The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam
by Sir Richard F. Burton
A NEW PUBLICATION OF BURTON'S BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE. IT HAS BEEN NEWLY REPRODUCED WITH ELECTRONIC TYPE, AND
HAS BEEN EXHAUSTIVELY PROOFREAD TO HAVE COMPLETE FIDELITY WITH THE ORIGINAL AS
PUBLISHED IN 1898. THE FOREWORD SHOWS THE SORRY HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL, FULL
MANUSCRIPT OF "THE JEW" AND HOW THE JEWS ACCOMPLISHED "OBTAINING" IT.
COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED AS PUBLISHED IN 1898.
See the top page for information on availability.
INFO re. THE FULL
ORIGINAL MS. OF THE JEW IS FOUND AT THE BOTTOM HALF OF THIS PAGE
Color scan of actual title page. Click on image for larger version.
This is one of the two American editions.
Published in 1898 as one volume compiling three items
originally intended to be books in their own right, or parts of books never
finished. This book was never reprinted
by a large, mainstream publishing house, but has been occasionally reprinted by small, independent
publishers. However Jew-wise Burton may have been, he had a strange bias
favoring Islamic practitioners and Gypsies. As per the Preface below, this
could have been due to Gypsy blood, but this idea was never proved. The Jew, tho' heavily expurgated, retains much important information
about its subject, as do the other two sections.
All known original editions were:
> Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone
& Co., 1898.
> New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898.
> London: Hutchinson & Co., 1898.
Repaginated to put exactly two original pages onto each new page, except
where impossible due to space constraints. In full text with frontispiece
illustration.
The 1898 editor was William Henry Wilkins (1860-1905). He also co-authored
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton, 1897 and edited Wanderings in Three
Continents, 1901.
Minor erratum: In The Jew, ch. ii, p. 33, Wilkins
has "732" as the year of the death of Muhammad, but the commonly
accepted date today is 632.
Preface by editor W. H. Wilkins
with Contents. [
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I. The Jew:
Chap. I.
GENERAL OPINION OF THE JEW
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Chap. II.
OPINION OF THE JEW IN ENGLAND
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Chap. III.
THE JEW OF THE HOLY LAND AND HIS DESTINY
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Chap. IV.
THE JEW AND THE TALMUD
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Chap. V.
THE CONTINUITY OF TRADITION IN THE EAST
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II. The Gypsy (Parts I and II
delineated by line):
Chap. I. THE INDIAN AFFINITIES OF THE GYPSIES
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Chap.
II. THE CLAIMS AND PRETENSIONS OF M. PAUL BATAILLARD
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Chap. III. A REVIEW OF M. PAUL BATAILLARD'S REVIEWS
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Chap. IV. HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE GYPSY IN EUROPE
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Chap. V.
THE GYPSY IN ASIA
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Chap.
VI. THE GYPSY IN AFRICA
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Chap. VII.
THE GYPSY IN EUROPE
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Chap. VIII.
THE GYPSY IN AMERICA
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III. El Islam.
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Index.
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"Indeed,
whenever in these days we hear of a new 'religion' having been born into the
world, we may determine, à priori,
that it is more Jewish than its predecessors."
-- Sir Richard F. Burton, The Jew,
p. 97 f/n. Amen!
"The
Magnate [of Hungary] . . . sees all his rich estates . . . passing out of his
own hands, and contributing to swell the bottomless pocket of the Jewish
usurer. But the Magyar is a fiery
race; and if this system of legal robbery be allowed to pass a certain point,
which, by-the-bye, is not far distant, the Jews
must prepare themselves for another disaster right worthy of the Middle
Ages. And they will have deserved it."
-- Sir Richard F. Burton, The Jew, pp. 64-65.
[Compare with 1911 ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA,
HUNGARY: "The Jews . . . monopolize a large portion of trade, are
with the Germans the chief employers of labour, and control not only the
finances but to a great extent the government and the press of the country.
