`Shemad'
Continued from preceding page
subject of missionizing of
Jews. Having discussed with
me the efforts now made to
missionize Jews emigrating
from Russia, he wrote me
some interesting observa-
tions. He stated:
There has never been a
period in Jewish life in
this country in which
Jews have not been ex-
posed to the preaching of
Christians who wish to
convert them. As a matter
of fact, when the 23 Jews
landed in 1654 in New
Amsterdam the first
Jewish community in
America there was a
man in town who had
been born a Jew and who
was apparently a convert
to Christianity.
The New England
leaders, the Mathers, and
others constantly were
eager to convert the Jews.
Lee M. Friedman has
written an essay on I
believe the conversion
activities of the New
England Notables. In Lee
Friedman's Jewish
Pioneers and Patriots,
pages 95 ff. there is an ar-
ticle dealing with Cotton
Mather and his attempt to
convert Jews.
By 1820 a society was es-
tablished to convert the
Jews. It was a national
organization and had a
huge following. It made
very few converts,
however. It is interesting
to note that when they
tried to secure a charter
they were not given one
when they said they
wanted to convert Jews.
They did receive a
charter, however, when
they wrote that they
wanted to "meliorate the
conditions of the Jews."
That was philanthropy.
.
It is clear from what Dr.
Marcus wrote that the mis-
sionaries cannot be ignored
and he admonishes that past
experiences show they had
not been successful. This
should be assured as advice
not to panic over current at-
tempts to threats to inject a
shemad fear in Jewish
ranks.
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NEWS
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Mufti Husseini
Sought Hitler Aid
Los Angeles (JTA) — Haj
Amin al-Husseini, the noto-
riously anti-Jewish grand
mufti of Jerusalem, sought
Adolf Hitler's help for an
Arab version of the "Final
Solution" to the Jewish
problem, according to the
Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The Nazi-hunting center
made the statement after
analyzing documents un-
covered at the United
Nations Archives in New
York.
The mufti wielded con-
siderable power as both the
religious and nationalist
leader of Arabs in Palestine
and beyond during much of
the British mandatory
period. He fled to Nazi Ger-
many in late 1941 and
started a systematic cam-
paign to extend the Nazis'
anti-Jewish policies and
methods to the Arab Middle
East, in anticipation of the
expected Axis victory.
One significant aspect of
the find, said Rabbi Marvin
Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal
Center, is that it counters
the longstanding argument
among many Palestinians
that while they had no part
in Hitler's persecution of the
Jews, they are paying the
price for his crimes.
Despite these heartfelt
*****
assurances, Hitler put off
the mufti's pleas for an offi-
cial Axis declaration of sup-
port for the Arabs. The right
time for such a statement,
Hitler said, would be after
his armies conquered the
Soviet Union's southern
Caucasus region, probably
in 1942, opening the road to
Iran and Iraq.
As it turned out, the Red
Army successfully defended
the southern Caucasus
against the Nazi onslaught.
The documents detailing
Husseini's petitions and
meeting with Hitler were
found in the mufti's villa in
Germany in 1945. They were
transmitted to the United
Nations Archives, with
copies and some of the
documents also held by the
U.S. National Archives in
Washington and the ar-
chives of the Federal Repub-
lic of Germany.
Why weren't the docu-
ments discovered earlier?
"It's a matter of what to look
for and where to find them,"
said Weitzman, pointing out
that incriminating docu-
ments on the wartime ser-
vice of Kurt Waldheim, the
Austrian president, also lay
undiscovered for decades in
the same archives.
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