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Louis Marshall: Jewish
Leader-Ten Years After
BY HENRY W. LEVY
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is a
comprehensive review of the
brilliant and useful career of
Louis Marshall, beloved leader
of American Jewry and cham
pion of all minorities, whose
tenth “yahrzeit” is being com
memorated this month.
Ten years have passed since
that sorrowful day, September 11,
1929, when w r ord came from
Zurich of the death of Louis Mar
shall. The great Jewish leader,
unquestionably the most beloved
and respected in the annals of
American Jewry, died shortly af
ter the completion of his labors in
behalf of the establishment of the
enlarged Jewish Agency for Pal
estine.
To commemorate the tenth
“yahrzeit” of his passing, a group
of Jewish leaders made a pilgrim
age to his grave in the Salem
Fields Cemetery, New York. Rep
resentatives of every outstanding
Jewish organization in the metrop
olis and Jewish leaders of every
variety of opinion were among
those who answered the call issued
jointly by the Congregation
Emanu-El of New York City, the
American Jewish Committee and
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America.
All Jewry turned out to do
homage to Mr. Marshall. Zionists
rubbed elbows with non-Zionists;
Reform Jews exchanged Marshall
anecdotes with their Orthodox
brethren; Yiddishists and Hebra
ists forgot any and all differences.
For Louis Marshall, more than
any other Jewish leader before or
since, belonged to all Jewry.
Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of
both the American Jewish Com
mittee and the Jewish Theological
Society, organizations which were
so much a part of Mr. Marshall’s
life, has written of him:
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“In spite of the fact that during
the greater part of his grown-up
life, Mr. Marshall had to deal with
a Judaism split into many frag
ments and elements, he was never
a party man so far as things
Jewish were concerned. He saw
no incongruity in being president
of Temple Emanu-El and chair
man of the board of the Jewish
Theological Seminary—he was a
true liberal, respecting every
man’s opinion, the actual embod
iment of Schecter’s happy phrase,
Catholic Israel.”
Ten years after his death, the
friends and admirers of Louis
Marshall can hardly realize that
it is so long since he completed
his mortal span. It is a decade,
though, in which he has been
sorely missed; a decade momen
tous in Jewish history. Because
of his wide interests, and because
he had so strong a hold on the
masses, no one man has been able
to succeed to his eminence and
prestige.
Mr. Marshall died at the height
of his prestige. He had just
played a leading part in the cre
ation of the enlarged Jewish
Agency for Palestine, that body
which united all Jews —Zionists
and non-Zionists —for the develop
ment of Palestine. He died while
America was enjoying the peak of
its prosperity, just a few short
weeks before the break in the
stock market that was to lead us
to years of economic depression.
He was spared the Palestine riots
that followed shortly after his
death, and little did he dream of
the Nazism that was to destroy
German Jewry.
Louis Marshall would have loved
to live this past decade; he would
have loved to meet the challenge
that the years brought with them.
And Jewry, many times cried out
for the leadership of Mr. Marshall.
Many has been the time’ these
past years when speakers sought
to impress audiences by telling
them what Louis Marshall would
have done.
i Strangely, though, there was no
man in American Jewry who could
truly speak for Mr. Marshall;
| there was no man who could
1 rationalize the Marshall approach
because this peerless leader met
difficulties in terms of humanita
rianism rather than ideology. His
concern was all Jewry, and though
he gave of himself to each and
every wholesome manifestation of
Judaism, he never lost sight of the
greater glory of Israel in his de
votion to any particular Jewish
philosophy.
Mr. Marshall w r as an attorney,
one of the greatest constitutional
lawyers in the' history of the Unit
!ed States. He was a man of re
ligion, the president of the Congre
gation Emanu-El (Reform) and
| the chairman of the board of di
! rectors of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America (Conserva
j tive). He was of German extrac
tion, but one of the greatest
friends of the East European
Jew. He was technically a non-
Zionist although he played a most
significant part in the creation of
! the enlarged Jewish Agency for
Palestine, still the supreme Jew
ish authority for Palestine.
I Mr. Marshall had a passionate
devotion to American constitu
tional procedure. He fought for
the Negroes and Catholics as well
as the Jews when their rights
were denied. He fought for mi
norities of all kinds though he
never conceded that there should
be so much as a thought of guar
anteed rights for minority groups
in the United States. Mr. Mar
shall subscribed to the promise
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YOU WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM
that all people were born as in
dividuals, free and with equal
rights. He defended this thesis at
every opportunity.
One cannot recall the memory
of Louis Marshall without think
ing of many specific issues asso
ciated with his name. He was a
leader in the fight that resulted in
the retraction of the anti-Jewish
lies published in Henry Ford’s
“ Dearborn Independent. ” He
fought a long and brilliant battle
in the United States House of
Representatives and Senate that
finally resulted in the abrogation
of the Treaty of 1832 with Russia
because of Russia’s refusal to rec
ogni& American passports when
held by Jews. He was one of the
prime movers in the organization
of the American Jewish Relief
Committee, the precursor of the
Joint Distribution Committee. He
led the Jewish delegation at the
Versailles Peace Conference that
guaranteed minority rights to
Jews in the newly established
post-war countries. He was zeal
ous of the use of the word
“Jewish” and fought such petty
politicians who formed “Jewish
Republican” and “Jewish Demo
cratic” organizations to further
partisan ends.
Mr. Marshall was one of six
children, the son of German im-
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He was born and reared in Syra
cuse; spent the first years of his
legal career in that up-state me
tropolis. He came to New York
at the age of thirty-eight to join
the firm of Guggenheimer, Untre
myer and Marshall, after achiev
ing a brilliant career upstate. For
many years he served the cause
of Judaism as an assistant to
Judge Mayer Sulzberger, then
president of the American Jewish
Committee. Following Judge Sulz
berger’s resignation, the post went
inevitably to Mr. Marshall.
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