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Show Professor iDeutsch Defends Jews. Professor Jotthard Deutsch of the Hebreyv Uni. .n college of Cincinnati makes answi r in the New York Hebrew He-brew Standai d to the charge recently made by Pi ofessor Goldwin Smith, 1 that the pers cutions of the Jew have 1 not been proi ipted by religious fanati- ' cism, but bee; use the Jeyvs "are a par- ' asitic race." Professor Deutsch says ' that, even if the occupations of the Jews were e clusively those of an in- termediary, tl at would not make them 1 a parasitic ra e, but he denies that the ! Jeyv is exclus vely a middleman, refer- ' ring to the h undreds of thousands of ! sweatshops an 1 tailor-shop yvorkers. He tells how the Jew yvas excluded from 1 manual trade; and prohibited from ' holding lands, but today,, all over Rus- ( sia. Jeyvish w irkers are found in the 1 mills and tai neries. He denies that ( tribal spirit pi vents the Jeyvs from assimilating as-similating yvitl i other nationalities, and ' concludes that "snobbery, bigotry and that mental ir ertia, which Is responsible responsi-ble for the sur ival of many antiquated ideas, account for the hostility to the ' Tews." |