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Цитируемая фраза -- первый абзац после заголовка "Just What is a Jew".
В общем, по моему мнению, цитата вырвана из контекста.
"Было бы величайшей ошибкой думать", как говаривал Владимир Ильич Ленин.
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Я спрашиваю Сергея 555, где он взял цитату с Эйнштейном. Он не отвечает, молчит, боится бана. Потому что он сегодня вбросил очередную фальшивку, под которой люди ставят своё "спасибо", не понимая, что это - фальшивка. Так я хотел бы получить ответ, пожалуйста.
Just What is a Jew?
The formation of groups has an invigorating
effect in all spheres of human striving, perhaps mostly
due to the struggle between the convictions and aims
represented by the different groups. The Jews too
form such a group with a definite character of its
own, and anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic
attitude produced in the non-Jews by the Jewish
group. This is a normal social reaction. But for
the political abuse resulting from it, it might never
have been designated by a special name.
What are the characteristics of the Jewish group?
What, in the first place, is a Jew? There are no quick
answers to this question. The most obvious answer
would be the following: A Jew is a person professing
the Jewish faith. The superficial character of this answer
is easily recognized by means of a simple parallel.
Let us ask the question: What is a snail? An
answer similar in kind to the one given above might
be: A snail is an animal inhabiting a snail shell. This
answer is not altogether incorrect; nor, to be sure, is
it exhaustive; for the snail shell happens to be but
one of the material products of the snail. Similarly,
the Jewish faith is but one of the characteristic products
of the Jewish community. It is, furthermore,
known that a snail can shed its shell without thereby
ceasing to be a snail. The Jew who abandons his
faith (in the formal sense of the word) is in a similar
position. He remains a Jew.
Difficulties of this kind appear whenever one seeks
to explain the essential character of a group.
The bond that has united the Jews for thousands
of years and that unites them today is, above all, the
democratic ideal of social justice, coupled with the
ideal of mutual aid and tolerance among all men.
Even the most ancient religious scriptures of the
Jews are steeped in these social ideals, which have
powerfully affected Christianity and Mohammedanism
and have had a benign influence upon the social
structure of a great part of mankind. The introduction
of a weekly day of rest should be remembered
here—a profound blessing to all mankind. Personalities
such as Moses, Spinoza and Karl Marx, dissimilar
as they may be, all lived and sacrificed
themselves for the ideal of social justice; and it was
the tradition of their forefathers that led them on
this thorny path. The unique accomplishments of the
Jews in the field of philanthropy spring from the same
source.
The second characteristic trait of Jewish tradition
is the high regard in which it holds every form of intellectual
aspiration and spiritual effort. I am convinced
that this great respect for intellectual striving
is solely responsible for the contributions that the
Jews have made toward the progress of knowledge, in
the broadest sense of the term. In view of their relatively
small number and the considerable external
obstacles constantly placed in (Continued on page 3&😉