Owing to the improvidence of the Hungarian landowners and the poverty of the
peasants, the soil of the country is gradually passing into their hands."
(vol. XIII, p. 897).]
Burton wrote his words in
1873. He was on-target on so many matters. His works deserve to be
referred to again and again, today.
"Every day, I think less and less
what others are going to think. . . . What are they going to say about me?
. . . That I'm wrong about the way the world really is? That I'm an
evil, murderous mastermind? That I'm too extreme? That I'm a greasy,
slimy, Jew-Gypsy roustabout who looks at the world
through a carny's eyes?" -- Father of modern Satanism Anton LaVey,
quoted by Blanche Barton, The Secret Life of a Satanist: The
Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey (Feral House: Los Angeles, 1990),
pp. 225-226.
[JR Note: Anton
LaVey's daughter Zeena has recently revealed that he was not literally
part-Gypsy, so the above may be taken as somewhat metaphorical. But he was
definitely part- Jewish; his father was the Jew Boehm]
Another Jew-Gypsy
(but who I am NOT implying is a Satanist!) is Isabel Fonseca, author of Bury
Me Standing, a book that, like Burton's, is sympathetic to its subject, but
which shows the generalizations about the Gypsies to be essentially true.
The
Statement of Aleister Crowley re. Burton's Manuscript
- "Human sacrifices are
today still practiced by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length
by the last Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have
compassed heaven and earth to suppress..." — from the intro. to Sepher
Sepheroth, pub. in The Equinox (Crowley's occult journal), quoted
by Craig Heimbichner, Blood on the Altar, Independent History &
Research, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 2005, p. 19.
THE JEW: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Five months before Burton's planned retirement, when he made it
very clear he intended to publish The
Jew with details of the cult of ritual murder he uncovered and documented
during his consulship in Damascus, he died (1890, age 69). His wife Isabel
also intended
to publish the full work (see her Life of Sir Richard F. Burton, 1893, Vol. II, pp. 454-5,
wherein it was described as "quite complete"); she died soon thereafter (1896, age
65).
[Additional info on this whole sorry episode of Burton's life from
Isabel's perspective may be found in her Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton, 1897,
Vol. II, Ch. XV: Gathering
Clouds and Ch. XVIII: The
True Reasons of Burton's Recall, exposing all the political and financial machinations for which
Jews are known. See also her little-seen Inner Life of Syria,
Palestine, and the Holy Land, 1875,
Vol. I, pp. 331-43 for an
intriguing discussion
of the money-lender problem].
In the
process she apparently had a change of heart, as she supposedly left instructions that it
be burned (this from a "recently discovered" piece of paper
"found" among the MS. materials). One of her executors, her sister Mrs. Fitzgerald, was looking
for a publisher, and died in 1902. Editor W. H. Wilkins, who had not
published the offending passages with The Jew, the Gypsy and El
Islam in 1898, (the Jews had threatened libel action), but who hinted that he may have done so in the future,
died in 1905 at age 45. (What was published was just the preface and most
of one chapter; what Wilkins called the "Appendix" was in actuality
the majority of the work). Then a bit later, the Jews (in the form of
David Lindo Alexander,
president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
[ David Irving info ] vs. Manners Sutton,
publisher) sued in court over the "assignment" of
the manuscript, and won! Supposedly, the surviving executors had handed
over the MS. to the Jews in 1909, under circumstances we can only wonder about,
as it seems odd that Sotheran, a publisher, had already sold the MS. to Manners
Sutton, thinking that the deceased Wilkins (from whom they had received the MS.)
had been a qualified agent. No doubt money played a hidden role in
this. Reading recent reports regarding the sale of the MS., it seems that
the claim that Alexander simply "bought" the MS. is making the rounds.
For a contemporary account, see The (London) Times, 28 March 1911, p. 3,
col. 3 [ facsimile
graphic ] describing
the court case of the previous day. The old adage "possession is
nine-tenths of the law" didn't count that time. Another judicial murder
-- of the truth.
