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let is suppressed, as it is in more or Ishows structural brain superiority.
of 2,000 years of cul-
= S less civilized communities, the inner An advantage
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There once NOM' a poor Chasid to
flict may become the source of a I ture may be a powerful weapon in
may manifests the struggle forexistene, but i the famous and distinguished Rabbi
process
This
•urosis
s h org nies ,,Dovid'I Tallier, complaining about his
= itself in the group as well as in the hardly sufficient to estaI c
= individual. Freud has recently point- biologic superiority capable of heredi- ill state of affairs, saying:
"0 Rabbi, pray for me; I have a
ed out that uncontrolled group be- tary transmission.
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wife and Ifi children, and only one
E-7 havior, mass psychology, resembles! The chief reasons for the Jew's
room to dwell in; it is unbearable!"
rather closely the behavior of neu- survival I believe, are his strong
"Have
you
a
goat"."
inquired
the
sense of reality and powerful ideal
I rotics. Violent loves or hates sway
ego, his peculiarly realistic philoso- rabbi gravely.
, the masses, with sudden transitions phy and cultural views of life and
"Yes," answered the Chasid in as-
from one to the other. The ambiva- the methods of adaptation which he
-
tonishment.
lent
attitude
is
frequently
to
be
ob-
m
'
"Then," said the rabbi, "take it
acquired throughout the vicissitudes
f! served in the attitude toward the of centuries. But even no the experi- into your house."
leader (father), especially in the way
The Chasid did so, but a few days
ment of fertilizing one race with the
the masses identify themselves with Jews has been made on a very large later come back to the rabbi crying
I him, and the frequency with which
scale in Spain before and during the that conditions were still worse, as
they repudiate him. History offers
Inquisition, without apparent brilliant now he had no place whereon to lay
enough instances where the leader results. Supposing the Jews could his head. But the rabbi did not scent
I has been murdered only to be hon- consent to play the role of fertilizer to be affected by his appeal and said:
ored or even apotheosized after
in the hope that he would bring forth "Have you chickens?"
I sleuth. But while the group often roses, there is still the possibility that
"Yes."
turns with hatred on the leader, he
"Take them also into your house,"
he would succeed in growing poison
never hates the group. lie may have
ivy. Apostates and SIMS of apostates and, although with a great that of
contempt or pity but no hate. No have neither helped to solve the Jew. wonderment, the Chasid did so, for
I father can hate his son, even it he ish question nor much enriched ha- who would dare to disobey the holy
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After a few (lays the Chasid re-
Win, in its impulsive, unreasoning be- tory Of Jewish martydom may recall turned again, his lamentation this
havior, is in fact a group neurosis, it the virtues of Pablo Christiani, Nicho- time raised to a great pitch.
is not quite so readily admitted that as Dom, Geronimo (le Santa Fe and
"Rabbi, Rabbi!" exclaimed he, "for
religion, too, manifests the same Joseph PfetTerkorn, not to speak of
the more modern incarnations of pity's sake, I cannot stand it any
signs. Neurotic religious manifests- those prototypes.
longer! It is beyond human endur-
' tions are as characteristic of the
With the advent of "emancipation" ance!"
group as they are of the individual. in the beginning of the nineteenth
"Well, drive out the goat and the
The waves of religious hysteria which century a number of Jews thought chickens."
frequently sweep over whole com- they could solve the problem from
A few days later the Chasid re-
niunities sufficiently attest the point.
turned with joyful reports:
The waves of anti-Semitism resemble within. They reformed themselves
"Holy Rabbi," said he. "we are so
o closely hysterical and religious and their religion. Tiny kept the gi
!..
ld-
casket and mistook it for the miss- comfortable now; may the Lord pro- I
waves that one may assert that anti- rs' g jewel. Today they to not even long your days! You have saved my
m
of the
Sernitis m is a true neuros is
ndividual. know that the jewel is missing. They wife, my children and myself!"
a s of the i
Rub DovisPI, well pleased to see his
as well
group
Probably
more of the group than of built a staircase to the Church; in
11. WAINRIGIIT, Mgr.
the individual. practice the staircase has become an stratagem a success, said to his Me-
escalator from which it is impossible shamesh:
"People never know when they are
Every neurosis is more or less of a to retrace one's step. A more subtle
flight from reality. Whenever the and slow way of dissolution. When well off until they find out how much
stress of life is too strong one may the Roman wanted to die pleasantly worse things might be!"
find refuge in phantasy. The conflict ( he opened a vein and glided into a
"And thou shalt love the Lord .. •
between the inner emotions and the , soothing bath. It is not even a ques-
crushing realities of life often finds tion of good or evil; this result is ine- with all thy soul ..." (Deut. vi.
