Anti-Semitism in the United States : $b Its history and causesLevinger, Lee J. (Lee Joseph)
History
Anti-Semitism in the United States : $b Its history and causes
Levinger, Lee J. (Lee Joseph)
Antisemitism -- United States; Jews -- United States
[93]The Jew is against the Gentile scheme of things. What are the
causes of this disruptive tendency? First, his essential lack of
democracy. Jewish nature is autocratic. [94]In a sense the United
States is private property. It is the property of those who share the
ideals of the founders of the government. And those ideals were ideals
held by a white race of Christians. And with most of these the
Jews not only disagree, but hold them in contempt. [95]The fathers
were the men of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic race ... who have given form
to every government and a livelihood to every people and an ideal to
every century. They got neither their God nor their religion from
Judah, nor yet their speech nor their creative genius—they are the
Ruling People, Chosen throughout the centuries to Master the world....
Into the camp of this race comes a people that has no civilization
to point to, no aspiring religion, no universal speech, no great
achievement in any realm but the realm of “get,” cast out of every
land that gave them hospitality, and these people endeavor to tell the
sons of the Saxons what is needed to make the world what it ought to
be.
3.
I shall devote very few words to showing that this race theory,
whether from the Nordic or any other angle, is composed of hasty and
unscientific generalizations, merely the rationalization of the group
prejudice whose actual background we are tracing. In the first place,
anthropologists are not at all agreed either on the definition or the
history of races. There seems, however, to be fairly general agreement
that there is no such thing as a pure race—certainly not the English
and probably not the Jews either. All sub-varieties of the white race
are greatly mixed in blood. For the Jewish side of this problem, an
interesting study is that of M. Fishberg, “The Jews, a Study of Race
and Environment,” where the author has demonstrated the many physical
types which appear in the Jewish people the world over, whether these
are due to local and climatic influences, or as Dr. Fishberg holds,
to interbreeding with other racial stocks. In the second place, even
such racial groupings as can be roughly established vary indefinitely
and overlap indefinitely in every physical and mental characteristic.
There is no considerable body of people who conform to the Nordic
type—blond, tall, long-headed, and so on. No test has ever been devised
which can adequately compare the intelligence of different races, for
every intelligence test yet invented presupposes a certain cultural and
language background, and is therefore favorable to the group which has
this background, and certain to give a low intelligence quotient
to any different cultural group, whatever be its race or its potential
intellectual power.
As Jean Finot sums up the entire theory in his book, “Race Prejudice”:
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