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HABER TO ADDRESS Boycott to Be Revived on March 5, WEIZMANN CALLS APPEAL TO WORLD PLANNED
OLYMPIC GAMES CAUSE NAZIS
FEDERATION
TO RESTRAIN RETALIATION FOUR
If D 11 RIVE BY POLISH JEWRY AS THREAT OF
AGENCIES SUNDAY Anniversary of Hitler's Triumph 01 i'LEJ ASO irT
FOR DEATH OF SWISS LEADER
ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE GROWS
Pf 1
German Jews Stay Indoors as Much as
Possible; Berlin Jewish Quarter In-
vaded by Hitler Youth
NAZIS PRESERVE "JEW STREETS"
AS REMINDER OF GHETTO DAYS
state Ad mi i tr tor to Dia-
cuss Relief Luation
in Michigan
OFFICERS TO SUBMIT
LAST YEAR'S REPORTS
First of Series of Meetings
Held Last Sunday
,
Afternoon
Count is Set Up to Enforce the Nuremberg
Laws; Minister Jailed for In-
cluding Jews in Prayers
Compilation by Research Department of Anti-Nazi League
Declares All Jewish Coloni
Shows How Boycott Caused German
zation Roads Lead to
Foreign Trade to Shrink
Palestine
March 5, the third anniversary of Adolf Hitler's triumph at the
polls which gave him supreme dictatorial powers in Germany, will
be utilized by liberals, Jews and Christians, throughout the world
for a revival of the boycott against Nazi-made goods.
In view of the many contradictory reports regarding the effect
of the world boycott against German goods and services, the follow-
ing compilation by the Research Department of the Non-Sectarian
Anti-Nazi League is of interest:
veer
imports
1933
RS( 4.647.000.00e
Exports
RH 6,739,o00,00n
104 1,072,009.000
Four Federation agencies—the
IVO
1,203.600,000
4,190.000,0s°
6711,000,nse
1934
1.131,000,000
1,166,050,000
—015.0ao.000
Jewish Children's Home, the Jew-
1935
4.116,100,00e
1,769,606.00o
Is 1.200 009
ish Child Placement Bureau, the
Jewish Unemployment Emergency
, GERMAN'S EXPORT TRADE WITH THE U. s.
(neuron
for
I1M
nine
months
of
1932.1933-1934-1935
44,441111.14
1 ,4
Council and the Jewish Social
German Cloyqn414 ■ 0nt etatlsllrsl
Service Bureau—will meet jointly
1933
liM
200,573,050
this Sunday afternoon, at 3:30
1933
180,345,500
o'clock, at the Jewish Community
1631
139,692.900
Center, Woodward and Holbrook,
1935
117.725,000
to hear annual reports of officers
GENF:11A1. IMPORTs OF MERCHANIIIHE Ti THE UNITED STATEN
and to elect directors for this year.
PRIM GERMANY AND Mom ALL 491UNTRIEs DURING THE FIRsT
ELEVEN moNTIls 510' 12324623•1934.1935, M1'011011111 TO it S. DEPT,
The principal address of the
OF COMM161011 FIGURES
afternoon will be delivered by Dr.
William Haber, State Relief Ad-
Year
From Germany
From All Countrisa
56 from One,
1232
$12,919,207
81,226,616,661
6.1
ministrator, who will speak on the'
1133
71,200.333
L316,040,673
6,1
subject "The Re-
1034
53,551.225
032,717,385
1.2
1935
4111.630,1111
13151,113,829
lief Situation in
3.7
Michigan —
The volume of German foreign trade has been steadily de-
From Emergency
to Pelmanence." creasing since the advent of the Hitler regime. Although there is at
present a slight increase in Germany's exports as compared with last
Jewish student, at Davos. Fearful of what may happen
Herman Cohen, year, and although Germany's
foreign trade balance has again be-
when the winter Olympics are over and the foreign ath-
president of the
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Jewish Children's
letes and visitors have gone, German Jews are remaining
Home, will sub-
within doors as much as possible. A mild taste of what
mit th e annual
would happen if the Nazi authorities gave the signal for
report for his
revenge was seen in a,sudden invasion of the Berlin Jew-
agency. Abra-
ham J. Levin,
ish quarter by a mob of Hitler youth. Shouting wildly
president, w ill
"these are the murderers" and "revenge for our martyr,"
report for the
the young Nazis contented them-$ ,
Jewish Child "The Failure of Jewish Emancipation" to Be the Topic
selves with terrifying the Jews of
Placement Bu-
of the Address Here by the Eminent Publicist
the Grenadierstrasse district. By
reau. Mrs. Ralph
and Lecturer
and large, however, the Nazi press
E. Folz will sub-
Dr.
Haber
and Nazi orators have been much
mit the nominat-
milder in their utterances than
ing committee's report for this
might have beeNexpected.
bureau. Israel Ilimelhoch, chair-
In order to preserve a link be-
man, will report for the Jewish
tween the old ghetto restrictions Aliza Zhidlowsky to Address Unemployment Emergency Coun-
on the Jews and the present anti-
cil.
Theodore Levin, president, will
the Pioneer Women's
Semitic campaign, the Nazi regime
report for the Jewish Social Service
Luncheon
has decided not to change the
Bureau, and Isaac Shetzer will
names of the numerous Jude's-
present the report of the nomina-
Aliza Zhidlowsky, Palestine ing committee for this bureau.
stresses and Judenhofs in map),
German towns and cities, it is re- woman labor leader, will address
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ported in the Voelkischer Beobach-
ter, official Nazi organ. Streets
named in honor of noted Jews will
have their names changed.
Because he included Jews in a
prayer and urged his Sunday
Ludwig Lewisohn
school pupils to have nothing to
•s the photographer
do with the drive against the Jews,
George Althaus, , e-fsses•er Protea-
Eminent New York Leader caught la a; mi.-
taut minister in Timmerlach, was
to Address Shaarey
aware. while he was
sentenced to six months' imprison-
Zedek Forum
ment by a Nazi court at Bruns-
delivering an • 'ad-
wick, The prosecution charged that
dress in • Youngs-
Reverend Althaus included in a
Dr. David de Sole Pool, Rabbi
prayer the words, "God protect the
of the Spanish-Portuguese Syna-
town, 0 h i o, syna-
poor. persecuted Jews" and banned
gogue' of New York, the oldest
gogue. _
the Nazi salute from his Sunday
Jewish congregation in America,
school.
will address the forum of the Men's
Club of Shaarey Zedek on Sunday
Decree Throws Jews Out of Work
evening, Feb. 23, in the main audi-
Notwithstanding numerous
torium of Shaarey Zedek. Dr. Pool,
pledges by the highest Nazi offi-
whose topic will be "The Unmak-
cials that Jewish economic rights
ing and Remaking of the Modern
will not be affected by the anti-
Jew," will be introduced by Rabbi
Semitic program, thousands of
A. M. Hershman.
German Jews are now facing starv-
Harry M. Shulman, president of
ation as the result of a new decree
the
Men's Club of Shaarey Zedek.
forbidding employment to any one
announces that
who has been deprived of German
ALMA ZHIDLOWSKY
citizenship. Since the Nuremberg
in addition to
laws deprived the Jews of their the annual donor luncheon of the
the ad d re ss by
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Dr. de Sole Pool,
two more lec-
Ludwig Lewisohn, eminent au- will follow the address. Philip
tures remain in thor and lecturer, will speak at Slomovitz will introduce Dr.
the forum series Congregation B'nai Moshe, Dexter Lewisohn.
Tickets, at 75 and 60 cents,
arra nged by a and Lawrence, on Thursday eve-
committee head- ning, Feb. 20, on the subject "The are available at the office of the
Failure
of
Jewish
Emancipation."
B'nai
Moshe, Dexter and Lawr-
ed by Nathan L.
Kenneth Fischer, president of ence.
Milstein.
Roosevelt Urges Safeguarding of Civil and Religious
the Men's Club of B'nai Moshe,
After an absence of 10 years
On March 18, under whose auspices the lecture
Liberty; Observance of Good Will Day
Ludwig Lewisohn returned to the
Dr. Hans Kohn, is to be delivered, will conduct the
Is Hailed by Fitzgerald
United States in 1934 to settle
one of the lead- question and answer period which
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ing ant ho rities
NEW YORK (N.C.J.C. News ing and co-operation among such
on Near Eastern
Service) — The necessity of guard- groups.
affairs, u n iv e r-
In endorsing this year's observ-
-Str.111 PhatoS i t y professor, Report on National
ing and perpetuating the American
H . H. sh u t.. lecturer, former
Palestine Conclave
tradition of civil and religious liber- ances Governor Fitzgerald said:
You have my sincere wishes
head of the Ker-
At Zionist Meeting
ty for all is stressed by President for the complete success of your en Hayesod in Jerusalem, will
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter Brotherhood Day program for speak on the subject: "Pioneers
A report on the National
to the National Conference of Jews 1936.
of the New Judaism."
Conference on Palestine will be
and Christians endorsing the third
Pleased With Mission; Pren-
"Since your efforts are devoted
On March 29, Rabbi Milton
given at a meeting of the Zion-
annual observance of Brotherhood to stamping out intolerance and
tis, Wineman on J.
Steinberg of the Park Ave. Syna-
ist Organization of Detroit on
Day throughout the country on to preserving civil and religious gogue of New York, recognized
as
D. C. Committee
Tuesday evening, Feb. 18, at
Feb. 22 and 23, which was made liberty in America, I believe they one of the ablest of the young Con-
the
Shaarey
Zedek,
by
the
fol-
public here. President Ellen F. will have the active support and servative Jewish leaders in this
lowing three delegates who are
NEW YORK.—(WNS)—Crea-
Pendleton of Wellesley College, endorsement of all good citizens." country, will speak on the subject:
among the seven who repre -
tion of a central co-ordinating
Wellesley, Mass., is national chair-
It was pointed out by officials
"Factors of Survival in Jewish
sented Detroit in Washington
committee in London to carry out
man of the Brotherhood Day ob-
of the National Conference that
Life."
on Feb. 1 and 2: Judge Charles
the plan for transferring 100,000
servance.
the slogan of this year's ob-
Dr. Pool was called to the rab-
Rubiner,
Rabbi
Leon
Fram
and
German Jews to Palestine and
The letter follows:
aaaaancee will be, "Make Amer-
binate of the Spanish-Portuguese
other countries within the next
Simon Shetzer.
"I am informed that the National ica Safe for Differences." The
Synagogue—Congregation Shear-
of
On
March
17,
a
meeting
four years will be started imme-
Conference of Jews and Christians
emphasis will be upon the con•
ith Israel — when he was very
the Zionist Organization will be
diately, it was declared by Sir
is sponsoring the third annual ob- tribut ions which Jefferson,
young, and has occupied no other
addressed
by
Rabbi
Leon
I.
Herbert Samuel and Viscount
servance of Brotherhood D y Adams, Madison, with the Lord. pulpit. He
is a descendant of a
Feuer of Toledo. A symposium
Bearsted, members of the delega-
throughout the country on Satur-
Baltimore, Roger Williams and line of rabbis and physicians
on
timely
Zionist
problems
will
tion
of British Jews that con-
day and Sunday, February 22 and
other colonial and revolution-
whose history is traced to the
take place on April 14.
ferred with leaders of American
23, 1936.
ary leaders, have made to the
ninth century.
