The Denver Jewish news., 1924-07-03

- INV ~ '"N~' Wa 'F'N'
me alone! We have plenty Of Jewish
questions as IL Is. more than we can
manage, What do We want II new
Jewish question for?
l'ut this Is question ~ new Jews
New Jews? God keep intact the old
one, We have moi finished yet with
our troubles about these And you
want To thust new troubles upon us :
Rut there is no way out of 1t: we
must.
The old saying about the common
fate Of the Jcws-all Jews are breth.
rcn--is more than moral axiom. Ii
* II living fact. Wherever the Jews
are fatcd To suffer. the suffering affects
the whole Of Jewry. As for Q y nple
In Germany today.
Here people will again shrng their
shoulders In bored fashion. The 700.
900 Jewish Germany have almost finish.
cd their process of assimilation; they
have dived 50 deeply into the q, nun
Ocean that there is hardly the Mogen
Dovid Of reform temple to he seen
still above water. We urc more con
cerned about the fate Of The millions
Of l'kraiyian Jews. Or abou, the pol.
itical and social position of the Polish
Jews. Or the new Jewish center in
Greater Roumnnia. Or finally. the
small hut nationally fnteful Jewish
community in Palestine. Enough, more
than enough Jewish problems
Yes. hut wl.it about the New
man Jews at the present time are birth
pangs German Jewry is undergoing a
process of renewal. in matters national
social. cultural and religious
On the evening OF November 9Th
1929. when the first Berlin pOgrom OF
modern times after raging for a whole
day had died down. when the flood had
cbbed. IA Jewish corpse was found
where the food had been.
This does not refer to the heroic
lew Silberberg. who. seeking to pro.
icct his son-in-aw WAS himself torn
TO pieces by the mob No. it refers To
corpse of n more intangible kind the
Jewish Michael" the even more comic
mongrcl offspring of the comical Ger
man Michael" whom Heine immor'
talized. who pulled his peaked cap over
his eyes and ears and snored ire
mendously under the protection of 3C
monarchs" The Jewish Michael was
far more laughahle figure. He pull
ed his big cnp not only over his eyes
and ears, that he should not see and
hear. hut he pulled it over his nose
too 50 that the people should not
notice that he was different from the
German Michael" OF n common
Jewish need, he refused to hear. He
was n German citizen of the Jewish
faith" The foreign Jew was an allen
devil" whom he would like to see on
the other side of the frontier the
sooner the better. The work of the
"Hilfsvcrein'' of the German Jews in
aid of the prosecuted Jews OF Eastern
Europe, though 1t rendered praise
worthy service. was always based OF
the feeling Take him out OF my
sight quickly, his sufferings break my
heart :" This Jewish Michael is now
dead. True, there is still the 'tnior
cf National German Jews" whose Ger
man nationalism runs that of Coun
Rcyentlow close second. denOunclni
every Jew who will not dance to it:
tune MS being deficient in patriotism
This union recently distinguished 1t
self by an act of daring" 1t protest
ed against the foreign Governments
who made representations against th'
Berlin pogrom and the Munich ey
pulSiCns. But this "Nati0nal German
Jew" is not the old Michael" He Il
much more of Don Quixate. He l.
a creature who does not want to be /
Jew anu thliilol w ii '''hi"i' iie Wv
longs to class-not II numerous clas
which despairs of itself. And tina
means the end.
In the case of the other sections o
the German Jews. beginning with tn
German citizens of the Jewish Faith,
dow nto the old Conservatives and tn
old Liberals, n great transformation
has taken place from within. 1t ha
not yet maturcd into political ideas
these Jews are not yet conscious o
their nationality; the change is 70
the moment cultural and religious.
1t Is well known that there Is
scarcity of synngogs in Berlin at pres
ent Three large synagogs have bee