Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-12-23
SCHOLAR thinks
WAR WILL SOLVE
JEWISH PROBLEM
Professor of Oriental Lam
guages at Columbia UNI
versity Says Future of Race
Hangs in Balance,
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Philadelphia. Pa, Dee. go - DR..
Richard Gottheil. professor OF Orien-
tai languages az Columbia university
and one of the foremost Jewish schol-
airs in America, today declared the
Jewish problem In Russia. Gallcia and
In Palestine would he solved bv the
present war. Or. Gottheil is the guest
of the Menurah society of the rniver-
aity of Pennsylvania. where special
evening was arranged In his honbr
last night.
derive from this war. Doctor Gottheil
said:
Part OF the great war now going
on is being fought out In territories
very largely Jewish. In Galicia and
parts OF Russia and Austria. where
battles are taking place, there is a
large accumulation Of Jewish people.
In Russia there are at least 5000. 600
Jews. probably more than half Of all
the Jews existing in the whole world.
In Galieia many towns are almost ex-
clusively Jewish.
within the last few weeks Pales-
tine itself has come into the fray, and
not only are the hundred thousand
Jewish inhabitants in danger of their
lives and property but the work
which has been going on in that coun-
try in tho last thirty or forty years,
looking to the upbuilding OF n civili-
zation there. is jcopardized.
In the final reckoning, which must
come at the end of the war, several
Jewish questions viii have to be set
tied. First, there is the Russian ques-
ton. There as many as 100000 Jews
fighting in the ranks of the Russian
army, and it is the hope of many Of
us that Russia, BY allying herself with
two of the most democratic powers in
western Europe. France and England.
to change her political status that Of
its own accord the Jewish question
will be settled within her borders.
Secondly. the Rumanian question
must be settled. Two hundred and
fifty thousand Jews who still remain
in Rumania must be taken into full
citizenship in that country.
There Is also the Palestinian ques-
ton, which would have to be solved.
| have for many years been great
friend OF the Ottoman empire. | have
always held that at a time when Eu-
rope was practically closed to our
brethren in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, II was the Turkish govern
ment which opened the doors through
which the Jews went who escaped
from the Spanish and Portuguese in
quistions
Il looked upon II as a source OF
great regret that Turkey allowed her
self to be led into the war. Turkey
surely will be the loser. If the central
European powers are the victors, Tur-
key not only falls into the Orbit which
has its source at Berlin. but becomes
nothing more than a corner of the
German empire. If, on the other
hand, the allies win. am very much
afraid that the doom of Turkey is
sealed.
II believe that the future of our
people and the future Of our race Is
intimately bound up with the Holy
Land, and that II will depend upon
the solution that is given to this ques-
tfon when the war Is over as 10
whether a bright future or not Is
opened up for the Jewish people