ABSTRACT
Beneath the poise and self-assurance the world saw in Walter Lippmann, there was another man who suffered anxieties and felt hostilities. Lippmann's lack of enthusiasm for Zionism was no surprise to Henry Hurwitz, who had unsuccessfully tried to enroll him in the Menorah Society when they were both at Harvard, and later to write for the Menorah Journal after its founding in January 1915. The crudeness, even the cruelty, of Lippmann's attack on his fellow Jews was in dramatic contrast to the sensitivity he had shown to other minority groups and to individuals suffering discrimination or poverty. They were, in his word, conspicuous. That newly rich Gentiles might be equally conspicuous was irrelevant, for they were judged by different standards. The fear of being conspicuous — the conviction that Jews must not be thought "pushy" lest they antagonize others and thus trigger resentment and prejudice—was especially evident in the attitude of Jews like Lippmann to educational and professional advancement.
