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may make the difference be-
tween life and death.
Next, Zionist effort arid hope
have supplied many American
Jews with an activity which is
useful, creative, joy-giving. Jew-
ish loyalties have had their self-
By DR. MILTON STEINBERG
esteem raised by Jewish achieve-
ment in Israel, by the courage
atm relationship of American Jewry, and the individual
with which Palestinian Jewry
American Jew, to the new State of Israel is today a most
has met the perils in its way.
widely discussed subject. Dr. Milton Steinberg, Rabbi of New
Finally and most consequen-
York's Park Avenue Synagogue, is eminently qualified to dis-
tial of all, they have been cul-
cuss the problem. The following article is from the revised
turally enriched and strength-
edition of Dr. Steinberg's book, "The Making of the Modern
ened by the creativity of the
Jew; From the Second Temple to the State of Israel," and is
people of what is now Israel.
published by special permission of the publisher, Behrman
They have been stimulated to
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the study of the reborn Hebrew
THE CREATION OF Israel has raised to fever pitch. the issue tongue. They are now endowed
of dual loyalties, the question of the effect of Israel on the with the literature created in
American Jew and the integrity o f his American patriotism. Must that language and, in response
it come to pass, it has been -
to it, in other languages.
asked, that with Israel come in-1
The music and art of Israel
to being the Jew will be torn
have penetrated into their lives,
in sentiment and political alle-
evoking aesthetic expression
giance between it and America?
from them also. New folk-ways,
This query has been raised
expressive of Jewish religious,
more often out of fear or for
ethical and cultural values, have
the polemical interests of anti-
bubbled out of the great foun-
Zionism than because it is real
tain of Palestinian spirituality
and poses a genuine dilemma. It
and now refresh the Jewish soul
is also put more often by Jews
everywhere.
than by non-Jews. Gentiles,
The renaissance of Hebraism
since they are not personally
of one land has led to a cor-
implicated in the problem, since
responding renaissance through-
furthermore they are free from
out the world.
Jewish insecurities and timidi-
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ties, are quite generally capable
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of an objectivity and directness
on Zionist matters beyond the
AND MORE, transparently, is
capacity of Jews, especially
yet to come. It is this which
frightened Jews.
justifies the risks of the Zionist
Wherefore, it does not occur
enterprise. There are risks, and
to them to imagine that any-
mighty ones, implicit in it.
thing which happens anywhere
Should it fail, there will ensue
abroad can possibly mar the
RABBI STEINBERG
not only the loss of all the prom-
political oneness of Americans
ised gains, social, psychological,
• •
with America.
cultural and religious, but also
Besides, too many ties, cul- made no essential difference in
tural, religious and sentimental, the relation of Irish Americans
unite too many diverse groups to the United States.
But this is far from being
in this country with the lands,
traditions and churches of the the whole story. A. free Israel
Old World for 'the Jews in their not only takes nothing from Greetings
Zionism to be taken as anything American Jews qua Americans,
more than one more instance of it enriches them as Jews and
a common and acceptable phe- therefore as citizens. It offers
them a solution to the headache
nomenon.
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and heartache of Jewish home-
lessness, otherwise irremediable,
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an impasse, furthermore, which
THE QUESTION, however. must be broken promptly and
hat been posed. No matter then thoroughly' before it drains
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how artificial and unreal it may American Judaism of that mar-
be, it requires an answer. Nor gin of resource and joy which
need that answer be improvised
at this late date.
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Zionist theory has long been
challenged on this score; its re-
sponse is by now well worked
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politically nothing else.
The' American Jew, according-
ly, owes one and only one civic
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bearing arms against his Jewish
brethren. This indeed would he
no novelty, Jews have fought
against one another in every
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On this truth there is, and
can be, only one reservation:
an issue of conscience. Such a
hesitation as arises when an in-
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some particular war to be mor-
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BUT THAT ISSUE of con-
science has no special relevance
to American Jews or to Israel.
It applies equally to all Ameri-
cans and to any or all wars.
In sum, Israel leaves intact the
integrity of the American Jew,
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