A blunt, unsparing dissection of the psychological and cultural chasm separating Jew from Gentile, written by a Jew, for the audience of both races. Maurice Samuel dispenses with diplomatic hedging and argues that Jews and Gentiles operate from irreconcilable moral centers, each fully convinced of its own logic: one shaped by unrelenting seriousness and a sense of divine obligation, the other by a rival ethic of honor, sport, and camaraderie. Chapter by chapter, he presses this thesis through religion, science, ethics, loyalty, and discipline, building toward a stark conclusion: assimilation is a fiction, intermarriage a danger, and true peace between the two peoples impossible without homelands of their own.
Equal parts polemic and cultural theory, You Gentiles remains one of the most audacious attempts to lay bare exactly how two peoples, each certain of their own rightness, are fated to misread and unsettle each other, generation after generation. Candid, uncomfortable, and impossible to read passively.