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action - not pity
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...an hour of valor was better than a lifetime of furtiveness and cringe...
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During World War II, Arthur Szyk was perhaps the most prominent artist in the United States advocating the rescue of Jews. When Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the artist immediately began attacking the regime for its anti-Jewish policy, but his fervor increased with the outbreak of war. By 1940, he realized that Nazi antisemitism was of an “exterminatory brand” and he sought to bring the suffering of the Jews to the world’s attention. The Allies, he believed, were treating the plight of the Jews like “pornography”; “nobody denies it, but you cannot discuss it in polite society.”
The slogan “action—not pity” served as the watchword for the Zionist Revisionist Bergson group, and it appeared on many of their advertisements.
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