The International Jew by Henry Ford - 1. The Jew in Character and Business

1 The Jew in Character and Business

“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.
The Jew in Character and Business
The Jew is again being singled out for critical attention throughout the world. His emergence in the
financial, political and social spheres has been so complete and spectacular since the war, that his
place, power and purpose in the world are being given a new scrutiny, much of it unfriendly. Persecution
is not a new experience to the Jew, but intensive scrutiny of his nature and super-nationality is. He has
suffered for more than 2,000 years from what may be called the instinctive anti-Semitism of the other
races, but this antagonism has never been intelligent nor has it been able to make itself intelligible.
Nowadays, however, the Jew is being placed, as it were, under the microscope of economic observation
that the reasons for his power, the reasons for his separateness, the reasons for his suffering may be
defined and understood.
In Russia he is charged with being the source of Bolshevism, an accusation which is serious or not
according to the circle in which it is made; we in America, hearing the fervid eloquence and perceiving
the prophetic ardor of young Jewish apostles of social and industrial reform, can calmly estimate how it
may be. In Germany he is charged with being the cause of the Empire’s collapse and a very
considerable literature has sprung up, bearing with it a mass of circumstantial evidence that gives the
thinker pause. In England he is charged with being the real world ruler, who rules as a supernation over
the nations, rules by the power of gold, and who plays nation against nation for his own purposes,

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