Israel Among The Nations - A Study Of The Jews And Antisemitism

AMONG THE NATIONS A STUDY OF THE JE V AND ANTISEMITISM BY r JLE LEROY-BEAULIEU TRANSLATED BY FRANCES HELLMAN AUTHORISED EDITION FOR THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAMS SONS LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 1895 COPYRIGHT, 1895 BY G. P. PUTNAMS SONS Entered at Stationers Hall, London Sbe ftnfcftetttcfter pro, flew ttocftelle, . CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH VERSION . . XI PREFACE ........ xvii CHAPTER I. NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OP THE JEWS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES .... Their Emancipation by the French Revolution A I arge Number are still Subject to Special I aws The Centre of Gravity of Israel How the Historic Currents of Jewish Migrations have been Turned back Revival of Hatred against the Jews Antisemitism The Three Principal Aspects of the Jewish Question. CHAPTER II. THE OLDEST GRIEVANCE AGAINST THE JEWS, THE RELIGIOUS GRIEVANCE ... 13 I. Accusations Brought against Judaism and the Tal mud Characteristics of Judaism Its Moral Code The Talmud its Origin, its Authority The Mishna and the Ghemara The Halakha and the Haggada The Hatred of the Goim and the Two Moral Codes of the Jew What the Talmud has been to Judaism H. and Superstitions Hostile to the Jews Murder. iii iv Contents. CHAPTER III. PACK THE JEWS, CHRISTIANITY, AND MODERN IDEAS . 43 I. In a Sense, Antisemitism is the Counterpart of Anti clericalism Antisemitism is Another Kulturkampf II. What Share have the Jews in the Evolution of Modern Society Are they the Main Factors in the De-christianising of Nations The Jew, Hebraism, and the Revolution As Regards Social Tendencies the Modern Jew is Receptive, not Originative III. The Conservative Spirit of the Great Jewish Communities The Modern Spirit Insinuatesitself into them from the Outside The Jew is De-judaising himself at the Same Time that the Christian is De-christianising him selfIn what Respect our Civilisation is a Peril to Judaism For this Reason it is Impossible that Modern Society should be Judaised. CHAPTER IV. THE JEWS AND THE NATIONAL GRIEVANCE ARYANS AND SEMITES 72 I. Israel Threatens to De-nationalise the Modern Na tions Why did the Antisemitic Movement Originate in the New German Empire The Jew Regarded as a Stranger Antiquity of this Grievance II. Why did the Jews, after their Dispersion, still Continue to Form a People Analogous Instances Identification of Religion and Nationality in the East III. Can Race and Nationality be Regarded as Identical in the West Are Any Modern Races of Unmixed Blood Are the Semites the only Non-Aryan Element among us What do we Mean by Semitic Race IV. Of the An tagonism between the Aryan and the Semitic Spirit What the Difference between them Amounts to Has a Christian the Right to I ook upon the Semites as an Inferior Race Contents. v CHAPTER v. FACE ARE THE JEWS PURE SEMITES . IOO I. Israels Blood does not Seem to be Free from All Admixture Proselytes in Olden Times Their Import ance, their DiffusionOther Converts The Khazars The Fear of Conversion to Judaism as One of the Causes of the Restriction of the Jews Judaising Sects II. The Semitic Type It is not Equally Pronounced in All Jews there are at least Several Sub-Types Karaites and Samaritans Jews by Religion who do not Appear to be Jews by Race Sephardim and Askenazim How and Why they Differ The Modern Jew is the Artificial Product of the System of Sequestration. CHAPTER VI. THE JEW IS THE PRODUCT OF HIS TRADITION AND HIS LAW 123 I.The Influence of the Jewish Law and Observances on the Race Judaism is as much a Religion of the Body as of the Soul Ceremonial Rules and Legal Cleanness II How the Talmud, as well as the Ghetto, Tended to Strengthen the Tribal Spirit In what Man ner their Rites Isolated the Jews from the Gentiles In Order to Become a Modern Man, the Jew must De-Rabbinise Himself IIL Gradual Transformation of, Judaism How it Emancipated Itself, Little by Little, from Talmudic Formalism Conditions and Difficulties of this Religious Evolution IV...