Brit-Am Historical Reports
Contents:
1. Mark Williams
A Video on the early days of the Mandate.
2. The Grimm Brothers and Anti-Semitism.
3. Ireland Made the British Empire Possible!
4. A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France.
5. Austria and the Jews.
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1. Mark Williams
A Video on the early days of the Mandate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-BHC9QmCWA
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2. The Grimm Brothers and Anti-Semitism.
A lot of Classical works have anti-Semitic overtones (so apparently does Harry Potter) and it may be that sometimes we stress them too much.
Nevertheless, it is worth being aware of them.
So too, there exist elements and writers on British-Israel Identity issues that are anti-Jewish even Neo-Nazi.
Because of people like that many Jews are very wary of the Brit-Am message.
We also came across two cases where reasonably prominent advocates of Identity messages began promoting pro-Jewish attitudes, became personal friends of ours, but later changed their minds and became anit-Jewish.
We have to be careful.
Similarly,
Barry Chamish was a noted Conspiracy Theorist some of whose associate-mentors also had questionable attitudes.
See:
Grimm Fairy Tales and Anti-Semitism
https://www.history.com/news/the-dark-side-of-the-grimm-fairy-tales
#4. Anti-Semitism
The Jew Among Thorns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jew_Among_Thorns
Quora
Jorgen Hubert
Extract:
I translate German folklore tales into English3y
I'm still reading my way through the many, many German folklore collections out there, but the closest I can think of was the tale 'Die feuerl'schenden Juden' ('The fire-quenching Jews') from Wiesdorf (now part of Leverkusen). This tale says that there were Jews living within the village who knew how to magically quench fire. Whenever a house was threatened by a fire, they'd hurry there and draw some chalk signs on the door, which would stop the fire.
Thus, for the village, the Jews were certainly portrayed as helpful. On the other hand, the narrative 'Jews are in possession of secret magical arts!' is not exactly great, either.
There are some other tales where Jews are portrayed somewhat 'neutrally', such as 'Die freigiebigen Juden' ('The Generous Jews') from Bautzen/Budysin. According to this tale, there was a group of Jews who wanted to flee to Poland during a time of pogroms, and who vowed that they'd had out a generous donation to anyone who'd visit a certain secret place every year if their escape was successful. The protagonist encounters their ghosts a few centuries later - and also gets some money from them. So this is a portrayal of Jews that is not exactly 'negative', but still odd.
But, it most be said that most German folklore tales about Jews I've come across still focus on the usual slanders (altar bread desecration, well poisoning, and ritually murdering small children).
QUORA
Stefanie Prejean
There was actually another Brothers Grimm fairy tale called The Bright Sun will Bring it to Light about a man who killed an old Jewish man in cold blood and went home to his wife as though nothing happened. I believe the Jewish man said something about the Bright sun would bring the crime committed against him to light. The man guilty of the crime would have got away with it if he hadn't started obsessing about the Statement and talking about it to the point where his wife finally asked him what was up and what in the world he was talking about. So , he basically told her and then the whole thing came to light and he was hanged for killing the Jewish man.
Very weird question: Are the Brothers Grimm fairy tales associated with the Third Reich in Israel/for modern Jews? (CW: Holocaust)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Judaism/comments/szef0z/very_weird_question_are_the_brothers_grimm_fairy/
Antisemitism
I've just finished reading a truly beautiful and very unusual book called Tales of Innocence and Experience by Eva Figes who was a Jewish girl born in Germany but escaped to England just after Kristallnacht.
In it, she talks about reading the Brothers Grimm fairy tales to her granddaughter and being reminded of the place these stories had in the Third Reich (Hitler made them part of the school curriculum; the magic, connection with the forest and so on were all a part of the Nazis ideology) and how reading the ending of Hansel and Gretel feels different to her as an older woman, knowing the fate of her grandparents.
Is her association with the Third Reich and these stories typical? I remember the Israeli produced "Cannon Movie Tales" in the 1980s which were film versions of the Brothers Grimm stories and the producer said in an interview that there were still some bad associations with these kinds of European folktales among older Israelis. Is there any truth to that?
I asked on the German sub but no-one there associates these stories with that time. Don't know about older Germans.
Sorry for the weird question; I've become a bit obsessed with this!
Shalom!
lol there are far worse stories than Hansel and Gretel among their works.
