The Rebirth of an Ancient
People June 5 2021
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Words by Amir Gilboa
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PITOM KAM ADAM |
SUDDENLY A MAN WAKES UP |
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(Shir Baboker Baboker) |
(Song of the Morning) |
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Pit'om
kam adam baboker |
Suddenly
a man wakes up in the morning |
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The Rebirth of Ancient
People
Events that shook the
Jewish world- the promise of open gates was shut
RUSSIA-Jews as enemies
of the Tsar
Emancipation in
Russia stopped in 5641/1881 -assassination of Alexander II ,( one of the 6
accused was Jewish-which made matters worse) resulting in a series of
government organized pogroms. Two hundred pogroms took place in 5641/1881
alone. The May Laws of 5642/1882 revoked many of the Jews’ newly gained rights.
Jews were expelled from towns and villages and Jewish college students were limited
to ten percent. This was when K. Pobedonostsev, the head of the governing
body of the Russian Orthodox Church, capsulated the aims of Czar Alexander
III’s government when he expressed the hope that “one-third of the Jews will
convert, one-third will die, and one-third will flee the country.”
France-Jews
as disloyal
L’
affaire Dreyfus - More about it later.
Great
Britain- Intellectual rejection of Jews
TS Eliot : Page-Barbour
Lectures at the University of Virginia in 1933, when he said: "Reasons of
race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews
undesirable.” From one of his great poems: In "Gerontion" he writes:"My
house is a decayed house, And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner, Spawned
in some estaminet [a bar] of Antwerp, Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled
in London."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot#/media/File:Thomas_Stearns_Eliot_by_Lady_Ottoline_Morrell_(1934).jpg
AND
THAT WAS by a friend of Jews! Eliot, it
appears, actually liked Jews- just not in his poetry or prose! He wanted to be
friends with Groucho Marx!
IN
US, the great poet Ezra Pound- Pound's antisemitism can be traced
to at least 1910, when he wrote in Patria Mia, his essays for
the New Age: "The Jew alone can retain his detestable
qualities, despite climatic conditions." The sentence was removed from the
1950 edition. This is long before he betrayed America.
Continues
to our day:
“Shocking
comments from Kamau Bobb – Google‘s head of diversity – writing Jews have
an ‘insatiable appetite for war.’ Any Google search
on antisemitism can show that’s exactly what Bobb expresses in
this blog,” per Greenblatt, CEO of ADL .
He is no red-neck !. Probably all his best friends are Jewish. Dr. Bobb holds a Ph.D. in Science and
Technology Policy from Georgia Tech and M.S. and B.S. degrees in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has
been eating his hat since and Google has just removed him from this position.
The
Moslem world was no better as we enter the modern period, because of the strong
reaction against secularism ( like Ataturk’s Turkey or Iran of the Pahlavi
Shahs).
Prime
example: Muslim Brotherhood: founded in
north-eastern Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna.Such was al-Banna’s hero worship
of the Nazi leader, he had Hitler’s autobiography and political
anthology, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), translated into
Arabic, changing the title to My Jihad. His successor was a major
intellectual, educated in the US,Sayid Qutb: Qutb was a
staunch antisemite.[75] In 1950, he published a book Our Struggle
against the Jews, which forms a central part of today's Islamist antisemitism. From hm, directly to Hamas, Qatar Morsi
of Egypt and Erdogan of Turkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb#/media/File:Sayyid_Qutb.jpg
This is the climate facing Jews as the
Age of Enlightenment and old-fashioned liberalism fade
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Language goes hand in
hand with a sense of peoplehood. Jews realized that, all these centuries, we
had lived as a people, before, long before the Germans, the French, the Brits!
Radical Overthrow
For some- it was only the violent
overthrow of the existing order that could solve our plight- hence- Jewish
involvement in the terrorist group, Narodnya Volya, or the various
revolutionary movements of late 19th-early 20 th century.
Nihilism-anarchism. “ All property is theft”. Would eventually evolve into the Communism
of Lenin’s key allies,Trotsky-Kamenev and Zinoviev ( all purged by Stalin)
Yiddish nationalism
and autonomy in place
The "General Jewish Labour Bund in Russia
and Poland" was founded in Vilna on October 7, 1897. The Bund sought to unite all Jewish workers
in the Russian Empire into a united socialist party… democratic and socialist Russia. ,…hoped to see the
Jews achieve a legal minority status in Russia. Of all Jewish political parties
of the time, the Bund was the most progressive regarding gender equality, with women making up more than
one-third of all members.[6]
Active against anti-Semitism. defended Jewish civil and cultural rights and
rejected assimilation. The Bund avoided any automatic solidarity with Jews of
the middle and upper classes and generally rejected political cooperation with
Jewish groups that held religious, Zionist or conservative views. Even the
anthem of the Bund, known as "the oath" (di shvue in Yiddish),
written in 1902 by Sh. An-ski, contained no explicit reference to Jews or
Jewish suffering.[Anski-the author of The Dybuk]
At the heart ..no contradiction between the
national aspect on the one hand and the socialist aspect on the other, the Bund
renounced the Holy Land and
the sacred language (Hebrew) and chose to speak Yiddish.[8]
International Consensus on the Rights
of Jews as a National Protected Minority
Jews as Nation Embedded in Treaty of
Versaille- end of WWI
MINORITY RIGHTS, rights enjoyed by Jews and
other ethnic minorities ,mainly eastern and southeastern Europe, in the
minorities treaties at the Versailles Peace Conference, 1919. Jews and other
minority nationals were guaranteed certain minimal rights, and the *League
of Nations created a machinery for supervising their implementation
.International basis for recognition of Jews as an ethnic entity,
Practical Example- In Soviet Union, Jews would
be recognized as a national minority, Yevrei.
