or America or what you will, he becomes a native of that country—a full-blooded native of that country.”
It is damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The Jew who tries to merge with the “natives” is intruding, and the Jew who doesn’t is an outsider who can never merge with the natives.
Moreover, mark the lovely word “invade” as applied to Jews coming to America. Dreiser’s German forebears migrated to America—mine “invaded” the country.
Even the man’s eminence in the past as a writer does not give his distorted logic any value other than clinical. I have in my desk anti-Semitic pamphlets distributed in Nazi Germany, reeking of barbarism and shrill with hysteria. If the Dreiser correspondence were translated into German and woven into the texture of those pamphlets they would scarcely show up as a patch, so close is their essential color and pattern.
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