64 The International Jew
Jews for the bankers becomes established?
However, the misgivings of some Jews were not justified. The
Americans made no protest. The Kehillah went ahead with its campaign
and America submitted. New York became Jewish. American life,
American thought and American politics, became Jewish-dominated in
the decades that followed . But with it all, the Jews exhibit a sense of the
insecurity of this usurpation of power. It does not belong to those who
have seized it; it does not belong either by right of numbers, or by right
of superior ability, or yet by right of a better use made of that power.
They have taken power in America by audacity, they have taken it in
such a way a!\ to make resentment of it seem like an anti-racial
movement-and that is why they have held it as long as they have. That
is the only way to explain the meekness of the Americans in this matter,
and it also accounts for .the sense of insecurity which even the Jews feel
in the position they hold. The American is the slowest person in the
world to act on any;line that savors of racial or religious prejudice. Thi.s
makes for a seeming aloofness from matters like the Jewish Question. ·
This also leads the uninformed public men to sign protests against "anti-
Semitism" which are really designed to be protests against the publication
of Jewish facts. The foundation, organization and rapid success of the
Kehillah in New York is an object lesson set in the sight of the world, as
to what the Jew can do and will do when he exalts himself to the seat of
rule .
As to the Kehillah being officially representative, it may be added
that the Kehillah has in it representatives of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis, Independent Order
of B'nai B'rith, Independent Order of B'rith Shalom, Independent Order
of Free Sons of Israel, Independent Order of B'ri th Abraham, Federation
of American Zionists-orthodox Jews, "apostate Jews," rich Jews, poor
Jews, law-abiding Jews and red revolutionary Jews. At the 1918
Convention there were present: Jacob H. Schiff, banker; Louis Marshall.
lawyer, president of the American Jewish Committee: Adolf S. Ochs,
proprietor of the "New York Times"; Otto A. Rosalsky, judge of the
General Sessions Court; Otto H. Kahn, of the bank ing house of Kuhn,
Loeb and Company-AND-Benjamin Schlesinger, who had lately
returned from Moscow where he had a conference with Lenin; Joseph
Schlossberg, general secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of