The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 9

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

49 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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Head on over to freeman beyond the wall.com forward slash support and do it there. Thank you. I want to welcome everyone back to part nine of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenycin. Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson is here. How are you doing, Dr. Johnson? I'm doing okay I'm doing all right

this is going very well I think and I think we're getting some pretty good feedback from it I don't know I haven't looked but I've heard from others that that's the case oh yeah we're getting a lot of feedback especially on on Twitter on social media so yeah no no complaints yet

we had one person who contacted us who knows Russian really well to mention that we were there was a word that we were one wondering if it was talking about, it was spirituals. And he said that in the Russian, he said it's definitely referring to some kind of, like, clergy, some kind of spirit, some kind of expert clergy kind of thing. Yeah, that was my first thought.

But then, you know, there's a lot rough in this translation. Um, so, and we've, we've had a few terms like that. Um, I haven't seen the original a very long time. I have it around here somewhere, but, um, and I'm, I'm, I'm, we have, we have, we have, pretty, we have at least one Russian speaker who's following us and he's following us in the original, in the original, um, Russian. And no complaint so far. He just wanted to say that that one word would relate that in some way there. Well, I sure can't speak it. I could read it slowly.

And I've translated bits and pieces, but certainly not secure enough in my abilities to do anything of any length, especially with someone like Shultz and Eason. I don't want to do him any disservice. All right. Well, we're coming up to the end of a chapter here, so this may be a shorter episode. so the normal, but it'll give us both a chance to take a little bit of a break, I guess, if we only go for a little bit. So let's jump right in as normal. Stop me anytime. The picture we have presented of these years is complex, as is almost any problem related to the

Jewish world. Henceforth, throughout our development, we must not lose sight of this complexity, but must constantly bear in mind without being disturbed by the apparent contradictions between various authors. Long ago before being expelled from Spain, the Jews of Eastern Europe marched at the head of other nations. Today, in the first half of the 17th, today their cultural impoverishment is total. Deprived of rights cut off from the surrounding world, they retreated into themselves. The Renaissance passed by without consideration. for them as of the intellectual movement of the 18th century in Europe. But this Jewish world was strong in itself. Hindered by countless religious commandments and prohibitions, the Jew not only

did not suffer from them, but rather saw in them the source of infinite joys. In them, the intellectual found satisfaction in the subtle dialectic of the Talmud, the feeling in the mysticism of the Kabbalah. Even the study of the Bible was sidelined and knowledge of grammar, was considered almost a crime. Well, the context of this is that he's talking about the first half of the 17th century. So maybe just before the uprising of Kim Ilniewski, you know, we've already, you know, one of the big issues, one of the being, you know, as we're summarizing everything so far,

one of the big issues is that Jews, especially, Eastern Europe were given every opportunity to become normal citizens. And ultimately, this is where Zionism comes from. Zionism initially was pretty healthy. The people like Herzl came out and said, there's a reason that they don't like us here. We are completely alien to them. It's not our fault, and it's certainly not their fault. But, you know, we can't be here anymore.

So they could never be ordinary citizens. they were given every opportunity we were just talking about this to be landowners to be normal citizens so talking about I don't know what he means that the head

of other nations he may just mean wealthier they certainly have the superiority complex but in Eastern Europe of course it's a different story now I'm not sure if if Jews especially at the time would agree

with that but the Enlightenment started, at least for them, in places like Germany in Northern Europe. They cut themselves off from the surrounding world. Talk about a theme. That's a theme that comes up over and over again. The theme of exile and how it's been reinterpreted over the years. Takunulam is what happens when that exile is over,

having no connection necessarily with the state of Israel, as we know it today. recruiting into themselves, it wasn't as if they were doing anything else prior to that. Now, the Renaissance passed them by as if this was an entirely Gentile phenomenon. The alchemists were heavily influenced by what we today call the Kabbalah. The Enlightenment in Europe was as much of a threat as it was an opportunity. Jews were always identifiable, but the Enlightenment, allowed them to leave the Cahal, leave the shuttle,

and not as important in the West, but then act like they're an ordinary citizen there, which of course is not true. Now, they certainly, you know, I think poor Jews were definitely hindered by all of this. He's talking about the Talmud. He could only be talking about the Talmud. I'm not sure what joy he means here.

