Sees Need for Adjustment to New Germany

The necessity for the Jews of Germany to find a legitimate way in which to adjust themselves to the totalitarian state is emphasized in an editorial published in the Juedische Rundschau, official organ of the German Zionist Federation.

“For us German Jews,” the paper writes, “the old legal status of equal rights has been annulled and, on the basis of the race principle, it cannot return in its old form. But now that the revolutionary phase of development is over, and the epoch of evolution has commenced, it is undoubtedly an important problem for us to decide just how the adjustment of German Jews is to proceed.”

Pointing out that the anti-Jewish agitation in Germany as conducted by individuals as well as by publications knows no limits, the Zionist organ continues: “We Jews are in a strange position in respect of this propaganda. Everyone is able to observe in his own sphere of life that a large section of the German population does not accept this agitation, and this is explicable, since all these people are in a position to convince themselves in their every-day life, in their business, and their travel, and in numberless conversations that the conception that the Jews are the devil incarnate is a grotesque caricature of the facts.

“We believe,” the Juedische Rundschau concludes, “that an incorporation of the Jews, which will give the supreme organ of the Jewish population the authority to defend the Jewish community, could put a stop to the present conditions of uncertainty. The more the foreign and internal political consolidation of the Reich proceeds, the more will the need be seen, in the sector of Jewish policy, to legalize the Jewish position, also through the recognition of Jewish right and the protection of Jewish honor.”