Zionist library for boys and girls · 1908-01-01 · 1 · p. Seite 3

Congress in the year 1878 and demanded the defence of the Roumanian Jews. When the French Government made a Trade-Treaty with Switzerland, Cremieux immediately demanded that all Jews who would now shift to Switzerland should have the same rights as they had in Prance-. The Jews of the world were at first rather reluctant to accept the ideas of the Alliance, and its memhership only grew very slowly. The Jews of England and for instance., the countries in which emancipation and assimilation had advanced to a high degree, were afraid that this international "brotherhood of Jews would only hinder the speediness of their assimilation and they thoughtit far "better to have a brotherhood of their own. So they formed in London the "Angl- Jewish Association", and in Yienna the "Israelitische. \ Alliance".. This split and the fact that the press made a bitter propaganda against the "internationalist minded Jews" helped to destroy the strength of the Alliance Israelite Universelle and after Cremieux died its efficiency went