I think he may mean an intellectual joy. but the so-called subtle dialectic where everything is based on hair splitting that served them very well in Gentile society. Some of the themes that have come up over the last nine and eight episodes have been the fact that people's, especially when they're new arrivals, that they come in contact with are not ready for this group of people who are very strict among themselves, but totally Machiavellian with everybody else.

Yes, many popes and many patriarchs burned, the Talmud, that's true, but who the heck is going to read that? You know, I've read, when I was at Nebraska, I still remember the Sostino edition in the basement, this big blue, this beautiful, bound set of books, took up half a shelf, and it was just agony from page one.

There are some places, you know, like Sanhedron, more interesting than others, but it was painful. It's a closed book to everybody. People aren't ready for this level of economic dominance, concept of competition, of the push cart mentality, free trade. None of this was even conceptualized prior to the Jews moving into an area. Russia had it particularly bad because although they've had experience with Jews that we talked about weeks ago, But when Poland was dismembered, all of a sudden, Russia now had something like 85% of the world's population within their borders, pretty much overnight. Another theme, which comes directly from that, is this awful, naeufte, almost his childlike approach to the Jews, this idealistic approach to the Jews, that they're just like us, except that they're bound by these many rules. and if we just convince them not to, you know, take the Talmud so seriously or the Kahal so seriously, maybe they'll be just like us.

And it simply doesn't work that way. So far we haven't heard really about the Karaits, although there were many of them within the Russian Empire at this point. Wherever the Karaits went, they immediately were met with extreme persecution by the Talmudis. I'm not sure about Samaritans. I think maybe they were confined to the Middle East, but you had plenty of car rights, especially roughly around the Crimean area, even today to some extent.

But the Talmudists were wiping them out from day one as soon as the Talmud became dominant. And of course, the author in this quote, himself seems to employ. a dialectic between the Talmud and the Kabbalah. And there's something to that. I see it in a lot of Jewish publications, a lot of Jewish entertainment.

The Jew is in two different pieces. One is like the IDF soldier, very practical, and conservative in a very broad sense. And the other is this hippie. If you've ever seen the movie, Meet the Parents, with Robert De Niro, especially the second one.

you have this, you know, there's two people getting married. Ben Stiller is in it, the Jew, of course. He comes from this hippie family, the Kabbalah side. And Robert De Niro, of course, who plays a Jew, is, you know, a veteran. He's high intelligence. You know, it implies almost to Mossad. And they're coming together. And I always thought that that movie, well, actually, you know, I don't know if he played a Jew or not.

but it really didn't matter because the concept was very clear. When a Jewish family is made, there's always these two pillars, like you see in the Masonic Lodges, the severity of the Talmud and the sort of mysticism, as he says, of the Kabbalah. And that always goes straight through every Jew. And I love what he says here. Study the Bible. Well, the Bible has nothing to do with Judaism. Michael Hoffman taught us all that.

He taught me that even when I was in grad school. Their connection with the first five books of the, you know, is zero. They use some of that verbiage, but only to interpret it and reinterpret it and reinterpret it as they see fit over the centuries. But what we've discovered, and then, you know, it's been a while since I've come across this in great detail, is that even with experience with the Jews, someone like Alexander I never quite, quite seemed to cross that Rubicon. Maybe near the end of his life, he still thought that these were just ordinary people.

And if I can just get to them somehow. And at this point, people like D'Urjavun had already learned. Now, of course, Nicholas is going to be a very different story, thank God. But there was an elite attempt, highly Masonic, to keep Nicholas from the throne. They think that Jews weren't involved in that is to be very naive. But this naivet, still to this day, it hasn't gone away

because things like the Kabbalah and Talmud are completely closed off to us. People don't know what a Jew is. When the American thinks of a Jew, he thinks of Seinfeld. And actually, I've come across this many times. Oh, I love Seinfeld. Jews are great.

With this normie mentality. So you get a lot out of this quote. And those seem to be the dominant themes. Even, you know, like in Kiev, When there's a reaction against them, there's always a way to sneak back in because they have access to this credit. It's hard to keep them away for long because you're always going to reach a point where your backs against the wall politically and you desperately need that kind of money, that ready liquidity to use to hire mercenaries or do whatever. That means they could never stay away for very long. There's always somebody, even the same person, who is just false into temptation and brings them in.

