30 The International Jew

This future political definiteness and power was in the mind of

Moses Hess when he wrote in 1862-mark the date!-in the preface of

his "Rome and Jerusalem," these words:

"No nation can be indifferent to the fact that in the coming

European struggle for liberty, it may have another people as its

friend or foe."

Hess complaining of the inequalities visited upon the Jews was

saying that what the individual Jew could not get because he was a Jew,

the Jewish Nation would be able to get because it would be a nation. He

warns the Gentile nations to be careful, because in that "coming struggle"

there would be another nation in the list, the Jewish Nation, which could

be the friend or foe of any it chose.

Dr. Israel Friediaender says:

"It is enough for us to know that the Jews have always felt

themselves as a separate race, sharply marked off from the rest of

mankind . "

As to the problems of the Jewish Nation there is plenty of Jewish

testimony to the fact that the influence of Americanism is harmful to

Jewish life; that is, they are in antagonism, like two opposite ideas. And

that Zionism is the modern rallying poim for Jewish nationalism. The

actual beliefs of the most active and influemial part of Jewry in America

are demonstrated in a work published by the Zionist Organization of

America, "Guide to Zionism":

"Tile name of their national religion. Judaism. is derived from their

national designation. An unreligious Jew is still a Jew, and he can ·

with difficulty escape his allegiance only by repudiating the name of

Jew."(p .5) '

..• Jewry nowhere subscribes in the persons of its greatest teachers and

its most authoritative representatives, to the theory that the Jew is only "a

brother of the faith~" Often he is not of the faith at all. but he is still a