Jewry
on the refugee project,
"The emphasis this year which, American tradition of civil and
For many years he served as
declared before sailing for Eng-
I understand, is to be upon the
religious liberty. To refresh national president of Young Ju-
land.
contributions of colonial and revo.
the minds of Americans regard- daea, The three years after the
lutionary leaders to the American
Explaining that the co-ordi-
ing these contributions the or.
war saw him actively engaged in
tradition of civil and religious
nating committee, which will in-
ganiaation has just published many aspects of Zionist work in
elude representatives of American
liberty for all, is both timely and
"Liberty Documents," • pamph- Palestine. He organized the J. D.
Jewish organizations, will endea-
wholesome. We need ever to be re-
let by Prof. Edward F. Hum- C. Relief Funds in those early
vor to work through existing
minded of the value of these prin-
phrey of Trinity College, Hart•
days after the war on a work re-
Jewish agencies wherever pos-
ciples, of the necessity to guard
ford.
lief basis, and was thus instru-
and perpetuate them and of the
The sponsors emphasize that mental in establishing a number Rabbi Berlin of Palestine, sible, Sir Herbert said that he and
his colleagues had found Amer-
debt we owe to the fathers by whom Brotherhood Day is not aimed at of industries on a sound founda-
Famed Orator, Will
ican Jewry in complete agree-
they were first proclaimed and any sort of church union. "It does tion. Ile helped organize the Loan
Speak Feb. 25
ment on the objects to be pursued
stoutly defended.
not ignore the differences that Bank, today one of the most stable
and the methods to be adopted.
"I hope that with this aim Broth- distinguish A m e r i c an religious institutions in Palestine. Ile help-
Rabbi Meyer Berlin, of Pales-
J. D. C. Dries
erhood Day will be very widely groups, nor minimize their im- ed plan the craft schools, and
tine, who will be the guest of
Felix M. Warburg has accepted
observed.
portance," a statement asserts. "It directed the affairs of Hadasaah
(Signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt" makes for a deepening of faith for a short time in Palestine dur- honor at the jubilee convention the chairmanship of the 1936
of the American Mizrachi Organ- Campaign for $3,500,000 of the
Fitagerald's Endorsement and loyalty to one's own group, ing the interim administration.
ization to be held in Washington, American Je wish Distribution
Brotherhood Day, to be ob- not for the weakening or diluting The organization of the orphan
D. C., Feb. 16 to 18, will visit Committee, and has appointed a
served t h r o u g h o u t Michigan, of conviction. It engages in no work as the project of Junior Ha-
in Detroit Feb. 24 to 25 after an committee of 40 leaders in all
simultaneously with other parts religious controversy. It empha. dassah was the last thing he did
absence
of nearly 10 years. Rabbi parts of the country to guide and
of the country, on Feb. 22 and sizes those social and community before leaving Palestine early in
Berlin will meet with the officers supervise the conduct of the Cam-
23, was officialy endorsed by Gov-I tasks which are of common con- 1920.
and members of the Detroit Miz- paign.
ernor Frank D. Fitzgerald in • cern and interest. and calls for
Dr. Pool is president of the rachi groups and will be the prin-
The list of those appointed by
communication to the National co-operation in them. It builds Union of Sephardic Congregations. cipal speaker at a masameeting
Conference of Jews and Chris- upon mutual respect. It proclaims He is the author of a number of to be held Tuesday evening, Feb. Mr. Warburg, who have accepted
the
appointment, includes Meyer L.
tions, under whose auspices the that Protestants, Catholics and ',choleric studies, his latest work, 25, at 8:15, in the social hall of
observances will be held. Jews in their beliefs and rituals now in press, being a new trans- Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, Chi- Prentis and Henry Wineman as
Michigan representatives.
The purpose of Brotherhood may be as separate as the fingers lation of the Sephardic Prayer cago Boulevard at Lawton.
The projects for which the
Day is to bring members of var- in the outstretched hand, while in Book.
