The very home of Anti-Semitism is Algiers, where the Mayor
is an Anti-Semite, and any mob attacks any Jew at Bight with impunity. Yet such is the irony of fate that this Mayor has just issued a decree which will probably do more to preserve Jews from assault than any amount of garrison. He has ordered them to abandon the gabardine and dress in European costume. It is twenty years since we advised the great Jews of England and France, who were alarmed by the spread of anti-Jewish feeling in Germany and Eastern Europe, to advise their countrymen to abandon their distinctive garb, and clothe themselves, as French and English Jews have done, in the "garments of civilisation." There is no religious idea in the dress, which is, we believe, nothing but the Arab " haik thickened to meet the necessities of a chillier climate, but persecution has made obstinacy a virtue with Jews, and we dare say the tribe in Algeria will resist. It is odd they should, for the Jew bates to be regarded as an Asiatic, and never will be considered anything else while he dresses like one.
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