/pol/ - Politically Incorrect

Only in Pamiers at the foot of the Pyrenees was the Jewish conduct more tolerable since the rabbis enforced strict rules of moderation among their people. As a result, there was hardly any persecution of the Jews in this region.

The subversive anti-European aims of the revolutions of the 19th century are revealed in a message written by the Jew Piccolo-Tigre: The most important thing is to isolate man from his family and to make him immoral … When you have instilled aversion to family and religion in a number of minds then let fall some words exciting a desire to enter into the lodges. The vanity of the bourgeoisie to identify itself with Freemasonry has something so banal and universal that I am always delighted at human stupidity. I wonder that the entire world does not knock on the doors of the most eminent and requests to be one more laborer in the reconstruction of the temple of Solomon.

The chief rabbi of Frankfurt, Isidor, for instance, declared in 1868: Already the peoples, led by the societies for the regeneration of progress and enlightenment (i.e. the Freemasons), begin to bow before Israel. May the whole of mankind, obedient to the philosophy of the Alliance Universelle Israelite, follow the Jew, who rules the intelligentsia of the progressive nations. Mankind turns its gaze to the capital of the renovated world; that is not London, nor Paris, nor Rome, but Jerusalem, which has risen from its ruins, which is at once the city of the past and of the future.

Addresses to the German Nation (1808) were fulfilled: Does not the evident thought strike you that, if you give the Jews, who are, regardless of you, citizens of a state that is stronger and more powerful than all yours, also citizenship in your states, your other citizens will be fully under their feet?

The horror of a total Jewish rule over European society was first realized in the Russian Revolution, when the Jewish Bolsheviks took over the reins of government from more moderate elements and established a Jewish Russian government.

Christ's teaching of a kingdom "within us" is essentially repugnant to the Jew. All the myths that the Jews learnt from the Sumero Akkadians and, later, the Persians, they turned into historical facts that justified their single political aim of ruling others. Thus When the Jews heard of the immortality of the human soul for the first time from the Persians, when they heard of a messiah, a Saoshyant, who would deliver the world from the power of the evil principle to establish a heavenly kingdom into which would enter not only the holy but finally also, after severe punishment, all the countless penitent sinners, they understood of this principle of a world-liberating love only the idea of a world-ruling messiah.

Not a single creative scientific idea sprang from a Jewish mind, nowhere has it pointed out new paths.

As for their contributions to the arts, Jews can only produce virtuosos who substitute quantity of performance for quality, composers like Mahler who seek technical special effects and impresarios like Reinhardt who produce all manner of entertainment circuses.

The alarming expansion of Jewish power can only be checked by the immediate cessation of tolerance

long before the destruction of Jerusalem and long before the birth of Christ, we see the Jews living scattered throughout all the lands known at that time. (Already before the Exile, for example, Jewish banking houses are detectable in Mesopotamia).

The big lie which we are constantly fed consists in the opinion that, through the dispersal and the restrictive laws, the Jew had been excluded from all other activities except trade and therefore, forced by necessity, had to move to moneylending. Quite the contrary: the Jew emigrated because he hoped to find the best soil for this service abroad. Thus it is not a coincidence that it was precisely the big trading centers where the flourishing Jewish colonies existed, for, if the Jew's heart had longed for work, he would have moved to a country with fertile soil and not to stony islands and narrow docklands.

The Jew had no patriotic feeling and could acquire such nowhere and did not also long for it, and, as an eternal wanderer, moved to wherever intermediary trade and usury could flourish.

In short, the Jews followed from historical times the classical sentence of the Talmud, tractate Jebamot, fol. 66a: "Make 100 florins in trade that you may enjoy meat and wine daily, but gain 100 florins in farming and there is hardly salt and vegetables."

when Rabbi Eleazar saw a field on which cabbages were planted on a patch along its breadth, he said: "Even if one wished to plant cabbages along your length, commerce is better than you." When Rab once walked between ears of corn and saw that they swayed back and forth, he said: "Keep swinging, commerce is preferable to you."

Now, if one takes up the travel descriptions of different ages, one encounters the ever-repeated phenomenon that the inhabitants of all countries where Jews were found in large numbers are full of complaints against the fraudulent trade and the insupportable usury of the Jews. And when Jews and blind philo-Semites are ready to explain all this as mere envy, that is hoping that the reader would be extremely childish. When the appearance of Jewry produces everywhere the same results, another reason must be present than the enviousness of the local inhabitants.

