The Ashkenazi Revolution

73build a state within it, and collected the dispersed tribes of Sephardo-Mizrahi Jews. This and more: Ashkenaz knew how to unite its tribes andto transform them into one integrated people. It created a great worldlylanguage, Yiddish, that linked, and still links, those tribes. It founded greatinternational organizations that connect the various factions of theAshkenazi nation. Sepharad did not succeed in any of this. It did not uniteits tribes and, among them, there exists bitter hatred, especially between theEuropean portion, which speaks Ladino, and the portions that speak Arabic.It did not succeed in founding international organizations and, to the extentthat they exist, they are no more than shadows compared to the greatAshkenazi institutions. This disparity between the lot of Sepharad andAshkenaz, the leaders of the Sephardim, and their Ashkenazi allies, attemptto explain by claiming favorable conditions for the Ashkenazim and cruelconditions for the Sephardim. But such claims are based on falsehood. Onthe contrary: Conditions were actually cruel for Ashkenaz and luck was onthe side of Sepharad. The advantage of Ashkenaz over Sepharad wasentirely internal and its source is in the natural superiority of the Ashkenazination compared to the Sephardi nation. The struggle between Ashkenazand Sepharad is the central manifestation of the life of Jewish peoples overthe last thousand years and the victory of Ashkenaz has huge implications.This victory is the victory of Ashkenazi irrationality over Sephardicrationality, of the typical Ashkenazi preference for content over the typicalSephardic preference for form. The Sephardic striving for form and forlogic ended in frustration and left Sepharad without form and without logic,but the innocent and stubborn yearning of Ashkenaz for content not onlygave it content but also granted it a beautiful form and sharpness of logic toan extent that Sepharad never merited.4Any autonomous Jewish People, that sees itself as elevated over otherJewish peoples, will tend to take pride in itself and to entertain feelings ofsuperiority. But the Sephardim exaggerated their pride more than any otherelevated Jewish People, and there is the impression that this arroganceturned into a basic trait among them that they could not control or restrain.