MAX NORDAU, THE GREAT SOCIOLOGIST AND JEWISH
leader, wrote a play entitled: A Question of Honor
which appeared in 1907 in English translation. It tells
of a certain Dr. Leo Kohn, a mathematician, who falls
in love with Christine Moser, the daughter of a baptized
German Jew and the sister of a Lutheran clergyman.
The family of Christine, who reciprocates Dr. Kohn's
love, violently oppose the marriage, and one of the
brothers challenges him to a duel. Dr. Kohn fires into
the air, and is killed by his opponent. Following a dis-
cussion in the home prior to the duel, when Dr. Kohn
declares that he must accept Christine's brother's chal-
lenge, she asks him: "So your race is dearer to you than
I am?" To this Dr. Kohn replies:

"You are dearer to me than everything the world
contains. But I can worship you without becoming a
traitor to my race. Perhaps I am in this unhappy posi-
tion solely because each individual Jew has not kept
before his mind the fact that his enemy's hatred im-
poses upon him the honor of being the legitimate
representative of his whole race. The forces that en-
countered each other in this room today were currents
of the world's history thousands of years old. So much
the worse for the individual who has the misfortune
to stand at the point of contact!"

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