German Liberal Jews Against Jewish World Congress Plan: Struggle for Jewish Emancipation Must Be Car

The plan to call a Jewish World Conference in Geneva in July which has been put forward by the American Jewish Congress with a view to convoking a Jewish World Congress as a permanent institution is another attempt to make the Congress a path-clearer for realising the Jewish nationalist aspirations, the “Juedisch-Jiberale Zeitung”, the organ of the Federation of Liberal Jews in Germany, comments.

The struggle for Jewish emancipation, it declares, must be carried on by the Jewish population of each country in its own land. The fight against anti-Jewish feeling and the combating of the anti-Jewish economic boycott cannot be conducted in all countries on the same lines, established by international conferences.

If there is to be a Conference of this character, the essential condition, as in the united Jewish Community, is that all questions on which differences exist among our-selves must be excluded from the scope of our common work. If assurances to this effect are given, and if the great Jewish organisations in Germany, above all the Central Union of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, are brought in, with a guarantee that their fundamental principles will be safeguarded, the preliminary Conference in Geneva will achieve something valuable.

In any case, however, the paper concludes, the time fixed for the Conference-July-seems far too short for convoking an International Conference, and for this reason, too, it will be necessary for us to await developments.