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To: Neocon who wrote (15130)	10/30/1999 6:23:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 17770

And you're quite off the beam, as usual..... A bunch of poor illiterate hillbillies, eh? There you're: tulane.edu Excerpt: It is difficult to imagine the degree of anti-Semitism that existed in Europe and in the United States before the Second World War. The 1929 depression inflicted economic dislocation and vast insecurity, which, combined with the spread of Nazi propaganda, heightened the ancient argument that the Jews were responsible for the misfortunes of mankind. Jews were blamed for the depression of the 1930s. In Poland, Jews were prominent in the economy; the majority of stores and taverns were Jewish owned. This presence made them convenient scapegoats for economic decline. Miriam Peleg-Marianska described the Polish view of the Jews: "They were work shy, they cheated their customers, they saved a few grams of sugar on each kilogram they sold and got rich that way." Additionally, the Jews were linked in the popular imagination with communism. The number of Jews in the communist party was relatively few, but often the relatively few occupied positions of great visibility. The great majority of Polish Jews were Orthodox, and communist atheism did not appeal to them. The capitalist disliked the Jew because he was a communist. The communists disliked the Jew because he was a capitalist. The Christians disliked the Jew because he was a Jew. For centuries, anti-Semitism was based upon religion. In the latter part of the 19th century, however, this changed. Dislike of Jews became based on a racial or ideological philosophy (in addition to religion). This was a critical shift. As a result, the Jews were redefined as "a diseased race" which thus rendered the "Jewish problem" susceptible to biomedical solutions. [...] _________________ For Jews's political clout in pre-WWII Poland, check out this: codoh.com As the above articles highlight it, Poland was indeed the heartland of Central European Jewry and, just like in Vienna (Austria), prominent Jews were busy in politics, business, trade, and the arts as well as in farming. True, in medieval Europe, hatred of Jews can't be equated with anti-Semitism because the very notion of "race" was beyond the mental horizon of the people. The modern definition of race was crafted in the XVIIIth century (Carl von Linn‚) and later developed by Austrian canon Ernest Mendel in the XIXth century.... Hence, in medieval times, the proper term is rather anti-Judaism since the prejudice was essentially based on religious premises. However, it had also another --more mundane-- motive: as Gentiles were prohibited by the Church from engaging in usury and as trading and peddling activities were despised by noblemen, Jews and Lombards were associated with the good and ill fortunes of economy. It's rather ludicrous to believe that people behave principally according to some religious or otherworldly purpose! From Europe's holy crusades to present day Muslim fanaticism, the Marxist approach is always the most sensible one: the medieval crusades, puportedly launched to free Jerusalem, were basically a papal trick to divert Europe's nobility from its internal quarrels and to offer it the "looting-of-a-lifetime" in Constantinople.... As for today's Islamic fundamentalism, it has as much to do with anti-Western imperialism and economic issues (unemployment,...) as with promoting Islam's unselfish virtues. Finally, as Goldsnow himself put it: most people in America --and even more so in deconsecrated Europe-- don't care much about Judah, Moses, Jeremy and all that churchy jazz.... They'd rather stick at the American Dream and try to turn it into hard cash! Nobody gives a damn about the so-called Jewish deicide --except as a loose facade for lower concerns. Savvy? You really don't need to be Jewish to be a good "analyst".... Gus.