In Persia, to which, as we saw, many foreigners were attracted, "the Jews had through their methods and grasp exploited and impoverished the native subjects to such a degree that the clamour reached the ears of the Emperor himself", reports a chronicle, and adds: "that the state minister thought long and hard how he could be free of the Jews without offending the other foreigners

The Jews, as it turned out, often advanced money to the Pasha in false coins, they supervised the customs, "where they mostly mistreated the Christians", likewise they have the collection of taxes in Syria, Palestine and Egypt,30 and Sargredo gives his impression in the following strong language: "Meanness is in Constantinople as it were a common prostitute, as whose procurers the Jews act".

as regards Spain, the Jews were already known there from the earliest times as the most unscrupulous of slave-traders, oppressed the local inhabitants through their immeasurable wealth and were able to strike down laws passed for the protection of the Christians or to prevent their enforcement.

Since the same historian admits, at the beginning of his work, that the Jews "were on equal footing with the other citizens, and indeed enjoyed the privileges of infanzones,34 so usury did not come about as a result of hostility to Jews but, as elsewhere too, the hostility of many chroniclers to Jews as a result of usury.

“Where was there, during the Middle Ages, a better-attended market than in Tudela?”35 exclaims Kayserling proudly, and continues: "The slave-trade was, from earliest times, conducted by Jews; here it acquired in scope and significance more than in the other kingdoms of the peninsula and maintained itself also here for the longest time unimpaired until the total besiegement of the Moors or, if you will, until the expulsion of the Jews.”

But especially interesting does the entire trade become through the fact that it was almost only Moors who derived the benefit of slave-trade, thus indeed the descendants of men whom the Jews had treacherously called into the country centuries before. But destiny fulfilled itself, for, as Heman reports in the mentioned work, just when the last Moorish empire was overthrown the expulsion of the Jews was decided upon.

In Livorno, the Jews had become so powerful that the Christians had to celebrate the Sabbath for their sake,40 and likewise in many other cities.

That is why the kings also protected the Jews everywhere, and the rage of the peoples must have already risen very high before they gave way to the pressure for the restriction of Jewish preferential rights. Often they protected the Jews militarily as, for example, in Navarre, where an insult made against a Jew was punished in such a way as if it had been made against a Spanish grandee; where the Jew could not be arrested for financial matters; where he was freed of all taxes imposed on goods.

In Tudela, King Sancho allotted (1170) the fortress to the Jews as their domicile for their greater security. In addition, the Jews had to pay no tithe contribution on goods that came to their possession through inheritance; if a Jew were to owe something to a Christian, the Christian had to present two witnesses "of which one however had to be a Jew".42 In 1255, Tudela rose up, was pacified with difficulty, and received a new constitution, until the old swindle was started once again.43

Thus did it occur in all countries: the frivolity and passion for splendor combined with the meanness and usury of the Jews; the two could be separated only through violence and the people had to pay the costs.

Spiders catch flies with their webs, accommodate them, spin round them, but to the great harm of the poor flies, for they suck them out so that they lie dead. Such spiders are the Jews, they do indeed give some money and make out that they do it for the best of the common welfare, but they suck out the Christians with their usury.

Jewish monies which go to the common welfare are real spiders' webs in which the Christians remain hanging.

Even today the fairy-tale is circulated that the Jews in Germany have been oppressed and neglected. That is not at all the case. They could earlier move around freely and settle everywhere. But not only that, the equal rights with the local inhabitants indeed went so far that the Jews could be prosecuted only by their own judges.

In addition, there is the rule that no Christian can maintain a claim against a Jew if he is not in a position to bring forward for himself at least one Jewish witness. The meetings of the Jewish judicial court took place mostly in the synagogues and even prelates of the Catholic Church had to take the trouble to go there if they had legal conflicts with Jews.

In the widespread pawn business that they conducted it was considered as sufficient if a Jew stated about a stolen object which he had found that he had honestly bought it! In demanding his possession the legitimate owner was obliged to pay the price that the Jewish pawnbroker said that he had reckoned.45 The Goslar Rights46 granted to the Jew, and to him alone, the privilege to lend money even on things that he knew were stolen.

