The Jews all over the world are suffering from a depression layoff, according to Maurice Samuel, Jewish author and lecturer, who talked at the Jewish Community Center here last night.
“We have entered a period in which expansion movements are less striking and depressions are deeper,” he said. “There is no more of that widespread cry for talents of every kind. You know what happens when a man is given a permanent job during prosperity, and a depression comes along. That’s what is happening to the Jew in the world; he is being laid off. And the world is finding excuses to justify itself, by revising forgotten prejudices. The Jew was invited to play a part in expansion. Now he is accused of playing too much of a part,” he concluded.
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