“. . . emphasizing Gentile persecution as the root cause of Jewish
\n\u201cdegradation.\u201d This ideology . . . was shared in one form or another, by all the ideologists of nineteenth-century Jewry: Reform
\nJews and Zionists, assimilationists and socialists, Bundists and
\nCommunists\u2014all became virtuosos of ethnic suffering. . . . The
\npoint is that these Diaspora groups were uninterested in actual
\nhistory; they were apologists, ideologists, prefabricating a past in order to answer embarrassing questions, to outfit a new identity, and to ground a claim to equal treatment in the modern world.” J. M. Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (New York: Basic Books, 1974), p. 177.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“. . . emphasizing Gentile persecution as the root cause of Jewish \u201cdegradation.\u201d This ideology . . . was shared in one form or another, by all the ideologists of nineteenth-century Jewry: Reform Jews and Zionists, assimilationists and socialists, Bundists … Continue reading