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Excerpt from The Polish Jew: His Social and Economic Value
Englishmen speaking Polish. And though he has the opportunity of observing the Jewish people from near, he again commits the same error, imagining the English or American Jew removed to the Russian Empire and acting there as he acts in London or New York. He forgets the vast differences of atmosphere, of history, of treatment and environment. He forgets that the Polish or Russian Jew in his relationship to the Sclav di?ers from the English or American Jew in his relationship to the anglo-saxon, as the Sclavonic temperament differs from the anglo-saxon temperament, or the histories of Russia and Poland from the histories of England and the United States. He reads with horror of Jewish massacres and of Jewish persecution; learns with indignation that the Jews are only permitted to inhabit certain quarters of Russian cities and certain cities of the Empire. But has he seen the Jews placed under these restrictions? Has he had an opportunity of observing the methods of the Polish Jews who, living freely amongst a nation in the proportion of one in seven, have attained an in?uence in the proportion of seven to one? Has he seen the other side of the medal and counted the cases in which the Semite takes advantage of the Sclav and the Jew rules the Russian? Has he seen provincial towns solely inhabited by Jews who live upon the surrounding peasantry? Has he seen country estates in which Jews act as middlemen between the proprietor and those who purchase his grain, his potatoes, his horses and cows - nay, his milk and butter?
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