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Henry Ford's Attitude Towards Jews
Summary: Essay examines the attitudes towards Jews from Henry Ford and other German scholars.
After reading Henry Ford, "The International Jew: The World's Problem," one may find that Ford's attitude towards Jews is not very different from those attitudes expressed within Chapter VII of The Jew in the Modern World. Ford considers Jews to be greed driven "swarms...and the world's enigma" (513). The comments and arguments of Bauer, Marx, Wagner, Stoecker, Treitschke, and Mommsen all recognize those qualities of the Jews that give them economic and political advantage within the countries they populate; lifestyles, morals, and traditions.
Ford's opinion was written between eighty to forty years after the aforementioned anti-Semitic comments were published. Ford focuses his attention upon the Jewish power gained within the world of business, "he is business...the Jew is supremely gifted for business" (513) His view and those of Stoecker, Bauer, and Mommsen, that blame the Jews, who create national misfortune, practice social abuses with an inherent lack of...
This section contains 952 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |