La Civiltà Cattolica on The Jewish Question (1)

 

Part I: The Causes

La Civilta Cattolica, Series XIV, Vol. VII, Fascicule 961, 23 October 1890

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Introduction

The nineteenth century will close upon Europe, leaving it in the grips of a very sad question, from which, in the twentieth century, there will possibly be such calamitous consequences that they will cause Europe to bring it to an end by a definitive resolution. (i.) We mean the unhappy so-called Semitic question, which is better called the Jewish question, and intimately linked to the economic, moral, political, and religious conditions of Europe's Christianity.

How urgent it is at present and how much it is upsetting the major nations becomes evident from the collective outcry against the invasion of the Israelites into every sector of public and social life; from the associations having formed in France, Austria, Germany, England, Russia, Romania, and elsewhere in order to stop it; from the outcrys which are beginning to make themselves heard within the parliaments; finally, from the great number of newspapers, books, and pamphlets continuously appearing in order to point out the necessity of stopping and combating the spread of this plague, and stressing its most pernicious consequences.

For some time here in this review, we also have been dealing with the specific question, which is the social one, under more critical, historical, and scientific viewpoints, and have indicated the true causes of the lamentable effects that are now increasingly deplored. But the great number of publications which lately have come to our attention, among them some quite important ones, invites us to revert it by summarizing in a few pages the many aspects involved; and we think that it fully deserves to be considered in Italy where Judaism rules as lord but where, in spite of the rich material available, still no one has emerged to write a treatise that could compete with the respective one of Edouard Drumont and, as we believe, would be devoured with great profit.

Judaism turns its back on the Mosaic Law

The Jewish question of our time doesn't differ greatly from the one which affected the Christian peoples of the Middle Ages. In a foolish way it is said to arise from hatred towards the Jewish tribe. Mosaism in itself couldn't become an object of hate for Christians, since, until the coming of Christ, it was the only true religion, a prefiguration of and preparation for Christianity, which, according to God's Will, was to be its successor. But the Judaism of the centuries [after Christ] turned its back on the Mosaic law, replacing it with the Talmud (ii.), the very quintessence of that Pharisaism which in so many ways has been shattered through its rejection by Christ, the Messiah and Redeemer. And although Talmudism is an important element of the Jewish question, it cannot be said, strictly speaking, to give that question a religious character, because what the Christian nations despise in Talmudism is not so much its virtually non-existent theological element, but rather, its morals, which are at variance with the most elementary principles of natural ethics.

Defining Semitism

Nor does the question originate in aversion for a race, as apparently expressed by the improper adjective Semitic that is attached to it. In the first place, the Israelite tribe is not the only one in the world springing from Sem's most noble blood. Nor can any reason be found why the Aryans, who derive from Japheth, should harbor an inherited hatred for Sem's offspring, in whose tabernacles, according to Noe's solemn prophecy,(iii.) they even were to live in fraternal harmony. Thus we take the designation Semitic whenever applied to the Jewish question, and Semitism, whenever applied to Judaism, to be inappropriate because in exceeding the scope of their meaning, substituting the whole for a part, they produce a false [if not inflammatory] concept.

Nevertheless, aversion to the tribe adds to it and constitutes one of the chapters of the question, the religious codex of the Talmud being another one. Moreover, the Jewish race, in as far as it is a nation, though as such without a fixed fatherland and without a political organism, lives dispersed among the nations, perhaps not without getting mixed with them here and there, but keeping aloof from them in all things which might develop into social union, and regarding them as enemies or even as victims fallen to its greediness. Thus it is that the great Israelite family, dispersed among the peoples of the world, forms a foreign nation within the nations in which it resides, and the sworn enemy of their prosperity, since the cardinal point of Talmudism is the oppression and spoliation of the very peoples who extend hospitality to its disciples. Because of which St. Paul, at the end of his days, characterized the Jews as displeasing God and hostile to all men: Deo non placent, et omnibus hominibus adversantur. [Who (killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have persecuted us) please not God and are adversaries to all men.]

