The Jewish Problem - Its Relation to American Ideals and Interests: In The Century Magazine, September 1921 (Bound Volume 102)

Gibbons, Herbert Adams; et al

Edité par The Century Co., United States, 1921

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This eight-page article entitled 'The Jewish Problem' appeared on pages 785-792 of the September 1921 issue, Vol. 102, of The Century Magazine. In it, Gibbons "presents vigorously one aspect of the anti-Zionist point of view." - Editor. "The articles of the Dearborn 'Independent', cannot be passed over with a laugh or answered by a denunciation of the motives of the Detroit manufacturer who inspires them. The Ford campaign is symptomatic of a condition that is new in the United Statres. Mr. Ford did not create this condition. He has aggravated it, of course, but if the minds of the American people were not ready for what the Dearborn 'Independent' has asserted, Mr. Ford's 'International Jew' would have been laughed out of existence in the same way Mr. Ford's peace ship was. The Jews who feel that there is this racial prejudice are victims of their own imagination, and have brought the idea with them from Europe. When we had fifty thousand Jews in the United States, their whole-hearted devotion to commerce and banking, while noticeable, was not alarming. Now that we have more than 3,300,000, a good half of whom have not gone fifteen miles from Ellis Island, and only a few thousand of whom are tilling the soil, we can no longer say that we have not a Jewish question in America. We have. The student of Jewish life in Europe has grave misgivings that the old story of putting the Jew within the pale is going to repeat itself in America. But if this occurs, it will be, as it has not been in the past, only the fault of the Jew himself. Call it by whatever name you will and explain it as you will, the Zionist movement tends to emphasize in the immigrant what makes him unfit for American citizenship." - excerpts from pages 786-791. "Herbert Adams Gibbons (1880-1934) was an American missionary and journalist. Between 1908 and 1934, he was a foreign correspondent for several large New York newspapers and his writings were syndicated in eighty U.S. newspapers. He and his wife saw the effects of the pre-World War I Armenian genocide and Greek genocide events and are credited with saving many lives in 1909. He was noted for his belief in cultural assimilation for ethnic minorities, and for his concomitant opposition to Zionism, which he thought would lead to an increase in anti-Semitism." - Wikipedia. Moderate wear to this sturdy hardbound volume. Singerman 119. ; 8vo.

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• Titre: The Jewish Problem - Its Relation to American Ideals and Interests: In The Century Magazine, September 1921 (Bound Volume 102)
• Éditeur: The Century Co., United States
• Date de parution: 1921
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket As Issued
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