Mr. Hyman's Address Here

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every ounce of courage; for
abundant sympathy, tempered
with clear judgment.
"It is true that we Jews have
a special stake in the outcome
of the war and in the terms of
the peace which is to shape the
future of mankind. We survive
or perish with the fortunes of this
war. We realize, perhaps better
than all other groups, that Fas-
cism must be utterly destroyed
in every corner of the globe if
free men are to live at all on any
terms. Yet we are not alone in
misfortune, and misery and in
determination to change this
sorry scheme of things. Poles and
Greeks, Norwegians and Jugo-
Slays, Belgians, Dutchmen and
Frenchmen, Czechs and Austrians
and Germans who abhor the mad
sadism that masquerades as gov-
ernment in Germany—all the en-
slaved millions of the nations of
Europe that are under the Nazi
heel—share our anxiety as we
share theirs. And all men of good
will in every land, still free,
know that their destiny is bound
up with ours.
The Far-Flung Tragedy
"Before the war, nearly half
of the total Jewish population of
the world lived in the lands now
under Nazi domination. How
many are left alive—in the stark
sense of simple numbers — we
have at this time no way of
knowing. The Jewish casualty
lists have not yet come in. Not
until the day of Europe's liber-
ation will we be able to add up
the staggering totals of our dead
and maimed. Yet no one who
looks soberly beyond the present
day can fail to realize that all
that we have known of Jewish
suffering in the past will seem in-
finitesimal by contrast with the
profound and far-flung tragedy
that will be plain to us.
Salvaging Civilized Sparks
"In this enormous task the
agencies of emergency aid, of re-
construction, of mercy and hu-
_ inanity, will play a greater role
than even today. The Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, the United
Palestine Appeal and the Nation-
al Refugee Service will be called
upon in larger measure than ever
before to serve as the channels
of American Jewish good-will
and as the articulate expression
of American Jewish self-respect.
They and the British community
and the other Jewish commun-
ities of our allies will need to
collaborate fully in the far-flung
fields of our common service.
"Perhaps after this hideous
blood-letting, after the pain and
agony of those who have suffered
and are today suffering under
the heel of the despot, is ended,
we will be able to salvage some
spark of the civilization that still
smolders among the ashes over
there. It will be our duty to at-
tempt to save it, not merely for
the re-establishment of Jewish
life but for the betterment of all
humanity. •
A Three-Fold Task
"That is the problem of the
future. Today,-however, we have
a three-fold task: first; in the
midst of war and battle, we must
labor with all our skill and
knowledge and resources to save
all who -can be saved; second; to-
work out broa.d-based plans for
a new society in which Jewish
life and the lives of all minority
groups may be put upon the firm
foundation of security and equal-
ity before the law; and, third, to
do our jobs as Americans con-
cerned with the fate and destiny
of our country and the hopes we

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share with our fellow-citizens —
Catholic and Protestant — that
this nation may continue in world
leadership in the shaping of the
peace as fully and generously as
it has taken on the enormous
responsibilities of the fighting of
the war. Sometimes these three
obligations merge insensibly;
sometimes they seem to clash
superficially and men who are
puzzled or confused seek to set
up priorities and to balance one
loyalty against another.
"We find certain Jews in this
country, as indeed everywhere
else, sincerely devoted, undoubt-
edly, to the nation of their citi-
zenship, who deem it essential
to subordinate all other consider-
ations to their fear lest sympathy
with the sorrows and problems
of their fellow Jews and parti-
cipation in Jewish programs of
assistance may stamp them as
unpatriotic or mark them as men
who hold a double allegiance.
Then there is the other extreme—
those who are so deeply moved
by Jewish tragedy and sorrow
and pain—who so place the ac-
cent of their lives and beings on
the salvage and restoration of
the Jewish people that all else
would seem secondary. Fortun-
ately, neither of these groups ex-
presses the large stream of Jew-
ish hope, of Jewish thought and
conviction in our country. They
are the extremists of the left and
right. We who belong to the great
center and who strive to _ deal
honestly and frankly with our
problems can see no conflict be-
tween a man's earnest hope to
participate in the building up of
Jewish Palestine and the carry-
ing out of every obligation he
should assume in relation to our
own beloved country.
Many Kinds of Service