And because of that connection to free trade, money, the monetization of non-monetary societies, which is a disaster because that leads to debt, these are some of the recurring themes, even up until this point, you know, the first quarter of the 19th century that we've come across so far. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive, by design. They move you, even before you drive. The new Cooper plugin hybrid range. For Mentor, Leon, and Terramar.

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Offer ends on 7th of December 2025. Conditions apply. Ask in store for details. I think it was interesting that you brought Seinfeld up there when, you know, I'm old enough. I remember when it was on and I remember the last episode and people literally hated the last episode because in the last episode they were judged as terrible people. they were judged as selfish, self-serving people who cared about no one but themselves. And it's almost like, well, maybe I should stop my commentary right there. No, I remember it.

I remember it very well. It wasn't funny. It was disappointing. Sometimes I wonder if this was how, you repriments. knowledge about yourself. I think this has a lot to do with horror. Horrors like this, too. It's the return of the repressed.

This was almost a sort of confession to the world, couched in this perfectly harmless circumstance. Frankly, they didn't really care about each other very much. Their friendship was skin deep. The only non-Jew in that was Michael Richards, but he is a 33rd degree freemason.

So he's kind of like honorary in that sense. Never said a word against their interests. But that episode, because it wasn't particularly funny, and if you remember the victim of that robbery was, I can't think of the comedian, the fat guy. Oh, he died. He's very funny. His whole stand-up was how fat he was. And, you know, very clueless.

He looked like, you're, you know, the poor soul, fat guy. And they were pointing and laughing at him as he was getting, getting robbed. And you don't see him again. But, so it wasn't just that he clearly, you know, I think the assumption is that he wasn't Jewish. But he looked like a very pathetic person, which is exactly the kind of mark that Machiavellians look for. John Panette, that's it. John Panette, who always made me laugh, who had a great career.

I believe a friend of Jerry, at least in their stand-up days. You know, they thought it was funny that this guy, well, you know, this is what Darwinism is in their minds. You know, the week have to go. He can't adapt. And if you remember in that episode, he was looking straight at the camera or, you know, straight at them as if to say, what are you doing? And that just made him laugh even harder. And it wasn't funny.

You know, as just an ordinary person, I like Seinfeld. I got a lot of the references. A lot of people didn't. As far as I was concerned, they didn't have accent because their accent was pretty much the same as mine, especially back then. but there's a lot of references in there that you have to really know to get like the marble rye and and things like that but yeah that i thought about that for a while when that came out and i thought of it as some sort of a semi confession this is good you know the jewish angle didn't come up much in sainfeld once in a while like uncle leo or someone like that but the fact that they were jews once in a blue moon which it would show up because everyone else was playing non-Jews. So, yeah, that was almost a confession. The Machiavellian mentality,

and that John Panette character, who was getting robbed, is your typical normie being robbed either by Jews or someone else, and they're going to profit from it one way or another. There was this law, I think they were in Massachusetts, and that was a good Samaritan law, and they got in trouble from it.

And then in their trial, everyone in previous episodes, who didn't like them, that they screwed over, that they hurt, came to literally point the finger at them. And I guess it ended with them in a jail cell, altogether, strangely enough. I don't know if this is some sort of a confession or a warning, but it wasn't even meant to be funny.

It wasn't funny at all. So there was something more going on there. I don't know if Larry David has said anything about it in the past, but that is the Machiavellian mentality, And oh, wait a minute, the Gulliam with these good Samaritan laws, well, maybe you may get in trouble for that. So, I don't know, it's, I'm glad you brought it up. I can't believe it all came back to me so quickly, but I'm always mining Seinfelds for symbols. It's very important.

The strong attraction of the Jews to the Enlightenment began in Prussia during the second half of the 18th century and received the name of Hascala, Age of Enlightenment. This intellectual awakening translated their desire to initiate themselves in European culture to enhance the prestige of Judaism, which had been humiliated by other peoples. In parallel with the critical study of the Jewish past, Tascala militants, the Masculum, the Enlightened, educated, wanted to harmoniously unite Jewish culture with European knowledge. At first they intended to remain faithful to traditional Judaism, but in their tracks, they began to start.

sacrifice the Jewish tradition and take the side of assimilation by showing increasing contempt for the language of their people. Yiddish, that is. In Prussia, this movement lasted the time of a generation, but it quickly reached the Slavic provinces of the empire, Bohemia and Galicia. In Galicia, supporters of Hasgola, who were even more inclined to assimilation, were already ready to introduce the Enlightenment by force, and even often enough had recourse to it, with the help of authorities. The border between Galicia and the western provinces of Russia was permeable to individuals as well as to influences.