And that the sinister codex of the Talmud, even beyond the rules of an execrable morality, commands hatred of all men who don't have Jewish blood, and especially Christians, and makes it licit to spoliate and ill-treat them like noxious beasts, isn't any longer one of its doctrinal points that can be denied. It is not the work of Rohling, whom we too acknowledge to be a writer who in part indulges in fancies and invents arbitrary quotations, but the most careful and most serious study of the Mishna, which is the Talmud's text, and the Gemara, which is its annotation, besides the study of several rabbis, including the most notable ones of past and present times (iv.), that does away with any doubt whatsoever. It would be enough to consult the work of Achille Laurent, which the Hebrews have taken nearly out of circulation because it masterfully reveals the secrets of Talmudism regarding the extermination of Christian civilization and which is thus able to persuade even the most unwilling and the most doubtful.³ We have, for the rest, adduced incontestable proof of that already in the past, which to repeat would be superfluous here. 

Portalis: Religious Tolerance vs. Civil Status

Besides it will be of use to refer to two documents which very clearly establish the true condition of the Israelites in the countries extending them refuge, as well as the main reason for the problems they create there, and thus for the aversion they incur there. The first one stems from the famous legal consultant Portalis, written at the beginning of this century, when Napoleon I intended to legally acknowledge full civil equality of the Jews with the French. The erudite man who drew up a respective memorandum, of which the day will still come when meminisse iuvabit [it will help to remember], observed that the question being the Hebrews, religious tolerance towards them didn't need to be confused with granting them civil status. He said: 

For the Jews are not simply a sect, but a people. This people, who in antiquity had their own land and government, were dispersed, but not destroyed: they roam about the earth in order to look for a refuge, but not a homeland; they are to be found within all the nations but meld with none of them; they settle as strangers in a strange land. This is due to the nature of Jewish institutions. As conquest was the very goal of Rome's power, war the goal of the republic of Sparta, culture the goal of the state of Athens, commerce the goal of the dominion of the Carthaginians, so religion is that of the Hebraic tribe for whom religion is everything, the basis and law of its society. Hence follows the evident fact that the Jews everywhere form a nation within a nation; and although they live in France, in Germany, in England, they never become French, German, or English. Rather, they remain Jews and nothing but Jews. 

A truth later being harshly confirmed by Cremieux, the great vassal of the reigning Judaism, and by the Jewish review L'Alliance Isralite, that defined the Hebrew as the man of an inexorable universalism.

Whence Portalis concludes aptly that it is perfectly in accord with justice that this kind of foreign body, which, by virtue of its institutions, its principles, and its customs, yet always remains aloof from the common society, would remain subject to laws of exception.

The Romanian Experience

The other document is the manifesto of thirty-one members of the legislative chamber of Romania, addressed to the powers who, in 1868, arrogated to impose to their state the law of civil equality of the Hebrews: In substance these members of parliament say, 

The Jews, obedient to necessity, ostensibly comply with the authority of the non-Jewish state; but they are never able to consent to become an integral part of it, because they are unable to shed the idea of their own state. They not only form a religious sect, but also a complex of indelible uniqueness of birth and of resolute belief in an always exclusively Jewish nationality, which all of them without exception maintain amidst other peoples. Because of this, it is impossible for them to unite in blood with other peoples, and impossible to partake with them their sentiments, which are directly opposed in all things to those of Christians. And the biggest obstacle lies in religion, which is their religious and civil law alike, thus constituting the political and social cult and organism. Hence Judaism, wherever it gains a footing, necessarily establishes a state within a state.

Concerning gratitude towards the peoples who shelter them, the Israelites regard themselves as absolved, since they believe them to be usurpers. Just to the contrary, they use every sort of means in order to gain supremacy over them, of which they believe to have been assured by the Old Testament. The time they pass within the bosom of other people is for them, so to speak, a time of penance, punishment and exile; and the inhabitants of the countries harboring them pass for enemies which, as soon as the promised hour of universal Jewish dominion over the world will have come, are to be subjugated.

The Question of Patriotism

The corollary of this situation is that the Jew nowhere has his fatherland, i.e., the land of his fathers, and therefore that corollary is the patriotism of which he permanently boasts and for whose apostle he passes himself off, but only in order to reach his goal of ruining and devouring the nations which have accorded him the right of citizenship. A bold imposture. That is also the reason why the most hateful trade of being a traitor and spy is one of their characteristics. Well known is Bismarck's dictum: "God created the Hebrew in order to serve the man who needs him as a spy", and the other one of Count Cavour, who used to say of a certain Hebrew, his confidant: 

He is most useful to me, in order to let the public know what I wish it to know. The very moment I have finished speaking with him he has already betrayed me. 

