The Merger of Judaism and Christianity in the Recent History of the West: A Civilizational Perspective Comparing Jews, White Gentiles, and Blacks

I believe a lot of Jews (but certainly not all) act rather bad in certain ways. Yet we all know Jews who don’t fit the stereotype, including all the Jews I grew up who were friends of my Judeophilic family. I also had some Jewish friends as a young man.

The thing is that I never thought these thoroughly assimilated Jews acted any different from anybody else. In fact, I never thought of their Jewishness much at all.

There was one couple who I knew well for 30 years before I learned they were Jewish. I met a few Jews here and there who fit the negative stereotype, but they were uncommon.

I didn’t get Jew-wise at all until age 45 when I started looking into the Jewish Question. I now realize that these Jews were a bit aggressive in some ways, though that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, and they usually didn’t act that way towards me.

They were very intelligent and intellectually curious. They were also quite materialistic, though not excessively so.

However, if Jews are such an obvious ba…