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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

More recent writers however think precisely in this manner;
for example, a present-day rabbi says: "With the idea of chosenness
is connected naturally a certain exclusivity. For to recognise a truth
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means at the same time: to try to keep oneself far from error. Israel
has understood its religion increasingly clearly in its opposition to
nations. The religion of Israel therefore had to begin with
particularism".
And further, "Judaism is the world religion insofar as all
the religions that have universalism as a consciously set goal have
emerged from it and, by virtue of the fact that they have emerged
from it, set themselves this goal".
In conclusion he maintains quite openly that he considers
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all who believe in other religions as fallen from the only religion.
Even Dr. Arthur Ruppin sees strength of religion and intolerance as
necessarily going together when he says of the Jews: "(Jewish)
orthodoxy was from the beginning much less a religion as a battle
organisation clothed in religious clothes for the maintenance of the
Jewish people". "The Jew does not know tolerance in religious
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matters; religion is too important to him for that".
The Jewish historian Bedarride also closes his work with a
glorification of the Jewish religion, the Jewish race and the Jewish
law, which we would not have had to hold against him if only the
tell-tale contempt of the non-Jewish did not reappear.
He says: "The Jews are the administrators of a law which,
going back to the cradle of humanity, is at the height of the most
advanced civilisation. Can they abandon this law which they rightly
consider as surpassing all others, to adopt another which in their
eyes is only a copy?" 73

Mishnah, in Arabic, under the influence of Aristotelianising Arabic philosophy,
called Delalatul Ha 'yreen (Guide for the Perplexed).]
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L. Back, Wesen des Judentums, Berlin, 1905. [Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was a
German rabbi who represented Liberal Jewry. In 1943 he was sent to the
Theresienstadt concentration camp but, partly on account of his prominence as an
intellectual, survived the war and moved in 1945 to London.]
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Die Juden der GegenwarX, Berlin, 1904, pp.47, 152.
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Les Juifs en France, enltalie et enEspagne, Paris, 1861, p. 433. [Jassuda Bedarride
(1804-1882) was a French Jewish jurist]
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