A Count Walram von Zweibrticken found himself in the hands of 17 Jewish usurers; in 1338, in the small town of Oberwesel, no fewer than 217 debtors to the Jews were named; the Count of Ottingen pawned his golden crown; the landgraves Balthasar, Friedrich and Wilhelm von Thuringen were entirely in the hands of five Jews of Erfurt. In 1385, a single Jew in Ulm had 43 debtor's letters to show; there were 55 debenture bonds to two Jews of Erfurt.

The Jew could until the 13th century occupy all professions, everything was open to him. But he himself did not think of working hand in hand with the gentiles, secluded himself strictly and had only so much to do with the non-Jew as was necessary for trade. And no trace of any interest in the life of the host nation is to be observed.

one cannot however speak of constant mistreatment if the Count Palatine Philipp went with his son to the synagogue, if a Jew could be allowed under a penalty of only ten florins to stick his tongue out at an image of Mary, if in 1327 in Regensburg a priest fled from two Jews who wished to murder him.

According to a chronicler of Strassburg, people who had insulted a Jew had to expect a harsher punishment than those who had hurt an ordinary citizen.

It is an event that recurs constantly: the rule of the Jews coincides always with the downfall of the German nation, their enfeeblement with its rise.

What is narrated of "poisoning of wells", etc., on the part of Jews with the intention of exposing the "reasons" thereby is empty twaddle, spread either by people who are incapable of differentiating between the husk and the core or by Jews who wish to represent the Germans as idiotic fanatics (as, for instance, Graetz).

If the country suffered from war, in the final analysis the Jew had the gains.

"all commissioners were Jews and all Jews commissioners; the Jews have a law and freedom which is to lie and cheat as long as it brings them profit," goes a deep complaint from the Thirty Years' War.

I grant all legal mass measures for the protection of the people against Jewish usury. Or should rather a foreign, immigrant people rule over us, and indeed not through greater strength, courage and virtue but through money whose acquisition he seems to love most of all?

But not through violent persecutions and plundering must one free oneself from the Jewish nuisance but by cutting off all usury and harmful cheating from the Jews and by urging them to useful work on the field and in the workshops.”

in 1499, the Jews were led out under military protection (so that nothing bad happened to them) from the city "in which they had lived for so long and in which they had acquired such great wealth through devouring usury.”

in 1310, Kaiser Heinrich VII granted the Nurembergers a "privilege" in which the Jews were forbidden to take from citizens more than 43 1/3 percent, and from foreigners more than 55 percent weekly interest. Certainly a good privilege!

In 1539, an edict was issued throughout Germany in which one read that one should forbid usury to the Jew, that they should be urged to do manual work so that they may learn thereby how to earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, like the Christians. Naturally all that was useless.

If one reads reports on the Jewish trade of the Middle Ages, as recorded by German chroniclers, one notes in them their recurring astonishment at the ever sprouting Jewish sharpnesses that they have to narrate. Falsifications of exchange, fake bankruptcies, seduction of young inexperienced people, the children of rich parents, to dissipation, letters of debt written in Hebrew accepted in good faith but, when translated later, containing nothing but a gross proposition, changing packages during purchase, whereby the buyer discovers, instead of the true wares, stones or straw, etc.

Be sure, dear authorities, if you wish to torment poor people, just set Jews in your lands.

Let it be ascertained that in all ages and in all countries where Jews lived in large numbers the same complaints of the people against Jewish fraud and Jewish usury were raised.

Even if there were unhealthy elements among Christians too and if there were certainly no lack of thieves and rogues, at least all are united in the judgment of their cheating, whereas Jewish law makes a pronounced difference in the conduct of Jews among themselves and among non-Jews.

When we, for example, speak of a neighbor and thereby understand every man, the Jew means by that only the Jew.

The national feeling rings out in the narrative of the Persian emperor who, quite similarly to the Europeans today, went to the Jews and spread his arms in tolerance and said: "Come, we all wish to become one people!" "It is true", answered Eabbai Tanchum, "we circumcised could not be like you, so get yourselves circumcised and become like us.”

It cannot also be explained by the fact that the metropolitan Jews do not have anything to do with the Talmudic laws. For it is not the Talmud that has made the Jews, but the Jews who made it. Besides, this book has ruled the Jewish intellectual life for two thousand years, it was drummed into children from the age of six on day after day and has therefore naturally formed the character of all Jews in the given direction, whether they are now atheistic stock-exchange speculators, religious fanatics or Talmudic costumed Jews.

