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constituency of Frankists from Bohemia and Moravia after the
Revolution of 1848. A will which he left in 1881 was the subject
of a chapter in Gershom Scholem's book The Messianic idea
in Judaism. We learn from Scholem that this Gottlieb Wehle
was "the great-uncle of the late Justice Louis Dembitz Bran-
deis and a first cousin of Zacharias Frankel." We met
Zacharias (or Zecharia) Frankel in Part I as the founder of the
Conservative movement in Germany. Zacharias Frankel was
born in Prague on July 7, 1802, and Gottlieb Wehle twenty
days later on July 27.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis' grandfather, named Dembitz, was
a student of medicine when he became active with the
Frankists. 139 Dembitz's son was Louis Naftali Dembitz (1833-
1907), 140,141 who was an ardent abolitionist, and was one of the
nominators of Lincoln at the Republican Convention in 1860.
Dembitz is described as an observant and religious Jew, which
is completely out of character with the behavior of the Frankist
'48-ers who arrived in the United States.
Louis Brandeis himself appeared to be at odds with the
interests of the international bankers of his day. For example,
he was an ardent Zionist, and Jacob Schiff in 1907 declared
that one could not "at the same time be a true American and
an honest adherent of the Zionist movement," while Brandeis
held that "to be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and
to be better Jews, we must become Zionists." 142
While it is difficult to show any connection on the part of
Justice Brandeis with the Frankists, it is no mere accident that
Brandeis University was the headquarters of all SDS chapters
throughout the United States, from which their most radical
upheavals and riots were masterminded. The founders of
Brandeis University, and some of its top administrators, have
been violently anti-religious, and have left wing associations.
We shall deal with this group in a future chapter, but suffice it
to say that the Louis Dembitz Brandeis name placed him in a
position similar to the fictitious Rosemary of "Rosemary's
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