www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_macdon_notes.htm
To Dr. Sniegoski's article.
NOTES
1. MacDonald rejects the argument that Eastern European Jews were largely descended from the Khazars, a Turkic people from the steppes who converted to Judaism in the early Middle Ages. For that interpretation, see Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage (New York: Random House, 1976).
2. This is not a novel thesis. For years Nathaniel Weyl has expatiated on the eugenic effect of Judaism,
contrasting it with the dysgenic effect of the celibacy of the Catholic priesthood. Nathaniel Weyl and
Stefan T. Possony, The Geography of Intellect (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963), pp.
136, 285-87.
3. MacDonald, however, does evince the idea that statism is better for most
people than laissez-faire. He writes (p. 4) that "social controls supporting a
socialist economic system may be viewed as being in the interests of many
individual members of human society (presumably the lower social classes). On
the other hand, social controls supporting a laissez faire capitalist society
may also be viewed as being in the interests of other members of the society
(presumably including successful capitalists)."
4. Benjamin Ginsberg, in The
Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1993), brings out the Jewish connection with state power more clearly
than does MacDonald.
5. Weyl and Possony, pp. 3-34, 241-54.
6. For example, Daniel Cohn-Sherbok, in The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries
of Christian Anti-Semitism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans
Publishing Co., 1997 ), writes: "For twenty centuries, then, Christian anti-
Semitism has served either directly or indirectly as the fundamental cause of
Judeophobia." (p. xx)
7. That Jews support universalism has been recognized, and praised, by
Establishment sources. For example, J.J. Goldberg (Jewish Power: Inside the
American Jewish Establishment [Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996])
points out that Jews have been a major pillar of American liberalism. See my
review-essay of this book: "Power corrupts, except for ...," TLD 16, p. 4. J.L.
Talmon, in Israel Among the Nations (New York: Macmillan, 1970),
describes the role of Jews in modern revolutionary movements. Little analysis
has been made of the phenomenon of Jews' support for universalism for
Gentiles and ethnocentricity for themselves. One perceptive work that points
out the Jewish dichotomy in regard to black nationalism is Harold Cruise's
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (New York: William Morrow &
Company, 1967), pp. 476-97.
[Editor's note: I plan to post Dr. Sniegoski's essay on the Goldberg book
soon.]
8. The theme of Jewish success leading to assimilation with the general
population and ultimate extinction of Jewish group identity is given emphasis
by Norman Cantor in The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews (New
York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994), pp. 419-37.
All three of Prof. MacDonald's books on the Jews have been published.
The second book is Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory
of Anti-Semitism (Westport, Conn.:
Praeger, 1998). In September 2003, the Website for 1stBooks — http://www.1stbooks.com/
— was advertising a 1stBooks edition as "coming soon."
The third book, The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of
Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements,
also first published by Praeger, is now available from 1stBooks in a paperback edition
published in 2002. ISBN: 0759672229, 544 pp.
MacDonald's analysis of the equivocal Jewish support for universalism is centered in The Culture of Critique.
A paperback edition of A People That Shall Dwell Alone was published by iUniverse
in June 2002 and is available from that publisher and also from Amazon.com. ISBN: 0595228380.
The original hardback editions from Praeger were extremely expensive. Stranded on this page from off site?
Here are TLD's home page and
table of contents.