Zionist library for boys and girls · 1908-01-01 · 1 · p. Seite 2

-2to create a $or Id Organisation which would guard the Jews against oppression from the outside world. It was in a^sense a brotherhood of Jews - who would boldly say what they thought best for the Jews all over the world no matter whether others liked it or not. The leader of this ,TAlli~ anee" was the French lawyer, the Minister of Justice and member of the temporary French Government - Adolphe Qremieus (Nimes 1796 - Paris 1880)-. Cremieux regarded it as the greatest task to help all Jews in all countries to reach the same stage of emancipation as that enjoyed by the Jews in France, ^e was a great politician and a very influential man. whenever Jews were endangered, he would stand up and make use of his high position in order to persuade the government of the respective country to give the Jews the treatment &hey deserved, The Alliance had helped the unfortunate Jew's in Damascus who were accused of the blood-libel (ritual mur&er) in the year 1840.. The Alliance represented the rights of the Je.s on the Berlin