!leaded by L Rosenthal, presi-
ions religious and racial groups their impact upon common under-
Dr. Pool graduated from Jews' dent of the Detroit Miznchi Or- Joint Distribution Committee is
seeking
$3,500,000 funds in 1036
to work together on civic and takings which good citizenship re- College in London, and received ganization, and the local rabbi-
as follows:
communal problems and to estab- quires, they may be as united as his Ph. D. at Heidelberg, Comma nate, • reception committee will are
Ownwaggs Te puritan the causes of
lish justice, amity, understand • man's clenched fist."
cum laude.
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BERLIN (WNS) — German Jews are
thankful that the winter Olympic Games are
being held in Germans because the presence
of large numbers of foreigners is virtually
the only factor restraining the Nazis from
taking bloody revenge for the murder of Wil-
helm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi leader who was
killed by David Frankfurter, a Jugoslavian
Ludwig Lewisohn Will Speak Next
Thursday Evening at B'nai Moshe
LEADER
TO SPEAK TUESDAY
DR. DE SOLA POOL
TO SPEAK FEB, 23
•
•
President and Governor Endorse
Brotherhood Days on Feb. 22, 23
SAMUEL, BEARSTED
LEAVE FOR LONDON
MIZRACHI LEADER
WILL VISIT HERE
SEES ZION ABSORBING
60,000 JEWS A YEAR
Unity Achieved by German
Zionists at Annual
,
Convention
Renewed Anti-Jewish Outbreaks and At-
tempt to Enact Ban on Schechita
Cause Widespread Panic
RIOTS RESULT IN DEATHS OF
THREE JEWS, THREE PEASANTS
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Declaring
that "rebuilding Palestine is not
a philanthropic enterprise but
Jewry's one means of self-preser-
vation," Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
president of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, recognized in the
League of Nations Mandate as
the supreme authority in the re-
building of the Jewish National
Home in Palestine, urges the Jews
of the United States, as "the pre-
mier Jewish community in the
world," to give wholehearted sup-
port to the campaign for $3,500,.
000 for the United Palestine Ap-
peal which was launched last
week at the National Conference
for Palestine at Washington, D. C.
With the co-operation of the
United Palestine Appeal, Dr.
Weizmann declared, it will be Jews and three peasants, injuries to scores of Jews and
possible for Palestine to absorb peasants and the arrest of nearly 100 anti-Semitic leaders
even more than 60,000 Jews a have brought the situation to a climax. Although the gov-
year, the present record.
ernment has imposed a strict censorship on all news of
Dr. Weizmann'. Plea
Dr. Weizmann's appeal for sup- anti-Jewish disturbances, it was learned that three Jews
port of Jewish colonization ac- were killed at Konin when the Jewish community was
tivities in Palestine was made pub- invaded by an antiZemitic mob. A similar riot occurred
lic by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, na-
tional chairman of the United at Szetlewek, 160 miles from Warsaw, when the police
fired on a mob in order to capture
Palestine Appeal, which includes
the Nationalist leaders responsible
the Palestine Foundation Fund
for the anti-Jewish riot at Zago-
Fund and the Jewish National
row. Three peasants were killed at
Fund.
Szetlewek and many wounded
Dr. Weizmann urges in his mes-
when
the police besieged the hous-
sage of appeal:
es where the villagers had hidden
At this solemn hour in 'our
the anti-Semitic leaders. Armed
national history, an hour fraught
with responsibilities unprecedent- Rabbi Armond E. Cohen to with pitchforks and clubs, women
and children fought side by side
ed In character, we appeal to the
Speak at Services Fri-
with their menfolk in a desperate
great Jewry of the United States
day, Feb. 21
effort to save the prisoners.
to place itself at the head of our
great national effort on behalf
Following attacks on Jews at
of Palestine, on behalf of the ' The list of prominent visiting Klobuck and Truskolasy 22 peas-
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rabbis who are scheduled to ad- ants were arrested. Discovering
dress the late Friday evening that the nationalist students are
Many Anti-Semitic Leaders Arrested; Jew-
ish Congress Delegation Registers
Protect with Legation in U. S.