"The Jew is the teacher of all intolerance, all religious fanaticism, all murder for the sake of religion, he appeals to tolerance only when he feels oppressed, but has never exercised it and, according to his law, could not," says Chamberlain in his Foundations of the 196 century,

Since the most ancient times, for example, it was the Jews who persecuted the Christians where they could and ordered the heathens to oppress the same; when Julian the Apostate introduced again the heathen cult, the Jews in Syria used the given opportunity to institute Christian persecutions with doubled vigor.

When later the Jews in Cyprus had become numerous they decided to slaughter all the other inhabitants. This memorable decision cost the lives of 240,000 non-Jews.

Tertullian narrates that in Carthage, at the time of the Christian persecutions, the Jews enjoyed the pleasure of carrying around a painted image which represented a man with donkey's ears and hooves, holding a book in his hand and with the inscription: the god of the Christians.

Indeed the Jews enjoyed in Amsterdam such a freedom that Uriel d'Acosta could say rightly in his autobiography, which he composed shortly before his death: "If Jesus of Nazareth came to Amsterdam and the Jews wished to crucify him, they could do so without fear."

When, in the first half of the 19th century, Rabbi Drach converted to Catholicism, he drew upon himself the anger of the entire French Jewry. His children were taken from him, he himself threatened several times with death.

"That the Jews were forced in later times to remain in their ghettos happened as much for their protection against the hatred of the population as for the protection of the other inhabitants from their greed. We see here also, once again, that what the Jews decry as the shameful oppression of the Christians is the mere consequence of their self-chosen particularism.”

Only immigration laws can save us too from the present-day Jewish rule or we must decide to become more efficient and unscrupulous than the Jew.

In the United States there live over three million Jews. Of these more than two million live in New York alone and form in this city a veritable ghetto.105 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 labor on the land did not please them.

Let us listen first to a voice from the earliest Christianity; Justin writes:107 "The Jews consider us as enemies and torment us wherever they can. Indeed Bar Kokhba,108 the initiator of the Jewish uprising in the Jewish war that just ended not long ago, allowed Christians alone to be dragged to frightful tortures if they did not wish to deny and blaspheme Christ."

"The high priests of your people have caused the name of Jesus to be desecrated and reviled throughout the world.”109 "You curse in your synagogues those who believe in Christ.”110 "As far as it is in your power, every Christian is driven out not only from his property but in general from the world; you do not allow any Christ to live.”111 "Instead of feeling regret for that, that you have killed Christ, you hate us who believe through him in God and the Father of all things and kill us as often as you have the possibility, and constantly curse Christ and his followers, while all of us pray for you as for all men in general.”

the Jews succeeded in tormenting Christians freely and they were the most eager in goading the pagans to persecute the Christians. But when the Catholic Church turned the tables they played the part of the persecuted innocent.

When, in the 16th century, the "Emperor of Persia", as a great chronicle narrates, asked the rabbis living there about their attitude to Christ, the latter said that Christians "were really idolatrous people who worshiped, not god, but a crucified criminal and fraud.”

Rabbi Tarphon specified in this way: "By the life of my children, should the writings of the Christians come into my hands I would burn them all, including the names of God that they contain.”

Referring to Num 24:17: "There arose a star out of Jacob," the Christians often named Jesus "the son of the stars," Ben Stara; that the Jews turned into Ben Stada (son of a whore, according to P. Cassel).115

Mary is thought of in the Talmud only as a mistress, and since it does not take chronology strictly into consideration (it lets Christ's most bitter enemy Rabbi Akiba be his contemporary), it identifies the wife of a certain Paphos living in the time of Rabbi Akiba who, on account of her indecent life, was considered an absolute whore, with Mary. The son of this habitual adulteress and a Roman soldier, thus of the most depraved creature that the Jew could imagine, is the "bastard" Jesus Christ.

Another name for Jesus appears from time to time: Ben Pandera, literally "son of the panther". This designation is explained in the following manner: in their contact with Greek life the Jew (see, among others, Paul) among the later Greeks was struck by their lasciviousness and nothing repelled him more than the orgies of the Dionysiac sect of the declining ancient world. Now, to Bacchus the panther was an especially sacred animal; the Bacchus worshipers slept on panther skins, the panther was portrayed on Greek coins, etc. So this animal was to the Jew the "obscene" animal, the symbol of lasciviousness in general. From this view was born the following word-play: the Christians named Jesus the Son of the Virgin (from the Greek Parthenos, Ben Parthena), from that the Jews formed the contemptible Ben Panthera (son of the obscene animal).

