Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That boldest of bold Jews, massive, magnetic, organ-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, gave the World Jewish Conference in placid Geneva a mighty rousing last week. "We Jews are in the front-line trenches," he cried. "We are the 'Belgium' of the latest German war against mankind. The mighty army of Christendom and Civilization stands behind us and around...
Repercussions in World Jewry were furious. Most Jewish leaders realize that the surest way to stir up anti-Semitism everywhere would be for Jews avowedly to organize a "Super-Government." No first rank Jewish tycoon openly contributes to the World Jewish Conference. In Manhattan the organization most U. S. Jewish tycoons support, the American Jewish Committee, manifestoed...
...does any haphazard roomful of oratory on East 86th Street speak for the German people. No more alarming and dangerous enunciations could have been concocted than those reporting that a 'Super-Government of Judaism' was in process of formation. . . . Nonparticipating are the Zionists . . . and a score of other leading [Jewish] constituencies...
...this the Geneva World Conference tartly retorted through a spokesman: "It was to be expected that the American Jewish Committee would disavow the World Conference. The Committee is a philanthropic enterprise, not a movement. The relation of the Committee's membership to the masses of Jews is like the relation of a paternalistic employer to his workers. He will do all sorts of welfare work, but he won't recognize the union...
...German youth! Throw from you the last remnants of your Christian education, which destroys the character of Nordic man. Hurl from you the Jewish-Christian ideas of sinfulness, pity and love for your enemies...