The Doctrine of Beitar

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...our affairs. But the main proof was their duty to think: what will be the "end," if Jews as writers take their place in the public, political lives of foreign nations, to which they are strangers. The entire Jewish tragedy in Germany is nothing but an interpretation of that single question: "What is it with us Jews, that we give to the gentiles of our vigor?" The latest books before Hitler's victory agreed, when a Frenchman, Englishman, or German wanted to get to know German literature, he was forced to read books by Jews: Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel, Zweig, Feuchtwanger etc. etc." The Aryan Germans felt suffocated by this, and the same thing regarding pictures, sculpture, theater, etc." Did Wassermann sin in this, that he excelled in his writing? Of course he did not sin in this: just as Léon Blum did not sin.

A person does not sin, just as the rose does not sin in this, that it is surrounded by flowers, saturated from the springs of life below and from the heart of the sun above and grows and extends its branches – and in the end, by the strength of its branches—Jews and non-Jews feel pricks – and the people of Israel pays.

The Blum affair is only a small fragment in the general saga of our people's history: "The Adventures of Israel in the Babylonian Garden of Eden," the next chapter should be called: "Spiritual Exodus – by Volunteering" and then comes the chapter: "Exodus – Against Your Will."

(From the article "What Will Be the End," published immediately after the Jew Léon Blum's ascent to his seat in France, 1937.)

11. His Sons and His Edifices

(After the death of Herzl's sons and daughters)

"Today a book is completed: the Fourth Memoir" – is written somewhere in one of Herzl's diaries – and today is also the seventh birthday of my son Hans, I hope that he will yet continue