ONE
Not just due to religious war - Christian nations against the Jew, not doctrine of a God
Jews rarely stood up against their conquerers, made them look inferior
Excited jealousy and hatred - Allowed to develop states within states, had a better condition of life, better trade, more wealth
Declined to submit to other customs where they lived, shunned interaction and intercourse with inhabitants
The Eighteen Things - Caused unsociability
Fear of contamination made Jews isolated - clothing, dwelling, nourishment
Only learnt the law
Rabbbinites cut Israel from community of nations - became recluse, rebel against laws, closed minded - fuelled persecution, massacres, etc
Patriotism of Israel
FIVE
Built synagogues all over Europe but still didn't interact with growing nations, watched and stood back
Played a part economically but were hated due to Middle Ages states being moulded by the Church, who gave their unity to numerous tribes in the nations
Narrow faith, wasn't welcoming of others
They love their gold, they do
Christians were poor because of church, Jews rich because they could engage in money exchanging and banking
Wished to become a power, felt superior, chosen race
Exercised tyranny which created craftiness
Social and religious causes of anti-semitism intermingled
Richness
Church persecuted spirt of Judaism in all forms
Sacrificed n times of plague and famine
TEN
Semite - 'strange, noxious, disturbing, inferior'
First asserted that white race and some 'yellows' were capable of founding superior civilisations - Aryan is white and perfect
Ethnologic principles helped cause anti-semitism
Aryans are superior, resisted rule of rival Semitics
ELEVEN
"Customarily a nation is called an agglomeration of individuals having in common their territory, language, religion, law, customs, manners, spirit, historic mission."
"ews they possess also common peculiarities, a common individuality and a common type."
"in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, the legislation against the Jews was identical, a fact quite easy of explanation as in all these lands the legislation was inspired by the church."
"The Jew spoke the language of the country he inhabited, but he spoke it only because it was indispensable in his business transactions; once at home he made use of a corrupt Hebrew or of a jargon of which Hebrew formed the basis."
"Thus, consequently, the Jews had the same religion, manners, habits and customs, they were subjected to the same civil, religious, moral and restrictive laws; they lived in similar conditions; in each city they had their own territory, they spoke the same language, they enjoyed a literature, they speculated over the same persisting and very old ideas. This alone was sufficient to constitute a nation."
"Jews placed them under the ban of their society, it was lawful to kill them, just as it was lawful to kill "the best of goyim." Similar exhortations would be found at all periods of patriotic struggles, among all nations; the proclamations of the generals, the calls to arms of the tribunes of all ages contain just as odious formulas. When the French, for instance, invaded the Palatinate, it must have been a rule, nay, even a duty, for all Germans to say: "Death even to the best of Frenchmen !""
"Modern Judaism claims to be but a religious confession; but in reality it is an ethnos besides, for it believes it is that, for it has preserved its prejudices, egoism and vanity as a people a belief, prejudices, egoism and vanity which[137] make it appear a stranger to the peoples in whose midst it exists, and here we touch upon one of the most profound causes of antisemitism. Antisemitism is one of the ways in which the principle of nationalities is manifested."
"What is this question of nationalities? By it is understood "the movement which carries certain populations, of the same origin and language, but constituting a part of different States to unite in such a way as to make a single political body, a single nation.""
"To these nationalist egotists, to these exclusivists, the Jews appeared a danger, because they felt that the Jews were still a people, a people whose mentality did not agree with the national mentality, whose concepts were opposed to that ensemble of social, moral, psychological, and intellectual conceptions, which constitutes nationality. For this reason the exclusivists became antisemites, because they could reproach the Jews with an exclusivism exactly as uncompromising as theirs, and every antisemitic effort tends, as we have seen already, 207 to restore those ancient laws restricting the rights of the Jews who are considered strangers."
FIFTEEN
Helped liberal, social and revolutionary parties - Contributed wealth
Modern anti-semitism is different from anti-Judaism - more self-conscious, more pragmatic, more deliberate - fear & hatred of strangers
Jews not assimilated - Continue to differentiate themselves from those around them
If they are Frenchmen, or if they are Germans, they are also Jews - maintain their peculiar characteristics as a people
Laws, prejudice and persecution - prevented them from mingling
Assimilation has caused differences between Jews from different countries
No laws on Jews now, just normal laws, no longer live apart, share a common life
Every external form of religion is losing its influence
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