Destroy The Ghettos

DESTROY the GHETTOS

By RABBI EMIL G. HIRSCH of Chicago

I am an American Jew and proud of it - proud to be an American and proud to be a Jew.

BUT WE MUST GET THE JEWS OUT OF THE CITIES. THEY CANNOT REMAIN SEGREGATED THERE IF WE DO NOT WISH TO ENDANGER THE CAUSE OF THE JEWS.

WE MUST NOT TOLERATE OUR GHETTOS. WE MUST STEP IN AND DISPERSE THEM. THERE IS ROOM IN THE WEST. The day will never come when our freedom of conscience will be interfered with, but the murmurs in other countries of undesirable immigration should be a warning to us. In England already such a murmur is audible. Let us not deceive ourselves. In our Jewish settlements there are countenances unlike those of our own people. The anti-Semite is never careful of fact. He makes men laugh or weep, as he chooses. The Jew has always been the scapegoat. It has always been his fate to say "No" when the world said "Yes." If ever there was suffering, it was in the ghettos of the mediæval Jews. THE DAY IS NOT YET PASSED WHEN THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS HAS ENDED. It make come in this country that the Jew here will be considered a disturber of the economic equipoise. The day may come when the Roumanians will say to us, "Didn't we tell you so?"

There is a top heaviness among our Jews - too many physicians, too many lawyers, too many rabbis. They should be taught the use of arms and legs.