
and L. A. Salomon & Bros., chem-
turing Samuel's son and in the
JERUSALEM.—Many ties bind me to Pales- that, to quote from "Les Apotres," some day ical dealers, are doing a lively
"I hope the time will come when people
face of repeated refusals to capit-
"when our petty-minded, bourgeois, mediocre so- business with the country in
everywhere will be astonished to learn that
ulate, cut off the boy's head in tine. When I look back into the past, something
which the brown terror still
in the year 1935 it was necessary to talk
sight of his father. Ibn Adiya which is perhaps permissible now that I am ap- ciety, this world of pygmies is finally swept into reigns. . . . We are told that
for 17 days about possible authenticity in this
the discard by the heroic and idealistic forces
stated that the boy had brothers,
James Warburg, charged "inno-
proaching
"the
middle
of
the
way,"
I
must
con-
incredible nonsense which is called The Proto-
but that once his honor was gone
of mankind, the luminous ideal of Judaism shall cently with having sailed on the
cols of the Elders of Zion.'"
it could never be retrieved. This fess that even in my earliest youth the Land of be incribed as a prophetic revelation above the- S. S. Bremen, actually did book
incident gave rise to the common Israel and the Jews exercised an ineluctible fas-
portals of the paradise of humanity" I was ad- passage on that ship and at the
"Incredible nonsense" is a mild way of Arab saying.
cination on my spirit. Although it underwent
• • •
vised not to dream about Renan's or any one last minute canceled his booking
labelling the stupid charge, but it is well
because of pressure. . . Great
a deep change in the course of time, that interest
else's utopian visions, but to confine myself to excitement prevails in certain
Q. Have any of Mark Twain's
that this verdict is down as a matter of
never flagged; yes, upon restrospective consider-
record in a case which assumed worldwide works been translated into He- ation, I may even say that Palestine and the the reality around me. Yet I had by then Jewish quarters, primarily in
brew?-0. 0. E.
felt emanating from Judaism the rays of a sun B'nai B'rith circles, because of
importance.
A. The late Aaron D. Mark- people whose destinies are inextricably bound
the announcement that Max Rein-
Among the most encouraging elements son of Detroit translated Mark up with that land have been a determining factor which we cannot yet see. It was as if I had had hardt
has decided to produce "The
in the decision in the Protocol case is the Twain's "Prince and the Pauper" in my own spiritual evolution. My early venera- my first greetings from the land which' we seek Merchant of Venice" in the Holly-
with the spirit. I began to see that the spiritual wood Bowl as the California Fes-
attitude of the press throughout the world. into Hebrew. • •
tion for the land was a primitive attitude of disposition of a nomadic tribe of Bedouins, known
tival play this summer. .. . There
The non-Jewish world appears to be re-
Q. What were some of the devotion to a shrine, to a sanctuary, a holy place.
one thing these Jewish groups
joicing as much as the Jewish communi- activities of the late Otto Kahn? Over there, far away, in those sun-scorched hills as the Bene Israel, who first rose within the ken is
of history as wanderers in the green places on do not realize, i. e., that Rein-
ties everywhere that it should finally have —M. B.
of Judea, I knew, the miracle of divine infil- the confines of the Syrian and Arabian deserts, hardt's version of Shylock is 100
A. Otto II. Kahn was known
been established that the Protocols of the
per cent pro-Jewish and a dra-
a banker, philanthropist and tration into human affairs had once taken almost had produced a chain of religious phenomena matic exhibit of Christian anti-
Elders of Zion are not only dastardly forg- as
patron of the arts. His banking intangible shape. The event filled me with no and set in motion currents of thought so extra- Jewish prejudice in those Vene-
eries but most stupid imaginations of cor- career was linked with Kuhn more astounding than the site and milieu be-
tian days.
