Reply to Hamowy's Note on Hayek and Anti-Semitism.

The article replies to the criticism of author Ronald Hamowy about the anti-semitism practice of economist F.A. Hayek. In his concluding paragraph, Ronald Hamowy states that well-known economist Reder's comments on Hayek are an insult both to Hayek and to those many Jews, who worked closely with and under him and should be dismissed as the somewhat jaundiced views of a writer intent on finding malevolence where none exists. A major point of this paper is that, varying with time and place, hostility toward Jews in general could accompany great benevolence toward certain Jews in particular. It was not, and is not, suggested that the perceived benevolence toward individual Jews was feigned or insincere. Benevolence is one facet of a complex reaction common to many individuals of one social position to those sharing another. But frequently there has been another facet to this reaction, hostility. It is the changing relation of these two facets that is the primary concern of the author.