{"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. Reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable,\u201d Eliot declared.<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cThe notorious passage in After Strange Gods is capable of the interpretation that a community of orthodox Jews would be socially desirable because of the strong social bonds established by Jewish solidarity.\u201d Roger Kojecky, T. S. Eliot\u2019s Social Criticism (London: Faber, 1971)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward: 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. Reasons of race and religion combine to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70474\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151678,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70474\/revisions\/151678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}