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Jewish Delegation: From New York City Come to Albany in Interests of Bill. iy I. J. an B. Albany—A large delegation of prom inent Jews from New York City came last week to Albany for the purpose of asking a favorable report from the Assembly Rules Committee on the Ables-Dickstein , Sabbath Bill. The delegation was headed by L Resnick and Morris Asofsky, the President of the Agudath Am Israel and Sabbath Observing Societies respectively. The Rules Committee asked for a Memorandum on this subject. Such a memorandum was placed before it ty Assemblyman Samuel Dickstein, which read partly as follows : “The Jews have for many years been persecuted by the police, despite the fact that they would keep their businesses closed. on Saturday, if they only dared to enter their stores for a few hours on Sunday morning, they would be dragged into court. just as criminals,” Many Rabbis and other prominent orthodox Jews remained for a few days in Albany’ to work for the pas sage of the bill. There are good pros pects for the adoption of the bill, are not lesser in their hurt to their victims. ‘The Conference may not ad journ without taking into account and firmly grappling with the difficulties of an unlocalized Balkan problem, the Jewish question. Some there are at the Peace Conference why, are utiliz ing the fact of the Bolshevist terror in order to excite the wrath of Eu rope assembled in Parks against Jews and thus to avert a solution just and equitable of the Jewish question, as statesmen at Varis worthy of the name understand that Bolshevism is not a Jewish phenomenon but a Rus sian symptem of European unrest, and that, the a handful of Jewish renegades led by ‘Trotzsy are among the leaders in Bolshevist counsel, thg Kreal mass of Russian Jews are the bitter and inplacable foes of Bol shevism, even as they were great hearted and gloriously forgiving in their loyalty to the Russia which had long scourged them. As far as I could gather from the general tempers of the Peace Confer ence and learn from its leading per sonalities, English, French and Amer ican, there is a general resolve to do what In the Conference Hea to bring order out of the Jewish chaos and, better yet, to make it possible for Jews everywhere and under all cir cumstances to re-order Jewish affairs. There is nothing millenial in the temper of the Conference which moves it to deal justly by the Jew. It so happens—and the happening is far from fortuitous—that Jewish claims have long been identical with and an ticipative of Allied aims and are therefore wholly conformable to the purposes of the Peace Conference. Thus, the first of the inevitable de mands of the Jew, submitted to the Conference, is no demand at all, but merely the insistence that as the Jew is dealt with and as he has long fared in the four great victorious lands, so shall he be dealt with among all nations that are to become signatories of the peace pact. In other words, that which is the right, not privilege, of the Jew in lands Victorious shall be exacted on behalf of the Jew in all lands which ask to be included within the Pale of in ternational peace and brotherhood. It is the more necessary for the Peace Conference to insist upon in cluding equality of status for the Jew in the code of all nations which are to be admitted into the world covenant because it was in the defeated lands that, save for Russia and Roumania, prior to the war, the Jew fared worst. Two ugly and loathsome things found their birth or rebirth in central Eu ropean lands—militarism and anti- Semitism. ‘The connection is not a matter of chance, for militarism, un challenged and triumphant, is bound to breed just such anti-social pheno mena as anti-Semitism. We cannot lying ourselves to believe that a league or the League of Nations would suffer any members to continue those practices of inequity and dis crimination which are nothing more than the legal codification and incor poration of the spirit of anti-Semitism. In truth, it had been thought by some of those with whom it fell to wy lot to deal among the representatives of the governments of England, France _— _ (Continued on Page Two.)
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Denver Jewish News
Denver, Colorado, US
Thu, Apr 17, 1919
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