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ofLyons (9 century) was familiar with it. But similarly the Karaites,
like the Rabbanites, though their bitterest enemies, fostered the
beloved popular story. With regard to the hatred of the personality
of Christ all Jews were united, from their beginnings to the present
day. For, the expected considered reply of the present-day Judaisers
(patrons of Jews in earlier times were called so), that all this was in
the past but today it has doubtless been overcome, is false. One who
has looked observantly in Jewish newspapers and books will be
able to clearly trace this hatred of Christ, this most nationalistic
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trait of Jewry, up to the most recent times; for the battle against
his personality, conducted under different disguises, is the motto of
all Jewish orthodox or "free" thinking men. But one who does not
know the unvarnished truth about it must be told that the Jews call
the above-mentioned Talmud passages which preach the most
frenzied hatred of Christ their "pearls and gems"; that the designation
"dead dog" derives from the Zohar newly published in 1880, that,
at the end of the 19 th (!) century, the censored passages were all
collected and printed (especially in Germany) and distributed among
Jewry. But, in order that the good Christians and Europeans should
not be unnecessarily provoked, these collections were, almost
without exception, printed without specification of place and not to
be found in bookshops.
And the Toledot is as widely distributed today as earlier.
According to the evidence ofthe Jew S. Krauss, Toledot manuscripts
are found "even now in the hands of simple Jews"' 25 and educated
Jews "write even today in Russia, etc. (thus also in other countries)
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their form of the Toledot". The doubt that the Toledot does not
correspond to the views of the Jews is dismissed once and for all
deliberately by Krauss. "My co-religionists", he says, "will protest
against having to value the Toledot as an authentic representation
of Jewish views; except that then they must protest against the
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Talmud as well". The hatred of the Jews against Christ, whether
it has now been repressed or not, is a common inheritance of the
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Laible, op.cit, p. 86.
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Op.cit., p.22.
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Op.cit., p. 155.
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Op.cit., p.238.
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