Friday, November 30, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Sixteen
general Mexican population.
A contributing factor to the
high standard of organized Jew
ish life in Mexico, in the opinion
of Mr. Resnikoff, is the fact that
there is little inter-Jewish group
dissension. The Sephardic Jews
and the Ashkenazim have learn-
ed to work and live together and
to cooperate in all matters pro-
moting Jewish welfare, whether
it be in Mexico itself, or Pales-
tine.
Mr. Resnikoff has recently been
designated by the Jewish Nation-
al Fund in Palestine to direct
Mexican Jewr
co h as a a Hacshara movement, aimed
(An interview with the President ly Sephardic. Now Mexi
. But at training youths who wish to
population of 20,
of the Jewish National Fund
it is not the size of the Mexican settle in Palestine, which has
drawn many Jewish youths from
in Mexico)
Jewish community that fascinates
By MARTIN SILVER
him, but the intensity and scope Cuba.
Right now Mexican Jewry is
There are only 20,000 Jews in of its Jewish life.
Indicative
.;
the
conscious
engaged
in a campaign to raise
Mexico. But if a survey were
made of Jewish activities in that Jewish living in Mexico, he told three million pesos to aid Euro-
country it would be almost im- us, is the fact that more than pean Jews. The drive, of which
possible to believe that so few are eighty percent of the Jewish chil- Mr. Resnikoff is vice chairman,
capable of so much. That was dren are receiving a Jewish edu- has so far brought in close to
the impression carried away la} cation in organized schools — a 2,000,000 pesos, but latest in-
this reporter after interviewing figure unequaled in any country, dications point that it will more
Theodore Resnikoff, president of Palestine excepted. And such than go over the top.
the Jewish National Fund in are the standards of the Jewish Until recently the bulk of
Mexico, who is on a brief visit schools that they are being at- Mexico's Jewry engaged in con-
merce and small business. How-
tended by many non-Jews
to this country.
In Mexico City, where the ever, with the war as an im-
Devotion to country has al-
ways been a Jewish trait. And if Jewish population is believed to petus, many branched out into
the warmth with which Mr. Res- be approximately 16,000, there various large industries, partic-
nikoff spoke of his adopted coun- are six Jewish parochial schools, alarly in the rubber and cottonl
try is even one-tenth typical of a Yeshiva and nine synagogues, fields. According to Mr. Resni-
the sentiments of Mexican Jew- in addition to a number of other koff there is very little anti-
as-
ry, then Mexico can proudly educational, social and religious Semitism in Mexico. This he
Jewish
cribes that
to
boast that in its Jewish popula- centers. the fact
m
em-
tion it has the most faithful, the
Although many Jewish move- enterprise has opened any
to the
most patriotic segment in the ments are holding the attention ployment opportunities
of Mexican Jewry, Zionism has
country.
It was chance rather than the strongest hold on the ma-
Greetings of the Season
choice that brought Mr. Resni- jority of the population. The per
koff to Mexico. Originally he capita contributions of Mexican
hoped to come to the United Jews to the Keren Kayemeth,
States. But immigration restric- Mr. Resnikoff stressed, exceeds
tions thwarted his plans. Now he that of any other Jewish com-
world. As further
is happy at the turn of events. munity i th
the
To come to a small Jewish com- evidence of the profound inter-
munity and see it grow in size est of Mexican Jewry in Zion-
and in stature, he said, is a great ism, he cited the formation of
human experience, particularly if
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