... But this transformation is of recent date. It goes back no more than a generation. Just look at fathers and grandfathers of these young people to realize. Dressed in a suit hybrid [!], Semi-European, semi-oriental [!!], dirty looks grim [!!!], mine cautious and frightened, they provide unequivocal stigma from their long slavery [ ?]. When gathered in bands, they go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, we find in them all the stubbornness and intransigence of any race. Parked in a corner on the deck, crawling [1] in their old tartans [2] and their old Levites, they sink into reading their prayer books, with a striking, mutism and deafness if superb, feels that although the rest of the world for them is abolished and there is more to their ears or their eyes.
Those of Asia Minor and especially in Palestine are more closed. Looks like their fanaticism wakes or increases as they approach their lost homeland. What contributes to extol is the contact of Russian immigrants and Polish, maddened hordes of misery and mysticism, that persecution rush by thousands on Asian soil. Of these, there is nothing to do. They are stubborn and hostile to all innovation. A Jewish teacher told me that there is a bias among them invincible against of modern education. Their children attended a school of the Alliance [3] would, it seems, excommunicated [3]. Both the Southern Jew is open, liberal-minded and welcoming to all news, both Jew North is refractory to all that is not the tradition. It is the opposition that stands out here between the Israelite and Jewish German Portuguese [5]. According to the same teacher, it would be easier to recruit students in towns of Tripoli lost one of Morocco that attract Russian Jews and Polish schools in the Levant. And these little wild [!] Africa would have more brains malleable and receptive than the children of Odessa and Warsaw, however, who lived in civilized circles.
Perhaps more than the influence of fanatics, the ruins and Scripture memory conspire [] to maintain the Jewish Oriental in worship of his past and the horror of change. Not only the Israelites pilgrims or immigrants who remain or settle in Palestine rejudaïsent touching the land of the ancestors, but the devout soul radiates from Jerusalem and spread throughout all the neighboring countries.
is also zero region is more suggestive than this, more strongly marked and shaped by its history. That just goes 1a Kidron Valley [between the Temple Mount of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives] and the first desert cliffs of Judas [between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea], it will be a symbolic revelation of the fierce genius Israel. It will induce the visible landscape within a landscape which haunted the imagination of the people of God who fashioned forever. Nothing but hollow rocks, all white, a blinding whiteness of lime, black stones, burned, shredded, crumbled by the sun; trails strewn with small, pebbles ferocious, sharp as needles or knives. This arid, angular, sharp and harrowing, these corridors limestone imprison you and which are tightened on all sides around you, it's a stoning perpetual sight and senses. Israel has taken here with the idea of punishment which he chastised his guilty [6], its overreaching its isolation drought of thought and hardness of heart, - the hostility of his disdain offensive.
There is even some centers, where the atmosphere also perpetuates oppressive Jewish messianic than centuries. Unless the costume Modern decor and habits of life have not had to change much. Tiberias is one of these centers there. The extraordinary vitality of Judaism will immediately seizes the attention, not because the religious exaltation there is more fierce than elsewhere, but because the city is small, that population consists for two thirds Jews [7] and finally, in the Galilee was the birthplace of Christ, on the shores of the lake of Galilee [or Lake of Tiberias], where he preached, we are astonished at how little attention is that her memory. The proliferation [8] Hebrew offends all, dispel the haunting images of evangelicals.
There are ten synagogues in Tiberias - and burials Jewish invade the surrounding countryside, climb rocks, dominate the entire horizon of the sea Galilean. Israel pools in the suburbs, its sulfur baths, where, according to a therapeutic, very old, he just treat his illnesses secular [9]. Among the large cubes of white cemeteries, lurks the funeral home where he died of his toilet. The slab where the body is extended, the fountain where it draws water to wash it, realize the outside through the window without glass. And when the evening at sunset, we erred on strikes the lake, it intersects with strange walkers: teenagers with too rosy cheeks, blond curls framed by long, wearing pointed hats and draped in plush robes in bright colors and shimmering. These curly hair, the clothes archaic, these figures of cherubim, in roads like these, where the Apostles and passed the Master himself, you suddenly to reject visions familiar to Christian thought. And then immediately, the insolence of the eyes, the thin lips sardonic grin erase the illusion emerging [10]: they are Polish Jews, students of theology. For Tiberias is still today a kind of Talmudic University.