In July, the Kreuz-Zeitung [Journal of the Cross] of Berlin published this account of an army officer: 

During the 1870 war, I was assigned to the 10th Corps, commanded by General Voigts-Rhetz. He was granted 100,000 thalers to pay spies. He returned to Berlin, that sum not having been touched, because he hadn't succeeded in recruiting any Frenchmen. However, in 1866, in the war against Austria, things went differently: the Jews showed up in great numbers and sold us for a small price all news concerning the movements of the imperial army; these Jews were Austrian citizens and so, voluntary spies. 

History is replete with treason committed by Hebrews to the detriment of the state as well as of public or private persons. A few years ago the Jew Goldsmit stole and sold the top secret documents of the Great-Prussian state. The Jew Klotz betrayed the English general Hicks and his troops, who then were killed by the Mahdi's barbarians in the Sudan. The Jew Adler abused the trust Krajewski had put in him and handed him over to the Prussians. The Jew Deutz betrayed the Duchess of Berry for 500,000 francs. And so has it been already in past centuries, beginning with the Jew Sedecia, who poisoned Charles the Callow, up to the Jewess Paiva, who of late was busy to acquire the battle plans of the French army in Paris, in order to sell them. 

Talmudic and Jewish Racial Superiority

The other element making the organism of the Hebrews in the Christian countries extremely dangerous and multiplying a hundred-fold the abhorrence of them there is the superstition taken from the Talmud which holds that the Israelites not only form the highest race of mankind, which is totally comprised of races inferior to them, but also are solely, by full divine right, entitled to the possession of the entire universe, which they will one day enjoy. Because of this insane belief, Judaism has insinuated itself everywhere; moreover it can be said to be the central dogma of what the Jews call their religion. Therein lies the depraved doctrine of messianism that they profess from the third century of the Christian era, when the Babylonian Talmud was compiled, until today, and whoever, following the course of time, traces the commentaries of the greatest rabbis, will find it to be unwavering and always identical, as in our time is revealed by the Jew Disraeli, who became Lord Beaconsfield and head of Great Britain's government. He, who assumed the Anglican colour in order to rise to power, wrote in his famous book, Coningsby:

No penal law, no physical torment will ever cause a superior race to be devoured by an inferior race. The bastardized and persecuting one (our Christian one) disappears, but the pure-bred and persecuted one (the Jewish one) reigns and endures. It is thus in vain that they rush upon us Jews, contaminating and humiliating us, while they dissolve through centuries and decades of centuries: the Jew's soul rises up and takes up its way again, getting ahead, and in our days already exercises an influence over Europe's affairs that is thoroughly miraculous.

He added this after having assured that "the modern world is governed by persons far different than is imagined by those who cannot see what is going on behind the scenes"; and by this he intended to say that the Jews manipulate everything from the shadows.

If it were necessary we could accumulate proofs of this proud belief, culling them throughout the centuries. But doing so would be superfluous. The falsification of the prophetic tradition regarding the Messiah and His kingdom among the people, which is the Church, already began with the destruction of Jerusalem and the dispersion or enslavement of the Jewish people by the victorious Romans. Suetonius handed down its memory in his Lives of the 12 Caesars: Percrebuerat Oriente toto vetus et constans opinio, esse in fatis, ut eo tempore Judei profecti rerum potirentur. [In the entire East had spread the old and consistent opinion that it had been prophesied that at that time the Jews would come forth and would possess the power.] And, in his historiography, Tacitus corroborated this: Pluribus persuasio inerat, antiquis sacerdotum literis contineri eo ipso tempore fore ut valesceret Oriens, profectique Judei rerum potirentur. [Many held the opinion that it was contained in the ancient writings of the priests that this was the time when the East would become strong and the Jews would come forth and possess the power.] Similarly speaks St. Jerome, who was most competent as to the true and false opinions of the Jews.

