Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn IndependentFord, Henry
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Jewish influences in American life : $b volume III of the International Jew, the world's foremost problem : being a reprint of a third selection from articles appearing in the Dearborn Independent
Ford, Henry
Antisemitic literature; Jews -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
This exclusiveness goes down through all human relations. The Jew has
one counsel for non-Jews and another for himself in these matters. Of
the non-Jew he demands as a right what he looks down upon as shady
privilege. He uses the Ghetto as a club with which to bludgeon the
non-Jew for his “bigotry,” when as a fact he chooses the Ghetto for
well-defined racial reasons. He condemns the non-Jew for the exclusion
of the Jew from certain sections of society, when as a Jew his whole
care is to keep himself unspotted from that very society to which he
seeks entrance. The Jew insists on breaking down non-Jewish
exclusiveness while keeping his own. The non-Jewish world is to be
public and common, the Jewish world is to be kept sacrosanct. Read the
teachings of this enlightened leader of Jewry as published by the B’nai
B’rith.
He favors the public school for non-Jewish children, not for Jewish
children; they are to be kept separate; they are the choice stock of the
earth:
“Because the government tenders free education, it does not follow that
it must be accepted; if education be made compulsory, it does not follow
that government schools must be attended.... As a citizen I favor free
schools, because the education they afford, imperfect as it is, is
better than none, and society is benefited thereby; but as an individual
I prefer to pay to support free schools and send my children to more
select places.” (Page 253) He speaks of the fact that “all classes of
children frequent the public schools” as an argument against Jewish
children going there.
“In my judgment, Jewish children should be educated in Jewish schools.”
(page 254) “Not only is it a positive and direct advantage to educate
our children as Jews, but it is absolutely necessary to our
preservation. Experience has shown that our young people will be weaned
from our people if allowed indiscriminately to associate with the
Gentiles.” (Page 255)
Discussing the possibility of Jews losing their crudeness, Mr. Levi
asks, “How shall we best accomplish that end?” Then he quotes the
frequent answer: “Since the exemplars of gentility most abound among the
Gentiles, we should associate with them as much as possible, in order to
wear our own rudeness away.” He meets the suggestion this way:
“If gentlemen were willing to meet all Jews on a parity because they are
Jews, we should doubtless derive much benefit from such association.
But, while it is true that no gentleman refuses association with another
because that other is a Jew, he will not, as a rule, associate with a
Jew unless he be a gentleman. As we are far from being all gentlemen, we
cannot reasonably expect to be admitted as a class into good society.
So, better keep by ourselves,” concludes Mr. Levi. (Page 260)
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