Moses Maimonides

The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion refers to Moses Maimonides as "the
symbol of the pure and orthodox faith." His Guide to the Perplexed is
considered the greatest work of Jewish religious philosophy, but his view of
Blacks was Hitlerian:

"[T]he Negroes found in the remote South, and those who resemble them from
among them that are with us in these climes. The status of those is like
that of irrational animals. To my mind they do not have the rank of men, but
have among the beings a rank lower than the rank of man but higher than the
rank of apes. For they have the external shape and lineaments of a man and a
faculty of discernment that is superior to that of the apes."

Philadelphia Jewish weekly The Jewish Record of January 23, 1863:

"We know not how to speak in the same breath of the Negro and the Israelite.
The very names have startlingly opposite sounds - one representing all that
is debased and inferior in the hopeless barbarity and heathenism of six
thousand years the other, the days when Jehovah conferred on our fathers the
glorious equality which led the Eternal to converse with them, and allow
them to enjoy the communion of angels. Thus the abandoned fanatics insult
the choice of God himself, in endeavoring to reverse the inferiority which
he stamped on the African, to make him the compeer, even in bondage, of His
chosen people.

"There is no parallel between such races. Humanity from pole to pole would
scout such a comparison. The Hebrew was originally free and the charter of
his liberty was inspired by his Creator. The Negro was never free and his
bondage in Africa was simply duplicated in a milder form when he was
imported here....The judicious in all the earth agree that to proclaim the
African equal to the surrounding races, would be a farce which would lead
the civilized conservatism of the world to denounce the outrage."

A Rabbi, 1956

"What our friends in the North do not fully appreciate is the fact that
there is no difference between most of the Jews and their Christian
neighbors in their attitudes toward the Negro. This is not a by-product of
antisemitism, but an honest conviction. For these Jews desegregation
presents not merely a school problem, but also a problem of the mixing of
races."

Major Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851)

He was considered the most distinguished Jewish layman in his time. He was
such a prolific proponent of slavery, that the first Black American
periodical, The Freedom's Journal, was launched in response to Noah's racist
propaganda. He actually defended slavery by calling it liberty:

"There is liberty under the name of slavery. A field negro has his cottage,
his wife, and children, his easy task, his little patch of corn and
potatoes, his garden and fruit, which are his revenue and property. The
house servant has handsome clothing, his luxurious meals, his admitted
privacy, a kind master, and an indulgent and frequently fond mistress."

He argued that "the bonds of society must be kept as they now are" and that
"To emancipate the slaves would be to jeopardize the safety of the whole
country." The Freedom's Journal called Noah the Black man's "bitterest
enemy" and William Lloyd Garrison, the leading White abolitionist, called
him the "lineal descendant of the monsters who nailed Jesus to the cross."

B'nai B'rith Magazine, May, 1925, vol. 39 :

Darktown

Rastus: Whuffo' yo' 'jeculate yoself to me in dat onery manner?
Cicero: Whoffo'? Nigguh, who do yo' calkerate yo' is?
Rastus: Yo' nigguh! mah family am quality folks an' ahm a pusson of rank.
Cicero: Huh! ah'll have yo' triflin', Rastus, to know that ah'm ranker than
you is.

"Jokes" like these appeared regularly in the B'nai B'rith Magazine even as
the ADL fought this kind of defamation of Jews.

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