![]() ![]() ![]() The Jew who denies his Judaism is no better a citizen than his fellow who avows it openly. In taking up this position against the renegades there is the beginning of a clarification. Those who steal away from the Community in order to benefit their personal position should not collect the wages of their betrayal. Businessmen who were baptized Catholic or Protestant, or Jews who left their Community remain Jews for the purpose of this Order." This is a reminder for all those who betrayed their Judaism. 3 of the directives reads: "The reference is.of course to businesses owned by members of the Jewish race. If they betrayed anyone, it was themselves, the Jews.īecause the Jew did not display his Judaism with pride, because he tried to avoid the Jewish issue, he must bear part of the blame for the degradation of the Jews.ĭespite all the bitterness that we must feel in full measure when we read the National-Socialist boycott proclamations and unjust accusations, there is one point for which we may be grateful to the boycott Committee. It is not true that the Jews betrayed Germany. They accuse us today of treason against the German people: The National-Socialist Press calls us the "enemy of the Nation," and leaves us defenseless. One would like to recommend in these days that the document that stood at the cradle of Zionism, Theodor Herzl’s Jewish State, be distributed in hundreds of thousands of copies among Jews and non-Jews. Even if we stand shattered by the events of these days we must not lose heart and must examine the situation without any attempt to deceive ourselves. The Jews, under attack, must learn to acknowledge themselves.Įven in these days of most profound disturbance, when the stormiest of emotions have visited our hearts in face of the unprecedented display of the universal slander of the entire Jewish population of a great and cultural country, we must first of all maintain: composure. If the Jews are not as they are represented to be by their opponents. If the Jews are mature and have greatness in them. It is for us to see how the Jews will react.Īpril 1, 1933, can become the day of Jewish awakening and Jewish rebirth. We stand in the midst of tremendous changes in intellectual, political, social and economic life. That may be painful for many, but in this world only those will be able to survive who are able to look reality in the eye. We live in a new period, the national revolution of the German people is a signal that is visible from afar, indicating that the world of our previous concepts has collapsed. On April 1 the German Jews learned a lesson which penetrates far more deeply than even their embittered and now triumphant opponents could assume. Gone is the fatal misapprehension of many Jews that Jewish interests can be pressed under some other cover. Today the Jews cannot speak except as Jews. For however much the Jewish question is now debated, nobody except ourselves can express what is to be said on these events from the Jewish point of view, what is happening in the soul of the German Jew. To speak of the moral aspect, that is our task. The political and economic implications have been widely discussed in the press, though of course the need for agitation has frequently obscured objective understanding. The events of that day have aspects that are not only political and economic, but moral and spiritual as well. Ego always wants more and can never be satisfied.The first of April, 1933, will remain an important date in the history of German Jewry – indeed, in the history of the entire Jewish people. With all their technological advances, with all their data and every gadget in the world, can they really not see that we are all connected and interdependent?Ĭan they really not see that their thinking is wrong, and has been for years? Believing that, somehow, they are ‘separate’ beings, leads directly to selfishness. ‘Not satisfied with committing suicide in ever more creative and utterly senseless ways, and destroying everything that is beautiful and good, these ‘humans’ are now destroying my world, my family and my life. ![]()
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