The Jews are not merely a different religious community but — and this is to us the most important factor — ethnically an altogether different race. … - Friedrich von Hellwald

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The Jews are not merely a different religious community but — and this is to us the most important factor — ethnically an altogether different race. The European feels instinctively that the Jew is a stranger who immigrated from Asia. The so-called prejudice is a natural sentiment. Civilization will overcome the antipathy against the Israelite who merely professes another religion, but never against the racially different Jew. The Jew is cosmopolitan, and possesses a certain astuteness which makes him the master of the honest Aryan. In Eastern Europe, the Jew is the cancer slowly eating into the flesh of the other nations. Exploitation of the people is his only aim. Selfishness and lack of personal courage are his chief characteristics; self-sacrifice and patriotism are altogether foreign to him.

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About Friedrich von Hellwald

Friedrich von Hellwald (29 March 1842, in Padua, Italy – 1 November 1892, in Cannstatt, Germany) was an Austrian writer on geography and the history of civilization.

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Alternative Names: Friedrich Anton Heller von Hellwald
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