Eternal Strangers Critical Views of Jews and Judaism through the Ages - Chapter Eight

Part Three: Contemporary Views
Chapter Eight: Judaica Americana
By Thomas Dalton

“[The Jew] is substantially a foreigner wherever he may be…
You [Jews] will always be, by ways and habits and predilictions,
substantially strangers—foreigners—wherever you are…”
—Mark Twain (1899: 535)

Jews were prominent owners of southern plantations, and thus
complicit in slavery.1 They were among the first businessmen to move
west; “California is for the most part their creation.” Into the early 20th
century, Sombart observes that “the Jews in America practically control a
number of important branches of commerce; indeed, it is not too much to
say that they monopolize them”—citing in particular gold, wheat, tobacco,
cotton, and finance. And he quotes former president Grover Cleveland: “I
believe that it can be safely claimed that few, if any, of those contributing
nationalities have directly and indirectly been more influential in giving
shape and direction to the Americanism of today [than the Jews].” All of
which leads to his conclusion, cited above, that “Americanism is nothing
else than the Jewish spirit distilled.”

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