The American Journal of Politics - v. 4 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WHY IS THE JEW HATED? BY RABBI ADOLPH MOSES " " 7HY is the Jew Hatedt" This question has in a spirit V V of fairness been recently propounded by the Detroi... more »t Free Press to enlightened Jews. The writer is evidently a high- minded man, who is himself free from religious, racial, and social prejudice. He is amazed by the multiplying signs of fierce hatred against the Jews spreading among the masses in Germany and other European countries. He is also aware of the fact that there is even in our country a vast deal of hidden or open prejudice against the Jews, manifesting itself in many ways. He invites Jews of a philosophical turn of mind to dig down to the roots, from which the poison tree of anti-Semitism springs. Were its parent causes once known, remedial means might be applied to them. With the removal of the causes, the effects would in course of time disappear of themselves. In making an attempt on my part to explain the existence of prejudices against the Jews, of hate open or covert, brutal or perfidiously insinuating, I will endeavor to do so in a spirit of calmness, without anger and bitterness, dealing with the matter as if it were no more nor no less than any other question in sociology. Like all other phenomena in nature and human life, the prejudices cherished by so many people against the Jews are due to more than one cause. But as the chiefest, the most mischievous, and most abiding of all the causes, we must consider the pernicious influence which the preaching of most Christian ministers regarding Jews and Judaism has had on the mind and heart of young and old. Jew-hating and Jew-baiting are mainly the effect of seventeen hundred years of what is miscalled Christian preaching against the Jews. The lying and corrupt later Greeks, the cruel and brutal Rom...« less