The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, February 24, 1967, Image 6
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courting national and religious
disaster. So, the book became
our portable fatherland and
obviously gave those who in
terpreted it and made it the
book of life from birth to death
for diaspora Jewry, a special
hold on the Jewish people.
The other reason is Turkish—
why Turkish? Because the
Turks had Palestine for four
centuries and then in the 19th
century about a hundred years
ago when the Western powers
exerted pressure upon the Sul
tan, he gradually introduced a
system now referred to as the
Millade system according to
which each non-Moslem sub
ject of the Sultan had his re
ligious authority, which repre
sented him vis-a-vis the porte
in Constantinople.
In other words, the Jews had
their Chief Rabbi, the Catho
lics had their archbishop, the
Protestant creeds their bishops.
There were no Frenchmen,
Chinese, Italians, or Americans
within the Turkish empire, but
only Jews, Christians, Druze
and others whose religion de
termined their status and
whose religious priests were
also their worldly representa
tives vis-a-vis the Turkish
overlords.
When the English took Pal
estine in 1918, they inherited
the Millade system with re
ligious autonomy for nine rec
ognized creeds, and when Israel
took over in 1948, we inherited
that system again. For many
reasons, we not only took it
over but even enhanced it.
Perhaps one of the main rea
sons is, that having been accus
ed of about everything con
ceivable by our neighbors, for
a couple of centuries we Jews
have lost our tails and horns
which we had allegedly had
throughout mediaeval Europe ■
(we’re getting them again in
Beirut and Damascus and Cairo
now). We didn’t want to add
to those diabolical epithets the
charge of forcible Judaism
which we 'would have been
open to had we imposed any
thing resembling Mosaic or
Jewish laws on our non-Jew-
ish minorities.
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We Jews, the classical min
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home country, will treat other
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