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mon people, led usually by a Chris- most corner of the European
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tian priest or monk, have been the world. It became a part of the
iniators of anti-Semitic manifes- cultural inheritance of all the
womisemommonvommoo.swoomoomw000.
tations, the more customary races of Europe, imparted equally
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source has been some disturbed or to peer and to peasant. Nowhere
By HORACE M. KALLEN.
in
Europe
could
there
be
a
village
dislocated beneficiary of social
e
to
whose
inhabitants
the
word
1
privilege.
Anti-
Semitism
has
(Editor's Note:—The following article was written by Mr.
served very largely as an instru- "Jew" did not denote the Rejected
Kallen for the Nation and appeared in that periodical on Feb.
e
People
who
had
once
been
chosen,
ment
of
the
upper
classes.
Its
his-
28, 1923. It is reprinted here in order that those of our read-
e
tory in Central Europe during the who had denied the Savior and
e
en who have not already dune so may benefit by the author's
e
crucified Him, who were thus the
last
four
years—from
Poland
to
clear, forceful analysis of an ever-present problem. Mr. Kallen
enemies
of
God
and
of
mankind.
Roumania
—
its
history
in
the
is widely known, both as an author and lecturer, having been
Whatever
else
the
masses
and
United States, from Henry Ford to
associated with the faculties of Harvard, Clark and Wisconsin
Lawrence Lowell and the Ku Klux classes of Europe might not know,
universities.)
Klan, are not exceptions. The ob- the nature and destiny of the Jew
e
?
knew. Most of them lived
There is today not a Christian pensating emotion is anger. The scene tale of the making, the dis- they
the emotional elabora- and, died without ever exchanging
country in the world without its collective fear projects itself upon semination,
a word with one of the race, but
modicum of anti-Semitism. This the enemy. The enemy becomes tion of the burlesqueries called to all of them the word "Jew" was
the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
communal passion obtains, indeed, really a symbol of the fear he reveal the frightened snarl and full of evil meaning. This mean-
e
wherever Christianity has reached. evokes. The deeper the fear, the melodramatic strut of professional ing derived from no concrete ex-
49
Christian sectaries in China or more evil the enemy. This view anti-Semites, scattered by political perience with Jews. It was simply
— Operated by —
Japan, in India or Arabia partici- of the enemy becomes altogether upheaval from all the scraphesps an emotional reaction to their
0
, pate in it no less than Christian independent of the facts in the of privilege of Europe. The mat- name in the tale—a reaction that
sectaries in Germany or Hungary, case; the emotion generates its ter of interest is not, however, might vary from discomfort, re-
in Russia or in the United States. "facts" for itself. Hence the re - that this nonsense was invented, pulsion, or malaise to flaming
It is present regardless of con- moval or disappearance of the out - but that being nonsense it should hatred. It was a reaction estab-
trary attitudes, contradictory in- ward cause or occasion for the so readily, so almost inevitably, lished in early childhood through
, terests, opposed ideals. It appears emotion does not mean the imme- serve to integrate social fear and the teaching of the most solemn
in the most unexpected quarters diate or even quick subsidence of malaise. Why are the Jews the and impressive personalities in the
and in the most varied and cam- the emotion itself. It grows by
childs small world. The word
!,
plicaled forms. It justifies itself what it feeds on, even when it perennial devil of the piece?
The answer lies in the Christian "Jew" became a stimulus which
by the most antagonistic reasons, feeds on itself. So the removal,
touched off this emotion. It was
and it passes from one to another, by the peace, of Germany as the religion itself, in the status which aroused by every object and per-
from any to all, from all to any evoking occasion of the emotion Christianity assigns to the Jews son to which the word was applied.
with the somnambulistic heedless- did not destroy the emotion. It and the burden it sets and binds It was a word roc urse with.
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ness of a sleep-walker. Its basis survived and incarnated itself in upon them. The answer lies in the
I have written as it this were
is an emotion. Its origin is a gos- a new symbol. This new symbol rule which Christian teaching
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is a sequence was bolshevism. The bolshevists plays in the make-up of the West- all in the past. But it is not. The
pel.
Its
biography
INCORPORATED
pattern of the generic Christian
Vulcanizing
of rationalizations in which the the world over, replaced the Ger- ern mind.
e
e
In broad outline, this teaching response to the word "Jew" is in
emotion seeks a publicly accept- mans as the incarnation of ulti-
0
able symbol. Its origin, nature, mames in evil, and a IS, alpurgss- has for all sects an identical con- its essentials the same that it ever
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and present behavior present one nacht of the cruelties of fear en- tent, which may be called the was. The teaching is in its essen-
tials
the
same
that
it
ever
was.
of the most ironic and revealing sued from Viborg to Naples, from Drama or Epic of Salvation. It
tells of a first man created perfect Anti-Semitism is an organic part
0
chapters in the picaresque tale Moscow to Washington.
of it. flow much so, may be ob-
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which makes up the history of the
Street
In the course of time bolshevism and sinless to dwell forever in the served in those instances of young
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bucolic
bliss
of
Eden.
This
first
European mind.
lost its power as a channel for ex-
people who- come from communi-
man
was
endowed
with
free
will,
pression
of
the
war
emotion.