rupt and insane minds. An example of Loeb & Co. since 1897 when he came hallowed with extraordinary sanctity. And ordinary among the spiritual manifestations of ZIONIST NOTEBOOK
comments made by the press is the follow- became a partner in the firm. Ile it was to the members of a humble Jewish com- the peoples of antiquity that their force and
The present editor of the New
significance, instead of diminishing with time,
most prominent as a sup-
ing editorial which appeared in the New was
porter of such musical organiza- munity in a city of the Netherlands that my silent grows upon us with the ages so that we, who Palestine, M. F. Steinglass, will
middle-aisle
it with a charming
York Times:
a
tions as the Metropolitan Opera respect went out as the living witnesses of
traverse one of the most devastating eras of his- blonde of Brooklyn before the
and the Philharmonic Symphony past which was as vivid to me as the solemn
torical
transition,
have
come
to
recognize
that
next
month
is
over. .. . Meyer is
The notorious "Protocols of the Elders of
Orchestra Society. Ile was also a ritual of the church. I was yet to learn in those
Zion" are now declared . by a Swiss tribunal
in the social conceptions of Judaism the basic and one of the best journalists and
dirctor of the American Federa-
days
that
Judaism
had
not
petrified
into
the
writers
in
the
Anglo-Jewish
field,
to be what honest and enlightened men have
tion of Arts, treasurer of the
principal elements required in the construction
and we consider Miss Rhoda J.
long known them to be, an Impudent forgery
American Shakespeare Founds. rigor mortis of the phrase, as my teachers gave of the new society of the future.
Blakeman, herself a writer and
and a libel. The case was brought before the
tion and a member of the Visit- me to understand, but that the struggle of Jacob
artist, a very lucky girl.... Talk-
Civilization's Debt to Judaism
cantonal court of Berne by Jewish citizens
ing Committee for the Depart- with the Angel goes on to our time, forever.
ing about developments at Zion-
of Switzerland. They sought to stop the
Herein,
then,
lay
the
debt
of
Western
civiliza-
ment of Art and Archaeology of Even in those days, however, the first faint
circulation of Nazi literature containing the
tion to Judaism as I began to see it: When Juda- ist headquarters, some of our
Princeton University. Kahn was
sleuths report that a rather vio-
rumors
of
a
newly-born
Zionist
movement
pene-
shopworn story of ■ Jewish conspiracy for
born in Germany in 1867.
ism elevates' every Jew to royal rank and then,
world dominion organized at the first Zionist
• • •
trated to me and made me glad with the expecta- in order to impart a still greater sanctity to hu- lent private conclave took place
Congress in 1897.
Q. Who was David Belais?- tion of seeing with my own eyes a renewal of man dignity, proclaimed him a son of the Master the other evening in the home of
Louis P. Rocker, chairman of the
The plaintiffs showed that the Protocols
B. T. N.
Israel's ancient glory.
were fabricated in Czarist Russia during the
of the Universe, it tore to shreds the decretum Z. 0. A. finance committee.... A
A. David Belais was the in-
It was Henan, who brought me the revelation horrible of antiquity, which was an expression former president of the Z. 0. A.
revolutionary upheaval of 1905, and that the
ventor of white gold. Ile died in
told the present head of the or-
language was largely copied from a French
that Judaism is not an extinguished flame, but
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pamphlet of 70 years ago directed against
Napoleon III. The parallelism was pointed
out by the London Times 15 years ago and
has been mentioned since then at frequent
intervals. But it did not prevent Adolf Hitler
Personal Reminiscences
from putting the Elders of Zion into his book.
A Short Shory
The Nazi spokesman before the Berne court
A Review of Anglo-Jewish Life Under the Reign of
By JOSEPH BRAININ
proclaimed his unshaken faith in the Pro-
King George V
By S. J. AGNON
tocols with tears in his eyes.
The Convenant of Love
Again we must recognize the truth that
although the decision has been handed
down against the anti-Semites of the world
the Protocols are not necessarily dead.
Nine years ago Henry Ford also apolo-
gized to the Jewish people and recognized
the falsity of the Protocols. Yet they con-
tinued to be circulated throughout the
world. The editorial writers of the New
York Times agree with us that, as they
label another portion of their editorial,
"The Lie Will Return." This New York
Times comment should be taken note of by
Jews everywhere in order that we may
be able to face realities. To quote the
Times;
It is a gain to have the Protocols stamped
for the vicious lie they are by a court of law
after exhaustive hearings. But it is not to
be expected that the Swiss verdict will silence
the criminal agitators who resort to such
weapons. In this year 1935 and in the land
of Kant and Goethe it is possible for a lunatic
named Streicher to stand up, with government
approval, and declare that the Wassermann
test was invented by Jews who need Christian
blood for their ritual. It will be mere child's
play for Streicher to "prove" that the Swiss
judge was hired to brand the Protocols a
forgery by the same Jews who wrote the
Treaty of Versailles and dominated the Stress
conference.
