Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-30
BaruCh ZuCkerman
OF NeW York

mftee from the few remaining healthy
Jews of the city, TO do the necessary relief
work: after you have helped to establish
two more kitchens. and put on n better basis
the other institutions already there; after
you nave arranged for immediate relief for
those helpless in their homes; and left the
work in the hands of holy, devoted, martyrs
and idealists OF all classes. and learnings;
after leaving this city, 1 say. You learn the
next morning that most of the devoted, holy
young men were dragged out OF their gath
ering place and shoe to death.
oh, Lord of the Universal How did I
survive those terrible days? Whence did
i get the strength? Men whom you have
grown to love; men who were the only hope
of the entire Jewish population; these men
with whom l have worked burt yesterday,
annihilated by an aecursed handl oh.
Lord! l say. is there punishment severe
enough for the murderers?
What a fearfully hard problem. this
Polish-Jewish situationl How all the
theories crumble under the blow of the ter
rible fact! How hard il is to find a political
line to base any hopes onl All Poland now
has one ideal. To rid Poland of all Jewsi
And they make the lives of the Jews SO,
hard, SO miserable, both spiritually and
materially, that Jews must get out. This
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the Socialist element. As against the Jews.
all the Poles are united, openly. or secretly.
Russia, in it's heyday of poSroms stpl had
a group of liberals and newspapers who
spoke. yes, yelled from the housetops
against this unspeakable crime. If 1t did not
heal the wounds, it gave solace to the soul.
But Poland? How different! The entire
press. all the journalists, jump at every OPP
portunity at Jew-baiting.
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Pogroms everywhere! We no longer take
into account those pogroms where there In
no direct loss of life. In Warsaw, for in
stance, there was a pogrom lasting three
days, of which nothing appeared in the
press. Many Jews were wounded, hun
dreds robbed. It was all done by soldiers
from the Posen front because someone had
spread q report that Jews had poisoned six
soldiers. The newspapers spread this mate
rial literally instead of calling attention to
the falsity of 1t. The masses accepted it
and acted at will.
And the oppressed. subdued. spirit of the
Jewish 'Intelligencia"i Such discourage
ment! Such submission! Not a ray of
hope! l had a lengthy conversation with
David Freshman, this one-time spiritual
giant. How broken, now! And so on from
the first until the last. DO you wonder
why? This situation in Poland, the same
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world deaf TO our cries. America
about to shut its doors. The Pal
estine situation not very encouraging.
Can you maintain a stout heart in
the face of all this?
Yet, we feel inwardly that now is no time
to be discouraged. no time to give up. Those
of us that have any strength left must con-
tinue the fight. Our comrades in Poland
have, unfortunately wandered so far into
radical phraseology, that they have for
gotten their own interests. The entire bur
den must, therefore, fall on the shoulders of
our American comrades. The work in con-
nection with Palestine, as also securing
equal rights for Jews throughout the world.
must be done by the hands OF our Amer
lean comrades. Let them mobilize all their
strength. For myself. / feel that must
have the healthy surroundings of my dea-
comrades in America TO divert my mind
from a state of encouragement to one of
energy and action.