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CHAPTER XI<br />
THE FRANKIST ELITE<br />
If your bro<strong>the</strong>r, your own mo<strong>the</strong>r's son, or your son or<br />
daughter, or <strong>the</strong> wife of your bosom, or your closest friend<br />
entices you in secret, saying, "Come, let us worship o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
gods" ... do not assent or give heed <strong>to</strong> him... Thine eyes shall<br />
have no pity on him, or compassion. Do not conceal him, but<br />
thou shalt surely take his life.<br />
Thy destroyers ... shall go forth from <strong>the</strong>e.<br />
(Deuteronomy 13:7-10)<br />
(Isaiah 49-17)<br />
The Frankist elite consisted of a circle of very gifted<br />
intellectuals, <strong>the</strong>ologians and men of letters, as well as a group<br />
of men of great financial means who were for <strong>the</strong> most part<br />
great merchant bankers, and exerted tremendous influence in<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir day in <strong>the</strong> highest financial circles of Europe. The most<br />
logical place <strong>to</strong> discover <strong>the</strong>se people and <strong>the</strong>ir machinations<br />
would be <strong>to</strong> investigate Frank's own family and whom <strong>the</strong>y<br />
married, bearing in mind, as we have noted before, that <strong>the</strong><br />
Frankists only married among <strong>the</strong>mselves.<br />
As <strong>the</strong> circle of this elite widens, we find that <strong>the</strong>y were in<br />
intimate contact with o<strong>the</strong>rs whom we cannot document as<br />
being Frankists but whose actions indeed at least conform <strong>to</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> Frankist pattern of behavior. One such individual belonging<br />
<strong>to</strong> this latter category is Israel Jacobson (1768-1828). As<br />
we examine <strong>the</strong> Dobrushka family, we find that <strong>the</strong>y inter-<br />
married with o<strong>the</strong>r people of great financial means, 131 and that<br />
<strong>the</strong>re was evidence of Frankism in those families as well as<br />
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