The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 16

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

58 MinutesPG-13Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson is a researcher, writer, and former professor of history and political science, specializing in Russian history and political ideology.Pete and Dr. Johnson continue a project in which Pete reads Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together," and Dr' Johnson provides commentary.Dr Johnson's PatreonRusJournal.orgTHE ORTHODOX NATIONALISTDr. Johnson's Radio Albion PageDr. Johnson's Books on AmazonPete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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I get him on the brain. I always call him Dr. Jones. Sorry about that. But there are worse people you could, whose names we could invoke there. He's a friend of mine. I've known him for a long time. His career trajectory is remarkably similar to mine.

He is he's done so much And if you haven't read his material You're you're impoverishing yourself But unlike Unlike Saturday I'm here joined with Marcel The big black Bombay cat Who is extremely mellow

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Generally examining Jewish commercial and industrial entrepreneurship, or Ashonski justly wrote at the start of the 1870. is that the question about Jewish business activity is the essence of the Jewish question, on which fate of Jewish people in any country depends. An entrepreneur from the quick mercantile, resourceful Jewish tribe turns over a ruble five times, while a Russian turns it two times. There is stagnation, drowsiness, and monopoly among the Russian merchants. For example, after the expulsion of the Jews from Kiev, life there had become more expensive. The strong side of Jewish participation in commercial life lies in the acceleration of

capital turnover, even of the most insignificant working capital. Debunking the opinion the so-called Jewish corporate spirit gives them a crucial advantage in any competition that Jewish always support each other, having their bankers, contractors, and carriers, or Shansky attributed the Jewish corporate spirit only to social and religious matters and not to commerce, where he claimed Jews fiercely compete against each other, which is in contradiction with the Hazaka prescribing separation of spheres of activity, which, according to him, had gradually disappeared following the change in legal standing of the Jews. He had also contested the opinion that any Jewish trades does not enrich the country, that it exclusively consists of exploitation of the productive

and working classes, and that the profit of the Jews is a pure loss for the nation. He disagreed, suggesting the Jews constantly look for and find new sales markets and thereby open new sources of earnings for the poor Christian population as well. Well, Orsansky being Jewish himself, Sultan Eatson trusts him quite a bit throughout here as a Jewish authority, and of course he was. You know, I grew up in New Jersey, Union County, a heavily Jewish area. I went from my undergraduates. I went to the University of Hartford, substantially Jewish, quietly Jewish university.

I mean, I know Jews fairly well. And while inter-Jewish competition is always substantial, they can very quickly turn it around and in the face of the goyum all of a sudden that goes away if there's a threat, even if they have to create the threat. Even when I was in college, they did it. One of these Jews went to the,

we had a brook growing through the university and they put a swan stick in using rocks. It made it into the school paper and everything and I you know it was very obvious to me I wasn't that I mean I was getting a spotlight at the time but it wasn't obvious that this was you know clearly the Jews were always doing this they they concoct these threats that aren't too bad but bad enough to scare you know scare the older Jews into ending intra-Jewish competition and realizing that the guillium is is the threat so so they go back and forth.

But what the negative aspect of this, the exploitation, the productive and working classes, well, that's what Karl Marx said in his Judean frog, which unfortunately isn't read nearly as much as it should be. Of course, that changed later on. The anarchist movement went after Marx for being not only Jewish, but a creature of the Rothschilds. Bakunen in particular said his whole system, was blueprinted by the Rothschild family,

which is why he didn't really talk about what the future was going to be. And he was very strategic about that. Engels pretty much the same way. So the profit for Jews, pure loss for the nation. Well, at our time, it absolutely is. Because now you have a self-conscious oligarchy. You can't talk in terms of markets. You can't talk in terms of what, you know,

Friedrich Hayek spoke about oligarchy has its own dynamics and is one of the reasons that we're called conspiracy theories because they don't know that. They think that markets are, you know, normies think that markets still function. They talk about the oil market, as if that's an actual thing.

So, especially when the society becomes totally financialized, industry is sent abroad. agriculture is dominated by agribusiness there's really

nothing but but the banks they call this economic growth that is pure exploitation and what is left of the working class is completely exploited but that certainly was the case then and speaking of Michael Jones his book Barron Metal

goes into great detail going back to the Renaissance as to how specifically that works out that Jewish profit is always a zero some game. Yeah, it's interesting here, too, that they make the claim that you just see how things that were debated back then about how, oh, you know, it lowers the prices for everybody thereby it makes everybody richer. You just, that's basically the default now, that as long as as the prices are low and not high, we're doing well. As long as the prices are low, we're not being

exploited. It's a positive in this open air strip mall that we operate in. Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Yeah. All right. Ready for huge savings? We'll mark your calendars from November 28 to 30th because the Liddle Newbridge Warehouse sale is back.

