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“THE CHALLENGE TO ISRAEL”
Reviewed by Mat Shapiro
William Orton’s article in Harper’s
November issue, entitled “The Chal
lenge to Israel” has gained much no
toriety through the boldness of the
author’s deep incision into a topic
that is either handled too delicately
or too callously. Jew on one hand, Gen
tile on the other, Mr. Orton gives a
keen and vital contrast of the two.
One finds an insight into the racial
conditions of the Jew that has rarely
been written before in such condensed
form, every word a barbed-arrow’s
head, every swing a hit.
Mr. Orton possesses the rare ability
to discern the very emotions of the
race, the thoughts that motivate, the
acts that become lauded or condemned.
To this last Orton says, “A Nordic
may, and frequently does, possess in
full measure the less agreeable traits
of mind and manner—but to the Nor
dic they will not be an insuperable
social barrier—let a Jew exhibit ex
actly the same psychology—the matter
is ended: he is a Jew, and that is
all there is to it.”
The handicap Jews face in business,
community, school and profession,
which are all too well known, are
aired. Anti-Semitism, particularly the
resurgence in Germany with the Hit
ler movement, comes from the fact
that Jews do not believe in war, con
tends Mr. Orton. Politics, economics,
these are the gargantuan problems a
Jew has to deal with faultlessly, or
else he becomes the target of hos
tility.
Pragmatic idealism, the author
writes, is the Jewish psychology.
Pragmatic, he states, because the ex
perience of the Jews tend to keep
them close to the facts of circum
stance and human nature 5 idealism,
for that spirit which still finds the
worth-whileness in a life that has torn
and robbed it of extrinsic objects.
A new truth tempts the Gentile. He
fashions it into a System, with con
cepts and theorems. For the Jew there
are no such illusions or disillusions,
or heights to place his God. And here
Mr. Orton strikes the bellows with
tremendous force—“—where the Nor
dic God is authority and sanction for
the Nordic System, the Jewish God is
just a necessary postulate to the Jew
ish way of living and feeling.” Jewish
ethics grow out of history and expe
rience, not out of metaphysics and
theology. Jewish symbolism speaks of
a broad humanity rather than a nar
row sainthood.
Zionism, the subject so contentious
and timely, is touched on by the writer
when he asserts that the real danger
to Zionism is that it may be an all too
decided release and that it will add
another neo-nationalism to an already-
filled world of them.
Comes the challenge itself—to sal
vage Western civilization. There are
powers that the Jew possesses of
which the Western world stands in
sorest need, then there are things Is
rael cannot do and in which the Nor
dic has excelled. To Mr. Orton, the
idealized Israel of an ancient dream
should be cast aside, and the present
twentieth century existence which is
needed by the Western world should
be accepted. A re-expression. A re
assertion of Jewish genius, for Jews.
Thus is the destiny of the Jews saved.
ATLANTA VISITOR HONORED
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fear of the “evil eye” formerly en
slaved her to age-old superstitions,
which wrought much harm to grow
ing children.
The atmosphere is happily changing
and the Arab woman, looking to Ha-
dassah, is accepting science as a guide
to health and a sane living.
There are in Palestine quite a few
Jewish industries—silk, cement, oil,
soap, chocolate, textiles and wine.
Wine industry in Palestine is the
largest of its kind in the world and it
was built by Baron Edmond Roths
child who invested hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in developing the Jew
ish colonies in Palestine without being
officially connected with any Zionist
organization.
On his recent visit to Palestine Ba
ron Rothschild admitted that the Zion
ist organization did more for Pales
tine than he with his millions, for it
was the indomitable spirit of the pio
neers that contributed so much to
ward making Palestine the coveted
Eretz Israel. It is indeed great mod
esty on the part of Baron Rothschild
to make such an assertion, but it is
the truth, nevertheless.
The Jewish colonists are proud of
their orange groves which are con
sidered the finest in the world, and
Palestine exports to Central Europe
and England, not only oranges, but
almonds, citrons, grape fruit, lemons
and olives.
General depression in Palestine at
this time is due to the adverse busi
ness conditions in the United States,
because the main source of funds to
support various activities comes from
and through generosity of American
Jewry.
Speaking of her native land, Miss
Aboulafia grows poetic in describing
the cities which she dearly loves and
rightly so, for, as she vividly pictures
the countryside in the spring, the ver
dant hills and the valleys in pristine
blossoms are “like the beauty of the
dawn, or the love or a mother for her
child, or the joy of a young animal
in being alive, or the courage of a
martyr facing torment for an ideal.”
As we listened to Miss Aboulafia’s
entrancing description of the Prom
ised Land, our imagination transcend
ed the intervening centuries—thirty-
five of them—and we conjured up a
picture of Moses traversing the very
ground over which this Jewish girl
had been, quite unconsciously, so
many times before coming to America.
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