vicarious expression in the neuroses. vitable, and must ultimately lead to Compulsion to disobey this command-
The process is unconscious and there- the organization by Christians, in the ment is not an excuse for disobeying,
fore not amenable to reason or logic. interest of ethnology, of societies for for, says Rabbi Akiba, "with all thy
One cannot convince or be convinced. the preservation of Jews as they now soul" means even if lie take thy
The emotions involved are too primi- have for Eskimos and Indians. How- soul.—Talmud.
tine. One may rationalize one's be-, ever, the process of attrition by re-
havior, one may give reasons which 1 form is neither novel nor effective.
seem to explain, but in reality they Finally Zionism is offeted as a mod-
do not touch the root of the problem. I ern solution of anti-Semitism. But
But the neurosis serves a useful pur- I Zionism is modern only in its realistic
pose. It acts as a safety valve for adaption to present needs. Actually
the emotions. True, it is an infantile it is historic Judaism—the old cul-
, way out of a difficulty, but it is none tural and spiritual heritage in a new
•the less an attempt at an adjustment nationalistic garb. Will this solve
, the question of anti-Semitism? Not
to reality.
It is not necessary to labor the if it succeeds in preserving Judaism
point
further.
Anti-Semitism
is
a
and
the Jewish people. For its very
1
!neurosis. It serves a very useful pur- success means that the Jew is to pre-
pose to the Christian. Perhaps there vent assimilation. To solve means to
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some light on the fierce hatred which and revitalizinfi it in the Diaspora.
is only occasionally overt, but mostly
Only when the human animal will
unconscious. Looked at from the have gained mastery over his emo-
point of view of a neurosis one may tional life, or at least caught a true
_,,, , understand the frequent explosions vision into it, the problem of anti-
against the Jew, when for some rea- Semitism will disappear. And the
Ison the repressed emotions break Jew will not have to disappear with
I through the thin veneer of civilize- it—From the Menorah Journal. •
, Lion. Waves of anti-Semitism have
I invariably followed wars and pestilen-
tial outbreaks and other times when
communities have been so afflicted
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, .Persecutions and massacres offer a
from
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form," or social revolutions. The
! Jew serves merely as a convenient
spark. In him lies the cause only
!insofar as he serves as the best vent
; for the repressed emotions. It is a
good psychological mechanism of
self-defense to project onto others
• the faults we ourselves possess. We
heap on the devil the abuse which
properly belongs to ourselves and
punish him for the sins which we
alone have committed. If there were
no Jew the Christian world would do
well to create one.
The fact that the Jew persists in
being himself and refuses to die is in
itself sufficient to incur the enmity
of the Christian. It is contrary to all
rules of the game that he should live
on. That he is not decrepit and shows 1
all signs of vigor adds arrogance to
his survival. His adult realism is a
permanent taunt to the youthful neu-
rotic idealism which brooks no con-
tradiction. Ilia very virility is an
impertinent challenge. The father
I must die if he would not remain a,
constant threat or menace. His very
existence acts as an unconscious ir-
ritant. The Christian struggles over
the difficult road to adult realism ;
which the Jew has traversed 2,000;
years before him. The Jew disturbs '
the peaceful neurotic phantasy of
the Christian at the same time that
be serves as its focal point.
If it be conceded that anti-Semit-
ism is essentially an emotional, un-
conscious problem, a true neurosis,
Ithen insight may be gained into the
reasons why it has baffled understand-
ing and eluded solution. It will be-
come clear why all discussions of the
phenomenon have been futile and
why all the accusations against the
Jew, whether true or false, do not
, matter. Realization of the fact wlil
' explain why people repeat lies and
'stupidities and contradictions with-
out being aware that they are false,
stupid and mutually exclusive. It
will explain the type of "evidence",
used in justification of states of mind
which logic cannot fathom. It will I
throw light on the reasons opponents
cannot convince each other. Insight •
into the phenomenon of anti-Semitism •
will further explain why it promises
' to continue for some time to come.
Real understanding will reveal why
no amount of defense, except his own
inner one, ever availed the Jew any-
thing.
Correct apprehension of the prob-
lem will also make clear why all the •
suggested solutions have failed to'
work. At the same time that the
Jew is told he is an alien and unas-
similable social element he Is in-
formed that the only solution of anti-
, Semitism lies in assimilation. This
is not to be a reversible reaction
I wherein Christian shall turn Jew and
to
I Jew Christian. The Jew alone is
surrender his identity. For centuries
1 it was • question of forcible conver-
sion or death. The method failed.
Jews were converted, Jews died at
the stake, but the Jew stil lived. But
the more "civilized" methods involve

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may have operated to produce numer-
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