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Basel, the city in which Theodor Herzl said he founded Israel, is situated
on the Rhine River.

Jews Of Switzerland
Organized, Polarized

Geneva (JTA) — Of all the
Jewish communities in Eu-
rope, the Swiss Jewish
community is in many ways
unique.
It is, for one thing, a de-
mographic oddity. The Jew-
ish population of Switzer-
land numbered 20,000 in
1914 and is the same today,
a phenomenon of stability
considering the turbulence
of the years in between.
Of the Western European
countries, Switzerland was
the last to give Jews full civ-
ic rights. They were granted
in 1866, but only after
strong foreign pressure, par-
ticularly from France and
the United States.
The Swiss Jewish com-
munity has had its travails.
But it is generally prosper-
ous, self-taxing and exceed-
ingly well-organized, if po-
larized in recent years.
Dr. Willy Guggenheim,
the general secretary of the
Federation of Jewish Com-
munities, says the first Jews
reached the region of Switz-
erland with the Roman le-
gions that conquered the
land in 58 BCE. In the 13th
century, Jewish populations
are mentioned in Zurich,
Basel, Bern and St. Gallen.
In the 14th and 15th cen-
turies, they were expelled.
The real history of Swiss
Jewry began after the 30-
Year War, when Jews from
Alsace and the Rhineland
got permission to settle in
the county of Baden, which
later became the canton of
Aargau.
The villages of Endingen
and Lengnau granted Jews
resident permits good for 16
years, in return for a large
payment. The main occupa-
tions of the Jews were cattle
raising and horse trading.
Today Endingen is the

only village in Switzerland
that has a synagogue but no
church. But there are less
than half a dozen Jews left.
Beginning in the second
half of the 19th century,
Jewish communities were
founded in all major Swiss
cities, and in many smaller
ones. The Jewish population
rose from 3,000 in 1850 to
20,000 on the eve of World
War I. The increase was at-
tributed to immigration
from southern Germany and
Alsace, and later from East-
ern Europe.
By 1914, Swiss Jews were
being accepted at law and
medical schools. Many were
small businessmen. A few
founded department stores
or textile factories.
They were citizens with
full rights. They performed
military service and, in a
very few cases, entered poli-
tics.
Switzerland played a role
in Jewish history that had
nothing to do with its Jew-
ish community, but with the
seminal events that took
place here.
It was Theodor Herzl who
wrote in his diary at the end
of the first Zionist Congress
in 1897: "In Basel, I have
founded the Jewish state."
The enlarged Jewish
Agency was constituted in
Zurich in 1929, and in 1936,
the first meeting of the World
Jewish Congress convened in
Geneva.

There is a dark side to the
ledger. Switzerland's refu-
gee policy during World War
II was not one of its most
glorious accomplishments.
The borders were closed.
For a time in 1942, the head
of the Swiss Federal Police
Department, Heinrich
Rothmund, ordered foreign