“The International Jew” Study Hour presents:  Hadding Scott and Carolyn Yeager read and comment on Chapter 36,  “Jewish Rights” to put Studies Out of Schools.”

B’nai B’rith was begun in the backroom of a New York saloon in 1843 by a group of Jews from Germany,  even before the Alliance Israelite Universelle was formed in France, and opened its second lodge in Berlin in 1885, then in Rumania and Austria. It is described in TIJ as freemasonry exclusively for Jews, adding that  “the Jew demands as his right entrance into other Orders; into his own he admits none but Jews.” It’s militant arm, the Anti-Defamation League, wasn’t created until 1913.

This organization brought all its power to bear against the Shakespeare play “The Merchant of Venice” being read in high schools because of the Jewish character Shylock, a moneylender who demanded a literal “pound of flesh” from the Christian Antonio. The League claimed in 1919 that 150 American cities had excluded the play from their public schools. This was presented as a victory for “Jewish rights.”

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.

“The International Jew” Study Hour presents: Carolyn Yeager and Hadding Scott read and comment on Chapter 35, ” ‘Jewish Rights’ Clash with American Rights.”

It is the Jews themselves that interject the religious element into the “Jewish Question.” Study of the record shows that the “rights” they demand can be summed up in the “right” to banish everything from their sight and hearing that even suggests Christianity or it’s Founder. Since 1906, with the creation of the American Jewish Committee, their demands increased in number and insistence. This chapter  details many of these demands, starting in 1899 and continuing to 1917, showing the large number of small points at which Jewish life conflicts with community life.

Note: We are using the Noontide Press publication of The International Jew — The World’s Foremost Problem which can be found online here as a pdf file.