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"The Essence of Anti-Semitism."*)

On the small country seats of Bohemia there is a right good living. The sun lights up, round about, wide, dense, loudly rustling forests; heavy harvest-fields, gold-laden and rocking like waves; and endless green meadows. A peace remote from the world is the mark of the region, and hardly is it broken when on Sunday the team trots peaceably into town and brings politics home with last week's newspapers. Here the mind of man finds leisure to commune with itself and, far from the headlong chase in the stone deserts of the great city, to sunder good from evil according to the truth, unswayed by personal claims and the clamour of the multitude.

In the mood of his castle of Ronsperg, Dr. Heinrich Count Coudenhove sat in judgment upon us Jews and upon our enemies, and what learning and personal experience brought him he has handed over to his readers in a stout volume. What he wrote would have served us for good, had it been handed over to a world that waits upon the testimony of science and of eminent men in order to act thereafter. Certainly it is a courageous deed on the author's part to draw upon his own person, as our panegyrist, the hatred of the anti-Jewish — that is to say, of nearly all — parties. For this the Jewish press of appeasement has brought him pans full of incense as a thank-offering. We, however, will reckon a merit to the Count only if the rarity of a self-evident requirement in a man may pass for such, namely the requirement of justice. The Zionists note with satisfaction two facts. An educated and considerable man has come to know the history of the Jews

*) The Essence of Anti-Semitism. By Doctor Heinrich Count Coudenhove. Berlin, Calvary, 1901.

and became their friend; he has considered their future with sympathy, and affirms Zionism.

The book deserves some good marks. Outward form of diction excellent, industry unflagging. The dust was blown from a great many old tomes, a whole library of pamphlets was rummaged through, before the book came into our hands. The mountain height attained by the material set in print before it shows us the colossal intensity of the Jewish question at all times. A hint for the peace-proclaiming author, and for us. We believe we commit no fault of language if we translate Jewish question by hatred of the Jews. And whether the present work cancels even the effect of one baiting-pamphlet upon the Konitz murder is an open question. We in fact allow the book only the value of the confession of a sympathetic personality, without agitatory effect at a distance. It is true that the author has begun a fresh bout with the theory of anti-Semitism, and, with the weapons of scholarship in hand, has come through the combat brilliantly. But against the practice of anti-Semitism soldiers and gendarmes are already fighting to-day in every quarter. In the replies to the Count he will surely not have been spared the old sentence out of the rusty inventory of our Jewish enemies of Zionism, which for its tediousness we render only in catchwords: deserving of thanks, famous name, Jewish question, the drop hollows the stone, future, confidence. Is that true? Five hundred pages and odd have come of registering the barest outline of Jewish policy since the Diaspora. If now some incredible hocus-pocus should actually succeed in pasting over for a short time the immemorial rifts between Jewry and the Indo-Germanic race, could we put up our weapons for ever? I do believe, for all that, that we have learned to look further, and I remind every man of his lessons out of the political history of the Jews. The effect which one does not expect of Dr. Coudenhove's book — Jews are shrewd — but only wishes for it, we would examine within the frame of two questions: how will the work act upon the educated, and how upon the multitude?

The author himself answers both questions: not at all. The first question, in that he sets forth to us the standpoint which the most famous men of modern times have taken up towards the Jews. I have used the word standpoint by convention; in ac-