tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40590223651527487272024-03-12T20:09:01.532-07:00COURAGE OF THE SPIRITThe story of Europe's Jewry in the 20th Century based on original family documents and accounts ©Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-89017922377978189722023-11-19T19:09:00.000-08:002023-11-19T19:09:09.999-08:00THE JEW REFUSES TO BE THE HOUSE SLAVE -AND THE WORLD IS SHAKING<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">THE JEW REFUSES TO BE THE HOUSE
SLAVE -AND THE WORLD IS SHAKING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p>For a link to the video discussion:</o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><a href="https://youtu.be/lqcTyQLCqs8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/lqcTyQLCqs8</a><br /></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">One of the pioneering movies of the early film
industry was called the <u>Birth of a Nation</u> by DW Griffith. In it ,the
African Americans ,who had been subject to horrible slavery for centuries and had
finally been freed, were now depicted as the evil ones, and the former
slaveholders of the South who rose up against these now freed slaves are
depicted as the heroes of the awakening American nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Talk about successfully turning heroes into
villains and villains into heroes!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It gives me a sense of what is happening to us
as Jews today. I read the image that is being broadcast to the world, by
violent riots of pro-Palestinian groups and what is being spread on tic toc and
the like, and I see that we Jews, who have been history’s victims , now are being
portrayed as history’s villains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Blaming Jews for one’s own failings is nothing
new in history, but we are just watching a particularly malicious variant
unfolding in our own times.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Bible already hints at the problem of our
being a minority in a foreign land. In the case of Jospeh, Potiphar’s wife harps
on the tune of “Hebrew who plays with us” and Pharaoh claims: “They have become
numerous and too powerful, they will join with the enemy against us (and leave
us!).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Just like D W Griffith, ancient Egyptian
writers also tried blame the Israelite slaves for trying to take over Egypt!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Much of the elements of anti-Semitism predate
even the start of Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thus, Blood libel was first propagated by
Antiochus’ supporters against Jews, that Jews capture a Greek for sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The theological and political foundation for
the continued enslavement and denigration of Jews gets its start under the Romans
and takes root with the rise of “Successor” to Judaism, Christianity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What was an internal conflict among Jews, between
the small Jesus community and the majority of Jews, evolves into a race to put
as much distance between as possible. This is especially so when the Roman
Empire turns full force against Jews in the wars of 70 and 135. The early
Christians wanted to avoid, like the plague, any association with Jews in the Empire.
Therefore, the early Christian texts were re-edited, to shift the blame, on
Jesus’ crucifixion, from the Romans to the Jews. Thus, Matthew 27:<span class="reftext"><b><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">25</span></b></span><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pas (Adj-NMS) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">the</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/2992.htm" title="2992: laos (N-NMS) -- Apparently a primary word; a people."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">people</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/611.htm" title="611: apokritheis (V-APP-NMS) -- From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">answered,</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/846.htm" title="846: autou (PPro-GM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“His</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/129.htm" title="129: haima (N-NNS) -- Blood, literally, figuratively or specially; by implication, bloodshed, also kindred."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">blood</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/1909.htm" title="1909: eph’ (Prep) -- On, to, against, on the basis of, at. "><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">be on</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: hēmas (PPro-A1P) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">us</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. "><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/1909.htm" title="1909: epi (Prep) -- On, to, against, on the basis of, at. "><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">on</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: hēmōn (PPro-G1P) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">our</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/greek/5043.htm" title="5043: tekna (N-ANP) -- A child, descendent, inhabitant. From the base of timoria; a child."><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">children!”</span></a><span class="highl"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Jew is then endowed with demonic
attributes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John 8:44<span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">: </span></sup></b></span><span class="woj"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">You belong to your father, the
devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a
murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in
him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the
father of lies.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> “<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deicide (God-killer)
and the Jew condemned to eternal wandering become the regnant motif of western
civilization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The conflict is flamed by the early church
thinkers. Church Fathers, such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom" title="John Chrysostom"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">John Chrysostom</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, went further in their condemnation:<b><span style="background: white; color: black;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: black;">Against the Jews. Homily 1</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">:<span style="background: white; color: black;">
(6) Although such beasts are unfit for work, they are fit for killing. And this
is what happened to the Jews: while they were making themselves unfit for work,
they grew fit for slaughter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The split is grounded in Roman law-Theodosius
code: In 404, Jews were excluded from certain governmental posts. In 418, they
were barred from the </span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">civil
service,</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> and from all military positions.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Byzantine_Empire#cite_note-Linder281-6"></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> In 425, they were excluded from all remaining public offices, both
civilian and military—a prohibition which </span>Justinian I <span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">reinforced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Continued in 1215 in the Lateran Council as Jews
are forced to wear distinct clothes (yellow badge, borrowed from Islam) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This subjugation of the Jews, suffered only to
be preserved in order to bear witness to Christianity, continued until the
early modern times. So, no one less than the father of the Protestant
Reformation, the man who single-handedly broke the power of the Catholic Church
and ushered in the modern era with the idea of the centrality of individual
conscience, Martin Luther, was himself the author of a miserable work, <u>On
the Jews and Their Lies</u>, a work that was republished many times under the
Third Reich.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Therefore, be
on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues,
nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit,
lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most
maliciously and vehemently with his eyes on them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jews were tolerated in Europe because they were
useful to the rulers. T<span style="background: white; color: #202122;">he Emperor
of the Holy Roman Empire, as legal successor to </span><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Titus </span><span style="background: white; color: #202122;">claimed the rights of possession and
protection over all the Jews in the former Roman empire.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jews<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had the status of <b>Servi camerae regis</b> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin"><span style="background: white; color: #3366cc; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Latin</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">) "servants of the royal chamber”, or slave. Similarly,
in England, under the Norman conquerors, the Jews were brought in as Property
of the King,” Chattels”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As the King’s property, they could not be
harmed by the mobs (although they were) but also, as property, they could be
disposed of, as trash, when no longer useful. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">At best, the Jew could live as a bird in a
gilded cage--gilded, but still a cage—and when the Jew became too useful for
the Royalty, and the crowds were aroused, the Jew was dispatched.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Jew, like Joseph Suess Oppenheimer, could
only go so far, until he is hung in that gilded cage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As we entered the modern era of the west, our
status as free and equal citizens was given slowly, and grudgingly, and often
taken back!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Modern antisemitism in Europe gave the world’s
oldest hatred a new intellectual veneer. Thus, it was given a leftist-class
basis, under Karl Marx, who wrote “On the Jewish Question, “Zur den Judenfrage”,
before he wrote his “Das Kapital.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“In the final
analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind
from Judaism. . What, in itself, was the basis of the Jewish religion?
Practical need, egoism…. The monotheism of the Jew, therefore, is in reality
the polytheism of the many needs, a polytheism which makes even the lavatory an
object of divine law. …The social emancipation of the Jew is
the emancipation of society from Judaism.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There was the
modern, rightist, race and nation based variant on the theme, and,
appropriately, it was termed, in answer <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to Marx,” Endloesung zur Judenfrage”—The Final
solution for the Jewish Question.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is vital to note--Modern Christians have
changed greatly in their preaching, especially the Catholic Church, as well as
the major Protestant denominations, many openly Zionist .It is rare, indeed, to
find an antisemite of religious conviction in the Christian world. But
Christianity, as it is in Europe, for example, is a fading force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But, just as
Christianity has shifted away from the Judeophobic roots, relinquished its secessionist
outlook and lost its power as well, the Moslem world , in part in reaction to
modernism, has doubled down on Jews. This status of the Jew as the Devil reared
its ugly head even before the context of Israel and Zionism in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It has long
been claimed that Jews fared better under Islam than under Christianity. While
the claim has merit, it, of course, is only relative, not absolute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mohammed rose to power with Jewish allies, and
then, when they fail to back him, he turned on them. What starts because of a political
power struggle became magnified into a fight between Islam and Judaism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Say: “People of the Book, …” Whomsoever God has
cursed, and with whom He is wroth, and made some of them apes and swine, and
worshippers of idols — they are worse situated, and have gone further astray
from the right way. (5:64-65)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE; margin-left: .5in;"><span style="background: #FEFEFE; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And He brought down those of the
People of the Book who supported them from their fortresses and cast terror in
their hearts; some you slew, some you made captive. And He bequeathed upon you
their lands, their habitations, and their possessions, and a land you never
trod. God is powerful over everything. (33:26)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE;"><span style="background: #FEFEFE; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What may have been said by
Mohammed in his fight for supremacy over the Arabian tribes lent itself only
too easily to actual demonization of the Jews. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE;"><span style="background: #FEFEFE; color: #666666; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It also became a basis to justify lying
about the intentions of the Oslo accords by Arafat:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This was from the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>secret speech by Yasser Arafat, Johannesburg:
"This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had
been signed between our Prophet Muhammad and Quraish, and you remember the
Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and considered it "Sulha
Dania" [a despicable truce]. But Muhammad had accepted it, and we are
accepting now this [Oslo] peace accord."</span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> <a href="https://d.docs.live.net/4cc0b4f08f8509c4/Rabbi/Study%20sheets/Anti%20semitism/Private%20recording"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Private
recording</span></i></a></span><i><span style="background: white; color: grey; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;"> | </span></i><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">May 10, 1994, <a href="https://youtu.be/37xnaqF-6B4?si=nQHjPFYzQc8_9yg1">https://youtu.be/37xnaqF-6B4?si=nQHjPFYzQc8_9yg1</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: #FEFEFE;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As explained by those who know Islam, that
treaty, the Hudaybiyyah peace treaty, which called for a 10-year truce was
broken by Muhammad in two years. Arafat hinted to his followers that these
accords, too, were destined to be broken.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The original restrictions which Mohammed placed
on the Jewish tribes he conquered were reinforced and increased in the Hadith(Oral
traditions)-Especially of Al Bukhari, who is considered the authority behind
most Islamic militants today. This statement is part of the charter of Hamas,
for example.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Day of Judgement will not come about until
Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The
stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come
and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxthorn" title="Boxthorn"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Boxthorn</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> tree) would not do that
because it is one of the trees of the Jews. (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahih_Muslim" title="Sahih Muslim"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sahih Muslim</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, </span><a href="http://cmje.usc.edu/religious-texts/hadith/muslim/041-smt.php#041.6985"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">41:6985</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Even with Islamic so-called tolerance there
were limits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">From Robert Wistrich, <u>Muslim Anti-Semitism</u>:
p 6ff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">… their existence from Morocco to Iran was punctuated by
misery, humiliation, and popular violence… the greatest of medieval Jewish
philosophers, Maimonides, to refer bitterly to the “nation of Ishmael, who persecute
us severely, and who devise ways to harm us and debase us.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The legal status of Jews and Christians …that of <i>dhimmis
</i>(“protected peoples”), whose religions were officially recognized by the
authorities. On payment of a poll tax <i>(jîzya)</i>, they could freely
practice their faiths, enjoy a certain degree of personal security, and have
their own communal organizations. But the protection afforded to the “peoples
of the Book” <i>(ahl al-kitab) </i>was combined with subjugation; the
“tolerance” they benefited from existed within a social framework of
discrimination and disabilities that constantly emphasized the superiority of Muslims
to both Jews and Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jews could not, for example, bear arms; they could not
ride horses; they were required to wear distinctive clothing (the yellow badge
had its origins in Baghdad, not in medieval Europe); and they were forbidden to
build new places of worship. Their <i>dhimmi </i>status, as elaborated by
Muslim jurists from the inception of Islam until the early twentieth century,
has been succinctly summarized as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dhimmis </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">were often considered impure(najes) and had to be segregated from the
Muslim community. Entry into holy Muslim towns, mosques, public baths, as well
as certain streets was forbidden them. Their turbans—when they were permitted
to wear them —their costumes, belts, shoes, the appearance of their wives and their
servants had to be different from those of Muslims in order to distinguish and
humiliate them; for the <i>dhimmis </i>could never be allowed to forget that
they were inferior beings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Even in Golden Age of Spain, there were periods
pogroms in Cordoba and Granada, of forced conversion and expulsion, as under
the Almohades. Jews were exiled from capital of Yemen, Sana-Galut Mauza 1600’s.
those in walled towns had to live outside the wall, exposed to enemy attack. In
Iran, there were harsh laws restricting Jews, with forced conversion in Isfahan
1600’s, and Mashad in the 1800’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is true that these laws applied also to
Christians—however, as Europe became increasingly powerful, especially after
the Reconquista- the local Christians could count on protection from their
European protectors. Jews had no protectors!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Even into the beginnings of the modern era,
one can find the enforcement of the orphan’s law, as in Yemen- every baby is
born a Muslim, and it is only his parents who misguide the baby. Therefore,
when a child becomes and orphan, he or she now belongs to the local ruler and
is taken form the family and raised as a Muslim. The only exception was for
those already married, and therefore, in Yemen, it was common to arrange for
child-marriages in order to prevent the child from being kidnapped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Even till today, Islam allows for a negotiated
settlement between families of the murderer and the murdered, in lieu of death penalty.
