JEWS' PLACE IN WORLD
In the course of an address on "The Place of the Jew in the World" Rabbi Israel Abrahams, of the Manchester Great Synagogue, said that there were Eastern and Western Jews, but that pre-eminently the Jew was Western by virtue of his religion, cultural and spiritual contributions to the building of modern civilisation. No description of the Jew's place in the world could ignore the aspect of his interminable suffering. Because of his defencc:cssncss he was the eternal scapegoat. Political anti-Semitism was nothing less than a barefaced attempt to make political capital nt of the ignorance and prejudice with which the Jew was so wideiy regarded, and to punish the Jewish whip-ping-boy for the failures and misdeeds of political parties. As for the future, the Jew should strive to attain two aims. He should seek to acquire for himself a home which would be a refuge in times of stress and would enable him to develop his natural cultural genius. He should also unite with men of good faith in every country to remove the rule of force, "the greatest cnuse of human sufferinK."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22823, 6 March 1936, Page 8
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188JEWS' PLACE IN WORLD Otago Daily Times, Issue 22823, 6 March 1936, Page 8
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