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A Jew may become a builder or laborer, but very few of them accept such work, and almost none are mentioned. Few likewise engage in crafts, literature or acting. The occupation they master is trade and the use of gold. Jews are strangers to agriculture, the fields and work in them, but through the power of their money they take possession of what the land produces and the fruit of men's labor, until all of it becomes alienated from its owners and proprietors.

In this connection we record what their Talmud is alleged to say: "The Jews are human beings, while the other peoples are herds of cattle. Jews are human beings because they are of the spirit of God; others are of an unclean spirit, beasts in human form, and the Jews must treat them as they treat their livestock."

Because their legislation prohibits them from sexual mixing with the peoples among whom they live, their social relations with those peoples are said to remain weak and scarcely extend beyond language. The Jew abandoned Hebrew and adopted living languages such as French, English and German.

The orientalist Gustav Adolf Wahrmund wrote in an 1890 work on "the law of nomadism and Judaism": "Although the Jews are in fact wandering nomads--"

Author's note: "This text is translated from German, since I did not find an Arabic text while writing."