With a delay of a century, the movement eventually penetrated into Russia. One of my favorite Renaissance era, or very early, Enlightenment era philosophers, is Baruch de Spinoza. Very misunderstood man. I believe his metaphysics is a disguised, attempt to bring the Trinity with substance attribute and mode because all three are infinite

and I've spoken about especially in writing about Spinoza quite a bit and he spent quite a bit of time criticizing and he was driven out of the synagogue in the Netherlands he was a Sephardic at one point driven out of his family driven out of Spain and he he is one of the original first people to attempt to provide a contribution to European metaphysics and I think something happened I'm convinced that he had a conception of the Trinity that in one of the reasons and he's very difficult to read you know he thought in mathematical terms and Spinoza was despised by the inward-looking Jew, as these people would say. And he was pretty much a completely secular man.

He was very critical of the, you know, the so-called medieval Jew of the day. But I'm not so sure that Enlightenment automatically meant assimilation. It just meant that they were using certain aspects of European material culture for their own benefit. yeah, they didn't have to dress in the traditional outfit anymore, but maybe that's a, that doesn't mean that they don't see themselves as Jews, although I'm sure it happened on occasion. It just meant that they were more, more able to mingle

amongst the Gentiles, without Gentiles really knowing it. I mean, it had paid off big in Britain, maybe not in Spinoza's time, but, I mean, they had a prime minister. They had, they had, uh, roughly around the same time we're talking about here, you know, the middle of the 19th century.

So I'm not sure that those two things go together, but I guarantee you the very strict Jews in the Kahul did think that those two things went together. You know, the Enlightenment at its root was anti-Christian that couldn't but attract the Jewish mind at the time. You catch them in the corner of your eye, distinctive by design. They move you, even before.

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Offer ends on 7th of December 2025. Conditions apply. Ask in store for details. At the beginning of the 19th century in Russia, the government endeavored precisely to overcome Jewish particularism outside of religion and worship, as a Jewish author euphemistically specifies, confirming that this government did not interfere with the religion or religious life of the Jews. We have already seen that the regulation of 1804 opened the doors of primary schools, secondary schools, and universities to all Jewish children, without any limitations or reservations. However, the aim of all efforts of the Jewish ruling class was to nip in the bud this educational and cultural reform. The Gahal endeavored to extinguish the slightest light of the Enlightenment. To preserve in its integrity the established religious and social order, the rabbinit and Hasidim,

were endeavoring to eradicate the seedlings of secular education. Thus, the great masses of the palest settlement felt horror and suspicion for Russian schooling and did not want to hear about it. In 1817 and again in 1821 in various provinces, there were cases where the Kahalam prevented Jewish children from learning the Russian language in any school, whichever it was. The Jewish deputies in St. Petersburg repeatedly insisted insistently, that they did not consider it necessary to open Jewish schools

where languages other than Hebrew would be taught. They recognized only that, Hayder Elementary School of the Jewish language and the Yeshiva, graduate school intended to deepen the knowledge of the Talmud. Almost every important community had its yeshiva. The Jewish body in Russia was thus hindered and could not free itself on its own. I'm not sure. I think some of this is just very short-sighted thinking. The elders of any given Kajal, the leaders of any given shuttle,

didn't like the idea that young Jews wanted to branch out. It would diminish their power. It would diminish their income. And I don't think they realized just how powerful Jews were going to become precisely because of the Enlightenment, the so-called liberation from the shuttle. And we know today that, yes, not every Jew is an expert on the Talmud, but that Talmudic mentality has become so dominant

in modern societies, and postmodern societies, that you don't have to be a part of a shuttle or alcohol or anything else to think that way. We're born thinking that way. And I don't think they couldn't have known that at the time, but they became so dominant, their mentality is so powerful,

solely but truly, especially in the West, that they realized that our mentality, our money, gave us such power that we were able to take over the default mechanisms of the Western mind. And things that were revolutionary, say, you know, in 1848, were part of the course for Jews. Today, we see it as perfectly normal.

