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...their mutual dislikes, suspicions and jealousies make a problem out of each other. Since about fifteen million of the earth's inhabitants happen to be Jews, it is quite inevitable that they should constitute as many million problems to the rest of the world. That is what we should naturally expect, and it is quite an unjustifiable optimism on our part to believe that it is every going to be otherwise. We can only hope that the world might some day realize that it is essentially the natural friction of human relationships that is commonly misnamed the Jewish problem. There...
...dispose of and remain at peace with himself, trying to maintain itself in a world which is inhospitable, if not altogether hostile, to it. In this uneven conflict of tradition with a foreign environment, of conscience with convenience, the Jew is faced with the real Jewish problem. I imagine that this real Jewish problem could be solved at once, for all Jews, and for all time, if we could be solved at once, for all Jews, and for all time, if we could start on a certain given day with a new generation of Jews and raise them in absolute...
...problem of the individual Jew, however, is quite distinct from the problem of the Jewish race as a whole. The problem of Judaism to the individual Jew, if not altogether a religious problem, shares of the nature of a religious problem, and can best be left to each individual to be solved by himself according to his own lights. The individual Jew, as a rule, will try to save as much as he can of his tradition in his adjustment to life; he will temporize, he will compromise, he will somehow patch up differences, for it is essentially...
...this naturally leads me to Zionism, I am touching upon a phase of Jewish life which is no longer a problem, no longer a subject of discussion, but an accomplished fact, though some people do no seem to realize it. Not long ago, a professor of a sister university, quite an eminent authority in his own field, published an article in the Atlantic Monthly, in which he questioned the Jewish historical rights to Palestine. But his present attempt to unmake the old history of the Jews is as whimsical as his earlier attempt to make a new history...
Speaking of the Jewish problem we can easily ignore Mr. Henry Ford, but we cannot afford to ignore Mr. G. K. Chesterton and his latest book, "The New Jerusalem." Mr. Chesterton has been acclaimed as what is popularly called an anti-Semite. I wonder if Mr. Chesterton has ever accepted that designation given him by some offended Jews. I can never think of him as an anti-Semite, for I always find that his views on the Jews, if only properly understood, properly modified, supplemented, and placed in their right setting, are not far from my own. I rather take...