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The American Interest
Even Jewish self-hatred, in contemporary America no less than in Weimar Germany, bears a characteristically Jewish form.
On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred
by Paul Reitter
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eing Jewish is a condition that, to the extent it is taken at all seriously, is hard to contemplate with equanimity. One has to love it or hate it. One can accept citizenship in the gentile nations of the world, on the other hand, with a fatalistic shrug. Their origins are shrouded for the most part in prehistory; their citizens have no common memory of having been anything other than what they are now. They do not hate being what they are any more than fish hate being wet. Their nationality is their element, and so it is taken for granted. One hears rarely, if ever, of Russian, Italian, Malay or Peruvian self-hatred.
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As we approach the feast of Epiphany, it is a good time to revisit T.S. Eliot’s magnificent poem “Journey of the Magi” (1935). Written as an old-age reminiscence in the voice of one of the kings, Eliot’s poem traces a richly symbolic spiritual journey that foreshadows Christ’s future Passion, and thus changes the pagan Magi forever. As such, the poem calls us to walk with the wise men on their pilgrimage. But if we do, Eliot warns, it will change us forever: to encounter Christ means both a death and a rebirth that will cost us everything.