To the Editor of the "Nonra-Cumma Daty News."
Su,—With reference to the cor: respondence "Not Genuine Russian" should like to recall through your columns, to Mr. "Gargi Devi" some well known Jewish stitements garding the question if Judaism is a race or a religion.
(1) In the preface of "The Jewish Encyclopedia," the Editor, Dr. Syrus Adler, writes:. "As Jthe present work deals' with JeWs as a race, it was found impossible to exclude those who were of that race, whatever their religious affiliations might have been."
(2) In his "Israel is a Nation," the Rev, Morris Josef writes:
"Esrael is recognized as a nation by those who see it; no one can possibly mistake it for a mere sect. To deny Jewish nationality you must deny the existence of Jews."
(8) In his "The Jews a Nation" Mr. Arthur D. Lewis (West London Zionist Association) writes: "when some Jews say they consider the Jews a religious sect, like the Roman Catholics or Protestants, they a ally not correctly analyzing and describing their own feelings ide.
(4) In his "Studies in Jewish Nationalism" page 34, Loon Simon "The idea that Jews are a religious sect, precisely parallel to holies and Protestants, is non-
Coningsby." He was ud to be racially a Jew though religiously he was not Jewish.
T hope that this letter is con.' lusive and all true Jews will confirm the above quotations of eminent Jewish writers. We cannot deny that the Jews are
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