Friday, October 1; 1941
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JEWISH CHRONICLE
Time Out on the Galilee Front
Fostering of Hate Branded
as the Sin of Christianity'
By DR. MILTON STEINBERG
(The brilliant young Rabbi of New York's Park Avenue
synagogue, Dr. Milton Steinberg, analyzes the causes of anti-
Semitism in an article digested from his new book, "The
Making of the Modern Jew," recently published by Behrman
House.)
THE SURVIVAL of the Jew be one riddle of history, the
I F hardihood
of hatred for him must be another. For this, like
the precedent set by Hitler and
copied by his imitators.
It has been exported to dis-
rupt entire nations, to sew dis-
cord in their populations and so
soften them up for conquest, a
device brilliantly exploited by
Goebbels against the western
democracies.
Finally, as Carey McWilliams
has demonstrated in his recent
book, it has been utilized as "a
mask for privilege," economic,
social, political caste. Little won-
der if, after so much cultivation,
there is so much of the poison-
ous weed around.
the Jew himself, has outlived all vicissitudes of time.
It has flourished among cul-
tured and benighted peoples, in it to him, even with all religion.
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periods of prosperity and ad- His bias may nonetheless outlive
versity. It has dogged the steps its causes.
Set Feb. 12 to March 15
of the Jew like some shadow.
NEW YORK — The annual
Such is Christendom's sin, com-
It is almost as old as he is.
Jewish Music Festival, organized
In large part, prejudice against mitted sometimes in full con-
throughout the country by the
the Jew is the direct result of sciousness, more often in care-
National Jewish Music Council,
lessness,
against
the
Jews
and
indoctrination.
which is sponsored by the Na-
itself,
the
grievous
guilt
of
Anti-Semitism is a time-hon-
tional Jewish Welfare Board,
which
will
remain
until
Chris-
ored component of Western cul-
will be celebrated in 1949 from
Two Israeli soldiers take time out during the truce on the
ture, and the child who is reared tian teaching and preaching
Feb. 12 to March 15 (Purim).
Galileean front. Across the line are Lebanese and Syrian troops.
to the latter is quite likely to purge themselves of utterances
Organizations are requested to
contrary
to
their
ideals.
acquire the former also, and to
reserve this period for the cele-
Ectitomics, along with religion, economic life not collapsed dur- they gave and imposed Him up- bration.
get the one where and as he
gets the other—at his mother's has a role in the creation of ing the Twenties.
on them.
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knee, on the playground, from anti-Semitism. In a competitive
Don't bury your ad. Adver-
his teacher's desk, in the books society, the hand of each mars is FEAR THE UNKNOWN
tise in the Jewish Chronicle.
EXPLOITED BY BIGOTS
and newspapers he reads, and in against his brother, every ad-
FINALLY,
ANTI-SEMITISM
A THIRD ROOT of anti-
vance on the part of one in- Semitism is human psychology. is in no slight measure the re-
church.
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dividual being achieved only at Thus, it is part of man's animal sult of the fact that it is so use-
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- the expense of another.
POTENT FACTOR
heritage to suspect the unknown, ful, that it leads itself so readily
The
Gentile,
struggling
for
a
ESPECIALLY IN the last,
to fear what he suspects and to to exploitation by unscrupulous
persons.
since of all the sources of anti- livelihood, takes the competition, hate what he fears.
How many are the political
The Jew being in some de-
Semitic indoctrination, the Chris- even the greater success, of a
tian religion would seem to be fellow-Gentile with as much gree an unknown, of 'different and economic uses to which
the most potent. Certainly it is grace as he can muster. But background and modes of, living, prejudice against the Jews can
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pect, fear and hate him.
centuries taught worshippers to he grows resentful.
This, he feels, is a competition
Implicated in group prejudice tention from crimes, scandals
regard the Jew as the Christ-
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to which he should not be sub- is still another psychological and mass discontent, as by the
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It has been heaped up as a
whereby men and societies are
ties to the present, and that de-
forever prone to blame others stepping-stone to power, after
spite the doubts raised by Bib- TAUGHT BY HISTORY
lical criticism concerning the his-
FROM THIS elemental strug- for their own mistakes and mis-
toricity of the crucifixion story, gle fors bread much of the im- fortunes.
For this role of standing as
despite the further fact that the pulse to anti-Semitism stems.
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Jews who supposedly executed The shopkeeper sees in his Jew- whipping-boy for mankind's sins,
Jesus are dead in any case al- ish competitor an avoidable errors, disappointments, the Jew
is ideally suited.
most two thousand years.
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handicap.
He is conspicuous and influ-
Of all which the child in his
The unemployed Christian re-
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Sunday School class is taught, gards enviously the job filled by ential enough to give some show
the uncritical communicant in a Jew. History has fashioned of plausibility to any charges
Ais pew is unaware. What he the Jew into a shrewd merchant directed against him, but not
strong enough to be able to set
retains is an anger against—the and trader; it has forced on
Jews he knows. So, at the a skill in making his way, cir- up effective resistance.
Under' the insight furnished
touch of a religion dedicated to cumstances which serve only to
by dynamiC psychology, a fur-
love, he has been tainted with fan the fury.
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a hate.
All through the centuries, eco- ther cause of anti-Semitism has
From this distressing practice, nomics has done this devil's been suggested. Prejudice
there are among the Christian work. Many a theological dispu- against the Jew, it has been
clergy these days dissenters, and tation with Jews in the Middle proposed, may have another of
in increasing numbers. But the Ages, many a pogrom, all osten- its roots in a suppressed hostil-
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exceptions, bright and reassur- sibly to the greater glory of God ity on the part of Christians
ing as they may be, are not yet and the church, masked the against Christian morality, which
inhibits the satisfaction of their
so numerous as to nullify the most mercenary of purposes.
desires and impulses, a restraint
rule.
Today,
too,
the
position
of
the
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Jew is rendered unstable by eco- from which they would be free
IRREPARABLE HURT
nomic distress. Had Poland and were it not for Jesus, the Apos-
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ONCE THE DAMAGE has been Romania been prosperous lands tles, and the Prophets before
done, it may be irreparable. A in the interval between the two them, all of them Jews.
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which neither years, subsequent
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The child, having grown into
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an adult, may forget the experi-
ence which made him an anti-
Semite in embryo; he may break
with the church which afforded
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