German Jews have lived in Germany and contributed to German culture for over 1700 years, through both periods of tolerance and spasms of anti-Semitic violence, culminating in the Holocaust and the destruction of the Jewish community in Germany and much of Europe. ...
They lack the deep spirituality of the Russian Jews, and that passionate inborn sense of revolt against injustice which under similar circumstances of oppression in Russia sent thousands of Jews into the vanguard of the revolutionary movement and made their fight against Czarism one of the epic events of the Russian Revolution.
But with the German shopkeeper maddened for the moment and wildly shouting "Jude, Verreckel" GermanJews naturally turn to that other "nation" which they have hitherto neglected, which pleads for the aid and abilities of Jews in' the hour of its greatest emergency.
If GermanJews will serve the German working class with half the zeal they showed in the service of the German shopkeeper and petty official, the Nürnberg laws will not mean a return to a red Ghetto.
Evidence of Jews in the area now known as Germany dates back to the early 4th century; in the 1930s, a Jewish graveyard from that era was found in the city of Cologne.
At the same time, the Jews were accused of killing children for ritual purposes (blood libels), of host desecration, and, during the Black Plague in the fourteenth century, of poisoning wells.
In general, the Jews migrated within Germany in the Middle Ages from the towns on the Rhine in the south to the east and the north.
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