Excerpt from What Happened in Palestine: The Events of August, 1929, Their Background and Their SignificanceI came to Palestine in early July, 1929, not in the mood of the visitor. I would not rush the country. I would wait and fit my mind to it. I would be quiet and receptive where, five years before, I had been restless and acquisitive of emotions and ideas. It was impossible now to question Palestine, for actually I had to wait for the country to question me.So for the first Six weeks I did not Stir out of Tel Aviv. Jerusalem is less than two hours away by ma chine, and from there you can reach the Valley of Jezreel and Upper Galilee in half a day. But there was no point in travelling. True to my expectation, the contact with Palestine under these new, intimate conditions, had given a different form to all my ques tions; but the answers had to come slowly and organically. These were questions I could not press. For even while I answered them they unfolded and changed form, and began to envelope. Me closer. I paid only indirect attention to them, for fear of be ing importunate. I occupied myself with other ques tions. I wrote on themes which had carried over from that Western World which I would henceforth regard with the eyes of a stranger. And I thought of my personal problems in a haphazard, disconnected way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

What Happened in Palestine: The Events of August, 1929, Their Background and Their Significance (Classic Reprint)

Politics & Social Sciences

Maurice Samuel

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The World of Sholom Aleichem

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Hindus, Milton, Ed., Worlds Of Maurice Samuel, The: Selected Writings

The worlds of Maurice Samuel: Selected writings

Jewish Publication Society

Written in 1924, this shocking classic work of Jewish Supremacism maps out what the avowedly Zionist author saw as the cause of anti-Semitism through the ages: an irreconcilable difference between Jews and all Gentiles, but Europeans in particular. This difference, Samuel argued, was inherent and biological in origin. The author argues that the real point of difference between Jew and Gentile is that the Gentiles follow what he calls the base "triviality" of Gentiles versus the God-like "seriousness" of Jews. This huge psychological difference, Samuel says, is the reason why Jews regard "playful" Gentiles as backward and silly, and why Gentiles will never be able to penetrate the Jewish perception of the world. The book goes on to discuss the main points of difference in behavior between Jews and Gentiles focusing on physical activity, religion, concepts of good and evil, loyalty, science, fair play, and discipline. Maurice spells out why Jews have different attitudes to all these moral and philosophical issues-and why these values are the opposite of those endorsed by Gentiles. Samuel then says that these inherent and unchangeable differences will always make the Jews out to be "destroyers" and the "subverters" of European culture and society.

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Written in 1924, this shocking classic work of Jewish Supremacism maps out what the avowedly Zionist author saw as the cause of anti-Semitism through the ages: an irreconcilable difference between Jews and all Gentiles, but Europeans in particular. This difference, Samuel argued, was inherent and biological in origin. The author argues that the real point of difference between Jew and Gentile is that the Gentiles follow what he calls the base “triviality” of Gentiles versus the God-like “seriousness” of Jews. This huge psychological difference, Samuel says, is the reason why Jews regard “playful” Gentiles as backward and silly, and why Gentiles will never be able to penetrate the Jewish perception of the world. The book goes on to discuss the main points of difference in behavior between Jews and Gentiles focusing on physical activity, religion, concepts of good and evil, loyalty, science, fair play, and discipline. Maurice spells out why Jews have different attitudes to all these moral and philosophical issues—and why these values are the opposite of those endorsed by Gentiles. Samuel then says that these inherent and unchangeable differences will always make the Jews out to be “destroyers” and the “subverters” of European culture and society. Finally, he discusses the dangers presented to Jews by intermarriage with Gentiles, and concludes by saying that there will never be peace between Jew and Gentile until the last European state has “lost its racial homogeneity.” This edition contains the entire original 1924 text. It has been completely reset and annotated with more than 40 footnotes for the modern reader. “I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and Jew is reconciliable. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution and vision divide us from all of you forever… “This distinction between us again points to the root difference between us—your triviality and our seriousness. “I have no doubt that when Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or name or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours. “Repudiation of the Jewish religion or even of Jewish racial affiliation does not alter the Jew. We joined your armies and fought in them beyond our numbers: yet Jewish pacifism and Jewish pacifists gave the tone to the world's pacifism. “We have joined your capitalistic world in deliberate emulation and rivalry: yet Jewish socialism and Jewish socialists are the banner bearers of the world's "armies of liberation." “But you feel our disruptive difference most keenly, most resentfully, in our deliberate efforts to change your social system. Seen in the dazzling lights of your desires and needs our ideal is repellently morose. “Because your chief institution is the social structure itself, it is in this that we are most manifestly destroyers. We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. “We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build. Beyond all temporary alliances with this or that faction lies the ultimate split in nature and destiny, the enmity between the Game and God. “If, then, the struggle between us is ever to be lifted beyond the physical, your democracies will have to alter their demands for racial, spiritual and cultural homogeneity within the State.”

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