Ernest Bramah on the Jews

Ernest Bramah is another one of those obscure novelists who were well-known and well-loved by their contemporaries, but who have – since their deaths – fallen into the proverbial memory hole. Bramah – an English novelist and short story writer best known for his novels set in China and his blind detective Max Carrados – is something of a treat to read, because unlike so many modern hacks: he can actually write and leave the reader spellbound and wanting more.

However it is not Bramah’s ability to tell a spin a good and entertaining yarn that concerns me here, but rather the mentions of jews in his works.

In the Max Carrados story ‘The Clever Miss Straithwaite’ Bramah writes:

‘Stephanie described her absolute prostration, her subsequent wild scramble through the jewel stocks of London to find a substitute. The danger over, it became increasingly necessary to act without delay, not only to anticipate possible further curiosity on the part of the insurance, but in order to secure the means with which to meet an impending obligation held over them by an inflexibly obdurate Hebrew.’

So in essence what Bramah is tell us here is that he views jews as inveterate merchants and traders who will screw and sue their client whatever they can possibly extract from them and as such they are social parasites.

Who, as Bramah informs us in his novel ‘The Secret of the League’, murdered Jesus Christ against the wishes of Pontius Pilate and as such - in Bramah’s view - are vile mercantile scum who deserve little if any sympathy from non-jews.