Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-17
Il Separate nation.
Zionits Claim this the Only Safeguard for Russian Jews
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. December l6.--The Zionists
1t Is said, alone realize the seriousness of
the situation in Russia. and. 1t is claimed,
they do not permit revolutionary enthusl-
asm to detract their attention from the real
cause of the Jewish tragedy with high
sounding phrases about the inevitable
bloodshed which must accompany all revo-
| lutions. They also refuse to believe that
the mobs alone. instigated by the govern
ment, are responsible for the terrible OUT
RACES; they hold the entire Russian nation
responsible for the atrocities; they hold,
also. that all this shedding of Jewish blood
is not an inevitable and necessary accom-
paniment of the Russian revolution
The attitude of the Russian Zionists is
made clear in the following circular which
has reached here from Russia 1t is issued
by the United Zionists of Odessa:
BRETHREN! JEWS
Again destruction and slaughter again
anu-Jewish outbreaks. New misfortunes.
new widows. new orphans, new crippless
and new beggars.
It he hands trenble, the heart is filled
with pain, the brain is dazed, the eyes.
are dimned. and the whistling and the
wild cry of the Russian mobs still sound
In ones ears.
Our brethren who fell as martyrs to the
cause of Judaism have just been buried;
our wounds have not sufficiently been
healed to enable us to give clear account
of what passed ON the bloody days of
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
in the city of European culture, in the city
of Odessa.
This is not the time to characterize the
attitude of almost the entire Russian popu-
lation of the city. To tell how Indifferent
cold-blooded and even bloodthirsty the peo-
pie showed themselves TO be during the
four bloody days of the Jewish slaughters.
Neither is It time now TO ask where
Were the organized and unorganized Rus
sian Workingmen who at the meetings of
the organization called us brethren; where
were they during the four days on which
we were robbed and slaughtered? Nor yet
is this, the time to ask where were the
Russian liberals, the officers of our city
douIna, all our non-Jewish friends of yes
terday during the four days of chaos and
disorder, This is not the time to dwell
all facts as to who robbed US and our
sisters and brothers and fathers and
mothers; how children were slaughtered in
cold blood and how the free citizens of
Russia refused to admit us into their
houses IN order to protect us from the
murderous mobs. nor to protest now with
all the might of our nationalist feelings
against the contemplate attitude of the
governmental rabbi of Odessa. who dis
graced the honor Of the Jews at the time
of their greatest misfortune.
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"All these thousands OF facts of our great
calamity we must leave for time when
we will again have little strength and
some degree of our calmness of mind and
peace of soul will return to
''For the present we only wish to con-
firm this fact which no one can refute. We
were alone and deserted in our dire calam-
ity; all our so-called friends of yesterday
left us in our misfortune. There was no
help, no protection. no pity from any one
except few noble students; a few men
who were the exceptions. and the number
Of which could be counted on the fingers
of ones hands.
and were 1t not for the help and the
protection rendered us by our own young
men, by our Jewish nationalist heroes who
sacrificed themselves for their unfortunate