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Commune of Paris, adopted the cause of the Jews, its leaders
knew very well that this attitude was unpopular with the
masses. 123 Which raises the question whether the
revolutionary left had significant amounts of Jewish money
behind it to dissuade itself from giving in to the masses.
A circular letter issued by the Jacobins after the Revolution
makes mention that they were less concerned about the
Jewish religious system than about what they called "their
criminal antipathy to all citizens who do not belong to their
ridiculous cult." 124
Another Jacobin outburst declared that Jews should give up
"their swindles and extortions ... and work with their hands in
the workshops and fields." 125 Hertzberg classifies this rhetoric
as that of some of the extreme Jacobins of Eastern France.
Many scholars have noted that Karl Marx's anti-Semitic
outlook bore a relationship to Voltaire's works. 126 This point is
made, for example, in a book entitled Anti-Semites in Modern
France." 127
An historian named Silberner has taken up the question of
the anti-Semitic attitudes of the European left in the 19th
century in a work entitled Western Socialism and the Jewish
Question. 128 However, he does fail to link the Socialist outlook
with Voltaire. Hertzberg, noting this, maintains that the subject
needs further study." 129
Whether the Frankists became Jacobins, Reform or
Conservative movement leaders, or otherwise, one thing came
down from generation to generation in their circles, and that
was their profound hatred for Torah, true Judaism, the Talmud
and the Rabbis, which, unfortunately, manifests itself to this
very day among large segments of the leadership of the
Conservative and Reform movements throughout the
Diaspora. These successors of the Frankists and the Haskala
were in no small way influenced by Frank's disciples to whom
we will now turn our attention.
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