Capitalism, free market, that was extremely revolutionary. There is nothing conservative about that. Karl Marx was clear. Marxism or communism could never happen unless free trade destroyed the national and agrarian particularism of European ethnicities. That's why free trade was so important to him and why he

hated Russia with such intensity. The point of free trade was to create a single united Europe that loses its individual languages and ways of life. Christianity is left in the dust because it's all about money now.

Only then could there be a revolutionary proletariat. You can't have a revolutionary proletariat that's religious, that's ethnically based. That's why urbanization was so important. Monetization is so important. Karl Marx was subjectively aware of this, which is where his Uday and Fragha came from, his work on the Jewish question,

which Marxist wish he never wrote. But he was well aware of what was going on. Only later did he realize that that's exactly the mentality that we need to create a totally deracinated proletariat. They have no nation, they have no religion, they have nothing, but us, promising them the moon, and they'll follow us because they have nothing else to follow. It's extremely important. I've had talks with Jews that I know, and they'll tell me, well, you know, I've never read the Talmud.

I've never, I'm like, the Talmud in your culture is like in the United States where you'll have some boomer who will be like, oh, you know, we have, you know, everything's fake news. you can't trust anybody. And, you know, our wars, you know, if you have someone who's saying our wars or, you know, we shouldn't be going to war in this place and everything, and then you start criticizing like anything, they'll be like, well, we're a free country. And we have the Constitution. They're not, this is something that's built into us. This is something that is drilled into us over, you know, over a couple centuries now,

where we believe we have freedom of. speech where we believe we have that, where we believe we have that. And it immediately comes out, and it's a reaction by a lot of people. And it's the same thing with this kind of Talmudic thinking, with this radical like collectivism where, you know, if you criticize a group of Jews for doing something, you have to criticize them all individually. But Jews will be like, oh, Sandy Kofax was such a, you know, he was such a great example of a Jew because, you know, he didn't, you know, look, look how, look how successful he was as a pitcher, and then he didn't, he wouldn't pitch on Saturdays. He's such a credit to the Jewish race. It's like, well, you want to collectivize only when it's the good stuff and

when the bad stuff, no, it's, this is something that is so deeply ingrained that people can't even see it anymore, just like the Americans who spout, it's a free country, you know, we can do whatever we want. Well, because the media is in Jewish hands, for the most part, mainstream media, very tightly controlled by them. The prejudice is that because it's privately owned, therefore it's independent. This is a prejudice that you see in every newspaper, every analyst. Only state-run media can be controlled. And of course, the minute you start explaining, well, that doesn't work. I trust state media in places like serious. and Romania more than I do privately help is the control is the same and you do work with the state to smash points of view that you don't like, especially during war time.

So it's just, you know, this system relies on ignorance, it relies on fear, it relies on confusion. And just like with Marxism, it relies on people not having any alternative. They don't really have an identity. They don't even have a sexual identity anymore. everything is being broken down in this in the postmodern mentality, except for this one group of people who are just fanatically, cohesive and extremely well organized. You're Jews suffer with that too, but we're not talking about individuals.

This conversation I've had with is so stupid. They're not all like that argument? I said, yeah, that's not the point. you know, I'm not talking about individuals here. I'm talking about a group. Individuals derive from the group. A group can have, you know, I talk about the Jews. I'm not talking about my dentist up the street

or the guys I went to high school with. I mean, I have to explain this to you. But this is, and even their racial identity. You know, after in 2020 that we're talking about, Jews would go on as white people. We have to look into ourselves after after the thing in Minnesota. But of course, the minute their Jewish identity comes up,

they will deny being white. You know, their conception is solely for Jewish interests. That's the only concept. Even if it's not something that they often vocalize, it's implied. And their dominance is so overwhelming right now, although I think we're living in an era where this is slowly changing.

But to think that someone like Donald Trump is going to help anything. The only thing Donald Trump did in this regard is in his first campaign when he went to APEC and said, I don't need your money. But that was probably the first and last thing he did that irritated the Jews as Jews, at least as far as Israeli Jews are concerned. He's a fanatic. You would think that a guy, the only Gentile to really dominate in Manhattan real estate, he knows what the Jews are. There's no way he doesn't. They respect him because he did win against them in places like Manhattan and New Jersey. When I was a kid, he knows better.

But that was the first and last good thing he ever did. But whenever anyone challenges you with that idea that I'd all like that, you simply say, I'm not talking about individuals. I'm not talking about my dentist. I'm talking about Jews as a body, and they most certainly think as a body. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive, by design. They move you, even before you drive. The new Cooper plugin hybrid range.

