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Autor raspravlja o židovskom pitanju u srednjoj Europi, prije svega u habsburškoj zajednici naroda, dakle i u Hrvatskoj, gdje je – uz Rusiju – živjela najbrojnija židovska populacija u Europi. Članak se osvrće na antisemitizam i filosemitizam, uočava se bliskost kršćanstva i judaizma. Antisemitizam se opisuje kao objektivno neprihvatljiv, iracionalan i udomljen više u masi negoli u intelektualnim krugovima. Opaža se neobičnost židovskog razvoja. Židovi su se u 19. stoljeću emancipirali, a to je zapravo značilo da su se asimilirali. Asimilaciji se ispriječio antisemitizam na koji su Židovi reagirali sionizmom koji nije vjerski nego nacionalno-preporodni pokret., The Hapsbourg Empire housed a large number of Jews, based in Galicia and Hungary. Following the Toleranzedikt of the Emperor Joseph II. the Jews started settling in Vienna and other countries of the Empire. The Hapsburg bureaucracy did by no means harass or belittle the Jews. The Empire housed a large Jewish population in Galicia and Hungary that moved to the west following the Toleranzedikt and was active in culture, economy, industry and banking. Many of them were assimilated, committed to Christian faith or were irreligious to the horror of the orthodox rabbi. Most of the ethnic groups of the Empire developed to modern nation, the Jews did no endeavours to follow them they accepted modern German language and culture. Cionism aroused the Jews when the century drew to the close and spread in XX. Century. It can be considered a movement of national rebirth and less a religious movement.