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THE JEWS
BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
EUROPE AND THE FAITH
"Mr. Belloc has developed a side of history which is a wholesomeantidote to self-satisfied Anglicanism; and he has produced abrilliant and burningly sincere historical essay which sweeps hisreader along. It is certainly the best book he has written."—TheChurch Times.
THE OLD ROAD
With Illustrations by William Hyde, a Map and Route Guides. NewEdition.
THE STANE STREET
A Monograph. With Illustrations by William Hyde, and Maps.
THE JEWS
By HILAIRE BELLOC
CONSTABLE & COMPANY, LIMITED
LONDON BOMBAY SYDNEY
First Published 1922
Second Impression 1922
To
MISS RUBY GOLDSMITH
MY SECRETARY FOR MANY YEARS AT KING'S
LAND AND THE BEST AND MOST INTIMATE OF
OUR JEWISH FRIENDS, TO WHOM MY
FAMILY AND I WILL ALWAYS OWE
A DEEP DEBT OF GRATITUDE
PREFACE
The object of this book is more modest, I fear, than that of much whichhas appeared upon that vital political matter, the relation between theJews and the nations around them.
It does not propose any detailed, still less, any positive legalsolution to what has become a pressing problem, nor does it pretend toany complete solution of it. It is no more than a suggestion that anyattempt to solve this problem ought to follow certain general lineswhich are essentially different from those attempted in Western Europeduring the time immediately preceding our own. I suggest that, if thepresent generation in both parties to the discussion, the Jews andourselves, will drop convention and make a principle of discussing theproblem in terms of reality, we shall automatically approach a rightsolution.
We have but to tell the truth in the place of the falsehoods of the lastgeneration. Therefore, of the three principles upon which this essa