The Denver Jewish news., 1923-02-28
Europe and Pales-
tine on the Way
BY DIR. STEPHEN $. WISE.
(Conclusion)

IoWiTu JtN
under the Black regime, has descended
TO depth the occupancy of which
places it on n par with Poland and
Roumania at their worst. Two hours
reveal that his attitude towards Jews
is phase Of his undisguised and un-
n sham med metlievalism and of his resolve
ruthlessly to crhsh out everything
which might endanger what he calls
the integrity of the Hungarian State.
The deepest wrong which he does the
Jewish people lies in his belief that
the so-called Red Terror-the facts of
which have never been clearly and hc-
curately set down--was the joint effort
Of Jewish Communists and Jewish
millionaires. TrOtsky and Rothschiid
striking n bargain. He. concurs so en-
tirely in the thesis of Nilus laid down
in the discredited Protocols that he
might almost have inspired II. II is
his faitl-verlM ipsissima-that Jewish
millionaireS knew they would be safer
at the hands of manageable Communist
and Bolshevist doctrinaires than under
the rigid ofiicialism of the capitalist
regime. Hence the unholy alliance of
Jewish prince and pauper, millinonire,
and proletariat a belief which would
be lnughable. if 1t were not for its.
devastating effect upon the life ana
,f of
And on the way to Palestine. one
pauses for time in Italy and, If not
too impatient in Egypt. l had rather
sorry experience and sOr,lid, too. with
some young people in Venice, children
of shOp-keeper Not knowing that
they were Jews, asked if they were
Roman Catholics They did not answer.
Upon telling them that we were Jews,
they confusedly admitted Mt first that
their grandparents We're Jewish. and.
learning that the confession would ell
mitted that they. too, We're, Jews. speak
ing after n time with some joy and
warmth of their Jewishness. 1t was II
painful bit of Marranoism, quite in con-
trast to the heroic Jewish mood of the
martyred Bianchini, commander of the
Italian navy, slain by Syrian mis-
creants. 1t carried one back to the
Latin lands of earlier centuries. The
Jewish population of Italy is numerical
ly negligible. smaller than that of Bos-
ton or Chicago. Philadelphia or Cleve-
land. and in most ways fares well. hut
how well fare Jews in any land who
almost instinctively resort when pos
sible to .concenlment and evasion touch
ing their identity. And this category
Includes the Minister of Foreign AZ
fairs in Italy, who truly states that
he and his parents are Roman Cath
ollie. but offers no testimony respecting
the racial affiliations and religious con-
What people ever disavOwed its grand
pnrents as Systematically as do pres
ent-dny Jews-and that. too, is of the
essence of the Jewish tragedy.
One crosses the Mediterranean Sea,
which even more truly than the Thames
is liquid history. and skirts Egypt on
the way to Palestine. As if designed
to afford Il maximum of contrast up 20
the moment of advent into EretZ Israel,
the Jewry of Egypt is in every respect
a Galut Cor GOlus) Jewry So near
geographically to Palestine, and yet so
far from all that makes Palestine the
land of Israel. Egyptian Jewry is much
more Levantine in spirit than British,
despite the years of the English pro-
tectGIate. A fine Egyptian Jew, lament
ing the unexalted status of his people,
put It very well /: I'VE gave Western
Jewry through Schechter the priceless
contents of the Genizah and we kept
the Garret." Another Egyptian jew
offered me his services for the Zionist
organization. saying: Il am an honest
man and will do no business while con-
nected with the organization, but 1
must have an annual salary of five
thousand pounds and / must have half
of it for n term of five years paid me
in advance" After another moments
parleying, 1t appeared that this ardent
Egypto-Jewish patriot had never been
in Palestine, though his own city is
within twenty hours ride by rail from
Jerusalem. One wishes that the heal
ing influence of the new Palestine may
not skip the old Mitzrayim.
And crossing the seas and ere touch
ing that place of European disillusion
which is African Egypt. one caught the
first glimpse of the latter-day pilgrims
the second,-almost the tlrird-genera-
tiOn of Palestine's builders, but build