German Idealism and the Jews

Subsequent generations of German intellectuals claimed their German heritage by birthright, but also claimed Jewish heritage, such as Karl Marx, George Simmel and Sigmund Freud, all of which who grappled with German Idealism and the Jewish Question. Anti-Semitism was a main focus of theirs, specifically how to combat it. Before the rise of German idealism and Romanticism, Jews were considered a nuisance by virtually every European kingdom, but a nuisance that could be solved through sanctions or expulsion, but there were pogroms in which Jews were rounded up and burned alongside copies of the Talmud. German Jews traced one of the first blood libels to England back in 1144 A.D. when the English accused Jews of murdering and crucifying a boy in the woods in order to obtain his blood for a Passover ritual (The book of Leviticus of course says that blood ceremonies and consumption of blood is forbidden). In the decades that followed, Jews were heavily taxed by Edward Longshanks to fund his war against Scotland and then massacred and eventually expelled from England when they could no longer pay, setting precedence for other countries like France and Spain to massacre and expel Jews from their kingdoms when Jewish coffers were emptied.

German Jews in academia found an unlikely ally in their efforts to quell anti-Semitism: Émile Durkheim, he himself a Jew, but a positivist and early sociologist who proposed empirical, systematic observations and experimentation to produce knowledge—a stance inherently, even diametrically opposed to German Idealism. Durkheim considered anti-Semitism to be a social crisis and was influenced to stop it largely due to the Dreyfus Affair in which a military captain by the name of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, was convicted of treason and imprisoned for betraying the French military by revealing troop movements to the German embassy in Paris. He was later proven innocent, but from 1894 to 1906, the Dreyfus Affair shined a light on Jews being used as scapegoats. Durkheim's "Anti-Semitism and Social Crisis," published in 1899, primed the 20th century for massive developments in German Idealism, namely, the Frankfurt School.

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Jews are trying to do the same thing know in terms of trying to cover up the primacy of consciousness. Though it must be said that jews like wigner and wolfgang pauli were on to some of this stuff. Watch this video. Warning the audio is bad, so have it turned down before starting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZLlpqAQ7Uv=QiZLlpqAQ7U