A.K. Chesterton & J. Leftwich: The Tragedy of Anti-Semitism

The Tragedy Of Anti-Semitism (1948)
by A. K. Chesterton and Joseph Leftwich

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CONTENTS:
Preface.
1. Is Anti-semitism A Racket?
2. The "Alien Slant".
3. Standing Forth As Jews.
4. Jewishness And Englishness.
5. Jewish International Power.
6. Legends About The Jews.
7. The Wrong Shape.
8. Powerful Jewish Influences.
9. Popular Anti-semitism.
10. Just Balances, Just Weights.

"PREFACE

As this book is unusual, and cast in an unusual form, the reader may welcome a word of explanation of its origin. The idea came to me in the January of 1941. While preparations were going forward for our attack on Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia another officer and myself shared a camp in the jungle overlooking the River Tana. My companion was a kindly, thoughtful man—and a Jew. To the accompaniment of the many hostile noises of the wild, we talked far into each night, more often than not to find ourselves in complete agreement in our views about life and death and the state of this troubled world. It was inevitable that, in due course, our conversation should touch upon the Jewish question. It would be too much to say that we agreed on this most difficult and tremendous question, but I think it can be said that we both discerned the possibilities of an ultimate agreement were the exigencies of war to allow us the time. We did at least discover that it was possible to talk about it rationally and without emotional discolouration.
It occurred to me that on my return to civil life I might write a book which would give both points of view and possibly suggest the best grounds for a common understanding. When the time came to carry out the idea, however, I saw at once that, with the best will in the world, such a book would become one-sided and that to preserve the original idea it would be necessary to invite the collaboration of a Jewish writer who would deal with the subject from a Jewish standpoint. I thought at once of Mr. Joseph Leftwich, a man of fearless and independent mind, and laid my proposal before him. The result is the present book. If the reader expects to find in it a solution of the problem of the often disturbed relationship between Gentile and Jew I am afraid he will be disappointed. It cannot be said that we have reached an agreement, or even come within visible distance of one, but it may be that other minds will take over the task where we have left it and perhaps succeed in building the vital bridge. What the reader will find are essays of great power and eloquence by my collaborator, and a controversy conducted, in the main, without undue heat. Mr. Leftwich claims that he will have failed if it should transpire that he has defended only the Jews and not the principles of right. In the same way, writing on behalf of a point of view, the public expression of which is most unfashionable, I too shall have failed if my contribution should be found to buttress prejudice at the expense of reason.

A. K. C."

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