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Friday, April 26, 1946
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Atlanta Community Calendar
APRIL 28—Sunday
9:00 p. m. Dance, Masada and Junior Hadassali, Mavfair club
APRIL 29—Monday
2:00 p. m.—Senior Iladassah Mothers’ Dav meeting, Educational
center.
6:30 p. m.—Junior Iladassah Silver Jubilee banquet Progressive
club.
MAY 1—Wednesday
Business and Professional Division of Iladassah; Social 416
Boulevard.
MAY 2. Thursday
8:30 p. in.—American Jewish Committee and B’nai B’rith ADI,
“Clinic”; Mayfair Club.
MAY 4—Saturday
2:30 p. m.—Senior Iladassah Oneg Shabat. 909 Oakdale Road.
MAY 6—Monday
2:30 p. m.—Mother’s Day program, installation of officers, AA
Sisterhood, Educational center.
7:00 p. m.—B’nai B’rith meeting, Mayfair club.
MAY 12—Sunday
11:00 a. m.—Mothers’ Day Program, Jewish War Veterans’ Pre
sentation of Flags; Shearith Israel Synagogue.
MAY 20—Monday
7:00 p. m.—Annual banquet, Mortimer May. guest speaker, B&l’
Iladassah, Mayfair club.
MAY 29—Wednesday
3:00 p. m.—Donor’s luncheon, Shearith Israel Sisterhood, Shear
ith Israel synagogue.
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
AFTER PASSOVER MUSINGS
Polls on anti-Semitism are
taken periodically ... It is even
rumored that some of these polls
are not merely encouraged by
certain Jewish defense organiza
tions—they are even subsidized
. . . This is quite understand
able . . . Scientific polls are very
desirable . . . And nobody would
deny that it is important for all
of us to know the extent and
pace of the growth of anti-
Semitism in this country . . . But
it Is of no less importance for
us to realize that anti-Semitism
is a political weapon in no way-
dependent on Jewish behaviour
... It Is not the Jews who should
be cured of their anti-Semitic
complex ... It is the perpetra
tors of the anti-Semitic crimes
who must be tackled . . . That is
why we lose patience with those
who go on investigating the
causes of anti-Semitism . . .
Anti Semitism is beyond the
stage of investigation ... It is
not a mysterious disease like
cancer . . . Jew and Christian of
good will must concentrate on
the cure of anti-Semitism . . .
WE TAKE EXCEPTION
That is why we object to an
article by Samuel H. Flowerman
and Marie Jahoda in the April
issue of The Commentary, pub
lished by the American Jewish
Committee . . . The article deals
with the subject of “Polls on
Anti-Semitism” . . . There is
nothing wrong with the article
but the conclusion is revolting
. . . Here is what the authors say
in their concluding paragraph
. . . “Until more is known about
of phenomenon of anti-Semitism
and the indicators which reveal
its presence, results based upon
present polling techniques should
be used with caution—for scien
tific reasons, however, rather
than for their alledgedly danger
ous impact on intergroup rela
tions in the United States . ”
NOW—REALLY . . .
In other words we do not
know enough about anti-semi-
tism . . . Really! . . . Only 6,000,-
000 Jews murdered because they
were Jews!
A TIMELY WARNING
In the Philadelphia Record the
day before Good Friday appeared
an advertisement signed by the
Ministerial Action Committee of
The Protestant . . . We feel that
it deserves reproduction ... It
reads as follows:
“We cannot permit the Cross
of Christ to be used as a
bludgeon in the hands of those
who would use the Jews, or any
other religious or racial group,
as scapegoats in their thrust for
Fascist power over America.
“Tomorrow we commemorate
the Crucifixion of Jesus. We
witness again as a Christian peo
ple tfce. willingness of a Great
Love to make the ultimate sacri
fice that nil men might be free
to share in the forgiving grace
of God.
“However, as we remember
Golgotha, we are gravely con
cerned on this Good Friday over
the manner in which the Cruci
fixion story will be interpreted
in many American pulpits by
minister and priest.
“We are aware that all too
often in the past, Christian
leaders have distorted the Cruci
fixion story so as to leave the
Impression that the Jewish peo
ple were responsible for that
tragedy.
“We can never forget that
Jesus was a Jew. So popular was
he with his own people that the
Gospel says, ‘the people heard
him gladly' and “followed him
in their multitude.’ Actually, the
life and death of Jesus was a
tribute to the Jewish people be
cause of the way in which they
received him.
“In fact it was his very popu
larity that led to his downfall,
at the hands of the political
ecclesiastical machine of his
time. It was at night they tried
him because they feared the
wrath of the people.”