WARSAW (WNS) — Panic-stricken by
the renewed anti-Jewish outbreaks through-
out Poland and the attempt to enact a legal
ban against schechita, Polish Jewry is pre-
paring to issue an appeal for help to world
Jewry. A new series of violent anti-Semitic
riots at Konin, Zagorow, Klobuck and Trus-
kolasy, which caused the deaths of three
CLEVELAND RABBI
AT SHAAREY ZEDEK
FRAM TO DISCUSS
FORTUNE'S SURVEY
using anti-Semtic disturbances as
a cloak to arouse the peasants
against the government, the police
raided the headquarters of the na-
tionalist youth organization in
Warsaw, seizing incriminating doc-
uments - and arresting $7 persons.
A like raid was made on the offices
of the Nationalist Labor Union and
in Kattowitz where the police are
searching for the leaders of the
terrorist gang responsible for the
bombing of Jewish shops and syna-
gogues. The recurrent attacks on
Jewish students in the universities
are also continuing.
In Sermon Sunday; Will De-
liver Sermon on Fri-
day Evening
The Fortune Magazine article,
"Jews in America," which ana-
lyzes the situation of the Jews in
America and thb possibility of an-
ti-Semitism in this country, will be
the subject of Rabbi Fram's lec-
ture Sunday morning, Feb. 16, at
10:45,
Alternating with Dr. Leo M.
Franklin In the occupancy of the
pulpit of the Friday night serv-
ices, Rabbi Frans will speak on
Friday night, Feb. 21, on the sub-
ject: "The Jewish Idea of God."
Rabbi From is giving the lec-
ture, "Jews in America" in re-
sponse to the requests of many
people who have read the article
in Fortune Magazine and want an
interpretation of it in the light of
Jewish history and current world
events.
At the Friday night sermon,
Rabbi Fram will present "The
Jewish Idea of God" as reflected
in the Talmud and Midrash and
other Jewish literature and folk-
lore.
George Galvani and the Temple
choir are rendering exclusively
traditional music at the Friday
night services. They are special-
izing in the rendition of popular
Sabbath Eve melodies in which the
congregation as a whole will be:
able later on to join them. Among
these melodies is the old Sabbath
song, Sholom Aleichem.
Mr. Galvani will organize groups
of members of the congregation
to learn the Sabbath music and
to lead the congregation in the
singing of the hymns and re-
sponges.
It is the hope of the rabbis that
these new Sabbath Eve services
will lead to a greater degree of
participation on the part of the
congregation than has hertofore
prevailed in Reform services.
The Friday evening service is
followed by a social hour in the
social hall of the Temple.
The various Temple groups
functioning on the Temple Group
Plan are taking turns in rendering
ushering service and in managing
the reception which follows the
worship.
The services begin promptly at
8 o'clock.
Budget Committee
to Meet Feb. 19-21
The needs of the local, national
and international agencies regu-
larly supported by the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign, and the requests of
those unaffiliated organizations
which desire to be included in the
1936 campaign budget, will be re-
viewed by the budget committee at
three consecutive meetings, to be
held on the afternoons of Feb. 19,
20 and 21, at 2 o'clock, at the office
of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
51 W. Warren Ave.
This committee, which held its
initial meeting in December, is
composed of members of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and Detroit
Service Group botrds, supplement-
ed by individuals who are inter-
ested in particular agencies, thus
representing • cross-section of the
community. Fred M. Butte!, chair-
man of the budget committee, will
preside at the hearings.
