New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
ZANE MANDER, achose
neao novel, The Passion
ate Puritan, is published By
John Lane Company
Palestine Reborn
An Eyewitness View of the
New Jewish State

PALESTINE RECLAIMED. BY Redcline
n. salaman. NJ. D. With an introduction
by the Hon. w. Ormsby Gore, NJ p.
Published by E. p, Dutton & Co.
TN HIS is the story of the Jewish
\ ,battalions that fought in Pales-
tine during the war and of the
numerous colonies of Jews in their
ancient homeland. 1t is told in a series
OF letters to the writer's wife, and
forms an interesting commentary on
conditions in Palestine and the Difficult
ties that stand in the way of successful
colonization.
The author, who is a medical man
especially interested in research work,
points out the shortcomings of the col
onists as unreservedly as he scores the
unfriendly attitude of the occupied en-
envy territory administration which,
he says, championed the cause of the
Arabs against the Jews because the
former are we'll armed and more likely
to give trouble. The humor of the sit
uation, the author says, lies in the fact
that the Arab is sly and untrustworthy
and bitterly antiBritish, while the Jew
is ready to be intensely loyal.
Since the letters were written Great
Britain. which holds the mandatory
power in Palestine, has established a
civil government, under Sir. Herbert
Samuel. an able representative Of his
people. A start has thus been made
toward the establishment of the Jewish
nation. 1t depends on the good sense
and loyalty of the Jews the world over.
the author declares. to convert the pos
s!bility into a reality.
His chief criticism of the present
colonists is that they lack organization
to a dangerous degree. He says:
"Their practical energy does not
sufficiently divorce itself from it's sis
ter force, which consumes itself in
idcalizing. 1t makes the work here top
heavy There rs too much untutored
theorizing and not enough solid work
to rest it on. This fault is typical of
the Russian Jew-he has definite goal
in view, but there will be as many
views as to the details as there are par
sons traversing it, and more than that,
he will become so excited over these
minor differences as to split into
groups and willingly weaken the forces
at his isposal-ready to lose his goal,
even, rather than surrender to COM
mon plan. Added to this is the
fact that the raw material (the colo
nists) is physically mediocre to poor
and dislikes manual work"
The hope of the sixty thousand colo
, nists lies in the children. The young
people, DR.. Salaman says, show splen-
did advance on the older generation,
and they work more and argue less
than the original colonists. They are
not orthodox, many of them not even
religious in the ordinary sense of the
word, but Gust as of old the religion
was national, now nationalism is relig-
ious," and they are working with re-
ligious fervor for the establishment of
their nation.
L HC ouIlol SUMS up MS DciIel III MS
people and in their efforts as follows:
II believe in Jews. They are wonder
full. We have the highest and the low
est. They are difficult and try every
rerve in your body-but where are
there such idealists and where people
that, after the cruelest degradation,
can spring forth and blossom anew in
! single generation? l am confident the
experiment will be success, not only
in producing something which will be
model in civics and ethics but also by
its reaction on the outside Jewries of
the world"