The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1952-01-04
THE JEWISH EXILE
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their descendants Other descendants of the first bands
of exes with six hundred years which change their
minds about staying where they Finally. large
bers must have been @migrants their offspring who in
the Of these ample voluntarily left the homeland
seek their fortune abroad
any until 70 E. all of them were virtually free
reurnbut didn't Many of the dispersed communities
maintained intimate indeed regousy profound ties with
Judea Their members contributed to the upkeep the
Temple plgrmaged to jerusalem and toured the sacred
land But, obviously millions of them did not find it
natural stay in the Daspora did it reprehensbe
their life sterile
Then with the Roman devastation of the homeland and
of explosions the night of exile repete
with nightmare. again enveloped the Jewish people.
After nearly two thousand years of deprivation, Danish
men and dispersal the present restoration Of homeland and
has compelled the Jews to undergo
examination of the concepts of Daspora and Galut Eze
Addressing the recent Zionist Congress Yitzha Gruen
baum conceives that all of the million Jews who still
remain outside the borders Of Israel ARE living eled from
their country and although persecution be their
lo their position one OF subJugaton as long as they do
live their life in their land Expressing another
typical view Meir Grossman draws the logical conclusion
that the entire Jewish people should be transferred Israel
Not explains Rose Haprin and advances ingenious
distinction between the Diaspora which embraces the Jew
such the American and British who live happily
freedom and the alut which comprises the Jews who live
rniseraby Only perorce be
nQathered homeland: the
90 as they desire To which Nahum Goldman replies: aut
does being happy well
treated there Gau not measured by good bad treat
Galut mystical concept If denies that America
is Gaut may well deny the necessity for Israel
The debate be simped and perhaps dissipated by
sticking historical realities When Jewish homeland and
tvty and throughout the past seventeen Jew
ish people lived in exile But whenever homeland and state
during the six centuries which preceded the
Roman conquest and again todayhere such thing
exile The confusion the contradictory views, the ngenu
ties arise from failing to distinguish between the Jewish
pie and the individual Jews communities It is dsnc
ton cardinal to Zionist thought The Jewish people taken
whole Am Israeli in exile long it possessed
land state of its Possessing these essentials today it
is not and not be in exile language fatuous
Furthermore. since the first Jew emigrated from
the land of Israel possibly the days Solomon Jews have
lived in dispersion of other peoples from the
Phoencians and Heenes the modern Engshen
and Italians And their Daspora while Jewish State exists
does be natural normal and affirmative status
because has its bad times well good The Jews of
Soviet Russia who wish to Israel and can't
ees but prisoners The Jews Of America and elsewhere
who go Israel but don't eiles but Jewish
settlers of many generations in the world at large
much justified in their choice of flag and country
other human being Herut zion-he freedom of Zion-wi
cludes the freedom remain stay away