On the occasion of his death, the Talmud calls Jesus simply "the Hanged Man" and finds the gallows and pillory to be the punishment he deserves.

Even in hell the rabbi thinks up a punishment for Christ such as only a frightful hatred can invent: Jesus is "punished there with boiling excrement" (Gitlin 57a).

along with the Talmud, the Jews possess another work developed from it and devoted to Christ which was distributed throughout Jewry in thousands of manuscripts: the Toledot Yeshu (Life of Christ) "which was not printed but written in Hebrew cipher and which Jews read secretly at home on Christmas eve", as it says in an old book.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledot_Yeshu

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Jesus studied the Talmud, was schooled in the Torah, and was an arrogant man. The villain went to the rabbis with head held high and an uncovered head and greeted nobody. Then a rabbi said: "He is a bastard" and another added: "And the son of a menstruating woman."

Jesus was horrified by the insult regarding his birth, went to his mother and requested her to tell him the truth: "Tell me the truth that I may not misbehave with you, for I cannot pay heed to a whorish woman". Now, since Mary did not want her shame to be admitted, Jesus forced her to it. According to one reading, by locking her in a chest and did not let her out of it until she had confessed, according to another by jamming her breasts between the door-angle.

Jesus uttered the spell (or the letters) and flew into the air. Then Judas also uttered it and rose aloft like an eagle. Neither could overcome the other, until Judas finally urinated on Jesus, dirtied him thereby and made him fall. Jesus was executed as a fraud and a political criminal, but all the crucifix wood broke under his weight.

One who has looked observantly in Jewish newspapers and books will be able to clearly trace this hatred of Christ, this most nationalistic trait of Jewry,124 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.

the Jews call the above-mentioned Talmud passages which preach the most frenzied hatred of Christ their "pearls and gems;"

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 Talmud as well.”

The Europeans must see that there are things that sleep concealed under just a thin veneer of Christian culture. If this falls off, the same spirit and character faces us today as that which, almost two thousand years ago, struck the founder of Christianity on the cross.

The writings of Maimonides had, for example, set Jewish thought in great agitation. To be sure, this the "greatest man after Moses" as he was called was completely in accord with the strictest Talmudist on the point that only Jews are men and would be resurrected: the benefit of the rain is for the good as well as for the bad, but resurrection only for just Jews.

Levi ben Gerson, who maintains: "This commandment that one should conduct usury with foreigners is one of the 248 commandments that God wishes to uphold and indeed in such a way that we should not only lend money to a foreigner but we should also in addition cause harm to him, as much as possible, and it is not a choice to us whether we wish to conduct usury or not but it is a commandment of God, because foreigners serve a foreign god.”

whereby the Jews were forced to erase all passages referring to Christ. With a heavy heart the rabbis omitted their "pearls and gems" but helped themselves in the following manner: in place of the observations disparaging Christ a sign was made in the form of a cross, regarding which the following rabbinical order was issued (1631): "Since we have experienced that many Christians have made great efforts at learning the language in which our books are written, we instruct you, under the threat of a major ban, to publish in no edition of the Mishnah or the Gemara anything on Jesus of Nazareth … We order that, when you publish a new edition of these books, the passages relating to Jesus of Nazareth be removed and the gap be filled with a cross. The rabbis and teachers will know how to instruct the youth orally. Then the Christians will have nothing more to produce on this subject against us and we can expect liberation from hardships

This piece of writing is interesting not only because the rabbis were fully aware that a part of the Jewish persecutions had their cause in disparagements of Christ but also because it shows that the Jews did not for a moment have the intention of giving up this disparagement of Christ.

if the results in the conduct of all the nations against the Jewish people alone are the same, this can be due, at least in the main, only to the character of these Jewish people. For, the individualities of the Persians, Spaniards or Germans are the changeable factors of the history regarding the Jews, the personality of the Jews on the other hand is the uniform unchanging factor, heightened by strict racial breeding.