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to turn to his one of their own their women of doing to do you know

on the people who can't do people tariff in the country there

are a coocto too full of Irgid Pongue Jewish commercial

and industrial entrepreneurship in Russia had quickly recovered from the two noticeable blows

of 1861 the abolition of serfdom and the abolition of wine farming the financial role of Jews

had become particularly significant by the 1860s when previous activities amassed capital in their hands, while liberation of peasants and the associated impoverishment of landowners created a huge demand for money on the part of landowners statewide. Jewish capitalists played a prominent role in organization of land banks. The whole economic life of the country quickly changed in many directions and invariably Jewish determination, inventiveness, and capital were keeping pace with the changes and were even ahead of them. Jewish capital flowed, for example,

to the sugar industry of the Southwest, so that in 1872, one-fourth of all sugar factories had a Jewish owner, as well as one-third of joint-stock sugar companies. And so the flour milling and other factory industries, both in the palest settlement and outside. After the Crimean War, an intrusive construction of railroads was underway.

All kinds of industrial and commercial enterprises, joint stock companies and banks arose, and many Jews found wide application for their strengths and talents in those undertakings, with a few of them getting very rich, incredibly fast. Jews were involved in the grain business for a long time, but their role had become particularly significant after the peasant liberation and from the beginning of large-scale railroad construction. Already in 1878, 60% of grain export was in the hands of Jews, and afterwards it was almost completely controlled by Jews. And thanks to Jewish industrialists, lumber had become the second most important article of Russian export after grain. Woodcutting contracts in the

acquisition of forest estates by Jews were not prohibited since 1835. The lumber industry and timber trade were developed by Jews. Also, Jews had established timber export. The timber trade is a major aspect of Jewish commerce and at the same time a major area of concentration of capital. Intensive growth of the Jewish timber trade began in the 1860s to 1870s, when as a result of the abolition of serfdom, landowners unloaded a great number of estates and forests on the market. The 1870s were the years of the first massive surge of Jews into industries, such as manufacturing, flax, food, stuff, leather, cabinetry, and furniture industries, while tobacco industry had long since been concentrated in the hands of the Jews. I think there's a giant different

between life under a monarchy. That's one of the reasons I'm a monarchist. I've been a monarchist my whole life. And our present life, life under a so-called republic, is that while Jews were getting wealthy, as it says very quickly, the Rothschilds were investing in railroads.

And then later on in the century, the discovery of oil in what we call Azerbaijan near Baku today, attracted even more attention, both from the Rockefeller's and the Rothschilds. They failed to capture the state. And this makes all the difference. So, of course, it was going to be, you know,

the monarchy for the most part, you know, until 1917, was not going anywhere. So they had to learn to work with it. It's like Chabad having to learn to work with Putin and Russia now. He's not going anywhere. He's more popular than ever. They are not. And it's very important to note the, I mean, again, the level of exploitation was, was extraordinary.

But a lot of this stuff, this is what I said last time, that the abolition of serfdom didn't really change a whole lot. If anything, it improved a lot of the Jews for this, for this very reason. A bit of individualism, for better or for worse, septicept in, uh, seeped into Russian society. So, yeah, they, you know, these trades, Jews already had the contacts abroad. They already had the credit at their disposal. But they never captured the state. They never captured the currency. Today, you know, I use the word regime with a capital R to refer to the ruling classes of Western Europe and to some extent, Japan and South Korea.

that derives from the fact that older categories in political science don't work anymore because there isn't a huge distinction between the private and the public sector. There's not a big distinction between propaganda and news. There's not a big distinction between Hollywood action films and foreign policy. If you hear how the debates go and how these things are discussed, it's one informally organized oligarchy, very wealthy people, Jews predominate, but they're certainly not alone.

And if there's even a handful of them, they're going to predominate anyway, they haven't captured the state, they privatized the state. The state for the most part is a privatized entity. You can't even talk about the public sector anymore, not even in military.

