The Maccabaean

operating with him, among others, Mr. Louis Lipsky and Mr. Bernard G. Richards, the former to contribute to the editorial pages, the latter articles of a belletristic nature. Mr. Segal has the promise of important contributions from a number of our best writers, and he appeals to all Zionists who have anything of value to say on Jewish subjects to consider THE MACCABAEAN as a free forum for the presentation of their views. Of course, within reasonable length.

Mr. Abelow, who will also conduct the business department, wishes all friends of

the magazine to do their utmost for the wider circulation of the publication, and for the increase of its advertising business. We assure all our readers that under the new administration the magazine will be improved, as circumstances allow, and that before long, should our hopes be realized, we may be able to increase the number of pages in each issue. In the meantime, it is our intention to conduct the magazine without incurring deficits, on a safe, conservative basis, trusting to the loyalty of our readers to be patient until an expansive policy may be taken up.

N the Jewish Chrontele of March 31, I Igit, under the heading “Italy Redeemed” the editor remarked, “The realization by Italy of her national unity has meant greater freedom for the Jew than did the similar political miracle that was wrought in Germany. Both, however. will remind the Jew that his own dreams of national redemption remain unrealized. That the re-establishment of the Jewish nation would be crowned with the results as beneticient to mankind as have followed in Jtaly and Germany, we have no doubt.” I wonder how manw readers have given serious thought to these sentences, tull of meaning?’ That the Jew's dream of national redemption is 50 far unrealized is a palpable proof of the tragedy of his errors and = shortcomings. “But,” continues the Jewish Chronicle, “the Jewish Cavour, or Bismarck has, alas! not yet stood forth who, like the makers of Germany and Italy, has been able to convert an ideal into political fact.” Hlerein I differ from the Jewish Chronicle. I sav and I maintain that in the history of the Jews up to date there stood forth many Jewish Cavours, Mazzinis, Garibaldis and Bismarcks who were able and willing to

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convert an ideal into a political fact. Why then did they not accomplish it? To answer this question, after trying to fathom all the vicissitudes of the multifarious life of Jewry, I came to the conclusion that the only answer is—since the conquest of the Maccabeans, the Jews as a body have lost the power of three essential political qualities, viz: The quality of Concentration, the quality of Co-operation and the quality of Organization. If the Jews would have concentrated their minds on Nationalism as they did on Religion, they would have saved the one as they saved the other.

The life of the Jew so far is twofold— in the past and in the future (memory and hope), but what he so sadly lacks is life in the Present. The pith and the marrow of the chief interest of a people lies in its record of the tireless labor of those from whom the Present takes its record. Since the Maccabean conquest, however, the Jews shared their national sorrows, but they never concentrated on the best means of permanently relieving them. Nothing has ever been won and nothing has ever been conquered without concentration of thought, and there is nothing more for—