The “Forward” of Dec. 7 carries an article from the pen of Dr. M. Baranoff, famous Jewish Socialist of American and for many years a contributor to this Socialist paper, who died recently, in which Dr. Baranoff gives his impressions of Palestine where he had made a trip last summer.
“The little of the Zionist work which I had time to see in Palestine gave me the impression that the Zionists are doing the best they can with the limited means at their disposal. Everybody admits that the Zionist leaders are sincere, honest men,” says Dr. Baranoff.
“I do not believe that the idealism of the colonists will last long, but the picture of the horrors in Europe from which they have escaped will always remain before their eyes and that will more than make up for the evaporated idealism.
“There is no occasion to fear the Arabs when one knows them. The Jewish colonists in Palestine no longer fear them. Only Sir Herbert Samuel is afraid of them. And I am convinced that the British government is fulfilling the promises made in the Balfour Declaration, so far as circumstances permit her to do so.
“I believe that it is no sin even for Marxian Socialists to sympathize with and help the Zionists. In any case it is stupid and shameful systematically to attack and to calumniate them.”
A SUGGESTION TO JEWISH MILLIONAIRES
Commenting in the “Jewish Daily News” on the two gifts of James B. Duke and George Eastman, totaling $55,000,000, for the purpose of advancing education in this country, Mr. Mordecai Katz, recommends this deed to the attention of the Jewish millionaires, who he says are in the habit of bequeathing large sums for philanthropic uses after their death.
“The American millionaires who gave $55,000,000 for the advancement of education declared that they wish to see what this money can accomplish during their lives. It would be well for the Jewish millionaires to give this a little thought. Those of them who intend to bequeath substantial sums for charity or education after their death should rather make the gifts now.”
JEWS PROMOTE A GREAT LITERARY ENTERPRISE
The “Jewish Morning Journal” of Dec. 12, writing editorially on the subject of Mr. Adolph S.Ochs’ donation of $500,000 for the purpose of preparing a Dictionary of American Biography recalls that in England, too, a Jew is connected with a similar enterprise. The editor, since 1891, of the Dictionary of National Biography in England is Sir Sidney Lee, the well known English-Jewish Shakespearean scholar.
“It is gratifying to see Jews promoting this kind of work in both English-speaking countries, creating monuments of historical literary work that grows more valuable from year to year”, says the “Jewish Morning Journal”.
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