category, so much is privatized even there to the great detriment of the boys who fight there, the Gentile boys who fight there. So this is a key element. The state was not going to be privatized, the matter how wealthy the Jews got, and that's one of the reasons that Zardiglis I received his ritualistic murder in 1917. In the words of Jewish authors, in the epoch of Alexander II, the epic of Alexander II, wealthy Jewish bourgeoisie was completely loyal. So the monarchy. The great wealth of the Ginsbergs, the Pollyakovs, the Brodskis, the Zaitzeves, and the Balakovskis, the Balakovskis and the Ashkenazis was amassed exactly at that time. As already mentioned, the tax farmer Esville Ginsburg had founded

his own bank in St. Petersburg. Samuel Pollyakov had built six railroad lines. The three Paliakoff brothers were granted hereditary nobility titles. Thanks to railroad construction, which was guaranteed and to a large extent subsidized by the government, the prominent capital of the Paliokovs, Blyok, Varshovsky, and others were created. Needless to say, many more smaller fortunes were made as well, such as the AI-Zax, the former assistant to E. Ginsberg in tax farming, who had moved to St. Petersburg and created the savings and loan bank there. He arranged jobs for his and his wife's many relatives at the enterprises he was in charge of. I want to make it clear.

It was Zorn Nicholas was murdered in 1918, overthrown in October, you know, February, 1917. And I should know this because I've written several books about it. But the two, you know, February, October, that occurred in 1917, but they didn't get around to murdering in ritual until 1918. Sorry about that. No problem. Not just the economy, the entire public life has been transformed in the course of Alexandrian reforms, opening new opportunities from a curial Jewry. In the government resolutions permitting certain groups of Jews with higher educations enter government service, there was no restriction in regard to the movement up the job ladder. With the attainment of the full state advisor rank, a Jew could be elevated to the status of hereditary nobility on common grounds.

In 1864, the land reform began. affected all social classes in strata. Its statute did not in any way restrict the eligibility of Jews to vote in county administrative elections or occupy elected country offices. In the course of 26 years of the statute being in effect, Jews could be seen in many places among town counselors and in the municipal executive councils. Because of the abolition of the Cajal, you're going to start seeing more individualism, even affecting Jews, who, despite the fact that wherever they go, they're on the far left of the political spectrum, you do see some cases of patriotism during warfare. the names we've already discussed and the bank of creations

of those names you've got to come up again and again until the revolution but Jews were were known to be Jews they were almost exclusively urban

and given their numbers we talked about population growth yeah they were elected to many of these local local offices and even even the nobility which really essentially

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on as to go ahead of the people cariff in the same. There's era of cooctuagin. Full of nis more in Ergird Pongaii. I mean, you see that in just in the life of the neo-conservatives. The neoconservatives bounce from one side to the other depending on where the power is or even in the life of the Jewish social engineers

who created like, the Frankfurt School and the whole quote unquote woke ideology, where now since that has taken over and it started to attack them, their golem started to attack them, you see a whole bunch of formerly left-wing Jews moving to the right and saying, oh, you know, this has nothing to do with Judaism. This is about leftism. And we're right, and we're right-wingers. Yeah, and you see that with these neocons. I've been reading them for years. and I think they're being very, very dishonest. They make some interesting points.

Some of them were former hippies, like Horowitz, who actually is a good writer, and I do enjoy his work. He exposed the entire agenda of the 60s left. But yeah, in general, we can say that they're on the left of the political spectrum, and in so doing, they organize whatever my knowledge. groups they think they can in every country they go to as well of course media and banking for the sake of having a reserve arm it's like it's like these jews who suddenly you know i'm seeing

all these jewish names in the anti-immigration writing again some very good stuff but i start to notice that they're they're thinking you know these guys coming from honduras and el salvador you know they haven't been brainwashed with the holocaust nonsense uh from birth like your typical normal American has been maybe bringing these people in and they're Catholics of all things maybe bringing these people in huge numbers is not the best idea that this is a small minority but I'm seeing Jewish names all over the Gatstone Institute and it's clearly they have a different agenda they don't really care about us they care about the fact that maybe bringing in Arabs and and Mexicans who have a far more objective view

of the Jews and your typical norming American is a bad idea. It's a similar phenomenon. Similarly, the judicial statutes of 1864 stipulated no restrictions for Jews. As a result of the judicial reform, an independent judicial authority was created, and in place of private mediators, the legal bar guild was established as an independent class with a special corporate structure, and notably even with the unappealable right to refuse legal assistance to an applicant on the basis of moral evaluation of his person, including evaluation of his political views. And there were no restrictions on Jews entering the class. Gessen wrote,

Apart from the legal profession in which Jews had come to prominence, we begin to notice them, we begin noticing them in court registries among investigative officials and in the ranks of public prosecutors. In some places, we already see Jews in the magistrate and district court offices. They also served as jurors without any quota restrictions. during the first decades after the reform. Remarkably, during civil trials, the Jews were taking conventional jurors, oaths without any provision made for the Jewish religion.

