Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1917-03-31
Dr.. l. Friedlaender Of Palisade,
Says Jeys Will Return to Russia
And Predicts Russian Republic

DIR. Israel Friedleander, of Edge
wood lane, Palisade, was inter-
viewed in last Sundays New York
Times in which he predicted the
final return OF the Jews to Russia.
He stated that the Jews who came to
America as haven, left Russia not
from dislike of the Russian people,
but from hatred of the official
Russia, the CARBON of Russia. Dr..
Friedlaender among other things
states that he believes the Jews will
have a hand in the rebuilding OF the
fortunes of Russia, asserting their
ability to do this on equal terms
with the best talent now existent in
the new Republic, the largest gov
erment of that kind that ever exist
ed, when it is formally and perma-
nently established.
DIR. Friedlaender published book
about a year ago on "The Jews OF
Russia and Poland from which
this passage is taken:
.However, CARBON seems to have
again oyerreached itself. The rot
ten West whether it be through the
deafening roar Of it's cannon or
through the still small voice of its
diplomacy, is openly SCATTERING or
secretly undermining the citadel of
barbarlsm. The cobweb of auto
cracy, instead of catching the fly,
has only entangled the spider. AL
ready the wind OF liberty is stirring,
and the time is near when one Whit
will suffice to sweep the cobweb and
the spider into the abyss of oblivion. !"
Jews in America Affected
DR.. Friedlaender the Russian re-
birth of extreme significance to the
inner Jewish life of America, point
ing out that from the fructlfying
tide of Russian immigration it has
derived its revivity influence n the
past, and that now it may be called
upon to develop it's own inner sources
or life and growth. He said:
Among the 17O,0O0,OOO inhabitants
of the vast Russian Empire there is
scarcely group OF people that has
greater reason to rejoice in the tri-
umph of Russian liberty than have
the Jews, for upon none Of the many
races and nationalities that form part
OF Russia has the heavy hand OF
Czardom descended more mercilessly
and more crushingly than upon the
Jews, who have been deliberately
used as a lightning rod to draw upon
itself the wrath of the disaffected
masses against their tryannical OPP
pressors. Yet this rejoicing is by no
means a child of hatred, it springs
from genuine and warrahearted
sympathy with the Russian snation,
which now celebrates it's festival Of
freedom after centuries of slavery,
! For bitterly as the Jews have suf-
fered from Russian cruelty, they
have always distinguished between
Russian Government and the Russian
people. Perhaps may be permitted
to repeat the words which wrote a
little over year ago, under the
fresh impression of the terrible
atrocities perpetrated upon the Jews
under the disguise of warfare, in con-
Guiding historic sketch of Russian
Jewry:
s'The history of the Jews of Rus
STA is the history of the Jews under
the Cars. 1t is not the history OF
the Jews under the Russian nation.
or amidst the Russian nation. We
have no quarrel with the great Rus
sian people. We do not hold it re-
sponsible for our sufferings. =
The Russian people are themselves
the victims of autocracy, and only
from ignorance and shortsightedness
do they occasionally become tool
of autocracy.
"The Russians are by nature a
kindhearted and sympathetic people.
When left alone by the authorities
they have generally lived on peace
full and even cordial terms with their
Jewish neighbours. The outbursts of
violence against the Jews, engineered
in nearly every instance by Russian
bureaucracy, represent rather the
cruelty that one associates with
childhood and ignorance than the ex-
preston of an innate or premedita-
ted barbarism. Now that the evil
of Russia which has wantonly melted
the Russian inhabitants against one
another has been banished into the
recesses of dark past, there is
every reason to hope tor happy
and cordial cooperation between the
Russians and the Jews for the bene-
fit of their rejuvenated fatherland.
"The emancipation of Russian
Jewry-and enc cannot think of an
emancipated Russia without the
emancipation of the most downtrod-
den race within it's fraught with
far-reaching consequences, both for
the Jewish and the Russian people.
To the Jews it will mean the end Of
one of the saddest chapters in the
annals of Jewish martyrdom through
out the ages, and the beginning of a
new and bright chapter of striving
and achievement. To the Russians
it will mean the wiping out of one
of the blacklist stains on their ma
tional escutcheon, and the accession