Colony for Christian Jews Proposed in Palestine Plan

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Colony for Christian Jews Proposed in Palestine Plan

VIENNA.—A Christum Jew from Vienna, Abram Poljak, a journalist by profession, is trying to round an agricultural colony of Christian Jews in Palestine.

Mr Poljak believes that Christian Jews should have their own Jewish church and that tho acceptance of Christianity should not separate a Jew from his people. He says a Christian Jew should bo just us much of a Nationalist as an Orthodox Jew. Ho considers that Christianity is tho completion and tho perfection of Judaism, so there should bo no conflict between them.

Having spent many years in Palestine, Mr Poljak iinds it anomalours that iufldel and Orthodox Jews work side by side as loyal Nationalists, while Christian Jews are rejected by both. He thinks that tho way to establish harmony between Christian Jews and the others is by creating a Jewish Christian Church.

Now, he says, converted Jews leave tho Jewish community and join some

Aryan fellowship, thus ceasing to be Jews. They enter a non-Jewish world and associate with Gentiles. Mr Poljak wants to keep Christian Jews within tho fold of Jewry. To do this, ho says, Christian Jews must have a way to earn a living. They must become self-supporting. He asserts that nothing so compromises tho Christian movement among Jews as the fact that many converts live off the missionaries or their backers. They appear to make a good tmng out of tneir Christianity. Orthodox Jew's look upon converts to Christianity as hirelings. It is contenaed'by Air Foljalt that the way to put an end to the condition is to found a farming eclony of Christian Jews iu Palestine. fcSueh people would make their own living and would iielp build uj> the Jewish national homo along with their orthodox kindred. There, he contends, men would see that Christianity is not the enemy of Judaism, but its most perfect fruit.