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EUROPEAN REVOLVING STAGE
(Continued from page 6)
There are Jewish natural, therefore, that Jews should
present moment
colonies in the Ukraine and the
Crimea which ha^ already lost as
many as sixty-five per cent of their
settlers in this back-to-the-city move
ment. The youth is disappearing al
together from the colonies, and even
middle aged and older men of the de
classed type are now reluctant to ac
cept the most tempting offers to set
tle on the land. The great problem of
the “Geserd” now is not how to pro
vide for the expansion of the move
ment, but how to keep the tide from
rolling back, and losing more ground.
Colonization is, fortunately, to deep
ly rooted in Jewish life to be swept
away entirely, but there is no doubt
now in the mind of any observer of
Jewish life in Russia that the land
movement is not going to play the
big deciding role which it seemed des
tined to play two or three years ago.
The reasons for this change are not
far to seek. The collectivisation sys
tem, which seemed to be so favorable
to colonization, has turned out to be
the strongest deterrent to the Jewish
“back-to-the-land movement”. It rob
bed colonization of its strongest al
lurements, namely, property and se
curity. What most attracted the form
er Jewish “Luftmensh” to the land,
was the stability, certainty, and secu
rity which he lacked in his former
occupation, and which the land seem
ed to offer in abundance. Further
more, colonization also offered him
an escape from the Communist de
struction of his old individualistic
world. In a sense, the land offered
him a refuge from the general de
struction of his old world of property.
Was he not building in the colony
something strong and solid in the
midst of a shaking world, and all
of his own, too? Was not this new
property on the soil even more solid
ly established than was his little shop
or soda-water stand of old? But col
lectivisation has introduced Commun
ism on the land, too, and has thus de
stroyed all those dreams of property
and security for which the disclassed
Jew yearned so much. A collective
farm can no more be called the work
er’s. One can no more base one’s
private future upon the collective than
upon any other job that one may hap
pen to hold. So did the strongly in
dividualistic Jew lose his interest in
the land movement as soon as Com
munism invaded it.
A still greater blow was dealt Jew
ish colonization by the rise of the
great industrial movement in Soviet
Russia, engendered by the Five Year
Plan. This plan is primarily indus
trial in its nature. Its chief purpose
is to convert agricultural Russia into
an industrial state. Jews are mainlv
citj folk, best fitted for urban and
industrial occupations. It was only
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take easily and favorably to this new
movement. The gigantic factories and
plants which have sprung up all over
Russia during the last two years have
made a powerful appeal to the Jewish
youth; they offered them opportuni
ties which the land never did, and
the young Jews flocked to them in
such numbers that it soon became evi
dent that industrialisation was des
tined to overshadow colonization.
In 1930, the second year of the
Five Year Plan, as many as 40,000
Jews in Russia were taken into fac
tories and heavy industries; 30,000
Jewish youths were drawn into the
various factory-schools which prepare
them for skilled labor; 5,000 were
drawn into the railway system and
into the mines. The present year, al
though not yet fully completed, al
ready shows an increase beyond that
of the previous year. According to
the figures of the Soviet Press as
many as 65,000 Jewish youths have
already been drawn into skilled work,
and 135,000 into non-skilled labor in
the factories. Jews now occupy lead
ing positions in all the key industries
of Soviet Russia. Over 46 per cent
of the Jewish population in Soviet
Russia is now engaged in a wage
earning capacity. Almost half of these
are engaged in the heavy industries.
The former preponderance of the
Jews in the needle and the leather
trades has now changed to a prepond
erance in the metallurgical indus
tries. In a single factory of Denpro-
Petrovsk there are now 5,000 Jewish
workers: in Kertsh there are 2,000,
and so on down the line, in the leading
plants, factories, mines and railways.
Of late, too, the factories are even
invading the Jewish villages and
towns. In Gomel and Witebsk, in
Minsk, in Bobruisk, and in many other
cities big factories are springing up,
and they are all packed with thou
sands of Jewish men and women. In
other words, industrialisation among
the Jews rises more rapidly than colo
nization declines. The factory is tak
ing the place of the farm; the machine
is displacing the plough, and the in
dustrial city the steppe.
