Source: Race or Mongrel - A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Races of Earth (1908). By Alfred P. Schultz

Chapter 8 - The Jews

The Jews had in very early times a knowledge of that law of nature which demands purity of blood. We read that Abraham sent to the land of his fathers in order to find there the wife for his son. The Jews had marriage regulations which prevented promiscuous intermarriages, and frequently they expelled from the Jewish society the offspring of the Abramitic stock which they considered illegitimate, as the Ishmaelites and the Edomites. When the Jews settled in Egypt, they continued to hold to their traditions, their institutions, their language, and their race purity.

The Egyptians attempted to destroy their nationality and exacted forced labour from them. Moses taught them to resist and to regard resistance as a religious duty. Here we meet for the first time with an expression of that sentiment which later caused them to merge the ideas of race, religion, and god into one ideal, that of Judaism. The Jews sought freedom in the wilderness. When the Jews settled in Palestine, they found it inhabited by a population great in numbers. Notwithstanding their numerical inferiority, the Jews maintained their individuality. It was their pride of race that prevented their disappearance.

The Lombards went to Rome under similar circumstances, and,lacking the knowledge of that law of nature which insists on the purity of race, became mongrelized in a relatively short time.

The wonderful instincts of the Israelites led them to evolve a religion which had race purity as its central idea. Jehovah was the god of Israel, and the Israelites were his chosen people. To break away from this religion was breaking away from the Jewish race; and on the other hand, vitiation of the race meant expulsion from the chosen people. In the war with the Philistines, Benjamin and Judah supplied Saul his most able supporters. These were the two tribes in which, as later history proves, the importance of race purity was most clearly recognized. In the war with the Philistines, Israel was welded into one. The consciousness of their race superiority became more intense. Solomon built the temple in Jerusalem, which later proved of great importance not only for religion, but also for the race.

After the death of Solomon ten of the twelve tribes seceded. Israel was at first stronger than Judah. Race and religion, however, had become inseparable, and the breaking away from Judah was soon followed by a less strict observance of the marriage regulations. This was disastrous, for they were in numbers vastly inferior to the surrounding mass. When Israel seemed most prosperous Amos prophesied the downfall of the kingdom. Assyria was the threatening enemy. In 721 b. c. Samaria was taken and Sargon carried all inhabitants of mark into captivity. The exiled Israelites disappeared in the surrounding herd without leaving a trace. The Israelites had vitiated their blood, and their mongrelization was rapid.

The population of Judah, on the other hand, held fast their faith, and that meant their race, throughout the period of the Babylonian exile. It was their race particularism that enabled them to maintain their individuality there, and later everywhere else. After the fall of Samaria, Judah continued the history of Israel, and the preaching of the prophets increased the race particularism. In the year 597 b. c., Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar and many of the inhabitants were carried into exile.

In the year 538 b. c. Cyrus gave the exiles leave to return. A great number returned, but a greater number remained in the diaspora, without, however, losing their nationality. Those that returned found it necessary to protect themselves against the threatening mixture with other races; for other races had pressed into the depopulated territory, and some of these had amalgamated with the older Jewish population, which had remained in Judah. These, although professing Judaism, were regarded by the Jews as half-breeds. They gave a friendly reception to the returning Jews. The Samaritans were anxious to make common cause with them, but they were not met with reciprocal cordiality. Not the native of Judah, but the man of pure blood, was reckoned as belonging to the community.

Ezra first attempted the strict separation between the pure Jews and the other inhabitants. His legislation enabled the Jews to maintain their nationality artificially, when all conditions of national life railed them. They were able to maintain their nationality, because they refused to have their blood corrupted. Their nationality the Jews preserved with an energy and an ability that was truly marvellous. In later times, in the post-Graeco-Roman empire, the Jews alone had character; they alone deserved respect.

The history of Manasseh testifies to the anxiety with which the Jews endeavoured to keep their race pure. He was expelled from Jerusalem by Nehemiah in 432 b. c.; for refusing to separate from ins Samaritan wife. The book of Chronicles regards Samaria as a heathen kingdom because the Samaritans were less severe in the maintenance of race purity. Their religion was so much like that of the Jews, that Manasseh organized the Samaritan church on the Jerusalem pentateuch. The Jews were determined to keep their race pure.

As a consequence of the wars and revolutions in the East, the Jewish diaspora spread rapidly. In Asia Minor, in Syria, and in Egypt many Jews settled. The thoroughbred being always more able than the mongrel, the Jews rose to prominent positions at the court of the Ptolemies, earning in consequence the hatred of the population.

