The Denver Jewish news., 1920-08-18
Germany Thoroughfare
for Jewish Immigration
WORk OF JEWISH EMPLOY
MENT BUREAU-THE NEW GEN
GRAFTON AND THE OLD.
by Israel Taubes (BerIin).

With Jewish immigration we in Eu-
rspe have be"a but little taken up.
in not single party program was it
stated how the Jewish immigration may
now be accomplished. We have simply
let our masses wander wherever their
eyes might lead them. That is the ira
gic chapter in the history of Jewish
immigration and the worst showing for
the Jewish parties, which get lost in
their theories and do not wish to take
account of every day life.
Germany is the country to which but
II small number of Jews went either
before or during the war, althO they
believed that it would offer them grea-
Ter range. freedom of movement and a
freer life The present anti-Semitic
plague, which RACES SO furiously in
Germany. is trying to pull
the wool over the eyes of
the world. and is spreading every.
where the report that all Germany is
flooded with millions Of Jews who de-
prive the Christian population of its
livelihood. and even seek to establish
their own Jewish centers here.
Whoever seriously studies Jewish
immigration and wishes TO look into
the Eastern ewish problem i'll Ger
many effectively, will see that until
1900 Only 41.133 Jews came into the
whole of Germany. and of these 21.GS3
settled in Berlin. Germany surely has
not lost anything on these few thou
sand Jews. for they carried on for
eign trade in leather. fish. eggs, furs.
machinery and chemicals. and
greatly raised the economic
and cultural values of Ger
many abroad Here also the Jewish
immigrants followed the same process
as in New York, Chicago and London.
No great economic successes, or re-
smiling good fortunes. but strong In
wa. d impulse drove them to huddle to-
rether to share their hunger. social and
physiological -sa- f ze
Shared troubles are half troubles.
No philosophers and no theories of our
great learned men. not even the various
committees organized in the Western
European countries for the purpose OF
diffusing and scattering the incoming
Eastern Jewish population so that 1t
may not arouse so much opposition will
avail. 1t is an old category that the
Jew must live among his own.
Besides other economic causes. that
there is no real Jewish life in Germany
is perhaps the greatest reason why
Germany may never become center
for Jewish immigration, as for instance
London where ninety-two per cent OF
the Jewish immigrants live in social
union in only two sections. In London
the newly arrived Jews bring over their
relatives, ncigllbors and friends. They
live together, share their lot in common,
laugh and weep together, and suffer in
partncrship-their hunger.
But these are not seasonal immi-
grants who work for several months
n year or two and then return home
to their wives and children. Our i'm
migrants are people who escape from
their homes never again TO return to
them because there are the gallows
and here is life! The 2,407.527 Jews
who migrated to America between 1850
and 1914 certainly have no great long
ing for their former homes in Poland or
Ukrninia to taste Pilsudski's or Deni-
kine's rule. 1t is quite different. how
ever. with Germany. All of Germany
has today only about eighty or ninety
thousand immigrated Eastern Eu-
ropenn Jews The Commissioner of
Housing in Berlin. DIR. Laporte, claims
that in Berlin itself there are about
10000 m-repOrted refugees. Accord
ing to this estimate the number of re-
ported refugees ought to be over
million. With what lies and libels La
porte and with him the whole anti
Semitic and part Of the liberal Israel
itish" press dabblc. is shown by the
last noted raid on Grcnadierstrasse.
Of the 400 Eastern Jews, taken to the
police quarters like the most desperate
criminals, herded like beast and even
treated to pruSsian blows, only II were
retained because they did not have the
necessary papers and of the $40 caught
in the second raid ouly five refugees
were without passports. The $500
Jews who steal across the border into
Germany every month do not even con-
template remaining here. They anx-
iously await their steamship tickets so
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