Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Aspects of Jewish power in the United States $b : volume IV of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a fourth selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
“I have looked this year and last for something in your paper
about the prayer which the Jews say at their New Year. But you
say nothing. Can it be you have not heard of the Kol Nidre?”
“Lately in three cities I have heard a Jewish religious hymn
sung in the public theaters. This was in New York, Detroit and
Chicago. Each time the program said ‘by request.’ Who makes the
request? What is the meaning of this kind of propaganda? The
name of the hymn is ‘Eli.’”
The Jewish year just passed has been described by a Jewish writer in the
_Jewish Daily News_ as the Year of Chaos. The writer is apparently
intelligent enough to ascribe this condition to something besides
“anti-Semitism.” He says, “the thought that there is something wrong in
Jewish life will not down,” and when he describes the situation in the
Near East, he says, “The Jew himself is stirring the mess.” He indicts
the Jewish year 5681 on 12 counts, among them being, “mismanagement in
Palestine,” “engaging in internal warfare,” “treason to the Jewish
people,” “selfishness,” “self-delusion.” “The Jewish people is a sick
people,” cries the writer, and when he utters a comfortable prophecy for
the year 5682, it is not in the terms of Judah but in terms of “Kol
Yisroel”—All Israel—the terms of a larger and more inclusive unity which
gives Judah its own place, and its own place only, in the world. The
Jewish people are sick, to be sure, and the disease is the fallacy of
superiority, with its consequent “foreign policy” against the world.
When Jewish writers describe the year 5681 as the Year of Chaos, it is
an unconscious admission that the Jewish people are ripening for a
change of attitude. The “chaos” is among the leaders; it involves the
plans which are based on the old false assumptions. The Jewish people
are waiting for leaders who can emancipate them from the thralldom of
their self-seeking masters in the religious and political fields. The
enemies of the emancipation of Judah are those who profit by Judah’s
bondage, and these are the groups that follow the American Jewish
Committee and the political rabbis. When a true Jewish prophet
arises—and he should arise in the United States—there will be a great
sweeping away of the selfish, scheming, heartless Jewish leaders, a
general desertion of the Jewish idea of “getting” instead of “making,”
and an emergence of the true idea submerged so long.
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