Immediate relief for the Jews in
Germany is not enough, according to Louis B. Boudin, acting chairman of the Peoples ORT Federation, who said yesterday that if we are to do our duty by the German Jews we must plan for permanent relief. That is only possible, he declared, by giving those Jews who wish to leave Germany a chance to do so by fitting them to become self-reliant and self-supporting members of the communities in which they are admitted.
Mr. Boudin pointed out that ORT has studied for 50 years the problem of readjustment of the life of the Jew everywhere in the world. ORT contends, he said, that manual labor in field, shop and factory must be made the basis of Jewish life.
Only by extending the work of ORT, said Boudin, could world Jewry hope effectively to meet the general European as well as the special German situation. His organization, he declared, does not compete with any of the other Jewish agencies. “If you are to think of relief for the German Jew,” he stated, “you must think in terms of that which awaits him in the country to which he comes. If you can not provide for his absorption into the industrial activities of that country, the problem of the German Jew will continues to exist.”
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