The Ashkenazi Revolution

101political mission of other modern literatures and to serve as the leading sectfor the Jewish national independence movement. Hebrew Literatureavoided this obligation through a lowly and sneaky trick which said that“the Jewish People cannot succeed in creating a government”, in the wordsof Yehuda Leib Gordon. That is to say there is nobody who can bringabout such liberation. The People is rotten to the core and there is no hopefor it. It is not even worthy of salvation. Later on, Bialik expressed thisconclusion in his poem “My hammer found no anvil underneath”. Thedeception in this conclusion dwarfs most anti-Semitic deceptions. Duringthe period when this conclusion was fashionable, the Ashkenazi People wasamong the most productive in the world in every branch of creativity. Itproduced amazing scholars, created libraries, supplied revolutionaries andwarriors for every revolutionary movement in the world, settled lands andcontinents, and even laid the foundations for the State of Israel.Concerning this people, Hebrew Literature stated that it is rotten and cannotsucceed… This conclusion was made in order to ensure the sect of Hebrewauthors its place in the Hall of Fame of the secular Jewish public and, at thesame time, to free itself from the trouble of revolution that comes with sucha place of honor. This degradation of the Ashkenazi People by the NewHebrew Literature, as it paints the Ashkenazi People with all the darkcolors in the world, so too does it seek to elevate the New HebrewLiterature and those who created it. From the words of this literature it isheard that these selfsame authors are the superior and chosen people,courageous heroes without compare. However - alas, the horrible tragedy!– They could not find good enough soldiers, at whose head they could haveachieved their lofty goal… I stress that the incitement and slander of theNew Hebrew Literature was directed almost entirely toward the AshkenaziPeople, and not toward other Jewish peoples. This is not because thesepeoples were beloved or honored by the New Hebrew Literature, butbecause they never had any contact with them, and they were neverexpected, by them, to be the leaders and revolutionaries and to fulfill such amission faithfully.The disgrace that Yehuda Leib Gordon brought upon himself, when hepoured cold water over the Lovers of Zion and on Pinsker, gave the