However, the settlement price for a Jew is far less than the price for either a
Christian or a Muslim, and that was the law in Iran till this century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Now, as we enter the modern period, the
Islamic world is influenced by trends, for good, and for bad, from Europe—and,
regarding Jews, the worst of both left and right. The idea of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Nationalist</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> anti-Semitism, for example. The term anti-Semite is invented by William
Barr to describe his new movement, an attack on Jews as an alien race, but
never meant as an attack on Arabs, who were seen as a nobler race. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Jew as a distinct and permanently alien
nation has no place inside the host nation. Theodore Herzl understood this very
well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is no wonder that the Mufti of Jerusalem
could feel comfortable at a tete a tete with Adolph Hitler and lead the Bosnian
SS during WWII.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What was a distinctly European form found
fertile soil in the rising Arab nationalism, which begins to see the Jew as
alien. Riots break out against Jews, not just in pre-State Palestine, but
around the Arab world, such as the Farhood in Baghdad. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thus, there is the denial of rights to Jews in
the newly freed colonies of North Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Albert Memmi-great ideologist of Tunisian
independence, colleague of Franz Fanon:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We would have liked to be Arab Jews. If we
abandoned the idea, it is because over the centuries the Moslem Arabs
systematically prevented its realization by their contempt and cruelty. It is
now too late for us to become Arab Jews. Not only were the homes of Jews in
Germany and Poland torn down, scattered to the four winds, demolished, but our
homes as well. . .. Never, I repeat, never - with the possible exception of two
or three very specific intervals such as the Andalusian, and not even then -
did the Jews in Arab lands live in other than a humiliated state, vulnerable
and periodically mistreated and murdered, so that they should clearly remember
their place. [https://www.jimena.org/who-is-an-arab-jew/].”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So, like Jud Suess in Germany, Jews in Arab lands,
at best, were in a gilded cage, and at a whim, could be eliminated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcEZSMQZVca7DvbLNthv49qE3P083I8X3PMchN7kwjRTON6ZarPWAAawNB6Jh6s9B_JRz5lHEDcp3PpaHlrF4yOPY-PnTijIo1PtKL4mEQ832aQyP6C63MoLn0GMdrN42SQVxrlQc5mOZ_HguJuyxaYb7756sDZnQC33kT1gVcgT4P_o74cX0rMue8EZI/s640/Iraq%20hanging.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="640" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcEZSMQZVca7DvbLNthv49qE3P083I8X3PMchN7kwjRTON6ZarPWAAawNB6Jh6s9B_JRz5lHEDcp3PpaHlrF4yOPY-PnTijIo1PtKL4mEQ832aQyP6C63MoLn0GMdrN42SQVxrlQc5mOZ_HguJuyxaYb7756sDZnQC33kT1gVcgT4P_o74cX0rMue8EZI/w640-h486/Iraq%20hanging.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Public hanging of Jews in Baghdad, 1969. The
same happened to the leader of the Jewish community in Iran when Khomeini took
charge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I look at the historic response to the Jewish
desire to return to the land of Israel. Set aside the claim that to do so meant
the displacement of the existing Arabs of the land that was designated as
Palestine. That land was itself underpopulated and neglected after centuries of
Ottoman rule. When Jews came in, prosperity came with it, and the Arab
population increased in tandem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Why then was there so much vehemence to an
autonomous Jewish territory in the midst of what would be the Great Arab
Awakening, which would have benefitted so much from the influx of a skilled and
educated population. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The only comparison that I can think of is the
vehement reaction of the Southern whites to the newly freed slaves. I go back
to the DW Griffith movie, Birth of a Nation, Suddenly, the very people upon
whom the white masters stepped on so easily in the ante-bellum South, could be
free, and independent, and raised the hackles of the former slave-holders, who
had indulged themselves in their sense of superiority. The rise of the Ku Klux
Klan in its day was seen as defense of white supremacy, and the newly freed
black was soon put back in his place, by force of law of “Jim Crow”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I can only see the response of the Arab world,
in the early years of the Zionist movement, acting in the same way as the early
white supremacists—here were the Jews, the former dhimmi, the former lowly,
inferior Jews, acting like equals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
no wonder that the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al Banna, was
vehemently a Jew-hater, or that the Mufti of Jerusalem could be at home with
Adolf Hitler.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The horrors unleashed on the Israelis on
October 7 can only be understood in the light of a visceral reaction of the
once superior Arabs now having to deal with their upstart and uppity former
slaves. I can understand the depth of anger the former master holds against his
newly liberated slave. What I can’t understand, is why intelligent, enlightened
people, the product of western liberalism, would side with the masters of the
Middle East and not with the newly freed and emancipated Jew. It’s like siding
with the KKK in the Birth of a Nation movie.</span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmYW5oMsDdqrZHkAKYd5AOwW541q0x9O-ehpOc8L81olTrsYQPjlvIxWy5O94TmlEyKjHdmBzY0rJdjJTKtFiLEyCG_c1qobjoAZc8H4XCdtaIVW442JL5M1G2AueHgG-7Ql2kr2ZIhhj0B8aHsYbqo0JNMZ3499JyWTzfBEB0upPDjDhfZqu0TcFFJo/s768/Hamas-militants-768x512.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmYW5oMsDdqrZHkAKYd5AOwW541q0x9O-ehpOc8L81olTrsYQPjlvIxWy5O94TmlEyKjHdmBzY0rJdjJTKtFiLEyCG_c1qobjoAZc8H4XCdtaIVW442JL5M1G2AueHgG-7Ql2kr2ZIhhj0B8aHsYbqo0JNMZ3499JyWTzfBEB0upPDjDhfZqu0TcFFJo/w640-h426/Hamas-militants-768x512.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBAZI0UpTk2NIY4403DuQUKscwlehESodM89a4xSNhaoOrRMuHMT6KUzfK7VjQw39V0JWPH0OgNRPwUxYSRYp3RS-hqEs4g7NDIV7Wh8m85zBsD0EEyUZxh_8p9w3nhkMZTLQd6FdehXppPEY6inihuT1xcvkg_fwvM4Wj7d4jKVCmwNqUPpV72TXnIqk/s640/Klan_Gathering.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="640" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBAZI0UpTk2NIY4403DuQUKscwlehESodM89a4xSNhaoOrRMuHMT6KUzfK7VjQw39V0JWPH0OgNRPwUxYSRYp3RS-hqEs4g7NDIV7Wh8m85zBsD0EEyUZxh_8p9w3nhkMZTLQd6FdehXppPEY6inihuT1xcvkg_fwvM4Wj7d4jKVCmwNqUPpV72TXnIqk/w640-h478/Klan_Gathering.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-43603863361294833702023-11-08T13:01:00.001-08:002023-11-08T13:01:32.398-08:00Regarding the Problem of Jewish Quislings-by Rabbi William Weinberg 1947<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding the Problem of Jewish Quislings 28.5.1947 Appeared
in Wiener Sonderausgabe , Zeitschrift “ Mosty and Opinin”<o:p></o:p></p>
<br />
Translation of German essay<br />
<br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As far as it is possible for people to deal with such a
problem, we would like to point out here “sine ira et studio” (without anger
and passion) the chapter of Jewish collaborators, about which silence has
become good form.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In all European states that had the misfortune to experience
the bloody rule of the Germans, the concept of Quislings is known, those people
who are criminally inclined, by fear or opportunism, or political immaturity, or
for money, without dignity, or for the sake of supposed national interests, in
the moral sense or factual sense, to have made themselves accomplices of the
Nazi tyrants.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Norway had its Quisling, France its Petain, Belgium its
Degrelle, Czechoslovakia its Hacha, Russia its Vlasov. The passionate hatred of
all liberated peoples is now directed more towards these collaborators who have
directly or indirectly participated in the devilry of the Germans against their
own people. Since we are subject to the same psychological and sociological
laws that govern all other peoples, it is as sad as it is self-evident that we
too had our quislings. In antiquity we had our Josephus Flavius, who abandoned
his comrades in arms in the most difficult hour of our people and went over to
the throne, and who, while his comrades were dragged behind the triumphant’ s
chariot, enjoyed himself at the court of the same triumphant by writing hymns
in his honor. In the same tragic epoch in our history we had a Tiberius
Alexander, who first ruled against the Jews as governor in Judea, and later as
governor in Egypt, who let his legions of blood-hungry and rapacious soldiers,
like wild animals and beasts, loose on the quarters of the Jews in Alexandria ,
and then took part under Titus in the conquest of Jerusalem as the actual head
of the most important military operations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As is well known, history repeats itself. During Hitler's
time, many Jews helped in the enslavement and deportation of the Jews to the
labor concentration and extermination camps. Many have committed guilt in their
capacity as Judenrate( Jewish council member) by compiling and signing lists of
those destined for destruction or by assisting in the confiscation of Jewish
assets for the benefit of the Germans; many have committed guilt in their
capacity as Jupos (Jewish police) by enlisting Jews for destruction or
deportation ; some took part directly in the atrocities and devilries of the
Germans as kapos. Just as Flavius Josephus watched the humiliation of a nation
with outrageous calm, so many of these modern Romelings (would be Romans)
watched with leisurely calm the transport of their comrades to the gas
chambers. Many of them are guilty, some are less guilty, some of them are
perhaps even innocent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, the exception that the Gestapo made in favor of
these Quislings for the duration or duration of their service does not shed a
good light on them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is necessary to discuss this sad chapter, because in many
cases a situation has already developed in which the victims (in whose hearts
and memories the misdeeds and incessant omissions of our Quislings are still
alive and burning) are joined by ridicule, when these modern Romans arrive in
the important Jewish institutions, so that they continue to be dependent on
them. Is it conceivable that a Josephus Flavius or a Tiberius Alexander would
have taken part in the legendary Bnei Brak meeting in which important decisions
for the future of the Jewish people were made? What was once impossible has
today, as unlikely as it sounds, in many cases become a fact, the unthinkable
event.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Times of emergency are known to be the best ground for
political adventurers and our time of need is not yet over. While most Jews
returned home wandering, lost, groping, grieving, disappointed, uprooted,
desperate and tired of life, our Quislings looked in a good mood, were
impeccably dressed and stood out from all the others because of their well-fed
nature.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Furthermore, while a considerable number of the liberated
Jews initially appeared shy and timid, many of our quislings had retained their
patronizing pretensions from the Nazi era and were able to move like a chameleon
from the Gestapo's anteroom to our offices established organizations and to
fill important positions in Jewish public life.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Such a situation is impossible in the long term and can no
longer be tolerated, otherwise our entire public life will be corrupted and the
people's trust in the leading men of their own democracy will be undermined.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Those who cover up and protect these collaborators in every
way, who oppose the eradication of this Josephus-Flavius spirit and often
openly make peace with them, must also go. It is not intended to enter a
discussion here with those who defend our quisling.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, two arguments should be mentioned here briefly
because they have become very popular.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">Failing
in the face of the threat of death is not heroic, but , not everyone has what
it takes to become a martyr. That is what people often say. At a similar time,
the Hillelites had once opposed certain decisions, citing the psychological
fact that the average person could not survive when the demands were too great
(<u>ein rov hazibur yecholin laamod ba</u>- The majority of the public cannot
handle this). This may be seen as a mitigating factor for the general public,
but not for people who were in a leading position and certainly not for people
who are still pushing themselves to lead today. If they failed in such a tragic
and responsible moment as the Hitler era, that gives us no guarantee that they
could not also fail in the no less responsible present, because we must expect
our leaders to stand their ground in the face of every danger and under every
circumstance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another argument that is often used about our
quisling is that he is politically immature. The fact that this applies to a
large part, it can be seen as a mitigating factor for their shameful past, but
by no means is it a license for further public activity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">To
maintain and manage our institutions, we need people who are not only dutiful
civil servants, but also militants who have our ideas, people who dedicate
themselves to them with all their dedication and enthusiasm.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">Therefore,
the question of eliminating the quisling influence and their ideas as well as
the poisoning that it brings with it is one of the most urgent tasks and it must
extend to all functions in public life.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">Where
they still try to push themselves into the foreground, it This problem must be
solved free of all bureaucratic and formal legal inhibitions. The only decisive
factor must be how far someone has given himself up to be a bully against his
own people, how far someone has given himself up to help our executioners out
of lowly self-preservation or political shortsightedness. Anyone who, in any
capacity, be it as a Judenrat, or head of the so-called procurement office,
helped to transfer contributions or other valuables from Jews, be it houses,
furniture or clothing, from Jews to Germans, was collaborating because he was
not only harming the Jew but also supporting the Germans in their fight against
the Allies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">Such
people have forfeited, according to all written and unwritten laws in all
liberated countries, the right to play any leading role in social life, even if
it may sometimes develop that they would have to be employed at times because
of certain specialized knowledge or organizational experience.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">is
the inevitable duty of every Jew to push them into the background. This also
applies to those who have rendered outstanding services to a greater or lesser
number of Jews in their work, but especially to those who have understood how
to warn our enemies of the sinking ship in time, out of calculation, at the
last or penultimate hour to leave and side with the victorious powers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">The
fact that this also applies to those who only made outstanding contributions to
the cause of the Jews or the Allies after the liberation hardly needs any
special mention.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">In
this context, a similar circumstance may be pointed out at the time of the
hated Roman rule in ancient Israel before the destruction of the Temple. At
that time, the Romans levied a tax on every head, as well as taxes on crops,
houses, and customs duties. Any Jew who took part in the collection of these
taxes, whether as a tax collector (Moches) or as a customs collector (Gabai),
was declared dishonorable, would not be suffered in good society, and would not
be believed as a witness. (Sanhedrin 25b) Even in the New Testament the word
tax collector has the same meaning to the Jews as violator of the law and, like
the latter, is considered a term of abuse.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">According
to the Jewish view, everyone, including the guilty, has freedom and the
opportunity to repent. So, we also want to enable our modern Romans, if they
have not forfeited their shameful life through their misdeeds, to find the path
to repentance. However, the path into public life must remain closed to them
forever, not least because this is also the practice of all other liberated
peoples, although they have led much less than we did under the strict rule of
the Germans. The leadership in public Jewish life belongs to those Jews who
remained brave and tough, who remained at the top mentally and spiritually,
even if physically they had to live at the bottom in the abyss of abuse and
dirt.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-49156641820627864512021-02-23T11:02:00.000-08:002021-02-23T11:02:31.989-08:00The Scroll of Esther- The account of Irene Weinberg and a moral tale of courage to persevere while being huntedThis is the account of my mother, Irene Weinberg, of blessed memory, which I delivered on Jan 23, 2021, on the weekend preceding 99 years since her birthday, Jan.25, one day before her liberation by the Soviets at Gleiwitz.
Irene Weinberg survived in the open, under the noses of the Nazis, all the while, hiding her aunt as well.
This is her account.
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This opens the power point presentation, with her account, photos from her life in hiding, and selections from her video-taped interview. under the auspices of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles in 1994.
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Original photos and documents are on file at the Holocaust Museum of Los Angeles
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and at the United States Museum of the Holocaust
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This is th link to my video presentation
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-78611911963600099332019-03-19T08:34:00.000-07:002019-03-19T08:34:05.510-07:00New database of German refugee Rabbis in America lists both father and son<br />
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I am honored to announce the website listing of German Refugee Rabbis to the United States posted by the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich.<br />
My father, Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg, is listed, as so am I, possibly the only Rabbi on the list born after the Shoah!<br />
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This was just announced:<br />
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Leo Baeck Institute Invites to a Presentation of the New Database German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933-1990</h1>
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<span style="background-color: #f8f7f2; color: #424242; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;">We are pleased to announce the publication of the online Digital Humanities Database „German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933-1990” (</span><a href="http://mira.geschichte.lmu.de/" style="background: rgb(248, 247, 242); box-sizing: border-box; color: #3299ba; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;">http://mira.geschichte.lmu.de/</a><span style="background-color: #f8f7f2; color: #424242; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;"> /). It was a research cooperation between Dr. Cornelia Wilhelm of the Department of Jewish History and Culture, the Center for Digital Humanities at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History at NYU and was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).</span><br />
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Here is the site:<br /><a href="http://mira.geschichte.lmu.de/">http://mira.geschichte.lmu.de/</a><br />
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<br />Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-5768355068980894302019-01-11T16:42:00.000-08:002019-01-11T16:42:25.703-08:00An Open Letter to Congresswoman Tlaib<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">An
open letter to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Dear
Congresswoman Tlaib,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Congratulations
on becoming the first Congresswoman of Palestinian origin. “ Tahanina”, or as
we say, “ Mazal Tov.” If things in 1948 had turned out as the UN planned, with
two entities, one for Jews, one for Arabs, without the bitter fighting that
ensued, perhaps we could have sat down to really celebrate, have some pita and hummus,
drink coffee with “hel”( cardamom), shout “ kululoo” for you. After all, so many
Israelis, Jews, as well as Arabs and Druze, shared the same language, and the
main language of Israel, Hebrew, is “ kissing cousin” to your Arabic. Even our
gene pool (including those blond-haired, blue eyed European colonialist white
invading Jews) is more similar than either of us care to admit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Sadly,
your people have been led down a thorny path by their leaders, and your family
back in the West Bank have inherited their disasters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So,
please let me address some thoughts to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">First,
it is with great pride that I recognize that you could swear your oath to
uphold your duties on the copy of the Quran owned by President Jefferson.
Please keep in mind, that the right, to express your faith, without any restrictions
or interference by the State, did not come easily. When the first Jews came to
these shores, in 1654, they had to prove their value to the Dutch Governor of
New Amsterdam. Even after Jefferson’s famous Statute on Religious Liberty of
Virginia became the basis for the First Amendment’s freedom of religion, Jews
still had to struggle for many generations, till they could hold elected office
in some states, reach high rank in the military, or travel freely in the
pursuit of a livelihood (General Grant’s famous foul-up in Tennessee).This was
true for Quakers, Baptists, Mormons, and Catholics as well( think of JFK). Your
rights, regardless of your religion, are built upon the backs of others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Which
is why I found your quip about “ Dual Loyalty” in regard to the debate on
banning BDS to be especially disgraceful. It is more befitting of a David Duke.
It certainly sounds duplicitous as you, yourself, at your victory party,
wrapped yourself in a Palestinian flag. Now, it is very common, in the course
of American history, that descendants of various immigrant groups showed signs
of pride and affection for the country of their origin- Irish for Ireland,
Italians for Italy, and I would not begrudge a Palestinians affinity for fellow
Palestinian Arabs ( Jews were Palestinians until 1948; my brother-in-laws birth
certificate says so). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">However,
It is not common to support a movement whose express goal is to eliminate
another state, as the BDS organizers, and you yourself, have stated openly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I
note that you quickly back-tracked on your statement, to claim it was in
reference to lawmakers who were not loyal to the Constitution. It is ironic
that the progressives, such as in your Democratic Socialists of America ,are
among the most vocal to advocate truncating rights of free speech or
religion--for others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">(Just
an aside, as an irony of history, your movement’s founder, Eugene V Debs, was a
white racist, who wanted to keep African Americans down, and keep out
immigrants, such as Chinese and Jews. The movement was later taken over by truly
great figures, such as Michael Harrington and Irving Howe, and then almost died
out, literally of old age).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">And
speaking of duplicitous, when you began your campaign, you claimed to be in
favor of a two -state solution, one for Israelis, and one for Palestinians.
Fine, that’s what Israelis accepted in 1948. But, once your campaign picked up
speed, you switched, to a one state solution, with the right of return for all
Palestinians, so that there would, in effect, no longer be a State of Israel.
Even JStreet dropped you like a hot potato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Now,
please allow me to correct some clear racial profiling you have created in your
speeches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">This
is from an interview you gave in the run up to your successful election on
August 14, 2018:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“…Seeing the unequal treatment in Israel, in the different colored
license plates for Palestinians; and even in the ocean. When I was 19 and with
my family and some of them had head scarves on, we all jumped in the water and
the Israelis jumped out as if my cousins were diseased. “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/21383/rashida-tlaib-democratic-socialism-palestine-israel-michigan">http://inthesetimes.com/article/21383/rashida-tlaib-democratic-socialism-palestine-israel-michigan</a>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">There
is this transcript of an interview you gave just after your election, on Nov.
18, to UK ‘s Channel 4 News:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Look
I am a person that grew up in Detroit where every single corner of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">district
is a reminder of the civil rights movement. I can tell you when I was 12 years
old I sat there with my mother when she was shifted into a line with all the
other brown people and then all the other folks you know mostly citizens of
Israel and another section, and the way that she was treated less than that,
inequality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=SiVKfcLa5V8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=SiVKfcLa5V8</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You
were born in 1976, so that this 1<sup>st</sup> experience of yours at age 19 occurred
in 1995, just 2 years after Paris accords, after Israel opened the doors of
Gaza and West Bank to Palestinian Authority with great expectations. And what
happened? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israelis were being murdered
as they boarded buses. My daughter was a student at the Hebrew University that
year, and it was her good fortune not to have taken the bus when it was bombed.
Instead, she often took the buses of east Jerusalem( Arab) to get around, as it
was less likely that the terrorist would bomb their own!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I
had lived in Kfar Sava at that time, and till that time, there had been a free
flow of people from the “ West Bank” to Israel proper, until the PLO’s henchmen
started planting bombs and we had to have parents take turns watching our
children’s schools for any suspicious objects. One family was burned to death
in their car as they drove near the neighboring town of Kalkiliyah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So,
to jog your memory, I am posting a list at the end of this letter, just of
bombings of Israeli civilians boarding buses in that same period, after Israel
had begun the process of giving the Palestinians the foundation work for a
future state, that period in which you were surprised by Israelis jumping out
of the water.*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">And
those license plates-well, first, they were given your people by Jordan. The Israelis
kept separate registration because they kept the area under Jordanian civil
law, not Israeli law. Now, your people asked for, and got, separation from
Israel, under the Paris accords, eagerly agreed to by the Rais ( top man)
himself, Yasser Arafat. It’s not Israel’s fault that the Palestinians asked for
separation! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">You
gave the second interview when you were 12, which would have been in 1988.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The line you are referring to, the only line
I can imagine, is the line getting in to Ben Gurion airport. Yes, there are two
lines- one for citizens, one for non-citizens, just as in the US. Was there
extra scrutiny of Arabs, especially those who were “ Jordanians” ( after all,
Jordanian law still held in the land that had been occupied by Jordan from
1948-1967).? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was following a
previous decade of bombing and terror attacks on airplanes and airports by the
PLO and its allies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As
for identifying with “ browns”, keep in mind, that at that around that time, in
Detroit, the African-American community felt itself exploited by the local
Arabs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> ''They exploit us,'' said
Robert Walls, a senior official in the city's Neighborhood Services Department.
