The Rev. Maurice L. Perlzweig, chairman of the British section of the World Jewish Congress, recently returned from a tour of the United States, urged in an article in The Zionist Review today that American Jews be given partnership in the leadership of the Jewish people during the common struggle for Jewish rights.
Despite differences on many things, American Jews are as one in demanding that Jewish preparations for the eventual peace conference must not be made without the cooperation of Americans, Perlzweig said.
He declared that American Jews would play a greater part than it did after the last war, “not only because its number and influence will entitle it to do so, but because, not being hidebound by convention, it will be able without difficulty to adapt its communal machinery and political strategy to the new situation.”
Praising the Americans’ “superabundance of youth, life and vision,” Perlzweig said that “American Jewry boasts as great a group of leading personalities as any in the world. Brandeis and Frankfurter exercise an influence in the life of America which is not surpassed by Jewish statesmen anywhere. Great Jewish thinkers and scientists–it is necessary only to mention Einstein–gravitate increasingly towards America. Great Jewish writers and interpreters of Jewish life–Sholem Asch is a conspicuous example–feel themselves at home in America. And of all men who have devoted themselves to service of the Jewish cause there is none that makes a more powerful appeal to the public mind than Stephen Wise.”
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