Mrs. Edward Jacobs, American Zionist leader and former president of Hadassah, was the guest speaker on the “Woman’s Review” program yesterday afternoon over Station WEAF. Her subject, “Palestine Gathers in the Exiles,” embraced a historical outline of modern Palestine, including the Zionist ideal, the waves of immigration from Russia, Poland and Germany, and contemporary industrial and cultural development.
“Zionism has justified itself as worthwhile,” said Mrs. Jacobs. “A place has been prepared to absorb the exiles from other lands, the persecuted and homeless Jews from abroad. Palestine has opened to its settlers avenues of agricultural, industrial and commercial opportunities.
“There is much that the German settlers will contribute to the building of a Jewish National Home. Scientists, medical men and scholars are going there in increasing numbers. In pre-Hitler Germany some of these were counted among the most distinguished talents in their fields of study. These men will give their great minds to Palestine. They will continue their work in the Hebrew University and the Hadassah hospitals and laboratories. Their findings, once labelled German, will now be called Jewish.
“Palestine may be designated as an amalgam of the exiles of our day. The Jew, unhampered, freed from inhibitions imposed by alien majorities, will once more create new values of spirit and living on his own soil.”
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