A merkam Apish Peri&fical Cotter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO 11 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 the NEW AND BEAUTIFUL- prayed ostentatiously and by the eastern wall of the synagogue 1941 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. 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