The Ashkenazi Revolution

317New Hebrew LiteratureHebrew literature of the modern erais usually called “Modern Hebrew Literature”. This is not the body ofliterature that the author is talking about. The author is referring to a specificgroup of (almost entirely) Ashkenazi Hebrew authors, who comprise what hecalls “the New Hebrew Literature” - and who share a common ideology, adestructive ideology according to the author.Night of BartholomewThe St. Bartholomew's Daymassacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy in French) in 1572 was atargeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mobviolence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants),during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have beeninstigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX,the massacre took place six days after the wedding of the king'ssister Margaret to the Protestant Henry III of Navarre (the future Henry IV ofFrance). This marriage was an occasion for which many of the most wealthyand prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris.NiliNili was a Jewish espionage networkwhich assisted the United Kingdom in its fight against the OttomanEmpire in Palestine during World War I.NitzaniYa'akov Nitzani (born Ya'akovChechik on December 6,1900, died September 15,1962) was anIsraeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai from 1952until 1959.Nordau Max Simon Nordau (July 29, 1849- January 23, 1923), born Simon Maximilian Südfeld in Pest, Hungary, wasa Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic.He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with TheodorHerzl, and president or vice president of several Zionist congresses.Ortega y GassetJosé Ortega y Gasset (9 May1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayistworking during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillatedbetween monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Nietzsche,a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.