In Jerusalem, the Hebrew figuration is less noticeable because of the influx of pilgrims continued West. Yet the holy city is once again about Jews. According to official statistics, there were about 40,000 Jews in a population of 60,000 inhabitants. But this figure is certainly below the truth. We had overlooked in the census the suburban population, especially of new neighborhoods that lie north, along the Jaffa road [11]. On this side, as in the southern part the old city, the Jewish element predominates. The shop signs warn you. Abound throughout the inscriptions in Hebrew: the posters pasted to walls are also in Hebrew. There are even newspapers written in Hebrew. We guess at all these indices, a nationalist ferment more or less artificial [], probably created and maintained by the zealots of European Zionism . I do not know if the land is conducive to the implementation of their program. The Jew, who, in Palestine, if anywhere, is an abomination [!!], manual labor and especially the work of the earth [!!!], - The Jew will never make a detestable colon [!!!!]. What is certain is that in the Jewish colony in Jerusalem, the mob is the majority - a mob of beggars who languished in appalling filth and destitution [12]. These destitute live only on alms received from Jewish communities in the entire universe. Russians and Poles report, I am told, by their donations, hoping to find in the intercession of the pious beggars heavenly relief against the rigors of Czarist persecution. And paid for dispensing prayers, embittered by the sense of abjection, exalted hard by the sight of the holy places, the peat is exaggerating as much conviction as trade fervor of pietism national [!]. It recreates, by its mere presence [!], The fanatical mindset, which was that of his fathers in the first century AD.
Obviously, this spirit is very special especially in the middle of Jerusalem. But thanks to the pilgrimages, contagion arises in the surrounding areas. In general, the Jew is rebellious Asian to European culture. He wants to borrow what is immediately useful for its traffic - a rudimentary primary education, but it hardly goes beyond. It is understandable therefore the kind of courage it takes for a Jewish East to rise above the prejudices of his coreligionists and give a modern education. In this, we do not give them enough justice. When they spread their knowledge to us, we see in this movement of self-esteem as pedantry and conceit. They may have too good opinion of their merit in any case, this is real merit [13].
For all these reasons, the Young-Jew - in the intellectual sense, secular the word - is rather rare in the East. There are, however. He is recruited in many schools, including the smallest towns in the Levant are abundantly provided: Jewish Alliance school, school French, English, Italian or American, Catholic schools of the Brethren, secondary or college of the Jesuits, Franciscans and Vincentian . He brings with her precocious intellect, his memory and his tireless ability to assimilate rapidly, its strong practical instinct and desire to prevail. Learn, learn faster and with the least possible cost, that is, for him, the purpose clearly stated upon entry. A Jesuit I quoted a word naive one of them, hard worker who, through perseverance and application, had managed to get third in rhetoric. After passing the examination, the religious complimented: "Well! Michael, you're glad to have skipped a class! What do you say to your father tonight, coming home? - I tell him: "Dad, I've won in an afternoon, twenty-five pounds French! It was, in effect, the price of half board for one year. - Good computers, they are also in all other subjects, excellent students. Somewhat like our European Jews, they must win all prizes - even the price of Catholic religious instruction ...
To follow ...
Notes:
[1] Swarmer (adjective):
1) (Familiar) teeming Who: " And soon, amid a teeming crowd where all races mingle, mobbed by a crowd of ragged urchins who speak" Parisian, "we landed on this spot of earth Sharifian [...] " , Wladimir Ormesson, Question of Tangier, in La Revue de Paris, 1922 .
2) (By extension) Where crawling a lot of things or people:
" We understood why the shops of hats and shoes come in such large numbers in this artery swarming and relatively short , Francis Carco, Midnight Man, 1938.
Everything teeming with worms, vermin. " Wictionnaire, fr.wiktionary.org / wiki / teeming
[2] Louis Bertrand probably confused here, tartan, plaid wool fabric colors, typical of the Celts, the Scots, for example, and "caftan" (a Turkish name of Persian origin), pointing to a long tunic usually long sleeved, collarless and open in the middle, especially popular in the Ottoman Empire ...
[3] The Alliance Israelite Universelle, was founded in Paris in 1860 by Charles Netter, Narcissus Leven, Jules Carvallo, Eugene Manuel, Aristide Astruc and Rabbi Isidore Cahen, has long been headed by lawyer Isaac Jacob (known as Adolphe) Cremieux. It was established in response to the "Damascus Affair" (in 1840, after the death of a monk and his servant in Damascus, prominent Jews are accused of "ritual murder "And tortured) and the" Case "Mortara" (in 1858, a Jewish boy secretly baptized Bologna by a servant, will be torn from his family and raised in the Catholic religion - for, having been baptized, not to risk become relapsed returning to Judaism - on the orders of Pope Pius IX), and was intended "to intercede with the political authorities in the world for the benefit of the persecuted Jews, and develop a system of schools designed to" modernize "the Jews Orient to allow their emancipation. The goal of the Alliance is then spread benefits of French civilization in the Jewish world "(from Wikipedia).
other words, as regards the educational component of its action - and the Alliance schools will have great success, including with non-Jews - the IAU fight against what she wanted obscurantism be considered in force among the Jews of the Mediterranean, and against their commitment to "archaic" particularism, by opening the world to the Jews "backward" by providing a new common language, French, trying to teach them the basics positivism informed of rigor (the one in force in the biblical criticism time, for example, or the Science of Judaism ) and lead them on the road to respectability Republic III e - c ' is to tell them to lose their "hateful" habits and manners of familiar souks and bazaars ...
