SAMUEL, MAURICE — You Gentiles

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1924. Third Printing. Hardcover. A modern Jew, perhaps for the first time, analyzes western civilization as an expression of the Gentile way of life and shows where this clashes with the nature and spiritual impulses of the Jew. - paraphrased from front flap of replica dust jacket included with this copy. "We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands - The wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust this unwelcome role upon us." - p. 155. "I console myself with the thought that if this book offends by its assertiveness, God knows that the infinite tactfulness of thousands of other Jews seems to have offended no less. Whatever we do we are damned - and I would rather be damned standing up than lying down." - p. 221. "Born in Romania, Maurice Samuel [1895-1972] moved to the United States in 1914. A Jewish intellectual and writer, he is best known for You Gentiles." - Wikipedia. [6]-221pp. 7.75" x 5.5". Tight and unmarked with average wear and soiling. Includes new replica dust jacket in glossy new archival-grade protection.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; western civilization, its religion, morality, art and science, as an expression of the gentile way of life and shows where this clashes with the nature and spiritual impulses of the Jew Comparison Contrast Christian. Good .