The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1921-04-22
WHO is BEHIND THE ANTI
JEWISH CAMPAIGN IN
AMERICA?
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French clergy in France and the Ba-
varian monarchists or Slovakian
Catholics in Slovakia busying them
selves with the anti-semitic move
ment, we must admit that Poland is
not the only anti-semitic center in
the world. Poland can carry the
anti-semitic movement to such cOun-
tries like Austria or Hungary, but
not to Switzerland and Bavaria where
Poland and the Poles are hated and
despised and if Poland is not the only
center of anti-semitism and probably
not the chief center, where then is
the anti-semitic general staff located?
This question is of some interest to
us and to the world. If we know
where the chief center of the anti
semitic movement of today is, if we
know where to meet our enemy, then
we must cherish the hope that we
may be able to counteract it's efforts
or to paralyze them altogether. But
as long as we do not know where he
is, we are cropping in the darkness
while he is free to take any measures
against us he pleases. It seems that
the European Jewish press is also
very much paralyzed regarding the
question of this center of the anti
semitic movement. Some maintain
that it is to be found in Germany and
is directed by Germans. Some main
tain that it is Poland, some believe it
is in Austria and others think it is
to be found in France. We confess
that we cannot answer the question
any better than our European con-
temporaries and their answers are
not altogether satisfactory. There is
only one man, Jewish publicist, who
has done yeoman work in fighting
anti-semitism in Europe for the last
few years, DR.. Oscar Green, editor of
the Judische Presszentrale Of Zurich,
who living in the heart of Europe and
being busy with fighting the anti
semitic movement, knows something
more than the average Jewish publ
cist or public worker about it's origin,
cause and directing force.
According to DR.. Green who is an
experienced and scholarly journalist,
the anti-semitic movement in Hun
gary, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and
Poland is guided and directed not by
the Poles, not by the Germans, but by
the Hungarians and the seat Of the
anti-semitic general staff is Budapest.
There are today, some two hundred
thousand Jews in Hungary instead OF
a million Jews, the other eight thou
sand Jews having lived in the prov
inces annexed by Jugo-Slavia, Czecho-
Slovakia and Roumania are today cit
liens of these countries and in view
of what is going on in Budapest today
have no desire to be Hungarian citi-
zens. But the two hundred thousand
Jews in Hungary are treated worse
than the Jews of Poland. Hungarian
anti-semitism is of recent date and
actually product of the defeat OF
Hungary. When the Hungarian poll
ticians saw the tragic end coming,
they decided to make the Jews the
scapegoat and the various govern
mental departments in Budapest have
been vying one another with anti
semitic propaganda. Six months be-
fore the armistice was concluded the
Hungarian people were made to be-
lieye by it's officials that the Jews
were responsible and must be held re-
sponsible for the catastrophe.
When the armistice was signed and
so many provinces taken away from
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