The object of this book is explain the relation between the Jews and the nations around them in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. The author addresses problems and challenges of mutual life in mixed communities as well as cultural differences between Jewish community and Christian population. Contents: The Thesis of This Book The Denial of the Problem The Present Phase of the Problem The General Cause of Friction The Special Causes of Friction The Cause of Friction Upon Our Side The Anti-Semite Bolshevism The Position in the World as a Whole The Present Relation Between the English State and the Jews Zionism Our Duty Their Duty Various Theories Habit or Law?
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Hilaire Belloc. The Jews
The Jews
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE THESIS OF THIS BOOK
CHAPTER II. THE DENIAL OF THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER III. THE PRESENT PHASE OF THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER IV. THE GENERAL CAUSE OF FRICTION
CHAPTER V. THE SPECIAL CAUSES OF FRICTION
1. The Jewish Reliance upon Secrecy
2. The Expression of Superiority by the Jew
CHAPTER VI. THE CAUSE OF FRICTION UPON OUR SIDE
CHAPTER VII. THE ANTI-SEMITE
CHAPTER VIII. BOLSHEVISM
CHAPTER IX. THE POSITION IN THE WORLD AS A WHOLE
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER X. THE PRESENT RELATION BETWEEN THE ENGLISH STATE AND THE JEWS
CHAPTER XI. ZIONISM
CHAPTER XII. OUR DUTY
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER XIII. THEIR DUTY
CHAPTER XIV. VARIOUS THEORIES
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER XV. HABIT OR LAW?
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Hilaire Belloc
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If we are to stop that wheel from its perpetual and tragic turning, there seems to be no method save that for which I plead.
The opposition to it is diverse and formidable but can everywhere be reduced upon analysis to some form of falsehood. This falsehood takes the shape of denying the existence of the problem, of remaining silent upon it, or of pretending friendly emotions in public commerce which are belied by every phrase and gesture admitted in private. Or it takes the shape of defining the problem in false terms, in proclaiming it essentially religious whereas it is essentially national. Worst of all, it may be that very modern kind of falsehood, a statement of the truth accompanied by a statement of its contradiction, like the precious modern lie that one can be a patriot and at the same time international. In the case of the Jews, this particular modern lie takes the shape of admitting that they are wholly alien to us and different from us, of talking of them as such and even writing of them as such, and yet, in another connection, talking and writing of them as though no such violent contrast were present. That pretence of reconciling contradictions is the lie in the soul. Its punishment is immediate, for those who indulge it are blinded.
