Jewish Settlement in Palestine Has Come to Stay Max Warburg’s Daugpter and Niece of Felix Warburg Sa

The Jewish settlement in Palestine has come to stay, Mrs. Lola Hahn-Warburg, daughter of Herr Max Warburg and a niece of Mr. Felix M. Warburg, said on her return here from her first visit to Palestine, where she spent some time in company with Dr. and Mrs. Weizmann. Mrs. Hahn-Warburg is particularly interested in Jewish cultural and artistic effort, and it is largely owing to her efforts that the Palestine Hebrew Theatre Habimah owes its existence for the past few years.

The visitor to Palestine cannot help being thrilled by what he sees there, she continued. Despite all the economic and political difficulties which surround the work in Palestine, one goes away with the impression that no power in the world will succeed in destroying what Jewish enthusiasm and Jewish sacrifice has built there. The foundation laid in Palestine impresses one as being rock-bound. It will depend on Jews throughout the world, on their readiness to make sacrifices and to collaborate, to broaden this foundation.

The Jew in Palestine is not despairing; Mrs. Hahn-Warburg went on. The disasters which have overtaken him have not shaken his steadfast will to persist. A new type of Jew is springing up. The Jew in Palestine has found his renaissance. He is again at one with Jewish history, tradition and language. He is freed from the spirit of the ghetto, and raises his head like a proud and upright man. No one who visits Palestine can fail to be touched by this rejuvenation.

Much controversy has surrounded the Kvutzoth, but from what I have seen of them in Palestine I have gained the conviction that only such groups of pioneers can overcome the difficulties of conquering the soil of Palestine for the Jewish people. Only in a collective spirit can the heroic effort which Palestine necessitates succeed. Perhaps the method is expensive. Perhaps it cannot be indefinitely continued, but for the beginning it is the only possible line to pursue.

Palestinian Jewry knows only one Majesty to which it bows reverently – the majesty of the child. In no country does the child receive such marvellous attention as in Palestine. The new generation which is now growing up in Palestine will, I have no doubt, enrich our Jewish world with new leadership, and give us that inspiration of which our Community to-day is in such dire need.

There seems to be an abyss between the Orthodox Jew and the modern non-religious Jewish worker. But it is the Orthodox Jew to whom the Jewish people owe the fact that the connection between the Jewish people and Palestine has never been interrupted. Even our non-religious Jewish workmen are not without religious spirit. They celebrate the religious holidays in their own way. The religious genius, which is so characteristic of our people, I have no doubt, will also find its renaissance in Palestine and will enrich the world once more with a new expression.

I shall never forget the Passover I celebrated in Palestine. I still see the hundreds of young workmen and women who passed Dr. Weizmann’s house in Haifa, singing Hebrew songs and paying tribute to their leader. The Zionists have in Dr. Weizmann a great leader of unparalleled devotion and ability.