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SPIRITUAL EMANCIPATION
By SAUL S. SPIRO
people ever has. The least we emancipiation if Israel does not
can demand of those who do not regard it as the goal of its task,
desire the life in Israel is silence. but only as a new condition of its
Let us retrace our way and mission and as a new trial, much
Editor's
Note:
In
the
following
article
Saul
S.
Spiro,
cultural
lead-
INTERNATIONAL
er, now in charge of the National Field Service of the Zionist study briefly the emancipation severer than the trial of oppres-
sion; but I should grieve if Israel
Organization of America and Director of its Speakers Bureau, period in Jewish history:
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The quest for privatbuergerliche understood itself so little and had
stresses the need of a revaluation of old Jewish values and a
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rededication to them on the part of American Jews. Zionism Emancipation--civil emancipation so little comprehension of its own
offers
a homeland for the homeless, but it also offers a renewed —in the last century which was
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Jewish
life and spiritual potency to American Jewry, he de- sought by orthodox and liberal
Washers—lroners
Jews alike, resulted in disintegra-
clares.
tion of their inner life. Juda-
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"History has value for us only Jewry is intricate and perplexing i sm lost its finest minds and spi•-
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insofar as it can illumine the On the one hand, there are th • its. The non-conformists and in-
present and help us direct the tens of thousands of Zionists who e tellectuals turned their backs
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future." There is profound truth are party members and contribute upon Judaism.
In brief, the
in this often-quoted phrase. At toward the upbuilding of Pales Haskalah movement in Germany
this grave moment of world crisis, tine; they are conscious and con and later in Russia gave primacy
when idealism seems to appear as scientious Zionists who are ready to general culture and secularized
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a shallow delusion, when a cloud to fight for their ideals. True Judaism to such an extent that
"Shur-Good" Brand
of moral defeatism seems to en- not every enrolled Zionist is an • even in our own age we still suf-
velop and obscure the human ideological expert. If that test •er the after-pains.
CRACKERS, COOKIES and
spirit, it would be of great bene- were applied to the country at
The early Maskilim preached a
PRETZELS
fit to us to turn to the reservoirs large, how many citizens would philosophy of universalism and
of our historical experiences.
disassociated
themselves
emphat-
retain the franchise? The voice
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While European Jewry is strug-
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that have- different values. On life. They dug one grave after
survival against inconceivable dif- the
another for all the sanctities of
other
hand,
there
are
tens
of
ficulties, while Palestine Jewry
our people; they annihilated and
putting up a fight for its na- thousands of Jews, who, in one uprooted every Jewish moral qual-
tional integrity, American Jews way or another, while they con- ity from their hearts. They ex-
tribute to Palestine funds, are
are torn between their loyalty to passive in the furtherance of the pelled the SHECHINAH from
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their brethren and apparent im-
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ideal of Zion. These are in re- their souls. In their circles it
mediate self-interest.
It is a ality just "philanthropic Zion- was forbidden to mention the fact
tragic phenomenon.
PERRY FEIGENSON, Pres.
that there was a Jewish question.
American
the largest Jewish com- ists." The basic theory of Zion- It was a group physically sick to
BEN FEIGENSON, Vice-Pres. Jewry,
F. L. MAYHEW
munity in the world, to whom ism, as conceived to be a way the bone. As a reward for this
of life for Jewry in Diaspora,
world
Jewry
looks
for
guidance
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pliancy the Maskilim expected the
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and help, is still in the process of has not been translated into their world to drop its prejudices and
own
lives.
There
is
still
another
transition and adjustment. It is
and Lamb
to
acknowledge
them
as
equals.
still passing through a transitory class of Jews who consciously and
stage in the development of Jew- unconsciously tend to repeat the Their aim was not achieved; in-
stead they created severe and
A Joyous Pesach to All
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ish life. The faithful and intel- folly of the early German Mas- conflicting divisions. The leader
kilim.
Some
of
them
are
out-
ligent among American Jews are spoken assimilationists and others of neo-orthodox Judaism, Rabbi S.
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asking with deep concern: "Juda-
tend to disregard Jewish history R. Hirsch, was compelled to dis-
ism—what
of
the
future?"
They
claim emancipation: "I bless
ADVANCE
are cognizant of the fact that and the lesson it offers. This
the large masses of Jews want a does not mean that every non-
Zionist or anti-Zionist is ipso
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aware that they lack a course of facto
an assimilationist. The in-
philosophy of life. They are
life which should pave the way ne• conflicts and lack of a posi-
CO.
for Beulah-salvation in Diaspora. tive Jewish way of life will ulti-
The problem of Americian mately lead towards the same re-
sults experienced by German and
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Russian Maskilim. We must be-
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