The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs

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: against the cruelties of Tsarism, and the Jews suffered more bitterly from those cruelties than any other section of the sorely tried Russian people. And yet their innate moderation?what Disraeli rightly diagnosed as their ineradicable attachment to Religion and Property ?has prevailed, and even among the lower classes, who were proletariatised and driven to Socialism by the infamous May Laws,1 Bolshevism has found only few and reluctant recruits. The Jews, no doubt, have their defects, very much in the same way as Christians, but what Mr. Gladstone once called "incivism" is not one of them. 1 See Prof. A. V. Dicey's introduction to "The Legal Sufferings of the Jews in Russia" (Loud., 1912). TRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ...