Excerpt from The History of the Jews
There are two main difficulties confronting the historian, when he attempts to write history. He must always ask himself, First: Are the facts which I find recorded really facts, and second: Do I interpret them correctly? Thiers, in his "Histoire du Consulat," Paris, 1851, Vol. XI, p. 71, speaks of the enthusiasm with which the Jews of Portugal, who numbered 200,000, received the French troops in 1809. There were perhaps not two hundred Jews living in Portugal at that time, and they played no part in public affairs. In an address to the convention of the Order Brith Abraham, Mayor Gaynor, of New York, said on May 15, 1910: "The great Frederick issued a general privilege, and declared it as a maxim, that oppression of the Jews never brought prosperity to any state, and Napoleon not only followed the same course but convoked the Sanhedrin." The facts are in the main correct, but the presentation is all wrong. Frederick issued his "Revidierte Generalprivilegium" of April 17, 1750, for the Jews of Prussia, but it is based on the medi?val idea of restrictions in the most elementary rights of human beings. His sentiment with regard to the Jews is evident from a letter which he wrote to the Minister von Hoym, May 17, 1780, in which he says: "If the Jews were expelled and Christians would take their places as innkeepers, it would be for the good of the country, and we would have more human beings and less Jews" (Monatsschrift fuer die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1895, p. 379). Napoleon had by the convocation of the "Assembly of Jewish Notables" and the subsequent Sanhedrin, 1806-1807, insulted the Jews.
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