. . . When the subject of Arab merchants arose, the conversation turned angry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">''Let me tell you about overcharging,'' Gaines <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[ one of the city officials at the meeting)
said. ''They operate on pure greed.'']<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">''It is greed,'' said Smith-Gray. ''And it's the way they act
toward us. You can go into some stores where kids have to walk with their hands
at their sides'' - presumably an antishoplifting measure.</span> <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/29/magazine/the-tragedy-of-detroit.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/29/magazine/the-tragedy-of-detroit.html</a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Your fellow Arabs were the whites at that time. In fact, Arabs
were labelled as white on the US census as a result of a lawsuit—in 1915! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">As
for “ brown”- most Israelis are “brown”, just as Ahed Tamimi and many other
Palestinians are “fair-skinned” or have blue eyes.( Centuries of invasions by Greeks,
Romans, Arabs, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vikings, Franks, and so
on have left their mark).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Now,
as to Israelis jumping out of the water—perhaps your confusing this with the
experience of Jews in Iran and Yemen, when they lived under Shiite rule, and
were considered ritually impure and untouchables. You see, in Israel, they can
have a judge of Arab origin, George Karra, preside over the trial of the
President of Israel; that’s not what apartheid regimes do. I was in Israel this
past summer, during Ramadan, and repeatedly saw, in the evening, at sunset, at
the end of the daily Ramadan fast, Arabs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>sitting at the same restaurants with Jews, and shopping freely in the
same stores. Nobody was “ jumping out”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I
took these pictures this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Do these pictures look like the South under Jim Crow or Apartheid in South Africa?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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Which is woman is Jewish, which Muslim in this Jerusalem eyeglass shop? In case you have trouble determining which is which, the Jewish woman is on the left, the Muslim woman on the right. It’s all in how the scarf is wrapped.<br />
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street- but both have the tzizit hanging out!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In
sum, Hon. Congresswoman Tlaib, before you speak of Jewish dual loyalties,
please keep your story straight. Stop using racial dog whistles and stop
pitting “ browns” against “Jews”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Maybe,
one day, we will be able to get together over a cup of coffee with “hel”.<br />
Inshallah, Im Yirtzeh Hashem, God Willing,. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Salaam,
Shalom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Rabbi
Norbert Weinberg<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Palestinian bombings of Israeli civilian buses 1994-1996.</span><span class="mw-headline"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span class="mw-headline"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1994 (5 bombings)</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">April 6, 1994<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bus station suicide bombing</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">April 13, 1994<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">October 19, 1994<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Tel Aviv</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">22<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzarim_Junction_bicycle_bombing" title="Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Netzarim
Junction bicycle bombing</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">November 11, 1994<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzarim_(settlement)" title="Netzarim (settlement)"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Netzarim</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #a55858; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jerusalem_Binyanei_Hauma_suicide_bombing&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Jerusalem Binyanei Hauma suicide bombing (page does not exist)"><span style="color: #a55858;">Jerusalem Binyanei Hauma suicide bombing</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">December 25, 1994<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Jerusalem</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">none<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="mw-headline"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">1995 (4 bombings)</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Name<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Date<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Location<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Death toll<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Lid_massacre" title="Beit Lid massacre"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-weight: normal;">Beit
Lid massacre</span></a></span></b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">January 22, 1995<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Lid_Junction" title="Beit Lid Junction"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Beit Lid Junction</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Darom_bus_attack" title="Kfar Darom bus attack"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Kfar Darom bus
attack</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid #A2A9B1 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #A2A9B1 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; padding: 2.4pt 4.8pt 2.4pt 4.8pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">April 9, 1995<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Vicinity of </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Darom" title="Kfar Darom"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Kfar Darom</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">8<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat_Gan_bus_20_bombing" title="Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Ramat Gan bus 20
bombing</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid #A2A9B1 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #A2A9B1 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; padding: 2.4pt 4.8pt 2.4pt 4.8pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">July 24, 1995<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat_Gan" title="Ramat Gan"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Ramat Gan</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramat_Eshkol_bus_bombing" title="Ramat Eshkol bus bombing"><span style="color: #0b0080;">Ramat Eshkol bus
bombing</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid #A2A9B1 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid #A2A9B1 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #A2A9B1 .75pt; padding: 2.4pt 4.8pt 2.4pt 4.8pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">August 21, 1995<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">February 25, 1996<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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station<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jerusalem bus 18 suicide bombing</span></a></span></b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">March 3, 1996<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">March 4, 1996<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-11028880453297019672019-01-02T23:24:00.003-08:002019-01-02T23:24:46.566-08:00Common Christian Misconceptions About Judaism--Ones that We Fall For<br />
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About Judaism-Ones that We Fall For<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even highly educated people
are wont to believe anything malicious about Jews- last week, New York Times,
published an interview with accomplished writer, Alice Walker. She proudly
pointed out to the interviewer that her favorite book, the one most important
was one written by David Ickes<u>, And the Truth Shall Set You Free</u>. It
turns out, that the book is a modern rewrite of <u>The Protocols of the Elders
of Zion</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yes, even highly praised and
influential people, who have experienced oppression and hatred themselves, can
have warped and twisted ideas about us Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, we are approaching Dec
25, the day, which for Christians, as Christmas, is the birth of the Savior,
who quite importantly, lived and died as a Jew, it is valuable to reflect on
some common misconceptions Christians have of Jews, and thereby, learn
something about Judaism for ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some thirty-five years ago,
the US suffered a major terror attack. At that time, the LA Times ran a
headline” US Bars ‘ Eye for an Eye’ on Terrorists.” A State Department Official
made mention that the US could never be as swift as Israel to retaliate, as it
does not believe in an eye for an eye,” It is not an Old Testament country” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The implication is that the US is a morally superior
nation because it is Christian nation, whereas Israel, which is Jewish, is
morally inferior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is no other way to
interpret the statement, which distinguishes New Testament from Old Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He certainly was ignorant of American moral
history, which, as a New<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Testament country, based on love
and forgiveness, wiped out entire Indian tribes, enslaved the black, firebombed
Dresden and Tokyo, dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let not the kettle call the pot black.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He was also ignorant of
religious history and the Bible, as are many people, including our own fellow
Jews, because he had no understanding of what the moral requirements of the
"Old” Testament are on warfare or what the meaning of “eye for eye” is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This all serves as a reminder
to us of how much education and teaching still must be done, both in the left
and the right., across the board. We have excellent relations with Christian
clergy, and many Christian educators have attempted to straighten things out,
but from the clergy to the congregants there is often a chasm a mile wide.
Certainly, we, as Jews, should know what some of the common misconceptions are
that Christian held and may still hold about Judaism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. As a Jew, we can never use
such a term. We don't have an "Old" Testament. Old means worn out, no
longer valid, as in an old car, or an old coat. It is replaced by the New, in
Christian thought, in other words, better, as in "New car" or
"new coat".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a distinction<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>which has its roots in the earliest of church teachings, that saw
Judaism as an outmoded, no longer valid, system of belief. It was termed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">” super session”, whereby the “Church”
has superseded the “Synagogue”. ( In Islamic thought, the Quran has superseded
both Jewish and Christian scriptures.) The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Synagogue is depicted in medieval statuary as
a blind-folded woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The "Old Testament"
means the Old Dispensation, the one that didn't work, the one that was given to
Moses and was valid only till Jesus came, and instituted a New Dispensation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In practical matters, most of historic
church teachings on Judaism referred to us as a vanquished and vanished religion
and people. Church texts assumed that we vanished with the year 70, with the
destruction of Jerusalem This was adopted by many modern non-religious
historians, such as Arnold Toynbee, who declared the Jewish people to be a “Syriac
fossil.”. Jews should have disappeared long ago. The idea that, as a religion
and a people, we continued to grow and mature, and develop was totally ignored,
because until the past century, Christianity refused to grant us any validity
whatsoever. Our only function was to serve as a proof of what happened to us
because we rejected Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Again, while the Vatican and
many Protestant Churches did much to change these positions, old assumptions
die out slowly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Jews are strict,
exacting, wanting their eye for an eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. Shakespeare put it bluntly;Shylock,
the Jew, wants his pound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">of flesh, whereas the Christian
preaches “The quality of mercy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">is not strained.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does an eye for an eye. mean? After all,
Christians never<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">repudiated the morality of the
Bible, of our text; they repudiated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">the religious details and
obligations, but never the moral principles,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">so an eye for an eye becomes
an issue for Christians as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Every precept in the Bible
comes to correct an existing condition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One thousand years before time
of Moses, in the oldest civilization, Sumer, there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">was no such thing as an eye
for eye; one can buy off a crime. For example, if a citizen killed another
citizen, he could, instead of being killed, pay off the damage. A wealthy
citizen would be spared but a poor citizen would be executed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Then, in the time of Abraham,
in Babylonia, Hammurabi tried to right wrongs in his famous code. It was the ancient
Babylonian who formulated the principal of "an eye for an eye".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thus, if a house collapses,
and the son of the owner is killed, they shall take the son of the builder, and
kill him instead. Quid pro quo; tit for tat. A fair exchange, but what fault
was it of the son of the builder? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There was still the matter of
social class. “If a commoner strikes the eye of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Commoner, he shall have his
eye struck out„ but if a nobleman strike the eye of a commoner, he shall pay
compensation.” There was no equality of justice before the law in this understanding
of “eye foe eye”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the sense of the Bible, an “eye
for eye”, a quid pro quo, can’t be distorted by rank or nobility; it is a
radically new principal on which all justice , including American justice
stands. It is not a Jewish principal, alone. It is a universal legal principal
now. An eye for an eye, not a head for an eye; the punishment cannot exceed the
crime. Not an eye for commoner but a dollar for a noble; there is no difference
between a noble’s eye and a commoner’s eye, or between a man's eye and a
woman's eye; all are of equal worth before the Law. Therefore, the noted father
of international law, Hugo Grotius ,saw this as the basis of all fair and
equitable law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This was clear in the year
1300 before the common era, yet, in so called “New Testament” societies, including
civilized England up to two centuries ago, or in this society, up .to the last
century, a man could be hung for the crime of petty theft or for
horse-stealing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Victor Hugo in <u>Les Miserable</u>
told the story of the relentless hounding of a man for the theft of some bread
to feed his family. Had the French followed the “Old Testament” in France, the
central character would have returned the bread and paid a small fine to the
owner. The society, in turn, would have seen to it that he could feed the family.
That is “0ld” Testament legalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Was an eye for an eye ever
enacted?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The section in which “eye for
eye” is first mentioned, in <u>Exodus</u>, is part of a discussion of a
practical case, of two citizens in a fight. If one of the two is injured, the other
is not injured in exchange. Rather “eye for eye” is invoked to clarify what the
law itself determines, “rak shivto yiten ve.rapo yerapeh”, He shall pay for the
loss incurred by disability and for medical expenses. Later, the Sages included
compensation for pain, embarrassment, and loss of future income from the
injury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There were some, the Sadducees,
interpreted it literally. -The Rabbis, the Pharisees, refuted this position. If
an “eye for an eye” means “identical loss”, since when do we know that your eye
is equal to my eye, or that your arm is equal to my arm. There is no possible equation.
Therefore, it can only intend compensation, a fair and adequate repayment for
damages done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Resist not evil?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This contrast of “eye for eye”
versus mercy is an extension of an argument already heard in the New Testament,
put in the mouth of Jesus:” You have heard it said ‘An eye for an eye ‘, yet l
say unto you ,’Resist not evil, but whosoever smite you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also’." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(Jesus is not being original
here; he is quoting Lamentations, Eicah,”’ I gave my cheek to the one who smote
me.” Here, the :” smiter” is God, and reference is to accepting the punishment
that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the author has incurred. Similarly,
“ if someone wants to take your cloak, give him your tunic as well”, is a quote
from Proverbs).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The statement “Eye for
Eye" was used by the aforementioned State Department spokesman <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to denigrate Judaism, in contrast with the noble
stance of Christianity, yet this nation at no time recognized its moral
obligation to "Resist not evil". Not only has this nation rejected
the preaching of Jesus, “Resist not evil", but every Christian
institution, with the exception of a very few, such as Quakers, has outspokenly
declared " Resist evil”, and rightly so! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “New” Testament is surely pushed back, on
this issue, in deference to the “Old”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Love your enemy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Yet another statement of Jesus
is taken to refer to the superiority of Christianity: “You have heard it said: Love
your neighbor and hate your enemy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I challenge any one to find me
one sentence in our side of the Book in which we are commanded to hate an
enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been suggested that Jesus was speaking
as a Jew, to a Jewish audience, and was himself preaching Judaism on this point;
in other words, he was denouncing the militant groups, the "Kanaim", the Zealots,
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the fringes of the Jewish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">community, who were preaching
militancy and revenge against the Roman rulers. He was speaking as a Jew
against Jewish extremists. (Indeed, one of his followers was known as “ the
Zealot”, a reference, perhaps to his having come from that party over to the Jesus
party.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, what about the enemy? On
the contrary, the Torah states categorically,” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you see the donkey of your enemy lying
under his burden, you shall surely help him to raise his donkey again."
and “You may not hate your brother in your heart or bear a grudge.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What of “ Love the stranger’?
The Torah states, "You shall love him, as yourself, for you were strangers
in the land of Israel; Jesus knows this very well and is restating it to his
followers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Law versus Love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Judaism is a religion of dry
law, whereas Christianity is a religion of love-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Over and again, the prophets
preached Chesed-love and though the Rabbis of old established Gemilut Hasadim,
unconditional deeds of love ,as one of the three foundations of the world,
alongside God's teaching, Torah, and the worship of God, Avodah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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versus faith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Judaism is a religion of dry
legalism, whereas Christianity is the religion of uplifting faith This perspective
is in utter disregard for the magnificence of religious imagination of the Prophets,
the Psalms, the Midrash of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rabbis, the poetry of the Siddur,
the songs of the medieval Rabbis, or the speculation and imagination of the
Kabbalah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Judaism is a religion of the
law, whereas Christianity is a religion of faith. In the teachings of the early
church fathers, the laws of Moses and Israel were a burden to be done away with,
a punishment of the children of Israel, who were a nation of sinners. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In alI of Jewish thought, the observance of
the teachings of the Torah, the Halakha, was the freest and highest expression
of faith, as a joy, not a burden, as a privilege, and not a punishment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The early Church teachings
have been corrected by modern church leaders. Yet much remains to be done,
when educated intellectually enlightened people spout the same failed
platitudes about us Jews. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The greatest failure of all,
though, is the failure of our Jews to know what a rich treasure is ours, the treasure we have shared with the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-60378490653615701932018-11-12T11:08:00.000-08:002018-11-12T11:08:06.618-08:00A century after the close of World War I- we still feel the effects of the "War to make the world safe for democracy".<br />
<h1>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/null" name="_Toc328901395"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/null" name="_Toc293425124"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/null" name="_Toc293425097"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc293425124;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Toc328901395;">The End of Empire and the End of the Shtetl</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated, Austria entered the Balkans,
the Germans declared their support of the Austrians, the Russians, the British
and the Germans declared their opposition. World War I erupted on the face of
Europe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Austrian army came to every village to draft every able bodied
man. My grandfather managed to evade them. The Austrians became so desperate
that cartoons show the army MD examining a skeleton and declaring,” Fit for
Service”. They became short <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>even
of the doctors and drafted first year medical students to serve as physicians.
The only solution the young army doctors had for mutilated limbs was summed up
in one word,” Aspirin.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Russian armies advanced on the Eastern front of Austria and
the heaviest fighting between the two armies was in Galicia, as the Russian
armies made their way through, and then were driven back. The front lines went
straight through the Dolyna region<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Hundreds of thousands were dislocated. Many Jews fled from the
advancing armies for the capital, Vienna. The Weinbergs were among them.They
fled at the time of the High Holy Days. Yom Kippur befell them and they took
temporary refuge in a town on the way. There was one Shul, a Hasidic shteibl.
They went inside and joined the worshippers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The two brothers were wearing their gymnasia clothes, in this, a Chasidic
shtiebl. The Rebbe stopped the service, looked at the two boys, 17 and 13,
raised himself to full height, and declared,”Du hast dus Krieg gefangen.” You
brought this war upon us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Over the years, my father never forgot the chant of that shtiebl,
as the Rebbe intoned, “ Ato ato behartonu- You have chosen us from among all
people and have elevated us from among all the nations and desired us and
sanctified us with your commandments and loved us.” Outside, the cannons roared
and the flower of mankind lay dying on Flanders<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> Field, in the Pripet Marshes,
and in the Carpatho-Rus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">All for a jacket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They made their way to Vienna, which was now flooded with refugees
from the battle zone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As refugees, with all their possessions fallen under the roaring
guns of the opposing armies, the young brothers, hitherto accustomed to comfort
, learned what it meant to do without. Little did they realize that this would
be training for far more frightening deprivation years later. Young hands, that
hitherto held only paper and pen, were now put to work, as I mentioned,
shredding old newspapers for army coat insulation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Much more came tumbling down in those years. Austria, with the
help of Germany, won its battles with Tsarist Russia, but lost the peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The regime of the Tsar , with all its autocracy and Pan-Slavic and
Russian Orthodox ideology, collapsed, to be replaced by a Republic, under
Kerensky, only shortly again <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be
replaced by the Soviet Socialist Republic, at first led by the Mensheviks(
majority) and then by the dictatorial Bolsheviks( minority) under Lenin. In the
process, the German armies dictated humiliating terms to the new regime and the
Austrian front against Russia was spared, only to be dismantled at Versailles. [*Historical note-Bolshevik, meaning "majority" were the minority party until Lenin manipulated the machinery and ousted the majority, which he then labeled as "menshevik", minority].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From Russia and Ukraine eastward to Vladivostok and beyond, the
inhabitants of the largest empire, <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in
terms of area <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the history of humanity
would endure <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a
lifetime, <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>seventy years of
bloodshed and oppression.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Ottoman Empire , which also won the battles but lost the peace,
was replaced by the secular Republic under Kamal Ataturk. In the process, <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the horror of the Turk’s slaughter of
the Armenians would become an inspiration for an even great slaughter of the
Jews. The Empire ,too, was dismantled in such away that every border included
populations of people who did not belong together. A hundred year of conflict
ensued: Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, Christian and Moslem in Lebanon, Shiite and
Sunni in Iraq, Allawi and Sunni in Syria. The land of Israel was promised to
the Jews; then three quarters of the promised land was given to the Hashemite
Emir Abdullah and the rest was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be
subdivided yet again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by the Weimar Republic and huge <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>territories
were lopped off. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Polish was
reestablished as an independent state, but one with large a large ethnic German
population; part of Germany was detached from the rest- the Danzig corridor. Ethnic
Germans would be part of the new Republic of Czechoslovakia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Austro-Hungarian Empire would be chopped up and dissected.
Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Slovenes and Croatians, the Carpathian Poles and
Ukrainians- populated completely new states in which no ethnic group was entirely
in the border of its own country. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Austria
was left as a rump state with Vienna, the Danube, and some lovely alpine
scenery and memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In American political discourse, Woodrow Wilson is an exemplar of
international virtue who advanced the caused of the rights of all ethnic groups
to national independence. For that reason, when the father of psychoanalysis,
Sigmund Freud, co-authored a psychoanalysis of Wilson, jointly with a respected
American diplomat, William Bullitt, critics had trouble comprehending the
degree of disdain that Freud displayed in what may be one of his least
respected works. My father ,too, shared this disdain, from the perspective of
his academic studies in political science. I discovered, over the years, that
this disdain was shared by many Jews who had lived in the former
Austro-Hungarian empire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">While Austria may have been the home of the first politician to
win on a political plank of Jew-hatred <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(
19<sup>th</sup> century Mayor Luger of Vienna) and birthplace of the son of
Alois Schickelgruber, it was also a United Nations of Europe. The same polyglot
and multi-cultural texture that drove a Hitler to burning hatred also created
the wonders of MittelEuropa ( Central Europe)- Viennese Waltz, Hungarian charm,
Czech literature, Mozart and Beethoven. Gemütlichkeit is an attitude one can
associate with the Austrians, not with the Germans. For Jews, despite the anti-Semitism
that pervaded as it did most of Europe, the Kaiser and his government offered
them fertile ground for prosperity and culture, both <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>religious and secular. That part of Europe
gave rise to Herzl and Zionism, Buber and I-Thou theology, the depth psychology
of the likes of Freud and Adler, the dark visions of Kafka.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kaiser Franz
Joseph was highly regarded and when prayers were offered in the synagogue , as
they were in other countries for Queen Victoria or Kaiser Wilhelm, they were
offered with great sincerity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Austrian empire, in short, was a great agglomeration of many
small parts, the whole being greater than the sum. Under the inspiration of
Wilson, as my father and other saw it, the parts , separate, amounted to much
of nothing. With the fall of the empire, my father pointed out, there was no
buffer state that could hold off German expansionism<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> on the one hand and a militant
Bolshevism on the other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The vacuum meant that catastrophe was inevitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">I have, in my possessions, two photographs of my grandmother, Binah. One shows a well-groomed and well coiffed older woman, a look of a peaceful time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">The other is of almost the same period, but here, my grandmother’s hair is tussled, untidied, as if she were just rushing to get out. This picture bears a stamp of the Polish consulate in Vienna, and I realized that it was her photo for a visa or a passport, which she needed immediately in order to get out.</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 22.8267px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">It was 80 years ago, almost to this date, that she had been attacked by frenzied mobs in the wake of Kristallnacht, the night of shattered glass, Nov 9, 1938. She was among the fortunate ones, as she was able, with my grandfather, Shmuel, to get to Switzerland and safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Eighty years later , a man filled with hate for Jews, attacked the peaceful worshippers at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Images of Kristallnacht pop into our mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Of course, we are deeply, deeply worried. There is the blatant attack, such as transpired last week. We Jews are still the largest target for hate-crimes against any religious group. There is also a subtle anti-Semitism, whereby the New York Times this week admitted that it has intentionally down played attacks on Jews because the attackers didn’t match any one’s preferred profile for hater. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">There is a subtle anti-Semitism when Columbia University sends an email to the students denouncing the attack yet fails to mention that this was specifically an attack on Jews! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Then, we had a President who suppressed reports of the mass killings of Jews because he was afraid that the American public would not support the war effort if they thought they were saving Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">So yes, we have friends among the white, Protestant and Catholic public, far more than we have enemies. We have friends , far more , among African-Americans, than we have enemies.We have friends, far more , among Latinos, than we have enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Yes, even among American Muslims, we have many friends, because the Muslim community here is not the community of Malaysia, for example, whose distinguished past president espoused much the same drivel as the Pittsburgh murderer. The America Muslim community is different. We have friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">It is so significant, therefore, that we have come together, Jews of Ashkenazi and American roots, and Jews who have fled here to escape persecution in Iran, together as Americans, with our friends of all backgrounds who joined with the Jewish community this weekend. Here, we shall, to borrow Ben Franklin’s words, all hang together, or be hanged separately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">We have sweated blood and tears in this country to get where we have gotten. We will not allow the failures and dregs of society to rob us of our dignity and our pride. We work together with our all Americans for a society that can enable us to fulfill our dreams in amity and fellowship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-66914347505763040142017-05-18T23:09:00.000-07:002017-05-18T23:09:16.915-07:00 Heidelberg Talmud from the Library of Rabbi Dr William Weinberg Featured in USHMM Collection: A Tribute to the United States Armed Forces and to the Courage of the Spirit of the Jewish People.<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
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from the Library of Rabbi Dr William Weinberg Featured in USHMM Collection: A
Tribute to the United States Armed Forces and to the Courage of the Spirit of the
Jewish People.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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am honored that the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has just published<u>
The Last Witness: Artifacts from the Museum’s Collection</u> and has given a
prominent page to a rare set of Talmud that my mother, Irene Weinberg, z“l, and
I donated to the Museum some years back.</span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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in the library of my father, Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg, z"l, is unique,
as it is the only one ever published with the assistance of a non-Jewish army,
the Armed Forces of the United States of America. Very few complete sets still
exist, and my father had one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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set out to destroy Judaism as well, by burning the great seminal work of Jewish
thought, the Talmud. After the horror of the Holocaust, the surviving refugees
in Germany sought to return to life as normal. For the religious Jew, that
meant a return to the study of Talmud, but there were no copies extant anymore
in Germany.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the Talmud in Hebrew from Munich and Heidelberg in 19 folio volumes, printed
photo-offset from the standard </span><span style="color: #60537f; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Vilna edition of the Talmud</span><span style="color: #474136; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">. This became known as
the "Survivor's Talmud." The title page depicted an idyllic Land of
Israel above an image of barbed wire surrounding a work camp. Only 100 sets
were printed.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1946 by commander in chief, U.S. Occupying Forces in Germany, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_T._McNarney"><span style="color: #60537f; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;">General Joseph T.
McNarney</span></a></span><span style="color: #474136; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">, and the Joint Distribution Committee. The edition took longer
than expected to produce because of the shortage of paper and the difficulty of
finding a complete set of the Talmud in Germany after the Holocaust. The
edition was printed at the Carl Winter Printing Plant in Heidelberg, which had
previously printed Nazi propaganda. This is the sole instance of a national
government publishing the Talmud.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Talmud is dedicated to the United States Army. This army played a major
role in the rescue of the Jewish people from total annihilation, and after the
defeat of Hitler bore the major burden of sustaining the DPs of the Jewish
faith. This special edition of the Talmud published in the very land where, but
a short time ago, everything Jewish and of Jewish inspiration was anathema,
will remain a symbol of the indestructibility of the Torah. The Jewish DPs will
never forget the generous impulses and the unprecedented humanitarianism of the
American forces, to whom they owe so much.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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designed to look like the opening of a traditional print edition of the Talmud.
However, on the bottom, it has the unusual illustration of a concentration camp
with the verse from Ps. 119: “I have been almost erased from the earth, yet I
did not abandon your commandments.” On the top of the page, there is an image
of the sunrise over a palm-tree Mediterranean scene, representing the land of
Israel. The caption reads,” From Slavery to Redemption, From the Darkness to a
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publishing of this foundation document of Judaism, despite all that our people
had gone through, serves as proof that no evil devised by man could crush the
Jewish spirit.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-76342554771498692172017-02-27T23:47:00.004-08:002017-02-28T18:29:36.740-08:00The Desecration of Jewish Graves 2017 Now and 1950 Then<br />
The Desecration of Jewish Graves 2017 Now and 1950 Then<br />
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We have been sickened to our stomachs by the news that the graves of our dead have been defiled in the past few weeks in St. Louis and Philadelphia.<br />
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Those who hate us take out their pitiable rage against those who can never come back to avenge them.<br />
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Thus it was, in 1950, in Germany, when the remnants of the Nazis, afraid to take action against their American occupiers, took out their grievances against the Jewish dead. My father ,as the Chief Rabbi of Hesse ( Frankfurt region) to the lead in arousing the American and German governments to take action to safeguard the cemeteries.<br />
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The following news clip from a German newspaper and a Reuters news release described the events and the response of the American High Commissioner and the new head of Germany, Konrad Adenauer,<br />
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The case had been dismissed by police as the work of juvenile pranksters. However, as the Reuters report shows, my father blasted the police for failing to reveal that several of the youngsters involved were sons of former members of the Nazi party, including some of the original Brownshirt members from the founding years, The vandalism coincided with an ongoing court case against a Nazi sympathizer.<br />
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My father caused an uproar in Germany when he announced that the Jewish community would exhume all the dead from their historic graves and rebury them in Israel, where they could be properly watched. That threat resulted in increased security at Jewish gravesites.<br />
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We are still the prime victims of the longest racial hatred in human history.<br />
With all the due concern for all other minority groups in America and in Europe, Jews are still the prime target. Only in the middle east ( except for Israel) is there no Jewish problem--after all, all Jews were expelled 60 to 70 years ago!<br />
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(Source -Documents of Rabbi William( Wilhelm) Weinberg archived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502232)<br />
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<br />Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-87688526683630135552017-02-19T12:31:00.000-08:002017-02-19T12:31:06.841-08:00LA Museum of the Holocaust has Magazine Featuring the Rededication of the Frankfurt Westend Synangogue 1950My father, Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Weinberg, then Chief Rabbi of the German Stae of Hesse, officiated at the re-dedication of the restored Westend Synagogue on Freiherr von Stein Strasse in Frankfurt in 1950. This article was published by the office of the United States High Commissioner for Germany, John J. McCloy, with whom my father worked hand in hand to safeguard the reborn Jewish community from die-hard Nazis after the Holocaust.<br />
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Thank you to Dr. Vladimir Melamed, Director of Archives,of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, who found this bulletin in its archival collection and shared it with me.<br />
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-38777690632359918732016-07-22T09:32:00.002-07:002016-08-03T08:06:15.852-07:00Free download of Courage of the Spirit August 1-5<div class="MsoNormal">
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First, be sure that you have clicked on the button in the middle of the page
that says "kindle"<wbr></wbr>, not "paperback.<wbr></wbr>" If its till
shows a fee, then go to the bottom of the page, look for a link to Amazon USA
and then enter the book and my name in the search. It may work from the USA
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Best wishes,<br />
Regards, Norbert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">In honor of my parent's memory, I am
making my book, Courage of the Spirit, available for free eBook download
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to</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> the Jewish calendar,
of the passing of my mother, Irene Weinberg, who survived Nazi persecution
while hiding in the open in Lwow and Warsaw. I am doing this special offer in
honor of her and of my father, Rabbi William Weinberg, who served as the first
State Rabbi of the German State of Hesse after the Shoah .</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">To download your copy, please go to
Amazon.com <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Spirit-Norbert-Weinberg/dp/098466856X?ie=UTF8&qid=1398150275&ref_=tmm_pap_title_0&sr=8-1">Click
here to go to the page at Amazon.</a> (Or copy and paste this link https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Spirit-Norbert-Weinberg/dp/098466856X?ie=UTF8&qid=1398150275&ref_=tmm_pap_title_0&sr=8-1) Select Kindle version. Then click on the<span style="color: #141823;"> "Buy
Now" button ( not the "Read for Free" which is for Kindle
subscribers only). The "buy now" will cost $0.00 if you chose to do
so during the Free Giveaway Time. </span>Please feel free to pass this on
to your contacts, as I want to make my father’s </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">incredible story</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"> available to a broad public.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">My book, <u>Courage of the Spiri</u>t,
tells of my father’s saga in the decades up to and through the years of the
Shoah. It is a story that spans thousands of physical miles, by freight train
and on foot, from the Galician Shtetl to cosmopolitan Vienna and Berlin, and to
Stalingrad and central Asia and back as my father kept one step ahead of the
Nazi armies. It is a story that spans the mental and emotional journey from the
medieval Shtetl, the great empires, and the weak democracies and totalitarian
regimes that followed, and finally, to freedom.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Nazi prison and concentration camp, the day-to-day life of</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Jews in Nazi
Berlin, and the vagaries of survival<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span>under Stalin’s
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post-war years. I will be basing my work on documents now archived at the
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August 5,<br />
and forward this email to your friends and contacts as a way of helping me
honor my parents and spreading the message of Courage of the Spirit..<br />
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I'm
so glad my book reached you. I just finished reading Courage of the Spirit and
I'm simply overwhelmed by the extraordinary story you relate! Your book is an
extraordinary contribution to Jewish thought, as well as the triumphant story
of survival in the face of unimaginable odds. I'm not sure where to begin.
I'm actually speechless at the moment. As a writer, I can appreciate the
painstaking research, which went into this book. Every page was an emotional
and intellectual revelation to me. Your writing style is not only inviting and
accessible, but also intellectually engaging. It's as if you consciously set
out to engage those who have a passive interest in the Jewish narrative of the
twentieth century, as well as the intellectual who is well grounded in the
history, but may lack an appreciation for the unfolding human
drama. (Ralph Georgy, author of <u><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Absolution: A Palestinian Israeli Love Story</span></u><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Congratulation
on getting the first volume
of your trilogy published! It´s great that the book is
finally available for researchers. I will definitely recommend the book
for the Jewish Museum´s library, other institutions and some Czech
historians/researchers who are interested, especially in the aftermath of
the Shoah and the postwar time.(Mgr. Monika Hanková, The Archives of the Jewish
Museum in Prague)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">In Rabbi Norbert Weinberg’s reckoning of his father’s tumultuous,
tragic past, history is no arid enterprise, no bloodless recording of
facts and figures. Interspersing personal reminiscence with detailed
historical rendering, Courage of the Spirit brings the horrific twentieth
century to life through the story of Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, and his
journey through Nazi camps and Soviet terror.(Saul Austerlitz, author of <u>Sitcom:
A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community</u>)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“Courage
of the Spirit” by Rabbi Norbert Weinberg is a major contribution to the
literature of the Shoah by transcending the cold facts of those dark days into
a personal account of the experiences of the author’s father. Rabbi
Weinberg meticulously traces his father’s arrest by the Nazis in 1939 and
brings us full circle to his being named the first State rabbi of Hesse.
