Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-11-11
OUR PARIS LETTER
CRITICISM or
FRENCH JEWS
BY JEHUDAH

s0ssAt SshN haHfOuS IlcUItW UOtIs
has on his way back to Palestine from
America. stopped for while in Paris,
And delivered here a very scathins ad-
dress on French Jewry which has
created tremendous impression here.
The poet warned the French Jews
Against the assimilation 20 prevalent
among them and appealed to the i'm
migrant Jews to be on their guard
aeanist II.
Fench Hsanhedrshr
BiaiR recalled the action Of the
Jewish "sanAedrin" at the time Of
Napoleon the First and described the
Jewish emancipation following Napo-
Icons decree - the mess Of pottase
FOR which the French Jews had sold
their national rights. To what extent
Bialik Is right in regard to that his
torical event Is not important. What
rs important is that his words are a
jastiiiable warming. One is astounded
At the deAthiike silence that envelope:
the Jewish Consistory and the Alliance
isrselite Universelle. As though there
xefe not thousands Of Jewish isssi-
grants who are steadily penetrating
into all circles OF French life, into all
branches Of the French economic sys-
tenn.
Jew Fashion Tooic
A sign of the times - the political
season just ended has been largely de-
voted to the Jews. French ministers
have delivered addresses at Jewish
meetings, Jewish problems have been
debated in French clubs, numerous
books have been published about Ju-
daism and the Jews. And the new sea-
son too will be full of Jews and Jewish
questions. The Jews themselves too
not the French Jews, but the real
Jews - are preparing to hold big
mass meetings here. The Immigrant
Jew is about to form his own COM
munity in Paris. We have Yiddish
newspapers, and a Yiddish theatre.
Things are humning-.
And the time is not far off when
the "alien" Jews will have settled
firmly in the country and then they
will knock at the doors Of the Con-
sistory and demand seat. II will be
great struggle and it is bound to
end as all such struggles have ended
in the past.
Petiura CAGE
But among the French Jews there
is no sign yet of the coming change.
There is not whisper of it anywhere,
just as il nothing at all were hap
pening At the gates. The great Jewish
sensation in Paris will. of course, be
the trial of Shalom Sch~artzbard for
the murder OF Petiura. An indictment
of Ukranian liberation which sacri-
feed Jewish victims on its altar.
The trial is expected to start about
the middle or the end of November.
| w NSttiGt tnC ctiCu lihc ~ ilOt
they will Be witnesses at a great
drama, in which the chief ecanbatants
will not be persons but ideas, for the
trial will be not OF Schwartzbard
against Pctlufa, but between two Pc
litical tendencies.
The feeling is beginning TO spread
that behind Schwartzbard and Pet.
lura stand great political forces. The
French press has already awakened
to a realization of this fact. Paris
Soir,' for instance, sent out specia
correspondent to Russia to report hi:
impression from the scenes Of tht
pogroms. But at the same time thu
conflict between the two sections il
French Jewry natives" and thu
"aliens." is growing more keen. Th'
"natives" arc entrenching themselve'
against the inevitable cncroachmcn
of the newcomers. But the oncroach
n,cnt will go on and before long tn
natives will give dp the struggl
against the tide Of Jewishness whfcl
has come into France and will re
vitalize French Jewish life.
Copyrlgh. 1926 by. Jeriss Teicgesphic
Assh:v Inc b..