The only time when the Jews were in danger of mongrelization was the time when the East was "Hellenized." The upper classes began to feel ashamed of their Judaism and began to conceal it. The Jewish names were Hellenized; Joshua became Jason; Eliakim, Alcimus; Monahem, Menelaus; and so forth. The Greek language came into general use. The Palestine gravestones, until the time of the Romans, bear Greek inscriptions with only a few liturgical words in Hebrew. Jewish-Greek literature soon became extensive. The Jews seemed ripe for Hellenization, which at this time meant mongrelization. Antiochus attempted to complete the Hellenization by force; but the Jews resisted, and under Judas Maccabaeus arose in rebellion. The Greek influence was broken and the Jews continued the development peculiar to the race.

The Romans came and harassed them, Jews they remained.

Jesus taught and Jews they remained. It was a foreign race that spoke in Jesus. He was a Galilean and not a Jew. Not a Jew by race. The Jews did not consider the Galileans as belonging to their community. A marriage of Jew to Galilean was impossible. So little had the people of Galilee in common with the Jews, that King Solomon ceded a part of Galilee to the King of Tyre in payment for cedars and gold. King Hiram found it very sparsely inhabited and settled colonists there, who were not Jews. After the time of Solomon, Israel was divided; and, for a thousand years, there existed no intimate political relation between Galilee and Judah.

Moreover, in 720 b. c. the Assyrians came and laid waste Northern Israel. All of the population was said to have been deported. The Assyrians settled their colonists there. Later, Alexander settled Greeks and Macedonians in Galilee. We are told that the number of Greeks that immigrated to Galilee in the last three centuries before Christ was considerable. The Old Testament tells us how the foreigners of Northern Palestine came to embrace the Jewish faith. In the depopulated country beasts of prey multiplied. The scourge was considered the revenge of the local god. No one knew how he was to be worshipped, and the Galileans sent to the King of Assyria, and entreated him to send them a Jewish priest to instruct them in the faith of the land, and appease the wrath of the neglected deity. This request was complied with and a Jewish Levite taught the people the worship of Jehovah.

Thus people without a drop of Jewish blood in their veins became Jews in their religion. Later some Jews immigrated into the cities of Galilee; but they also refused to recognize the Galileans as fellow Jews. Simon Tharsi, the Maccabaean, collected the small number of people of Jewish blood in Galilee and induced them to leave the country, and to settle in Judah. This was before the time of Jesus. There is therefore not a trace of evidence in favour of the view that Jesus was a Jew, and much evidence in favour of the view that Jesus was not a Jew. To which race Jesus belonged it is impossible to say. According to the Bible, he was the son of God and Mary; according to one of the apocryphic gospels he was the son of a Greek officer and Miriam. That Miriam was not a Jewess is evident from the history of Galilee. Many of the disciples, likewise, were Galileans, not Jews. The New Testament is as little the continuation of the Old Testament as it is the continuation of the teachings of Buddha or Confucius. The sentiments that Jesus expressed were not in accord with the Jewish race instincts, and the Jews fortunately refused to accept them. Had they accepted Christianity, they would have shared the fate of the Eastern mongrel; and he has proved his worthlessness in the course of centuries.

Jesus belonged to one of the Aryan races; his teachings are in accord with the race instincts of the Aryans only. Other races refused to accept Christianity, or became Christianized in name only. With the exception of Magyars and Finns, who have, however, been semi-Germanized, the Magyars by the Germans and the Finns by the Swedes, Christianity is the religion of an Aryan for Aryans only. The non-Aryan Christians, including Magyars and Finns, are not four per cent, of the total number of Christians. Many Asiatics and Africans had been Christianized after a fashion; but when the Islam was preached, their Christianity melted away as spring snow does in the sun.

Indians, negroes, Chinese, Tartars, and others are called Christians with scant justice. Their Christianity is akin to that of the Haytians, who worship to-day the Christian God and to-morrow a fetish in whose honour they devour the "goat without horns," — Christians who are cannibals! With these peoples Christ is the name of a new fetish, added to or taking the place of their other fetish. Travellers in Russia tell us that the baptized Tartars at the present time are as far from being Christians as they were in the sixteenth century.

