To the Editor of the "Nonr-Emma Datty News."
Sin,—In his letter of December 5.
Mr. "Gargi Devi" made two very important statements; (1) "As a race, the Jews are classed as Semites" and (2) "The link that binds us together is our Religion. These two statements are only confirming my previous conclusion, that Jews are a strongly united race, Tt is rather difficult to understand why my learned opponent further says "'such a statement cannot, in the light of modern nationalism hold good." The nationalism of 2,000 as it is presently. of a King or other Governmental Parathernallia for its manifestations: Look at the Polish natio they have been without a national Government for hundreds of yet they have never considered themselves as Russians or Germans, One of the preéminent Jewish men, Theodor Hertzl, gives us a very correct definition of Jewish nationalism: "A nation, in my mind, is an historical group of men of recognizable cohesion held together by common enemy. 'Then, if you add to that the word Jewish' you have what T understand to be the Jewi Nation."
Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court, say! "Let us all recognize that we Jews are a distinct nationality of which every Jew, whatever his country, his "station, or shade of belief, is necessarily a member."
So we see that all eminent leaders of modern Judaism regard their race distinct nationality, and Mr. "Lover of Russia" was quite right in his protest against the labeling of racial Jews under the ethnologic name of Russians, Tam, ete, Nor a Jew.
/Shanghai, Dee. 12, 1924.
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