New Concerns Listed in Palestine Gazette

Five new Jewish banks are included among the nineteen new companies registered here, according to a recent issue of the Palestine Gezette. One of the banks has a capital of £1,000 and another of £2,000. A health insurance company and land insurance policy concern are also among those registered. Other companies include an electroplate and metal goods factory, the Polish-Levant Shipping Agency, the “Sifria Marxist” (Marxist Library) for publications on social subjects, a candy factory and a water installation and distributing concern. There is only one cooperative society a Jewish transport connern.

“The previous occupation structure of the German Jews, due to their historic devlopment, the overwhelming concentration in the intellectual professions and in the cities, was unsound. German Jewry emphatically desires, and its youth is prepared, to change this state of affairs by taking up manual work. If this movement is successful, our youth will have a hope for the future, hope of work, and in order that it should be so, there must be a propermeasure of training and incorporation into the working classes, in artisanship and agriculture.

SOME MUST GO

“At the same time, is it true that a number of German Jews will no longer find living room in Germany, and will have to emigrate.

“It is essential both for German and Jewish prestige that this emigration should be systermatically prepared and regulated, and assistance from `the Reich government for the work of the appropriate organizations engaged in emigration to Palestine and other cuntries is highly desirable.

“But there is another burden which oppresses the German Jews even more than the economic distress, and that is the frequent reproach of the inferiority of their community, their origin, their faith.

REJECT INFERIORITY

“The construction of the new German state on racial lines may necessitate emphasis on the difference of the Jews, but insistence on their inferiortiy and denial of all calue to them cannot be accepted by any community which has any self-respect and seuse of honor.

“The German Jews are confident that the new German state, which is so sensitive itself to its honor and degnity, will recognize the importance of this elemental sentiment also in our small community and will no longer tolerate its defamation.

“We ourselves, however, will best protect our honor and dignity if we examine the historie background of the present day and realize the values of our Judaism and develop the power within to master our fate.

“The aim of the Reichsvertretung,” Dr. Hirsch aconcludes, ïs to develop a strong and degnified Jewish life on German soil within the German state.”