Well, they always have cold midr, you know. At the same time, municipal reform was being implemented. Initially, it was proposed to restrict Jewish representation among town counselors and in the municipal executive councils by 50%, but because of objections by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the city statute of 1870 had reduced the maximal share to one-third. Further, Jews were forbidden from occupying the post of mayor. It was feared that otherwise Jews, the Jewish internal cohesion and self-segregation would allow them to obtain a leading role in town institutions and give them an advantage in resolution of public

affairs. On the other hand, Jews were equalized in electoral rights. Earlier, they could vote only as a faction, which led to increased influence of Jews in all city governing matters, though in the free city of Odessa, these rules were in place from the very beginning. Later, it was adopted in Kishenev, Kishenev, too. Generally speaking, in the south of Russia, the social atmosphere was not permeated by contempt toward Jews, unlike in Poland, where it was diligently cultivated. Well, in Poland. What is that? What, diligently cultivated? Yeah, I know. I had the same, I had the same reaction when I first read this years ago. The nobility was anything but anti-Jewish.

Even in the time we're talking about here, I don't know. Of course, he's quoting somebody. But this notion that they're fearing, they said otherwise Jewish internal cohesion and self-segregation will allow them to obtain a leading role in town institutions and give them an advantage in resolution of public issues. well that's going to happen anyway this is the problem

and they still haven't fully wrapped their brains around it yet you don't need that many you only need one to bring a suit like say in America you know to tear down a Christmas display

and they're not taking into consideration the fact that they could buy their Shabbas Goyim whenever they need to especially with the rise of freemationary which is continuing amongst the elite. You know, this is going to happen, at least at the local level, regardless. This is why it was so important.

And I'll repeat again, the monarchy was the only thing that was keeping them from taking over the state entirely and becoming another British oligarchy. Thus, perhaps, the best period in Russian history for Jews went on. And access to civil service was open for Jews. the easing of legal restrictions and the general atmosphere of the age of great reforms had affected the spirit of the Jewish people beneficially. It appeared that under the influence of the age of great reforms,

the traditional daily life in the Jewish populace had turned toward the surrounding world and that jury had begun participating as far as possible in the struggle for rights and liberty. There was not a single area in the economic, public, and spiritual life of Russia, unaffected by the creative energies of Russian Jews. That's a great term. Yeah, I thought they were oppressed in Zarath, Russia. And this is a Jewish author. Yeah.

Say that again? This is a Jewish author here. He's quoting. And remember that from the beginning of the century, the doors of Russian general education were open wide for Jews, though it took a long time for the unwilling Jews to enter. Later, a well-known lawyer and public figure, YAL title, thus recalled the Mozer Grammar Schools of the 1860s.

The director of the school often appealed to the Jews of Moser, telling them about the benefits of education and about the desire of government to see more Jews in grammar schools. Unfortunately, such pleas had fallen on deaf ears. So they were not enthusiastic to enroll during the first years after the reform, even when they were offered free education paid for by the state, and when school charters declared the schools are open to everybody regardless of confession. The Ministry of National Education tried to make admission of Jews into general education institutions easier. It exhibited benevolence toward young Jewish students. Here, El-Joich had particularly distinguished the famous surgeon, N.I. Pirogolf,

then a trustee of the Novorizik's, N. Rorses School District, suggesting that he had strongly contributed to the alleviation of hostility among my tribesmen towards goyish schools and sciences. Soon after the ascension of Alexander II, the Minister of Education, thus formulated the government plan. It is necessary to spread by any means a teaching of subjects of general education while avoiding interference with the religious education and children, allowing parents to take care of it without any restrictions or hindrances on the part of the government. Education in state public schools was made mandatory for children of Jewish merchants

and honorary citizens. This is just a new version of the, you know, if we settle them on the land, they'll become good farmers and who knows, maybe even good Russians. It's not how they work. Every indulgence has been laid out to these people. But again, it only takes a handful for them to have a massive influence on whatever institution we're talking about. They didn't have to pay for anything. But once the Cahal collapsed, this sort of thing was going to gradually occur regardless.

Building markets, making money, you had no choice but to approach the Goyish schools and science. Yet all these measures, privileges, and invitations did not lead to a drastic increase in Jewish admissions. By 1863, the share of Jewish students in Russian schools reached 3.2%, that is, equal to their percentage in the population of the empire. Apart from the rejection of Russian education by the jury, there was a certain influence from Jewish public leaders who now saw their task differently. With the advent of the age of great reforms, the Friends of Enlightenment had merged the question of mass education with the question of the legal situation of the Jews. That is, they began struggling for the immediate removal of all remaining restrictions.

