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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE A Magazine Perpetuating Jewish Ideals Volume 5 December, 1930 Number 22 Isaac Alfred Isaacs The appointment of Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs as Governor-General of Australiti is an event of great political importance and of especial significance to world Jewry. The honor bestowed on this native son Nommonwealth of Australia will reverberate throughout the s a s : gnal distinction to the Jewish race as a whole. That in countrv with no more Jews than the City of Minneapolis, and where Jews from less than one-half of one per cent of the total popu lation. a Jew has been selected as the most worthy citizen to assume the highest executive office is no mean compliment to the ability and character of the Jewish people. Sir Isaac is the son of humble parents —his father having been a poor tailor—and whatever his brilliant public record it is entirely due to his own achievements. Sir Isaac is a self-made man in the best sense of the word. He has attained his lofty position without at any time compromising with his convictions on fundamental issues. This septuagenarian reaches the pinnacle of his career at an age when other public figures vanish from the spot light and withdraw to the fireside. Justice Louis D. Brandcis in the United States. Rufus Isaacs Lord Reading in England, and Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs in Australia are the most distinguished illustrations of the utmost fitness of the Jew for selfless public service. in Palestine from those of the Arabs, ugly eruptions will occur in the Holy Land." Zionists will not like this statement. It sounds too much like the program of the Brith Shalom, the pacifist wing of the Zionists, headed by Dr. Judah Leib Magnes. But coming from such a distin guished non-Jcwish friend of both Moslems and Jews it deserves serious consideration. Tagore knows the temper of Arabia and Pales tine as well as he knows India. He respects both the Arab and the Jewish nationalism and believes that a Palestine Commonwealth in which the Jews will be able to establish a homeland can be achieved if Jews and Arabs merge their political interests. The Zionist leader ship should ponder over these words by the great sage of India. To move the Zionist political headquarters from London to Jerusalem might be the solution of the Palestine problem. Einstein Is Here Professor Albert Einstein, en route for Pasadena. Calif., docked in New York. This is the great scientist’s second visit to the United States. No wonder that this country is all agog with the event. The father of the theory of relativity—who is definitely the world’s best- known man—has made it an iron-bound rule of his conduct to lend the prestige of his name to whatever human cause he believes in. Thus he has never hesitated to emphasize his interest in the Jewish Palestine, and more than once has stressed his deep concern about our brethren in Eastern Europe. When asked, on the eve of his departure, to send a message to American Jewry, the world’s outstanding genius con demned in unmistakable terms the Palestine policy of the Mandatory Power 7 here are Jewish celebrities who have devised a convenient modus Vivendi—i.e., that of being Jewish when coming in contact with the Jewish world and forgetting their Jewish affilia tions when meeting the Christian world. Einstein, however, regardless of his sur roundings, speaks as a Jew who knows and feels the misfortunes of his co religionists and is eager to identify him- with them. Einstein's Public Appearance It is highly gratifying that one of two only public engagements which the world’s greatest scientist accepted for his three days’ stay at New York was to appear at a Chanukah celebration sponsored by New York Zionists. No man. with the single exception of Lindbergh, has aroused as much interest and enthusiasm in New York as the father of the theory of relativity. For the few days that the S. S. Belgenland, on which he crossed the Atlantic, touched the Manhattan pier Einstein was bombarded with offers and pressure was brought to bear on him to accept at least one public engagement. But the great Jewish scholar remained adamant until he was asked to grace the Zionist Madison Square Garden demonstration with his presence. T hen he capitulated. And despite the great physical strain his appearance would entail Ein stein unhesitatingly agreed to help the Zionist cause with his presence. Jerusalem Instead of London Rabindranath Tagore, the famous Poet and philosopher of India, in an ex- dusivo interview which is in this issue, the following significant statement: Palestine problem cannot be solved ndon by any negotiations between itish Government and the Zionist I he success of Zionism depends upon Arab-Jewish co-operation, can be obtained in Palestine only ans of a direct understanding be- the Arabs and the Jews. If the leadership will insist upon separat- ■ ish political and economic interests CONTENTS Thus Spake Rabindranath Tagore By JOSEPH BRAININ' The South Commemorates Judah P. Ben jamin By WALTER HART BLUMENTHAL “If I Were a Jew" By HR. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES entir Th„ by ■ twee Zior ing ' • ii 12 Enormities of Anti-Semitism By HENRI BARBUSSE A Royal Foe of Anti-Semitism By LOUIS RITTENBERG Out of the Inkwell By MEYER F. STEINGLASS England and Palestine By OR. ALEXANDER LYONS Religious Freedom As a Legal Right By HON. IRVING LEHMAN Reform Judaism and Zionism By RABBI MOSES P. JACOBSON 16 A Spiritual Awakening Throughout the World By ADOLPH S. OCHS 17 Highlights and Sidelights " By MARTIN GOLDE A New Immortal The name of Dr. Karl Landsteiner will have to be added to the list of the immortals of science. By being awarded the 19AO Nobel Prize for medicine he becomes the second American Jew to have won a Nobel Prize, the other being Professor A. A. Michclson, who received the physics award in 1907. The Stockholm Medical Faculty bestowed the distinction upon the American Jewish scientist (who was born at Vienna), in recognition of his outstanding work in the realm of bacteriological and pathological research. Among his fellow workers Dr. Landsteiner is known as a modest, reticent individual, The Nobel award has merely served to hake him known to a larger audi ence: in scientific circles he has for quite some time been acknowledged the greatest living immunologist. Michelson, Einstein, Hertz, Koch, Ehrlich, Meyerhoff and now Landsteiner are among the great Jewish torchbearers of science whom the Nobel Prize Commission has singled out during the last quarter of a century as having con tributed revolutionary discoveries to the advancement of human knowledge. 13 - 18 One Million One million Jews have been lost in Eastern Europe during the past ten years, according to an estimate made by Dr. M. Kreinin, director of the Emigdirect, now on a visit to this country. ~ t}.. A c t of March 3rd, 1879. Published monthly by The Southern Newspaper Enterprises, Inc. Subscription Rates: 13 Cc TT as „ second dass matter at the Postofifce at Atlanta, Ua correspondence and literary contributions, but the Edit* is not to be considered as sharin* the views expressed by the 1 Copy, $1.50 per year iki advance. The Southern « . eQ 2 c Stephen Scbiffer, Managing Editor. All communications for publication should reach this office not later : except those enunciated in the Editorial columns. Established 19Z5. w». - tn D f each month.—This is the Hanocukah Edition.