[The preconditions for
emancipation: religious reforms]
<TRENDS IN RELIGIOUS REFORMS
Cultural differentiation also led to many innovations and
changes in [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish life. Exponents of the
Reform trend admitted explicitly that it (col. 725)
was proposed to break down halakhic barriers - which were
considered latter-day increments on the core of pure [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish faith - between [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews and
gentile. These included kashrut
[[Moses Fantasy Jewish nutrition rules]], the prohibition on
*mixed marriages, and many of the Sabbath laws; there was
also a move to abolish mention of the hope for a Messiah and
for the return to Zion [[hill in Jerusalem]], and the use of
the Hebrew language in prayer. On the last points Zacharias
*Frankel seceded from the radical majority of the Reform and
demanded a more conservative and historical approach (see
*Conservative Judaism). This created yet a new faced of
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish religious and cultural activity in
[[Jesus Fantasy]] Central Europe and later in the [[Jesus Fantasy]] United
States.
With the aim of throwing light on as well as learning about
their own past, in order to present the case for
emancipation and proposals for assimilation on a more
respectful and firmer basis, the leading scholars of the
*Wissenschaft des Judentums [[Science of [[Moses Fantasy]]
Jewry]] gradually developed a broader and increasingly
secularized approach to their research into the [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish past. The historical work of I.M. *Jost is
the first sustained modern attempt of this type by a [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jew.
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish ideals underwent a reformation with
the aim of serving and reorientating [[Moses Fantasy]]
Jewish religious consciousness. Reform circles tended to
regard the Messiah not as a person who would come to redeem
Israel but as a universalist process to redeem humanity. On
the basis of this conception Leopold Zunz called the
European revolution of 1848 "the Messiah". A later
development of this conception was the theory of [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish "mission": Israel had to see itself as the
guardians and carriers of pure monotheism for all mankind;
in modern circumstances assimilation would only help to
fulfill this duty. Pointing to the social, religious, and
political failings of [[Jesus Fantasy]] Christianity, such
theorists considered their "purified" [[Moses Fantasy]]
Judaism the destined vehicle for making monotheism
paramount.> (col. 726)
[Moses
Fantasy Jewish bankers - Moses Fantasy Jewish railways -
Moses Fantasy Jewish noblemen]
<ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL
EUROPE AFTER EMANCIPATION.
Economic and social developments in West and Central [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe
were different from those in Eastern [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe.
The upper strata of [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews in Central and
Western Europe became wealthier with emancipation or
semi-emancipation. The banking house of the *Rothschilds
developed from its relatively modest origins at Frankfort on
the Main to become the arbiter of international loans and
monetary transactions in Europe in the first decades of the
19th century. Byron could exclaim:
Who hold
the balance of the world? Who reign O'er congress, whether
royalist or liberal? Who rouse the shirtless patriots of [[Jesus Fantasy]] Spain?
(That make old Europe's journals squeak and gibber all).
Who keep the world, both old and new, in pain Or pleasure?
Who make politics run glibber all? [[Moses Fantasy]] Jew
Rothschild, and his fellow-Christian, Baring ... (Don Juan, Canto 12,
V).
In
[[Jesus Fantasy]]
France, the brothers *Pereire dealt in international
*banking on a smaller scale. Gerson von *Bleichroeder was
not only a banker of first magnitude in the third quarter of
the 19th century, but also the financial adviser of [[Jesus Fantasy]] *Bismarck.
These banking houses participated to a large degree in the
financing of *railroad construction too, as did also [[Moses
Fantasy]] Baron Maurice de *Hirsch. The importance and
function of these international rival banks was already
declining by the 1880s, when national banks and limited
liability share banks took over much of the finance and
financial activity in many countries. Many of these [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish bankers and large scale contractors and
merchants were ennobled, and thus moved even farther away
from common [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews.
[Moses
Fantasy Jews in free professions - Moses Fantasy Jewish
news agencies - Moses Fantasy Jews at university and
politics]
In Western and Central [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe, [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jews also entered the free professions. In
*medicine, they continued a long and much respected [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish tradition. In other professions they were
newcomers. In the legal profession they were new (see *Law)
in the sense that [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews did not participate
in general, state-regulated law practice until the
emancipation, but they brought with them an old tradition of
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish legal deliberation and practice.
