“No other group of immigrants has presented such a problem as the East European Jews in England,” states the last of a series of articles published in the London Times on the immigrant question. “Italians generally return to Italy; others become absorbed. The Jew alone, because of his difference of religion and non-intermarriage remains unassimilated,” the article declares.
The London Times, in an editorial, draws a distinction between the English Jews and the East European Jews who came to England after the pogroms in Russia.
“Immigration ought to be stopped until those Jews who are now settled in England are assimilated,” the article concludes.
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