The great change wrought during the last year on the attitude of the Berlin Jewish community towards Jewish problems is reviewed editorially in the Juedische Rundschau of Berlin.
The largest German Jewish community, which comprises more than one-third the total Jewish population of Germany, in former years showed its lack of interest in Jewish matters, its opposition to Jewish nationalism and its tendency towards assimilation by electing to communal offices only those who stood for those beliefs.
“Four years ago,” writes Juedische Runschau, “Berlin Jewry held its elections. Its vote was against Zionism and for assimilation. It stood against Jewish schools and against the extension of the functions of Jewish communal government beyond religious matters, which gave the election to the liberals.”
But the year 1993 has brought about a complete change in the Jewish attitude. Today the predominant sentiment is for Jewish schools, for Jewish nationalism, and for a general shift in the occupations of the Jewish population of Germany. In view of these changes, the juedische Rundschau calls for a new communal elections so that the shift in the attitude toward Jewish problems may be fitly expressed in the officers administering the Jewish community’s affairs.
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