90 Friday, September 12, 1980
WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY, HEALTHY
NEW YEAR
DR. and MRS. SIDNEY
FRIEDLAENDER & FAMILY
I WISH MY FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY
NEW YEAR
MRS. GEORGE MAX
WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY
NEW YEAR
MR. and MRS. RICHARD MOSS
David, Susan & Carol
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
In Defense of Dual Loyalties:
Leon Blum's Reply to Critics
(Editor's note: Anti-
Semitic charges that
Jews were practicing
double allegiance are not
new. In 1936, Leon Blum,
who was to be become
Prime Minister of France
after World War II, re-
plied to these charges in
this article from the
South Africa Jewish
Chronicle, Oct. 23, 1936.)
The Jews of France are
aware of no sufferings
which accrue to them as the
result of their Judaism. It is
true, of course, that here
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
LEON BLUM
CANTOR & MRS. HYMAN J. ADLER &
MR. & MRS. SHLOMA H. DUBEN & FAMILY
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MR. and MRS. MAX DREW & FAMILY
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MR. and MRS. ALEXANDER FRANK
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy. happy and prosperous
New Year
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FRED and RUTH KATZ
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ROSA and DAVID KRASMAN
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
ROZ & SID PELTON
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MR. and MRS. HARRY SCHLOMPER
wish all their friends. and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
MR. and MRS. DAVID IWREY
Wishes Their Family and Friends .t•
A Happy & Healthy
New.Year,..
MR. and MRS. MORRIS WATT
and LITTLE SHULAMIT
wish all their family and
friends a year filled with
health, happiness, joy
and peace
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and there anti-Semitic
winds blew over the land,
but these were in general
very stormy and sporadic in
nature.
Our French Jews, have
always enjoyed safety and
complete civil equality.
Hence, their anxiety — be-
cause of strong Jewish ac-
tivity or because of too con-
spicuous Zionist
endeavours — has its origin
in the fact that they believe
that this might possibly
endanger their peace and
safety.
This security of the
French Jews is one which
naturally they do not owe to
a higher level than that of
their co-religionists in other
countries, but to their
favorable lot which enables
them to live in a free coun-
try in which the political
equality of all human be-
ings is acknowledged and
guaranteed.
There is this further
idea: If we take an active
part in Zionistic labors
and declare ourselves to
be Zionists, are we not
thus furnishing a basis
for that argument which
has always been em-
ployed against them?
Indeed, during the anti-
Semitic period it was con-
stantly contended that the
Jew can never be wholly an
undivided Frenchman; that
in his heart he always re-
mains a Jew, an utterly
strange being of a different
type who remains incom-
prehensible to the genuine
Frenchman.
As far as I personally am
concerned, I am a French
Jew, and I may conscien-
tiously claim to be a good
Frenchman as well. I was
born in Paris, in the heart of
France. My parents and
grandparents lived in Paris.
My ancestors were Alsa-
tians, hence also French. I
was reared as a Frenchman,
attended French schools,
my friends were French —
and I labored in France.
I believe it was French
culture that molded me to
the greatest extent and thus
also become an integral part
of me.
I speak French per-
fectly without the
slightest trace of a
foreign accent. Even my
features are entirely free
from those racial traces
which might be espe-
cially noticeable. Hence,
I regard myself as being
assimilated, wholly inte-
grated.
I feel with a sure inner
conscience and certainty
that there is no element (no
matter how difficult it may
be) of the French spirit, of
the French concept of honor,
or of French culture, which
could possibly be foreign to
me. Yet, although I regard
myself as a true Fren-
chman, I know that I am at
the same time a Jew.
Furthermore, I have
never yet felt the slightest
contradiction of these two
phases of my conscience.
For one can certainly be
susceptible to a dual loy-
alty. Attachment to a coun-
try does not at all preclude
the possibility of allegiance
to another group of another
human society.
We can belong to the
Jewish community, body
and soul, yet we can be
wholly French in our feel-
ings and sensibilities. Here
there is no difficulty and no
contradiction. A Jew may be
a Frenchman in every re-
spect without loosing the
ties that bind him to his
Jewish community. Such
examples of a double loyalty
may be adduced from all
periods of time.
As Frenchmen we live
very happily in France.
But ought we, despite this
personal security of ours,
forget that there are in
other countries Jews
whose lives are less
peaceful, less safe, than
ours?
Ought we forget that it is
necessary to ameliorate the
plight of Jews in other coun-
tries?
And this for the reason
that, in my opinion, Zionism
was not created as a na-
tional demand — and this is
not even today — but only
because millions of Jews,
the majority of the Jewish
people, do not live under
normal conditions in lands
wherein they reside. It is,
therefore, necessary to find
a place in which this is
possible. In diplomatic
documents, this place is
called The National Home-
land."
The Jews must have this
homeland because the coun-
tries in which they have
lived do not any longer per-
mit them to feel at home
there — legally or actually.
This we must not forget.
He who is better
situated must not regard
this as a reason for losing
that solidarity which
binds him to those Jews
who are less fortunate,
less secure, and all too of-
ten, fearfully persecuted.
Our people are endowed
with a fine sense of reality.
The Jew usually acknowl-
edges accomplished facts
and reckons with them in
his thoughts and deeds.
Today we need not reflect as
to whether it is right or
wrong to be a Zior ist since
Zion already ,,xists.
It is fortunate to come of
distinguished ancestry.
Convention Site
Opens on Kibutz
JERUSALEM — A new
convention center was
opened in December 1979 at
the guest house of Kibutz
Shefayim.
Shefayim,
Kibutz
situated near Herzliya, is
only a 20-minute drive from
the heart of Tel Aviv. The
six-room center caters to
groups of 25-500 persons.
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TO ALL OUR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
DR. and MRS.
ALEX FRIEDLAENDER & FAMILY
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TO ALL MY
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
MRS. PAULINE MAX
WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY
NEW YEAR
MR. and MRS. SIMON SHIFMAN
WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY
NEW YEAR
MURRAY and EDDLENE
STATFIELD & FAMILY
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MARION and SAM AUGUST
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
BOB and PHYLLIS BURTON
Joshua, Abby & Stephanie
We'wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
ALLAN & LINDA GURVITZ, ERIC &- MICHELLE
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We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
MR. and MRS.
SZMUL JUTKIEWICZ & FAMILY
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MR. and MRS.
LEON HALPERN & FAMILY
would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year
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HARRY and ESTHER
LANE & FAMILY
would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year
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ARON and PAULA SPINNER & FAMILY
Wishes Their Family and Friends
A Happy & Healthy
New Year
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11119, The Coming Year
Be Filled With
Peace.; He alth and Happiness
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