The Denver Jewish news., 1925-02-05

tends visiting Russia for irst.hand In,
formation On the Russian Jewish prob
l"ni. MIR. Iaumport Is one Of the In
ilucnlial Russian Jewish leaders IN
America.
Copyright by Jewish Tclcgrnphlc Agency.
'NO news Is good news has for
no one else rs deep n significance rs
for the Jewish reader Of the daily
press for 1t Is with dreaded suspense
and fearful anxiety that he takes M
his newspaper to read the latest re
ports from certain parts Of the Dia-
spora. Who that follows up Jewish
current events even specifically these
recent years, needs tn he told of the
nature Of the tidingS; II Jewish dis
trcss has any special meaning fer him.
heart, the must needs feel crushed un.
der the overwhelming avalanche OF hui
man misery that the cahlc-deSpatchcS
portray to him in simple, everyday and
matter of fact language. Just the bare
narration of the incidents, just the mere
recountlngs of the happenings, without
Il word of amplification. neither senti,
ment nor emotion injected. suffice 10
produce a tale Of w,r comparable in
the complex famiiicalionS of its cruel.
ty. in the abysmal depths of its fright
fulncss and the fantastic assortment
of its horrors to the most ambitious
achievements in that direction that the
prolific Imagination of q Dante could
claim.
True to historic form runs Jewish
experience in the lands of persecution
even now Mt the apex Of modern times.
Certain parts of Jewish newspapers to-
day look like grueSomc tragedy in n
twentlcth-century setting of course
unfOlds itself TO the readers eye as he
scans the news from such theatres of
Jewish martyrdom rs Poland, Rcuman-
ia, Hungary. I.ithunnia and Russia.
Thoroughly helpless, mt the mercy of
their bitter foes. without friend to
utter II word of defense in their be
half, ahlcct victims of relentless en-
cmy unpitied 10y an indiiTerently on
looking world, the Jews. denied the
right to their own individual identity.
re the private property OF the Gov
crnmcntS and ''lIooligans" IN the vari-
Gus countries Of opposition. Their con
dition is an internal matter with
which correct diplomacy forhidS any in
tcr'crcncc, as long ms the country in
question hits its own Jews" And that
much vaunird conscience Of the Christ
nan world contracts and shrivels up
when the cry of dcSnair and call fer
help have II Jewish accent.
In this wild orgy of Jewish perse-
cuiion Russia still plays first fiddle to
the accompaniment Of an agonizne
Jcwry. 1t Is today. as much or even
t. greater extent than under the
GaIk regime of the Romanoff dynasty,
the classic model of hell on earth for
lllIll'llN VI llhllliil 'fAlENs va iN I'A
tails may truly be inscribed: AN who
enter here leave hope bchind". Its flag
flies over the most hopeless and miscr.
able Remnant. of Israel, n remnant
torn to slreds. whose life is in tatters
whose future prospects are terrifying
Within the boundaries of the Soviet
S.ute few millions of our most I'm.
fortunate brethren are today writhine
under the most eNcrutiating torment
HAT they have yet experienced even in
that vale of sorrow. 4 cold shuddeT
runs down the spine of Jcwry the
world over as the news filters out from
Russia bringing information of The
steadily mounting calamity, the ever
growing disaster that has ovcrtaker
the greatest center OF Judaism in mod
crn times.
In Russia, whose .Icwry up to tho
beginning of the late war was the
heart of Jewish cultural and soiritua
life throughout the wide world. ther,
fNlHlS 'ol1N bll II EIaSiiN NHhuu" ~
cmuciatcd skeleton of what not 50 long
ago was II living, thriving, producing
and inspiring organ of our nationa
body. First the war visited upon the
Russian Jews the full measure Of it,
tcrrors. Its volcanic eruption cngulf
eel them in n food of frightfulness anC
swept them into n struggle into a earn
age that for them could not have til,
hopeful significance other people
might have found in it. In addition
to giving their life blood at the battl,
front in encounters with the invading
enemy. Jewish soldiers crumbled unde
the very thought that those they ha,