It is well to know that at least we are
not alone in our battle. This is a fight
which will continue as long as lies are
hurled at us and spread about us. With
the press in liberal countries on the .side
of fairness we have less to fear from pos-
sible consequences. At the same time,
Jews must learn to face realities, to know
that a decision in Berne does not stifle big-
otry in Munich, and that we must always
be on guard against the outbreaks of new
waves of hate and prejudice.
Warburg and Palestine
The most interesting transformation in
the attitudes of Jews relative to interna-
tional questions has been effected for Pal-
estine and the progress made in the Jew-
ish Homeland. Most interesting in this
connection is the manner in which Felix
M. Warburg has gradually come closer
to Zionism and to Palestine and has as-
sumed a position of unquestioned world
leadership in the Jewish national move-
ment.
Since his recent return from Palestine
he utilizes every occasion to speak of the
manner in which progress is achieved,
how the refugees are adjusting themselves
to the life in that country, and how, to
quote him:
"Every cent we have spent there has
been put to excellent use. I have never
seen so much progress in any other coun-
try in such a short span of years. There is
a great demand for labor, and the house-
building is not keeping pace with the de-
mand."
Mr. Warburg is still spoken of as a non-
Zionist. Perhaps this is necessary in order
to make the position of the Jewish Agency,
which must of necessity be composed of
Zionists and non-Zionists, a bit more ef-
fective. In many respects, however, Mr.
Warburg is a much better Zionist than
many of the affiliates.
The point is that Mr. Warburg has ren-
dered a yeoman service for the cause of
THE ORACLE
Germany Hates Our Newsmen
Temporary silence on the part of some
American newspapers on the increased
anti-Semitic outbursts in Germany caused
some to fear that the resentful attitude of
the American journalists towards Ger-
many's treatment of the Jews has abated
and that many of them are beginning to
accept the persecutions as a matter of
fact.
But the following official German news
bulletin, issued by the Nazi propaganda
bureau, seems to indicate that not only
does the original resentment remain in full
force, but that Germany continues to be
on the lookout against the revelations
which are being sent to this country by
our newsmen:
"Julius Bolger, business manager of the
New York Times Picture Service, lAd.„ was
ordered to leave the territory . of the
Reich within five days. Bolger, who is a
Hungarian subject of Jewish extraction, has
repeatedly given expression to his malicious
and hostile attitude toward the new State
and its leading men, which makes his further
sojourn in Germany wholly impossible."
It is naturally inconceivable that a free-
thinking newspaperman will concede
even an iota of ground to Nazi in-
justice. It is to be hoped that the con-
demnations of the liberal press in the
world will continue until Germany remains
Palestine's redemption and not only the branded for her atrocities and isolated
present generation but also posterity will like a moral leper from the rest of the
honor him for it.
world.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We present S. .1. Agnon, outstanding modern
Hebrew story teller, who was just awarded the Bialik Prize for 1934.
Mr. Agnon resides in Palestine, and writes in Hebrew. This is an
authorized translation.
David Ben-Gurion
Jewry Under a British King
Editor's Note( florid iten.litorton, leSAI-
Ing memberof Si,. Ale1,611 Agency Ws-
eel) e and Jew 1.11 lobor Federation
of Palestine. is now in Otto muntry.
I remember him 18 years ago
as a co-Legionnaire in the
British Jewish battalions. Ben
Gurion not only followed Jabo-
tinsky's leadership in those
days but was one of his fer-
vent admirers. He and Ben.
Zvi were inseparable in the Le-
gion. Quiet - mannered, low-
voiced, they circulated among
the Legionnaires, taking a per-
sonal interest in the needs of
the Jewish soldiers. Only a
small minority had ever heard
of them. They were known to
the inner circle of Peale Zioh-
ists as resourceful propagandists
and organizers. The rank and
file of the Jewish Legion
looked at them with ironic eyes.
They were nicknamed "Mutt
and Jeff," because of Ben Zvi's
tall stature and Ben Gurion's
small size. As soldiers they
were a complete flop. Neither
of them ever rose above the
rank of private, and it was a
miracle that they were retained
in the army. Somehow they
never acquired the art of "form
fours" and "about turn."
