Richard Francis Burton

Name: The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East
Author: Richard Francis Burton

The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

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“The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East”, published in 1898, is a work by Richard Francis Burton. It explores elements such as Jews, Christians and Gentiles.

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ Because under the present enlightened Governments of the West the Jews have lost much of their ancient rancour, and no longer perpetrate the atrocities of the Dark Ages, Europe is determined to believe that the race is, and ever has been, incapable of such atrocities. ”

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ The Jews were expelled from Spain, in consequence of popular clamour, by Isabel the Catholic. Many retired to Portugal, where asylum was granted to them under the conditions, first, that each should pay a certain sum of gold for admission, and, secondly, that if found in Portugal after a certain day, they should either consent to be baptized or be sold for slaves. ”

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ During the same century those of Toledo also killed a Christian youth. According to the Cronica Serafica (della Vita di S. Francesco d’Assisi, Opera del Padre Damiano Cornejo, 1721, Lib. I., chap. i.) , the Jews superstitiously used the blood of Christians in childbirth, and sent it in a dried state to China and other places, where they had synagogues, but where worshippers of Christ [4] are not to be found. Hence the Jews were eventually expelled from Spain and Portugal. ”

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ His fierce passions and fiendish cunning, combined with abnormal powers of intellect, with intense vitality, and with a persistency of purpose which the world has rarely seen, and whetted moreover by a keen thirst for blood engendered by defeat and subjection, combined to make him the deadly enemy of all mankind, whilst his unsocial and iniquitous Oral Law contributed to inflame his wild lust of pelf, and to justify the crimes suggested by spite and superstition. ”

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ We must seek for a solid cause underlying these horrible acts of vengeance; we find ample motive in the fact that the Jew’s hand was ever, like Ishmael’s, against every man but those belonging to the Synagogue. ”

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ Thus far the Talmud; and by this they mean to say, that as of serpents he especially is to be killed that is the greatest and best of its kind, so Christians are to be dealt with in the same way. For killing Christians and throwing their children into pits, and even for killing them when they can do it secretly, they derive an argument from that which is said in the book Abodah Zarah, Chapter En Maamidin: ‘As to Gentiles and robbers, and those that tend small cattle, they are neither to be helped out of a well nor to be thrown into it. ”

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ The corpse having been found in the Etsch river, which flows through the city, led to the detection of the crime; the murderers were put to death, the synagogue was razed to the ground, and a church was built over the place where the horrid deed was done. A sculpture was put on the Bridge Tower in Frankfort-on‐the‐Maine, and a picture of a “Christian Infant murdered by the Jews” was placed in one of the galleries in the Hôtel de Ville. ”

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Richard Francis Burton, The Jew (1898) — The Continuity of Tradition in the East (1898)

“ Of course the child is chosen because it is more easily mastered than a man.↑ The Chronicles are right in believing that the Jew hates the Christian more than he does the Muhammadan. “As to those Gentiles, who, like the Ishmaelites, are not idolaters, their wine is unlawful to drink, but is lawful for purpose of profit, as is taught by all the Gaons ”

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