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jews entered newspaper publishing,
editing, writing, and reporting (see *Journalism). The great
news agencies of *Reuter
in England and Bernhard
*Wolff in [[Jesus Fantasy]] Germany were
founded and directed by [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews.
Though university chairs were still withheld from [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jews, they entered many of the lower ranks of the
academic world. Many [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews contributed to
literature; some apostates like Heinrich *Heine and Ludwig
*Boerne were notable. Among apostates who gained prominence
in *politics and social thought were Benjamin *Disraeli,
Julius *Stahl, and Karl Marx.
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jews also entered politics, some gaining
prominence, like Lionel Nathan Rothschild and David
*Salomons in England, Adolphe Crémieux in France, and
Gabriel *Riesser in Germany. [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews were
active in the leadership of revolutionary movements, as
Hermann *Jellinek and Adolf *Fischhof in the 1848 revolution
of Austria. Many [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish intellectuals were
active in the 1848 revolution in Germany. The names of
Ferdinand *Lassalle and Moses *Hess were prominent among
revolutionary leaders.
[Moses
Fantasy Jews in the "upper class"]
Many [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewesses of the upper circles were
famous for their *salons and cultivated mode of life, both
in Berlin and in Vienna at the time of the Vienna Congress.
Later on, [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish patrician social life
became well known in Central and West [[Jesus Fantasy]] European
cities. At the same time, small merchants and peddlers,
horse and cattle dealers, small scale moneylenders, and
representatives of other lesser occupations were common
among [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews in (col. 719)
[[Jesus Fantasy]]
Bavaria, [[Jesus Fantasy]] Alsace-Lorraine,
and above all, among immigrants coming from the eastern
districts of [[Jesus
Fantasy]] Germany and [[Jesus Fantasy]] Austria to the
central districts.> (col. 720)
<In West and Central [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe developments
in [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish society took their direction
from the upper circles connected with the centralist state
structure. [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews contributed to its economy
in loans and banking, industrial enterprise, and large scale
international trading, in particular in the extreme west and
northwest of Europe, at the end of the 18th and beginning of
the 19th century. Up to the 1880s there was a progression
toward banking and commercial undertakings on an
increasingly greater scale, toward entry in considerable
numbers into the free professions and (col. 720)
general society, and toward political and social
leadership.> (col. 721)
<MIGRATION TRENDS FROM THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY.
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish migration in Europe had changed
direction by the end of the 18th century of even somewhat
earlier - and up to the 1890s. It now went from east to
west, but occurred mainly within the borders of states. In [[Jesus Fantasy]] Russia,
it moved from the densely populated parts of Lithuania and [[Jesus Fantasy]] *Belorussia
to the more thinly populated districts of the [[Jesus Fantasy]] *Ukraine.
In [[Jesus
Fantasy]] Germany, it moved from the Posen
(*Poznan) districts to the center and west of the country,
filling gaps created by the apostasy of the [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish upper strata and veteran families. In
Austria, it went from Galicia to the regions of [[Jesus Fantasy]] Vienna
and [[Jesus
Fantasy]] Hungary; in [[Jesus Fantasy]] France from
Alsace-Lorraine to the center and west of the country.
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jews from [[Jesus Fantasy]] Bavaria, as well as
other districts of [[Jesus Fantasy]] Germany, in
particular up to the unification of [[Jesus Fantasy]] Germany
in 1870, emigrated to the United States and some to England.
All these immigrants in their new places of settlement met
with the manifestations and results of the industrial and
commercial revolution in [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe. They also
gradually absorbed, in layer after layer of immigration, the
new trends of cultural adaptation and assimilation already
at work among the older communities there. The Sephardi
communities of [[Jesus
Fantasy]] England and the [[Jesus Fantasy]] United
States were pioneering in this process. Their members became
the upper layer of [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish society in these
countries.> (col. 720)
[Attacks:
Intellectual Moses Fantasy Jews attacking the old
fashioned Moses Fantasy Jewish community life -
assimilation without Moses Fantasy Jewish community life]
<[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish autonomy all this time [[during
19th century]] was being attacked, both from without and
from within, not only in its form as a corporation, but also
as a bastion of religious and social separatism. The early
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish enlightenment circles regarded the
community establishment as an institution for enforcement of
Orthodoxy and meddling in their personal lives which they
did not intend to suffer. To intellectual dilettantes of
means, of the type of Isaac *D'Israeli, the father of
Benjamin, community service was a nuisance. As he declared
in 1813 to those who had elected him parnas of the
community,
A person
who has always lived out of the sphere of your
observation, of retired habits of life, who can never
unite in your public worship, because as now conducted it
disturbs instead of exciting religious emotions, a
circumstance of general acknowledgment, who has only
tolerated some part of your ritual, willing to concede all
he can in those matters which he holds to be indifferent;
such as a man, with but a moderate portion of honor and
understanding, never can accept the solemn functions of an
Elder in your congregation, and involve his life and
distract his business pursuits not in temporary but
permanent duties always repulsive to his feelings (in: C.
