Page Twenty-eight 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 House, Inc.) 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- • • • ties, are quite generally capable BLOW TO MORALE 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. • • • and heartache of Jewish home- lessness, otherwise irremediable, VIEW IS OFFICIAL an impasse, furthermore, which THE QUESTION, however. must be broken promptly and hat been posed. No matter then thoroughly' before it drains 2971 GRAND RIVER 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. ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS Zionist theory has long been challenged on this score; its re- sponse is by now well worked SHIES through and authoritative. TRUCK & AUTO SALES, INC. Almost from the very begin- ning, teachers of Zionism have 13815 GRAND RIVER VErmont 7-8000 insisted that Jews outside of Palestine would remain citizens of their respective lands and ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS politically nothing else. The' American Jew, according- ly, owes one and only one civic Industrial Wood and Plywood Paris allegiance, to America. 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