After a few months both of
them were the most beloved
members of their batallion.
Bower sr hoodlums, Chicago
toughs and East Side gamblers
who had donned the British uni-
form out of a spirit of adven-
ture, without any understand-
ing Rf the Zionist significance
of this military undertaking,
submitted to the strong and
quiet authority of Ben Gurion
and Ben Zvi. They attended
lectures and felt proud of their
association with the two Poole
Zion leaders.
Ben Gallon has changed a
great deal. As I looked at hint
the other day I hardly recog-
nized him. Of his soft, fem-
inine face nothing but a sort
of helpless smile remains. His
face is stern, virile and that of
a fighter. His white wavy hair
and his bitter mouth remind
one of pictures of Field Mar-
shal Mackensen. He still speaks
very quietly, without ostenta-
tion, and whenever he com-
ments sharply on • personality
or on a subject he punctuates
his remarks with a disarming
smile. Today he is the spear-
head and the personification of
the relentless chalutz spirit of
Palestine. Restless, he is far
from satisfied. The pace of the
upbuilding of Palestine is too
slow for him. When he speaks
of the shortage of Jewish labor
in Palestine and the uncertainty
of Jewish life in Germany, Po-
land and Eastern Europe, there
emanates from his words an
indomitable passion to acceler-
ate the tempo of Jewish work
and to force the Jewish masses
to a realization of the emerg-
ency.
For a whole hour the three old one thing—the way they recite the
men had not spoken a word, but Priestly Blessing here. Since I
sat there on the beach, contentedly came I have never missed a day's
warming themselves in the eve- public service, and everytime I saw
ning sun. Drowsy and half asleep, them go up to give the blessing my
they had suffered the wind to play whole body was aflame, as if it were
roguishly through their white gar- a holy day. But now when I hear
ments, whilst the rays of the sun that they merely do the thing as a
played lightly around their lips like routine, like throwing a worn coin
at a beggar, I cannot help think-
golden keys.
They were three old men who ing of all the little synagogues and
had come, in the evening of their chevrahs outside Palestine, where
days, out of the tumult of the Golus the thing is a dream to them and
back to the peace of the ancient they pour out their souls with
home. Most of their days had every note and their hearts with
been spent in the toil and mod of every letter. There , they say, there
small businesses, but at last the is no Torah like the Torah of Eretz
"holy memory" had crept into their Israel. But how do they teach it
hearts and taken complete posses. here? Like a school exercise, with-
sion. They had locked their shops out savor and without fire. No, my
for the last time and it was as if friends, the Shechinah is in exile.
they had taken on a new vigor and This Eretz Israel is an ark without
new life. They had "gone up" to the scrolls. The little lamp still
flickers, but where is the Torah?"
Eretz Israel.
"You are wrong, my friend," re-
It was aready some weeks ago
since they had prayed at the Wail- plied the second of the three old
ing Wall, visited the graves of the awn. "You have lived all your life
Zaddikim, and performed all the outside Palestine, and have studied
offices of charity and good deeds Torah and performed all the com-
which are the duty of the pious mandments. You had in your heart
pilgrim. Now they were tired— the divine spark,• shining through
tired with the scorching sun and the night of Galuth, and you want-
the sight.of the lakes. They had ed to go to Eretz Israel. But you
come at last to Jaffa to bathe in the thought that you would measure
sweet, clear streams of the open the light of the Schechinah by your
own light; you thought that you
sea.
At Jaffa, they had put up at an would bring it back its light with
hotel full of fellow-Jews. They your coming. It is like the candle
would take part in the services, which shone in a dirk place and
study Torah with the best of they, thought it was the sun .. until
and recite their due meed of song the sun melted it."
Then spoke the third of the
and praise. In the evening, when
the day grew cooler and the sun group. As a rule he used to speak
was westering, they would go out slowly and deliberately. Now the
on to the beach, sometimes for a words came tumbling out, as if he
bath and sometimes merely to sit were ■ messenger afraid that he
for hours on little cane chairs and might die before delivering his mes-
feast their eyes on the pageant of sage. "It is a good simile, my
color. After a time, their shyness friend," said he, "but there is no
would wear off and they would need for similes. I, too, have of-
warm towards one another, even ten felt disquieted and upset at not
though they said not a word. There getting all the joy and peace I had
would be between them a commun- expected out of my life here, but
ion of silence, as they sat there now I have seen it clearly. it is
watching the waves break into mere folly which promotes such
creamy foam and feeling the cool thoughts and which leads a man to
wind brush gently across their sever what is a bond between God
and Israel. Our rabbis have said
faces.