Gautama Sacyamuni taught Buddhism. As his name indicates, he was a yellow and not a Hindoo. The religion of resignation and death was not acceptable to the race instincts of the Hindoos; it expressed the race instincts of the yellows, and found its followers among them, — Tartars, Mongols, Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, and Malayans. In not accepting Buddhism, the Hindoos remained true to themselves; with its acceptance they would have committed self-destruction. In a like manner the Jews refused to accept Christianity. Christianity was not too good for them, it was not too bad for them; it was foreign to them and to their race instincts.

In the year 70 a. d. Titus took Jerusalem. The city was levelled with the ground. The extinction of their commonwealth the Jews met with an even more intensified exclusiveness. And this exclusiveness they carried with them into the diaspora. Their race they retained pure wherever they went. In Rome, in Egypt, in Syria, among the Goths as well as among the other German tribes, in England, in Russia, in Germany, in Spain, they refused to dilute and vitiate their blood, and consequently had no part in mongrelizing the people among whom they lived.

The history of the Jews testifies to the tremendous importance of race. Their knowledge of the physiological law that promiscuous crossing degrades, deteriorates, mongrelizes the participants, enabled them to develop from a small Eastern tribe into one of the great nations of the earth. In spite of most bitter persecution, in the face of the greatest of obstacles, without a country of their own and without a common language, they became a nation more important than many nations that are in possession of these advantages. Everywhere they are increasing in importance and in numbers. The good-will of the native population they secure nowhere, on account of the jealousy and hatred entertained against them as a race of quality. To many, the Jewish singularities are objectionable. The Eastern mongrel has accomplished nothing; the Jews have brought forth poets, writers, artists, scientists, financiers, and philanthropists.

Some of the poets of the Jewish race are Halevi, Gabirol, Morpurgo, Ascarelli, David Levi, Manuel, Frankl, Kalisch, Kuh, Steinheim, Heller, Hartmann, Sachs, Rapoport, Heine, d'Almeida, Moses Mendez, Emma Lazarus, Cora Wilburn, Rebecca Hynemann, Morris Rosenfeld; the dramatists, Arnstein; Bueschenthal, Mosenthal, Fulda, Jacobson, Schlesinger, v. Weilen, Halevy, Cremieaux, Millaud; David Belasco; Sydney Rosenfeld, and others; the novelists, Auerbach, Disraeli, Zangwill, Fanny Lewald, Maurus Jokai, Grace Aguilar, and others.

Boerne, Riesser, Blind, Disraeli, Bernays are essayists of the Jewish race. Many of the influential newspapers and periodicals of the United States, most of those of Germany and of England, are either owned or edited by Jews.

Musicians of the Jewish race are Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, Goldmark, Moscheles, Damrosch, Rubinstein, Rosenthal, and others.

Among painters and sculptors are Israels, Solomon, Schlessinger; Meyerheim; Worms, Hart, Mayer, Mosler, Lazarus, Soldi, and others.

Scientists of the Jewish race are Philo, Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Steinthal, Lazarus, Neander, Graetz, Da Costa, Marx, Lassalle, Morpurgo, Herschel, and others.

As physicians and jurists many Jews have won renown. As financiers they excel. The leaders of the Socialists are Jews. The leading managers are Jews.

Why do the Jews succeed? Because they deserve to succeed. They belong to a great race, and they kept and do keep that race pure. The greatest mongrelizing machine of antiquity, the empire called the Roman, did not succeed in mongrelizing them. America will not be able to destroy them. In the Pan-European herd of imperial Rome, the Jew alone stood out as a character. In America, he is rapidly making his way to the front. The business interests (wholesale and retail), the newspapers, the periodicals, the theatres, the operas, the banks, are in the hands of Jews, or are getting into the hands of Jews. Many Jews are physicians, lawyers, judges, politicians, and scientists. If the Jews continue as they began, the future belongs to them.

The Jews have overcome well-nigh insurmountable obstacles; they are succeeding everywhere, because they have been and do remain true to themselves, that is, true to their race instincts. They demonstrate to the world that the blood that courses in the veins of the individual is more sacred than gold, silver, territory, flag, and country.

Promiscuous crossing reduced Greece, Egypt, the Hindoos, the Romans. Race purity is the secret of the success of the Jews.

Read Graetz, "Geschichte der Juden;" Mendelssohn, "Gesammelte Schriften;" Milman, "History of the Jews;" Houston S. Chamberlain, "Die Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts;" Albrecht Wirth, "Volkstum und Weltmacht in der Geschichte."