Hervé Ryssen - Understanding the Jews, Understanding Anti-Semitism

Understanding the Jews, Understanding Anti-Semitism

by
Herv Lalin

2014

Understanding the Jews, Understanding Anti-Semitism
Copyright 2014 Herv Lalin

Language: English
Translated from French
Publisher: lulu.com (June 20, 2015)
Translator: Carlos Whitlock Porter
ISBN-10: 1312390778
ISBN-13: 978-1312390775

Everyone talks about the Jews, but very few people really know them. Who are they? What makes them different from everyone else?
These questions are of increasingly vital importance since the Jewish people play a central role in the evolution of humanity. Marx, Freud and Einstein are often cited, who long personified the genius of Judaism.
Today, the Jewish contribution to world culture is an extraordinarily rich one. Their love of peace, of equality and tolerance, their untiring struggle for Human Rights, make them the world's foremost defenders of democratic ideals. How then, can one explain anti-Semitism?
This little book is a summary of the six 400-page books written by Herv Ryssen and published between 2005 and 2010. They are indispensable to an understanding of the contemporary world.
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This is a summary of six books written by Herv Ryssen, published between 2005 and 2010, constituting the most important study on the Jewish mind ever published. All the quotations that you are about to read are precisely referenced in at least one of these books.
The present booklet consists for the most part of quotations from famous authors, with particular emphasis on well-known films. The number of references is nevertheless sufficient to enable the reader to observe the extraordinary homogeneity of Jewish cosmopolitan thought, over the centuries and across all borders.

Contents

Preliminary Remarks

The following text is a summary of six books written by Herv Ryssen, published between 2005 and 2010, constituting the most important study on the Jewish mind ever published. All the quotations that you are about to read are precisely referenced in at least one of these books.

The present booklet consists for the most part of quotations from famous authors, with particular emphasis on well-known films. The number of references is nevertheless sufficient to enable the reader to observe the extraordinary homogeneity of Jewish cosmopolitan thought, over the centuries and across all borders.

I. The Jewish Identity

The Jews are scattered over all the countries of the world, on all five continents, but they reside principally in ethnically European countries. Most of them are of Ashkenazi origin, that is, from Central and Eastern Europe, which they left in successive waves starting at the end of the 19th century. A minority, also scattered over the entire surface of the globe, come from the Mediterranean basin: these are the so-called Sephardic Jews. But there are also a few black Jews in Ethiopia, called Fallashas, as well as Jews in India and China, for example, who claim to be perfectly well integrated. The Jews are not, therefore, a race.

Judaism is not only not a religion or not only since many Jews declare themselves atheists; and are nonetheless no less Jewish for it. Marxist Jews in particular, who form the ruling elite in Western countries, are fanatical militants for atheism, according to the doctrines invented by one of their own: Karl Marx.

What, then, is Judaism? Let us ask Nahum Goldman, founder of the World Jewish Congress. From 1956 to 1968, Nahum Goldman was both President of the World Jewish Congress and President of the World Zionist Organisation. In 1976, he published a book entitled TheJewish Paradox. When someone asked him for his definition of Judaism, Nahum Goldman replied: There is no entirely satisfactorydefinition I remember having spoken at a conference when I was astudent, during which I proposed more than twenty definitions:Judaism is a religion, a people, a nation, a cultural community, etc. Noone definition is absolutely correct.

All the Jewish intellectuals who have approached the problem respond in the same way: Judaism, they invariably say, is an enigma, a mystery. These terms reappear regularly in nearly all Jewish writings. The Jewish people do not know what they are , wrote the philosopher Alain Finkelkraut ( The Imaginary Jew) . They are anenigma to the contemporary mind (Bernard-Henry Levy); they are a mystery, a deeply distressing phenomenon (Jean Daniel); TheJews have been a living question mark to their surroundings for twothousand years (Andr Glucksmann).

And all this they think despite the fact that they are supposed to be Gods Chosen People. While this doesnt mean a lot to a goy, it is of utmost importance to a Jew.

Perfectly Well Integrated

Jews almost always claim to be perfectly well integrated into the countries in which they live, and they usually declare themselves to be patriots. Their own statements nevertheless indicate that, behind a facade of national identity, they continue to feel very Jewish, profoundly concerned with the interests of the Jewish community and the State of Israel.

In 1968, Bernard-Henry Levy, a well-known French philosopher who is very fond of media hype, declared, with regards to his book entitled The French Ideology which was intended to make the French feel guilty that: I am a Frenchman and, as a Frenchman, like noother French philosopher, I took the risk of conducting this inquiry intoblack France . Twenty years later, in another book entitled Recidivists, published in 2004, he wrote that he felt an extremeattachment to Israel I am a Jew, of course, through my link to Israel. I am a Jew when, like all the worlds Jews, my heart beats in unisonwith those of the threatened Israelis. And he continues: I am a Jew, Iam a Jew through every fibre of my being. I am a Jew through my slipsof the tongue. I am a Jew for the alimentary rules which I have imposedupon myself I am a Jew through my writing style I am a Jewthrough this invisible pact which links me to the Jews of the wholeworld I am a Jew through my Messianic patience. Examples of this kind are not hard to find, since nearly all Jewish intellectuals have expressed this same paradox in the same terms. The word paradox reappears regularly in the writings of all Jewish intellectuals, all over the world, throughout all history: this is not an accident.

Assimilation or Dissimulation?

The Jews have long been accustomed to adopt the dress of the people amongst whom they live. They speak the language of the country without foreign accent; they appear to adopt the local mores and customs. But they live in a world of their own, cut off from the world of goyim cattle, non-Jews. They conceal themselves beneath borrowed identities for centuries, wearing the identity of their host peoples by day and becoming Jews again at night.

Many Jews change their names or transform their original family names, mimicking the local language. Thus, Minkowski becomes Minc; Shapiro becomes Chapiraud or Chapier. The make-up job may be exaggerated to a greater or lesser degree: Aaron becomes Nora, Nussenbaum becomes Rochebrune.

The actor Kirk Douglas (Demsky) preferred a Scottish name. The head of the French diplomatic service under President Sarkozy, Jean- David Levitt, is obviously a Levi.