To understand the long time conflict between Jews and Europeans in Europe, this book is very helpful and informative understanding the situation, which most Americans don't understand. It was written by a well respected French Anglo author and poet and Catholic from the early 20th Century. But he is not anti-semitic or hateful of the Jews. He is neutral with good intentions and tried to help both sides, the Jews and Europeans, come to a peaceful resolution of their problems. Otherwise, he warned, another world war could develop (which he correctly predicted in the 1920s before WW2).
The book is called "The Jews" by Hilare Belloc. See the links below.
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"This defining work on Jews, Jewish ethnicity, behavior, impact, and the causes of anti-Semitism, remains one of the most ground-breaking and incisive such studies ever produced in the English language. The book-dedicated to Hilaire Belloc's Jewish friends-laid the blame for anti-Semitism squarely on Jewish behavior, that is, Gentile reaction to what he called the "inevitability of friction" caused by the presence of Jews in non-Jewish society. Belloc believed that if friction between Jews and Gentiles was not resolved, it would lead to a catastrophe. Starting with the thesis that "Jews are an alien body within the society they inhabit-hence irritation and friction," and are a clearly identifiable and definable race, Belloc argued that the only solution was a "recognition on both sides of a separate Jewish nationality." He said that "denial of the problem" was a "fiction" which had broken down because of the obviousness of the "great increase of [Jewish] power" in Western nations. He explains his thesis through a historical survey of Jewish behavior, including a review of what he called "the Jewish revolution in Russia" (the 1917 Bolshevist uprising which created the Soviet Union), and Jewish activities in Central Europe and the United States-where he highlights the work of Henry Ford as having "great effect." He also provides a detailed description of Jewish influence in England. Belloc's conclusion is that Zionism, or the creation of a Jewish homeland, offered the only hope for a realistic solution to the problem of the "endless tragic cycle of anti-Semitism"-but not in Palestine, where he predicted it would cause conflict with the Arab world."
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"Written by Hilaire Belloc The Jews is one of his political works and is also probably one of his most controversial. Belloc was a prolific English writer of French descent and one of the most well published authors of the twentieth century. Belloc wrote in different styles and about a wide range of topics, but was probably most well known for his poetry and his writing on history, politics, and economics.
In The Jews, Belloc argues that the status of the Jews in Europe, as a people without a home, will surely lead to conflict and that it is critically important to find a recognized and segregated land for these people. Written in 1922, not long after the conclusion of the Great War and in the beginning stages of the long lead-up to World War Two, Belloc's words can today be interpreted as near prophetic. Over the course of 300 pages, Belloc examines the issue from a variety of angles. Chapters include an examination of the causes of friction between the Jewish people and Christians and Muslims, anti-Semitism, Bolshevism, the position of Jews in England, and much more. The book concludes with Belloc's suggested solution to the issue, which is the complete recognition of a separate Jewish nationality.
Many of Belloc's writings have been considered controversial, and this title is no different. The Jews has been accused of being anti-Semitic, although the modern reader may not agree with this assessment. As with any book that has attracted controversy, it is ultimately up to the individual reader to determine how they feel about the author's views.
The Jews is a fascinating political commentary and one that discusses an issue that remains relevant to this day. Belloc's fears of great conflict in Europe are seemingly prophetic when read in modern times. For those interested in political commentary, particularly about the place of the Jewish people in the world, The Jews is an illuminating read."
Some good reviews of the book:
"Ronluck
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent insight into the state of refined European anti-semitism at ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2017
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Excellent insight into the state of refined European anti-semitism at the turn of the 20th century, from a Catholic, who appreciated what Jews brought to the Intellectual life of Europe, prior to the Holocaust, but also how the Jews antagonized Europeans. He wrote this book more as a warning to Jews that ill will was growing and would soon lash out and engulf them.
He perceived Jews, perhaps rightly, as an alien body living withn and among the Euorpean nations that would either moderate its impact or suffer retaliation.
Belloc seems more concerned then hateful, pleading with Jews, as outsiders, an alien presence, inside the body politic to change their ways and fit in, before Europeans murderously turned on them. As he is writing a mere 15 years before the promulgation of the Nuremberg laws - which cribbed much of its rules segregating Jews from Aryans inthe southern American States
Americans are mainly ignorant of the origins of so much of what made Nazi Germany so vile, came from the Democat controled Southern stats.
The much ballyhooed Saint of Abortion, Margaret Sanger, whose Planned Parenthood provided much of the basis and scientific gloss required for killing the German Handicapted, the Anti-Jewish laws of the 1930's and for the wholesale murder of Jews in the wrok and Death camps of the 1940's.
Dr. Sanger saw the mentally deficient among which she placed American Blacks, as "weeds" among the garden of humans, which were better encouraged to die out.
His criticisms actually boil down to two - Jews are arrogant and they hide their Jewish "Identity" from non-Jews.
On the other hand he is actually quite generaous with his compliments. He is like a friendly teacher, pleading with his headstrong Jewish students, to not overwhelm those around them with their intellectual brillanceand abilties, gather great fortunes in relatively little time, (Often losing them within as short period of time - as opposed to Christians of wealth, who tend, he says, to retain their fortunes intact over centuries). Whether one agrees with Belloc, he was correct about the coming disaster faced by Jews, making reading his analysis useful.
Laura
5.0 out of 5 stars The Catholic Answer to the Jewish Question
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2017
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It is a fair and unbiased analysis of the Jewish question, which leads to a clearly understanding of both sides. The Jews, citizens of all nations, yet seemingly loyal to none; and the nations, wary of those who call themselves Jews, thus leading to Jews hiding their identity and purposes simply to be left in peace, though this isn't always to the benefit of their host nation.
Belloc outlines three possible solutions that nations might take:
Extermination(which he holds to be the most inhumane and least effective solution),
Deportation(which, though effective for a time, is still inhumane since many of the Jews are natural born citizens of their respective nations and have the right to remain),
Integration(which he holds as impossible due to the fact that the Jews have lived in Europe and the Middle East for two thousand years without converting to Christianity or Islam, and with the habit of constantly moving and the annoyance of their host nation(through wealth building and a noticeable sense of superiority).
In the end Belloc, acknowledges the uniqueness of the Jews in their inability to be tighted to any single nation. Yet, this uniqueness is overshadowed by the recent(in his time) creation of the Jewish state of Israel, its deportation of the native population, and the protected status given it by the British Empire. He goes on to say that the Jews will eventually have to come to a decision of whether to remain an ever moving people or band together as a race in order to hold on to Israel without the aid(or soldiers) of foreign nations. Till then, Israel will remain a burden to the West, and but a candle of the Jewish nation it could have been.
P.S. Belloc does not hate the Jews, and devotes a great deal of the book to addressing the rising sediment of antisemitism that rose in his time; yet acknowledges that the spreading of misinformation by the Jews, the rise of communism/cultural Marxism(seemly lead by Jews), and the general taboo imposed by polite society generally did nothing but fan the flames of hate against the Jews."