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A LETTER TO PROFESSOR DR. HFJ,T.PACH,
MINISTER OF STATE
Written in response to an article by Professor Hellpach
which appeared in the Vossische Zeitung in 1929. Published
in Mein We!tbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag,
1934.
DEAR MR. HELLPACH:
I have read your article on Zionism and the Zurich Congress
and fee!, as a strong devotee of the Zionist idea, that I must
answer you, even if only shortly.
The Jews are a community bound together by ties of blood
and tradition, and not of religion only: the attitude of the rest
of the world toward them is sufficient proof of this. When I
came to Germany fifteen years ago I discovered for the first
time that I was a Jew, and lowe this discovery more to Gentiles
than Jews.
The tragedy of the Jews is that they are people of a definite
historical type, who lack the support of a co=unity to keep
them together. The result is a want of solid foundations in
the individual which amounts in its extremer forms to moral
instability. I realized that salvation was only possible for the
race if every Jew in the world should become attached to a
living society to which he as an individual might rejoice to belong
and which might enable him to bear the hatred and the
humiliations that he has to put up witlI from the rest of the
world.
I saw worthy Jews basely caricatured, and the sight made my
heart bleed. I saw how schools, comic papers, and innumerable
other forces of the Gentile majority undermined the confidence
even of the best of my fellow-Jews, and felt that this could not
be allowed to continue.
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