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Friday, Jan. 17, 1964
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OFF THE RECORD — by Nathan Ziprin
Fifty Years Later
race Thm
Jewish life in America there will
be a Karband fifty years hence
History moves rapidly for the
American Jewish community. The
disorganized immigr ants who
trekked to our shores early in the
century escaping from persecution
have given way now to two new
generations of Jews. The first one
was a troubled generation, seek
ing new roots while alienating it
self from the values of its elders
in the mistaken belief that Jewish
unrooting was the sole key to ac
ceptance in the new community.
Many of the early immigrants not
only were escapees from poverty,
discrimination and persecution,
but from a religious climate they
thought inconsistent with the
spirit of enlightenment that was
to be the herald of the twentieth
century. Their children took that
to mean that the road to redemp
tion was in assimilation and they
embarked on that path with much
zest but little wisdom, as they
were to learn later. It took years
of self-examination before that
generation realized that preserva
tion of ancient values was neither
an impediment to nor inconsis
tent with the thinking in the new
milieu in which they were now
moving. Let it however be said
that this generation did not lose
its way in the wilderness. The
third generation is radiant testi
mony to that miracle.
What were the forces that
guided the Jewish stream to its
present status? There were many
of course, among them the chains
of synagogues and Jewish schools
and centers that sheltered our
young against the currents of the
outside world and held them close
to the influence of parents. When
the history of Jewish survival in
America is written one hundred
years hence, its chief thesis will
have to that recognition of the
centrality and priority of syna
gogue and school had been our
safety-valve against inundation.
But Jewish life in America could
not have survived if its concern
had been limited only to the re
ligious segment of the commun
ity. There were secularist ele
ment who too had a share in the
mitzvah — the Farband among
them.
When the Farband-Labor Zion
ist Order was formed as a na
tional Jewish fraternal benefit
society fifty years ago, its path
was a question mark even for
the visionaries who had great
hopes for its future. Not even
the founders would have predict
ed that fifty years later the or
ganization would have a mem
bership of 40,000 in 120 com
munities throughout the United
States and Canada. Nor could
they have foretold at the time
that Labor Zionism would be
come a force in the life of the
Jewish worker in America, let
alone the dominant stream in an
Israel risen to life again. Most of
its members were Yiddish-speak
ing immigrants from Eastern Eu
rope who were striving to be
come acclimated to the new sur-
Vatican Organ Stresses
Paill's Defense of Pins XU
HOME (JTA)— A new defense
of the actions on behalf of Jews
-offering persecutions under Hit-
L r taken by the late Pope Pius
XII, was printed this week m th«
Vatican’s official organ, L’Osserv-
atore Romano.
The article made it clear that,
when Pope Paul VI made a state
ment in Jerusalem defending
r ’ius, the present Pontiff was re
viling specifically to the German
iliama, “The Deputy,” which ac-
i uses Pope Pius of failing to
Israel Lauded for
Dress Facilities
For Pope's Visit
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An un
usual encomium was voted to
tlie Government press offices
this week by the Israeli Press
Association and the Foreign
Press Association of Israel, in
i nnection with the services
rendered to the Israeli and
world press during the visit of
Pope Paul VI. Both associations
voted to inscribe the Govern
ment press offices in the Jewish
National Fund’s Golden Book in
appreciation.
All journalists pointed out
that, along the entire route taken
by Pope Paul and his entourage
during the visit to Israel, tele
graph, telephone, cable and
radiophoto facilities were avail
able The Israeli authorities in
charge of cables and telegraph
moved more than 500,000 words
of dispatches in 24 hours and
realayed almost 100 photographs.
speak out against the Hitler hol
ocaust.
"it is not necessary,” stated
1 'Oservatore Romano, to “explain
that Paul VI by these and other
words, referred to a know thea
trical work which lias provoked
1'vely discussions and protests. To
vindicate the memory of the Pope
of the war years, his good will,
his heroic work, his intense and
direct participation there, near
the Mahdelbaum Gate in Jer
usalem -- meant to defend man
trom all oppression, discrimina
tion.-. ..11 cruelties that ensue
from teh inevitable.
“Paul VI, before his audience
of survivors of the tragedy which
-wept away so many of their
brothers and ours, raised his voice
against denigration and calumny
v liich against the person of Pope
Pius XII, attempted to strike the
Church, and with her the people
of the faithful.
“If is false to say that the
tragedy of the Jews, and of so
many other beings judged then of
being o! an inferior race’, was
not understood or shared. The
truth is the opposite. The Pope
and the Church did everything
they could with assiduous zeal,
often hidden and therefore un
known to fmany through daily en
gagement often performed and
with true heroism.”
roundings, to learn trades, to ed
ucate their children and to be
come adjusted to a new civiliza
tion. Many of them had come
under the Influence of . socialist
ideology, believing that socialism
alone held out the hope of true
brotherhood among all men. Left
to that movement they might
have vanished from the Jewish
path, even though assimilation
was really not easy for people
living in indigenous enclaves. Not
even Jewish socialism, as the
theorists of that school called it,
could have saved them from at
trition.
The reason the Farband was
able to attract the Jewish workers
was because they recognized in
the organization the answer to
then problem, finding in its prin
ciples a satisfying synthesis be
tween cosmopolitanism and the
concept of Jewish peoplehood. In
time of course the immigrants
eldcred, and their concept of
Jewish association reached a point
of cooperation with “Klal Israel,”
on the American scene, in Israel
and abroad. Today there isn’t a
single facet of Jewish participa
tion in the United States to which
the Farband is not dedicated -
on behalf of the UJA, Israel
Bonds, as well as communal, cul
tural and educational efforts.
Farband’s philosophy of Jewish
living stems of course from its
Labor Zionist orientation. More
important is the fact that it en
deavors to see Jewish life as an
entity. It believes that the whole
body of Jewish experience, cur
rent needs and problems require
the constant interest and atten-
of ALL Jews.
Many of the early members of
the organization—such as this
v- riter have given way to the
new generation which is now as
serting itself on the American
Jewish scene. Given continuity of
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