The Denver Jewish news., 1919-06-25
DR. STEPHEN s. WISE ON Boil
SHEVISM AND JEWS.
THE HAND OF RUSSIA HAS BEEN
AGAINST ALL JEWS AND THE
HAND OF SOME JEWS is NOW
AGAINST RUSSIA.

III MUCH Oi 50 cdllt0 DoishtNlsl anu pro-
Eolshevist sympathy in America has
been and continues to be pro-German
or anti-Ally. The movement may in
some part have been born out of un-
rest and social revolt. but its meth
eds were criminal and its effect pro
German As for the number of jews
who are said to be Bolshevists, / call
attention to the familiar figures of
Prince Lyoff and Kerensky-nam
that ninety-five and ninety-nine per-
cent respectively of the Jewish popula-
tion of Russia were anti-Bolshevist
II The strongest Jewish Socialist organi-
zation in Russia, the Bund, is the most
powerful and implacable foe of Boil
shevism.
II Why are so many leaders of the Boil
shevist movement Jews, tho uniformly
apostate Jews? The answer lies in the
fact that the leaders of Bolshevism
II are uniformly Russians who had been
cxiled, and who returned to liberia ted
Russia. The largest number of exiled
Russians was made up of Jews, for
most of those who for a generation had
been driven out of Russia as menacing
to Czarism were Jews. Therefore the
apparently disproportionate number of
Jews in the leadership OF Bolshevism
cOrresponded almost exactly 10 the
hugely disproportionate number of
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ed out of Russia under the reign of the
Cars.
Tho it is true beyond the peradvan
ture of doubt that the great and
overwhelming majority of Russian
Jews are unti-Bolshevist it must he
admitted that some of the Jews of
Russia, who have long been outlawed
have at last become outlaws. The
hand of Russia has been against all
Jews and the hand of some Jews is
now against Russia. 1t is the plague
OF Jewish homelessness that has in
part come upon the head of Russia.
The minimum Of natively law-abiding
and orderly Jews. who have become
infected with the poison of Bolshc
ism, is a warning solemn and terrible
to the world that a people cannot for
ever be dealt with after the manner
OF Outlawry without lapsing in some
part to the level of the outlaw. The
miracle is not that some Jews should
raise their hands ag,fiitst Russia but
that hundreds of thousands of Jews
should have taken up arms on behalf
OF the Russia. which had wronged and
denied and crucified them for genera
tions.
II 1t is tine tragedy of my people that
nine-tenths and more of the Jews of
Eussia are and will remain among the
most bitter and formidable enemies of
Isolshevism and only handful of re-
creant Jews become identified with it.
| Yet the vast majority are overlooked
and the handful are dealt with as tho
and their crimes charged against the
whole Jewish people. This is the lew
A ish tragedy that every Jew must bear
II the burden of one and that all Jews
must suffer for the sin of a few Jews.
H This is the everlasting crucifixion of
II the Jew, this the vicarious atonement
Of which the Jew is the victim of vic
tins. that all Jews are damned be-
cause some Jews may be damnable.
Il The fact that the Jewish BoIshe-
visits are almost uniformly disloyal and
II renegade Jews makes clear anew that
the Jew, who has ceased to be n
i jew. who has lost his Jewish an
ll chorage who has given up his relation
4 to Jewish life. is the one Jew who
is potentially menacing to the world.
4 At whatever end of the social scale,
4 Jews who break off all associat ton
with their people, who lose their an
cestraI anchorage, who drift racially
rudderless and spiritually stariess,
threaten to become dcrelicts upon the
seas of social being. The jew who
cuts himself adrift, who renounces his
fiith and takes himself out of the
stream of Jewish life is ever in peril
II Of that attitude of mind and soul
which at one end of the scale pro-
duces Bolshevism and at the other
end those contemptible soulless snobs,
who give proof of their spiritual home
lessness and want of moral anchorage
by repouncing as far as they can, and
sometimes even denouncing the Jew
ish associations and relationships of
| their life.
1t must not be forgotten that. tho
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