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instructions to Israel that Jews were not forbidden to no foreign languages, especially not the official language of the country where they lived, if necessary in private, as well as in public life. That knowledge of the secular sciences does not pose a threat to national and religious sentiment. finally that the predominance of commercial occupations is in contradiction with the Torah as with reason and that it is important to develop productive work. But to publish his book, Levinson had to use a subsidy from the Ministry of Education. He himself was convinced that cultural reform within Judaism could only be achieved with the support of the higher authorities. I think these are sort of the people that those like Alexander I were looking to,

the German Jews that we had cited a few times that Alexander had spoken to. But to what extent do these people, he certainly thinks as a Jew, and he's right. The Jews that dominated in the Ottoman Empire spoke Greek. Of course, they spoke Turkish, as well as their own language. And this was the case everywhere. Eastern Europe was a slightly different story, but he's absolutely right. but it's doubtful that the run-of-the-mill Jew would agree with this last section here it can only be achieved with the support of the higher authorities.

And what he means by productive work, that's another matter. But today, of course, we consider, I mean, not me and you, but Normies consider commercial occupations to be productive work. Later it was Gessonovsky, a teacher in Warsaw, who, in a notes of the authorities without relying on the Talmud, but on the contrary, by opposing it, imputed to the Cahal and the Rabinit the spiritual stagnation which had petrified the people. He stated that solely the weakening of their power would make it possible to introduce secular schooling, that it was necessary to control the Mel Ahmed primary school teachers,

and to admit as teachers only those deemed pedagogically and morally suitable, that the Cahal had to be dismissed from the financial administration, and that the age of nuptuil's contract had to be raised, long before them in his note to Minister of Finance, Gilamarkovic already quoted, wrote that in order to save the Jewish people from spiritual and economic decline, it was necessary to abolish the Kahalem to teach the Jew languages, to organize work for them in factories, but also to allow them to freely engage in commerce throughout the country and use the services of Christians. Later in the 1930s, Litman Fagin, a Chernigov merchant and a major supplier, took up most of those arguments with even greater insistence, and though Berkendorf, his notes ended up in the hands of Nicholas I, Fagin benefited from the support of bureaucratic circles.

He defended the Talmud, but reproached a melamid for being the lowest of the incompetence who taught a theology founded on fanaticism, inculcated in children the contempt of U.S. other disciplines as well as the hatred of the heterodox. He also considered it essential to suppress the Kahulam. Heson, the sworn enemy of the Kahl's system, affirms that the latter, by its despotism, aroused among the Jews, an obscure resentment. You know, I was born and raised in Union County, New Jersey. And in my town, the town was, at least when I was a kid, divided in terms of power between Jews and Italians.

I grew up knowing, you know, many Jews, never treated poorly by them, and different occupations went to different groups. It was just a matter of tradition. But it was pretty clear, even in my neighborhood, Jews would fight like crazy. The only time that they would stop fighting

is if somehow we were involved. you know you're stricter Orthodox and your more secular Jews they fought like cats and dogs but the minute they thought that as a group they were threatened all of that would go out the window

but I've seen this with my own eyes my father was a funeral director you open a Gentile funeral home in a semi-Jewish area what do you think is going to happen nothing is more impure than Gentile corpses. He had to fight, but he fought with a guy named Marty Goldstein. And the other more right-wing Jews were bringing people in from Brooklyn to try to shut this down. And I, you know,

many years later, vaguely remember guys like Marty saying, you can't trust these people. They're crazy. They're talking about the, you know, the more strict, strict Jews. So, but I learned later on that even though they don't trust the more extreme and vice versa, they know that there's a network if they need to they could plug into if things hit the fan. And I don't know if that started with all the criticism of Israel and the mainstream criticism of Netanyahu. I'm not 100% sure if that's happening yet. But I learned that even if they're not, or if they don't like it, secular Jews are well aware that there's this network that they could plug into if they need help, regardless of what they're thinking about it when times are normal, normal for them.

