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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
October 4, 1940
More Christian Than The Christians
Tov, or Master of the Good
Name, who lived in Poland-Wal-
lachia, eastern Europe, from 1700
1760. He was an orthodox
The Jews Are Incorrigible Producers of the to
Jew. The founder of Christianity
Prophetic Anti-Nazi Type
was known to him, only as the
terrible symbol of a Church im-
By MAURICE SAMUEL
memorially steeped in the blood
of the Jews. Israel Baal Shem
Editor's Note: Few books have been anticipated with g reater Toy had never committed the
eagerness than Mr. Samuel's forthcoming analysis of anti- mortal sin of looking into the
Semitism. Thomas Mann, outstanding man of letters of our New Testament; nevertheless the
time, has said of this book: "No better analysis has ever doctrine which he taught, the
been given of anti-Semism as a phenomeno n falling outside manner of his life and the or-
the field of normal prejudices and antipathies and belonging ganization
of his discipleship,
to the realm of the demonological. The book is calculated bear an astounding similarity to
to strengthen the faith of America in itself and its way of the descriptions which we en-
life."
The distinguished author Pierr e van Passen, after counter in the New Testament.
reading the manuscript of "The Great Hatred," called it "a This S imilarity is of course also
book that will irritate Pollyanna liberals, intellectual ap- to be found in a St. Augustine
peasers, professional good-willers and complacent Christians, or a St. Francis of Assisi; but
but will come as a revelation to honest seekers after truth." THEY were students and follow-
On Oct. 1, Alfred A. Knopf will publish Maurice Samuel's ers of Christ, while Israel Baal
"The Great Hatred," from which this article presents an Shem Tov would rather have
extract. Seven Arts Featur e Syndicate and The Detroit Jew- burned at the stake than read
ish Chronicle are proud to present this fragmentary preview the Gospels or the writing of
of the most important works ever published on the Jewish the Christian Fathers.
Problem.
Israel, Master of the Good
peo-
It was Fredrieh Nietzsche's in- only ignorant; it is fantastic and Name,
was according
born
ple, and
to the tradi-
genious and ignorant theory — malevolent. But we may note tion his birth was announced in
shared by certain others of the that it is, in one way or another, advance to his mother by a
neo-Pagans—that the Jews "in- shared by many Jews, who con- heavenly messenger. He came
vented" the doctrine of Chris- sider it intellectually disreput- from a section of Jewry which,
tianity only for the benefit of able to know something about like Nazareth of old, was de-
the gentile world.
The Jews the post-Biblical history of their spis ed for its ignorance and un-
themselves, said Nietzsche, were people.
couthness ("Can any good come
never taken in by the silly prop-
I shall therefore devote this out of Nazareth?"). He was not
aganda of human love and con- short article to a typical episode brought up among scholars, and
sideration, but stood off, clung in the post-Biblical history of in his mature years the scholars
to the ancient law of eye-for- the Jewish people — one which, of Israel despised him.
eye and tooth-for-tooth, and incidentally, will also indicate
He grew up among the poor
• chuckled as they watched the that the Nazis are quite right and the ignorant, lived like and
innocent gentiles decline from in atributing to the Jews an or- for them. His affection for the
their natural war-likeness into iginal capacity for producing unlearned and the sinful brought
anti-Nazi types and philosophies. upon him the derision and con-
slavish impotence.
There was a man called Israel, tempt of the "leaders" of Is-
This version of the Jewish at-
titude toward Christianity is not known also as the Baal Shem rael, and his followers were ex-
communicated by the greatest
Jewish scholar of the time, Eli-
jah of Vilna.
LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU
He travelled from town to
To Each and Every One of You.
town, from village to village,
A Joyous Holiday with an invitation to see
preaching to the simple folk. He
told them that not they who
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prayed ostentatiously and by the
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were near to their Father in
Heaven, but they who brought to
Him an humble and contrite
heart. Ile bade them take no
thought for the morrow; and he
himself would not go to sleep
if there was any money in his
house. He would first distribute
it to the poor.
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