After the shock of the Crimean War, such a liberal possibility seemed quite realistic. I have to clarify something. I hinted at it before, and I have a substantial paper on this, the Barnes Review, published it. I've said before that Russia did not lose the Crimean War. The Allies didn't achieve what they wanted to. Same thing goes for the war with Japan in 1905. But you wouldn't know that from reading the newspapers, whether Jewish or otherwise.

I mean, there was always a tremendous freedom in the newspapers, no matter what the state tried to do. But they painted this defeatist idea in the most sensational headlines that are still being taken as fact today. These, so, but

if you read your typical Russian history textbook, they're going to say, because Russia lost so badly in the Crimean War, Russians learn that it was because they have this antiquated and backward system, and therefore these reforms were absolutely necessary to bring them closer to liberal democracy, or, you know, worse to that effect. I've read that so many times. And of course, none of it was true. The Russians took on all of Europe, won most of these battles. and then that entire group of people, this huge army arrayed against them, including right up into Poland itself. There were battles in the Baltic that people don't normally realize. It was precisely because of their institutions that they did so well. But if you read the newspapers at the time, you wouldn't know it. I guarantee the same thing for World War I. the media has always been this this vile, despicable group of people,

no matter what their background is, that wanted to sell newspapers, wanted to paint things in the worst and most shocking colors. None of this stuff is true. Yeah, the Crimean War certainly was a shock that they had to take on all of Europe and all the propaganda, Russian propaganda from the Western press,

went nuts. And this was one of the real starting points of it, but Russia did not lose it. And even if they did, it was against an entire continent. But after 1874, following enactment of the new military statute, which granted military service privileges to educated individuals, almost a magical change happened with Jewish education. Jews began entering public schools and mass. Yeah, yeah. I'm shocked to hear this.

I mean, you ever hear the old Bruce Lee? Bruce Lee had a phrase that become like water which means you have to adapt to, I mean, these are the quickest adapters to every situation. It's all about education now. Ready for huge savings?

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Sometimes they attain titles of nobility. In the 1870s, an enormous increase in the number of Jewish students in public education institutions occurred, leading to creation of numerous degreed Jewish intelligence. Uh-oh. In 1880, what? I said, uh-oh, that's never a good thing. In 1881, Jews composed around 9% of all university students. By 1887, their share increased at 13.5%, which means one out of every seven students. In some universities, Jewish representation was much higher.

In the Department of Medicine of Karcoff University, Jews comprised 42% of the student body. In the Department of Medicine of Odessa University, 31%. university, 31%. And in the school of law, this is the dangerous one, 41%. That was me adding commentary there saying this is the dangerous one. Yeah, so the school of law is 41%. In all schools of the country, the percentage of Jews doubled to 12% from 1870 to 1880, and compared to 1865, it had quadrupled. In the Odessa school district, it reached 32% by 1886, and in some schools, it was 75% and even more. When DA Tolstoy, the Minister of Education from 1866, had begun school reforms in 1871 by introducing the classical education standard with emphasis on antiquity, the ethnic Russian

intelligentsia boiled over while Jews did not mind. I think what he means by boiled over is that if the emphasis was on classical, you know, Greece and Rome, Mesopotamia before that, possibly, if that's what he's saying, then the stress was not on Russian history or even Byzantine history, which was fine by the Jews, because this was for the most part, a non-Christian era.

To a great extent, these schools had become very secular. And even some of the seminaries, where the seminary where Stalin went, was teaching secular topics all over the place. and it was done in Latin. It wasn't done in Slavonic.

It wasn't done in Russian. So, but yes, you're right. This is the law with trial by jury. It's extremely dangerous. And they took the threat of conscription, which would only affect a handful of them anyway, and took that into a massive exodus, mind the term, into the professions.

And this is when the revolutionary movement began to form. This is when your average Russian began to look very suspiciously, your Jews. And now that will boil over as time goes on. However, for a while, these educational developments affected only the Jewish bourgeoisie and intelligentsia. The wide masses remain faithful to the Kedars and Yeshivas, as the Russian elementary school offered nothing in the way of privilege. The Jewish masses remained in isolation as before due to specific conditions of their internal and outside lives. Propagation of modern universal culture was extremely slow and new things took root with great difficulty among the masses of people living in scheddels and towns of the Palos settlement in the atmosphere of very strict religious traditions and discipline.

Concentrated within the Palo of Settlement, the Jewish masses felt no need for the Russian language in their daily lives. as before, the masses were still confined to the familiar hold of the primitive Kedare education, and whoever had just learned how to read to immediately proceed to reading the Bible in Hebrew. From the government's point of view, opening up general education to Jews rendered state Jewish schools unnecessary. From 1862, Jews were permitted to take posts of senior supervisors in such schools, and so the personnel in these schools was being gradually replenished with committed Jewish pedagogues. I almost said it, who, acting in the spirit of the time, worked to improve mastery of Russian language and reduced teaching of specifically Jewish subjects.

