"It is plain from the above
how little evidence there is for
the malicious charge of a so-
called Jewish - Communist link.
If the Jews are to be condemned
because there are some Commu-
nists among them — men who
have never in the slightest de-
gree concerned themselves with
Judaism — then there is not a
people on earth that might not
with equal right be condemned.
"Those who have even an ele-
mentary acquaintance with the
traditions cherished by our peo-
ple during the 2,000 years since

Jews and Communism: An
Historic Public. Statement

By JUDAH GILEADI

An Anfrican Jewish Press Feature

.

- Much has been said---and much more has been misunder-
stood---about the Jewish altitude to Communism. Even m .o r e
widespread is the misunderstanding about the place of Jews in
the Communist ranks in Russia.
Yet, the facts are on record. They were placed in the lime-
light many times, but more especially 17 years ago, by three of
the leading Jewish personalities in America, all of them now
deceased.
On Oct. 21, 1935, the late Cyrus Adler, Alfred M. Cohen
and B. C. Vladeck, acting in behalf of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, Bnai Brith and the Jewish Labor Commisued "A
Public Statement on Communism and Jews." It is historic
document which has as much significance today as it did 17
years ago. Here it' is, in full:

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Lecky, the distinguished histori-
an, expressed this debt in the
famous dictum: 'Hebraic mortar
cemented the foundation of
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among the 70 Communist depu-
"To Our Fellow Citizens:
ties in the Reichstag of 1930, and
"On Sunday, September 15, the not a single Jew among the 81
present National Socialist Gov-- Communist deputies • of the
ernment of Germany, at the. be- Reichstak, of 1933. Finally, not
hest of its Chancellor, Adolf Hit- even the most brazen official
ler, dictator of the German peo- mendacity can obscure the fact
pie, decreed a series of,laws that that while there were less than
put Jews beyond the legal and 300,000 German Jews who were
social pale of the German peo- enabled to vote, there were fully
ple, anti deprived them of claims 6,000,000 Communist votes cast
to German citizenship. This de- ,during the republic.
basement of the Jews in Ger-
"The facts abbut Soviet Russia
many was not the result of a
sudden decision. 19ng prepared and the Jews are equally illum-
for and premeditated, pledged Mating. Among the 36 c o m -
by' the National Socialist Party missars who constitute the So-
at its foundation, these laws viet Government, only two are
were only the official culmina- Jews.- Neither the president of
tion of a series of measures de- the Council of Commissars, Ry-
grading and oppressing German ckoff; the president of the U.S.-
S.R., Kalinin; the general secre-
Jews.
"This official denial of civil tary of the Communist Party,
rights is directed against men Stalin; the president of the
and women whose ancestors have Third International, Dimitroff;
lived in Germany for over a nor the founder of the Commun-
thousand years; who have made ist Party, Lenin, are Jews. A
great contributions to German large percentage of the millions
economic, political, and cultural of Jews in Russia- before the
life; who have shed their blood Revolution were trades people,
in defense of their fatherland; members of the class whom
and who have contributed their the Bolsheviks attacked most
best talents to the peaceful de- violently, and who had most to
velopment of the German state. lose by the victory of commun-
This - injustice was perpetrated ism. Indeed, after the Revolu-
under the cloak of a so-called tiOn the Soviet Government de-
link between Jews and commun- clared fully half of the total
ism, which has no existence in Jewish population in Russia as
fact, but which is being used to declassed, as , hindrances to the
confuse the minds not only of development of the Revolution.
Germans, but of people all over Jewish workers in Russia were
organized in an association call-
the world.
ed the Bund, which opposed the
"When the Jews of the United Bolsheviks
until the very last.
States first learned of these pre-
Jews and Zionist s,
texts for persecution, they deem- Orthodox
numbers were preponder-
ed it beneath their dignity to whose
ant
in
Russia, are regarded as
take notice of them. However,
beeause of the censorship of free counter-revolutionaries by t h e
expression in Germany and the Soviet Government.
"An examination of the lists
enormous propaganda carried on
by Nazi Germany outside its deliberately circulated by anti-
borders, the time has come for Semitic agents in attempts to
us to make answer to the libels `establish their thesis that nearly -
and unjust insinuations, and to all of.,.the Bolshevik leaders are
make clear that these falsehoods Jews reveals that a large num-
have the same motive that has ber of those classified are not
always inspired tyrants and des- Jews at all, and that a number
pots—that of seeking a scape- Of others, far from being Bol-
goat for their own sins and, un- sheviks, were leades of the anti-
der cover of a false issue, of de- Bolshevik movement. While
ceiving their people by foment- Trotzky was a Jew, many of the
ing suspicion, discord, a n d leaders of the Mensheviki, the
sworn foes of Bolshevism, were
hatred.
Jews. The official statistics of
"It is high time that these the Petrograd Communist Party
facts be known:
in 1918, shortly after the revo-
"While communism, having its lotion, showed that there were
roots in economic f or c e s, no 124,021 members of whom 74.3
doubt influences some Jews as per cent were Russians, 10.5 per
well as some non-Jews a study cent Latvians, 6.3 per cent Poles,
of German conditions indicates 3.7 per cent Esthonians, 2.6 per
that the' majority of the Jews cent Lithuanians. and 2.6 per
who were permitted to vote in cent Jews.
Germany during the Republic
were affiliated with the liberal
democratic parties. In the presi-
dential elections in which Hin-
denburg, Hitler, and Thaelmann
were candidates, Jewish leaders
appealed to German Jews to vote
for Hindenburg and against the
Communist and National Social-
ist candidates. German Jews
were chiefly engaged in occupa-
tions and in callings from which
Communists are not recruited;
indeed, their own economic in-
terests made them diametrically
opposed to communism. The
most influential German dailies
in the pre-Hitler period, such as .
the Frankfurter Zeitung and the
Berliner Tageblatt, which were
owned by Jews, were bitterly
opposed to communism. Not one
prominent or even well-known
German-Jewish leader was ever
identified with the Communist
Party in. Germany. According to
authentic figures given under
the auspices of the present gov-
ernment, there was only 1 Jew

THE JEWISH NbAIS 13
Friday, September 19, 1952

the destruction of the Jewish
state know that complete and
unequivocal loyalty to the 'coun-
try of one's citizenship is a basic
principle of Jewish life. Ever
since the Babylonian exile, spir-
itual leaders f r o in Jeremiah
down have adjured the Jewish
people to seek the peace and
prosperity of the land in which
they live, to pray unto the. Lord
for it; for in the peace thereof
they would enjoy peace.
"Students of the origin of the
American form of government
have pointed to the debt which

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4059 West Davison

Like this branch of the Jewish

Community Center built to meet

the cultural and recreational needs

of the Dexter area, our community

plans t& build Centers to meet
pressing needs in the newly devel-
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