Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

The Jews

The Jews are an alien body within the society they inhabit--hence irritation and friction--a problem is presented by the strains thus set up--the solution of that problem is urgently necessary.

Chapters

20. CHAPTER IV

The immediate cause of the new gravity apparent in the Jewish problem is the Revolution in Russia. The completely new feature of open discussion now attaching to it (a thing whi...

18. CHAPTER II

I have stated the Problem. There is friction between the two races--the Jews in their dispersion and those among whom they live. This friction is growing acute. It has led invar...

25. CHAPTER IX

That is the simplest formula, and the one which would be immediately subscribed to by the whole mass of those outside the Jewish community who are alive to the question at all....

30. CHAPTER XIV

There is a whole group of historical and other theories upon the position of the Jews which either imply that there is no problem, or if there is one that it cannot be solved, o...

19. CHAPTER III

I said in my last that the old solution of ignoring or denying the Jewish problem was bound to break down and had broken down, and this was tantamount to saying that the problem...

21. CHAPTER V

There are two special forces upon the Jewish side which nourish and exasperate the inevitable friction between the Jewish race and its hosts. It will be well to deal with these...

22. CHAPTER VI

At first sight it might seem that the task was superfluous. Action and reaction are equal and opposite. If you have shown why A irritates B, you have also presumably shown why B...

28. CHAPTER XII

The solution which I propose, which I believe could be made stable, and which I further believe is the only stable one, demands a greater, a more necessary effort upon our side...

23. CHAPTER VII

To understand any problem one must study not only its real factors as they appear to a reasonable man who sees the whole affair steadily; one must also understand the insanities...

24. CHAPTER VIII

The Bolshevist explosion, which will appear in history I think as the point of departure from which shall date the new attitude of the Western nations towards the Jews, is not o...

27. CHAPTER XI

It has been argued, as a purely Jewish matter; there has been debate upon its justice or injustice among the Jews themselves, as to its advantage or disadvantage to their race;...

26. CHAPTER X

The various nations of Europe have every one of them, in the course of their long histories, passed through successive phases towards the Jew which I have called the tragic cycl...

17. CHAPTER I

It is the thesis of this book that the continued presence of the Jewish nation intermixed with other nations alien to it presents a permanent problem of the gravest character: t...

31. CHAPTER XV

If it be true that the friction between the Jew and the civilization in which he lives is aggravated by his habit of secrecy and by our disingenuousness, by his expression of a...

29. CHAPTER XIII

Where positive causes have been found for an evil it is obvious that the cure of that evil consists in the removal of the causes, in so far as they can be removed.

6. CHAPTER VI

This department of our inquiry often neglected through an error--it is presumed that, because we are the hosts and the Jew alien to us, no responsibility falls on us--this error...

4. CHAPTER IV

The strain between Jewry and its hosts in Islam and Christendom much older than any modern cause can account for--the true causes are both general and particular--I call those _...

2. CHAPTER II

In the immediate past the problem was shirked in Western Europe by a mere denial of its existence--some were honestly ignorant of the existence of a Jewish nation--some thought...

3. CHAPTER III

The Jewish problem, present throughout history, has assumed a particular character to-day--it is the character of a sharp reaction against the old pretence that Jews were identi...

1. CHAPTER I

The Jews are an alien body within the society they inhabit--hence irritation and friction--a problem is presented by the strains thus set up--the solution of that problem is urg...

15. CHAPTER XIV

The theory that the Jews are the necessary _flux_ of Europe, without which our energies would decline--note on the intellectual independence of the Jew and on his original effec...

10. CHAPTER IX

The Jewish problem varies (1) according to the extent to which Jews have acquired control and domination in various places; (2) according to the tradition of each community in a...

7. CHAPTER VII

Error of neglecting to study Anti-Semitism on account of its extravagance--it is a most significant thing, however ill-balanced--character of the Anti-Semite--he does not recogn...

5. CHAPTER V

I have called "Special" causes of Friction those which are remedial at will by either party--they would seem to be, on the Jewish side, the habit of secrecy and the habit of exp...

11. CHAPTER X

England has gone to both extremes with the Jew. The Jew in the Roman time and in the Middle Ages--his monopoly of Usury in _early_ Middle Ages--The exile of all English Jews und...

9. Chapter III) "_a_ Jewish movement, _but not a movement

The Revolution not the result of an accident or of a universal plot--element of racial revenge--the Jew not a revolutionary--special character of the Russian situation--Industri...

12. CHAPTER XI

The chief interest of the Zionist experiment lies in its reaction upon the _international_ position of the Jew--yet that point is not yet discussed--what will be the effect of t...

13. CHAPTER XII

This but a consequence of the conditions established in Chapters IV, V and VI--our double duty of mixing with the Jews and of recognizing their separate nationality--necessity o...

16. CHAPTER XV

Granted that the solution I advance (a full recognition of separate nationality) is the just solution, should it be expressed in law?--Not, I think, until it has first appeared...

14. CHAPTER XIII

Only a brief mention--for interference or advice in domestic concerns of Jewry would be an impertinence--but it is clear that all specially Jewish institutions favour the right...

8. CHAPTER VIII