[ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA] BELLOC, Hillaire

The Jews

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. First American Edition. First printing. Published the same year in London (Constable). Octavo; red cloth hardcover; xix,308pp. Spine darkened, with mild soil to covers; endpapers toned from old jacket offsetting; text generally clean and unmarked; just a VG copy, lacking the dustwrapper.

A low-point (which is saying something) in the corpus of British antisemitic propaganda, masquerading as a disinterested examination of the "Jewish Problem," by the noted Franco-English Catholic writer and historian. In the most reasonable-sounding way, Belloc puts forward an argument for the segregation of British Jews, on the grounds that "the Catholic Church is the conservator of an age-long European tradition and that tradition will never compromise with the fiction that a Jew can be other than a Jew." Even in the context of pre-Hitlerian "passive" antisemitism, it was and remains a foul little book, albeit one that needs reading. SINGERMAN [Antisemitic Propaganda] 0129.

Price: $250.00

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