Wealthy emigrants must provide for their poor comrades in misfortune, declared Georg Bernhard, editor of the Pariser Tageblatt, at a meeting of the Association of German Jewish Emigrants in France.
Speaking of the condition of the Jewish emigrant, Dr. Bernhard deplored the fact that there were still many Jews who had no real conception of the hardships of the emigrant and who lack the solidarity to render enough real service. The speaker also warned against the tendency of Jewish emigrants to adopt undesirable traits of those among whom they are thrown.
Dr. Bernhard praised the French people for the kind reception they had given the emigrants and reminded his heavers that the Jewish emigrants would, unless they can return to Germany, in the future be largely dependent upon their co-religionists for aid. The speaker, formerly editor of the Berliner Tageblatt, remarked that there were in France, in contrast to the Rothschild family, which had given much money, a few persons who gave nothing to their Jewish unfortunates and were, moreover, apprehensive of any encroachments the latter might possibly make upon their income.
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