Roth: Anglo-[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish Letters (1938), 238,
no. 115).
This is an expression not only of D'Israeli's personal taste
and indolence, but also of the trend toward assimilation and
a renunciation of [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish social cohesion
and cultural tradition. With increased assimilation, such
tendencies against autonomy became sharper and more
meaningful. For people who appreciated the way of life and
habits of the society of their environment, the forms of
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish prayer, burial and marriage customs
even looked ludicrous.
[Consistories
by Napoleon is under-fire by the Moses Fantasy Jewish
intellectuals - and more developments]
Despite these forces undermining the organized [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish community, it not only continued to exist
in the West but (col. 722)
even gained new strength and an articulate structure there
through the system of consistories (see *Consistory) imposed
by [[Jesus
Fantasy]] Napoleon, who was interested in
utilizing the community organs as functionaries of the
state. This situation continued with some changes in most of
continental Western [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe.
[since
1838: British Moses Fantasy Jews are steering the Moses
Fantasy Jews of the whole Empire - establishment of a
chief rabbi and of the "United Synagogue"]
In England the *Board of Deputies of British [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jews began to act on behalf of the whole of the [[Jesus Fantasy]] British
Empire from the time of the chairmanship of Moses
*Montefiore (1838). The [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish
organizational framework in [[Jesus Fantasy]] England - and,
patterned on it, in many of the dominions - acquired an even
more authoritative position in the second half of the 19th
century with the establishment of the authority of the chief
rabbi and with the organization of the rigid [[Moses
Fantasy]] *United Synagogue.> (col. 723)
["Spring
of nations" of 1848 - Moses Fantasy Jews between the
nations not knowing in which nation should assimilate]
<"The spring of nations" of the 1848 revolution
introduced a new complication and an added tinge to the
trends of assimilation and acculturation. [[Moses Fantasy]]
Jews in Prague for example found themselves caught between
the crosscurrents of German and Czech nationalism. In
*Budapest they were caught in the triangle of German, Magyar
[[Hungarian]], and Slav national demands, and in Galicia in
the triangle of German, Polish, and, later on, Ukrainian
demands. The upsurge of national consciousness gave rise to
animosity againt [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews. The [[Jesus Fantasy]] Czechs
resented the assimilation of [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews into the
[[Jesus Fantasy]]
German sector, while many Slav nationalities
contended their assimilation into the Magyar [[Hungarian]]
group. Hence from now on the question whether to assimilate
or not to assimilate was joined with the problem into which
nationality to assimilate.> (col. 726)
[since
1850 approx.: Many orthodox Jewish groups - 1880s: right
to leave the local community - Austrittsgemeinde with own
conferences and synods of Moses Fantasy rabbis]
<In Central [[Jesus
Fantasy]] Europe, religious and social
fragmentation led to many breaches within the [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish community, mainly brought about by the
Orthodox wing which felt itself threatened by the growing
predomination of *Reform elements in [[Moses Fantasy]]
Jewish society.
By the 1880s the Orthodox sector achieved in both Hungary
and Germany - ironically with the help of liberals in
Parliament - the right for every individual [[Moses
Fantasy]] Jew to leave his local community. It resulted in
the institution and ideology of the Austrittsgemeinde
[[exit community]] (see also Samson Raphael *Hirsch; Isaac
Dov *Bamberger). These religious and cultural orientations
led to new forms of linkage within the state of the Reform
and Orthodox sectors, and, in [[Jesus Fantasy]] Hungary, also of
the neolog trends (see *Neology). They convened their own
conferences and synods of rabbis (see below).> (col. 723)
[...]
