7 AUGUST 1959, Page 15

JEWS AND GENTLEMEN was very interested in your article called

'Jews and Gentlemen' in your issue of July 24.

I should be most grateful if some- body can give me a simple definition of what a Jew is. When we were in Israel recently we repeatedly asked this ques- tion but nobody seemed to know the answer.

It is neither a religion nor a nationality, as a proportion of Jews, even in Israel, do not practise the religion, and Jews all over the world adopt the nationality of the country in which they live.—Yours faithfully,

Knutsford, Cheshire.