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Henry Hurwitz, editor of the "Menorah English-Jewish editors reprints of his article, which November issue, asking for their observations on it giving the gist of the article, in parts verbatim, end<y9ei expressed by him in "Not by Bread Alone": " -;: --
The time is opportune for a reconsideration /in \ entire problem of East European Jewry. The Jews Lithuania have been among the abjectest sufferers from the "peace." Settlement on the land is possible in ^ Vocational training of the youth is essential. Emigration to South' America must be directed and increased. If the*Q,RT., and the H.I.A.S. organizations working among Jews in the countries cannot bring themselves to joint counsel, it will sary to institute an impartial conference for general For American <x>ncern over the entire problem pf.Bait ,7_ . .( ^ Jewries "must include the safeguarding of the cultural and spiritual life of these people as well as the economic and political; Bspe^jt^^f; their life. They cannbt live on bread alone and above all- ^there should be an end to talk of charity. Co-operation is"the correct^ work, because American Jewry has as much to gain from East Eurov pean Jewries as it can give, and a great deal more.
For years to come Polish and Lithuanian Jewsxan only hope to ; live barely above the subsistence level. They must therefore live richly in the spirit, in ideas. They must have an intellectual and aesthetic life, exercise for their intelligence and talents in order to make their lives bearable and to keep them from moral and spiritual ruin. For them scholars, poets and artists are essential and must be enabled to live and produce to the enrichment of ^/orld Israel as well.,; There is less money for the intellectual workers than for any, nothing,: to be had from the governments or universities^ nothing modem from the struggling yeshivahs, nothing from the general life about them because it is inferior to the Jewish. The Jewish scholars must be given employment so that they may work and live with fieil-respect. Everything is there but money and in return for a little pf; that these artists and scholars can produce untold wealth foT-thfiCT, benefit of the Jewish people as a whole. '..'.'.�
Cultural activity, financed and properly encouraged by American Jewry, could yield up results of priceless value. American Jewry has -almost lost its tradition, of Jewish learningt most of its creative fofce| having been dissipated in assimilation. The Jewish sf)iritmfr struggle here would be lost without the inexhaustible reservoir of Jeiryr^Hk-life in Eastern Europe, and American,Jewry mi&t look pa^icwa^ it for replenishment. There are art monuments to be retrieved fro^ri ^ synagogues in tiny villages of Poland, Lithuania, Russia aid Galieia, their architecture, mural decorations, wood and brads, silver and gold vessels, sacred books with drawings an4 ;i In these villages, gravestone* and signboards, "unknown would enrich Jewish culture and furnish foundation for thfe future Jewish artists. There is a World of knowWse'-to>bfe e in the long record of Jewish achievements ia folklore, art, religion and history of East
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dating the Middle Ages. Various expedition* should J^ *&t out right now to salvage what rejmains of musfc literature att^\fiSkrftrt. ^ Institutes and research expeditions can employ rftany scholar*\anoV writers. Works of artists and writers can be bought and jmbttshed, Tittle theatres fostered, pictures and sculptures can be boBght for museums there and here, and popular libraries can be and enlarged. ^ V '
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