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authentic Jew who had practiced his Judaism over the
centuries, despite minor differences in outer forms of worship
or local customs as differentiates Sephardic, Spanish-
Portuguese elements from the Ashkenazic and Chasidic
communities, was now destined to be relegated to the role of
member of a reactionary sect called Orthodoxy. The term
Orthodox was to be used as a bigoted derogatory term in the
same manner that a white bigot would employ the term nigger.
This was in the best tradition of Marx and his Bund sponsors.
It should be noted that Marx used the term nigger to indeed
degrade all Jews when he published another one of his anti-
Semitic diatribes entitled The Jewish Nigger. 12
Accordingly the term Orthodox came to be utilized in
common parlance as synonymous with a backward, non-
progressive, unsophisticated and reactionary Jew. Geiger was
not alone in setting up so-called enlightened scholarly circles.
A scheme was developed in these circles to talk up the branch
concept through a nucleus of scholars. A rationale and an
impetus were developed for the acceptance of a branch
concept in Judaism. Judaism, which had not had branches,
was to be praised for its diversity. Anyone who spoke of a
united Judaism was to be sneered at as an ignoramus who
failed to recognize that "Judaism is not monolithic."
We will find later how Geiger himself was to be crucified by
this concept when the Bund designed in 1854 to create a
Conservative Movement among Jews.
Geiger sought to resurrect the conflict of the Sadducees
and Pharisees through his scholarly studies of their historical
period. His studies were first rate, but through them he wanted
to plant the idea very subtly in people's minds that branch and
schism were not new to Judaism.
In academic circles his masterful studies were accepted
with acclaim. When filtered down to the masses his studies
and those of his contemporaries were translated into a glib
justification for the so-called branches of Judaism.
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