The position of the Jews in post-war Europe is “by no means the least of the many problems of post-war reconstruction” with which we must deal now, declares Reinhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological Seminary, in the current issue of The Nation. Stating that the problem of what is to become of the Jews is important because “the very quality of our civilization is involved in the solution,” Prof. Neibuhr, in the first of a series of two articles, outlines a program for the solution of the Jewish problem.
Those Jews who wish to become assimilated in the nations in which they live and who wish to preserve their Jewishness as a religion and a culture rather than as a nationality must be allowed to do so, Prof. Niebuhr states. But that in itself will not solve the Jewish question, he maintains, since the Jews are a “nationality” and they must be accorded the right to a “collective survival.” Recognition of this right would lead, Prof. Niebuhr writes, to “a more generous acceptance of the Zionist program as correct in principle, however mush it may have to be qualified in practice.”
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