The Denver Jewish news., 1924-02-28


stitutc an automatic psychological Sc
lcctcr OF the immigrants. Palestine is
not the place for those of faint heart
Of faltering courage and those that nave
settled there evincc by that very fact
the necessary physical aud moral stum-
ina which the difficulties of the land
calls for. y hardy section of Jcwry Is
bcing selected by Palestine and is bring
! Astounding energy to solve the PROB
lens OF agriculture. sanitation ana Is
building a new civilization
| For the Jews who wish to become
absorbed by their ncighbors. the settle
mcui Of Palestine would seem to IA
cilitatc their exit from the jewish
group. For the Jews who wish TO re-
main as religious group scattered
throughout the nations, Palestine may
| further their aim by functioning Tor
them MS II spiritual center. Around
this fact the whole doctrine of siaspora
Judaism has been built mp and they
may constitute IL pcrsisting minority
group in the several countries as do
| the protcstants in France, the Catholics
in England and the Quakcrs III the
| United States. Whether they will dis
appear as Jews or remain scctnrian in
the several countries is an unsolvcd
question.
There may he II harmonious accom-
| mediation as there is in England today
or there may he continuous friction as
| in Poland and in Germany. Perhaps
the social implications of II Malthus-
| uniSm, the crowding of the population
upon the means of existence may de-
tcrininc whether harmony or friction
will characterize the living of the Jews
among their nrighbors. ON the other
hand physical amnleamation may re-
| suit in the creation of brilliant half
Jews, such as the Hcrschcls in astron-
omy. Mcndclcfr in chemistry and Il host
when Jews, on the morrow of civil
emancipation, inter-married with the
non-Jcwish population.
If Israel disappear as "A people from
world will he the poorer, not merely
| because every nation adds its diStinc-
| tive note and thereby cnrichcs the
world harmony. the world Will be poor
| cr because ii will have lost the services
Of Il thoroughbred people which has
paid dearly in persecution and death,
the price of biological selection. The
world will lose the pOtcntiality in II
| future order of ever producing rclig-
ious or social leaders. The prophets
1 of a new crn. 1t will lose tie pioneers
| in establishing new social relations. Ii
was the unkcmpt and dcspiscd Russinn
and Polish Jew in the needle Industries
who raised working conditions to the
States Further, the world will lose
| the genius of the Jews in Interpreting
| the spirit of the several nations-Sarali
Errnhardt. the interpreter of the
| French spirit and Sir Israel Gollanca,
the son of !. Polish rabbi who has in
tcrprcted Shakespeare 10 present day
England. In the disappearance of The
| Jews the world will love the host of
lesser interpreters of the higher inter
natiunalism-Iva de Bloch the Rus
san Jewish banker, the prophet of the
League of Nations: Henri Dunant, the
| swiss Jew The founder of the intcrna-
| tonal Rcd Cross: David Lubin, The
| Russian immigrant 10 America, the
l 4 1. U,,.y itttt,
of Agricultural at Rome. The world
will lose the public and social sympathy
of the jew which seems to he present
| in him in unique conjunction with II
keen sense of material values, in Amer
lea the work of Brandcis in social leg
| iSlatiun of Roscnwald in the advance
mcnt of the colurcd people. of Wariurg
in tine pcrfcctims of the American bank
ing system.
The Jew has been the barometer of
advancing civilization. The extent and
method Of his persecution is the index
of the culture and progress of the
country in which he lives. The inuuisi-
| ton stood for the denial of that lib
crty of the individual which was uiti-
mately To he proclaimed by the French
Revolution. the Russian pale meant the
denial of minority rights in eastern
| Europe The oStraciSm of the jew in
Western Europe and in the United
Stutcs is the denial Of those rights
w'hich n future generation will pro
claim proudly aS lis contribution TO The
advancement of the race. Tie jew
NOW has the function of teaching tile
brotherhood of man ns his ancestor
taught the fathcrhood Of God. Here
indeed is Il new meaning of the term,