Birobidzhan (Russian: Биробиджа́н, IPA: [bʲɪrəbʲɪˈdʐan]; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן, Birobidzhan) is
a town and
the administrative
center of
the Jewish
Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian
Railway, near the China-Russia
border. As of
the 2010 Census, its population is 75,413, and its
official language is Yiddish.[
Why there-1) Jews would settle far from the
people who didn’t want them-Russians, Ukrainians, etc 2) They would be a buffer
against Japan and China! 3) It would be an alternative to the idea of Zionism,
which would focus Jewish attention AWAY from the Soviet Union.
Zionism- before Herzl
Moses Hess- Marx’s
colleague
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hess#/media/File:Moses_Hess.jpg
He was a friend and important collaborator
of Karl Marx,
who was the editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, following his advice, and
befriended also with Friedrich Engels.[10] Hess initially introduced
Engels to communism,
through his theoretical approach.[10] Hess contributed toward Marx's
"Communist Manifesto" written in 1848 in particular the term
"religion as the opium of the masses.
From 1861 to 1863, German antisemitism.
reverted to his Jewish name Moses (after apparently going by Moritz
Hess)[13] in protest against Jewish assimilation. He
published Rome and Jerusalem in 1862. He contemplated the rise of Italian nationalism and the German reaction to it, and from this he arrived at
the idea of Jewish national revival,. His book calls for the establishment of a
Jewish socialist commonwealth in Palestine, in line with the emerging national movements in Europe and as the
only way to respond to antisemitism and assert Jewish identity in the modern
world.
Leon Pinsker- Auto Emancipation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Pinsker#/media/File:Pinsker.jpg
First, believed in Jewish Assimilation to
Russian civilization- recognized in pogroms of 1880 that it was impossible:
Auto- Emancipation- we needed to liberate ourselves,
not depend on the whims of government.:
This is the kernel of the problem,
as we see it: the Jews comprise a distinctive element among the nations
under which they dwell, and as such can neither assimilate nor be readily
digested by any nation.
Hence the solution lies in finding a
means of so readjusting this exclusive element to the family of nations, that
the basis of the Jewish question will be permanently removed.
But it is different with the people
of Israel. There is no such equality in the nations' dealings with the
Jews. The basis is absent upon which treaties and international law may be
applied: mutual respect. Only when this basis is established, when the equality
of Jews with other nations becomes a fact, can the Jewish problem be considered
solved.
Among
the living nations of the earth the Jews are as a nation long since dead.
With the loss of their country, the
Jewish people lost their independence, and fell into a decay which is not
compatible with existence as a whole vital organism. The state was crushed
before the eyes of the nations. But after the Jewish people had ceased to exist
as an actual state, as a political entity, they could nevertheless not submit
to total annihilation -- they lived on spiritually as a nation. The world saw in this people the
uncanny form of one of the dead walking among the living. The Ghostlike
apparition of a living corpse, of a people without unity or organization,
without land or other bonds of unity, no longer alive, and yet walking among
the living -- this spectral form without precedence in history, unlike anything
that preceded or followed it, could but strangely affect the imagination of the
nations. And if the fear of ghosts is something inborn, and has a certain
justification in the psychic life of mankind, why be surprised at the effect
produced by this dead but still living nation
A fear of the Jewish ghost has
passed down the generations and the centuries. First a breeder of prejudice,
later in conjunction with other forces we are about to discuss, it culminated
in Judeophobia.
Judeophobia, together with other
symbols, superstitions and idiosyncrasies, has acquired legitimacy phobia among
all the peoples of the earth with whom the Jews had intercourse. Judeophobia is
a variety of demonopathy with the distinction that it is not peculiar to
particular races but is common to the whole of mankind, and that this ghost is
not disembodied like other ghosts but partakes of flesh and blood, must endure
pain inflicted by the fearful mob who imagines itself endangered.
Judeophobia
is a psychic aberration. As a psychic aberration it is hereditary, and as a
disease transmitted for two thousand years it is incurable.
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BILU_ Beyt Yaakov
lechu v Neilchah- the first modern wave of migration to Israel from
Tsarist Russia. 1881. My great-great
grandfather, at age of 81, moved to Israel. Ofra’s great-great-grandfather
moved to Israel at the same time, from Yemen.
Cultural Zionism
Asher
Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January
1927), primarily known by his Hebrew name and pen
name Ahad Ha'am (Hebrew: אחד העם, lit. 'one of the people', Genesis 26:10), was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost
pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder
of cultural
Zionism. He started on his program
shortly after the first Aliyah, which did not get very far.
Ahad Ha'am
recognized that the effort to achieve independence in the land of Israel would
bring Jews into conflict with the native Arab population, as well as with the
Ottomans and European colonial
powers then eying the country.
Instead, he proposed that the emphasis of the Zionist movement shift to efforts
to revive the Hebrew language and create a new culture, free from negative
diaspora influences, that would unite Jews and serve as a common denominator
between diverse Jewish communities. The main goal of Ahad Ha'am's cultural
Zionism was the establishment of a new spiritual center for the Jewish nation,
which did not necessarily require the establishment of a Jewish state, but did
require the establishment of a Jewish majority in its national home.
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