In 1873, these specialized schools were partially abolished and partially transformed, some into primary specialized Jewish schools of general standard with three or six-year study courses and two specialized rabbinical schools in Vilna and Zidimir were transformed into teacher training colleges. The government sought to overcome Jewish alienation through integrated education. However, the commission for arranging the Jewish way of life was receiving reports from both the Jewish advocates, often high-ranked, and from opponents of reform who insisted that Jews must never be treated in the same way as other ethnic groups of the empire, that they should not be permitted, unrestricted residents all over the country. It might be

allowed only after all possible measures were tried to turn Jews into useful productive citizens in the places where they live now and when these measures would prove their success beyond any doubt. Well, if we're talking about the 1860s and 1870s now, two things had begun to form in this Jewish population. First of all, the split between these educated Jews and your people at the at the yeshiva um and that split widened as as time went by and the revolutionary movement of course comes from the comes from the former group the other thing was that very same revolutionary movement uh the terrorist movement which had tremendous jewish membership um and this is still or shansky i believe that he's quoting here that uh and of course

the the opposition to all of this is absolutely correct you can't treat them like any other ethnic group in the empire, they're completely different. And people like Ticomirov, who eventually are the great Russian monarchist writer, defected from the people's will, terrorist organization, who said, among many other things,

this is essentially a Jewish body, and this is the same body that's going to murder Alexander II. And we know now all possible measures to turn Jews and productive citizens they all failed. But what's the lesson from that? That they have nothing but contempt for their

for this country where they're living in exile. But the danger was this well-educated, now very wealthy, secular Jewish intelligentsia. They were the vanguard of the revolutionary movement from then on. Meanwhile, through the shock of ongoing reforms, especially of the abolition of burdensome

recruiting obligation in 1856 and through it the negation of the corresponding power of Jewish leaders of their communities and then of the repeal of the Associated Special Taxation of 1863, the administrative power of the community leaders was significantly weakened in comparison to their almost unrestricted authority of the past inherited from the Kahal abolished in 1844, that omnipotent arbiter of Jewish life. It was then at the end of the 1850s and during the 1860s when the baptized Jew Yaakov Brofman appeared before the government and later came out publicly in an energetic attempt at radical reformation of the Jewish way of life. He had petitioned the Tsar with a memorandum and was summoned to St. Petersburg for consultations in the synod.

He said about exposing and explaining the kahaal system, though a little bit late, since the kaha had already been abolished. For that purpose, he had translated into Russia and the resolutions of the Minskahaal issued in the period between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. Initially, he published a document in parts and later in 1869 and 1875 as a compilation, the book of Cajal, which revealed the all-encompassing absoluteness of the personal and material powerlessness of the community member. The book had acquired exceptional weight in the eyes of the authorities and was accepted

as an official guidebook. It won recognition, often by hearsay, in wide circles of Russian society. It was referred to as the Braffman's triumph and lauded as an extraordinary success. Later, the book was translated into French, German, and Polish. The book of Ghal managed to instill in a great number of individuals, a fanatical hatred towards Jews as to worldwide enemies of Christians. It had succeeded in spreading misconceptions about the Jewish way of life. The mission of Braffman, the collection and translation of the acts issued by the Kahal,

had alarmed the Jewish community. At their demand, a government commission, which included the participation of Jewish community representatives, was created to verify Brofman's work. Some Jewish writers were quick to come forward with evidence that Brofman's distorted some of the Kahal documents and wrongly interpreted others. One detractor had even had doubts about their authenticity. A century later in 1976, the short Jewish Encyclopedia confirmed the authenticity of the Brofman documents

and the good quality of his translation but blamed him for false interpretation. The Jewish Encyclopedia in 1994 pointed out that the documents published by Brofman are a valuable source for studying the history of the Jews in Russia at the end of the 18th and 19th and the beginning of the 19th century. Apropos the poet Kodosovich was the grand nephew of Brofman. Yaakov Rothman was a legitimate convert. You had a trickle of these into the Orthodox Church. My first teacher in this world was Donald Paul Rosenberg, who was a Jew, New York City,

who now has been on the parish council of the Cathedral in New York, of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad. X Jews are a tremendous source of information. I don't accept the protocols. The protocols are nonsense. But those same ideas were in this book of Kahal. And it's everything that you might think they would be. It explains Jewish behavior. It makes sense.

