Speaking as an avowed Non-Zionist, Dr. Lee K. Frankel, noted health and social welfare leader, urged the Jews of Cincinnati to give generously to the Allied Jewish Campaign not in spite of but because of the inclusion of Palestine in the campaign, in an address opening Cincinnati’s $190,000 joint Jewish Welfare Fund drive.
“The significant feature of the League of Nations Mandate in Palestine is that for the first time in 2,000 years the nations of the world are trying to do justice to the Jews,” Dr. Frankel said. “If Palestine means anything it may mean the opportunity to repeat there what was in Jewry’s past. Perhaps in the land again there will arise another Isaiah, another Amos, another Hosea, perhaps another Moses. If that should come to pass it will have been worth whatever it cost,” Dr. Frankel declared.
“The League of Nations promised no Jewish statehood in Palestine; it promised only a place to live. There in Palestine we see the Jew once more the civilizer as he has been through the centuries. Not we but our posterity will see the fruits of this work. It is not relief work but a great adventure, an attempt to develop Jewish idealism. Jews throughout the world, in America, in Roumania and in Poland suffer disabilities. For all of us Palestine means much, a common experiment. When the Palestinian experiment comes to fruition benighted lands will have to change their attitude toward the Jew,” Dr. Frankel concluded.
William J. Shroder, executive vice-chairman of the drive, congratulated the five hundred persons present on their humanity in giving this service and courage in laboring during the present economic situation. The records of 100 years disclose no Jew who died because he gave too much despite the remarkable generosity of Cincinnati Jewry, Mr. Shroder said.
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