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Graetz, the great historian of the Jews, whose monumental work is one of the standard authorities, says that the history of the Jews, even since they lost the Jewish State, “still possesses a national character; it is by no means merely a creed or church history.
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Moses Hess, one of the historic figures through whom the whole Jewish Program has flowed down from its ancient sources to its modern agents, wrote a book entitled “Rome and Jerusalem” in which he stated the whole matter with clearness and force.
“Jewish religion,” he says, “is, above all, Jewish patriotism.” (p. 61.)
“Were the Jews only followers of a certain religious denomination, like the others, t-hen it were really in¬ conceivable that Europe, and especially Germany, where the Jews have participated in every cultural ac¬ tivity, ‘should spare the