Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

Can Families Survive in Pagan America?, by Samuel H. Dresner. 1995

A Jewish View of the Breakdown of the American Family. Sabbatianism. Inadvertent Insights into 1936 Cardinal Hlond on Jews and Morality

Rabbi Samuel Dresner points to the divine origins of the family. He also gives the reader a sense of history–pointing to the fact that ancient pagan societies tended to practice sexual license. (p. 67).

Rabbi Dresner tackles feminist spirituality, including the goddess feminists, and debunks the “men destroyed all the evidence” contention. (p. 122). He also points to the fact that archeological evidence proves without doubt that, contrary to the deniers, ancient pagans definitely engaged in child sacrifice, and did so on a large scale. (pp. 111-113).

JEWS, COMMUNISM, AND SEXUAL LIBERTINISM

It is obvious that Jews have been both victimizers and victims in the breakdown of the family. Dresner notes that 30% of the early leaders of the Communist revolution were Jews (p. 325), and that, “An unusually high percentage of the material on sexual liberation was written by Jews, as well as significant representation among its advocates. On a more commercial level, for example, Jews have been strongly represented in the PLAYBOY enterprises.” (p. 326; see also p. 193).

Rabbi Dresner cites some data about American Jews (p. 78)–information that understates the matter because it is now quite dated. For instance, 91% of Jewish women believed that abortion on demand is all right, as against 56% of their gentile counterparts at the time. Only half as many Jews stated that religion was important in their lives compared to American non-Jews. Notably lower percentages of American Jews were married than non-Jews.

SABBATIANISM

Secularism does not have a monopoly on sexual licentiousness. Consider antinomianism, and its variants. Dresner condemns the “spiritualization” of evil, as exemplified by the Baal Shem Tov, as well as Sabbatianism–towards which Isaac Bashevis Singer had been fascinated. (p. 183). Centuries earlier, Sabbatai Zvi and his successor, Jacob Frank, taught that the Torah had now been superceded, and that transgressions would now be mitzvoth (good deeds), (p. 160).

JEWS IN JOURNALISM: INFLUENTIAL JEWS AND PUBLIC MORALITY

Isaac Bashevis Singer began his career as a deliverer of soft pornography to a Warsaw newspaper. (p. 180). Later, Singer lewdly dwelt on, and greatly exaggerated (in fact, celebrated), the sexual licentiousness among Poland’s pre-WWII Jews. Dresner adds, “Indeed, once freed from the restraints of the Polish-Jewish moralism and finding his American audience more accepting, his lust for acclaim led him to pursue his tawdry task even more single-mindedly, despite the fact that his writings appeared during and after the Holocaust.” (p. 179). What bothers Dresner is not so much Singer and his writings, but the acclaim he got from the Jewish community, culminating in the Nobel Prize. (p. 174). Moreover, hardly any Jews, outside of some Israeli ones (p. 185), have even criticized Singer, even though his writings can in no sense be rationalized as “reflecting reality”. (p. 177).

For more on the leading role of Jews in promoting pornography, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2021/04/07/jewish-porn-candor-on-jews-pornography-and-the-changing-of-sexual-mores-abrams/

POLISH CARDINAL AUGUST HLOND

All the foregoing has implications not discussed by Rabbi Dresner. In 1936, Polish Cardinal August Hlond made his much-condemned Jews-are-freethinkers and threat-to-morals statement. Part of this was undoubtedly a reaction to the rampant secularization of Poland’s Jews, especially the youth, along with frequent abandonment of morality. This obviously did not play well in the traditional Polish Catholic society. However, one wonders to what extent Sabbatian-style “religious” sexual licentiousness, as exemplified by Bashevis Singer (p. 182) and his fans, had also animated Hlond’s concerns.

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Addendum:

JEWISH INFLUENCE IN HOLLYWOOD: A LEGITIMATE ISSUE. CHRISTIAN-TEACHINGS-CAUSED-HOLOCAUST IS NOT

With reference to the likes of Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Ruth Westheimer, Howard Stern, Jerry Springer, and Ron Jeremy:

Rabbi Daniel Lapin. 2005. Our Worst Enemy. TOWARD TRADITION January 24, 2005. Now (April 2021) at:

https://www.orthodoxnet.com/articles/Lapin/Our_Worst_Enemy_2005-01-24.php

“You’d have to be a recent immigrant from Outer Mongolia not to know of the role that people with Jewish names play in the coarsening of our culture. Almost every American knows this. It is just that most gentiles are too polite to mention it.”

Rabbi Daniel Lapin continues:

“By now, some Jewish readers will be cringing. You might be cursing me for making public the role of Jews in debasing the culture. Perhaps you subscribe to the notion that nobody has noticed. I sympathize and want you to know that I write about it only for the purpose of trying to solve the problem. Make no mistake, it is a problem, and the solution lies not in attempting to defame the critics, but in stepping forward to criticize the defamers. Indeed, if we Jews do not ourselves condemn the wrong that our brethren do, others with less sympathy eventually will do so.

This excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf shows how that evil megalomaniac roused his nation to hurl an avalanche of destruction at the Jewish people:

Was there any form of filth or profligacy, particularly in cultural life, without at least one Jew involved in it? What had to be reckoned heavily against the Jews in my eyes was when I became acquainted with their activity in the press, art, literature, and the theater….It sufficed to look at a billboard, to study the names behind the horrible trash they advertised….Is this why the Jews are called the “chosen people”? The fact that nine tenths of all literary filth, artistic trash, and theatrical idiocy can be set to the account of a people, constituting hardly one hundredth of all the country’s inhabitants, could simply not be talked away; it was the plain truth. (Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, Chapter II)

Rabbi Lapin then comments:

It does not excuse Hitler or his Nazi thugs for us to acknowledge that this maniacal, master propagandist focused on a reality that resonated with the educated, and cultured Germans of his day. Not once in Mein Kampf did that monster charge Jews with being complicit in the killing of Christ two thousand years earlier. He knew that long-ago event, shrouded in mystery and theological profundity, would never goad enlightened people to murder. Instead, he drew attention to the obvious and inescapable; that which every German knew to be true.

The sad fact is that through Jewish actors, playwrights, and producers, the Berlin stage of Weimar Germany linked Jews and deviant sexuality in all its sordid manifestations just as surely as Broadway does today. Much of the filth in American entertainment today parallels that of Germany between the wars.”