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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

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this city a veritable ghetto. All attempts to relieve New York and
to arrange for the Jews to live in the country failed. They all returned,
to lead a junk-dealer life in the cosmopolis, manual labour on the
land did not please them.
"Philanthropic efforts to distribute the Jews", says Adolf
Bohm, 1 05 "in the country have had little success . . The immigrants
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stream in where already many of their brothers are settled". The old
instinct of being intermediaries (international intermediaries), but
thereby to form a closed core, reappears even today when one can
observe mass movements; the Jews are indeed the unchanging, the
"most crystallised men", ofwhom Goethe {Faust II) spoke.

Talmud-burning

Just as in the case of the ghetto phenomenon, a strongly
one-sidedjudgement lies under that also of the prosecution ofJewish
books. One still sees in it an act of the greatest barbarity and the
base fanaticism of Roman Catholic priests.
What is justifiable in this complaint shall be discussed later;
but let it be ascertained here that the censorship and burning of the
Talmud was not at all the result of a limited superstition, but had
their justified reasons.
Let us imagine the situation: in Christian states there live a
foreign people who bitterly revile the founder of the state religion
in their books, who all week in the synagogue utter the curse of
their god on the Christians and in other ways too make no secret of
their hatred.
Even a less self-conscious Church than the Roman would
have had to take up mass measures to put an end to this situation;
that it however was so cannot be doubted any more today. Let us

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Davis Trietsch, Paldstina unci die Juden, 1916. [Davis Trietsch (1870-1935)
was an ardent Zionist political economist who, after extensive travels through
Europe, lived in New York from 1893 to 1899, where he studied the patterns and
problems of Jewish emigration.]
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Derjudische Nationalfonds, The Hague, [1910], p.,17. [Adolf Bohm (1873-
1941) was President of the Jewish National Fund in Austria during the second
World War.]
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