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WHY ARE JEWS PERSE
CUTED?
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to the distinctive and emphatic character
of the miserable lives which they have
been forced to live. If a Jew is dirty
it is because he has not yet escaped from
the ghetto or the slum in which the world
has doomed him to exist. If he is ag
gressive it is because he has been forced
to develop this quality as a condition of
mere survival. If he is financially un
scrupulous it is because he is the de
scendant of a tribe which for centuries
was denied any opportunity to earn an
honest living, and was therefore forced to
exist by the sheer exercise of its wits.
Hut these qualities, and similar quali
ties, are not racial in character. They
are not characteristic of Jews as such. On
the contrary, they are qualities which ap
pear in all individuals in all groups
which have not yet escaped from the so
cial doom of prejudice and outlawry, and
especially from the curse of economic
servitude. As well point to a man arising
from a torture-machine and blame him
for his bleeding flesh and broken limbs
and shattered nerves, as to point to a Jew
and blame him for the attributes of his
ghetto existence. If there are Jews to
day who are spiritually bruised and
battered, demoralized and dehumanized,
it is not because they are Jews, but rather
because they are men and women who
bear the stripes which generations of per
secutors have laid upon them. And you
and I have the effrontery to condemn
them because they carry the scars of
wounds we have inflicted!
The fact of the matter is that Jews, if
given a chance, are quite as other men.
The Jews of Germany, for example, who
have resided in that country for a thou
sand years, represent today the finest
blood, ablest brains and noblest culture
of the nation. German Jews are the
leaders in every walk of German science,
art and politics. These German Jews
labor today under no more serious dis
ability in the Hitler regime than the fact
that they are with few exceptions the
leaders of German life. I think it pretty
late in the day to undertake the defense
of our Jewish brethren, but since the
question is up, let me say this! There
are few Gentiles iri this country, I ven
ture to say, who have had a greater op
portunity than I have had in recent years
to know Jews and to share their life. I
have preached in their synagogues, lived
in their homes, enjoyed their friendship.
I know Jews, cherish them, admire them,
love them, and am thus able to testify
to their gentleness and refinement, their
noble culture and artistic genius, their
domestic virtue and business integrity,
their utter fidelity to the ethical tradi
tions and ideals which are the peculiar
heritage of their tribe. The Israelite is
a man among men, one of our human
family, and if he sometimes shows the
worst, he quite as often shows the best
that human nature can afford.
This is my first answer to this miser
able charge, that it is untrue. My second
answ’er is that it is beside the point! We
canont persecute men because of their
moral imperfections. If we started to do
so there would be no end of terror, and
no group among us all would be safe
from outrage. As a matter of fact, we
do not persecute men for this alleged
reason. The personal qualities of individ
uals did not enter into the persecution
of the Christian martyrs, nor of the Pro
testant heretics, nor of the Armenian vic
tims. In the same way they have never
really entered into the persecution of the
Jews. What has happened is that, as a
result of an historical and psychological
process which I shall describe in a sub-
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