The Denver Jewish news., 1921-10-12
DI,IFT FROM EUROPEAN ,iEWRIEs
Loss to the Communities Through Con
version

In England enormous sums are SEeHt
yearly by the various Missions to the
Jews for the purpose of converting
Jews to the dominanG Faith. me
propaganda Is carried On mainly
among the poorest of the foreign eie-
ment in the East End OF London. ana
the methods used are neither limited
TO persuasion nor directed to the in
telligence alone. Missionary Dispeii-
saries and Aid Societies proiier as
Sistance 60 the poorer classes. and
conversion becomes Il bi-product oil
their activity. The clinics. play cen
tcrs, childrcn's teas and treats are
wcl' attended. but the net gain in souls
is az inconsiderabc as the souls thai
are ga,'nered.
In 1911, e,evcn societies ana
church missionary centers published
accounes and show "a total eSpenditnfv
Of fSS,i2G large number of local
church soriciie; publish no accounts
and ii may be taken that at least
f1GO.O00 is spent on this work an
nuidly in the East End Of l.ofsipn
Only oilc society. the British Society
fer the Propagation of the Gospcl
Publishes che number OF rs Converts
and claim; G., ut an expense of EJ.SlS
fer the year 1871.
II has somewhere been calculated
that it costs over f1.000 to convert i'm
Fast End jew, and that even then
their continued allegiance is nn over
whclming source of expense to ING
wcll-intendoncd societies. The loss III
numbers to Jcwry hy this method ot
,li.cc; attack is mini,nul an,l as noil-
ing to the annual loss among the bet
ter OF Jews accustomed by incthcds
which are us Indirect as they are in
expensive. OF conversion by faith
there are few. and in the wIitcr : own
experience they could be reckoDcd on
the iingcri of OH. haud. Otherwise l.
it with the loss cet'usi0si,t: to the com
muiiify by the conversions of coi.'eii
iencc," if one may use the term. ol
hose who may he saii to slide rather
than to pass into the Christian fold.
Heine said: Judaism w,t; a Inisfori-
I.iie. not religion and that would
npp,ur to he the view of many Jews
who litfle knowing how Hpine ciasi"d
his '.misfortune'' to his heart and be-
slowed ON it the finest of his jewels,
regard their failure to achieve social
succc as due less 70 their Individual
aud inherent vulsarity than to their
e,,it n
are lost In this way each year from
the Jewish community 1t is impOssibc
to state. but the number is not in
considerable. The Jews would haze
less so complain of We're not the cen
sure these persons incur in their new
found surroundings always reflected
back on the community from which
they fed
a further annual loss Is oct;,sioned
by the purposcful baptism o: children
Ly their parents. designed as II means
of shielding their offspring from any
trace of anti Semitic feeling in their
Path through life. Here again the
numbers are NOT large in this country,
and the majority of cases occur in
the richer classes.
In Germany, the loss by conversion
to tile Jewish communities of the
lurgcr cities is enormous. and in the |
professional classes is at present so
great as to Threaten their elimination
in few generations. Figures could
De quooed but they only refer to those
who declare before the courts thcir
Change of faith and neglect those
baptized as children. besides the chil-
drcn of those who make IL declaration,
or do so in some other town.
The large and growing detection in
Germany and Austria is due mainly
TO Social an.i-Semitism; in England.
where this is a; minimum. the vol
umc is much smaller. But the need
to meet it by educational methods is
not less.
IntOrmarriagc
Tho marriage of Jew and Gentle is
"A subject of sufficient interest to de-
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