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However, the so-called natural and rational religion (of "Deism") is not a religion at all, but at most a beautiful morality. As Adolf Bartels rightly says, our current defensive struggle is less against Lessing himself, who will retain his significant place in our literary history, than against the growing cult of Lessing and the Lessing legend in the 19th century; the increasing glorification of Lessing kept pace with the growing power of Judaism. Not only the Jews Borne, Heine, Graetz, Engel have celebrated him excessively, but also respected German professors, among them Erich Schmidt.
The goal that Moses Mendelssohn pursued was the complete equality of Jews (((without them ceasing to be Jews))): thus a preference. Behind the 1781 publication of the secret councilor Dohm's "On the Civil Improvement of the Jews," which caused an enormous stir, stood (((Moses Mendelssohn))). The Jews of all Europe looked to him as their strong advocate. His significance for the history of Judaism cannot be overestimated.
The result of the connection between Judaism and Germanness that began with him was that we Germans surrendered our national identity to the cosmopolitan ideas of humanity, while the Jews asserted themselves, and Jewish thought penetrated ever wider circles. Although they remained primarily brokers of culture at that time, they made themselves masters of culture, and in 1912 a Jew was allowed to declare: "Jews manage the intellectual property of a people that denies us the right and the ability to do so." - The incursion of Judaism into our literature has made Berlin a Jewish city. Here, above all, developed the shallow superficiality and omniscience, the arrogance and cheekiness. Berlin was the New Jerusalem for the "Reform Jews," for the presumptuous "Enlighteners," who can neither become Germans nor want to.
However, the so-called natural and rational religion (of "Deism") is not a religion at all, but at most a beautiful morality. As Adolf Bartels rightly says, our current defensive struggle is less against Lessing himself, who will retain his significant place in our literary history, than against the growing cult of Lessing and the Lessing legend in the 19th century; the increasing glorification of Lessing kept pace with the growing power of Judaism. Not only the Jews Borne, Heine, Graetz, Engel have celebrated him excessively, but also respected German professors, among them Erich Schmidt.
The goal that Moses Mendelssohn pursued was the complete equality of Jews (((without them ceasing to be Jews))): thus a preference. Behind the 1781 publication of the secret councilor Dohm's "On the Civil Improvement of the Jews," which caused an enormous stir, stood (((Moses Mendelssohn))). The Jews of all Europe looked to him as their strong advocate. His significance for the history of Judaism cannot be overestimated.
The result of the connection between Judaism and Germanness that began with him was that we Germans surrendered our national identity to the cosmopolitan ideas of humanity, while the Jews asserted themselves, and Jewish thought penetrated ever wider circles. Although they remained primarily brokers of culture at that time, they made themselves masters of culture, and in 1912 a Jew was allowed to declare: "Jews manage the intellectual property of a people that denies us the right and the ability to do so." - The incursion of Judaism into our literature has made Berlin a Jewish city. Here, above all, developed the shallow superficiality and omniscience, the arrogance and cheekiness. Berlin was the New Jerusalem for the "Reform Jews," for the presumptuous "Enlighteners," who can neither become Germans nor want to.
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