The Jew Among Thorns
The Good Bargain
The maiden killed by the Jews
The Jew stone
The clear sun brings it to light
All the witch stuff is basically innocent by comparison.
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3. Ireland Made the British Empire Possible!
Query: In an extraordinary attack, the president of Ireland has accused Britain of a feigned amnesia of British history. He goes on to state that British imperialists don't see Irish as equals. Is this an accurate summation?
Answer by "John":
Well it is a bit ironic, as the Irish, were imperialists themselves. Modern Ireland, has effectively whitewashed it's own participation, in the British Empire entirely. I am Welsh and i have observed this many times before. When i have seen things, such as an Irish journalist, having the gall to write an article.
About why "Scotland needs to come to terms with its colonial history?' LOL. Ireland was not a "colony" rather it was part of the UK. It joined the union in 1801 after its parliament voted for it. As they wanted access to colonial markets and to profit from free trade with Britain.
Whilst in the UK Ireland was politically powerful and had nearly as many MP's as Wales and Scotland combined. For example Daniel O'Connell, a highly regarded and famous Irish historical figure. Who voted for the opium wars with China. Urged other Irish politicians to do the same and died one of the richest men in Ireland.
The British empire was built by a military, which was at times, majority Irish and there have been many Irish generals. These countries, were also ruled, by an endless list of Irish colonial figures. Such as the infamous Michael O'Dwyer. Who ordered the jallianwala bagh massacre and murdered about 800 people.
In theory he should have hung for that, but only had to resign. He was later assassinated by an Indian nationalist in London. I have observed how the Irish, always describe men like O'Dwyer as being either 'British' or 'Anglo-Irish'. With all sorts of interesting reasoning as to why these people were not really Irish.
In time i came to appreciate, that what these labels, actually mean is anybody in the history of Ireland. Who ever did anything bad or does not fit with this narrative, that they have chosen for themselves. The attitude of that Irish President, would be like if Wales where i am from, became a separate country. Then rather than moving on in a dignified way.
We began loudly telling others, that we had really been a colony. Then commenced, smugly lecturing Scottish and English people, about the British empire. While pretending, we were not hugely involved in it. The Irish have amnesia about their own history.
John
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4. A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Jewish_Princedom_in_Feudal_France
Extracts:
The Carolingians were sensitive to accusations of the usurpation of the crown through conquest from the Merovingians. Succession to the biblical David would be a claim of divine sanction to rule as it would legitimise their royal power. It is documented that Charlemagne occasionally called himself by the name of David.[9] However Charlemagne's own thinking of being the successor for biblical kings of the Jewish people required a governance over the Jews and at least nominal control over Jerusalem. Creating a vassal Jewish princedom, intermarrying with its Davidic line and building a strategic alliance with the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad who ruled over the land of Israel provided Charlemagne a symbolic hold in Jerusalem which fulfilled both preconditions.
the same year, Makhir was invited by the Carolingians to become the first nasi (exilarch) appointed as ruler in Narbonne. The year 768 was significant as it was the year the King Messiah ben Ephraim was expected according to some Jewish Kabbalistic interpretations, as it coincided with the end of seven hundred years of the Second Temple destruction.[12]
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5. Austria and the Jews.
The History of Jewish Vienna
by Rabbi Menachem Levine
https://aish.com/the-history-of-jewish-vienna/?src=ac
Extracts:
Even more telling, Simon Wiesenthal who lived in Vienna after the war, is quoted as having said "Only eight percent of the population of the Third Reich were Austrians. [However] Austrians were responsible for half of the murder of Jews perpetrated under Nazi rule."
In the decades after the Holocaust, Austria has had a very mixed approach to their Jewish citizens. On the one hand, when the Soviets allowed Jews to leave, there was a transit camp in Vienna for them in route to Israel. A few years later, when Iranian Jews escaped Iran after the Shah's fall, and they needed a stop-over place, they used the same transit camp.
On the other hand, open antisemitism continues to be prevalent and acceptable in Austria. Among other examples, in 1986, Austrians elected Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi collaborator, as President of Austria. This was despite his role in World War II as an interpreter and intelligence officer for the German army unit that deported most of the 56,000 Jews of Salonika to their deaths. Understandably, U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Ronald S. Lauder, refused to attend Waldheim's inauguration.