But
The immediate background of
through the solicitation of the ties where there are no Jews but
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present-day anti-Semitism is, of new sources of nourishment dis- and
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first woman exercised it, bringing who have an extraordinarly pas-
course, the Great War. The soil covered themselves. Europe had "death into tae world and all our sionate. anti-Jewish complex. I
and matrix of its current forms begun to disintegrate. The insti- woe." For God is just, and man's have had numbers of such in my
are the passions which were the tutional life of states, their indus- first disobedience merited no less classes. I have seen them asso-
I
life of the war and which did not try, their commerce, their agricul- than eternal death. But God is ciate on terms of the warmest in-
ture, their education, and very ob-
die when the war ended.
also merciful, and His mercy tem- timacy with fellow-students until
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in the life of man. The body is cracked at their foundations and should be satisfied and yet man be them, or labeled themselves, as
crumbling
in
their
superstructures.
regimented, the spirit is crowded
saved. To this end it was preor- Jews; and I have had occasion to
and cornered. Action loses its If the war emotion was a basic dained that a certain group of the observe the alteration of attitude
civilized delicacies, feeling its fine- fear focalized by the enemy, the human family should be chosen which the application of that term
nesse& Against surrounding, im- emotion of the peace was the same under covenant, for especial com- to a personality evoked. I have
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minent, ever-nearing death a great fear nourished by the disintegra- munion with God, that among the discussed Anti - Semitism with
anger develops, and a greater fear. tion of the customary institutional descendants of this family God with Christianized Chinese and
The nice balances of pence-time supports of private life. The peace should send His only-begotten son Japanese who had never been ex-
habits break down. Inhibitions was a more radical case of com- to be born, to live poorly, and to posed to the secondary, non-reli-
break down. Action and feeling munity "shell-shock." The com- die ignominously upon the cross, a ious anti-Jewish prepossessions.
become the simple elemental drives munity began to fight illusions. vicarious atonement for Adam's The reaction seemed in all cases
and sensibilities of the beast; be- One such battle with illusion is original sin, to be buried and on the unconscious response of a
For many years we have been
havior falls into primary and prim- anti-Semitism.
the third day to rise again and habit whose base was the religious
Anti-Semitism is a chronic as- take His place in heaven upon the preconception—the definition of
itive patterns of defense and of-
giving quick, reliable, economi-
fense; thought becomes simplified pect of Christian history. It be- right hand of God. Then all those the central role and status of the
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comes acute• during social crises who believed this tale and accept- Jew in the Christian system.
and infantile.
gained a broad experience
A condition ensues which has its and subsides in prosperity. The ed this atonement would be saved
Wherever this system is taught
which is at your command, no
varieties but the living urge of course it runs begins usually at from the consequences of Adam's the preconception is transmitted.
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whch is always a dynamic fear, the some point of social disturbance sin. All those who did not believe People are not conscious of it; it
matter what part of the city
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you live in
fested in individuals this condition distressful emotion is strong. The be damned. By the incarnation, the mind and gives tone and pat-
has gone by the generic name Jews are then declared to be the crucifixion and resurrection the tern to their contacts with Jews.
shell-shock. But social groups also hidden cause, and the emotion is world became divided into a con- Neither experience nor the liberal-
are capable of undergoing funda- enchanneled by and projected gregation of the saved and a con- izing influences of the humaner
mental disturbances whose animat- upon this symbol. Although there gregation of the damned.
disciplines, neither science nor
ing source tiOwait zhose corn- have been times when the coin-
The fortunate vessels of God's higher criticism nor free society
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ally, the Savior dwelt on earth in more modern symbols of expres-
the flesh, as man. But the Jews, sion. In principle and practice the
instead of believing the tale of the pseudo-science of the brilliant eco-
Savior, repudiated it. Instead of nomist Sombart has no different
accepting the atonement, they re- drive from the mythologies of
jected it. They were made the in- Henry Ford; the vaticinations of
struments of His passion and Renan and Gobineau have the
death. Thereupon God's justice same dynamics as the phobias of
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Best Wishes.
the Jews. The Chosen People be- the anthropological mythology of
came the Rejected People. From Madison Grant. In even so de-
the crucifixion to the time of the tached and contemplative a spirit
Second Coming, they were doomed as George Santayana the Sunday
to live outside the fellowship of School bogy rose, when Europe
the saved, outcasts and outlaws, was shaken, as a body for the new
the brand of a sort of cosmic Cain fear, to explain and assuage it.
upon their brows, their hands How many thousands of essential-
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against every man's, every man's ly free minds succumbed to it
when inundated at the expense of
against them.
to the Entire Jewish Community on the
In the Christian system, then, Henry Ford with floods of anti-
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tion. The gospel in which they so as their theme, they would have
figure was carried to the farther- been thrown into the waste-basket
with a laugh! But because the
Jews were their theme scores of
friends and acquaintances of high
intelligence, liberal spirit, radical
interests and association have
asked me, troubled, whether there
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could really not be anything in it.
Those to whose attention I called
the under! ying preconception
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which mothered the question, rec-
ognized it upon consideration, ac-
knowledged it, and to that degree
were freed of it. For most, it is
not so easy. The thing lies too
deep and too forgotten. Ileywood
Broun, therefore, seems to op-
timistic for the future of his son.
The occasion which evoked his op-
timism is worth quoting at length,
for it is an apt illustration of the
The Season's Greetings.
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H. 3d informed me that he
couldn't play with Margaret any
more. We didn't know who Mar-
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he
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they are not extirpated, nor trans-
lated. They make a subsoil of pre-
conceptions upon which other in-
terests are nourished and from
which they gather strength.
The insurgence of anti-Semit-
ism at Harvard, as everywhere,
draws its energy from this subsoil.
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