RABBI DAVID DE SOLA POOL, Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Central Park West and Seventieth street: “The tragedy of Central Europe has silenced the defeatist philosophy of Jewish suicide. It is the function of the Jew to be different, to achieve and preserve his own soul. Like the Gulf Stream, the Jew moves through his environment, warming and refreshing it, but without being absorbed by it. The individual does not have to be like someone else. He does not have to submerge his soul and personality in that of another. Nor should a race of people be asked to give up its own individuality and become absorbed in another. Each people and each religious group must find and preserve its own soul. In that way it finds self-fulfilment.”
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