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The Year 5690 in Retrospect
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tion of the milder policy was seen during
Passover, when the Jews obtained matzoth
without any restrictions.
The Minsk incident aroused world-wide
interest. A group of rabbis and lay
spiritual leaders were said to have been
imprisoned, and their execution ordered.
This led to a frenzy of protest throughout
the world. It is important to note that
not a single one of the rabbis remained
in prison, to say nothing of any one of
them being shot. It is unnecessary to de
cide whether the original stories were
exaggerated—as has been freely hinted—
or whether the release of the rabbis was
effected by public opinion.
Another incident worth recording in
connection with Russia was the reputed
statement of Reuben Brainin, dean of
Hebrew literature and avowed friend of
Jewish colonization in Russia as well as
Zionist, in which he declared that Biro-
Bidjan was no fit place for Jewish set
tlement. His views are considered of
importance, because Biro-Bidjan, located
in Siberia, has been held out to Jewish
settlers as a fine area for an autonomous
Jewish republic.
Other Lands
The orbit of the Wandering Jew seems
to be narrowing. During the past year
South Africa passed an immigration re
striction bill which was obviously designed
to forbid the entry of Jewish immigrants.
South Africa has seen the development of
a prosperous Jewish community, which
has the reputation of being more “Jewish”
than any other single community in the
world. It was still a land of immigra
tion and the influx of additional Jews
would have made it an increasingly im
portant Jewish center.
The recurrent attempts to find new
havens for the Jew were repeated during
5690, with two countries getting principal
attention. These were Spain and Peru.
A report was issued during the early part
of the year in which it was indicated that
Spain would welcome back the Jews it
had expelled in 1492. But later statements
by responsible officials made it clear that
the economic conditions of the country
would not permit the entrance of Jews.
An attempt was made in Berlin to arouse
interest in a Jewish colonization project
in Peru. The backers of the movement
declared that Peru was ready to offer
every inducement. This also proved to be
a soap-bubble, which was pricked by the
Peruvian government itself.
China got a taste of anti-Semitism dur
ing the past year. It followed on the
publication of the so-called “Protocols of
the hlders of Zion.” Even Mexico joined
the ranks of the Jew-baiters with a little
incident that was generally acknowledged
to be pure economic anti-Semitism. But
Mexico, fortunately, has not yet fully im
bibed the culture of Europe.
The Jews of Argentina and Brazil are
developing important communities. Their
numbers are being constantly added to by
Jewish immigration from Europe. They
are taking an increasingly active interest
in Zionism, and their voice is heard,
though faintly, from time to time in other
international Jewish affairs. An ex
tremely important incident that took place
in Argentina during the year was a con
certed drive on Jewish white slavery,
preceding page)
which has been maintained in Buenos
Aires for more than three decades. Most
of the girls are recruited from the
poverty-stricken Jewish homes in Poland
and Rumania. With the active co-opera
tion of the Argentinian police, who have
hitherto remained entirely indifferent to
the institution, the Jewish Society for the
Suppression of White Slavery has made
rapid progress. But as long as prostitu
tion remains a public institution there it is
doubtful whether these brisk drives have
more than a temporary effect.
The signing of the Concordat between
Mussolini and the Pope is likely to have
an adverse effect ultimately on Jewish
interests in Italy, particularly as regards
education. During the year II Duce has
given a number of interviews in which
he has declared that Fascism is opposed
to anti-Semitism. It is true that nothing
has occurred in Italy during his regime
that resembles some of the things that
have taken place in countries like Hun
gary, Rumania and Austria, or even
Germany.
But nowhere is anti-Jewish persecu
tion so consistent and disheartening as in
Yemen, Arabia, where the Jews are vir
tually the slaves of the Arab population.
Their lot is a thoroughly miserable one.
They have no rights of any kind. The
Yemenite Jews have been pleading for
admission into Palestine, but there have
not been enough immigration certificates
to provide for them. It is also said
that they are not the stuff out of which
pioneers are made.
Those countries that have not been
mentioned are in a fortunate position.
Presumably their names have not ap
peared in the record because there have
been no anti-Semitic incidents registered.
The course of their life has remained
quiet and smooth.
Among the miscellaneous events of the
year that deserve mention is the election
of Sir Isaac Isaacs to the office of Chief
Justice of the High Court of Australia.
He has had a distinguished career at the
bar, and only the distance of Australia
from the rest of the Jewish world has
kept his name from that fame which it
properly deserves. He has been mentioned
for Governor General of Australia, to
succeed Baron Stonehaven, but nothing
definite will be done’in regard to this
until the latter part of 1930.
\\ ith the year 5690 there also passed
a number of important European Jewish
figures. Perhaps the greatest of these
was Dr. Ludwig Stein, philosopher and
political writer, and one of the most re
spected Jews in Germany. One equally
famous, though in another field, was Sir
Israel Gollancz, noted Shakespearian
scholar and bibliophile, lecturer at the
University of London. The death of Dr.
Leon Reich, member of the Polish Par
liament and Zionist leader, was also
widely mourned, particularly since he was
only 51 when he died. The obituary must
also include the names of Jean Fischer,
Zoinist leader of Belgium; Dr. Oscar
Kohn, German Socialist leader; Israel
Belkind, one of the first Russian Zion
ists, who died at Berlin; Dr. D. Pas-
manik, one-time lieutenant of Dr. The
odor Herzl, who died at Paris.
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