Arthur Kalmeyer

For a Jew, conscious and proud of being Jewish, asserting his claim to be a member of the Jewish community without ignoring on that account the bonds which unite him to the national community, there may not be so much difference between the anti-Semite and the democrat. The former wishes to destroy him as a man and leave nothing in him but the Jew, the pariah, the untouchable; the latter wiches to destroy him as a Jew and leave nothing in him but the man, the abstract and universal subject of the rights of man and the rights of the citizen. Thus there may be detected in the most liberal democrat a tinge of Anti-Semitism; he is hostile to the Jew to the extent that the latter thinks of himself as a Jew. The anti-Semite reproaches the Jew with being Jewish; the democrat reproaches him with wilfully considering himself a Jew. Between his enemy and his defender, the Jew is in a difficult situation: apparently he can do no more than to choose the sauce with which he will be devoured.