{"id":70474,"date":"2015-07-02T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T01:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70474"},"modified":"2023-09-10T13:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T21:12:50","slug":"t-s-eliot-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70474","title":{"rendered":"T.S. Eliot &#038; The Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/142722\/ts-eliots-on-again-off-again-anti-semitism\/#ixzz3Kf6Jzua7\">Forward<\/a>: During a 1933 lecture in Virginia, published in 1934 as &#8220;After Strange Gods,&#8221; (which he later refused to reprint) Eliot, following Maurras, stressed the importance of social \u201cunity of religious background\u2026. 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