THE INTERNATIONAL JEW
The World's Foremost Problem
Being a Reprint of a Series of Articles Appearing in The Dearborn
Independent from May 22 to October 2, 1920
November, 1920
Preface
Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question in other countries.
The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for a long time. Jews themselves have known this, even if Gentiles have not. There have been periods in our own country when it has broken forth with a sullen sort of strength which presaged darker things to come. Many signs portend that it is approaching an acute stage.
Not only does the Jewish Question touch those matters that are of common knowledge, such as financial and commercial control, usurpation of political power, monopoly of necessities, and autocratic direction of the very news that the American people read; but it reaches into cultural regions and so touches the very heart of American life.
This question reaches down into South America and threatens to become an important factor in Pan-American relations. It is interwoven with much of the menace of organized and calculated disorder which troubles the nations today. It is not of recent growth, but its roots go deep, and the long Past of this Problem is counterbalanced by prophetic hopes and programs which involve a very deliberate and creative view of the Future.
This little book is the partial record of an investigation of the Jewish Question. It is printed to enable interested readers to inform themselves on the data published in The Dearborn Independent prior to Oct. 1, 1920. The demand for back copies of the paper was so great that the supply was exhausted early, as was also a large edition of a booklet containing the first nine articles of the series. The investigation still proceeds, and the articles will continue to appear as heretofore until the work is done.
The motive of this work is simply a desire to make facts known to the people. Other motives have, of course, been ascribed to it. But the motive of prejudice or any form of antagonism is hardly strong enough to support such an investigation as this. Moreover, had an unworthy motive existed, some sign of it would inevitably appear in the work itself. We confidently call the reader to witness that the tone of these articles is all that it should be. The International Jew and his satellites, as the conscious enemies of all that Anglo-Saxons mean by civilization, are not spared, nor is that unthinking mass which defends anything that a Jew does, simply because it has been taught to believe that what Jewish leaders do is Jewish. Neither do these articles proceed upon a false emotion of brotherhood and apology, as if this stream of doubtful tendency in the world were only accidentally Jewish. We give the facts as we find them; that of itself is sufficient protection against prejudice or passion.
This volume does not complete the case by any means. But it brings the reader along one step. In future compilations of these and subsequent articles the entire scope of the inquiry will more clearly appear.
October, 1920.
Contents
I. The Jew in Character and Business
II. Germany's Reaction Against the Jew
III. Jewish History in the U. S.
IV. The Jewish Question—Fact or Fancy?
V. Anti-Semitism—Will It Appear In the U. S.
VI. Jewish Question Breaks Into the Magazines
VII. Arthur Brisbane to the Help of Jewry
VIII. Does a Definite Jewish World Program Exist?
IX. The Historic Basis of Jewish Imperialism
X. An Introduction to the "Jewish Protocols"
XI. "Jewish" Estimate of Gentile Human Nature
XII. "Jewish Protocols" Claim Partial Fulfillment
XIII. "Jewish" Plan to Split Society by "Ideas"
XIV. Did the Jews Foresee the World War?
XV. Is the Jewish "Kahal" the Modern "Soviet"?
XVI. How the "Jewish Question" Touches the Farm
XVII. Does Jewish Power Control the World Press?
XVIII. Does this Explain Jewish Political Power?
XIX. The All-Jewish Mark on "Red Russia"
XX. Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism
"Among the distinguishing mental and moral traits of the Jews may be mentioned: distaste for hard or violent physical labor; a strong family sense and philoprogenitiveness; a marked religious instinct; the courage of the prophet and martyr rather than of the pioneer and soldier; remarkable power to survive in adverse environments, combined with great ability to retain racial solidarity; capacity for exploitation, both individual and social; shrewdness and astuteness in speculation and money matters generally; an Oriental love of display and a full appreciation of the power and pleasure of social position; a very high average of intellectual ability."
—The New International Encyclopedia.