If Max Nordau, the famous Zionist writer and theoretician, were living today, he would counsel the Jews not to lose hope, but to launch a strong movement for redemption of Britain’s pledge to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, it was declared in an interview today by his daughter, Maxa Nordau Gruenblat, who arrived here yesterday on the U.S. liner Excambion from Lisbon for a nation-wide lecture tour.
Nordau, Mrs. Gruenblat said, would tell the Jews to gain consolation from history, which has recorded the rise and fall of previous tyrants, end to make every effort for mass immigration to Palestine. She said that present events were realizing her father’s prophesies. She recalled his belief that anti-Semitism was innate in the Christian world and that the Jews could not hope to escape persecution until they had their own state.
Mrs. Gruenblat, a native Frenchwoman, lived near Paris until the German occupation, when she moved to southern France, and from there proceeded in December to Lisbon. She was accompanied here by her husband, Claude Gruenblat, who was a French air captain, and their daughter. They “will remain in the United States indefinitely. Mrs. Gruenblat will open her lecture tour in Chicago on Jan. 28.
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