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and utterly dependent neurotic may
he cruel to the very person he loves
best, while the prccox may without
the least sign of emotion commit the
most atrocious murder. But it is not
By DR. ISRAEL S. WECHSLER
so well known, although modern and
especially Freudian psychology has
Both Christians and Jews have suf. false religion that keeps him from harped on it long enough, that men-
resod from the malady of anti-Semit- becoming as good a man as his Chris- tal blindness may and does exist
ism for nearly 1,800 years. For as tian neighbor. If he would reject his among normal and intelligent beings.
many years attempts have been made Christ-killer ancestry and forswear It may even be confidently asserted
to understand and to cure this social allegiance to a deluded past he would that some degree of dissociation is
disease. Why have all efforts failed? be admitted as an equal. To be sure, characteristic of all normal thinking.
Because even the most "honest" have he belongs to an inferior race, he is How else can we reconcile the beliefs
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quire into the instinctive and emo- tude. In the second view, the Jewish
religion was a great religion and the comes from life; or the belief in the
lion causes of anti-Semitism. Per-
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re. teachings of Jesus with the waging
haps this was hitherto impossible. Jewish race a noble race. (The
cent worship of the Nordic cult has of devastating wars? To call such
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The world has only recently come to
come to torment the adherents of this men unintelligent is absurd, and to
learn the meaning of the wild uncon- view.) Judaism was great enough to say that they are hypocrites is to beg
scious currents which sway all human
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give birth to the ideal Christian re- the question. We all have thought-
actions. The Christian could not un-
ligion, and the Hebrews gave to the tight compartments and hermetically
- • derstand or deal with the phenome-
world Moses, David, Isaiah art; Christ. sealed mental rubrics: The human
non because his own emotional life
mind has a great many single tracks
was too deeply bound up with it. The But the modern Jew, the degenerate which do not often converge, except
son
of a once superior but now hybrid
Jew could as little understand or deal
a at the power-station of the emotions.
race
and
the
deluded
follower
of
with it because he was the blind ob-
And there shunting is rather difficult.
ject of its fury. Every explanation once glorious religion, is persona non
But the recognition alone of these
grata. According to this view, the
has been in essence a justification.
facts does not sufficiently explain the
It is my firm conviction that the Jew as 'an individual is to be exclud- depth of the roots of anti-Semitism,
cause of anti-Semitism is not con- ed from social intercourse and espe- nor point the way to the solution of
scious or intellectual or social or cially social position. His objestional the problem. It is more important
racial (allowing even for the pseudo- qualities as a man and, cqntraiie- to realize that perhaps nobody, nei-
scientific views now so widely enter- torily enough, his belonging to a ther Jew nor Christian, really wants
tained about "racial" differences), group which has all these objection- to eradicate anti-Semitism. The vast
but almost entirely emotional and un- able qualities, render him unfit for majority could not if they would. Ap-
conscious in nature. I am further of admission to Christian society, not to parently this social phenomenon
the opinion that anti-Semitism is both speak of recognition as an equal.
Let us call attention to some of the serves a very useful purpose, else it
an individual and social neurosis and
would long ago have ceased to exist.
that we must seek in psycho-pathol- more common contradictions in order All the explanations of the phenom-
ogy an explanation of its genesis and to show the nature of the arguments enon of anti-Semitism in the Chris-
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tian world can truly come under Bert-
There are two fairly distinct types trying to solve the problem by so- rand Russell's definition of philoso-
called reason and logic and intellect
anti-Semitism,
although
they
are
• of
phy, namely, "The concoction of
frequently seen to merge into each alone.
The Jew is said to adhere to a plausible reason for useful error."
other. One, the older, is the conti-
Enough has been said to show that
nental or Germanic type; and the worn-out religion and to worship false
other, the more recent, may be called gods at the same time he clings to the question cannot be decided by ap-
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the Anglo-Saxon or perhaps the the ideal of the purest monotheism. peal to reason alone. The contradic-
American type. The first represents Ile is a moral person who leads a tions are too glaring; the emotional
the view that the Jew as an individual clean home life, and has a low sense resistances to a solution too strong.
is not bad but that his view of life of honesty and morality in his deal- Past methods both of diagnosis and
and especially his religion is wrong; ings with his neighbors. Ile is the treatment have proved faulty. Per-
the second holds that the Jewish re- shining example of a continuous so- haps recourse to new, more psycholo-
r
ligion and the Jewish race are good, cial group, closely knitted in his com- gical methods will effect a sounde
but that the individual Jew is unde- munal life, and he is a rebel, a revo- orientation anal point the way to a
better understanding of the problem.
lutionist,
an
iconoclast,
a
breaker-up
sirable.
