The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-07-02
/ essing ROsenwalds Contribution =
Less There Are Some Who Are
Impressed With Him

Iassing RosenwaId having ASSOCIATED himself for
er wears from the Jewish community in which he lives
ou of his refusal to contribute the upbuildng of
tho Jewish homeland in Palestine, has now undertaKen
e magazine to tell the American people what Jews think
q PALESTINE This who one OF the founders OF
The America First Committee offers to describe to the
American people what is for international mar
mOny in the postwar The son OF father who very
oneray established large fund to assist the economically
and socially oppressed Negroes he
lends that there is such thing or nationality ana
ha only the worth of the individual human being matters
leasing Rosenwald should be proud Of his courage.
At time when hundreds Of thousands OF Jews were rush
limo o ecane from the misery of Europe which failed to
share his eastic Interpretation of reality he deed the
whole city of Philadelphia and all OF American JeWry Oy
refusing to contribute to the funds OF the United Jews"
Anneal His convictions first And now, once again,
r Rosenwald does not hesitate to exhibit the courage OF
his convictions his views the Jewish people ana
Palestine do happen to coincide with those of Hal Amin Ell
Huseini ex-Mufti of Jerusalem bosom friend OF Hitler
and of Subba Chandras Bose the Indian who TOO went 10
Berlin to express his independence of Judgment
LEASING RosenwaId whose inheritance of vast for
tune screened him from of the tOrments that OCCASION
ally touch Jews has right to express his views even
though others may question his good taste or even ms n
maniy in adding at this time to the heaVy Duroen WHICH
Jews bear. He acts the spokesman OF the l-iameo
American Council for Judaism, Inc, and says inaI AOsi
embraces the very racs theories and naOnastlc phOsO
plies that have become prevalent IN recent years. nat
have caused untold suffering to the world and particularly
to the JeWS.' It is interesting to note lnat DOrOny
Thompson who has bitterly attacked every manifestation
Of industrial fascsm and who has certainly been Tar
keener analyst and prophet OF international aHars ldhes
the Numerically opposite point of view But Mr. Rosen-
wad seems no sounder an historian than he is Jew to
judge by this comment ga national Jewish state I'm Paes
ne carries with it also dangers to Jews now Vlng
side Palestine and particularly to those located In centra
European countries That sentence must be re-read sew
ea times to be certain it is actually written For no one
could believe that in 943 when the last vestlges OF jewish
life central Europe being erased anyone could De so
unaware of the facts of life to repeat that
antiZOnst argument that Jewish State In PaieSIne
brings antSemitism. When Adolf Hitler came 10
o1r IN
uaed program white down Jewish rights IN Paiestne
and to make impossible if she could the establishment Oh
Jewish State in Palestine. Hitler doing his utmost 10
asSure Leasing ROsenwaId He is seeing to 1t that tnere
snail be Jews in central European countries to endure
the humiliation as Mr. ROsenwad nterprets it, OF tree
creative Jewish state in Palestine.
AS socologist of Jewish life, Mr., Rosenwad IS as
profound he interpreter of the American way OF
lie when he helped the soationists before Pearl Haroo
NO other group he says, has been so brutaly aIacA
and for only the false claim that tnee are
racial barriers or nationastc impulses that separate Jew"
from other men,"