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The Southern Israelite
The Jew Gets
^4 Ten-to-One Chance
Anti-Semitism As Seen by Two
Christian Journalists
By MARTHA NEUMARK
Hey wood's views on anti-Semitism in America
are well-known. He has expressed them in vari
ous articles and just now. in collaboration with
George Britt, has published a book, “Christians
Only", which contains his investigations and
views on the subject. Miss Neumark, well-
known writer on Jewish topics, condenses and
interprets in this article the content of the book.
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Ho bus a ten-to-one chance. The one
referred to is not a racetrack leftover
or a patient felled by penumonia. It
is the Jew in America. In the land
whose Eastern entrance is presided
over by the Statue of Liberty and
whose national anthem speaks of the
‘ land of the free” the odds against
the Jew are so overwhelming that it
is not the Jew who is complaining to
day, but even disinterested Christian
observers, whose sense of sportsman
ship is outraged by a ten-to-one handi
cap.
Heywood Broun, who gave his first
interview on the Jews to Joseph Brain-
in, of the Seven Arts Feature Syndi
cate, last year, lias written, in collab
oration with George Britt, a fellow
journalist, a forth right study of anti-
Semitism, which he has caustically
labeled "Christians Only.’' He has ex
posed the cancerous growth of the an-
ti-Jewish virus, which has already
reached proportions that make stories
of Jew-baiting in European countries
seem like mere good-natured practical
jokes. No Jew would have dared to
face the issue in as courageous and
ruthless a fashion as have these two
Christians.
In the college there is a quota re
striction that makes the numerous
clauses of Hungary seem generous. In
commerce and industry the Jew is be
ing crushed to the wall. In the pro
fessions of medicine, engineering,
chemistry and related fields, the Jew
who wastes the prime of his youth in
preparation for his vocation finds that
he has been chasing a mirage.
The picture that Heywood Broun
and George Britt have presented is a
ghastly caricature of opportunity and
equality, of tolerance and good will.
But there are two sides to this pic
ture. On the one hand there are those
non Jews to whom discrimination is
natural, either because of prejudice or
alleged economic necessity. On the
other hand, however, are the Jewish
captains of commerce and industry,
who out-Christian their Christian
neighbors, who make huge profits out
of their business so that they may
give alms to those thousands who are
kept unemployed by their co-religion
ists because they are “too Jewish."
The economic depression has carried
anti Seine!ism beyond the stage of a
laboratory subject. It is a dominating
force in the lives of millions of Ameri
can Jews who, not so many years ago,
were horrified by the news of pogroms
in Kishineff and later in the Ukraine,
it is a force which catches in its
maw first-generation immigrants and
fourth-generation Jews as well. The
Mendelian law, which may produce a
long-nosed son from a snub-nosed,
blonde Jewish mother, is as powerful a
factor in keeping a Jew out of work
as an uncouth foreign accent.
There is only one power that comes
to the aid of the hapless Jew to give
him his ten-to-one opportunity, it is
the great god Chance. The chance that
ho or she may not have a Jewish name.
The chance that he or she may not have
Jewish features. The chance that he
or she may have been so desperate as
to register in the blank inquiring about
religion: Lutheran, Episcopalian, Ca
ter chance is slimmer than ever, for
tholic or Methodist. But even the lat-
suspicious employers now require the
address and telephone number of your
pastor, who is to certify whether or not
you are a regular worshiper. The sieve
works fine for the Jew.
While great national organizations
attempt to gather large sums for dis
tressed Jews overseas there is being
evolved in the United States a prob-
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