It may be admitted at the outset ,
The Germanic view is illustrated of society. Ile is par excellence the
capitalist exploiter and the financial if we are ever to deal honestly wit h
by the doggerel:
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slavedriver of humanity, and he seeks the question, that in the Jew lies th
to disrupt and subvert the capitalist external cause of anti-Semitism.
Ob Jud ob Christ ist einerlei,
11.)
Im Judentum liegt die Schweienerei. social structures of centuries. He is mean the Jew as an historic entity
a staunch socialist and Bolshevik, and Not the individual Jew alone, with
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and anarchist. Ile is educated and religion alone—nor the "stranger'
one mess,
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polished and cultured, and he is low alone. For neither Buddhism, no
In Judaism lies the filthiness.)
and vulgar and loud. Ile furnishes a Ildohammedanism, nor Confucianism
According to this view it is the large number of superior types of nor the Hindu or Arab or Chinese ha
Jew's pigheadedness in adhering to a geniuses, and has a greater number aroused similar persistent reactions
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of mental and moral defectives. lie To the admission that the Jew acts a
is shy and meek and afraid, and he is the immediate exciting cause of anti
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is opprobriously designated as Phari- plea of guilty to nearly all the con
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But what do these admissions im
ducee and hypocrite. He is of noble
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and is a mongrel among races. He will act as an irritant and awaken
is a coward and a brave man. He hostile reaction in toher racial group s.
has the oldest conception of national and secondly, that as an individu s
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unity, but does not know the mean- he is all too human and has all th
ing of patriotism. He is cunning an d vices and the virtues of the muc
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these contradictions. A pertinent acted upon. Just as a match cann
question is, how can they be made cause an explosion unless there
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are apparently intelligent, and why become an active agent if the Chn
do also seemingly intelligent persons tian world were not filled with e
apologize and defend themselves plosive stuff. Nor need the admissi
when they are faced with these con- that the Jew is heir to human frail
tradictions? The answer is not dif- be any justification at all for t
ficult. Psychology has made familiar Jew's fate, because his Christi
varied type of dissociations in mental neighbor obviously has at least
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that an insane man may believe he the past, so does the Jew bring
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is a king though he wears rags, or and say that if you scratch a Ch
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proclaim himself a Croesus and beg tian you always find a pagan a t
barbarian.
for a penny. Likewise the helpless frequently a
Perhaps the outstanding featur
of the problem are that it is univ e
sal, that it has persisted for centuri
and that it promises to continue f
an indefinite period. The wise Ge
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the illiterate, the cultured and t
vulgar, the gentleman and the lo
the modern and the primitive, t
conservative and the radical, the
liever and the agnostic, all have f t
or expressed this aversion of the Je
Conversely every Jew, from the lo
est to the highest, has felt its fo r
and yet gone his way, forever inc
ring hatred and opprobrium, ref usi
to meet the only condition of ascot
To the eternal cry that he must
JI annihilated he shouts defiantly t
' he wants to live.
It is evident that the roots of s
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a persistent problem in human
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Conscious intelligence alone we
long ago have solved the riddle; i f
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were a matter of logic and syllogi
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the thing would be simple. The
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man animal feels first and thinks
terwards. He may delude him
that he feels as he thinks, in rea l
he thinks as he feels. Nor are
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dealing with the psychology of
individual alone—that of the grow
equally important. But before
tempting to answer the question
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other point is worth stressing, na
ly, that the attitude of the Chris t
to the Jew is frequently ambival
The very contradictions and p
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made by one against the other
speak a double attitude. All is
hatred: there is a certain feelin
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love and hate, colors the behavio
normal persons, is all pervasive
neurotics and pratically domin
the attitude of the hysteric. For
ample, in the relationship bets
son and father, where early in
the boy identifies himself with
male parent, but would at the a t
time displace him. Playfully, but
nificantly, he would "marry his m
er." Identification and antago
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carried to the point of a neurosis
release in the individual behavior
actions which are characteristic
primitive peoples. It is occasion
seen that a son really has
"grown up" until his father's de
Incorporated.
The heir to the throne has fair
sons for wishing the king dead. S
savages actually practice parricid
the father lives too long. Among
it
tribes the eon assumes the prey
tires of the father and inherits
wives. After the father is ou
the way be is made a god and

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