adly. Speaking in slang and following the
baseball scores does not make an American. If he sells his birthright
let it be for something more than a mess of pottage. Even if he should
succeed in assimilating himself with the other races, whether it be by
the accumulation of wealth or baptism or successful denial of his
origin, yet we doubt whether he can become really happy--for he is
neither fish nor flesh nor fowl. Again, what can he receive when he
has nothing to give? And thus we must leave him, perhaps even now
laughing in the company of his non-Jewish acquaintances at some
caricature of the Jew presented for their entertainment--that is of
one of "those other Jews"--a type for which we are sorry, a coin that
is spurious and does not ring true.

_The Second Type: "An American of Jewish Ancestry"_

OUR second type considers body and raiment as of equal weight; he will
make them as one. He will become less of a Jew and more of an
American, a better American for being a Jew. Unlike the first type, he
sees a little beyond himself. Americanism is good enough for him, but
there are other Jews not in America, he realizes, and there are Jews
within America who have not reached, perhaps never can reach, his
position of comfortable participation in American life, and what of
them? There may be more pressing, more important problems in the
world, but who else will solve that particular one of the Jew if he
doesn't? He therefore will not run away from Judaism; he will try to
modify it, of course, to fit in with American progress, but, for the
sake of his people, he will stay a Jew, or better an American of
Jewish ancestry. This type is the son of the big-hearted givers among
Israel. His father subscribes generously to charitable organizations,
is a member of a Reform Temple, and owes much indeed to the
opportunities of the American republic. The son, therefore, is an
American patriot, and what though it seem at times overtaxed, his
patriotism, unlike that of the individual under our first type, is
genuine, for it is not primarily self-seeking. When he speaks of
ideals, it is not to say we have no need of religions at all, but
rather that we all in America have more or less the same belief only
that we choose to express it differently, each according to his
ancestral traditions. The three rings, says Nathan der Weise, may all
be true or all be false according to the conduct of those that wear
them. "But are there no peculiar