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S/oy b Old acquaintances L "The Jewish race has always been determined to paralyze its host peoples and to paraphrase their armed forces against the acute and life-threatening threat it has brought" (Dr. Goebbels in the Berlin Sports Palace on 18.2.43). The American historian Lecky once coined the sentence: "Hebrew mortar has the foundations of the American dr re Slovak Republic by Benesch and Masaryk allowed a similar formulation. The unfrozen openness that Jews can have when it comes to their own cause has always provoked them to explain in the same direction. In 1923, the Slovak rabbi Alexander Štern spoke of the "Jewish builder", who had been the godfather of the Czech-Slovak Republic. Jewish press organs in German and Czech were used in all variants of similar formulations. The radical Czech-Jewish newspaper "Rozvoj" chose to build up its semitic readers in the republic with the sentence on this anniversary of the founding of the state of Benesh and Masaryk; the Czech-Slovak Jews would not have occupied the new house without participation in its emergence and not without merit." Participation and merit in the birth of the Republic were indeed given - and to a considerable extent - less by the work of local Hebrews than by the world Jewry as a whole. We met names of Czech Jews such as Oskar Butter and Leo Borský-Bondy, Alfred Herlinger and Rudolf Kepl and many others of their race have their political "merit". But there are altogether few against the numerous other Jews working among foreign guest peoples for the war case of Benesch and Masaryk, against the wreath of weighty personalities, the ornaments of mossic religious leaders all over the world: the assimilation Jews in France such as the marriage champion Freund Deschamps or the stockbroker Wedeles, the patrons of the Czech colony in Paris Singer and Wünsch or the Alsatian science semiten Eisenmann and Durkheim. In Holland Jacob Landau, the