Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
47,1 (2013) 41-68
Keywords:
White, Arnold,
;
Hirsch, Maurice de,
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Jewish chronicle (London, England : 1845)
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Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Arnold White (1848-1925) was notorious as an activist in the anti-immigration movement that sought to halt the flow of East European Jews to Britain. From the 1880s he was known to Jews in Britain and abroad as an antisemitic writer and campaigner. Remarkably enough, White was chosen by Baron Maurice de Hirsch for missions to Russia in the early 1890s, and he worked for the baron and the Jewish Colonization Association. Returning from Russia, where he visited Jewish agricultural colonies, White wrote reports flattering for Russian Jews, praising their ability for agriculture; for a while, he was regarded by the Anglo-Jewish society as a "friend of the Jews", able to contribute to the solution of the "Jewish question". However, after the baron's death in 1896 White resumed his antisemitic agitation, which acquired a more racist character, and in 1899 published "The Modern Jew", a notoriously antisemitic text. He never mentioned Jewish agriculture again, and wrote about the Jewish danger to Russia, Britain, and the world. Dwells on the reaction of the Anglo-Jewish press to White's activities. The "Jewish Chronicle" described him as a "veritable Janus at the gates of Jewry". White's genuine worldview remains a riddle.
DOI:
10.1080/0031322X.2012.701803
URL:
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