Preface

Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question in other countries.

The Jewish Questions has existed in the United States for a long time. Jews themselves have known this, even if Gentiles have not. There have been periods in our own country when it has broken forth with sullen sort of strength which presaged darker things to come. Many signs portend that it is approaching an acute stage.

Not only does Jewish Questions touch those matters that are of common knowledge, such as financial and commercial control, usurpation of political power, monopoly of necessities, and autocratic direction of the very news that the American people read; but it reaches into cultural regions and so touches the very heart of American Life.