A warning to world diplomats who are assembling in Paris for the Peace Conference opening tomorrow that “only a far-reaching and profound spiritual revival can redeem our otherwise lost generation,” was made today by Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, in an address at the first postwar conference of the World Union for Progressive Judaism held here.
Representatives of Liberal Judaism from ten countries attended the meeting which is being held under the chairmanship of former Chief Rabbi Leo Baeck of Berlin. Rabbi Baeck charged that the recent ordeal through which the Jewish people passed was in a large measure due to the fact that responsible people remained silent instead of extending help to the Jews.
Referring to the current world situation, Dr. Eisendrath said, “More than a year after victory, pogroms still rage in Poland and even high dignitaries of the Catholic Church have the effrontery to blame these bestial and brutal attacks on the Jews themselves, callously unmindful of the fact that the Church itself must bear the major historic responsibility for the unvariably repeated ‘cherchez les Juives’ whenever poltroonish politicians or pandering priests have their private axes to grind and their selfish ends to meet.”
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