Since 1911, the original MS. has been under lock and key in the Board of
Deputies of British Jews archives, filed under the heading "B2/9 16A,
Burton Book . . . (v) Manuscript of an unpublished book by Sir Richard Burton
and surrounding action by the Board to obtain it."
The original, complete Burton manuscript was put up
for auction at Christie's Auction House on June 6, 2001, Lot #33, Sale #6456,
but at $196,000 did not meet the reserve price of £150,000 and was a no-sale. See
David Irving info at http://www.fpp.co.uk/BoD/origins/BurtonMS2.html.
Archive of Christie's auction info: BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890).
Geoffrey Alderman, professor of Jewish history at Touro College, New York,
and author of the standard work Modern British Jewry, said: "I am
delighted the book failed to sell because this will force the board to
reconsider. They have divided the community with a decision which ought never to
have been taken. I have seen the manuscript and I think
it should be made available only to bona fide scholars. I was shocked that
a man of Burton's intelligence should believe the blood libel, but I think his
allegations still have resonance for far right groups today."
Hmmmm . . . But Prof. Alderman can't explain away how the body of Father Thomas
was found exactly where the Jews said it would be found. No amount of
torture could have wrangled that from them if they really didn't know where it
was, eh?
"A most
barbarous secret for a long time suspected in the Jewish nation. . .at last came
to light in the city of Damascus, that of serving themselves of Christian blood
in their unleavened bread. . .a secret which these 1840 years must have made
many unfortunate victims." Jasper Chasseaud,
U.S. vice-consul, Beirut, Lebanon, in a letter to John Forsyth (1840-MAR-24, no.
12), microfilm 367, State Department archives, U.S. National Archives.
THE JEW:
THE ORIGINAL MS. (1871-1877) -- RECONSTRUCTED T.O.C.
As reported by Christie's in their
detailed description, the following may now be documented. Items in blue
with an asterisk (*) were made part of the published version, 1898,
reproduced above. As can be seen, the remainder, which Wilkins
collectively referred to as the "Appendix", constituted the majority
of the work and was never published. The published version corresponded to
about 70 pp. of handwritten MS.; the total was 180 + 126 pp. in two sizes,
thus about three-fourths remained unpublished:
"Human Sacrifice
among the Sephardine or Eastern Jews"
> "To the Reader"
introduction, wherein Burton states: "The statements contained in these
pages must, if untrue to fact, be speedily buried in the limbo of
vagaries and dreams. If true, they open up an unknown chapter of Modern
History which deserves careful perusal".
> Preface:
Part I -- "General Opinion of the Jews" *
Part II -- "Opinion of the Jew in England" *
Part III -- "The Jew of the Holy Land and his Destiny" *
> Chapters:
I and II -- Re. the life, disappearance and death of the Martyr
Padre Tomaso, Capuchin missionary and his Arab servant, Ibrahím Amárah.
III -- Testimony of the alleged murderers.
IV -- The Confessions of Doctor (Hakhám) Moshe Abu'l Afiya.
V and VI -- Re. the Continuity of the "Tradition of Human
Sacrifice". (most of VI *)
> Appendices:
I -- "Jews in Roumania" + earlier draft
II -- Commentary on the views of Dr. Alexander McCaul
> Drafts and Notes:
"Anthropology of the Jews" and "Jews". (portions?
*)
A few
SOURCE MATERIALS Burton consulted for his MS.
The documents presented
here were written by people who thought the contents were true at the time they
wrote them. History herself must make the final judgment. These documents were available, at the time Burton wrote, in
at least two languages: French and Arabic, both of which Burton understood. Their inclusion here is not meant to
incite hatred or revenge, but merely to inform, for individual
research and archival purposes only, and represent but a small portion of the
complete trial record, which ran into the hundreds of pages. The source shall remain anonymous.
