Eduard Bernstein, noted German Socialist and founder of the European Revisionist Socialists, who will celebrate his 80th birthday on January 16, declared today that although he had left the Jewish faith 50 years ago he was proud to remain a Jew.
“At that time I surrendered to the discipline of the Socialist Party which recommended that its members leave the churches. The Jewish Socialist also had to leave Jewish religious institutions, although this was very painful to me. Today I could not possibly leave the persecuted Jewish people. I have always fought for Jewish rights and have demanded a Jewish National Home in Palestine, but not a nationalistic state. I am a Poale Zionist and a true Jew.”
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