Page 64 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

The Track of the Jew through the Ages

passes through the altars of the heathens and a church of god, one
99
shows respect to both".
And let us finally look at a third Indo-Germanic tribe, the
Persians. To the tolerance of these people the Jews in general owe
their entire existence; thanks to them they could they could begin
their return to their homeland and were besides supplied with money.
"Jewry", says the historian Eduard Meyer, "was created in the name
of the Persian king and through the power of the authority of his
empire, and thus the effects of the Achaemenid empire reach
powerfully and immediately into our present time".
And on the Jews who left the same extremely philo-Jewish
scholar said: "The religious separateness, the arrogant denigration
whereby all other peoples in comparison to the people chosen by
the world-ruling God became heathens destined to destruction was
offensive to all the neighbouring peoples.
The priestly codex is the basis of Judaism which exists
unchanged from the introduction of the Law by Ezra and Nehemiah
in 445 B.C. to the present day, with all the crimes and monstrosities,
but also with the goal-oriented, ruthless energy that has been inherent
in it from the beginning and that produced, along with Judaism, its
complement, hatred of the Jews.
Circumcision, observation of the Sabbath, abstinence from
pork meat and similar oddnesses in food, and basic contempt for all
non-Jews, which was fully reciprocated by the latter, are the
characteristics of Jewry in the times ofAntiochus Epiphanes, Tacitus
100
and Juvenal just as in the present".
99
Helfferich, Der westgotische Arianismus, p.49. [Adolf Helfferich (1813-1894)
was a professor of philosophy at the University of Berlin whose work Der
westgotische Arianismus und die spanische Ketzer-geschichte was published in
rd
1 860.] [Arianism is the doctrine propounded by Arius of Alexandria (3 century
A.D.), who elevated God the Father above God the Son since he considered the
latter as a created divinity unlike the former. His doctrine was branded as heretical
by the Council ofNicaea in A.D. 325. It was, however, propagated among several
Germanic tribes, including the Visigoths (West Goths), by the Arian missionary
Ulfilas.]
100 1 896, p.222. [Eduard Meyer (1 855-
Die Entstehung des Judentums, Halle a.S.,
1930) was a historian who published histories of Graeco-Roman antiquity as well
as of the Jews.]

41