CAS RN 384 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nomic, Radical Action, Antisemitism
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* it looked like it wasn"t going to be victorious, but there were factors that made it more vigorous and gave it more power. * usury always created anti-semitism and this was reinforced in the modern period w/ the result of capital- ism. The connection of jews to money was stronger because of the following: *anti-semitism is a phenomenon of the left wing, not the right. 1) private bankers: governments depended on borrowing money from private bankers (most famous was a family from a city in frankfurt - they created the worlds greatest banking corporation). Jews came to control the markets and financial infold. Different colonial states that came to exist raised a question for cultural anthropologists. There was a theory that all languages originally came from hebrew (spoken by adam and. All languages come from the common root, but it was impossible to defend this theory because lan- guages were so diverse.