A waiter came out from the ho- that settlement in Eretz Israel out-
tel and set before them three cups, weigh all the commandments,
a bowl of sugar and a plate of Should we not, then, account it an
biscuits. They poured out tea and ex tra grace of Providence, if we
started to drink. At once their do not enjoy it, for so are we ac-
drowsiness seemed to disappear and corded the merit of fulfilling this
holiest of ordinances for its own
they fell to talking.
It was the eldest who started the sa ke? And though we are not holy
conversation. "There is no sun, enough to enjoy the meanest part
he said suddenly, "like the sun of of it, should we not ascribe it to
Eretz Israel! Look, it is already the bounty of Heaven that we.are
going down, yet it still warms the permitted to live in this holiest
body and enfolds the limbs like a place? Says the book: 'Walk before
robe." And as he said this he me and be blameless.' Our Master
scooped his hand into the sand at Bashi add: 'Be perfect in all my
his feet and !sighed, "Fret; Is- trial of you. Then I will give you
rael? Is there really an Eretz Is- my covenant—the covenant of love
and the covenant of the land, for
rael.
"Don't worry yourself about the upright shall dwell in the land
blameless shall be left in it.'"
that," rejoined his neighbor. "After the (CoPYright.
1136. by P A. F
all, Jaffa isn't Eretz Israel. Remem-
ber what it says in the Bible:
BIOGRAPHY
'Jonah sought to flee from the
presence of the Lord, so he went
down unto Jaffa."' A broad grin A little Jew lived in a little strew
hut;
of victory spread over his pearl-
There was thatch on his roof; on
white teeth .
his floors there was not.
"Yes," replied the first speaker,
"you say that Jaffa is not Eretz There was smoke in his chimney,
and sun on his cot .. .
Israel. But is Eretz Israel itself?"
His two companions glanced at
But
him sharply and curiously, as if a There was nothing in his pot ...
lunatic had just been speaking. So hungry and little in a world
that was wide,
" Y ou wonder?" said the speaker,
He tried to get used to not eating;
know w hat
'
he
tried
t
h; t I
f o r ' ib id tha
of Eretz Israel, but I ask you, The first slay, the second. "A
habit!" he cried.
is this Eretz Israel which is re-
vealed to us now the same land as
Then sighed.
is described in the Bible and in the And thus the little Jew died .
—Abraham lig Klein. In Opinion
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To the Jewish people, who re- toll of Jewish life and blood. The
count their history, not in years London Board of Deputies of Brit-
but in cycles of centuries,
e., 25 years ist Jews was a dignified assembly,
semi-somnolent, t nated by worthy
is normally but a fleeting hour, but not unduly active members of
It may be, too, that for the past
the more prosperous section of the
two millennia, the running com- community. Its contact with the
mentary on the swiftly moving Jewish masses was remote and ten-
drama of the Children of Israel uous. Its presiding genius, the
has been a recurrent "Ever chang- late D. L. Alexander, K. C., had
ing, yet ever the same." A sombre come almost to regard it as a per-
canvas of suffering and tragedy re- sonal perquisite, and his frequent
lieved by heroism, martyrdom and references to "My Board" had be-
come a communal cynicism.
the will for survival .
When some Jewish matter of
Yet the future historians of Is- real urgency called for exceptional
reel will assuredly accord pride of action recourse was had to the
place to the past quarter of a can- House of Commons lobbies, where
tury as an epoch of transcendent two Jews walked in the full glare of
importance, far exceeding any time the public limelight. The eleva-
since the destruction of the Tem- tion of Herbert Samuel, N. P., to
pie of Jerusalem and the annihila- the rank of Postmaster General in
tion of the Hebrew nation in the the Liberal cabinet had aroused
Holy Land of Palestine. The events justifiable pride among his co-re-
of this comparatively brief period ligioni
sts and created prophecies of
stand out with dazzling clarity as
tu Jewish Prime Minister of
a future
marking the great to
in England.
the national life of the Jewish race
Samuel's Advent
—the most momentous episode
since the beginning of the diaper-
Anglo-Jewish hearts also flut-
sion, two thousand years ago.