Throughout those terror-filled days, the rabbi retained his faith and
determination to survive.The book is a must reading to all those who want to
capture and be inspired by the inner strength and resilience of the Jewish
people as reflected in the life of Rabbi William Weinberg. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> (Rabbi Norbert
Weinberg, Rabbi of the Adams Street Shul and author of <u><span style="color: #333333;">A Time to Tell: Stories and Recollections of a Rabbi from
Kristalnacht to the Present</span></u><span style="color: #333333;"> , </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">''and When The Rabbi Laughs'': A Delightful Compendium Of
Contemporary Rabbinic Humor,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">and numerous other books.)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Courage
of the Spirit</span></u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">
was recently featured on “Advocacy Heals You”, with Joni Aldrich on W4CS.com,
the Cancer Support Network, as themes from the book offered moral and spiritual
courage in life’s struggles; the interview can be heard at:</span> <a href="http://www.iheart.com/talk/show/Joni-Aldrich-SOS-Supporter-of/?episode_id=26932481" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.iheart.com/talk/show/Joni-Aldrich-SOS-Supporter-of/?episode_id=26932481</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Rabbi
Weinberg was interviewed by Phil Blazer, JLTV.TV:This is a link to the
conclusion: </span><a href="http://youtu.be/DC2YDnxbM8E" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">http://youtu.be/DC2YDnxbM8E</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> . The full interview is
at </span><a href="http://www.jltv.tv/videos.php?id=3&play=1881" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://www.jltv.tv/videos.php?id=3&play=1881</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> at
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-83813103736283929082016-05-20T07:56:00.000-07:002016-05-20T08:22:02.815-07:00Courage of the Spirit and the Rise of Radical Islam- An exchange of ideas with Ralph Georgy, an Egyptian-born novelist <div>
This is an excerpt from an email conversation I had with Ralph Georgy, author of <u>Notes from the Cafe </u>and <u>Absolution: A Palestinian Israeli Love Story. </u> Georgy, born in Egypt, is a Coptic Christian, a member of one of the oldest existing Christian communities in the world, a community facing great dangers in today's volatile Middle East. For information, go to Arab World Books: <a href="http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/ralph-georgy.htm">http://www.arabworldbooks.com/authors/ralph-georgy.htm</a></div>
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I'm so glad my book reached you. I just finished reading Courage of the Spirit and I'm simply overwhelmed by the extraordinary story you relate! Your book is an extraordinary contribution to Jewish thought, as well as the triumphant story of survival in the face of unimaginable odds. </div>
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I'm not sure where to begin. I'm actually speechless at the moment. As a writer, I can appreciate the painstaking research, which went into this book. Every page was an emotional and intellectual revelation to me. Your writing style is not only inviting and accessible, but also intellectually engaging. It's as if you consciously set out to engage those who have a passive interest in the Jewish narrative of the twentieth century, as well as the intellectual who is well grounded in the history, but may lack an appreciation for the unfolding human drama. </div>
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Early on in the book (p.5), you say, "To be a Jew was to invite a firing squad, and the worst of all was a roar of laughter and ridicule. Everyone was free to take out his heart on the Jew; he was the only one who could not retaliate, for the offender had the police, the church, the army, and the whole society lined up before him." What power your words have!!! </div>
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You father was an intellectual giant who perfectly understood the philosophical currents of his time. On page 123, you state, "He penned his thoughts in a series of three essays on the position of Judaism as the naysayer of civilization especially in contrast to the popular intellectual trends of his day: the economic determinism of Marxism; the genetic determinism of Nazi racism; the cultural determinism of fascism; the psychological determinism in the schools of depth psychology espoused by Freud and Jung." Your father was indeed an extraordinary man!!! </div>
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On a personal note, I was deeply affected by your book! I'm not sure if you ever knew this about me, but there is something about Jewish history, which is deeply meaningful to me. This is partly why I chose to teach at Herzl so many years ago. I wanted to be close to the Jewish people, the religion, the culture, etc. The love I have for the Jewish people is profound and I cannot fully explain why. </div>
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I'm not sure if I told you this, but the Israeli director (Eran Riklis) who will adapt my book, Absolution, has recently given the book to the screenwriter. When I met her for the first time, she broke down in tears and said to me, "I've never met any writer from the Arab world who writes of Jewish history and the people with such love and compassion." </div>
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Finally, I want say to you: Bless you for writing such a powerful book!!! More people need to read this book!!! </div>
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I absolutely agree with your observations. I believe the problem today in the Arab world is the Islamization of the region. I can tell you that as a Copt, my family in Egypt, as well as the Coptic community as a whole, lead lives of quiet desperation. President el-Sisi is saying all the right things and many Christians are hopeful, but as I write this, churches continue to be burned down. </div>
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For the past several centuries, Islam has been on the decline. This decline has been accelerated after World War I and continues to this day. Arab intellectuals have offered various explanations and solutions to this decline, but nothing has worked. From Pan Arab nationalism to Nasserism, socialism to democracy, nothing has worked. The Islamists seem to be winning the day by instilling fear in people. Their argument is that the Arab world has moved away from Islam and the only way to recapture the glory of centuries past is to return to a strict interpretation of Islam. From within this generalized ideological reversion lies the radicalized elements we see today. </div>
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On a personal note, radical Islam is a cancer, which will be with us for quite some time. When the Arab Spring happened in 2011, the world looked at the Middle East with hope and optimism. The Arab Spring, of course, served only as a punctuation, or a disturbance, if you like, in the status quo. Libya, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria are failed states. Egypt returned to military rule. The only country I can think of that benefited from the Arab Spring is Tunisia (where the Arab Spring started). Only time will tell if it continues down the path of democracy. </div>
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In terms of Edward Said, I highly doubt he would have a place among Palestinians today. I'm not sure if you read his groundbreaking work, Orientalism, but I engage his ideas at length in my book, Absolution. Here is one argument I make. If we accept the premise that the West reduced the Orient to, what Said calls, an essentialist reality, shaped and informed by a paradigmatic view of the "other" as the antithesis of the civilized West, then my question is this: how did the West look at the Jewish people who lived in the heart of Europe? If the Orient was a distant, exotic place, then how do we account for the horrific treatment of Jews who were assimilated into the intellectual life of Europe? </div>
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The argument is more developed in the book, so I won't go further into it here, sufficed it to say that Zionism became an existential necessity for many Jews. </div>
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It will be fascinating to read these books. The premise is fascinating. I can somewhat understand Chomsky’s position, in that we have Jews who live in a rarified atmosphere that if only we were perfect enough, leftist enough, internationalist enough,( going back to the Yevsekstia that were more Stalinist than the Stalinists) then all would be solved. I think that Edward Said represents the Middle Eastern variation—the Arab awakening involved many Jews &; Christians who dove in head first into the new Algeria the new Syria or Iraq, to be more Arab than the others. No question that Edward Said was fully identified with Palestinian nationalism. Nationalist movements however, tend to homogenize their society--including the idea of one religion, to the exclusion of others. Would he have a place in a Palestine today, dominated by Islamists? Looking at what the Copts have experienced in the last few years, in Egypt, what would you say?</div>
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Absolution is a love story with a theme of redemptive possibilities. The story opens in 2018 where the Israeli Prime Minister, Avi Eban is in Oslo preparing to accept the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in establishing a Palestinian state. As Avi paces back and forth in his hotel room, he experiences a series of flashbacks, which take him to 1985 Columbia University, where he was an undergraduate. It was at Columbia that Avi fell in love with a red haired Palestinian girl. I made Avi Eban the great nephew of Abba Eban and Alena Said (the red haired girl) is the niece of Edward Said. It would be this love, profound and providential, which decades later would inspire peace. Both Avi and Alena had to navigate through the dialectic of hate, suspicion, blame and counter blame, and all of the historical forces plaguing both people. </div>
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This novel took me several years to write. The amount of research was extraordinary. Although I had a strong foundational knowledge of Zionism and Arab/Palestinian nationalism, I needed to do research on the minute details of the conflict. In fact, Abba Eban's son, Elie Eban, helped me with details about his father. Eli and I became friends over the years. Most of the characters in the novel are actual historical figures, save for Avi and Alena. Edward Said's wife, Mariam Said, offered personal details about Edward Said, even the layout for the New York apartment they lived in. Many of my Jewish and Israeli friends loved the book. I can't say the same about the Arab reaction. Many Arab intellectuals told me I make the case for Zionism better than Jews. </div>
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My response is that I will never apologize for the love I have for the Jewish people. You know, Rabbi, I have met Edward Said and Noam Chomsky on several occasions. We would get into heated arguments about the conflict. Many people will tell you that Chomsky is brilliant, which he is. I simply don't agree with his conclusions about Israel. </div>
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I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but Chomsky and Said never met each other, let alone debate. In the novel, I created a fictional debate between them at Columbia. Let me know what you think of the debate. </div>
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By the way, USC is devoting an evening to my book, Notes from the Cafe, this September. This is part of their Vision and Voices program. I will be speaking about the ideas in Notes and the Los Angeles Times article. The event will take place September 14th. It would be lovely if you can make it. </div>
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The theme of Purim and Chanukah<div><br /></div><div>I have added a link here to a recording of a Purim program for Survivors in a DP camp, perhaps in Hallein, where my father was in charge of adult education, or in the Frankfurt region( Hesse) where, as State Rabbi, he served in the DP camps as well, some time in the late 1940's.<br />(Update -March 5 , 2023, the evening before Purim.)<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://soundcloud.com/norbertweinberg/puirm-in-dp-camp?si=50fb2a5e89604e07856c7ce73cb1ce26&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing">https://soundcloud.com/norbertweinberg/puirm-in-dp-camp?si=50fb2a5e89604e07856c7ce73cb1ce26&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing</a><br />
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A rough translation of Yiddish text,in Polish transliteration, of German essay<br />
on Purim for the Survivors in the DP Camps by Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg. Found on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archive on line. Hebrew typeset was hard to come by, so Yiddish texts were transcribed in Latin letters, in this case, by Polish conventions ( hence "Cadik" for "Tzadik").<br />
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<u>Friday 28 Feb 1947 Aufgang Dr W Wajnberg ( from German original in Neuen Weg)</u><br />
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The content of the Megilat Esther which is the theme of Purim is surely well known by all, since it is one of the most popular creations in the Biblical literature. Nevertheless, I allow myself to present you a summary of the events.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Megilat Esther describes in detail about the plan of Persian Minister Haman, who had intended the complete destruction of the Jewish people, and how this plot was undone by the unusual planning of Mordecai and Esther. It is then told how the King Ahasuerus gave his edict, that he could not undo his previous royal decree to destroy the Jews, since that was not allowed by the laws of the Persians, but he would give the Jews a free hand to defend themselves by all means necessary against whoever would attack them. Why this is the only solution offered, we do not have an explanation, but the author is suddenly short on words. We only know that the Jews liquidated thousands of their enemies.<br />
The modern reader, who draws his literary understanding from non-Jewish and modern literature, would just at this point expect a description of how the Jews could plan and carry out their struggle for survival and a description of the participating heroes. But just here, there is not a word! How does one explain this form a modern perspective? This is missing from a modern historical or literary perspective.<br />
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However, one who understands Judaism would not be surprised that the Megilah dedicates so little attention to the details of the Jews struggle against their opponents. Just so, he is not surprised that Esther, who has offered her life to appear before the king, is praised, in later Jewish folk-lore, the Agadah, not for her mesiras-nefesh (self-sacrifice) but for her modesty.<br />
In a similar vein, we have our traditional texts about the Maccabean uprising. As is well known, the historical background of the Chanukah festival is the military event: the uprising against Antiochus and the victory of Judah Maccabee at Emmaus and Tzur. The heroism of the Maccabees, who struggled to absolute victory against the overwhelming forces of the Syrian army, with such courage, comparable to the heroism of the Greeks at Salamis and Thermopylae, was for the Jews almost completely forgotten till the revival of Jewish nationalism in the 19th century. By tradition, the festival is not based on the recalling of the organization of the victory of the Maccabees but on the miracle of the bottle of oil wherewith the victory is crowned. In Judaism, the essence is not on the military victory of raw power, but the purification of the debased Temple and its renewal, which is the result of the victory.<br />
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In the same manner: The ancient account of the few similar heroes, such as the defenders of Masada, the last Jewish fortress after the fall of the Temple (70 CE). Tacitus and Dio Cassius report on this in great detail and amazement. Just the Jews give scant attention in their literature to these heroes. Six decades later, Bar Cochba, with the remnants of the Judeans, arose against Rome, and only after a prolonged struggle, could the Romans, with their overwhelming power, put down the rebellion. But the Jewish tradition makes no to-do about all these heroic struggles.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>So to Moses, who is by all accounts, considered a great military leader, lives on in the Jewish imagination as our teacher (Rabenu) and law-giver. Even King David, under whose government, the Jewish state expanded its borders for the first time by military success, is only remembered in the Jewish tradition as poet and singer, as author of the Psalms, as prototype for the Prince of Peace, of the Messiah, in which the military and the weapons will be set aside and the world will be ruled in social justice.<br />
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Even so we see this in more recent times. In Mainz (Mayence), the Jews held off the Crusaders, but we know only of Kinos” (lamentations). In 1648, the Jews of Prague stunned the world with their heroism; in just that same year, the Jews of Lemberg ( Lwow) fought together with the Poles against Chmielnitzki, and in the slaughter at Beresteczko, in which Chmielnitzki folded, there was a Jewish division of 1000 soldiers, a huge number for its time. In the same way, at the Polish slaughter at Sadowa-Wisznia In the 17th century, the Jews were praised as great heroes. But the Jewish literature of the time tells only of the cruelty of Chmielnitzki and of the destruction of Jewish communities, but nothing of the heroes of the resistance.<br />
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Is there anything new in our day?<br />
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Even till today, we have no organization that is collecti8ng information on our Partisans, not yet any central institute that gathers the reporting of the struggle and to save the information about the Jewish partisan movement in all lands of Europe. How many Jews know the name of the young partisan Moritz Zigmunt, who destroyed a bridge in Budapest on the Danube by strapping dynamite around his own body, in order to block the retreat route for the Germans? 140 German soldiers went down with him. The Hungarians have their famous “Horthy Promenade” but in Jewish circles, his name is unknown.<br />
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Few know the name of Hannah Szenes the young attractive student from Eretz Israel, who parachuted down to the Yugoslav partisans and made her way to Hungary where she was captured by the Germans and executed.<br />
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Furthermore, we can give the example of the Eretz Yisrael Brigade, which sent into battle 30,000 Jewish volunteer combatants. Or the 40,000 casualties that the American Jews suffered in the war, a number far beyond their proportion in the population. So too it is exceptional that Jews participated in high numbers in the Soviet armed forces and who earned in unusually high numbers the medal of “Hero of the Soviet Union. “We also note the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto, an exemplary stand of 6 weeks duration against a concentrated force of aerial bombardment, tank and artillery shelling. Or the Jews who rose up in the Treblinka concentration camp? Yet we rarely speak or write of all these, so little that future generations will know even less.<br />
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The glorification of power does not belong to the realm of Judaism, even when used in the service of such a just cause as oppression and edicts against us. The man of power, the war hero stands in our tradition in an unhonored place, no crown placed by later generations, who thought only of the saintly, only if the miracles were attributed to a Tsaddik, and then it was remembered for eternity.<br />
Our historic account intentionally left out the heroic element. We do not belong to those people for whom the hero is the ultimate. The cult of the great hero is foreign to us, as it goes hand in hand with the sanctification of physical power. Our national religious ethic is unmiltaristic. The war hero gets no honors. The ideal for us is the pacifistic, the Tsaddik, the man of righteousness. We did not see our fortune in physical conflict. Even where force was essential, as in the freeing of the slaves form Egypt, we did not see it as a virtue. Even today, on the last six days of Pesach, we only say the half-Hillel. The Agadah says in God’s name: My creation is drowning and you want to sing praises?”<br />
This is not to say that Judaism denies self-defense. “ Haba lehargecha”- who come to kill, rise and kill him first.”<br />
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We consider a hero not to be the one who defeats the enemy, but the one who defeats himself. (Pirke Avot IV) This far greater than conquering foreign lands and shedding blood. For this reason, our historic teachings have elevated our personalities beyond the heroic cult, to the level of “Rabenu” teacher or “Tzadik, righteous. We cannot allow ourselves, especially after these years, to define our values by those of the other nations. Nothing is as dangerous to a nation as to have its values dictated by its enemies. I deny that we are bound to reject everything new because of “ Atoh bochartanu, but we can absorb that which is good from other nations, but not the Hero-cult. That which has come to us from Prussian Germany is neither good nor new. It is as ancient as Hellas.<br />
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Thus, Heinrich Heine, when he was young, adored all that related to the Greeks. He then later declared.” I see now that the Greeks were merely handsome striplings. The Jews, however, have always been men, strenuous and full of power,..who have given to the world one God and a moral law, and have fought and suffered in all the battle-fields of thought." <br />
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We cannot allow ourselves to adopt this way of thinking. We cannot allow ourselves to be overrun by murderous impulses. When it comes to our rights, our freedom, our life, we can take up arms as cannot other people. But the anti-militarism is so deeply ingrained in the Jew, that even when he is in uniform, he is civilized, While the German, in uniform, was not civilized. Our inner drive is towards peace, and our dream is a very different dream than that of the Teutonic Knights.<br />
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The greatest of all is Peace, and the Torah was given in order to promote peace in the world, as it says, “Derachecha darchei noam vchol neitivoteha shalom.” Her paths are pleasant and all her ways, Peace.”<br />
<br /></div>Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-10830122752323993662016-03-06T13:26:00.005-08:002016-03-06T13:26:50.396-08:00UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM RELEASES DIGITIZED ONLINE COPIES OF DOCUMENTS OF RABBI DR. WILHELM WEINBERG: SHEDS LIGHT ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUSTUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM RELEASES DIGITIZED ONLINE COPIES OF DOCUMENTS OF RABBI DR. WILHELM WEINBERG: SHEDS LIGHT ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST<br />
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has digitized the archival documents of Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, the first post-Holocaust Chief Rabbi of Hesse and Frankfurt am Main, Germany.<br />
This is a treasure trove for historians researching how individual Jews and entire Jewish communities reconstructed themselves in the aftermath of the Holocaust in the heart of post-Hitler Germany. The collection covers personal writings and published essays relevant to philosophical, ethical, and moral issues of the period as well as records documenting the reorganization of the surviving Austrian and German Jewish community after the war.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thanks to the work of Brad Bauer, Chief Archivist, and the staff at the Museum, these documents were painstakingly scanned and digitized and can now be accessed online at <a href="http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502232">http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502232</a>.<br />
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The education and experience of Rabbi Weinberg in the years up to and through the Holocaust are documented in the book, <u> Courage of the Spirit</u>, written by his son, Rabbi Norbert Weinberg.<br />
