What always amazes me is that no one ever mentions that Florence was built
by money lenders, the Medicis, who, for the first time, used the 3balls as
a symbol of money lenders!!!
In the East, Austria, Britain and everywhere the Jew was used as money
lenders who saved high ranking officers and others from social
disgrace but when repayment was demanded that's when the words bloody,
dirty, moneylending Jew appeared demanding his due or "a pound of flesh
in the Merchant of Venice" appeared. It provoked then and does until
now anti-Semitic demonstrations. Reading Batshevitz Singer, even Shalom Asch
one gets a good picture of Polish Jewry. The German assimilation went so
far that during WWII the German Jews refused to be deported to Poland by
the Nazis because of the "dirty, poor Jew". Few were as clean as the Jews
who went to Mikweh every Fri. men, women and children!! I think that during
the black plague fewer Jews than gentiles died thanks to their hygiene,
that's why the Plague was the devil's = Jews work.
Have a great week, anny
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Fred Weisinger <fredweisinger16_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I would take Platter's book with a pinch of doubt & suspicion. One should
> weigh the authors background & character before giving great credibility to
> his writing. The viciousness in the exclusive description of the Jews
> can't be but suspect against the description of the gentle ,cultivated,
> kind landlord and peasantry who because of a slight failing namely
> drunkenness & gambling fall victims to those Jewish usurers. It becomes
> confusing . He describe the Jews in rags filthy ,dirty beggars and poor on
> one hand and next comes the change into money grubbing rich money lenders.
> Are these usurers still wearing those well described rags with holes ??
> Where did they get the money in the first place ??? and so the mystery
> grows.......
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote=
> :
>
> > Yes, Hardy, you are coming straight to the point and Chaim Zhitlowsky
> > stated as early as 1892:
> >
> > "This is a picture of the streets, but it is not difficult to guess what
> > kind of image of filth and poverty he would have drawn for us had he
> look=
> ed
> > inside the =E2=80=9Awretched, dirty, stinking hovels.=E2=80=98
> Platter=E2=
> =80=99s book was published
> > fifteen years ago, in 1878, and perhaps the people of Czernowitz have
> > become better dressed and more fashionable since then, out of concern
> tha=
> t
> > such =E2=80=9Ajolly landscapes=E2=80=98 not offened the sensibilities of
> =
> enlightened
> > Western Europeans. [...] The existence of poverty among the Jewish masses
> > provides sufficient evidence that emancipation opened up very few new
> > opportunities for them. The fact is that the life of the masses has
> > remained as it was before. The basic mode of economic existence for the
> > overwhelming majority - the petit- and middle-trader, moneychanger,
> > business agent, tavernkeeper, craftsman, mechanic, teacher, butcher, and
> > spiritual proletarian - is that in the morning they have no idea how they
> > will satisfy the hunger of their large families that night. How do the
> > upper 10,000 employ themselves, then?"
> >
> > Starting from Julius Platter's "Usury in Bukovina", Chaim Zhitlowsky's
> > tractates =E2=80=9EA Jew to Jews=E2=80=9C and =E2=80=9EWhy Only Yiddish?=
> =E2=80=9C are most enlightening:
> >
> > http://goo.gl/x1vKMo
> >
> > It differs somehow from the official historical scholarship, which reads
> > as follows: "Jews from the neighboring provinces streamed in Bukovina
> > where, after Joseph II=E2=80=99s Patent of Toleration, they could
> develop=
> their
> > cultural life unmolested. All brought with them their religious customs,
> > music, language and traditions. In this miniature replica of the Austrian
> > Empire, German, as the language of administration and of army command,
> > became the lingua franca of the market-place, the theatre, the press and
> > the schools."
> >
> > That's not wrong at all, but it held true mainly for those Jews, who
> coul=
> d
> > afford it.
> >
> > Edgar Hauster
> >
> >
> >
>
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