U. S. Jews Discussed

When European Jews visit the U. S. they scrutinize members of their race with special interest. Last week the Christian Century published the observations of Deputy Gruenbaum of Warsaw:

"The American Jews are complacent and well-fed. And in all general Jewish questions they imagine that they need nothing at all, that their role in Jewish life is only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money. . . .

"Yet in spite of this self-satisfied air among the Jews of America there is no lack of Jewish problems in America. Above all there is the problem of assimilation which is making big strides. The younger generation does not understand Yiddish."

Deputy Gruenbaum discussed U. S. Anti-Semitism: "There is the so-called five o'clock antiSemitism. Up to five o'clock in the afternoon, in business life there is not a hint at antiSemitism, but after five o'clock the Jews are left severely to themselves. . . . There is a movement to make it more difficult for people to become lawyers, because 14,000 of the 20,000 lawyers in New York are Jews."