The book is available through:<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A sampling of topics include:<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A Jewish People’s University in the refugee camps near Salzburg , Austria; the fight against anti-Semitism and Nazis in post-War Germany; the renovation and dedication of the main synagogue in Frankfurt am Main; gaining freedom for Jewish convicts held in US custody ; relations with John J. McCloy, United States High Commissioner and the new German government, both on a local and national level; unification of community of German Jewish survivors with the communities of East European survivors that had flooded Germany.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Letters include correspondence with Rabbi Leo Baeck, and philosophers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, as well as officials of the Hesse State government, Justice and Interior Ministries of West Germany, the various Jewish regional councils, Office of the Adviser on Jewish Affairs to the Allied Forces, the Jewish Agency and others.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Essays, lectures, sermons, newspaper articles and other writings of Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg that cover such topics as events affecting the Jewish communities of Central Europe from the years before the Nazi rise to power to the post-war reconstruction of Jewish communities in Austria and Germany, comments on general issues of philosophy, ethics, morality, politics, religion in general and Judaism in particular as well as thoughts on Zionism and the challenges experienced in everyday life.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legal papers and correspondences relating to the status of known Nazis in high positions, Jewish prisoners, protection of Jewish cemeteries, and other themes .<br />
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Items in digitized records are listed by series, box, and folder<br />
Series 1: Biographical materials, 1941-1985<br />
Box<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Folder<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Becher, Sonja Maria, Family tree, 1943<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Calendars, 1941-1945<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Weinberg, Rabbi Wilhelm, approximately 1956-1985<br />
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Series 2: Correspondence, 1941-1986<br />
Box<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Folder<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Correspondence, 1941-1947<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5-7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Correspondence, 1948 (3 folders)<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8-14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Correspondence, 1949 (7 folders)<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>15-18<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Correspondence, 1950 (4 folders)<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>19-21<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Correspondence, 1951 (3 folders)<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>22<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Correspondence, 1952-1956, 1968-1972<br />
1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>23<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Correspondence, Rabbi Norbert Weinberg, 1946-1979, 1985-1986<br />
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Series 3: Printed materials, 1909-1995<br />
Box<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Folder<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles and clippings about Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, 1947<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2-3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles and clippings about Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, 1948 (2 folders)<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4-6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles and clippings about Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, 1949 (3 folders)<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7-9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles and clippings about Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, 1950 (3 folders)<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10-11<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles and clippings about Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, 1951 (2 folders)<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles and clippings about Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, approximately 1952-1995<br />
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2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles and clippings, Miscellaneous, 1949-1951, 1978<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Jewish Travel Guide, 1952-1953<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>15<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Machzor, 1947<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>16<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1927 July-August<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>17<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1930 May-June<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1939 December<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nach’lath Z’wi, 1936<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Die Neue Furche, 1951 July<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Programs and invitations, 1946-1951<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Saturday Evening Post, “What’s Happening to Germany’s Jews?” 1949 (see oversize folder<br />
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3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Torch, 1968-1969<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Zeitgenossen des Moses ibn Esra und Jehuda ha-Levi, 1909<br />
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Series 4: Records relating to legal cases, 1947-1986<br />
Box<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Folder<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kasperkowitz, Karl, approximately 1947-1949<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reich, Roman Sylwan, Correspondence from Roman Reich, 1949-1951<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10-13<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reich, Roman Sylwan, Correspondence and poems from Adrian Russo, 1949-1951, 1976-<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1986 (4 folders)<br />
3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reich, Roman Sylwan, Interview and miscellaneous items, approximately 1949-1986<br />
4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reich, Roman Sylwan, Introduction and general case material, approximately 1978-1986<br />
4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2-3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reich, Roman Sylwan, Legal documents, 1949-1951 (2 folders)<br />
4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reich, Roman Sylwan, Photographs, 1951-1954<br />
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Series 5: Writings, 1928-1990s<br />
Box<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Folder<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Title<br />
4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5-7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles, speeches, and sermons by Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, approximately 1947-1975 (3<br />
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4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8-12<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Collected essays, lectures, and sermons of Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Weinberg, compiled and<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>organized by Rabbi Norbert Weinberg, approximately 1928-1986 (5 folders)<br />
4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13-17<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jews on Search of a New Image (A Hero in Search of a New Role), approximately 1970 (5<br />
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5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1-4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Notecards, approximately 1960s-1970s (4 folders)<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5-8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Der Parlamentarismus, System und Krisis (1928), approximately 1990s (4 folders)<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Miscellaneous, approximately 1947-1951<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fredman, Fritz, Mosaik: Analyse des Juden-, Christen-, und Freimaurertum, Synthese zur<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Gotteserkenntnis, approximately 1940s<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>11<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nawrocka, Zofia, Poem, 20th century<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rawitz-Riwatz, Erich, Poems, 1947<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Schrudler, Julius, An die Öffentlichkeit, 1952<br />
5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Weinberg, Rabbi Norbert, About Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, 1976, 1985-1988<br />
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Oversize materials<br />
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1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Saturday Evening Post, “What’s Happening to Germany’s Jews?” 1949<br />
2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Articles, speeches, and sermons by Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg, approximately 1947-1975<br />
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<br />Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-85515909691654859722015-12-20T22:22:00.001-08:002015-12-20T22:22:53.637-08:00It Is For Us The Living - Thoughts for the Tenth of Tevet, the Day of Communal Kaddish for the Martyrs of the Shoah<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberg<br />
It Is For Us The Living - Thoughts for the Tenth of Tevet, the Day of Communal Kaddish for the Martyrs of the Shoah<br />
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From the Prologue to<br />
Echoes of The Holocaust: Survivors and Their Children and Grandchildren Speak Out<br />
By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg pages 25-26<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Echoes+of+the+Holocaust+&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AEchoes+of+the+Holocaust+">Link to book</a><br />
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[ Note: The Tenth of Tevet, a traditional fast relating to the destruction of Jerusalem, was adopted by the Israeli Rabbinate, as a day for the recitation of Kaddish in memory of the martyrs who actual date of death was unknown]</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Several years ago, when my mother, Irene Weinberg, of blessed memory, passed away, I realized that so many of her generation, the last witnesses of the great horror that befell the Jewish people, were soon fading from the world scene. I set about researching and writing about her experiences as well as those of my father, Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg, who had passed away some years before. *<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There is a great burden that falls upon us, already an aging 2nd generation and an adult 3rd and even 4th generation, to act as witnesses. This is so vital, as we see blood libels once again used against Jews today by supposedly enlightened intellectuals in Europe and even in the United States under the guise of anti-Zionism. As the past recedes, people who should know better make unconscionable statements. Thus a student leader in South Africa, a child of victims of racial apartheid, could praise Adolf Hitler for his “charisma” and hope for such a leader for his own country.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We also have a double challenge. One the one hand, we continue as witnesses to the hell that our people went through but we also have a second challenge, to keep alive the flame of Jewish teachings, the sacred teaching that said that all humans are created in the “ Tselem Elokim”, in the Image of the Divine. It was this very teaching which Hitler and Nazism sought to erase along with the people who had preached it to the world.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I can only think it fitting to paraphrase the words of President Lincoln, at the Gettysburg Address:<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> It is for us the living, children and grandchildren of our martyrs, to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they were persecuted, the teachings of the great a noble heritage of Judaism and the Jewish people-- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have lived in vain, that the lives of these, our people, shall not have been without enduring meaning.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I thank Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg for putting together this collection of recollections, essays, and poetry from the children and grandchildren of our survivors. I greatly appreciate Rabbi Rosenberg’s keeping the focus on the Shoah, or Holocaust, as an event unique to the Jewish people. While it is true that many millions died in this horror, only the Jews were selected and targeted for annihilation in total and only the demonization of the Jews could serve as a force to galvanize otherwise civilized men and women into unspeakable acts of cruelty and horror. When we universalize the account, in hopes of building alliances, we dilute the significance of what happened.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I want reiterate my thought, a thought for the generations: For all that we Jews have gone through in history, as horrible as it may have been, we are blessed to be the heirs of a tradition going back to Abraham and Moses and on down to our days, a tradition that speaks of a courage to face all obstacles, a tradition of hope and faith in a universe created for good and guided by Divine Providence to an ultimate redemption of all humanity.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg, my father and my teacher, served as the first State Rabbi of Hesse, Germany (region around Frankfurt) after World War II. I have published the account of our family origins, his youth and education, his persecution by the Nazis and escape to the Soviet Union and back, in my book Courage of the Spirit. Irene Weinberg, my mother and my teacher, was a native of Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) who outwitted her Nazi hunters by hiding in the open as a Pole in both Lwow and Warsaw. I hope to have her account published in the near future.</div>
Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-62393018429143694092015-12-02T08:38:00.001-08:002015-12-02T08:38:19.313-08:00Introduction to Echoes of The Holocaust: Survivors and Their Children and Grandchildren Speak Out<br />
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberg Introduction to<br />
<u>Echoes of The Holocaust: Survivors and Their Children and Grandchildren Speak Out</u><br />
By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Several years ago, when my mother, Irene Weinberg, of blessed memory, passed away, I realized that so many of her generation, the last witnesses of the great horror that befell the Jewish people, were soon fading from the world scene. I set about researching and writing about her experiences as well as those of my father, Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg, who had passed away some years before. *<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There is a great burden that falls upon us, already an aging 2nd generation and an adult 3rd and even 4th generation, to act as witnesses. This is so vital, as we see blood libels once again used against Jews today by supposedly enlightened intellectuals in Europe and even in the United States under the guise of anti-Zionism. As the past recedes, people who should know better make unconscionable statements. Thus a student leader in South Africa, a child of victims of racial apartheid, could praise Adolf Hitler for his “charisma” and hope for such a leader for his own country.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We also have a double challenge. One the one hand, we continue as witnesses to the hell that our people went through but we also have a second challenge, to keep alive the flame of Jewish teachings, the sacred teaching that said that all humans are created in the “ Tselem Elokim”, in the Image of the Divine. It was this very teaching which Hitler and Nazism sought to erase along with the people who had preached it to the world.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I can only think it fitting to paraphrase the words of President Lincoln, at the Gettysburg Address:<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> It is for us the living, children and grandchildren of our martyrs, to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they were persecuted, the teachings of the great a noble heritage of Judaism and the Jewish people-- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have lived in vain, that the lives of these, our people, shall not have been without enduring meaning.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I thank Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg for putting together this collection of recollections, essays, and poetry from the children and grandchildren of our survivors. I greatly appreciate Rabbi Rosenberg’s keeping the focus on the Shoah, or Holocaust, as an event unique to the Jewish people. While it is true that many millions died in this horror, only the Jews were selected and targeted for annihilation in total and only the demonization of the Jews could serve as a force to galvanize otherwise civilized men and women into unspeakable acts of cruelty and horror. When we universalize the account, in hopes of building alliances, we dilute the significance of what happened.<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I want reiterate my thought, a thought for the generations: For all that we Jews have gone through in history, as horrible as it may have been, we are blessed to be the heirs of a tradition going back to Abraham and Moses and on down to our days, a tradition that speaks of a courage to face all obstacles, a tradition of hope and faith in a universe created for good and guided by Divine Providence to an ultimate redemption of all humanity.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rabbi Dr. William Weinberg, my father and my teacher, served as the first State Rabbi of Hesse, Germany (region around Frankfurt) after World War II. I have published the account of our family origins, his youth and education, his persecution by the Nazis and escape to the Soviet Union and back, in my book Courage of the Spirit. Irene Weinberg, my mother and my teacher, was a native of Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) who outwitted her Nazi hunters by hiding in the open as a Pole in both Lwow and Warsaw. I hope to have her account published in the near future.<br />
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-55332798435760493012015-11-17T22:06:00.001-08:002015-11-17T22:06:12.658-08:00Translation of Full text of the Three Essays on Courage of the Spirit 1937<b>The Scholar Lays Intellectual Siege to the Zeitgeist</b><br />
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Ten years of rabbinical study, finally completed, would now be put aside for nearly a decade. My father had plenty of time, during his two years in prison, to further his intellectual insights into contemporary philosophy. Upon his release, he returned to Austria and pondered what the future had in store.<br />
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He penned his thoughts in a series of three essays on the position of Judaism as the naysayer of civilization, especially in contrast to the popular intellectual trends of his day: the economic determinism of Marxism; the genetic determinism of Nazi racism; the cultural determinism of fascism; the psychological determinism in the schools of depth psychology espoused by Freud and Jung. In the second and third essays, he attacks the enthronement of instinctual drives in neo-Romanticism as expressed by D. H. Lawrence and Nietzsche, and he culminates his writings by examining the nihilism inherent in national socialism—specifically, Nazism.<br />
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The title of the series in German is “Mut Zum Geist,” which translates as “The Courage of the Spirit” as I have phrased it, but more accurately, “Courage to or for the Spirit.” The word Geist has greater implications than the English word spirit, which has only religious connotations. In German, it encompasses the whole realm of the mind, whether individually or collectively for humanity, or of an underlying mind of the universe. It requires courage to face Geist—the realm of values and ideals. Quite appropriately, this phrase appears later in the writings of Viktor Frankl, also a Holocaust survivor and the father of Logotherapy, who emphasized the centrality of meaning in life and the need for moral courage. It stands in contrast to the triumph of the will as hailed by moviemaker Leni Reifenstahl in her propaganda film Triumph des Willens, or Triumph of the Will, which reveals her adoration of Hitler. She was a devotee of Hitler’s from the moment she read Mein Kampf. The title of her film was Hitler’s idea, and the film was based on one of the early Nuremberg rallies.<br />
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My father’s essays appeared in the Judiche Presszentrale Zurich, the main Jewish newspaper of Zurich. For many years, I have had the first essay in my possession. The librarian of the Zurich Jewish Community, Dr. Yvonne Domhardt, sent me copies of the other two essays my father published.<br />
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Following pages contain the complete essay translated into English. I thank Professor Michal Bodeman of the University of Toronto for his clarifications.<br />
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The Courage of the Spirit<br />
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Dr. Wilhelm Weinberg (Vienna)<br />
Judische Presszentrale<br />
Zurich, June 18, 1937<br />
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Editor’s Introduction:<br />
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Under this rubric, we shall be presenting a series of essays. The author brings our attention to the nihilistic-destructive developments in our times against all that is spiritual [Geistige] and seeks to reach a position whereby the Jew must stand in opposition. The title provides the underlying theme of the essays. The first essay bears the subtitle “Under the Sign of Fatalism.” In this essay, he examines a cross section of the key themes of contemporary thought.<br />
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Under the Sign of Fatalism<br />
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The Jewish Messiah idea implies a systematic plan and consciousness in the totality of the direction of humanity and in its cultural formation. Our contemporary stream of thought has no room for such a concept nor, indeed, for an idea of a conscious will nor for an idea guiding universal developments<br />
It has been an accepted thesis for decades within all trends of our culture that all events occur independently of human will. Little and rarely does anything result from conscious thought. Like the apparition that vanishes at the toll of the bell to usher in a new day, so all the values and ideals of mankind melt away, overpowered with unpitying might by the merciless hand of economic, biological, and historical Ananke (fate). A Moses must once again smash the Tablets of the Law, the central element of the Torah, for the Torah implies guidance, the pull of an absolute ground of meaning, and is as such in opposition to determinism.<br />
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The first to dethrone human will as the critical factor of history is economic theory, which utilizes the most scientific of tools. Karl Marx proved that human life is not determined by will and resolution but by the blind law of the deterministic power of economics, which allows no resistance by any other force. Historic development, according to Marx, is determined by the economic condition, that is, that the path of a given society is set by the manner of production and the exchange of goods. People do not shape their historic societal life through reason and free choice. It is just the opposite. “The means of production of vital necessities absolutely controls the social, political, and intellectual life-process. It is not human consciousness that determines existence, but, on the contrary, it is the historical existence which determines the human consciousness.”<br />
Even ideals are mere reflections of the condition of production. This dethroning of the will as one of the consequential factors of history leads, therefore, to this fatalism: the Marxist theory of impoverishment, whereby a few will always be wealthier, others always poorer, and whereby the collective middle and artisan classes are unalterably driven to destruction. Assuredly, after the prophesied apocalyptic collapse of society there will follow a new and better organized one. This too will not be the consequence of human will and its aspiration to justice; rather it will be the consequential development of the modes of production independent of our will.<br />
(To prevent any misconceptions: We have presented Marxism in its mechanistic formulation. It is known that in Leninism it has found an activist interpretation. This is based on a statement by Marx: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. It is up to you, however, to change it.”)<br />
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Following the economic fatalism, there is the biological one, based on entirely different presumptions: the teaching of racism, the teaching of the inequality and immutability of the human races. Hereby fatalism is presented in its unadulterated form. Beforehand, it was God who arbitrarily distributed the destinies and who predestined one man to sainthood, the other to damnation. Today, it is hereditary blood. There are talented and untalented races. Only one race is called to take its place at the weaving loom of culture, the Aryan race, and in particular, the German. The others are condemned to unfruitfulness. “Had it not been for the Germans, mankind would have sunk into eternal night” (Chamberlain). [Note: This is referring to Houston Chamberlain, the theoretician of racism who anointed Hitler as the savior of humanity.]<br />
