_DC_
June 29th, 2005, 03:08 PM
Benrubi's Views (http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/2005/OutisPapini062805.htm) , from 1934 and transcribed by Outis, is worth a place here. Dr. Benrubi is Giovanni Papi's secretary. I recommend the whole essay, of which this is perhaps a quarter.
"Please observe that I have cited no obscure or second-rate names. Intellectual Europe of today is for the most part under the influence or, if you prefer to put it that way, the spell cast by the great Jews I have named. Although born in different regions and having pursued different branches of research, they one and all, Germans, Frenchmen, Italians and Poles, poets and mathematicians, anthropologists and philosophers, have one common characteristic, one common purpose - to cast doubt upon recognized truths, to debase what is lofty, to besmirch what appears pure, to shake what seems stable, to cast stones at what is held in respect."
"This century-old practice of administering dissolvent poisons is the great Hebrew vengeance upon the Greek, the Latin, and the Christian worlds. The Greeks despised us, the Romans decimated and scattered us, the Christians have tortured and robbed us, and we, being too weak to defend ourselves by the sword, have carried out offensive operations of a persistent and corrosive nature against the pillars that support the civilization of Plato's Athens and that of the Rome of emperors and popes. And our vengeance has already compassed much. As capitalists we dominate the money markets, as thinkers we dominate the intellectual world, carrying on the work of disintegrating the old faiths, both sacred and profane, undermining revealed religion and laic creeds. The two extremes most to be feared are united in the Jew - in the kingdom of matter he is a despot, in that of the spirit he is an anarchist. You others are our servants financially and our victims intellectually. The race accused of having killed a God was determined to kill the idols of intellect, and of sentiment as well, and that race has forced you to your knees before the greatest idol of all, the only that is left - MONEY. Our humiliation, which stretched from Babylon to Barcochba and continued in the ghettos until the days of the French Revolution, is being avenged at last. The pariah among nations may now give voice to a hymn in celebration of a twofold victory!"
Little Benrubi had been growing more and more excited as he talked. His eyes shone brightly in their deep sockets and his fleshless hands sawed the air, his voice, while faint at first, they now became piercing. Suddenly realizing that he had gone too far, he stopped abruptly and a long silence ensued. At last, in a low and timid voice, Dr. Benrubi again addressed me.
"Would you kindly advance me a thousand francs on my salary?" he asked. "I need a new suit and I must pay off a few small debts. . ." When I had given him the check, he looked at me with an expression he sought to make insinuating, and said: "Do not take the paradoxes I have uttered too literally. Jews are like that - they are far too fond of talking, and once start, they go on and on. . .always offending someone by the end. If I have offended you in any way I hope you will pardon me."
"Please observe that I have cited no obscure or second-rate names. Intellectual Europe of today is for the most part under the influence or, if you prefer to put it that way, the spell cast by the great Jews I have named. Although born in different regions and having pursued different branches of research, they one and all, Germans, Frenchmen, Italians and Poles, poets and mathematicians, anthropologists and philosophers, have one common characteristic, one common purpose - to cast doubt upon recognized truths, to debase what is lofty, to besmirch what appears pure, to shake what seems stable, to cast stones at what is held in respect."
"This century-old practice of administering dissolvent poisons is the great Hebrew vengeance upon the Greek, the Latin, and the Christian worlds. The Greeks despised us, the Romans decimated and scattered us, the Christians have tortured and robbed us, and we, being too weak to defend ourselves by the sword, have carried out offensive operations of a persistent and corrosive nature against the pillars that support the civilization of Plato's Athens and that of the Rome of emperors and popes. And our vengeance has already compassed much. As capitalists we dominate the money markets, as thinkers we dominate the intellectual world, carrying on the work of disintegrating the old faiths, both sacred and profane, undermining revealed religion and laic creeds. The two extremes most to be feared are united in the Jew - in the kingdom of matter he is a despot, in that of the spirit he is an anarchist. You others are our servants financially and our victims intellectually. The race accused of having killed a God was determined to kill the idols of intellect, and of sentiment as well, and that race has forced you to your knees before the greatest idol of all, the only that is left - MONEY. Our humiliation, which stretched from Babylon to Barcochba and continued in the ghettos until the days of the French Revolution, is being avenged at last. The pariah among nations may now give voice to a hymn in celebration of a twofold victory!"
Little Benrubi had been growing more and more excited as he talked. His eyes shone brightly in their deep sockets and his fleshless hands sawed the air, his voice, while faint at first, they now became piercing. Suddenly realizing that he had gone too far, he stopped abruptly and a long silence ensued. At last, in a low and timid voice, Dr. Benrubi again addressed me.
"Would you kindly advance me a thousand francs on my salary?" he asked. "I need a new suit and I must pay off a few small debts. . ." When I had given him the check, he looked at me with an expression he sought to make insinuating, and said: "Do not take the paradoxes I have uttered too literally. Jews are like that - they are far too fond of talking, and once start, they go on and on. . .always offending someone by the end. If I have offended you in any way I hope you will pardon me."