“We have no record whatso
ever of Jesus denouncing his own
people as he did violently de
nounce certain official leaders.
On the contrary, nothing but
words of affection came from
his lips for his people.
“Christendom, sometimes by
indirection, but often directly,
has placed the whole Jewish
people under condemnation,
misreading the sympathy of
Jesus for his people as the angry
judgment of God against his
people.
“This misrepresentation has
provided fertile soil for Anti-
Semitism. This misreading of
the Scriptures ha3 been an in
direct cause of the Ghetto, the
Progrom and much of the
persecution which the Jews have
suffered down through the ages
into our own time.
“Christendom can no longer
stand silent in the face of the
great lie about the Crucifixion
which has helped set the stage
for the vicious and brutal Anti-
Semitism we see in the world
today.
We can see on all sides would
be Hitlers,, who, choosing Anti-
Semitism as their first and most
important weapon, struggle for
the triumph of Fascism in Amer
ica. They well know how deeply
imbedded in the Christian com
munity is the latent Anti-
Semitism has its rootage in the
twisted and distorted interpreta
tions of the Crucifixion.”
Well spoken, men of. the
church!
(Copyright-1946, S.A.F.)
“An Appeal"
By ELIZABETH BERGNER
From a speech she made bn
behalf of German Jewish
Women and Children Refugees.
| delivered in London. Miss
Bergner is the famous movie
Star. The address is still
pertinent and applicable to
day.
“The cause that unites us to
day is not a matter of charity,
it is based not only on sympathy,
pity, or humanity; but it is, for
all who live today, a matter of
self-defenre and self-preserva
tion.
Human imagination is a poor
thing; and however much we are
told, we, in this noble country,
cannot possibly visualize the
frenzy of brutality, this wave of
lowest perversity, of hatred, of
lies and degradation that mounts
higher every day and threatens
to encompass the earth, unless
it is stemmed by united deter
mination.
This, however, is the battle of
the whole world; our share in it
is a comparatively small, but
aprticularly grim, one. While
other peoples have to defend
their lands, we have to ifnd, to
provide, actually to buy land for
our people.
Our readiness to help, to
sacrifice, to contribute im
mediately and generously—with
all our strength and means-
will be the great proof that we
are the stronger in this battle
and that we* have a right to
survive it.
History reveals ruthlessly the
true face of an Epoch; and the
face of this, our epoch, will be
a distorted and ugly one, if we,
in this great hour of need, do
not give to it the redeeming
beauty o loefv and faith. And in
this task, every person alive, re
gardless of creed or race, is
fully and equally responsible
before God.
But it is for the Jews them
selves to take the lead in sacri
ficing.
Every day we lose, means
thousands of lives more destroy
ed. Every hour we gain, means
thousands of lives saved."
The foregoing excerpt from
Eliazbeth Bergner’s famous little
speech is Just as applicable now
as it was in 1939, We are still
engaged in rescuing lives, and
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were scornfully called assimila-
tionists—may mean that neither
is there protection in trying to
be brother to all men.
Did it make any difference
that Jews had been great and
good citizens of Germany, that
they had liberated themselves
front the spiritual ghetto and
had gone along, hand in hand
in good will, with all others
more the Jew in that I tried to
fulfill the highest ethical pre
septs of our faith. I was not a
lonely traveler wrapped in Jew
ish righteousness.
When, finally, my time comes
I can speak up in good con
science: “O Lord God, I did my
best as a man who was born a
Jew. I did not consider my being
a Jew an identity of separation;
it was a light by which to guide
me to tho brotherhood. I may
like-minded Germans toward de
mocracy? Yes, the separationists
and the assimilationists all died
alike in the gas chambers at Da
chau and Buchenwald.
Which way should a Jew go
then? I envy the satisfaction of
my father who, enveloped in
Torah, feels so apart that no
enemies can hurt him because he
is right with God; the enemy
may strike him but he can’t feel
hurt because he is in the
arms of his diviie Father.
But, with all respect to my
father, I shall continue to fol
low the wider path which looks
like the bright way to brother
hood. If, in good time, I can
persuade my enemies that we
are brothers and why should he
push me around, I will have
achieved the noblest ideal of my
religion.
If I fail I can have no regrets
and can feel I did rightly do. I
had not Jewishly separated my
self from the family of mankind
but had gone along in brother
hood with other kinds of people
to make this world more just and
lovely. In so doing, I was the
have failed in this, since my
enemy refused to know me as
brother. But, O good God, I
did my best as man who tried to
use well the light that was given
him.”
I commend all this most re
spectfully to my father who will
be reading this column and who
thereby may come to feel that
I am not a hopelessly wayward
boy in Israel.
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