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Show oo CULTURE CONFINED TO JEWS IN GERMANY. In his diary of impressions he formed while in .Germany just prior to the war, James W. Gerard, our ambassador ambas-sador to Berlin, takes a rap at German Ger-man kultur and, Incidentally, pays a high tribute to tho Jows. He says: "Subtract tho German Jows and in the lines of real culture there would be litUe of the real thing left in Germany. Gutman, Bleichroeder, Von Swabach, Friedlandor-Fuld, Rathenau, Simon, Warburg, In finance; Barchardt and others in surgery, and almost the 'wholo medical -profession; the Meyers, the JShrlichs, Bamberger, Hugo,Schif, Nowburgor, -Bertholm, Paul Jacobson, In chemistry and research; Mendelssohn, Mendel-ssohn, Wagner', etc., In music; Harden, Thcodor Wolf, Goorg Bornhnrd and Professor Stein in journalism. But why continuo7 About the only men not Jows prominent in tho Intellectual, artistic, financial or commercial life of Germany arc tho pastors of the Luthoran churches. And tho Jews have won their way to tho front in almost al-most a generation." oo . |