Page 109 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

In 1806 and 1807, Napoleon occupied himself very
energetically with the Jews and gave the delegates twelve questions
to answer: whether polygamy was permitted, whether usury was
permitted, whether the Jews considered the French as their brothers,
etc. After hundreds of years the Great Sanhedrin was gathered
together, 71 delegates of all of Jewry, in order to give an answer to
that. It was, naturally, to the effect that the Jewish laws were full of
humanity, usury was forbidden, the French were the brothers of the
Jews, etc. All that however in a language twisted and turned
according to the Talmudic tradition. This entire fabrication was
naturally a falsehood from beginning to end.
Even the Jewish historian, Abraham Geiger, said about it:
"In France there was still a post-war, that is, on account of the
Alsatian Jews, who were disgusting on account of usury. This and
the separation from the French citizenry drew Napoleon's attention
and he wanted here too to provide assistance with a bold grip. A
Collection of Notables and a Sanhedrin were to document their
attitude with their own explanations and influence their co-
religionists.
Except that authority is lacking in Jewry, for that inner
development is necessary. The old actors Beer and Furtado operated
aggressively, rabbis like Sinzheim and Vita di Cologna were able to
lead cleverly, but the whole thing was a big lie or at least a show.
The recognition of the French as brothers was a clause false to the
legal separation, the question whether a Jewess may marry a
Christian was answered untruthfully, that only marriages with foreign
idolatrous peoples are forbidden and the European peoples are not
idolatrous . . The questions were immature, the answers mere clever
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serpentine coils, the whole thing without any consequence".
These words of a learned Jew exempt me from any closer
argument (a small sample of the sophistry employed was already
presented earlier); the chosen 71 men who sententiously called upon
the Lord God everywhere had thus simply lied. If one has understood

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Nachgelassene Schriften, Vol.11, p. 239.
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[Pumbedita was a city in ancient Babylon (close to modern-day Fallujah) where
the Babylonian Talmud was developed.]
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