[Haskalah
(Enlightenment movement) in Central and Western Jesus
Fantasy Europe]
<In Central and Western [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe its
influence bifurcated in the often convergent directions of
the *Wissenschaft des Judentums [[science on Moses Fantasy
Jewry]] on the one hand, and of Reform [[Moses Fantasy]]
Judaism on the other (see also Abraham *Geiger; Leopold
*Zunz; Samuel *Holdheim; Aaron *Chorin). (col. 725)
MODERN
MANIFESTATIONS OF ANTI-JEWISH PREJUDICE
[[By the emancipation and
assimilation of Moses Fantasy Jews, Jesus Fantasy Christian
racism in combination with Jesus Fantasy Christian nationalism
created a wave of new anti-Semitism, and the press media
made it's profit with it legally. The racist Jesus Fantasy
Christian church is the main force for anti-Semitism in
the world, but was never blamed for it until today, and
the criminal racist Fantasy Bible with it's new Fantasy
testament blaming Moses Fantasy Jews in general is still
legal until now (2019). Before 1945, anti-Semitism of
Muhammad Fantasy Muslim states never was so strong than
anti-Semitism of racist "Christian" countries...]]
With the growing democratization of political processes in
various European [[Jesus Fantasy]] states to the west
of the Russian border, and the emergence to political
influence of the mass of elementary school graduates,
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jews were to encounter in most of the
countries of their emancipation mounting popular prejudice
and a new phenomenon in the influence of the stereotype,
whereby the press, and popular art and literature destined
for the masses, presented various social manifestations
through the medium of clichés and images. The stereotype
image of the [[Moses Fantasy]] Jew in modern times was based
on and bore the imprint of the baneful image of the Middle
Ages, but is representation by various groups was fashioned
by their own fears. To conservative and rightwing groups the
[[Moses Fantasy]] Jew had become by the 1860s the prototype
of the wicked arch-innovator, and [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews
were stigmatized as the destructive bacteria of the social
web.
To the left-wing radical he appeared the evil representative
of the capitalist spirit, the arch-schemer and
arch-exploiter. The common bond of the medieval anti-[[Moses
Fantasy]] Jewish legacy let these opposed stereotypes
coexist and even complement each other.> (col. 726)
[1840:
Blood libel case of Muhammad Fantasy Damascus shocking
assimilated Moses Fantasy Jews - return to Moses Fantasy
Jewry]
The blood libel case in [[Muhammad Fantasy Muslim]] Damascus
(the *Damascus Affair) in 1840 shocked [[Moses Fantasy]]
Jews everywhere, not only because of the cruelties inflicted
on the victims and absurdity of the charge but also
and mainly because they saw a recruddescence of an
extreme medieval-type expression of [[Moses Fantasy]] Jew
hatred. It led Moses *Hess in his Rome und Jerusalem (1862)
to reject his own assimilationist and revolutionary past.
His sense of isolation and humiliation caused by the
anti-Jewish attitude of the left-wing Marxist radicals
brought him back to a deep feeling of the historic
continuity of the [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish nation and to
place great hopes for its future on its land. Hess had a
much greater impact than commonly accorded him: his response
fitted the challenge felt by many [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews in
West and Central [[Jesus Fantasy]] Europe.
The historian Heinrich *Graetz was deeply moved and
influenced by this work. In 1863 he wrote to Hess:
"I am now in a state to let
you know smoething that will interest you. The plan of
settlement in Erez Israel [[Ereẓ Israel]] - or Yemot
ha-Mashi'ah (Mashi'aḥ) [Hebrew in the original] - is
beginning to crystallize."
In 1870 he communicated to Hess an idea of "a very cultured
Englishman, a Christian"; Graetz was not permitted to
communicate the whole idea, but could noly ask "whether in [[Jesus Fantasy]] France,
in which [[Moses Fantasy]] Jews already have military
training, and there are men of courage among them, there may
be found about 50 that could become a kind of gendarmerie.
They will find excellent employment but they must bring with
them a certain measure of [[Moses Fantasy]] Jewish
patriotism. ... Please look into this matter and tell me
your opinion" (published in: Zevi (Ẓevi) (Heinrich) Graetz:
Darkhei ha-Historyah
ha-Yehudit, ed. by Ettinger (1969), 268, 272).>
(col. 727)