It contextualizes Jewish behavior. This utter contempt for the Goyim, for the society around them, and that their entire world revolves around exploiting the goyam as much as humanly possible and destroying any mention of Christ in public life. Not to mention it being a violently tyrannical system of rule that used this hatred of the goyam to keep poor members scared and hence following orders. Ready for huge savings? We'll mark your calendars from November 20.

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the Christian peoples cannot get rid of Jewish exploitation until everything that enables Jewish self-segregation is eliminated. Further, Braffman viewed the Talmud not as a national and religious code, but as a civil and political code, going against the political and moral development of Christian nations, and creating a Talmudic Republic. He insisted that Jews form a nation within a nation, that they do not consider themselves subject to national laws, that one of the main goals of the Jewish communities confused the Christians to turn the latter into no more than fictitious owners of their property. On a larger scale, he accused a society of the advancement of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia and the Alliance Israelite Universal for their role in

the Jewish world conspiracy. According to Gessen, according to Gessen's opinion, the only demand of the book of Gahal was to radical extermination of Jewish self-governance, regardless of all their civil powerlessness. The things that we know now, this was a huge deal at the time. I think Jewish behavior, even in the 187, by the 1870s, it was pretty clear what they were and what they wanted, and that there were going to be nothing, nothing but a problem. Now, I'm not sure what, you know, eliminating self-government, self-government would be. Getting them out of the country, humanely, with their property, was the only way to get out of this. Rather, they got deeper into, all countries in Europe did. You got deeper and deeper into it.

fictitious owners of property and the manipulation of the legal system, they could manipulate any legal system. Things that we know that we know in great detail from the Talmud on down is manifest in Jewish behavior. And this book of Kahul was explosive. And it actually was authentic despite the Jewish denial of it. And, you know, the interpretation, well, there's only, you know, if they say we're going to exploit going in there's because they're thinking they're saying this among themselves not in in public no one no one calls themselves evil uh they think that the exploitation was the will of god and therefore we're or our own will and therefore our survival is based on it they never consider

themselves uh you know whenever you hear a quote from lennon or hitler calling him we're going to destroy you know we're destroy all good people you know it's a lie no no one thinks that way. No one thinks in those terms. And you see that in the protocols. Here you have, you know, very complex understanding of exactly the Jewish mind. And this doesn't get the attention that it, that everything, other Jewish writings have received because this, when this first came out, this made sense to a lot of people. It contextualized Jewish behavior up until that point. The State Council, having mitigated the uncompromised style of the Book of Kahal, declared that even if administrative measures would succeed in erasing the outward differences between Jews and the rest of the population, it will not in the least eliminate the attitudes of seclusion and nearly the outright hostility toward Christians which thrive in the Jewish communities. This Jewish separation, harmful for the country, can be destroyed on one hand, can be destroyed on one hand through the weakening of social connections.

between the Jews and reduction of the abusive power of the Jewish elders to the extent possible, and on the other hand, through spreading of education among Jews, which is actually more important. And precisely, the latter process, education, was already underway in the Jewish community. A previous Jewish Enlightenment, the Hascala movement of the 1840s, I think it's pronounced Hascalabah, was predominantly based on German culture. They were completely ignorant of Russian culture. They were familiar with Goethe and Schiller, but did not know Pushkin and Lermontov. Until the mid-19th century, even educated Jews with rare exceptions, having mastered the German

language at the same time, did not know the Russian language and literature. However, as those masculum sought self-enlightenment and not the mass education of the Jewish people, the movement died out in the 1860s. In the 1860s, Russian influences burst into the Jewish society. Until then, Jews were not living, but rather residing in Russia, perceiving their problems as completely unconnected to the surrounding Russian life. Before the Crimean War, the Jewish intelligentsia in Russia acknowledged German culture exclusively, but after the reforms, it began gravitating towards Russian culture.

Mastery of the Russian language increases self-esteem. From now on, the Jewish Enlightenment developed under the strong influence of the Russian culture. The best Russian Jewish intellectuals abandoned their people no longer. They did not depart into the area of exclusive personal interests, but cared about making their people's lot easier. Well, after all, Russian literature taught that the strong should devote themselves to the weak. when people use phrases like Russian or Ukrainian culture

very abstractly I don't know what they're talking about here Jews have no bearing on Russian culture Russian culture at its root is orthodox it's communal it's liturgical

it's royalist this has always been the case so they could have no connection to it yeah they could have a writer like Pushkin that they might love that point part of it, not Gogol, not by any means. And Dostoevsky said the same kind of thing.

