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THE CRIME OF REUBEN BRAININ, THE ZIONIST
(Continued from page 6)
Soviet Hide had he kept his peace. It
could scarcely have been expected, in
fact, that a man of years, whose thoughts
might conceivably, as is often the case
with the old, have assumed rigid, immut
able moulds, had shown such flexibility
of mind as to challenge the validity of
opinions on Russia current in official Zion
ist circles, where he had figured as one
of the leading thinkers. He could have
assured himself tranquility of mind by
keeping quiet and by remaining an orna
ment of the Zionist Organization.
Reuben Brainin chose to tell the truth.
He did not turn against Palestine. He
merely turned against the movement in
Zionism which links Jewish nationalism
with the forces of reaction. He had
seen the disappearance of anti-Semitism
in Russia. He had understood the funda
mental social and economic process which
had struck at the roots of anti-Semitism
in that country. He saw that the Soviet
authorities were animated with a sincere
desire to “liquidate” the Jewish mass-
misery which they had inherited from
the Czar and from the period of civil war.
He also saw that Moscow did not dismiss
the matter with some fine altruistic dec
larations about Jewish emancipation and
Jewish rights, such as we have heard so
often from Warsaw, Kovno and Bucha
rest, but that the Soviets actually went
out of their way, went out of their way, I
repeat, to create the possibilities for a
decent human life for the Jews in Crimea,
the Ukraine and in Biro-Bidjan.
This was Reuben Brainin’s crime: he
told of what he had seen, what he felt,
what he, as a trained observer of long
and honored standing, believed to lie
ahead. He spoke regardless of old asso
ciations and former beliefs, that is, with
out prejudice and without listening to
men who counselled that “no matter how
good, it is no good anyway.”
The answer he received was prompt
and immediate. It was said that Reuben
Brainin’s mental faculties had been im
paired. His mind was wandering. When
the lucidity of his statements made this
slander too obvious, he was accused
either of having been bought by Bol
shevik gold, or of having been led by
the nose by Communist Jews while on
tour in Russia. This is the usual expla
nation dished up by reaction to this day.
It still works—with boobs. To some peo
ple it is impossible to understand that
a man may express an opinion without
seeking to benefit by it in a material
sense. Yet these same people call them
selves “Idealists” without batting an eye.
I heard prominent Zionists boast in
New York last winter that they passed
Reuben Brainin by as he sat on the plat
form in Madison Square Garden on the
occasion of the protest against the Pass-
held letter. I heard Zionists say that
Brainin’s presence on that occasion was
embarrassing. I think that the case of
Reuben Brainin is a dreadful commen
tary cn the disintegration of Zionist life
in America. The tacit ostracism of Reu
ben Brainin in Zionist circles is the same
hateful silence which is imposed on
Dreiser and Waldo Frank and others in
non-Jewish circles by the forces of re
action.
The crime of Reuben Brainin was that
he spoke out about Russia. In their hearts
many of those who have been loudest in
their condemnation know that he was
right. The facts of contemporary history
are confirming him every day. We all
know that the Soviets are faced with
tremendous difficulties, that they have
the world arrayed against them. It is
easy to join in the jeering and the de
nouncing, more profitable, too, by the way.
But no man who has the happiness of
his fellow human beings at heart can
stand aside to mock at an effort to make
life bearable for millions, and no Jew,
whether Zionist or not, can afford to ig
nore what has been accomplished for and
by Jews in the USSR, where three mil
lions of them have been led out of the
Czarist prison-house of pogroms and in
human “Luftmenschentum.”
Copyrighted 1932 for Tor. Southern Israelite
PRAYERS BEFORE BUSINESS IN SINGAPORE
(Continued from page 8)
Jewish history. He arranged to pay for
his minyan. Realizing that these small
peddlers could not attend services for
they would be at a disadvantage, because
of late arrival, for choice selling loca
tions, he hired rickshas to call for the
men, and take them to the sections they
had selected for their day’s adventure. He
later felt that compensation was due
them because of the few hours’ delay in
starting, and paid them a certain sum.
When motorization of conveyances came
to Singapore, he bought a bus, arranged
to call for these hawkers, and bring them
to their work and their homes. It was
this bus and this minyan which served
as introduction to Singapore's Jewry.
The Talmud Torah is now undergoing
reorganization under the supervision of
Sir Menassah Meyer’s daughter, Mrs.
Nissen. In the will of Sir Meyer he pro
vided an endowment for the Talmud
Torah to enable the young men to receive
an education which would otherwise be
denied them. To provide the students in
the school with a secular as well as a
religious education is the aim of the new
school in place of the traditional yeshiva
subjects. 'Hiere are sixty pupils enrolled,
tuition, food and lodging being provided
without cost to the students, under the
will of Sir Meyer. These boys coming
from poor families who could not afford
to send them to the tuition schools under
English supervision, would otherwise
have to shift for themselves in the matter
of secular education.
A burial ground, a women’s league, a
Zionist Society in addition to the Talmud
Torah, and the two synagogues are the
actively functioning Jewish organizations
in the city. Isolated from the rest of the
world as this community is, stagnating
because of the lack of new blood, Singa
pore’s Jewry needs new inspiration to
carry on the Judaic tradition. Penang,
Singapore’s closest neighbor, has but a
small community which borrows a Torah
from them for their High Holiday serv
ices. The nearest Jewish center is Cal
cutta, and the conditions in that city are
not too promising.
Copyrighted 1932 lor THr Southern Israelite
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Jewish Agency Gets 5,500
Certificates
London.—The largest number of labor
immigration certificates awarded in re
cent years has been granted to the Jew
ish Agency for Palestine by the British
Colonial Office for the next six months,
which will permit S,500 chalutzim to en
ter Palestine during that period. The
Agency Executive had requested more
than double that number. 1,000 of the cer
tificates have been set aside for German
Jews.
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