A picture of Hitlerism as an entirely new philosophy of Jew-hatred was drawn by Maurice Samuel, author, at Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd street, where the Manhattan division of the United Jewish Appeal was organized.
Mr. Samuel, together with Rabbi Louis I. Newman, who presided, and Judge Jonah G. Goldstein, spoke in the interest of the $3,000,000 campaign to provide relief and rehabilitation for Jews in Germany and for settlement of refugees in Palestine.
“Hitlerist anti-Semitism,” Mr. Samuel said, “is a specifically new phenomenon in Jewish history and its effects on the world are also new–different from any anti-Semitism previously experienced in Jewish history. Hitlerist anti-Semitism is different in that it admits of no human relation between the oppressor and the oppressed.”
The importance of Palestine in absorbing the refugees from Germany was stressed by Judge Goldstein, who is chairman of the Manhattan Division of the American Palestine Campaign.
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