The worthlessness of the other races is as unchangeable as a mathematical proof and as eternal as the law that regulates the path of our planets. This is the will of destiny, and it cannot be changed by any human activity.<br />
There can be no further development of the ungifted races since the hereditary characteristics have not changed over the centuries. “The environment cannot change [the] particular variations of the races” (Eugen Fischer). [Note: Fischer was Hitler’s primary scientist on eugenics and race.] The course of human history is independent of human will. The driving force of historical-social world events is to be found only in the struggle of the higher races against the lower races. Family, religion, and state are only manifestations of blood. There cannot be a concept of humanity as the encompassing unity of all races; so, too, there can be no universally binding human cultural value. The worth of any given value is tied to blood and skull measurements and is therefore altogether relative.<br />
One must end this chapter on the race problem with a Jewish answer. “I call upon heaven and earth as witness, that whether one is Jew or heathen, man or woman, free or slave, the Holy Spirit rests upon each one in accord with his merits” (Tana d’bei Eliyahu, Ch. 8).<br />
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From the perspective of the study of intellectual developments, Spengler introduced fatalism into the perspective of his theory of the formation of culture. [Note: Oswald Spengler was a theoretician of the primacy of German civilization; however, he rejected Nazism.] In his analysis, culture is self-sustaining, independent of human willful influence, and free from any goal orientation. “Cultures flourish, and people are transformed in their geographic locales into a folk. They are not the shapers of but [are] shaped by this culture.” Its development is intrinsically bound by law: like all living beings, cultures have their childhood and their blossoming, following which, without any hope, comes their dissolution. They are as bubbles of soap shaped by the straw in the mouth of a child; radiantly and iridescently, they float up, linger awhile, and vanish into nothingness. Likewise, cultures sprout forth from the branch of the Spenglerian deity of Fate into a meaningless existence, and after a brief blossoming disappear just as meaninglessly and without a trace.<br />
Spengler does not recognize humankind. There are only isolated cultures between which no concept provides a bridge of understanding. The members of one cultural circle can never comprehend the members of another cultural circle. Humankind as a whole has no unifying idea, no plan, no goal, no evolution.<br />
The total gruesomeness of such an organic fatalism has been thought through to its historical conclusion by Spengler: everything happens the way it must—as a blind Fate has willed it. Unda fert nec regitur: the stream carries humankind, not allowing any steering of the course. [Note: “One can ride the wave, but not make it” was a favorite quote of the Iron Chancellor Bismarck, the father of what is often termed the Second Reich.]<br />
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It is beyond the perspectives of this brief essay to prove that all realms of knowledge are branded by the paralyzing tidal wave of fatalism, or to delineate the ways that they confine the room for play of the human spirit and will.<br />
We need, however, to examine depth psychology [another term for psychoanalysis]. We are cast down by the fatalism of Marx’s modes of production, by hereditary blood racial teachings, by Spengler’s organic culture. Likewise, we are cast down by depth psychology, which evolved out of medicine. This is the fatalism of the subconscious, be it of the individual according to Freud or the collective according to Jung. According to Freud, the function of conscious thought in human endeavor is limited. Past events are forcefully drowned into the subconscious, which functions despite a controlling censor and forms our lives. Freud’s individual subconscious is supplemented by Jung with a collective subconscious, which stems from prehistoric strata in the evolution of our souls. This determines our mental bearing. In contrast with this un- and sub- consciousness, our conscious knowledge is of little bearing. It is not the super-conscious, but the sub-conscious that has the power to shape the destiny of people and to give direction to the tendencies of one’s life-formation.<br />
Indeed, the trap of fatalism is so varied and tightly wound that it leaves absolutely no room for action on the part of human will and consciousness.<br />
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We draw the bottom line: All these intellectual circles cut right to the quick, and make cruel sport of ideological and activist factors and disprove the conventional lies. The word ideology is needed only as a contemptuous taste, as Napoleon used it, only in passing. In such an intellectual world, there is no room for a phenomenon such as Judaism with its teleology based on an absolute ground of meaning.<br />
Judaism’s theory of history is activist; the Jewish ethos is a willful ethos; the Jewish religion is outspokenly a religion of will. The originality of Judaism rests primarily on the point that the Bible, for the first time, inquired into the question of the sense and inner unity of all human history and conceived of the individual events of history as steps up to a meaningful and powerful world goal. In contrast to nature, history, for us, is not a constant alternation, constantly in flux, up and down in a mindless fashion. The spirit drives history in its development to ever-higher forms to an ethical humane elevation of human society, despite recurring setbacks. We do not deny the law of reality, which researchers have made clear, but over and above this, there is a law of the ideal; over and above the factual, there is the truth.<br />
Goethe said, “The whole world lies before us as a rock quarry before the master mason who earns his name only when he puts this happenstance mass together with the greatest economy, purposefulness, and resoluteness in accord with his personal original vision.” With these words, Goethe posited the zeal for life of the man committed to action in direct contrast to the fatalist who sees the world as a wave that carries man aimlessly without purpose and without allowing him any means of steering.<br />
No! Humanity is not the disturbed dream of some sleeping deity, and [it is] no mad chaos wildly swirled about by a happenstance. God created the world according to plan. As a perceptive statement of the Midrash says, “He consulted the Torah before He began to create.” The duty of humanity in this world is prescribed in these brave words by an ancient Jewish philosophy of history: “Man is called upon to be God’s co-worker in the act of creation” (Mechilta, Exodus 18:13).<br />
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My father was ahead of his time in his astute summation of societal trends and flawed belief systems. The same philosophical, spiritual, and moral challenges face us today. Nazism has been crushed, racism has been shamed out of the living rooms of decent people, communism has fallen, and Freudianism no longer dominates therapy.<br />
However, new challenges to the human soul arise as we advance technologically and become a more global society. Do our genes define us? Is our behavior controlled by hormones in the brain? Are we constrained by our social class, never to move upward? Is some quark playing dice with our universe?<br />
As I read my father’s essay, I recognize that it is up to us to act as God’s co-workers in the act of creation.<br />
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Courage of the Spirit:<br />
On the Cult of Naturalism<br />
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In a follow-up to his first essay published in the Zurich newspaper, my father took up the cudgel against the neo-Romantic spirit of thought, which proliferated as a form of rebellion against the Reine Vernunft, the Pure Reason of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.<br />
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The new Zeitgeist emphasized emotion, experience, or will against straight logic as opposed to the ideal or the intellectual, the realm of the mind (as expressed by the term Geist, translated here as Spirit).<br />
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While acknowledging the excesses of absolute rationality, he warns of the destructiveness inherent in the unrestrained adoration of the instinctual forces deep within the human soul. This line of reasoning led from Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil to the horror of Riefenstahl’s paean to the embodiment of power in Triumph of the Will.<br />
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Not only would six million Jews lose their lives, but tens of millions around the world would fall victim to the unbridled power of human savagery.<br />
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My father’s second and third essays present the only solution: the application of Chochmah, the wisdom approach of classic Jewish thought, which seeks a fusion of these two dichotomies in human existence.<br />
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The following pages contain a complete transcript of these two essays.<br />
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The Cult of Naturalism<br />
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Jüdische Presszentralle Zürich<br />
(Jewish Central Press of Zurich)<br />
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15 Oktober 1937 No. 962 of 15th October 1937, page 1-2 Mut zum Geist - Courage of the Spirit<br />
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By Dr. Wilhelm Weinberg, Vienna<br />
Second Essay<br />
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Every person, insofar as he has attained a certain intellectual maturity, relives his own expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the land of innocent non-spirituality. The question is whether that Biblical narrator, who told us of the expulsion of the first human couple from Paradise, was correct in his interpretation that the plucking of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge inevitably brought on Death and whether in truth the Tree of Knowledge is the origin of all ills. Judaism has answered this in the negative, and there can be no doubt that the story of the Garden of Eden has come to us from a non-Israelite source.<br />
In contrast, a chain of leading contemporary thinkers has affirmed this view. This is clear from the title of an essay by the Zurich psychologist Ludwig Klages, “The Spirit as Adversary of the Psyche,” one of his best-known works. With this title, the intention is soon made clear: Spirit is in opposition to life; it is the onset of disease, a mistake; it is a danger to life. This tendency is also evident in the title of an essay by the Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing, whose life ended tragically. “Destruction of the Earth by the Spirit” is how he titles this essay, in which he examines the role of consciousness in the development of the world and comes to the conclusion that it has been disastrous in all ages.<br />
Back to our point: for him (Klages), body and soul are inseparably connected poles of the living cell. A wedge now is being driven between body and soul by the spirit, with the intent to split them apart, to remove the soul from the body and the body from the soul, so that ultimately all life is killed. Hence, there develops a struggle against science; against all that is the product of consciousness; against intellectualism, rationalism, and all movements that derive from these—the natural—all that is the historic and social life that underlies the spiritual. Klages himself establishes a main point, that the phenomenon of morality, the product of the intellect, is the result of bad blood.<br />
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The spirit is dethroned as a despot that has annihilated the best values of life. But what has been placed in its stead? The elemental, the natural instinct: blood and earth earn the highest devotion and are elevated to the level of a categorical imperative. Back to guiltless unspirituality, to the world of dumb, instinct-driven life, that calling is the promise of the salvation of all culture.<br />
“My great religion,” so writes the priest of basic instincts, the English author D. H. Lawrence, author of the renowned work The Dark God, “is a belief in the blood, as the flesh being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds, but what our blood feels and believes and says is always true.” [Author’s note: I have not found a work with that title or its equivalent in English. This phrase appears in Lawrence’s Kangaroo, and is a theme in his writings. Although probably best known for his racy Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Lawrence detested democracy and was a hero to fascists, even to this day. We fail miserably to understand the nature of Nazism and fascism when we think of them as merely the redoubt of the ignorant rabble. These ideologies have drawn some of the finest intellects of the twentieth century.]<br />
If the word idolatry means more than a simple formal term—more than merely the shaping of molten, hewn, or painted images of a religion and its worship—then the flesh-and-nature worship that goes hand in hand with enmity of the spiritual of our modern idol worship, Abodah Zarah in Hebrew, is the purest water.<br />
As Jews, we flee from the unpleasant, from the suggestion of succumbing to the environment of inherent historical factors such as race, nationality, geographical conditions, the influence of the historic environment. This is reduced to one concept: to favor the natural growth of life to the detriment of the absolute spirit. Although this is humanly understandable, it does not change the fact that it is driven by idolatry. It is a fall from the spiritual when Jews elevate this dynamic recklessness, which life in its full lustfulness endeavors to impose, to the level of divine legislation. Races, peoplehood, climate, and heredity are all facts that cannot be denied. But may one derive any authority in the ideal sense from mere facts? They come to serious implications. Does there not lie in the autonomy of the factual the danger of the demonic? Is the intellect with its a priori forms, as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer claimed, truly imposed over the surface of life? Are feeling and intuition, as per Bergson, the only guide to the truth? Can the “existence of the growth of life occur devoid of thought” as Spengler intended? Furthermore, is the flesh truly wiser than the spirit as Lawrence claimed?<br />
We follow Maimonides and not Lawrence’s “dark god.” In his discussion of false prophets who seek to prove their calling by creating some miracle states, “The eyes of the spirit, which permeates the law, is keener than the deceptive eye of the flesh which sees the miracle.”<br />
Jews have always disdained to howl with the wolves. They had the courage, even in danger, to be “a lamb among seventy wolves.” Did not people boast until recently that they are the sober man among drunkards? This has changed thoroughly. Jews are also eagerly involved in the iconoclasm against everything that is an expression of its critical spirit, and passionately take a stand against intellectualism and rationalism. It should be noted incidentally, not without its own appeal, that in this context the term “intellectual” shows up with a dismissive tone for the first time in the Dreyfus affair. It seems tragic therefore when Jews join in this howling against intellectualism. We too have our neo-Romantics who passionately take sides with the unconsciously driven feud that all that is individually different is historically conditioned, bound in time and space, in a word, that is and ought to preface all need it not finally be in the strongest terms to recall that in the value construct of Judaism, the spiritual and godlike is stressed much more than the sensual and animalistic! Life requires review by the much maligned intellect, that the will to live under the normalization by the conscious, “Thou shalt,” is one of the characteristic dicta that Judaism presents to humanity, to express thereby that what is of nature requires conquest and organization of the moral.<br />
The Enlightenment has ignored the fact of the carnal nature of humanity and its innate soul and thereby removed it from the natural and historical foundations of life. This was the excess surge of what was in itself a rational principle, and we do not deny the danger of emptying our collective culture of its soul, which has occurred. However, these biases were corrected long ago; indeed, to borrow an expression of the late fearless Jewish psychologist Alfred Adler, [they were] overcompensated, and it is now time to oppose the neo-Romanticism with a Neo-Enlightenment. [Author’s note: Adler, known for his concept of the inferiority complex, was one of the guiding figures of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in Vienna, of which my father had been a member in his younger years.]<br />
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Third Essay<br />
No. 963 of 22nd October 1937, p. 9<br />
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We are very far from ignoring the instinct-driven life and pretending as if it did not exist. With such an attitude toward the natural element—a spiritualism of a one-sided concept of the mind that ignores the dark forces of the drives—the instinctual and demonic must have its bitter revenge at the end. Neo-Romanticism is proof in our time. We are witnessing how the repressed dark waters of the instinctual life, in spite of the regulatory commission which Enlightenment imposed, have suddenly broken through the dams of the subconscious mind and flooded the whole of our consciousness. Nietzsche was its first victim and ended in mental derangement, and the German people as a whole were her second victim, which has ended in National Socialism. The one-sidedness of the Enlightenment has been avenged bitterly, and we are careful not to fall back into it.<br />
Within the Jewish spiritual world there exists alongside the one direction of spiritualistic prophecy another direction that is known under the name Chochmah, wisdom. It is known and has made its imprint in many writings and various expressions. Its first beginnings go back to, significantly, the time when the Jews came in contact with the nature-loving spirit of Hellas. This Chochmah knows the bond that exists in all of life is of two distinct halves, the animal-biological and the higher spiritual world, which lie in a constant struggle against each other; she [Chochmah] knows that we must also reckon with the reality of the animalistic. She affirms life. The body is to be preserved and maintained, and not be tormented by asceticism. But she never forgets that this reality is only an infinitely malleable matter, a formless mass out of which she will shape her work. She makes use of nature as the miller makes use of the torrential power of the waterfall; she knows of its demonic nature and transforms it by making concessions into the service of a higher world. The Chochmah shows us the possibility of steering and shaping the instinctual drives and its transformation into a dedicated significant, higher entity. Whoever has impartially studied the history of humanity will admit that this steering of the drives remains the basic requirement of every cultural achievement. The first and last resort for us remains the spirit and not the “dark gods.”<br />
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I know it! Yes! Drive—hollow, unruly, wild<br />
Drives, swirls of this life-wheel—but over it<br />
Lights the stars and proceeds to that which is bidden!<br />
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~Richard Beer-Hoffman, “The Young David”<br />
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Rabbi Dr. Norbert Weinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07163232635982296541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4059022365152748727.post-19938267393082642492015-11-16T21:34:00.004-08:002015-11-16T21:34:55.547-08:00Guns Don’t Kill People—Ideas Kill People Thoughts on Kristallnacht , the Holocaust and Paris 2015<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Guns Don’t Kill People—Ideas Kill People </span><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;"> Thoughts on Kristallnacht , the Holocaust and Paris 2015</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;"> Nov 14, 2015</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">The following are notes from my discussion on Kristallnacht and the conflict between the values of Judaism and those of the key ideologies of the 20th century. This was prepared before the massacres in Paris on Nov 13. There are strong themes that carry over from 20th century conflicts into this new 21st century conflict between a liberal West and a militant political Islamism. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Whether Islamism-- in its various manifestations, as Al Qaeda, or Salafi Jihadism or Islamic Caliphate, or Moslem Brotherhood, or Iranian Islamic State-- reflects or speaks for Islam as a religion is irrelevant. Attempts to whitewash Islam as the “Religion of Peace” on the one hand or to label Islam as inherently evil on the other are also irrelevant. However, it must be understood that the root of these Islamic movements are deeply anchored in historic Islamic texts and traditions, whereas Nazism and Communism, the two scourges of the previous century, were full-bore rebellions against the foundation texts of Christianity. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">It is time to recognize that these are strongly developed ideological systems devised by bright and educated thinkers. To rationalize this as solely a movement of the “disadvantaged” or “ oppressed” of the Shabab of the banlieu of France is a futile as dismissing Nazism as solely a movement of the lumpenproletariat of Germany. Dr. Zwahiri is a trained physician, Bin Laden was a trained engineer, the ideological father of their movement, Sayd Qutb, was trained in American universities. Hitler had his Heidegger’s and his Reifenstahl’s as admirers. Never underestimate the capabilities of a militant political movement.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">In that light, I look at the central conflicts of the 20th century as they were being played out in the 1930’s, when Hitler had established the Third Reich and Stalin was firmly enthroned in the Worker’s Paradise.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Kristallnacht, Nov 9-10,1938.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">This is a bitterly ironic name." Kristall", literally, the English Crystal glass, was given by one of the Nazi leaders immediately after the November pogroms, to make fun of the victims. There is a 2nd bitter irony--the victims were blamed and fined 1 billion reichsmark! The 3rd bitter irony is that form this, the Nazi regime understood that its war on the Jews must now be taken form the amateurs and handed over to the professionals, from SA to SS.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">This date is generally considered to mark the start of the Holocaust. That too is a bitter ironic name, as it means a "Burnt offering", as if our people were the sacrificial ox for the sins of the world. The Hebrew word "Shoah" is more appropriate, as it means a horrible destruction.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">What was behind this consuming passion to destroy the Jews? From whence this utter inhumanity?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Was it resentment of the poor? Germans were not poor! They did not suffer physically from the hardship of war as did the French, on whose soil the armies fought. My father lived through that period and recalled that the Germans lived very well compared to the rest of the Europeans.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Was it historic anti-Semitism? Germans were not more anti-Semitic than other Europeans.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Was it mass psychosis? Madness of the crowds?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Or is the human being a creature of ideas, ideals, and ideologies which can override all other instincts, which can override human decency, which can leads to Nietzsche’s concept of “Beyond Good and Evil.”</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">I look back at writings of the period from my father, Rabbi William Weinberg, which I translated and printed in my book, Courage of the Spirit. My father had gone through childhood in the shtetl to adulthood and the study of Political Science in cosmopolitan Vienna to Rabbinical studies in Berlin. He spent two years in Nazi prison from 1935 to 1937, and learned both Nazi and Communist intimately form his fellow prisoners ( Yes, Nazis who were too uncontrollable even for Hitler were imprisoned).He escaped to the Soviet Union, and came back, after the Shoah, to Austria and Germany, where he served as the first State Rabbi of Hesse).</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">For one thing, he insisted that historic anti-Semitism, emanating from Christianity, was not the root cause.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">This is an excerpt form an essay that appeared in the early 1960’s in the Bnai Brith Monthly at time of Vatican II:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">“ Neither Hitler, nor the Dreyfusards, nor the anti-Semitic right-wingers who between the two World Wars grouped themselves around the daily, L'Action Francaise, fought under the faded banner of the church. We must not be deceived by smuggled-in pieties. Nazism's anti-Jewish ideology was not based on the theological antagonism between the Pharisees and Jesus. The Nazis did not adorn themselves with the symbol of the cross, but with the swastika, which stood for many things but not for Christian myths or beliefs. . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">To the best of my recollection. no Nazi ever threw the New Testament at me, nor did any Russian anti-Semite, during the four years I was a refugee in the Soviet Union. Anti-Semitism is essentially a-religious, thoroughly secularized, and materialistic.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Important new view now has been published, by Timothy Snyder, Black Earth. This is from an essay in New York review of Books, Sept 2015 summarizing his point. What Snyder writes is presaged in the essay that my father published in 1937, before anyone had thought of the idea of a Holocaust ( except for Hitler himself):</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">“ After murder, Hitler thought, the next human duty was sex and reproduction. In his scheme, the original sin that led to the fall of man was of the mind and soul, not of the body. For Hitler, our unhappy weakness was that we can think, realize that others belonging to other races can do the same, and thereby recognize them as fellow human beings. Humans left Hitler’s bloody paradise not because of carnal knowledge. Humans left paradise because of the knowledge of good and evil.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;"> . . . If humans were in fact nothing more than an element of nature, and nature was known by science to be a bloody struggle, something beyond nature must have corrupted the species. For Hitler the bringer of the knowledge of good and evil on the earth, the destroyer of Eden, was the Jew. It was the Jew who told humans that they were above other animals, and had the capacity to decide their future for themselves. It was the Jew who introduced the false distinction between politics and nature, between humanity and struggle. Hitler’s destiny, as he saw it, was to redeem the original sin of Jewish spirituality and restore the paradise of blood. Since Homo sapiens can survive only by unrestrained racial killing, a Jewish triumph of reason over impulse would mean the end of the species. What a race needed, thought Hitler, was a “worldview” that permitted it to triumph, which meant, in the final analysis, “faith” in its own mindless mission.”</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">I appreciate Snyder's explanation because it echoes language that my used 80 years ago. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">The Courage of the Spirit Dr. Wilhelm Weinberg (Vienna) </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Judische Press Zentrale Zurich, June 18, 1937 Printed in 3 essays- my translation from the German.(abridged excerpts)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">The Jewish Messiah idea implies a systematic plan and consciousness in the totality of the direction of humanity and in its cultural formation. Our contemporary stream of thought has no room for such a concept nor, indeed, for an idea of a conscious will nor for an idea guiding universal developments </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">It has been an accepted thesis for decades within all trends of our culture that all events occur independently of human will. Little and rarely does anything result from conscious thought. . . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">The first to dethrone human will as the critical factor of history is economic theory, which utilizes the most scientific of tools. Karl Marx proved that human life is not determined by will and resolution but by the blind law of the deterministic power of economics, which allows no resistance by any other force. Historic development, according to Marx, is determined by the economic condition, that is, that the path of a given society is set by the manner of production and the exchange of goods. People do not shape their historic societal life through reason and free choice. It is just the opposite. “The means of production of vital necessities absolutely controls the social, political, and intellectual life-process. It is not human consciousness that determines existence, but, on the contrary, it is the historical existence which determines the human consciousness.” . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Even ideals are mere reflections of the condition of production</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Following the economic fatalism, there is the biological one, based on entirely different presumptions: the teaching of racism, the teaching of the inequality and immutability of the human races. Hereby fatalism is presented in its unadulterated form. Beforehand, it was God who arbitrarily distributed the destinies and who predestined one man to sainthood, the other to damnation. Today, it is hereditary blood. There are talented and untalented races. Only one race is called to take its place at the weaving loom of culture, the Aryan race, and in particular, the German. The others are condemned to unfruitfulness. “Had it not been for the Germans, mankind would have sunk into eternal night” (Chamberlain). </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">The worthlessness of the other races is as unchangeable as a mathematical proof and as eternal as the law that regulates the path of our planets. This is the will of destiny, and it cannot be changed by any human activity.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">There can be no further development of the ungifted races since the hereditary characteristics have not changed over the centuries. “The environment cannot change [the] particular variations of the races” (Eugen Fischer). [Note: Fischer was Hitler’s primary scientist on eugenics and race.] The course of human history is independent of human will. The driving force of historical-social world events is to be found only in the struggle of the higher races against the lower races. Family, religion, and state are only manifestations of blood. There cannot be a concept of humanity as the encompassing unity of all races; so, too, there can be no universally binding human cultural value. The worth of any given value is tied to blood and skull measurements and is therefore altogether relative.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">One must end this chapter on the race problem with a Jewish answer. “I call upon heaven and earth as witness, that whether one is Jew or heathen, man or woman, free or slave, the Holy Spirit rests upon each one in accord with his merits” (Tana d’bei Eliyahu, Ch. 8).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">We need, however, to examine depth psychology [another term for psychoanalysis]. We are cast down by the fatalism of Marx’s modes of production, by hereditary blood racial teachings, by Spengler’s organic culture. Likewise, we are cast down by depth psychology, which evolved out of medicine. This is the fatalism of the subconscious, be it of the individual according to Freud or the collective according to Jung. According to Freud, the function of conscious thought in human endeavor is limited. Past events are forcefully drowned into the subconscious, which functions despite a controlling censor and forms our lives. Freud’s individual subconscious is supplemented by Jung with a collective subconscious, which stems from prehistoric strata in the evolution of our souls. This determines our mental bearing. In contrast with this un- and sub- consciousness, our conscious knowledge is of little bearing. It is not the super-conscious, but the sub-conscious that has the power to shape the destiny of people and to give direction to the tendencies of one’s life-formation.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Indeed, the trap of fatalism is so varied and tightly wound that it leaves absolutely no room for action on the part of human will and consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Judaism’s theory of history is activist; the Jewish ethos is a willful ethos; the Jewish religion is outspokenly a religion of will. The originality of Judaism rests primarily on the point that the Bible, for the first time, inquired into the question of the sense and inner unity of all human history and conceived of the individual events of history as steps up to a meaningful and powerful world goal. In contrast to nature, history, for us, is not a constant alternation, constantly in flux, up and down in a mindless fashion. The spirit drives history in its development to ever-higher forms to an ethical humane elevation of human society, despite recurring setbacks. We do not deny the law of reality, which researchers have made clear, but over and above this, there is a law of the ideal; over and above the factual, there is the truth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">No! Humanity is not the disturbed dream of some sleeping deity, and [it is] no mad chaos wildly swirled about by a happenstance. God created the world according to plan. As a perceptive statement of the Midrash says, “He consulted the Torah before He began to create.” The duty of humanity in this world is prescribed in these brave words by an ancient Jewish philosophy of history: “Man is called upon to be God’s co-worker in the act of creation” (Mechilta, Exodus 18:13).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Every person, insofar as he has attained a certain intellectual maturity, relives his own expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the land of innocent non-spirituality. The question is whether that Biblical narrator, who told us of the expulsion of the first human couple from Paradise, was correct in his interpretation that the plucking of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge inevitably brought on Death and whether in truth the Tree of Knowledge is the origin of all ills. Judaism has answered this in the negative, and there can be no doubt that the story of the Garden of Eden has come to us from a non-Israelite source. . . .. A wedge now is being driven between body and soul by the spirit, with the intent to split them apart, to remove the soul from the body and the body from the soul, so that ultimately all life is killed. Hence, there develops a struggle against science, against all that is the product of consciousness: against intellectualism, rationalism, and all movements that derive from these, the natural, all that is the historic and social life that underlies the spiritual. . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">The spirit is dethroned as a despot that has annihilated the best values of life. But what has been placed in its stead? The elemental, the natural instinct: blood and earth earn the highest devotion and are elevated to the level of a categorical imperative. Back to guiltless unspirituality, to the world of dumb, instinct-driven life, that is the calling that is to be the promise of the salvation of all culture.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">“My great religion,” so writes the priest of basic instincts, the English author D. H. Lawrence, author of the renowned work The Dark God, “is a belief in the blood, as the flesh being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds, but what our blood feels and believes and says is always true.” If the word idolatry means more than a simple formal term, more than merely the shaping of molten, hewn, or painted images of a religion and its worship, then the flesh-and-nature worship that goes hand in hand with enmity of the spiritual of our modern idol worship, Abodah Zarah in Hebrew, is the purest water. . . .</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">. Races, peoplehood, climate, and heredity are all facts that cannot be denied. But may one derive any authority in the ideal sense from mere facts? They come to serious implications. Does there not lie in the autonomy of the factual the danger of the demonic? Is the intellect with its a priori forms, as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer claimed, truly imposed over the surface of life? Are feeling and intuition, as per Bergson, the only guide to the truth? Can the “existence of the growth of life occur devoid of thought” as Spengler intended? Furthermore, is the flesh truly wiser than the spirit as Lawrence claimed?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">We follow Maimonides and not Lawrence’s “dark god.” In his discussion of false prophets who seek to prove their calling by creating some miracle states, “The eyes of the spirit, which permeates the law, is keener than the deceptive eye of the flesh which sees the miracle.” </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Jews have always disdained to howl with the wolves. They had the courage, even in danger, to be “a lamb among seventy wolves.” Did not people boast until recently that they are the sober man among drunkards? This has changed thoroughly. Jews are also eagerly involved in the iconoclasm against everything that is an expression of its critical spirit, and passionately take a stand against intellectualism and rationalism. . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">22nd October 1937</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">We are witnessing how the repressed dark waters of the instinctual life, in spite of the regulatory commission which Enlightenment imposed, have suddenly broken through the dams of the subconscious mind and flooded the whole of our consciousness. Nietzsche was its first victim and ended in mental derangement, and the German people as a whole were her second victim, which has ended in National Socialism. The one-sidedness of the Enlightenment has been avenged bitterly, and we are careful not to fall back into it</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.8px;">Within the Jewish spiritual world, there exists alongside the one direction of spiritualistic prophecy another direction that is known under the name Chochmah, wisdom . . .. This Chochmah knows the bond that exists in all of life is of two distinct halves, the animal-biological and the higher spiritual world, which lie in a constant struggle against each other; she [Chochmah] knows that we must also reckon with the reality of the animalistic. She affirms life. The body is to be preserved and maintained, and not be tormented by asceticism. But she never forgets that this reality is only an infinitely malleable matter, a formless mass out of which she will shape her work. . . The Chochmah shows us the possibility of steering and shaping the instinctual drives and its transformation into a dedicated significant, higher entity. Whoever has impartially studied the history of humanity will admit that this steering of the drives remains the basic requirement of every cultural achievement. The first and last resort for us remains the spirit and not the “dark gods.”</span></span><br />
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My mother, Irene Weinberg, kept a copy of a poem in Polish, Dzien Matki, Mother's Day, by Zofia Nawrocka, which describes the anguish of a woman who learns of her mother's capture by the Nazi's during the Holocaust. My mother translated it into English.</div>
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the subject of the book Courage of the Spirit, finally gained his freedom in
Vienna with the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies on May 9, 1945. To
commemorate the 70th anniversary of this event, IndieGo Publishing is offering Norbert
Weinberg's book at greatly reduced promotional prices from April 26 through May
10, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Courage of the Spirit
portrays the spiritual struggle of the author's father, Rabbi Dr. William
Weinberg, who survived Nazi and communist tyranny to become the first State
Rabbi of the community of Holocaust survivors in the German State of Hesse.
Rabbi Weinberg's journey spanned thousands of physical miles by freight train
and on foot, from cosmopolitan Vienna and Berlin to Stalingrad and central Asia
as he and his brother Benjamin kept a step ahead of the Nazi armies. The book
spans the mental and emotional journey from the medieval shtetl and the great
empires to the weak democracies and totalitarian regimes that followed, and
finally, to freedom. Courage of the Spirit reconstructs these events from
conversations with the author's father and his uncle, from family notes, and
from historical documentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why the Nazis Needed to Destroy the
Jewish People:A Look Back after 70 Years<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Our Torah reading of this Shabbat
opened with the bizarre death of the two sons of Aaron, Nadav and Avihu just at
what should be the greatest of days, the day of their dedication as priest of
the new sanctuary in the desert. Moses tries to comfort his brother, ” I will
be sanctified by those closest to me,” but Aaron answer is <u>Vayidom Aharon</u>, “Aaron kept silent.” He
could give no answer and could accept no comfort. ( Leviticus 10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The fate of the martyrs of Holocaust
in some ways is reminiscent of the fate of Nadav and Avihu. Let no one blame
any faction of Jews for failure or lack of righteousness nor for silence or
fear. Our only deep answer possible is
that of Aaron, <u>Vayidom Aharon</u>. We are silent, like Aaron.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Nevertheless, speak we must and lay
the blame clearly, not at the feet of the victims, nor at the feet of God, but
at the feet of the perpetrators, the
bulk of the Germans and their fellow travelers of other nations who
swore allegiance to Hitler or joined in the bloodshed for whatever reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now it is 70 years to the end of the
Holocaust on May 7, 1945, marking the collapse of the Third Reich. Our own friend ,Joe Alexander, was freed at
Dachau on April 29.My mother, Irene Weinberg, was liberated sometime
mid-February in the Czestochowa region and sometime in April my father arrived
in a liberated Vienna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I mention my father, Rabbi Dr William
Weinberg. Many of you know that I recently published a book about him, <u>Courage
of the Spirit</u>. He had served as the first State Rabbi of Hesse, the
American zone around Frankfurt, Germany. I look into his writings to find hints
of how and why this great human horror story unfolded.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why did the Nazis need to destroy the
Jewish people. It is true that they vented their rage on homosexuals and
Gypsies and were out to enslave the Slavs, but only one people so focused the
mind of Hitler in his manifesto, <u>Mein Kampf.</u> Only one people, small and few in numbers, the
Jewish people, so focused his mind. Why so? Obviously, there is the old history
of Christian anti-Semitism and the accusation of Christ-killer. But, as my
father wrote, not one Nazi ever accused him of being a Christ killer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He had spent two years in a Nazi prison
from 1935 to 1937. His fellow inmates were political prisoners for the most
part, either Communists or other Nazis! Yes, other Nazis, because Hitler needed
to control those Nazis who believed too much in the cause. So for two years, he
learned the inner thinking of the Nazis, up close.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He was released in April and escaped
quickly to Vienna, and while there, he wrote a series of essays that appeared
in the Zurich Jewish newspaper just two months later,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">under
the name," Courage of the Spirit"</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">. It was on the contrast between
Judaism and the great ideologies of modernity: economic determinism, what we
call Marxism, psychological determinism, what we call Freudianism, and
biological determinism, what we could call, in parallel, Hitlerism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Note the irony that two of the three
are associated with Jews. Marxism proved to be pathological, Freudianism, much
more benign, but the third was fatal, certainly to us as Jews. In opposition to
these three, my father posed Judaism. Modern ideology proposed that we are all
controlled, either by our economic status, our psychological make-up, or our blood
( today, the equivalent is DNA), especially as marked by race. Our concepts of
true and false, right and wrong, good and evil, are illusions, imposed upon us
by factors beyond us. We are ourselves therefore never free agents of our own
will. In opposition to this was the core idea of Judaism:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Judaism's theory of history is
activist, the Jewish ethos is a willful ethos, the Jewish religion is
outspokenly a religion of will. The originality of Judaism rests primarily on
the point that the Bible, for the first time, inquired into the question of the
sense and inner unity of all human history and conceived of the individual
events of history as steps up to a meaningful and powerful world goal. “(Translation
of text, Courage of the Spirit, pp 122-138)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
other words, to cut through my translation of his flowery German prose, we as Jews
believed in a common destiny for humanity, a common value, a common ethic. It
is this which distinguished us from Nazism, even more so than from the other
ideologies, which shared at least some sense of commonality of humanity. It is
this belief that the human shares his humanity with others, that the human is “God’s
partner in creation”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is one other aspect to Nazism that has never been properly explained. This too
was addressed in the essays. At the root of Nazism is nihilism, a belief that
all the inherited values of western civilization were an imposition through
Christianity by the Jews. This concept
of permitted and forbidden would be opposed by the expression of pure will and
force, an elimination of the boundaries of conventional morality. In addressing
this outlook, my father declared that this liberation of the individual from
moral restraints would be ultimately catastrophic, and he wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> “Nietzsche
was its first victim and ended in mental derangement and the German people as a whole was her second
victim which has ended in National
Socialism.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 1.05pt;">Now, Nietzsche was the brilliant philosopher who
preached the devaluing of all values. He died in terrible insanity. The
metaphor, for my father’s readers was clear. The German people had fallen into
the same degenerative insanity that had befallen the great intellect. Nietzche self-destructed;
so to say, the German people had self-destructed. So prophetic! Within the
space of seven years, the Third Reich had plunged the entire world into a “Twilight
of the Gods”, the world saw mass murder with efficiency on a scale never
imagined, and the human race entered the age of nuclear weaponry. Germany was
rubble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 1.05pt;">I contend that to understand this horror that Nazism
needed, in order to destroy the Jewish people, a reason greater than that of
“Christ killer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 1.05pt;">Nazism, as a movement of will and the expression of
absolute power, needed to destroy the very people who brought the world their
commonly accepted system of values. Christianity stood in the way, for sure,
but the resistance of the Church, whether Protestant or Catholic, proved feeble
and powerless to sway the bulk of the people of Germany and their fellow
travelers, the collaborators among the other Europeans. No. The target had to
be “The Jew”, because the Jew is at the root of Christianity. The Jew
represents the father, represents obligation, responsibility, prohibition. To
borrow from Freudian explanations, the son must destroy the father in order to
have the mother. This underlying pathology was a greater cause of fear in
Hitler’s obsessions, as of those of his followers, a greater fear than the Jew as
capitalist and communist combined, or the Jew as the creature whose tentacles
control the governments of the world. Buried deep in their psyche, was the Jew
as the obstacle to the fulfillment of unbridled passion, power and force. For
Nazism to be the “Triumph of the Will” it needed, above all, to triumph, not
over the malicious American and English capitalists, not over the evil
Bolsheviks, but over the Eternal Jew. All the efforts of the war would be subordinated
to the annihilation of the Jew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We are here today, then, because we still
stand for the conscience, for the freedom of the human soul, for the ability to
shape our lives as individuals and as peoples, for a belief in a higher goal
for humanity that is shaped in the Divine image. We stand for a day, as
difficult and deluded as it may seem, a day in which the words of the prophets
Isaiah and Micah would be fulfilled, words inscribed on the walls of the United
Nations, words that Nazism worked so hard to prevent:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“They will beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword
against nation, nor will they learn war anymore” (Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3-5).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To this, the prophet Micah added:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“All the nations may walk in the name of
their gods” . . ..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“In the name of their gods”! The prophet
did not care what way different nations followed their gods or their version of
God, no matter if they called in the name of Jesus or in the name of Allah or Ahura Mazda. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He concluded:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our God for ever and ever.( Micah 4:3-5) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Weinberg family connection to Kahane- Heller and Eger</div>
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These charts relate to the Kahane ancestors</div>
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