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The Dreyfus case marks a watershed in diaspora history. Despite the fact that anti-Semitism was endemic in French society (albeit submerged in the secularity of that society) most Jews in that society believed that it was merely a disappearing vestige of medieval prejudices. They fervently asserted their membership in the confraternity of the French nation.
Confidence in the future has been the curse of the Jew. Confidence in “Progress” as an idol has been blindness. Away with idols! Jews have to take their cause in their own hands, for God helps those who help themselves. Nahum Sokolow 1919
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Notes
Micheal Marrus, The Politics of Assimilation (Toronto, 1971) p.99.
Lothar Kahn, Mirrors of the Jewish Mind (New York, 1968), p. 26.
Arthur Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea (New York, 1959), p. 28.
Barnett Litvinoff, A Pecular People (London, 1969), pp. 113–114.
Jules Isaac, Jesus and Israel (New York, 1971), pp. 399–400.
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Ages, A. (1973). Dreyfus. In: The Diaspora Dimension. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2456-3_6
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