The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1920-03-26

excellent and admirable traits, TOO.
But whether it have good or evil
traits, it is different, different in it's
characteristics from the other races
or ethnic groups in the midst of
which it finds itself, different, say,
from the Anglo-Saxon, or Celtic, or
Slavic, or Greek, or Latin groups. The
worlds antipathy to the Jew is, there
fore, racial antipathy. And one who
is himself inoculated with the views
of Jew-hatred is not slow in finding
all the evil qualities of the Jew to
justify his hostility. Hence all the
modern scurrilous attacks on the Jew
found in hundreds of volumes of anti
Semitic literature. The Jew is the
modern capitalistic parasite and ex-
ploiter, or the Jew is the modern revo-
lutionary and Bolshevist; the Jew is
addicted to peculiar vices and crimes;
the Jew is extensively cringing,
servile, and sycophantic; or the Jew
is obnoxiously proud, overbearing,
and domineering; the Jew is a Shy
lock, a miser and hoarder, or the
Jew is snowy and reckless spend
thrift, and so on ad nauseam.
Inc jewish race mas dlSClnct char
acter. InlS very IDEA OF a peculiar
racial character, with reference to
any human group that lives in close
touch and communion with other
groups, and finds itself on the same
lever OF civilization, and lives amidst
the same or similar conditions, in the
same or similar environment, is a
pure fiction, has absolutely no basis
in fact, and has had its origin in the
befuddled brain of journalistic would
be sociologists and theologists. 1t is
a downright absurdity to say that the
English, or the French, or the Italians,
or the Jews, or the Poles have such
and such trait of character that diff
ferentiates one group from the others.
Each ethnic group is made up of an
infinite variety Of human characters,
Of infinite shadings. In each human
group you find the good, the bad, and
the Indifferent, and if you cut cross
section of the entire group, or strike
an average, you will find that all
groups are very much alike. If a GER
tain group were to live for a very
long time in absolute isolation, and in
very different environment, it would
probably develop certain peculiar
characteristics, though these would
be only superficial, and would by no
means affect the essential human
qualities of it's members. But should
such a group emerge from it's isola-
ton, change it's habitat, and come in
to contact with other groups, it would
at once lose it's peculiarities, be they
superficial or deepseated, and would
assimilate itself to the other groups
of it's surroundings All this is so
natural, so reasonable, and so patent
ly in harmony with the real facts that
only shallow sciolists with pretense
of learning and knowledge can still
cling to the fiction of ethnic charac-
teristics.
What is the real character of the
or the Yankee, or
the Jew? You cannot produce a single
type of French Canadian or Yankee
character that we could not match
with the same type of character in
Jew. But you will say that certain
type predominates among the Cana
dams, or the Yankees, or the Jew.
How can you tell that without having
examined, and very closely and care
fully, too, at least majority Of all
the Canadians, all the Yankees, and