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The Jews

Hilaire Belloc

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .the shape of a positive law—a monstrous anachronism. A man must meet his friends' friends and treat them as a normal part of the general society in which he moves. As the Jew permeated the society of the West everywhere (small though his numbers were in the West), as he everywhere intermarried with Europeans of the wealthier class, to insist in his presence upon his separate nationality would have been odious; it would have been like making a guest feel out of place in one's home.

What is more, to by far the greater part of the[Pg 31] wealthier and governing classes of the Western States the difference of race was so far masked that it had almost come to be forgotten. Sometimes a shock would revive it. An English squire would find, for instance, that a relation of his by marriage, whose Jewish name and descent he had never bothered about, was cousin to, and in close connection with, a person of a totally different name—an Oriental name—mixed up . . . Read More

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Amazing how this book was published in 1922. Belloc had predicted many things that later actually happened, many of which are still relevant today (which is very sad and reminds us of the world we live in, unfortunately). The accusation of Belloc being "anti-Semitic," is unfounded. His writing addre

Let me start off by saying that if you think this book is rascist then you are falling into the same problem that Belloc is crying out against when he wrote "The Jews" in 1922. We need to talk about problems, issues, frictions in society even when these problems are based around race, nationality, s

Hilaire Belloc was a first rate historian. Thus one should read him as such. Not to take his analysis at face value but to consider his arguments and think about them even if you are tempted to do so here and there.
This book, written in 1922, is very useful regarding the importance of the role the J

I read this because I wanted to understand what "mainstream" anti-Semitism looked like in the 1930s before the Holocaust. I was shocked at how pervasive it seems, and I was also shocked to read in this book how pervasive it seemingly was _not_ at the end of the 19th Century. Thus there is recent his

An extraordinarily depressing book, Belloc's The Jews, published in 1922, reads a little bit as if it was written 20 or 30 years from now. Belloc writes at a time when the "liberal" attitude towards the Jewish people (that they were essentially no different from the other peoples among whom they liv

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