CAN the Bolshevik Revolution, then, be a Jewish revolution, a scourge of Israel?
Only just that? No. The Mencheviks in February, as well as the Bolsheviks in October, included Israelites in their ranks. As a matter of fact, my two contentious Jewish friends at the Na Kryche boasted of the fact. The height of the skyscraper inspired them with the madness of lofty ideals. It must be admitted, too, that if there was in their suggestions the boastfulness of a challenge, they did not in any way express the sentiments of the Jewish world. In the ghettos of old Paris as well as among the bankers of Lombard Street, in Warsaw as in New York, Israel indignantly refutes the charge of confusing Judaism with Bolshevism. Countless letters written in every language in the world have {p. 144} carried the wails of the Hebrews to my very desk. Are these complaints well founded? Of course there are Red Jews. How could it be otherwise in these countries of pogroms? Remember that until the days of 1917 the wandering race endured, as a burden of grief and infamy, the shame of being educ
