SIR,—Your correspondent, Lady Haworth, asks a simple definition of what
a Jew is. There is simple answer, but I suggest the following, )01 will probably be unacceptable to many people: , A Jew, when he cannot follow the ortho° Jewish religion in all its aspects with all his hell is one who associates himself with the history of father's fathers, either voluntarily or. more often. associated by others with that history, on account, his name, his looks, his accent, his manners and on. This I think is mainly contingent; and when 'e Jews form a minority, often unfortunate. (This plains why, in Israel, no one was able to give definition to Lady Haworth, since the Jews are majority there and living in the present, the quest' does not really arise.) But whether the association voluntary or imposed, I believe it to be cinon00 and not essential. Let me emphasise that this de,1,1 tion would apply equally, with suitable adaptailt to every religious and national body and to eve section of a society. The question of loyalty 1 deliberately omitted, because there is no 11°I.) human being without it; but still, loyalty is emotional.—Yours faithfully, London, W2 1' JOIN 1
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