Page 97 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

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Alfred Rosenberg

That all these complaints are justified does not need to be
substantiated any more today. Even the pun on the word Evangelion
is meant somewhat differently than the bishop thought, but is still
right. For, out of Evangelion (message of salvation) Jewish humour
had made avon-gillajon (sinful writing), just as out of beth-galja
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(place of light) beth-karja (pigsty).
Louis was dead, and in his place Charles the Bald had
entered, a ruler similarly well-disposed to the Jews. However, new
grievances seem to have resulted in a limitation of Jewish
"freedoms", at least in paper. Details are not known, but the Jews
seemed to have had to pay 710 and Christians 711 of their incomes.
I have dealt with the entire affair of the bishops of Lyons in
a more detailed way than the space available actually allowed since
it seemed to me to be important to investigate one individual case
closely. Only in this way does one obtain a real glimpse into the
legal relations and intrigues, only in this way can one also obtain
the ability to cast a glimpse behind the scenes of less clear cases
since the forces that sometimes emerge clearly are, at other times,
active only in a hidden way.
As an elaborate example, we see now two driving forces of
the Middle Ages at work: financial relations and religious fanaticism
On the part ofthe Jews, we see a monstrous wealth acquired through
trade and usury which engages assistants everywhere where it is
necessary and organises for their goals, coupled with rigid religious
principles and immoderate contempt of everything non-Jewish.
On the side ofthe Christians, we ascertain a heavy resistance
against the subjugation under Jewish privileges going hand in hand
with an equally fanatic religious fervour, at least after a closer
acquaintance with the Jews. In most cases gold triumphs, and the
Jews become more provocative after every success.
Accordingly the hatred of the population rises ever higher
until it requires only a drop, in the form of an actual event or an
emergent rumour, to cause the jar to overflow and produce the
bitterest Jewish persecutions. At the end of the Lyons affair ofBishop
Agobert, the German historian J. Schudt (1718) adds the following

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Laible, op.cit.
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