"We find no division of loyal-
ties when men wish to give of
themselves to help in Palestine
as they would help in the im-
mediate and primary problems
that face us in our daily lives
here. If it were true that, limited
as human beings are, we could
give our energies only to one
cause and one program, and we
would thereby have to exclude
all else; those who hate us and
malign us no matter what we do,
might have a pretext on which
to hang their specious argument
of divided loyalty. But fortunate-
ly it is the strength and the vir-
tue of a great number of our
Jewish fellow-citizens that they
have room in their minds and
lives for many loyalties, for many
kinds of service.

Passover—The Festival of Freedom

Rabbi Hirsch Manischewitz responds to the traditional four
questions which mark the opening of the Seder service.
—Photo Courtesy of "Click."

in the fact that every Jew fort-
unate enough to enjoy the cit-
izenship of this democracy has a
primary obligation to discharge
to the utmost the duties of that
citizenship. But he is no less the
stalwart American when he tra-
vels in the companionship of
sympathy with his fellow-Jews
throughout the world, realizing
that if he does not stand by and
help, there will be no help at
all for his brothers from any
source whatever. Further, I think
that he should be rather com-
pletely aware — and the tragic
facts of the last incredible decade
have made this uncontestably
true—that whatever happens to
Jews anywhere in the world
must inevitably have its grave
repercussions upon the lives of
Jews in every other part of the
world. The madness of anti-
Semitism, unleashed in Germany,
has been seen and felt on the
sidewalks of New York. Similar-
ly, when we bring stability once
more into Jewish life in Europe
we shall find its echo in the
greater security and peace of
every Jewish community in every
land.

An Historic Parable

"I detect graver sources of dis-
tress in the divisions that exist
among us here over matters of
specifically Jewis concern. Some
of you may recall that in the
winter of 587 B.C. the army of
Nebuchadnezzar beseiged Jeru-
salem. All the inhabitants took
up arms in defense of the city
and the invaders were held off.
For a year, Nebuchadnezzar re-
mained outside the gates. Sud-
denly, he learned that the King of
Egypt had declared war on him
and he retreated from Jerusalem
to take up the battle with his
Egyptian enemy. The Judeans re-
joiced, being certain the Assyrian
king would be defeated in Egypt.
Their optimism proved to be pre-
mature. The invading host came
back, attacking with redoubled
violence. Then a strange thing
happened within the city. The
people began to quarrel among
themselves. When the prophet
Jeremiah warned them of their
peril, they had him cast into a
pit of mud. Food supplies ran
low; plague spread through the
city; enemy arrows found their
targets on the city walls, until

Jerusalem fell and was utterly
destroyed.
"I have told this parable as all

parables are told; to point a
moral. We are in the gravest
peril. The enemy is not only at
our gates but he surrounds us on
all sides. Yet within our own
house we are divided, quarreling
with our prophets and among
ourselves.
A Plea for Unity
"Across the seas millions of our
people live in anguish while we
indulge in oratory and public de-
bate and private recrimination.
It seems to me—and I say this
in all earnestness and with pro-
found conviction—that our great-
est danger lies in our internal
divisions rather than in our ex-
ternal foes. In a time when our
immediate and urgent and in-
escapable task is to rescue and
to salvage and to restore as many
of the victims of Hitler's bar-
barism as we can save and help,
our Jewish communities are torn
with acrimonious debate. When
our problem is to find any haven
at all for weary refugees, we find
ourselves in bitter discussion and
polemics over ultimate objectives
of Jewish destiny.
"In this hour of danger, this
hour which is determining not
our future but that of the gener-
ations that are to come after, we
have an immediate and urgent
duty to close ranks, to stand to-
gether, work together, fight to-
gether for our common destiny,
recognizing at the same time, the
right of each one of us to his
own viewpoint and philosophy.
We who plead with the 'world
for tolerance have need to culti-
vate and practice it among our-
selves, to find a denominator of
service and attain a unity of pur-
pose that will proceed, not from
duress or recrimination, but from
heart and mind."

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