Space Forum / Astronomy / February 2008

We do understand your HATRED for everything, WartPlugs!  lmao!

Saul Levy

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You were doing so well before Jews came into the world economy? It
depends on how you define "doing well." Here are some of the words of
Werner Sombart in 1911,  a German historian who later became a member
of the Nazi party, but nonetheless attributed a lot of the economic
history of Europe to Jews, and to "crypto Jews" (i.e., Jews who had
baptized). From Werner Sombart, The Jews and Modern Capitalism -
Selections by Peter Myers; my comments are shown {thus}. Date December
15, 2002; update May 23, 2006.

http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/sombart.html.

"{p. 13} This is not the place to go into the question in all its many-
sidedness [of economic rises and declines]. A number of causes
contributed to bring about the results we have mentioned. But from the
point of view of our problem one possibility should not be passed over
which, in my opinion, deserves most serious consideration, and which,
so far as I know, has not yet been thought of. Cannot we bring into
connexion the shifting of the economic centre from Southern to
Northern Europe with the wanderings of the Jews? The mere suggestion
at once throws a flood of light on the events of those days, hitherto
shrouded in semi-darkness. It is indeed surprising that the
parallelism has not before been observed between Jewish wanderings and
settlement on the one hand, and the economic vicissitudes of the
different peoples and states on the other. Israel passes over Europe
like the sun: at its coming new life bursts forth; at its going all
falls into decay. A short résumé of the changing fortunes of the
Jewish people since the 15th century will lend support to this
contention."

"The first event to be recalled, an event of world-wide import, is the
expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492) and from Portugal (1495 and
1497). It should never be forgotten that on the day before Columbus
set sail from Palos to discover America (August 3, 1492) 300,000 Jews
are said to have emigrated from Spain to Navarre, France, Portugal and
the East; nor that, in the years during which Vasco da Gama searched
for and found the sea-passage to the East Indies, the Jews were driven
from other parts of the Pyrenean Peninsula."

"It was by a remarkable stroke of fate that these two occurrences,
equally portentous in their significance - the opening-up of new
continents and the mightiest upheavals in the distribution of the
Jewish people - should have coincided."

"{p. 14} cided. But the expulsion of the Jews from the Pyrenean
Peninsula did not altogether put an end to their history there.
Numerous Jews remained behind as pseudo-Christians (Marannos), and it
was only as the Inquisition, from the days of Philip II onwards,
became more and more relentless that these Jews were forced to leave
the land of their birth. During the centuries that followed, and
especially towards the end of the 16th, the Spanish and Portuguese
Jews settled in other countries. It was during this period that the
doom of the economic prosperity of the Pyrenean Peninsula was sealed."

With the 15th century came the expulsion of the Jews from the German
commercial cities - from Cologne (1424-5), from Augsburg (1439-40),
from Strassburg (1438), from Erfurt (1458), from Nuremberg (1498?9),
from Ulm (1499), and from Ratisbon (1519).

"The same fate overtook them in the 16th century in a number of
Italian cities. They were driven from Sicily (1492), from Naples
(1540-1), from Genoa and from Venice (1550). Here also economic
decline and Jewish emigration coincided in point of time."

"On the other hand, the rise to economic importance, in some cases
quite unexpectedly, of the countries and towns whither the refugees
fled, must be dated from the first appearance of the Spanish Jews. A
good example is that of Leghorn, one of the few Italian cities which
enjoyed economic prosperity in the 16th century. Now Leghorn was the
goal of most of the exiles who made for Italy. In Germany it was
Hamburg and Frankfort that admitted the Jewish settlers. And
remarkable to relate, a keen-eyed traveller in the 18th century
wandering all over Germany found everywhere that the old commercial
cities of the Empire, Ulm, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Mayence and Cologne,
had fallen into decay, and that.{p. 15} the only two that were able to
maintain their former splendour, and indeed to add to it from day to
day, were Frankfort and Hamburg."

"In France in the 17th and 18th centuries the rising towns were
Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rouen - again the havens of refuge of the Jewish
exiles."

"As for Holland, it is well-known that at the end of the 16th century
a sudden upward development (in the capitalistic sense) took place
there. The first Portuguese Marannos settled in Amsterdam in 1593, and
very soon their numbers increased. The first synagogue in Amsterdam
was opened in 1598, and by about the middle of the 17th century there
were Jewish communities in many Dutch cities. In Amsterdam, at the
beginning of the 18th century, the estimated number of Jews was 2400.
But even by the middle of the 17th century their intellectual
influence was already marked; the writers on international law and the
political philosophers speak of the ancient Hebrew commonwealth as an
ideal which the Dutch constitution might well seek to emulate. The
Jews themselves called Amsterdam at that time their grand New
Jerusalem. "

IF anything is slipping away, it is because the rise of antisemitism
again is creating havoc and chaos in the Muslim world and soon here.