Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
At <strong>the</strong> time of <strong>the</strong> 1848 revolution, we find that Berthold<br />
Auerbach, Abraham Geiger's revolutionary friend, belonged.<br />
So did <strong>the</strong> Reform phony rabbi G. Salomon of <strong>the</strong> Hamburg<br />
Temple, as well as Jacob Dernburg, <strong>the</strong> jurist, a close friend of<br />
Abraham Geiger. 201<br />
Justus Hiller was appointed ora<strong>to</strong>r of <strong>the</strong> Lodge. At its<br />
founding, his antinomian leanings were evident in his address,<br />
where he alluded <strong>to</strong> Frankist teachings. 202 He was a delegate<br />
<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> French Sanhedrin, along with a Westphalian banker,<br />
Israel Jacobson (1768-1828), whom Abraham Geiger<br />
mentioned when he eulogized James Rothschild on November<br />
29, 1868, as follows:<br />
"...A short time ago we marked <strong>the</strong> 100th anniversary of <strong>the</strong><br />
birth of Israel Jacobson. His abundant wealth would not have<br />
given permanence <strong>to</strong> his name. He is remembered because<br />
he was a shield and protec<strong>to</strong>r of his brethren... Lavish in<br />
charity, he founded a school in which <strong>the</strong> new educational<br />
requirements of our time were linked with our traditional<br />
heritage for <strong>the</strong> education of <strong>the</strong> rising generation. He built<br />
houses of worship in which <strong>the</strong> faith of Israel was <strong>to</strong> shine<br />
forth in purified form and <strong>to</strong> be preached in messages of<br />
inspiration. Therefore his name will live forever." 203<br />
Geiger concluded his eulogy of James by urging <strong>the</strong><br />
Rothschilds and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r super-rich <strong>to</strong> emulate Jacobson; if<br />
<strong>the</strong>y did, he concluded:<br />
"This will be a new radiance <strong>to</strong> illumine <strong>the</strong> bright escutcheon<br />
of that house and <strong>to</strong> give an everlasting memorial <strong>to</strong> its<br />
name." 204<br />
In o<strong>the</strong>r words, Geiger was telling <strong>the</strong>se people that by<br />
emulating Israel Jacobson, <strong>the</strong>y would be good llluminati.<br />
Indeed, Jacobson had been referred <strong>to</strong> as "Jacobin, son of<br />
Israel," 205 and Jacobson had served <strong>the</strong> llluminatus Duke of<br />
Brunswick, sponsor of <strong>the</strong> Frankist Asiatic Brethren as his<br />
financial agent, as well as Napoleon (as his Westphalian<br />
banker). 206 Actually, Jacobson may be regarded as <strong>the</strong> first<br />
115