Arnold White
Arnold Henry White (1 February 1848 – 5 February 1925) was an English journalist and antisemitic campaigner against immigration.[1][2]
Early life
In 1879, he married Helen Constance (1849 – 1918), only daughter of Lowell Price of Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire. She predeceased him and they had one son who was called Murray.[1]
Politics
White investigated the
White then campaigned against Jewish immigration from Russia, and as an agent of
Geoffrey Alderman has argued that after visiting Russia in 1890, White transitioned towards a stance of virulent racial antisemitism, arguing that the problem of Jews in the UK was ‘not…of numbers, nor of habits, nor of occupations…but the fact that, good, or bad or indifferent the orthodox immigrants belong to a race and cling to a community that prefers to remain aloof from the mainstream of our national life, by shunning intermarriage with Anglo-Saxons’.[5]
In 1899 he published the book The Modern Jew (London, W. Heinemann).
In 1900 White visited the Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy as the guest of Admiral
In 1901 appeared Efficiency and Empire, which is White's best-known book.[1]
In 1903 White was sent to
White stood unsuccessfully as an independent for
Journalism
In 1907 he began his column in the weekly newspaper The Referee, writing under the name Vanoc. He also sat on the council for the
During the
Notes
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2009, accessed 29 May 2010.
- ^ Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern British Jewry. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992, p.123
- ^ Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern British Jewry. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992, p.123, p.167
- ^ Faces of Degeneration, Daniel Pick (1989), p.213
- ^ Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern British Jewry. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992, p.123
- ^ Arnold White, The Hidden Hand, London, G. Richards Ltd., 1917 (see World Catalog).