The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-04-14
ValiantMenB owedlD Down
by Hatred and Enmity
JOSEPH s. BLOCK, THE CHAMPION
OF ISRAEL'S CAUSE SUSPENDS
HIS PAPER.
A Contribution to the History of Anti
Semitism.
BY DIR. GorTHARD DEuTsCH.

Ind the battle of Sedan was fought
Napoleon was compelled to surrender,
the French troops had to he with
drawn from Rome, and the pope whose
throne was only maintained thru the
military aid. furnished him by France
chiefly owing to the influence of the
bigoted empress Eugenin. retired pout-
ingly to his imaginary and self-im
posed prison in the Vatican with its
100 rooms and miles of parkways.
while the troops Of the Italian kingdom
marched thru the breach of the Porta
i'ia on the memorable day of Sept
II, 1870. 1t Is one of the pranks of
history that the first troop entering
Rome was commanded by the Jewish
artillery Captain. David Segre. The
new order of things abolished the last
ghetto of Europe, which had long been
n disgrace to civilization. At the same
time the new empire of Germany was
ruled by Protestant dynasty. Cleri-
calsm had to admit its defeat and to
prepare for a new battle. Its handiest
weapon was the charge, This time as
always, that the new order of things
was made by the Jews and for the
Jews.
One of the first leaders in this war
fare was August Rolling, professor
in the Catholic divinity department OF
the academy of Muenster. This man.
born 1899 in Ncuenalir on the Rhine.
IN ~.
the pioneer Jewish author of America,
was born, was quite unknown before.
AlthO teacher of Hebrew. he was so
ignorant that he could not read line
Of an unvoc,ilized Hebrew text. 1t
Is, however, not necessary in the eyes
of the public to know ANYTHING about
Judaism when you write about it. pro
vided you villify it. Rolling knew
that, and so he wrote his pamphlet
'.s,Bcr ralnudjude" in 1871. which is
n very careless abstract of Eisenmen-
gers bulky volume. entitled Emit
decktes Judentlum." which appeared
in 1901. Eisenmenger possessed some
Jewish learning. altho his book con-
tains a number of ridiculous errors,
which are not uncommon with Christ.
ians who cannot so readily penetrate In
to the meaning of rabbnic terms. lioh-
ling copied not only Eisenmenger
mistakes. but added some of his own,
because he wrote so carelessly thar he
did not always understand Giscnncn-
gers antiquated German. As Gne in
stance we may quote that lie makes
the Tah..nd say. snuhe swallowed
the head of II rahDi. mistrking EiScn-
menger'S expression "liabin" .she
raven for rabbi.
The pamphler was success from
the publishers: pO,nt of view AMI was
several times reprinted within II few
wears. Abstracts of 1t were cons taEtly
published in the Catholic papers of all
countries and embodied in anti-Semitic
pamphlets wriftca In all languages.
The first years after the Franco-Ger-
man war were not favorable to anti
Semitic agitation. The movement was
lcactionary, and the world was in
stage of liberalism. A change began
SlOWly VIII tht ".
1873 The world again needed a scape-
goat. and althO numerous members OF
the highest aristrocracy whose names
we're utilized as bait by frenzied
finance. were more prominently in
yolvcd in the fraudulent schemes than
Jews. the latter were made the target
of an attack of which German
author, Otto Glagau. was the leader.
4 few years later came the decisive
move of the anti-Semtiic forces thru
the organiza ton of the christian So
cialist party" under the leadership ut
the Prussian court-chaplain. kdolph
Stoecker, in 1879. The movement be-
gan to assume political shape in
Hungary, where n distinct anti-Semi-
tic party was formed in the parlia-
mcnt. and it led to most revolving
case of ritual murder charge in Tisza
EsZlar, 1882.
This case. which together with those
of Konitz. 1899. Poland. 1900. and
Kew (Mendel Beilis) 1911. is one of
the darkest blots on modern civiliZa
lion. and has recently been made the
subject of II sOul-stirring tragedy by
thp Vienna poet Arnold Zweig. The
,oet gives the facts with historic nc
clracy. altho interspersed with scenes
IF allegoric mysticism. \ young girl
Esther Solymosi. was raped by an anti
Semitic estate owner chOked to death
and thrown into the river. As it hap