The Ashkenazi Revolution

88interference, the specific qualities and traits of the Ashkanazi people.Thirdly, the land was in the possession of the Turks, and in addition to this,served as the focal point of a dispute between powers that competed for thechance to inherit it as the Turkish Empire crumbled. Had Ashkenazfounded, in the middle of the 19 th century, a state in one of the newcontinents, then we would now be one of the largest nations in the world,and it is likely that the Land of Israel would also be in our possession.Ashkenaz had all the tools necessary for the settlement of a large territory,and for the establishment of a state. It had a worldly language, Yiddish,which was capable of unifying and guiding great and powerful masses. Ithad wonderful human capital, among them those who lived in small citiesand towns close to the work of the land. Ashkenaz always succeeded inconstructive projects, and had it known to ensure itself an appropriateterritory, in the middle of the 19 th century, it would have turned it into thelocation of one of the great international civilizations. Moreover: AnAshkanazi state in one of the new continents would likely have embodiedthe natural continuity of Jewish history. Firstly, because it would havebeen considered a continuation of the kingdom of Judah, the kingdom ofthe largest tribe-people. Secondly, in this, it would have constituted a linkin the continuity of the history of the Jewish People, which continues itsuninterrupted expansion, both ideologically and geographically. At first,this history was confined to a small land in ancient Asia. Later, it spreadgeographically to additional continents and, at the same time, it expandedon the spiritual plane as it established, from within it, the Christian religionand, later, the Muslim religion and in the end, the religion-of-this-world:Communism. But this great opportunity was withheld from Ashkenaz and,in its place came a completely different development.The attacks against the Jews, that broke out in Russia at the beginning ofthe 1880’s, precisely 60 years before Hitler’s machinery of destructionbegan its activities, were a sign of alarm that the earth was destined to fallout from under the feet of the large Ashkenazi community in EasternEurope. These attacks awakened great unrest and brought about deep soulsearching. The first to be benefit from this state of mind were the Lovers ofZion. This movement was, at its foundation, a religious-symbolic