Everywhere the Jews are at first accepted without reserve, everywhere we see them from the start consciously separating themselves physically as well as intellectually from the native population, everywhere they are eagerly concerned to win the favor of the princes and, advancing them money, acquired through keen trade and usury, for their enterprises, ensure their security and acquire all manner of privileges for themselves. Then there emerge among all the nations anti-Semitic movements, at first flaring up in some places, then sweeping an entire land and discharging themselves into a frightening fury. The reasons for these Jewish persecutions have been diverse, whether it be that a Jew was caught with false coins or whether a vilification of Christianity, the theft of a crucifix or something similar, was attributed to a Jew. But if the historical observation anywhere must note the social structure in order to discover not the occasions but the reasons for disturbing events that occur, that is quite especially the case in the case of the study of the Jewish question in all countries.

Without the immeasurable wealth that stands at their disposal, it would not be possible to direct the politics of the world and to let the statesmen of many countries enter as puppets of the Jewish will; it would not be possible to instill the poison of degeneracy, of conflict with their own character, into the hearts of the Europeans and to maintain the minds in a mood favorable for the Jews if the almighty gold, systematically administered, did not hire accomplices in all countries.

But just as it is now, when the crushing bank capital holds entire nations through interest, the situation was the same, though to a smaller extent, also in Spain, France, Germany and many other states. Everywhere the Jew was the interest-lord of the princes, of the clergy, of the people; and the Jewish persecutions, if we may anticipate, are mainly an attempt undertaken anew over and over again to break the yoke of usury, the more so in that it stemmed from a racially alien, religiously and morally hostile intruder. The people themselves knew this and, when their voice was not heard, the priests finally used their agitation for their ends and imprinted on the hatred a purely ecclesiastical stamp.

The Jewish and Jew-friendly journalists of our age speak in eloquent tones of the cruel persecutions of the poor innocent Jews. They can dish out this fairy-tale so much more extensively since they know very well that nowadays at most one man in a thousand knows the details of the actual relations.

It cannot be strictly ascertained when the Jews immigrated into Portugal; however, from the eleventh century already we possess some reports which permit no doubts on the fact that they were in possession of all civil rights, that they could acquire land and property, indeed in several cases enjoyed preferential rights.”139 We see therefore that, already at this time, there did not exist any aversion on the part of the Portuguese or, in case the Jews were also, as foreigners, not considered in a friendly way, nowhere were difficulties made for them in their life or activity but, on the contrary, privileges were soon granted to them.

In a legal dispute between a Jew and a Christian, a Jew, in case he was the prosecuted, could be brought to court only by his rabbi; the Christian had to present himself to the defendant's forum. Christian judges could in no way interfere in disputes between Jews and Jews, and no Jew could denounce his fellow tribesman in a state court. Jewish religious customs were strictly followed, the Jews could not be summoned to any official activities on the Sabbath and on their holidays, for, as it states in a decree of King Alfonso III (1248-79): "Since they (the Jews) are obliged by their religion to celebrate the Sabbath, nobody should have them summoned to court on this day.” And, besides, since several tax burdens were lifted from off the Jews that the local population had to bear, so it came about that as foreigners in the country they not only enjoyed equal rights but formed a privileged section of the population.

Since these clauses bore little fruit, the next king, Don Diniz (1279), tried to force the Jews by law to agricultural work and residence in order to lead them away from usurious businesses. He stipulated an order to the Jewish Braganzas that they had to buy every year a certain sum of houses, vine- and farm-land without having the right to dispose of these landed properties. Every newly arrived Jew had to contribute his share to the purchase amount. Through this opportunity, however, all the rights of the Jews were at the same time further strengthened, every attack against them and every contempt of them was strictly forbidden.

This desire to make of the Jews farmers and citizens failed completely, for it was easily possible for the Chief Rabbi and Finance Minister Don Juda (who, according to Graetz, was so rich as to be able to advance money for the purchase of entire cities) and other high personages among Israel to gradually thwart the enforcement of the said clauses. The wealth of the Jews and, accordingly, their usury increased, they possessed the most beautiful palaces of Lisbon, they headed the financial businesses of the king and knew how to bring the poor and the rich into a relationship of economic dependence.

When all requests for help to the king bore no fruit, a complaint was directed to the Pope in 1309 in which was expressed the indignation that the king surrounded himself with Jewish statesmen, that there was no business that did not pass through the hands of the Jews, that even bishops were held captive in cloisters.

The displeasure of the people was indeed so intense that Alfonso IV (1325-57) strictly forbade the Jews to strut through the streets with golden chains and to adorn their horses with jewels, which had already been forbidden to the Christians previously. Further new complaints forced the king to a decree against usury (1353) wherein it was ruled that nobody could be forced to pay more than 33 1/3 %.