National Fast Day
Meanwhile, Polish J e w r y is
mobilizing for a united protest
against the law which would ban
schechita. Although the propon-
ents of the law insist that it is
only a humanitarian measure, its
real purpose is to make a breach
in the legal rights of the Jewish
population. The Polish rabbinate
RABBI ARMOND E. COHEN has proclaimed a national day of
fasting and has named a special
services of Congregation Shaarey delegation to call on Premier Mar-
Zedek includes Rabbi Armond E. ian, Kosalalkowski, whose wife Is
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THE WORLD'S WINDOW
By LUDWIG LEWISOHN
TAI. column Is copyright by the Raven Arta Feature Syndicate. Re-
production In whole or In wart strictly forbidden. Any In( rlogemeat on
this copyright will be prosecuted.
'PROPAGANDA"
Propaganda is today an evil
word that stands for an evil thing.
IVe think of propaganda as un-
scrupulously partisan, violently
mendacious, hysterically insistent.
We are quite right. One has but to
read Professor Frederick L. Schu-
man's masterly volume "The Nazi
Dictatorship" to learn how a gang
of ignorant and brutal fanatics
by a method of propaganda ef-
ficiently calculated to play upon
the sick places in the nervous sys-
tems of their fellow-countrymen
turned a highly civilized country
into a cross between a mediaeval
madhouse and a particularly foul
cruel prison. So It is clear that
propaganda can be one of the most
evil things in the uarld.
But it has not always been nor
need it always be. The origin of the
word is often forgotten. It is de-
rived from the name of that Col-
lege of Cardinals in Rome which
takes care of the foreign missions
of the Latin Church and which is
therefore known as the Corgregatio
de propaganda fide, the congrega-
tion for the spreading of the faith.
Now when men have in them •
deep faith in some truth, in some
V00011, in some way of life of which
they are certain that it will make
their fellow-men better and hap-
pier, it is human and natural and
inevitable that they should seek
to spread or propagate that faith.
It is, indeed, a duty, is it not? It
is an unescapable duty. If I know
something the knowledge of which
will benefit others, am I not bound
to peek to tell them about it? Hence
it is clear when we consider care-
fully that all communication of
art, science, religion, philosophy
is propaganda and that, by the
same token, all education is pro-
paganda, is the spreading by com-
munication of some faith that is
In us. In brief, propaganda, like
all other mortal things, takes its
quality or moral color from the
moral quality of the human beings
who use it. Jeremiah was • pro-
pagandist; Hitler is a propagan-
dist, The prophet of God propa-
gated truths which the ages have
not yet reached; the German hys-
teromaniac propagates delusions
that have degraded and will end
by destroying a great people.
• • •
We Jews are an old people and
a wary people and not, we flatter
ourselves, easily taken in. I ens
not so sure that we are as clever
as we think tve are. The majority
of us is pretty apt to be taken in
by any kind of propaganda com-
ing from a Gentile source that is
not openly anti-Jewish or ev!en
(and then our heads are turned
at once) throws , us some friendly
sop. And on the other hand we
ourselves are very poor and very
lazy propagandists for ourselves
and for our cause which heppens
to be in this particular age more
than our cause but rather the sym-
bol of whatever of freedom, of
tolerance and of goodness is still
left among men. We have adequate
press; we have no daily press at
all; we remain as a group and as
a people on the defensive; we have
and use no propaganda at all—
neither inner-Jewish propaganda
nor propaganda for the world.
Why is that? Have we no faith
In ourselves and in our cause and
in our future? For if we had the
faith, would we not be compelled
from within to make it known,
to spread It, to propagate it A
very intelligent friend said to me
one day: You are • fanatic." I
answered: "If I am it is the pen-
alty imposed on me by our indif-
ference."
In fact I am not a fanatic at
all. For the fanatic is one whose
faith is not based on mason or
reflection or study or kindly com-
merce with men and a persecution
of their true needs. Ilia flame,
kindled by some sickness in his
soul, desires all the world to be
merely its fuel. And therefore his
propaganda is always a propa-
ganda net of light and love but
of force and fraud. Analyse any
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