burden was nobly borne, due partly to the commanding leadership of such men as Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Judge Julian W. Mack, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, partly to the devoted and huge labors of the old-time faithful Zionists on the Committee, such as Jacob de Haas, Louis Lipsky, and Henrietta S-zold, and partly to the aroused race consciousness of the mass of American Jews.”
Four times in the brief preface to the fifth edition of “Coningsby,” Disraeli uses the term “race” in re¬ ferring to the Jews, and Disraeli was proud of being racially a Jew, though religiously he was a Christian.
In The Jewish Encyclopedia, “the Jewish race” is spoken of. In the preface, which is signed by Dr. Cyrus Adler as chief editor, these words occur: “An even more delicate problem that presented itself at the very outset was the attitude to be observed by the Encyclopedia in regard to those Jews who, while born within the Jewish community, have, for one reason or another, abandoned it. As the present work deals with the Jews as a race, it was found impossible to ex¬ clude those who were of that race,. whatever their religious affiliations might have been.”
But as we are not interested in ethnology, the in¬ quiry need not be continued further along this line. The point toward which all this trends is that the Jew is conscious of himself as being more than the member JEWISH TESTIMONY ON “ARE JEWS A NATION ?” 25 of a religious body. That is, Jewry nowhere sub¬ scribes in the persons of its greatest teachers and its most authoritative representatives, to the theory that a Jew is only “a brother of the faith.” Often he is not of the faith at all, but he is still a Jew. The fact is in¬ sisted upon here, not to discredit him, but to expose the double minds of those political leaders who, instead of straightforwardly meeting the Jewish Question, en¬ deavor to turn all inquiry aside by an impressive con¬ fusion of the Gentile mind.
It may be argued by the small body of so-called “Reformed Jews” that the authorities quoted here are mostly Zionists. The reply is this: there