The Ashkenazi Revolution

159Jewish masses of Eastern Europe, but with a basic intention to denigratethem.Brenner served as an effective tool to accomplish this goal. The presidentof the nation, Mr. Zalman Shazar, in his book “Light of Men”, page 310,cited important items, along these general lines, from Beryl Katzenelson inthose days:Then the friends of Beryl, the people of the second migration and the localssaid, “This great world, both in general and the Jewish world, has not yetbeen fixed, for judgment has been passed, and this bitter lot can bechanged only if we form a small loaf here, among the people of the genie,on the fertile land, at the shores of the Kinneret, and in its midst we shallstand… for the time being let us not speak of redemption at all, and wemust not pronounce this word as it is spelled.”The formation of the “loaf” demanded a separation between the secondmigration and the Ashkenazi masses of Eastern Europe. To this end verymany words were needed - the seductive, lying and slanderous words ofYosef Chaim Brenner.There were four stages in the life of Beryl Katzenelson. The first was as ayoungster in Bobruisk. He was the political representative of the massesamong whom he lived. This attachment to the masses developed in him thebroader concepts that served as basic outlines for the structure of thesociety of workers.A multifaceted outline such as this could not be born in the narrow worldof “The Young Worker”. The second stage of Beryl Katzenelson isincorporated into the years when he was a member of the Kinneret group, aman of the hoe, a man who fulfilled, with his body, the symbolisms of theLabor movement. However this background was too narrow for him and,as he rejected his symbolic zealotry, he moved to the city and establishedfor himself a lifestyle that he had previously condemned forcefully – thelifestyle of an urban, and bureaucratic, man who does not fulfill his