The Ashkenazi Revolution

82been kept by the higher classes in keeping with the Roman tradition, hadbeen weakened, and instead there was a great strengthening of the elementsthat serve the wild and sadistic inclination. This development did not bodewell for the Ashkenazi People in Europe.The rapid increase in population had its influence also on the Ashkenazination, which dwelt in Europe. At the end of the eighteenth century, theentire world Jewish population numbered around two and a half million, ofthis a million and a half were in Europe. In the year 1880 Ashkenaz, andits offshoots overseas, numbered around 7 million people and, on the eve ofWorld War II, Ashkenaz in Europe numbered around 10 million people,and in the lands overseas, around five million people. Ashkenazconstituted, in this period, around 95% of all members of the Jewishpeoples. The greatness of Ashkenaz is not only in its numeric strength, butalso in its unique accomplishments in the history of the Jewish peoples. Inno period, during Jewish history, did a Jewish People reach greatness innumbers, in geographical distribution and in the formation of dense andgreat Jewish settlements as we find in Ashkenaz between the time of theFrench Revolution and the Second World War. It is as if Jewish historyhad intentionally divided, and distributed, the alliance of Jewish peoplesinto two parts: The great Ashkenaz, which is restless, is embued with thevigor of youth and ascends from level to level, and on the other side, theSephardo-Mizrahi peoples, who are subdued, backward and degenerate.The small nation of Ladino speakers, in the lands of the Balkans and theLevant, served as an intermediate link between Ashkenaz and the Afro-Asiatic Jewish peoples. The Ladino Jews are noted for their wonderfulsocial health, and in this they resemble the Jews of Ashkenaz, but they lackthe specific Ashkenazi ambition, and all of their engrained traits give themthe status of a small to medium people.The strength of Ashkenaz is first and foremost its great rule over time.None of the other Jewish peoples were able to gather the strength to reachthe twentieth century and to establish for itself a meaningful grasp of it.The Afro-Asiatic Jewish peoples are stuck in various periods of the past,from the 13 th to the 17 th century, and the Ladino Jews ceased marching with