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
One of the most notable studies of the Jewish Question has come out of
the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. It is entitled
“Zionism and the Jewish Problem,” the author being the Rev. Dr. John P.
Peters, formerly canon residentiary of the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine, Morningside Heights, New York, also rector emeritus of St.
Michael’s Church, New York, and professor of New Testament Languages and
Literature in the University of the South. The article has been
reprinted from the Sewanee _Review_ and makes a brochure of 29 pages.
Dr. Peters begins with an historical sketch of the development of the
two lines of thought among the Jews, the nationalistic which made for
exclusiveness, and the religions which made for inclusiveness, and he
describes the domination of the latter by the former with the coming of
modern Zionism which he finds to be racial and not religious. He says
“the dominant control of the Zionist party is at present in the hands of
those who are not religious but merely racial Jews.” He believes that
the development of race consciousness along these lines “must be
inevitably in the end to make the Jews bad citizens of the United States
or of any other country and to keep alive and increase the hostility to
the Jews....”
This monograph by Dr. Peters will repay study. By permission, THE
DEARBORN INDEPENDENT reprints the article from page 20 to the end, this
portion being selected because it deals with Dr. Peters’ testimony as an
eyewitness of certain conditions in Palestine: (The italics are ours,
there being none in the university reprint.)
“The experiment of the Zionist homeland is now being tried. It is too
early to determine fully how it will work, but it is at least of
interest to consider its manifestations so far. My earliest contact with
Zionism and Zionistic influences in Palestine dates from 1902. When I
first visited Palestine, in 1890, the Jews in Jerusalem were almost
exclusively of old oriental Sephardic families. Jerusalem was then still
the old Jerusalem within the walls. There were no houses without. Jewish
colonization, economic and philanthropic in character, had just then
begun on the Sharon plain, but what little there was in the way of
colonization was a feeble, unsuccessful exotic—an attempt to replace the
persecuted Jews of Russia on the land, where, however, the Jew, unused
to manual and especially farm labor, sat under an umbrella to protect
himself from the sun and engaged native Syrians to do the work.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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