Finally, the IAU was very opposed to any idea of returning to Zion and will remain very long anti -Zionist - until the years 1950-60.
[4] It is true that many traditional Jews have strongly resisted this "French language" forced march, have often shunned the Alliance schools, the first step of renunciation, and regarded with hostility those who sent their children. Abraham H. Navon, for example, are echoed in terms of Turkey Joseph Perez, op. cit.
[5] Here, information of Louis Bertrand, certainly influenced by what he saw in Algeria (the arrival of rabbis from the metropolis, Algeria has become an integral part of the territory French, to "evangelize" the Jews believed, be deemed lax, and bring in the "right voice") is at fault: it is true that the renewal of Jewish orthodoxy has come to Germany, at the initiative of Frankfurt rabbi, Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808 -1888) and has quickly made many imitators in Alsace, but it is equally true that the Reform Jewish, born in the mid-nineteenth century e , also came from Germany, she had numerous supporters quickly throughout France, especially in the wealthier segments of the Jewish population, as we had occasion to recall earlier ( East ... [1] [posted January 21, 2011], footnote 7), and that it is precisely this moment dates the distinction between "Jew" and "Jew." In this case, Louis Bertrand confuses "Israelites" North and "Jews" of the East who do not like each other at the time, under the same generic name ...
[6] Stoning is certainly mentioned in the Torah in some cases (adultery and idolatry, for example) but the conditions of the Talmud - which is an authority on legal - are such that this penalty is actually virtually unenforceable. In this regard, the rule followed is that of one of the presidents of the Sanhedrin (supreme court), Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah (-118/-120): "A Sanhedrin who mentioned more than a death sentence [for which the unanimity is required] in 70 years [the Sanhedrin has 70 judges] would be guilty of murder, "Treaty Makkot 1, 10.
[7] Emphasis added.
[8] swarm (Common Name): large quantities rapidly growing .
" arose against the provisions for religious congregations. They are however in line with our French traditions. They are based on orders from our kings with great ministers, Choiseul and others had as servants of the Republic, fighting against the swarm and invasions of the regular clergy " Joseph Caillaux, My Memoirs, I, My youth proud , 1942. Wiktionary, http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/pullulement
[9] Ah! Drumont Joseph Maistre, Boni de Castellane ... See, in this space, For Connoisseurs II, posted April 27, 2009, especially notes 14-20. - Emphasis added.
[10] Painful early twentieth century e , the presence of "incongruous" and dissipating illusion, seems to be much in the early twenty th century, now being encysted in a sovereign state, object of so much disenchantment ... again: "What is foreclosed in the Symbolic reappears in the Real," J. Lacan.
[11] Emphasis added.
[12] That implies a beggar dirt or printing of dirt is not really surprising consequence of this condition or calculation to excite compassion. But for the 3 e times in the space of a few paragraphs, the "dirty" is associated with the traditional Jew, the "religious" Jew, deserves attention: the aspect of "neglected" those who are more concerned that the century of Heaven is not to exclude any more than the impression left by an uncut beard ("they ... end point not shave their beards ... "Leviticus XXI, 5), but this almost automatic association is obviously not simple observation, this reluctance tangible, not only appears to designate a former Christian topos (the odor of sanctity, the aroma of dead saints versus the bad smell of a Jew living in the "dirty Jew") and reinvested by the bio-ideological from Germany and Austria and hygiene recent Swiss origin, and revisited by both anti-Semites "visceral" by many secular Republicans (As Georges Clemenceau in At the foot of Sinai (1898), repr. Paris, The Tree of Judea / Les Belles Lettres, 2000, pp. 51-54) and "Israelites" (Salomon Reinach, for example: "The disgust Reinach for hygienic habits of newcomers Jews [in France] was genuine. He never failed to condemn the lack of hygiene among new immigrants, when these poor bastards, pious, made huge efforts to achieve ritual purity, Ivan Strenski, Durkheim and the Jews of France , The Chicago University Press, 1997, p. 183), it should point a phobia, the Judeophobia - in the sense understood by the doctor in his Zionist Leon Pinsker Auto-Emancipation (1882) - the epitome of an unrepresentable particularly unbearable. It is about the body, decrepitude and persistence ... It could be alive, the origin of living sticky (The "Inter urine and faeces nascimur (We are born between urine and faeces) "attributed to St. Augustine) and the dual requirement that envelope:" Choose life so that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed " Deuteronomy XXX, 15-20, and "Thou shalt not kill" Exodus XX, 13.
[13] Emphasis added.
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