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PROMINENT BUT NOT EMINENT
AMERICAN JEWRY
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much as if not more than the Jews, worse
than that they are almost ignored in
as the world now holds it. To be normal,
the Jew must be conscious that he too is
a national. That way only lies peace of
mind, absence of friction with the world
machine.
“But Zionism will not sweep American
Jewish life—not for at least two genera
tions. For American Jews are still too
conscious of their newness in the country.
They have not yet been sufficiently as
similated. They are still afaid that they
are not recognized as Americans; and
they are afraid to be Jews. They are
neither, in the meantime. When the Jews
of America become rooted in the land,
when identification with the country is
no longer a daring adventure, they will
have the courage to be Jewish nation
alists. They will achieve what the Eng
lish Jews have attained; the calm ac
quiescence in the fact that they are both
English and Jews.’’
Since we were talking of religion, what
more natural than to refer to the Russian
episode? There a startling example had
been made of how to abandon the
“opiate." Were American Jews justified
in protesting against the persecution of
Jewish religious activities among the
Soviets ?
“It is neither the province nor the
function of the Jew to see to it that
religion be forcibly maintained anywhere.
It is one of the gravest errors of com
munal judgment when some time ago the
American Jewish Congress allied itself
with the Catholic Church, to protest
against the conduct of Russia in regard
to its religious sects. The incident was
typical of the heedless fashion in which
Jewish leadership proceeds. The alliance
with the traditional foe of the Jewish lib
eral spirit was the climax to the travesty."
Don’t hasten to pin the label of Com
munist on Dr. Rongy. Not that he would
resent it, but it would be inaccurate. For
much as he admires the Russian experi
ment, he fears that failures lie at the
end of the road. He hopes that its at
tempt to place broad humanism on the
rotting piles of narrow prejudice will
meet success. For then Russia will have
made the greatest advance toward free
ing man from the shackles of his own
inanities. But he fears that the human
mind is not yet prepared for what Rus
sia is tampering with. Human nature is
still in a primitive stage.
His most biting acids are reserved for
that which passes as the “good will move
ment" or the attempt to do away with
anti-semitism by formal resolutions. This
accentuation of anti-semitism serves as a
hothouse to breed further intolerance. It
gives the world notice that the anti-Jewish
virus has a recognized place in the
scheme of affairs. Be an anti-Semite. It
is fashionable.
“Anti-Semitism is the bogey which
American Jews insist on painting in order
to frighten themselves. The contrast be
tween the attitude of Jews and Italians
is illuminating. The latter are discrimi
nated against and persecuted at least as
American social and political life. And
yet they conduct no campaigns, stage no
protests. They have a sense of dignity
which the Jews might well emulate.
“The cry of discrimination with which
the Jews rend the air is a false alarm.
As a group the Jews have more than
their share of traders and shopkeepers.
There is no reason why every Jew in
America could not find employment
among fellow Jews. Unfortunately
many large and important commercial
and industrial corporations also discrimi
nate against the Jews. The Jew hurls
the problem into the face of his non-
Jewish neighbor, as though the latter is
exclusively responsible. If the Jews could
learn to solve their problems within their
own confines, they have ample means.
The average non-Jew, hearing these per
petual and deafening cries of discrimi
nation, finally is convinced that the Jew
must be some sort of inferior person.
For how else explain the general distaste
for employing him?
“To escape from the blind alley into
which Jewish leadership has guided the
present generation, there must be pressed
into service those intellectuals who are
at present aloof, who refuse to engage in
the tug of war where victory goes to
the biggest purse or the loudest voice.
The way to ensnare the intellectuals is
to ignore the religious motivation in Jew
ish life and stress its national aspects."
I have interviewed many men, better
known, lesser known. None had been as
frank, as revealing. The others had con
ceived of interviews as essays in polite
conversation. This physician was apply
ing the scalpel mercilessly, and not with
out touching many festering sores. It was
inevitable that I should turn to the cate
gory in which many Jews would like to
confine him—medicine. I recalled that it
is he who has been leading the move
ment to keep young Jews away from
the medical schools.
“It is not anti-Semitism, but their own
fate which should deter Jews from en
tering medicine—for at least a genera
tion. The field is so choked that the men
who engage in the profession find them
selves strangled in the ruthless competi
tion. Standards lowered, careers wrecked,
community life demoralized. These are
the results of herding into the medical
schools.
"New York offers one of the best illus
trations. Out of approximately 12,000
doctors, some 4,500 or more are Jews. A
group which numbers only 28 per cent
of the population contributes 40 per cent
of the professional representation. But
the numerical disproportion by itself
would not be tragic. The evil is aggra
vated by the fact that Jewish medical
men as a group do not play an important
role in the institutional life of medicine
either in New York or elsewhere. They
are not given the high posts which would
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