Drach, a convert to Christianity and a profound expert on the Talmud and the Jewish mysteries, explains the doctrine of the ancient and modern teachers of Israel as follows:

The Messiah has to be a great conqueror who puts the nations under the yoke of the Jews. They will anew take possession of the Holy Land, victorious and loaded with the riches taken from the infidels. The purpose of the coming of the Messiah will be to liberate the dispersed Israel, leading it back into the Holy Land and establishing a temporal kingdom there that is to last until the end of the world. Then all peoples will be subject to the Jews, who will treat the persons and their goods at their discretion. The scholars and rabbis of the Synagogue routinely end their discourse by invoking this triumph and all of the blessings which they expect from the coming of a Messiah of such a nature. But one of these blessings is the greatly desired moment of the slaughter of the Christians and of the complete extermination of the Nazarene's sect.⁴

Messiah Replaced by a Messianic People: Man as God

The same concept, although slightly changed, is cherished by these modernized Jews who no longer give great weight to the rancid legends of the Talmud. The actual Messiah is replaced by a messianic people, (v.) i.e., the Israelites, predestined (but they don't know how or why) to rule over all mankind. Such a concept, among others of recent times, comes from Cromieux, the apostle of such a concept and a main founder of current Jewish power, who commented on it:

Israel will never have an end. Its little family is the greatness of God. A messianism of the new ages will be born and unfold. A Jerusalem of a new order, sacredly situated between the East and the West, will succeed the double-faced city of the Caesars and the Popes.

Universal Liberty Promised

Stamm, a German Hebrew, has published a book, in order to announce to the world that "the reign of universal liberty on earth will be established by the Jews"; and we have seen the beautiful liberty which these insane ones dream of for the Christians. Another one of them, native of Frankfurt, wrote already in 1858: 

Rome, which 1800 years ago, laid the Jews under its feet, will have to fallin ruins through the intervention of this very same people, that by doing so, will spread its light over the universe and bring the greatest advantage to mankind.

Thus it has to be kept the same, that Judaism is always an alien and always inimical power in those countries where it takes root, but also a power tending to overwhelm and dominate the inhabitants, by virtue of its inherent dogmatic and civil, juridical and national constitutions. And Judaism does so by all sorts of evil tricks and perfidy. 

Non-Jews Seen as Beasts: a Talmudic Principle

What just has been said is proven by the doctrines no less than by the most evident everyday facts. 

As for the doctrines, here we have some central points of the moral-religious instruction which are imposed and inculcated by the Talmud, the supreme codex of this entire race. The basic principle of Jewish morals in which originate the rules for practical behavior toward one's fellow man, states that other men, compared to the Hebrew, are no more than animal beasts. The Talmud exclaims: 

O seed of Abraham, the Lord has spoken to you through Ezekiel's mouth: you are my sheepfold; that is, you are human beings, whereas the other peoples of this world are not at all humans, but beasts.⁵

The Jew who rapes and kills a non-Jewish woman must be absolved in court, because he has done evil to "a mare".⁶ Maimonides, who is considered infallible in the ghettos, states in his treatise on homicide that the Israelite who kills a goy (vi.) or a non-Jewish man cannot be punished. Doesn't that suffice? One of the books of Israel that has authority seriously asserts that "the non-Jews are black animals" or, in other words, wild boars.⁷ And so in such a way are treated all those who aren't of its nationality by this race, that by its sexual excesses, was disgusting even to the Romans of the Caesars' epoch, so that Tacitus called it proiectissima ad libidinem gens [a people wholly addicted to debauchery].

Enough? No, for the Talmud elevates the Jew above all humankind; and teaches that an Israelite is more pleasing to God than the angels of paradise; that to strike a Jew is to strike God; that the non-Hebrew, he who thrashes a son of Jacob, deserves no less than death. 

Another edifying chapter of Jewish morals is the one that, in the Talmud, concerns the oath. Three Jews sitting in judgment have the power to nullify any oath and to absolve from any promise whatsoever. Drach well explains this ceremony, which is called Kol-Nidrei. The Talmud affirms that the three judges possess the same authority as the Tribunal of Moses.⁸

Conscience Dissolved

Aside from this, the Hebrews have their varying external rituals and their varied formulas or paraphrases by means of which they intend to take not or to invalidate the oath, to which nevertheless they swear. This entire accumulation of malfeasances, which they and their loyalists have calumniously imputed to the Jesuits' morals, conversely is practised by themselves with unscrupulous religiosity. Better still, the night before the feast of Kippur, they absolve themselves, through certain ones of their ceremonies and contradictions, of all bonds of conscience with which they have contracted under a more formal binding force, thus fulfilling [or not fulfilling] all of their obligations of conscience, past, present, or future ones, just as it pleases them and redounds to their advantage. Moreover, according to the Talmud, in a case between a Christian and a Hebrew, the Jewish judge must always, as far as possible, let his fellow Jew win.

