A resolution in favour of adopting a pro-Government attitude has been carried by a majority on being put to the vote at the Conference of the Jewish People’s Party (Folkists) in session here. A very heated debate took place on this question.
The Conference has also decided to rename the Party as the Jewish Democratic Folkspartei.
The Folkist Party, which was formed in 1907, took its stand, as Professor Dubnov, its spiritual father, describes it, on the principle of national-cultural autonomy. Its programme, he says, was in general outlines the simultaneous struggle for civil and national rights, the creation of a full-fledged national community, instead of the Kultusgemeinde of Western Europe, an autonomous national school, and the rights of both Jewish languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. At the same time, taking the historic idea of the transplantation of Jewish centres in the Diaspora as its point of departure, the party recognised the emigration to America and the colonisation of Palestine as great national factors destined to create two new centres of Judaism, one quantitatively powerful centre in North America, and a smaller national centre, but qualitatively from the point of view of cultural purity more valuable, in Palestine.
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