Long, very long was the path that enabled secular education to penetrate into Jewish circles. Meanwhile, the only exceptions were in Vilnius, where under the influence of relations with Germany, the Maxillam intellectual group had gained strength, and in Odessa, the new capital of New Russia, home to many Jews from Galicia due to the permeability of frontiers, populated by various nationalities in the throes of intense commercial activity. Hence the Cahal did not feel itself powerful there. The intelligentsia, on the contrary, had the feeling of its independence and blended culturally

by the way of dressing by all external aspects in the surrounding population. Even though the majority of the Odessite Jews were opposed to the Estabye, of a general educational establishment, principally due to the efforts of the local administration, in the 30s in Odessa, as in Kishinif, were created secular schools of the private type, which were successful. Then in the course of the 19th century, this breakthrough of the Russian Jews towards education irresistibly intensified and would have historical consequences for Russia as for all mankind during the 20th century. Thanks to a great effort of will, Judaism managed to free itself from the state of threatening stagnation in which it found itself and to fully accede to a rich and diversified life.

By the middle of the 19th century, there was a clear discernment of the signs of a revival and development in Russian Judaism, a movement of high historical significance which no one had yet foreseen. And that's where we'll end and we'll start next time, as we'll see the very different reign of, of Zarniklaus I, the first. But so, but we end with something that we had kind of seen coming already, that the kahaal is on its last legs, that this is something that young Jews don't want to be a part of anymore. They have access to a huge world of a very rapidly growing European world that the more extreme Jews, especially in Eastern Europe,

really couldn't be a part of. their friends were financing it, but at least in terms of education, they weren't a part of it. At the same time, they knew that other Jews, even strict ones around the world, were not as bound to an institution like to Kahul

as they were in parts of Ukraine and the old Polish empire. We know that that Kahul isn't going to last much longer. And that just meant that Jewish life was going to get a lot more complicated, there were more variables because whether it be

just enlightenment which essentially was a war against the gahal or assimilation now assimilation didn't necessarily mean you're not a Jew anymore it's just you weren't necessarily identified as one that you kind of were normal you know you you were part of the normal society

most of the time not necessarily you weren't a Jew anymore I don't think that they maybe back then they did, but there was very little threat of conversion, I mean, legitimate, actual conversion. But in the short-sighted mentality, you know, they painted enlightenment and assimilation in the worst possible ways. It was self-interested, of course. Odessa ends up becoming the capital of Jewish Ukraine then and now. The Odessa lounge in Brooklyn is the headquarter of Jewish organized crime, the Russian mob, as the regime keeps calling it. despite it being 100% Jewish and very few Russian names are involved. Odessa is a powerful symbol. It became a Marxist state flying the red flag before the revolution, which is some of the reason why they were fights,

not pogroms as they would like to tell you, but battles between Russians and Jews. I'll repeat this again for the third time now, that Jews were well-armed, regardless of whether they were in front. involved in the Kahl system or not, they were tightly bound together. They had plenty of money. You didn't really have gun control loss at the time and no way to enforce them if they existed. And that's why the whole pogrom thing is such nonsense because more Russians died in those battles than Jews.

The Jews were heavily armed. By the time these guys got the Middle East in the 1940s, which was a creation of Stalin, they were already experienced in weaponry and everything else. This ridiculous myth that the Normie believes of these poor Jews who were so put on were just helpless merchants who just wanted to have a better life is nonsense. Their youth was extremely well armed and extremely well trained in the use of these weaponry, just for their own interests. but now the stagnation I suppose you could call it stagnation maybe in a cultural sense it was but not in a financial sense

Jews knew the money that could be made not just in Russia but all over the world that Jews all over the world were making this money but the way to do it wasn't necessary to walk around being obvious you have to learn the language you have to learn the basic you know entertainment and cultural norms but that in no way means that you're not a Jew anymore

In fact, it means you have to hold even harder onto a Jewish identity because you don't have the obvious trappings. You know, you're not wearing the black hat and all the things that we associate with the acid. It's not obvious anymore. But so the Kahul is going to end. And contrary to what the leaders of the Kahul were saying, it just meant more power for Jews, more influence for Jews. and they were able to apply Talmudic studies in one way or another to an entire wide world, which, as we know today, was certainly not in the interests of Gentiles.

All right, well, let's end it there. Next episode, we will start chapter three, which is titled during the reign of Nicholas I first. And as I do at the end of every episode, I encourage you to go to the show notes of this. I have hot lengths there for Dr. Johnson's work and where you can support him. Please go support him because this is what he does. He studies this, he reads this, and then he comes here and shares the knowledge and the background

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