In a similar manner, this codex of morals permits, and even commands, that the Jew appropriate to himself things lost by a non-Jew. Behold the incredible reason: "Returning something to the non-Jew means to make oneself unworthy of God's mercy."⁹ And, indeed, Maimonides reminds of the strict obligation of practising this trickery: "Who returns something", he wrote, "commits a sin, because he increases the power of the impious."¹⁰

The legitimacy of robbing Christians is impudently taught by the rabbinical schools. "Since the life of the idolaters (as Christians are considered by Jews) was left to the Israelites' discretion, their wealth is still much more left to their [the Israelites'] discretion." This is the doctrine of Rabbi Joseph Albo.¹¹ The possessions of Christians, according to Bava Baria, are or ought to be like the desert or the seashore: the first one to occupy them will be their owner, provided that this first one be an Israelite. Such is the teaching of Rabbi Pfefferkorn.¹² "It is permissible to cheat a Christian as much as possible. Usury imposed on a Christian is not only permissible but even a good work, and for this reason it is lawful to impose it on holy days also. But a Christian is so much to be plundered [by usury] that he remains ruined."¹³ These rabbinical documents are considered holy.

That these flowers of Jewish morality which contain still more turpitudes with which we don't wish to dirty our pen don't fall on deaf ears, is known from experience by all the nations being afflicted with this race. The illustrious Maxime du Camp has already published a monograph on the Jewish thieves of Paris which would merit being translated into every language.¹⁴ But Colonel Cerfbeer, a Jew by birth, calculated in his 1847 studies in France, the number of Jews convicted of robbery doubled, relative to the number of French convicted for the same reason, and he added this warning of inestimable value:

What differentiates the Hebrew delinquents from the others is that their crimes are of a more malignant perversity because they are the result of premeditation. Such crimes include sponging, falsification, usury, legacy-hunting, premeditated bankruptcy, contraband, counterfeiting, fraudulent selling of hypothecated property, extortion, swindle and fraud of all sorts and with every sort of aggravating circumstances.¹⁵

Except that, forty years later, Talmudic ethics has made further progress, the worst of it being that, thanks to the civil equality Judaism now has in nearly all of Europe, most of the crimes committed by Jews go unpunished one way or another, and are sometimes even rewarded by knights' ribbons and crosses or baronial titles.

Why were the Jews Persecuted? Pre-Christian Era History

Thus whoever investigates the facts and documents objectively, cannot but conclude that there has never been an ambition more mad, more tenacious, and more impudently confessed than that of the Jews. They arrogate to themselves the conquest of the world, the rule over all the reigns which they will have defeated, the subjugation of all the peoples. And they ascribe themselves the right to lay claim to all of the wealth of the universe as their legitimate possessions, given them by God. Indeed, as one reads and hears about a handful of men about 8 million throwing this monstrous challenge in the face of the one and a half billion others and seriously boasting about one day defeating them, one imagines being in a dream!

Nevertheless, they never stop lamenting the persecutions which they underwent in the past and which they are still now undergoing here and there! But these persecutions were and are the consequence of their mad wickedness. Everywhere they paraded and parade their avid ambition; everywhere they bragged and brag about their divinely given superiority over the peoples among whom they lived and live; everywhere they showed and show themselves to be intractable, hostile and malevolent towards the nations that tolerated or tolerate them and even bestowed or bestow upon them the blessing of the right of citizenship.

A universal effect always corresponds to an equal cause. The aversion to Judaism did not only rise among Christians because of the Jews' deicide on Calvary but also existed and continues existing among the Mussulmen, the Arabs, the Persians, as it already prevailed with the Greeks, the Egyptians, and the Romans.