This ruling, which was felt by the Jews as an unprecedented limitation of their freedom, caused many of them to emigrate, a sign that they all hoped not to be subjected to such a violation in other countries. But since, along with them, immeasurable wealth would have left, Alfonso decided, in the interests of the country, to appropriate for the state a great part of the wealth of the Jews who wished to emigrate. This law marked him out in the eyes of the Jews as one of the most frightful oppressors of Jewry.

A new uprising that broke out in the absence of the king (1449) was again suppressed, but the arousal of the Portuguese people had already risen to such an extent that it was directed even at the king and could be quelled only through ruthless intervention. And so it went on for another half a century. The popular representatives continued to demand that church taxes should not be exempted to the Jews, that, in cases of dispute between Jews and Christians, a Christian judge should be called upon, that the sermons insulting Christianity in the synagogues be prosecuted, etc., all without any result. Then it may be right that, as it is reported, "the glowing hatred of the Portuguese people against the Jewish race no longer knew any bounds and now blazed in open flames.”

In the course of 48 hours, according to some historians, 2000 and, according to others, 4000 Jews were said to have been killed. The penalty on the locals for that was carried out in all strictness and many were exiled and 50 men executed. Not long after, the Jews were again in control, and were able to ensure the monopoly of the corn sales so that the people found themselves through the systematic forcing of prices once again in their old situation.

As the first documents show, the relationship between the Jews and the French was a completely peaceful one; the Jews could practice their customs and businesses unhindered, received and returned visits from local inhabitants, were accepted in the city police and army, in short, they enjoyed total civil rights.”

the Jews, as their law demanded, forced all Christian slaves to follow Jewish ceremonial customs and forcibly circumcised them, which became a constant complaint in all countries. They abused their power over the slaves in such a way that the latter often had to seek protection against mistreatments.145

When, for example, Burgundian Arles was successfully besieged and defended itself against attack only with difficulty, a Jew had to stand sentinel one night on the city walls. In order to obtain a mild treatment for himself and his racial brothers, he threw a piece of paper weighted with a stone in the direction of the besiegers with an invitation to approach the wall at a certain hour with assault ladders. He then promised them to let them into the city on condition that they would spare him and his fellow tribesmen. But this letter did not fly far enough and was found the next day by a soldier of the garrison. That naturally aroused a great excitement in the city, the Jew was brought before the court and sentenced to death. The others stressed they were innocent of the treason and had had no idea of the plot. One knows nothing of their fate, though Fr. Daniel says that a Jewish persecution was close to being undertaken which was finally satisfied with the prohibition of Jews from standing guard.

That the religion is only the expression of national feeling and that the latter cannot be changed by baptism was not known by the monks of that time, and how indeed should they have when even nowadays there are people who consider mere baptism to be sufficient to make a European out of a Jew

The Jews stole into the city and suburbs of the Christians and sold them to their co-religionists in Spain and Italy.154 And since the Moors in the Iberian peninsula needed eunuchs, they produced and supplied these as well. Since they were protected by the officials who preferred to have the rich Jews as friends rather than as enemies, they soon conducted themselves provocatively and arrogantly with regard to the locals.

But the Christians still conducted themselves very cooperatively in relation to the progeny of Abraham, they observed the Sabbath more than Sunday, they paid visits to them, they ate with them during Holy Week, they listened to rabbinical sermons, etc. This exaggerated friendliness with regard to the foreigners, who themselves maintained their religious observances and moral laws strictly and rigorously without caring about those of the locals in the least, created a hostile atmosphere among many Catholics, especially among the prelates. When Agobert was bishop of Lyons,155 he decided to put an end to these onesided ingratiations, forbade to the Christians intercourse with the Jews, prohibited them from selling slaves to them and performing service to the Jews. He even enacted a law which forbade the sale of meat and drink by Jews since the Jews only sold wares to Christians which they considered in some way to be impure.

The Jews could sell all their wares to the Christians, were subjected to corporal punishments only when their law demanded it, they were exempt from the divine ordeals through fire and water; they had the right to bring in slaves from foreign lands in order to do business with them in France and, in order to be able to celebrate the Sabbath according to their laws without losing anything thereby of their trade, market day was moved from Saturday to Sunday.

And that's all I have currently.

Bump?