American Jews face little likelihood of being forced to live in either spiritual or economic ghettoes, according to Mark Eisner, chairman of the Board of Higher Education.
Speaking before a large audience at the West End Synagogue, 160 West Eighty-second street, Mr. Eisner said:
“The American continent holds nearly one-third of the Jews of the world. It is the only Jewry which is free to fashion its own life, unhampered by government repression and by the dead hand of a hoary past.”
Pointing out that Jewish immigrants came to the United States seeking freedom of opportunity, Mr. Eisner continued:
“The rising tide of anti-Semitism spreads the venomous poisons of hatred and discrimination on the shores of America.
“I do not believe that this foul flower can strike root in the soil of American democracy . . . Barring future developments beyond our view, I do not believe that American democracy, the principle of contributory culture and the American constitution will be swept into the discard to set the Jew off into a separate sphere in American life.”
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