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Friday, April 11, 1941
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Page Thirteen
Season’s Greetings
Canadian Jewry and the War
By D. ROME
TORONTO.
Canadian Mounted Police its infar- | • 3ut it Is upon the examination
motion files on the Nazi agents and ; of the Jewish contributions to the
Strung out in a narrow belt | anti-Semitfes \vho had been boring
1 along the northern boundary ol' 1 at thp Canadian body politic for
McDonald
| Chairman, Georg'a Public |
| Service Commission
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jthe U. S,, settled in every city and
town of any size in the Dominion
of Canada, are the 160-odd thou
sand Canadian Jews.
It is a small community, with a
strong national community pride
and consciousness, but strangely
like the much older and more
numberous American Jewish com
munity.
For that reason American Jews
! might well glance at Canadian
(Jewry, for seeing this Jewry on
the American continent—a Jewry
at war—American Jews should be
| j able to see many portents and signs
| of interest to the Republic which
is itself becoming more and more
conscious of a serious crisis.
The day Canada entered the
war—September 10, 1939r—was a
historic day for Canadian Jewry.
Practically overnight the anti-
Semitism which had been rife and
active disappeared. This disap
pearance is not due entirely to its
suppression by the Government
officials. There was indeed a move
m towards suppression of anti-Semi-
! j tism, for as one defense official
j i told M. H. Caiserman, secretary of
| ' the Canadian Jewish Congress, the
j | Government understands fully the
identity between anti-Semitism
and the fifth column activity of
the Nazi agents^
The Jewish cpmmunity rendered
service to the Government in plac
ing at the disposal of the Royal
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years.
Tbe police acted quickly on the
information which its agents had
been gathering quietly for years
since Hitler came into power, and
without fuss but very efficiently it
placed in internment camps hun
dreds of subversive agents. .
But anti-Semitism suddenly dis
appeared because thousands who
had been deluded by Nazi propa
ganda were suddenly awakened
from their dangerous illusion and
recognized that they had nearly
been misled into an anti-Canadian
policy.
At first there was a tendency in
French Quebec, where the popu
larity of the war was slow to grow,
to condemn the war as a Jewish
conspiracy, but this view did not
take hold of many, and the police
were quick to detain the ringlead
ers who attempted to capitalize on
this for more than anti-Semitic
purposes.
It can be said that there is sur
prisingly little anti-war sentiment
in the dominion, and what little
there is stems from Communistic
rather than Fascist sources, And
communist propaganda h&s not
utilized the anti-Jewish appeal.
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But Canadian Jewry has been
influenced by the war not only in
a phssive manner.
For year| Canadian Jewry has
been at war against Nazi Ger
many-—years during which the
Canadian government was techni
cally neutral. When the British
Empire saw the impossibility of
inhabiting the same globe with
Hitlerism, Canadian Jewry breath
ed more easily. Its death struggle
with Hitlerism became a concern
for the entire Empire; there was
nothing unique or odd about being
| anti-Nazi. Henceforth the Jewish
1 interest and the national interest
merged and the Jewish anti-Nazi
program became part of the Do
minion war effort.
Jewish enlistment was notice
able in its extensiveness. Jewish
doctors flooded the offices of the
army medical corps with offers to
| serve. Jewish scientists at the
universities became prominent in
ithe war service. Slowness in ac-
1 ceptance at the Royal Canadian
Air Force headquarters even pro
duced rumors of anti-Semitism in
that coveted service. Jews sud
denly appeared in sailors’ uni
forms.
But Canada has learned that it
j is not only enlistments that make
a victorious army.
The auxiliary services and the
j financial support of the civilians
| are vital aspects of the war effort.
During the war loan campaigns
immediately upon the outbreak of
the war Jews were prominent
■ among the subscribers, although
the number of very wealthy Jews
| in the Dominion is relatively
small. Samuel Bronfman, head of
the wealthiest Jewish family in
the country, subscribed $1,000,000
I worth of bonds. The Canadian
i Jewish Congress issued a mani
festo to the Jewish community to
support the Government’s war
loan issue.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Bronf
man contributed $250,000 to the
institution of a military research
establishment.
During the war savings cam
paign which is now under way,
the Canadian. Jewish Congress has
not only undertaken to canvass
the Jewish community but has
made itself responsible for certain
districts in each of the largest
[cities in the dominion.
auxiliary services that tho role of
th» tiny Jewish community be
comes most clearly apparent.
In this report it is impossible to
tel of all the small and large ef
forts of individual Jews towards
the cause of morale in the dofnin-
ioi and for the comfort and effi-
cirncy of the armed forces. A
gnnee at a Canadian Jewish news-
piper might lead one to believe—
atti this is indeed not far from
tlv truth—that Canadian Jewry
hi little other interest than to
Wita the war.
Jewish men and women have
dqne so much for the Red Cross 1
that in Montreal, Canada’s largest
city, a Jewish division Of the Red
Cross was established. Many Jews
are among the donors for the Red
Cross blood banks and some have
been honored by the Lieutenant
Gorernor of Ontario.
Jewish amateur artists and pro
fessorial movie men entertain the
soldiers in t camp. In Toronto
alone one Jew is head of the com
mittee to supply movies to the men
in training and another head of
the committee to provide them
with reading matter.
•Pewish chaplains have been so-
effective that \n certain cases
Protestants refused to attend their
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