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
If even a vestige of decency, or the slightest appreciation of good
taste remained, the Jews who control the theaters would see that the
American public must eventually gag on such things. When two Jewish
comedians who have been indulging in always vulgar and often indecent
antics, appear before the drop curtain and sing the Yiddish incantation
“Eli, Eli,” which, of course, is incomprehensible to the major part of
the audience, the Jewish element always betrays a high pitch of
excitement. They understand the game that is being played: the
“Gentiles” are being flayed to their face, and they don’t know it; as
when a Yiddish comedian pours out shocking invectives on the name of
Jesus Christ, and “gets away with it,” the Jewish portion of his
audience howling with delight, and the “boob Gentiles” looking serenely
on and feeling it to be polite to laugh and applaud too!
This Yiddish chant is the rallying cry of race hatred which is being
spread abroad by orders of the Jewish leaders. You, if you are a
theatergoer, help to pay the expense of getting yourself roundly damned.
The Kehillah and the American Jewish Committee which for more than ten
years have been driving all mention of Christianity out of public life,
under their slogan “This Is Not a Christian Country,” are spreading
their own type of Judaism everywhere with insolence unparalleled.
“Eli, Eli” is not a religious hymn! It is a racial war cry. In the low
cafés of New York, where Bolshevik Jews hang out, “Eli, Eli” is their
song. It is the Marseillaise of Jewish solidarity. It has become the
fanatical chant of all Jewish Bolshevik clubs; it is constantly heard in
Jewish coffee houses and cabarets where emotional Russian and Polish
Jews—all enemies to all government—shout the words amid torrential
excitement. When you see the hymn in point you are utterly puzzled to
understand the excitement it rouses.
And this rallying cry has now been obtruded into the midst of the
theatrical world.
The term “incantation” here used is used advisedly. The term is used by
Kurt Schindler, who adapted the Yiddish hymn to American use. And its
effect is that of an incantation.
In translation it is as follows:
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
With fire and flame they have burnt us,
Everywhere they have shamed and derided us
Yet none amongst us has dared depart
From our Holy Scriptures, from our Law.
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
By day and night I only yearn and pray,
Anxiously keeping our Holy Scriptures
And praying, Save us, save us once again!
For the sake of our fathers and our father’s fathers!
“Listen to my prayer and to my lamenting,
For only Thou canst help, Thou, God, alone,
For it is said, ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord is Our God,
The Lord is One!’”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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