* * *
The Communist Jewish Press in
Russia seems for some reason dis
turbed about this. The pages of the
Moscow Ernes, the Charkoff Shtern
and the Minsk Oktober are veritable
dirges bemoaning the movement from
the colonies to the city and the de
cline of colonization, but the Com
munist Jewish Press has never truly
mirrored Jewish life in Russia, and
now, too, it presents a distorted re
flection of it. For the truth is htat
although Jewish colonization is de
clining, Jewish life in Russia is now
on the upward grade, and the Jewish
problem, economically at least, is
nearer a complete solution now than
at any other time.
The Jewish problem in Soviet Rus
sia (and also in the rest of Eastern
Europe) is fundamentally one of the
economic productivisation. At the
bottom of all the Jewish troubles in
the Soviet Union (and in most other
countries of Europe) is the fact that
the economic foundation has been
Knocked from under Jewish feet bv
the war, the Revolution, and the de
velopments which followed these up-
, The problem is for Jews.
ua ' and collectively. to
change their previous
tions for productive w
it as quickly as p os
the change is to land
trial occupations mat'
aim is “productivisati,
by which the aim i s
lished depends on the
the moment.
For a time it seemed
tion was the best and
only road toward Jewis
tion. But the swiftly
ama of life in Sovi<
c °ccup a .
an d to do
• Whether
k . or indus-
■Jttle. The
means
*; >e accomp.
latencies 0 f
*t coloniza.
tctically the
’foductivisa-
vin E panor-
Russia ha.
brought to the front * her, qu ickt ,
road leading to the sam goil. wj"
in less than two years industri,
isation more Jews ha-, been
ductivised” in Russia than during , hf
Hon * Th f S ! V6n > ’ l “ ar ° f C0l0ni “-
tion The factory is not only the
quicker, but also the ea ier road fo--
the Jew, the one requiring less sacr
fices and offering more opportuni
ties. The Jew, quick in adapting him
self to new conditions and environ
ments, is now utilising the opportun
ity to the full, and is rapidly ap
proaching toward a solution of hi
economic difficulties on the crest
the Five-Year Plan.
WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN-
ZIONISM
(Continued from page 7)
They have spent vast sums of money
in Palestine—so much that the Zion
ists are never frank about it when I
try to find out exactly how much. Cer
tainly enough to have accomplished
some real good somewhere else.
There is no room in Palestine for
Jews and Arabs both—that is to say,
the proportion of Jews that Zionists
would like to bring into the country.
Much as Jews would like to forget
the Arabs, they can’t. They have per
mitted themselves to be bewitched by
the Balfour Declaration, a measure
that was issued in the stress of war
time. England was anxious to get
Jewish support, and it wasn’t par
ticularly careful about the phraseol
ogy of the promises that it made. The
result is that thousands of Jews to
day are ■wearing out their hearts in a
vain attempt to solve the Jewish
problem.
Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S.
THE VOICE OF HIS PEOPLE
(Continued from page 9)
a broader liberty, a more radiant ar
tistic and intellectual culture than hi?
own.” What hope for such a consum
mation could he continue to enter
tain ?
COLLEGE NOTES
(Continued from page 13)
Cass, Rose Kramer, Jennie Shaomj.
Eva Goldberg, Stella Spielberge •
Sylvia Friedman, Bloomie Bla>>.
Georgia Tech
Sigma Gamma Club, compos* ®
students of Georgia 1 e l ent * ,
at a dance at the Standard
cently. Guests includ- - '^gaum.
Schreiber, Ethel Stein
Agnes Nissenbaum, • rjl-
berg, Nellie Swerdlin. Ethel
lian Doctor, Mary Let •• p ear l
Isenberg, Rose Cran a . ha p p -
Newman. Members o: ■* ? * ^ a 0 t
silon Pi of Emory, A :l EpS ilon
Atlanta Dental Colh- . progress
Pi, Tau Epsilon Pi. • • , School
Club of Georgia Tec MS
were invited.