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The Free Imperial Cities

Sombart mentions Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main among the German cities that accepted Jews. In this context, the Hamburg Senate denied the presence of Jews in 1603 for self-serving and commercial gain, despite the complaints of the citizenry and the clergy. - We have an excellent book by Hofmeister on the gradual Judaization of the Hanseatic city of Lubeck: "From Hanseatic Spirit to Merchant Spirit"; there we read how the council always sides with the Jews, while the entire citizenry demands vigorous measures against the immigration of Jews. - The Napoleonic era brought a flood of Jews. After the Wars of Liberation, the brave mayor Smidt distinguished himself in keeping his Hanseatic city of Bremen free of Jews.

The Beginning of the Judaization of Berlin

(((Moses Mendelssohn)))

"Robbery of the Firstborn!" We think of the last centuries before Christ, of the so-called Hellenistic age. In the newly founded Greek cities of the East, especially in Alexandria and Antioch, Greek-speaking Jews lived alongside the Greeks. A rapprochement occurred between Judaism and Hellenism. But the end result was that the Greeks lost their uniqueness and became orientalized; the Jews adopted the language and cultural treasures of the Greeks but remained Jews.

The same is repeating itself today since the 18th century after Christ, and the "Enlightenment" with its ideas of freedom, equality, brotherhood, tolerance, and humanity became the ladder for the rise of the Jews; they skillfully presented their desires for civil rights equality as a demand for tolerance and wounded human dignity. The Jew (((Moses Mendelssohn))) (1729-1786) became the father of Reform Judaism (((without ceasing to be a true Law Jew inwardly))). He was, as Bartels has demonstrated, by no means the ideal person he is portrayed as; rather, he accuses him of duplicity.