The Ashkenazi Revolution

76“pedigreed” did not see the matter this way – the Sephardim of Bordeaux,were prepared to be “Frenchmen of the religion of Moses”, and all of asudden these pedigreed ones were associated, in the decision to delay theJewish Question, with the lowly “Ashkenazim, who also lack the basicrights of citizens, and whose Jewish nationalism is dear in their eyes.The decision of December 24 th was about to be published when the Jews ofBordeaux approached the National Assembly with a protest letter andmentioned… Jews of “Portuguese extraction”, who had settled in the Southof France by way of “patents” granted by the king… and that the Jews ofBordeaux therefore considered themselves insulted that they were included,in the decision of the National Assembly, together with those “Jews ofanother race.”Dubnov continues to tell us:The letter of the Jews of Bordeaux, with the signatures of the delegates andtwo hundred and fifteen “home-owners”, was dispersed among the peopleand was sent to members of the National Assembly, and in this way it wasdeclared publicly that there are two tribes of Jews in the world: One“Portuguese”, owners of the “patents”, patriotic and worthy of completeequal rights, and the other “Ashkenaz” – zealous and not worthy of therights of citizens… The Congress decided: “The Revolution, that restored,and established, the rights of all Frenchmen cannot deny, from anyparticular group of citizens, the rights it already had, and therefore theCongress recommends to the assembly, without a decision on the generalquestion (on the Jewish matter in general), to grant to the Jews ofBordeaux what they justifiably demand and to recognize them as activecitizens, according to the conditions set for all citizens.” When thisrecommendation was read a great tumult was heard in the court. To thepodium rose, in opposition, the oppressor Rewbell: “Behold, they aresuggesting to you, sir, that the Jews of Bordeaux not be consideredJews”… and he strove to prove that the recommendation of theconstitutional congress contradicts the decision that was made onDecember 24 th . If equal rights are given to the Jews of Bordeaux, then