The famous P. Ratisbonne, an Israelite by birth, and through his conversion turned into a fervent servant of Christ, discussed very wisely the persecutions that arose in every age and place against his ancient fellows:

The Jews' evil is that they don't understand to open their eyes to recognize the true causes of the persecution inflicted on them in all centuries and without peer in history. Down through the ages many people were maltreated by others. These tortures, however, came to an end and moreover didn't take place all over the world simultaneously. But the persecution of the Jews is marked by its perpetuity and its universality. Thus it is a unique case which cannot be explained in purely human terms.¹⁶

Hegemony through Usury

And because of that the author traced things back to the designs of God's justice, which, through the persecution of this people, the emulator on earth of the satanic rebellion in heaven, proves itself to be inexorable.

None the less, the human causes of this fact, unique in history, are due to their insatiable appetite for enriching themselves via usury, for predomination through malice and for dominion by occupying and snatching up in the states as much as possible.

The Converted Lehmann Brothers to Their Fellow Jews

It is the immutable law of the Hebrews' prosperity in any given country that they always prosper at the expense of its inhabitants' wealth and liberty. Some years before Rome fell into the claws of the secret societies, the famous Lehmann brothers, Jewish converts, became Catholic priests. In one of their works which merits deep meditation they wrote:

O Israelites of Rome, we know the attitudes of our people. If you were given the property rights you wish, we wager that thirty, or at most, fifty years hence, Rome would no longer belong to the Catholic Christians but be in your hands.¹⁷

And the prophecy is about to come to pass. The city of Rome rapidly approaches the yoke which will subjugate her, materially and economically, to the Hebrews' dominion, as it already has occurred in nearly all the metropoles of the major states of Europe.

But it is just this subjugation burdening the European peoples in economic, moral and political aspects that constitutes the kernel of the Jewish question in our time. 

1869 Leipzig Synod advises Masonic Principles

In the last century to whose advantage has the revolution been made which has upset the entire Christian order of practically every state? Not to the advantage of the peoples that it has left oppressed; not to the advantage of the monarchies which have emerged weakened from it. Looked at more closely, it must be said that it has solely been made to the advantage of Judaism, which by virtue of the lying principles of liberty, fraternity and equality, has undisturbedly succeeded in coloring over its dark plan of obtaining the predominancee and this to an extent never before attained a plan because of which the sword of divine wrath dispersed its adherents all over the earth. If there is any case at all where the jurists' dictum comes true Is fecit cui prodest [He has done it who profits from it] then it is here.

On June 29, 1869, a great synod of Israelites, having come together from all over Europe, took place in Leipzig, presided over by Dr. Lazarus of Berlin. Between the more rigorous Talmudists and the modernized ones, which, although being lax and imbued with rationalism, share with the others their hatred towards Christianity, lengthy disputes arose. But finally all of them unanimously approved this proposal put forward by Dr. Philipson of Bonn, and strongly supported by Astruc, the High Rabbi of Belgium:

The synod recognizes that the development and practice of modern principles offers the most solid security for the present and future prosperity of Judaism and its followers. These principles contain the most efficacious seeds for its thriving vitality and its further expansion. 

And in effect, the modern principles, or the so-called rights of man, were invented by Jews, in order to cause the people and their governments to divest themselves of their defensive arms against Judaism, and to multiply the offensive arms redounding to this latter's advantage. Once having acquired absolute civil liberty and equality in every sphere with Christians and the nations, the dam which previously had held back the Hebrews was opened for them, and in a short time, like a devastating torrent, they penetrated and cunningly took over everything: gold, trade, the stock market, the highest appointments in political administrations, in the army, and in diplomacy; public education, the press, everything fell into their hands or into the hands of who were inevitably depending upon them. The result was that in our days Christian society encounters in the very laws and constitutions of the states the biggest obstacle which hinders it from shedding the yoke of Hebrew audacity, imposed under the guise of liberty.

This is the source of the presumption of Judaism, which, as said Prince Metternich, supplies the states with "first-class revolutionaries", and of the arrogance by which it already predicts its definitive triumph over Christianity. In Paris, Stern, a Hebrew, was able to exclaim in front of a big audience: "Within ten years, I don't know how a Christian will still be able to live." And this Croesus, who among the princes of Israel is Hirsch, watching from the top of the staircase of his regal palace the elite of the nobles of France coming up the steps for a party in his rooms, said to his son: "Do you see these people? In twenty years all of them will be either our sons-in-law or our door-keepers." And, unfortunately, he was right.

These are the summarized and epitomized causes of the Jewish question. In a further article we will demonstrate its principal effects.