Klaus Bloemker (not verified) says:

"rise of the Jews"

Persecution of Jews does not emerge from the 'rise of Jews'. To the contrary. The Russian/Polish Jews were the most downtrodden, backward, superstitious, worst integrated and uninfluential Jews compared to the German Jews around 1900. Germany at the time (till the advent of the Nazi movement) was to the East European Jews what America was to become after WW II. If you wanted - as an Eastern Jew - to get ahead the advise was: go to Berlin. The rise of Jews (educationally, economically, politically) usually went along with assimilation (more socialising with the Gojim, more intermarrige etc.) - thus lessening social tensions. In Russia and Poland (which was part of Russia till WW I) there had been no 'rise of the Jews'.

Klaus

Reply

The content of this field is kept private
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd><br> <p> <i> <b> <embed> <img> <blockquote> <span> <strikethrough> <u>
  • Use <!--pagebreak--> to create page breaks.

More information about formatting options

By checking this box you are giving permission for Observer staff to contact you to obtain contact information and permissions required for publication.