Their connection to Russian culture, I don't care if they're the best Russian speakers in the world. The only enlightenment that they can talk about is the negation of that culture, possibly using Western influences, but that's nothing new. But it's extremely important to note that now Russians in elite positions are getting the picture. Yeah, you could destroy the kahaal. You could disrupt their ties, one amongst the other, which is going to, I don't know how they're going to do that. But that doesn't mean Jews are going to cease hating Christians that they're going to see seeing themselves as the aristocrats of the world and eventually maybe one day taking over the country. That's not going away. We're going to do three more paragraphs and then it looks like a natural stopping place.

Okay. However, this new enlightenment of the Jewish masses was greatly complicated by the strong religiosity of said masses, which in the eyes of progressives was doubtlessly a regressive factor, whereas the emerging Jewish Enlightenment movement was quite secular for that time. Secularization of the Jewish public consciousness was particularly difficult because of the exceptional role religion played in the diaspora as the foundation of Jewish national consciousness over the course of the many centuries. And so the wide development of secular Jewish national consciousness began, in essence, only at the end of the century. It was not because of inertia, but due to a completely deliberate stance, as the Jew did not want risking separation from God. From his God, excuse me. So the Russian and Jewish intelligentsia met the Russian culture at the moment of birth. Moreover, it happened at the time when the Jewish intelligentsia was also developing expansively,

and at the time when Western culture gushed into Russian life, Buckle, Hegel, Hein, Hugo, Compton, and Spencer, it was pointed out that several prominent figures of the first generation of Russia's Jewish intellectuals was born in that period, 1860 to 1866, though there are equally distinguished Jewish revolutionary peers, Goetz, Gershuni, Azev, and Axelrod, were also born during those years and many other Jewish revolutionaries such as Axelrod and Dake

were born still earlier in the 1850s. In St. Petersburg in 1863, the authorities permitted establishment of the society for the spreading of enlightenment among the Jews in Russia, supported by the wealthy Esvold Ginsburg and A.M. Brodsky. Initially, during the first decade of its existence, its membership and activities were limited. The society was preoccupied with publishing activities, and not with school education, yet still its activities caused a violent reaction on the part of Jewish conservatives, who also protested against publication of the Pentateuch in Russian as a blasphemous encroachment on the holiness of the Torah. From the 1870s, the SSE provided financial support to Jewish

schools. Their cultural work was conducted in Russian with a concession for Hebrew, but not Yiddish, which was then universally recognized as a jargon. In the opinion, of Ossip Rabinovich, a beltrist, the spoiled jargon used by Jews in Russia cannot facilitate enlightenment because it is not only impossible to express abstract notions in it, but one cannot even express a decent thought with it. Instead of mastering the wonderful Russian language, we Jews and Russia stick to our spoiled, cacophonous, erratic, and poor jargon. In their day, the German masculum ridiculed the jargon even more sharp. It's very easy to forget that the overwhelming majority of Jews up until this point didn't speak Russian.

That's how isolated they were. And so they didn't see Russians as equals by any means. And of course, beyond that, you know, I personally have always seen Judaism from Qazardia to now as a political, racial, ethnic doctrine. that still uses some older religious imagery, that God is in fact them, that they manifest divinity in Tikunalam, as Moses Hess would say. So when they start talking about religion, we have to be very careful what exactly even did religious Jews mean?

They rejected the first five books of the Bible, and then when you read the Talmud, you know, this is mostly a secular book, all the various rules and stories and everything that's in there, everything from economics to go into the bathroom. You know, what religion is seems to me to be a mostly a way to mobilize their own public opinion. That God, they are the Messiah. That's their purpose. and that became manifest with the

with the revolutionary movement where they said you know from Moses Heson down we are on Messiah that's our purpose I'm sure you had and you still had care rights around in the Caucasus Mountains who had nothing to do with any of this

and had rejected all of this those that survived the various Jewish persecutions so but what these people mean by Enlightenment is what we would call infiltration. They're already in the process of taking over the liberal professions, media, as we said, law, the merchant classes.

This is extremely dangerous. There's no getting rid of them, not without costing a huge amount of money. They're in too deep now. And this is going to lead to the deliberately provoked pogroms a few decades later, provoked by the Jews, of course, who were better armed than their opponents were. and and this back and forth between the two groups. And of course, don't forget, Zionism still existed, which may, despite all the evils of that later on,

may have been another option, but not until the 20th century. Did that really matter much? All right. So when we pick up on our next episode, we'll be going into talking about this whole new movement, starting from there and even mentioning some name. So, yeah, as I will do at the end of every episode, I'm going to remind everybody to check the show notes for links on how you can support Dr. Johnson's work.

And I will see in a couple days, and we'll keep at this. Okay, my friend. See you then. Thank you very much. Take care. Bye-bye.