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as they please. Artists with Jewish blood in their veins receive favor and acceptance everywhere, while thousands of German artists cannot find enough to sustain themselves. Jewish musical ensembles were formed and deliberately began to ruin German national music by introducing Bolshevik songs into it, as well as attempting to give it a Jewish stamp.

From the time a large number entered Christianity--and even before then--many Jews and converts held professorships at universities, practiced medicine and law, occupied high judicial positions and became priests, missionaries and professors of theology. It is no exaggeration to say that their university positions and chairs were almost inherited. When the post of a Jewish professor became vacant and another Jew was not chosen to replace him, voices of denunciation and accusations of reaction and fanaticism arose, powerfully and violently supported by Jewish newspapers.

The Jews and the German administration

The Jews were not satisfied with their share of intervention in social and cultural life. After the period of persecution they sought to participate in administration and aspired to leadership and power, although they were foreigners to the country. In 1807, the rabbis of Alsace and Lorraine said,