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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill WERE OUR ANCESTORS CAPABLE OF SELF- GOVERNMENT? NOTHING is so revolting in modern Jewish life as the eagerness with which the Jews of today are ready to adopt the opinions and what is frequently identical the prejudices of non-Jews regarding Jews and Judaism, as that hideous Jewish anti-Semitism which must logically end in open or veiled apostasy. The last year-book of a Jewish theological association contains a paper by a Rabbi, entitled The Significance of the Bible for Reform Judaism in the Light of Modern Scientific Research. In this paper, in which some of the most offensive and most disputed vagaries of non-Jewish and anti- Jewish Bible critics are boldly set forth as incontrovertible truths, the following sentences, because of their immediate bearing on a great Jewish movement of to-day, are apt to arrest the attention of the reader: The history of Israel and Judah is in the main one of tribute and vassalage to, with occasional revolt against, now Tyre, now Syria, now Assyria, now Babylon. It is on the whole a gloomy record of bad government, tyranny and oppression, such as has been characteristic of every little Oriental state from the beginning of history. It is the most incontrovertible proof that Israel's genius does not lie in the field of self-government, that from first to last as a nation Israel was a most dismal failure. 'Appeared first in the American Hebrew on March 26,1909. The notion that the Jews (or the Semites in general) were, and still are, incapable of self-government has so persistently been maintained by Aryan scholars, and has with such nauseating self-contempt been repeated by Jews that it is high time to approach it more closely and to examine it in the light of scientific research, which is perhaps not modern, if modern be id...
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