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184 ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE
JEWISH RECOVERY
Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querida Verlag, 1934.
I gladly accede to your paper's request that I should address
an appeal to the Jews of Hungary on behalf of Keren Hajessod.
The greatest enemies of the national consciousness and honor
of the Jews are fatty degeneration-by which I mean the unconscionableness
which comes from wealth and ease-and a kind of
inner dependence on the surrounding Gentile world which has
grown out of the loosening of the fabric of Jewish society. The
best in man can only flourish when he loses himself in a community.
Hence the moral danger of the Jew who has lost touch
with his own people and is regarded as a foreigner by the people
of his adoption. Only too often a contemptible and joyless egoism
has resulted from such circumstances. The weight of outward
oppression on the Jewish people is particularly heavy at
the moment. But this very bitterness has done us good. A revival
of Jewish national life, such as the last generation could
never have dreamed of, has begun. Through the operation of
a newly awakened sense of solidarity among the Jews, the scheme
of colonizing Palestine, launched by a handful of devoted and
judicious leaders in the face of apparently insuperable difficnlties,
has already prospered so far that I feel no doubt about its
permanent success. The value of this achievement for the Jews
everywhere is very great. Palestine will be a center of culture
for all Jews, a refuge for the most grievously oppressed, a field
of action for the best among us, a unifying ideal, and a means
of attaining inward health for the Jews of the whole world.
CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISlVI
Mein WeJtbild, Amsterdam: Querida Verlag, 1934.
If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as
Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially