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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

need hardly say in what this relationship consists: it is the spirit of
fundamental intolerance taken over from the Semites to the detriment
of Europe. Renan 130 has already pointed to it, Chamberlain has
discussed it clearly, so I refer to them.
I remark further that not only the abbot mentioned but also
other Jews had this feeling, even this mentality.
The Jewish historian Bloch, 131 who would like to blame
the Aryans, hits - even if he also consciously serves up the old
Jewish fairy tale - on the truth when, regarding the disputes based
on the writings of Maimonides and the appeal for help described
above, he says the following: "Then every other dispute was
forgotten, monk and rabbi went as brothers arm in arm - it was an
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auto da fe in honour of the common god". But even to other
Jews it was not difficult to agree fully with the Roman Catholic
principle.
The symbolism ofthe Catholic faith they naturally left aside
but the joy in religious persecutions found in the converted Jews its
most typical representatives. Thus, even in the time of the Gothic
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rule in Spain under King Egika, it was the Jewish statesman and
archbishop Julian ofToledo who carried through the cruel decisions
at a council of this city according to which seven-year old children
of Jewish parents should be separated from the latter, in order that
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they may be raised in the Christian religion alone.

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[Ernest Renan (1 823-1 892) was a French Orientalist who wrote important studies
on languages, especially the Semitic, and histories of early Christianity and the
Jews.]
[Josef Samuel Bloch (1850-1923) was an Austrian rabbi and deputy who
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vigorously combated Prof. August Rohling's accusations of ritual murder among
the Jews in his book, Der Talmudjude (1871). Bloch declared that Rohling was
incompetent to comment on the Talmud when he could not even read Hebrew and
Rohling was consequently forced to lose his professorship of theology at Prague
University.]
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["act of faith", the term used for the public penance imposed on heretics and
apostates by the Spanish and Portuguese Inqisitions.]
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Die Juden in Spanien, Leipzig, 1875, p. 80.
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[Egika was king of the Visigoths from 687-701. The Visigoths had established
a kingdom in Spain from the 5 th century.]
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Kayserling, Sephardim, Leipzig, 1879, p. 2; also Helfferich, op.cit.
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