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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

Jews and Christians, as, for example, when he says: "A prince who
sets Jews among his subjects acts like a householder who owns a
pond with young fish and throws in a rather big pike which eats the
lot; Who is indeed so foolish as to keep a goat as a gardener? Who
would want to keep a fox as a goose-herd or as a chicken-warder?
Be sure, dear authorities, if you wish to torment poor people, just
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set Jews in your lands".
It would go beyond the scope of this book if I wished to go
into all this in greater detail. Let it be ascertained that in all ages
and in all countries where Jews lived in large numbers the same
complaints of the people against Jewish fraud and Jewish usury
were raised. To this fact and its incontestable justness is added
another more important insight. Even if there were unhealthy
elements among Christians too and if there were certainly no lack
of thieves and rogues, at least all are united in the judgement of
their cheating, whereas Jewish law makes a pronounced difference
in the conduct of Jews among themselves and among non-Jews.

Jewish moral laws

There can be no doubt that that is how it is, though the Jews
naturally try their best to present themselves as being anointed with
the oil of humanity. They succeed in this too, since we all make the
mistake of surveying the Jewish past from a German or Christian
world-view and morality, and are easily inclined to transfer to it
thoughts that the Jews were far from having.
When we, for example, speak of a neighbour and thereby
understand every man, the Jew means by that only the Jew. Those
commandments that seem so human to us which we find in the
Pentateuch, which also lie buried in the Talmud like oases, and which
we, delighted to encounter something human there, would gladly
accept, acquire a bitter after-taste through repeatedly insisted
differentiation between Jews and gentiles (non-Jews, heathens). In
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Jiidischer [abgestreifter] Schlangenbalg, Ch.3, 5,80. [Samuel Friedrich Brenz
(late 16" 1 century) was a Jewish convert to Christianity who attacked his former
religious comrades in Jiidischer abgestreifter Schlangenbalg, which was published
in instalments between 1614 and 1715.]
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