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A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples Paperback – June 6, 2002

by Kevin MacDonald (Author)
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  • Paperback: 598 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse; First edition (June 6, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0595228380
  • ISBN-13: 978-0595228386
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Remarkable Work of Scholarship
By A Customer on October 16, 2002
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This is an academic study of the historical group conflict between Jews and Gentiles. Being academic in tone; it is not written necessarily to entertain, but readers with a keen interest in the subject will find it a revelation.
Is the author anti-Semitic? His research findings did not reveal a flattering portrait of the Jews as he examined 700 mainly Jewish sources about Jew/Gentile conflict. People who are against Jewish interests could certainly use McDonald's information to explain and justify their own ideologies. However, McDonald does not consider himself an anti-Semite and he says that he merely examines the conflict, hoping that his examination will help resolve the group conflict in the future. He does not elaborate how this could happen though. McDonald takes a cool, unemotional approach to his study that does not really advocate anything politically; but his findings have political implications.
McDonald's main concept is that of the Jews' group evolutionary strategy. It is one in which the group historically has strictly ensured that it did not genetically or culturally assimilate with the host population. (McDonald is uncertain of the modern data that says that Jews are assimulating more than in the past and he does not say that their strategy has changed.) Their relationship with the host population is merely "instrumental" while the group keeps focused on what is only good for the group. They have been excluded by the host population but they themselves have also been excluding. Their religion is a "this-worldly religion" that re-enforces the worldly goals of the group: to be fruitful and multiply, to keep their bloodlines pure (especially priestly ones), and to prosper as a group within the host population.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsAn Important Part of Half of the Dialogue
By seekerotruth on August 19, 2005
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I also don't feel qualified to evaluate the author's thesis. However, I think most of us "Gentiles" have had encounters with Jews where an honest discussion of the relationship between Jews and non-Jews has been absolutely clearly made out of bounds by the other party. Why can't we have an honest discussion? Isn't it in everyone's real interest?

First I must say that I think many, many Jews have contributed a great deal to our society and civilization, and are terrific, extraordinary, gifted people. Be that as it is, stifling conversation that relates to race, ethnicity, etc., tends to be something many Jews seem to feel is a solemn duty. Unfortunately, there is a double standard at play with many individuals from this group. On the one hand, Jews must have a right to their identity and homeland. Western Europeans have no such right however, in these individuals' view. We Europeans (and presumably all non-Jews) have the right only to assimilate into the raceless world-man and go extinct. Anything less is racism which is Nazism which is genocide, the absurb shibboleth goes. Clearly many of us of European descent have internalized this suicidal belief.

A Jewish professor at one of the midwest universities gave a very revealing talk at an American Renaissance conference a few years ago, wherein in he stated that ever since the Holocaust, Jews have considered Whites the number one threat to their survival - because the Jews HAD assimilated in Germany and STILL the Holocaust happened. Fortunately, this professor was not an off-kilter apologist for Hitlerism or some other nut. He was just trying to explain why Jews have worked against White interests so assiduously for more than half a century.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat scholarship on a sensitive subject from an unexpected quarter - a "good old boy"
By Graham H. Seibert TOP 500 REVIEWER on October 9, 2011
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MacDonald opens his second edition with a description of several other Diaspora peoples: the Gypsies or Roma, the overseas Chinese, Calvinists and Puritans, Anabaptists, Amish and Hutterites. He describes the mechanisms by which they maintain or maintained a unique identity within a larger society, the social niches that each of them fill, the in group - outgroup mentality that each of the maintain, and the mutual support mechanisms they have evolved whereby the members of the in group take care of one another and often exploit or parasitize the outgroup. This is a valuable background for an analysis of the Jews. It establishes some commonalities among human evolutionary groups, and also leads to some conclusions about the uniqueness of the Jews.

The Gypsies have a reproductive strategy that includes large families and low investment in education. They prize the highly extroverted, aggressive temperament which is useful in gulling the gadje, the host society. They actively discourage intermarriage and even socialization with the gadje.

The Puritans and Calvinists no longer exist as evolutionary units. They thrived for a while couple of centuries ago, but their distinct identity dissolved as their religious convictions became diluted and they intermarried with the surrounding society. Today, Presbyterians and Methodists are no different than anybody else in society.

The Amish and Hutterites maintain their own identities in their own communities. Physical separation and endogamy have maintained them as separate evolutionary entities. They have benign relations with their host societies. They want to be left alone.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsGarbage

It's hard to decide what is more alarming about this piece of "scholarly work": that it pushes the clearly debunked group selection theory, or that the author spent so much... Read more

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Published 14 months ago by Jake Gay
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* A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples
* Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of... Read more

Published 14 months ago by Jake Gay
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* A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples
* Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of... Read more

Published 14 months ago by Jake Gay
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

got what i wanted

Published 17 months ago by Edward Brett Heenan
5.0 out of 5 starsSolid work.

Brilliant work. MacDonald reveals the evolutionary strategy of organized Jewry that has developed over thousands of years.
Solid scholarship, well documented.

Published 22 months ago by Alex Solzhenitsyn
1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

This book is a piece of garbage. Nothing more to it.

Published 23 months ago by Green Lantern
4.0 out of 5 starsTechnical, Academic, Peer Review Focused

A People That Shall Dwell Alone is the first in Professor Kevin MacDonald's series on the Jews.

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