tered proudly at the success of Ru-
For this generation has seen the fus Isaacs, K. C., on his promo-
international recognition of Jewish tion to Solicitor General of Eng-
claims to rebuild Palestine as the
National Homeland of the Jews, land, and Knighthood. On the
and has witnessed the translation Liberal benches in Parliament, too,
into reality of the age-old dream of sat Alfred Mond, in whose direc-
"next year in Jerusalem" and the
miracle of the first great trek back tion approving glances were being
from exile to the freedom of a re- cast, and about whom whispers of
stored Jewish land.
i c n og mifn rg eepo
ly lu itti tcearlede
were he.
This
This momentous episode of na-
tional regeneration has raised the
Jewish community of Britain into • In the inward life of the Jew-
pre-eminence in the Jewish world. shcommunity, however, these three
The Balfour Declaration of 1917
or rising figures played no conspicuous
paf rotr . e T tw
heena td y ,y ee n a trs of we srie r to H e e l r a b< ps r e t
rmfed be
twhaesJneowtiso hn i yeo
so a pmlee,sbsau ge
t troafnhsofope
the Jews of Britain from a mere Samuel, High Commissioner for
section of World Jewry into the Palestine, and more than that for
spearhead of Jewish life and action. the sudden and surprising emer-
Acceptance of Inevitabl e
Renee of Sir Alfred Mond, first
of The
King years between the accession Lord Melchett, as the Jewish pa-
George V. and the out- triot and perfervid advocate of the
break
British of the World War found Jewish renaissance in Palestine.
is Jewry in a state of corn- His conversion to Jewish loyalty
parative tranquility bespeaking ei- did as much of anything to rouse
ther a lapse into communal coma Anglo-Jewry to its wider respon-
or the broding of new force. The sibilities and Iss make Zionism in
upheavals and anxieties of the England both important and re-
Aliens' Restriction Act had given apectable.
way, in 1910, to a calmer accept-
A Rising Revolt
ance of the inevitable. The doors
The cataclysm of the w , ar
of England had been closed for
five years to the clamoring refu- brought another important develop-
gees from the persecutions and po- ment in Anglo-Jewry—the self-
consciousness of the provincial
groms of Russia and Eastern
ope and British Jewry had settled communities. These have now. be-
r c e o n m te e self-contained
Th r e pre s a en n d talteisyse d r e o p u e n n il
down to its 350 000 Jewish '
w Lo hi n le doa n cca esptth
he m no e m nsi.
rens, a number which has remained
ing
e c tom
almost unchanged to this des y. Eur-
The
r ib s of Glasg.nw,
The community had nettled down, cdheenstteorn,
to engage, unexcitedly, in inter.
authority of the Board of De mi-
nal issues of more or less commun-
al importance. In 1910 such mat- ties, perform regarLee
deddsasatnhde p Mreanr--
hers as Ritual Slaughtering, chant-nal
ogative of the London body. In
able relief and synagogal rivalries
were the principal matters agitat- provinces have developed a strength
Mg those who, by long residence in
matters
social
and religious
the
and
vitality
coincident
with free-
England and steady assimilation to dom front metropolitan authority.
English ways, had assumed the
m in England has.
title of "British Jewry." It was ■ for long, bee sporadic and not
congregation strictly confined to the
duties of "Prayer, Repentence and itndharnstohr encouragement
hrc eaten
.1 jbl d l ei,
Charity," without interest in, far unduly blatant
character,
but,
trecent in years
A been bolder
less enthusiasm for, the wider
more threatening.
awry
needs or aspirations of a great in- with
feels secure in the innate justice
ternational community,
and good sense of the British Pe";
A Dignified Assembl y
th e, yet, in face of a latent
tent Peri'
When it did sometimes look be-
rebellio n
yond the British horizon, it saw
ainst
complacency
have
become
more
i stent.
the problems and trials of Jewry as
age i ns
new
elements of rebe
occasion
These
are
signs
fresh
yip!
of a
for financial
aid for th tyrannies and,
afflicted
by foreign
th Jewish
ln
us' and a new vitality in the
more rarely, for • cautions profs; community, which combines to an-
when violence toot too heavy a cestrl faith in the Jewsh
i ideal.,
copyright, Mt. ty g
A F. SY." .