Chapter 1202: The Jews (continued)
The second item on the leaflet of the Eighth Route Army was that the CCP and the Eighth Route Army respected the religious beliefs of the Jews. This one, like the first, was a shocking shock to the Jews. Because the reason why Europe is anti-Semitic and anti-Semitic is not Hitler's originality, but is determined by long-standing religious complexes.
Judaism, which the Jews professied, arose in the early 1000 BC in the course of the "Prophetic Movement" in Palestine, and was a monotheistic religion developed on the basis of polytheistic worship in primitive societies. The doctrine is the belief in Jehovah, the "one true God", the canon is the "Ten Commandments of Moses", and the covenant is the Old Testament, or "Old Testament" for short.
Judaism holds that the Jews are Jehovah's chosen people and that there will be a Messiah to save the suffering Jews.
Christianity itself is a branch of Judaism that developed into Christianity after the separation of Judaism. Christ is the Savior, the honorific title of Jesus. Early Christianity inherited the monotheistic beliefs at the heart of Judaism, embraced the Jewish scriptures and messianic ideas in its entirety, and its members and cadres were all Jews who had been oppressed by the Roman rulers. The Christian savior Jesus was condemned to death by Pilate (about 14~37 AD), the Roman governor in Palestine, because he was dissatisfied with the tyrannical rule of the Roman authorities and propagated the doctrine of monotheism. After the second century A.D., many wealthy people joined Christianity and gradually seized the leadership of the church, which changed the nature of Christianity. The Church began to follow a moderate line, portraying Jesus as a lowly and submissive representative, vigorously promoting non-resistance, calling on believers to "love their enemies" and "not speak anything threatening when they are scolded, and not to say threatening words when they are hurt". Seeing that Christianity was no longer a threat to their rule, the Roman rulers also changed their attitude towards Christianity, gradually changing from persecution to nurturing and exploiting it. In 392 AD, the Roman rulers declared Christianity the state religion and banned pagan beliefs, and the Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. In this way, Christianity became the darling of the rulers and quickly developed into a religion throughout Europe and even the world.
Christianity became a world religion, but Judaism remained confined to the Jews and became a purely Jewish religion. The rivalry between religious forces has led to contradictions between the two.
Judaism says that the Messiah has not yet come, and Christianity says that the Messiah is Christ Jesus. This is a focal point of conflict between the two sides.
Although Judaism is the mother religion of Christianity, Christian doctrine holds that Judas, one of Jesus' 12 disciples, betrayed the Son of God for 30 pieces of silver, resulting in Jesus' crucifixion, which created an emotional hatred of Jews among Christians. The socialization of this religious sentiment gradually evolved into a popular misogynistic social mentality. In the same way, this social mentality is also a kind of cultural precipitation. It is "inherited" from generation to generation, and gradually integrated with socio-economic politics over time, making it a potential socio-political force that can be used at any time.
Hitler harnessed the power of this latent religious-cultural ideology to take his anti-Semitic ideology to the extreme, and turned it into a social driving force of madness.
In fact, Jesus' death had nothing to do with the Jews. This is the result of research and research by later historians, theologians, and experts in Jewish history.
At present, the leaflets issued by the Eighth Route Army say that the Eighth Route Army respects the religious beliefs of the Jews, which in fact means that in the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, it is legal to believe in Judaism. Can the Jews, who have suffered thousands of years of religious persecution, not be excited?
The third is to encourage Jews to do business and run enterprises in the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, and enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises in the base areas, and the banks in the base areas will provide loan support.
This is unpretentious, but for the Jews whose lives are threatened at any time, it is already a great temptation for them to enjoy the national treatment of their country at this time, and the Eighth Route Army also provides bank loans, which is a temptation for the empty-handed, beggar-like Jewish refugees, which they dare not believe!
Article 4 is to recruit personnel for the study of material resources, chemistry, mathematics, and meteorology, and to recruit engineers, technicians, and skilled workers in the fields of electrical, radio communications, mining, non-ferrous metal smelting, oil drilling, machinery manufacturing, vehicle manufacturing, aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding, weapons manufacturing, and gunpowder production.
This article is for those technical talents, and it is the core of this recruitment. Liu Yimin was ruthless and wanted to attract skilled talents among Jewish refugees with a stable salary. The Pacific War is about to break out, and the time to enter the Northeast is about to be ripe, and the Northeast has such a strong industrial foundation, and the development potential must be strong, and it must be supported by a huge team of technical personnel.
The fifth is that the Eighth Route Army will ensure the safety of the lives of Jews who recruit personnel and go to the base areas to do business and run enterprises.
There are five in total, which are simple and straightforward, except that there are no entries that require Jews to spend money.
Lesser, Felix = Khadeg, and Kurt = Leddie all figured it out, knowing that the Eighth Route Army knew that they were a group of refugees, and their property had been confiscated by the Nazis, and this was to help them. It's just that these Jewish refugees managed to escape from the Nazi clutches, and they were so frightened that they didn't want to leave the relative peace of Shanghai, and most of them didn't want to break with the Japanese who were nice to them.
After listening to Lesser's words, Liu Yimin shook hands and hugged Lesser again, and then said with a smile in English: "Leselabi, I wish you to live to the end of your life!" ”
A rabbi is a teacher and wise man among the Jews, and refers to a person who has received formal Jewish education, systematically studied the Tanakh, Talmud and other Jewish scriptures, served as the spiritual leader of the Jewish community or the Jewish church, or taught the teachings of Judaism in the Jewish seminary.
"I wish you to live to a long time" is the greeting of the Jews when they meet.
Liu Yimin did a military salute just now, and this time it was a handshake ceremony between Jews. In particular, a "Rabi Leselby" and a "I wish you a life to be 120 years old" shortened the distance between the two at once.
Leser was a rabbi, but he didn't expect that the commander of the Eighth Route Army in front of him would know that he was a rabbi and greet him with Jewish etiquette, and his happy beard trembled.
I heard Liu Yimin continue: "You are a wise man who believes in Jehovah. I think, with your wisdom, that I don't need to answer the question of whether the Eighth Route Army can guarantee the realization of the contents of the leaflets. The friendship of the Chinese towards the Jews must have been truly felt by you and your compatriots. The reason why the Eighth Route Army wanted to recruit talents from among the Jewish refugees was to speed up its development and defeat the Japanese invaders more quickly. The second is to help the suffering Jews through the difficult time. Between us, we have common interests and common goals. The Jews should not just stay in the refugee camps, nor should they just live in the concessions to beg for food and clothing, but should take up guns and work together with the world's anti-fascist forces to eliminate the German fascists, the Japanese fascists, and the Italian fascists. Only in this way can the Jews win the respect of the people of the world and realize the ideal of restoration. ”
Leser heard every word clearly, pondered for a while, and said to Liu Yimin: "Respected general, your words shook me a lot. We need to talk about it again. ”
After speaking, Lesser asked Liu Yimin to wait, and he and Felix = Kadeg and Cot = Lai Di went to discuss with the main members of the association.
Zhou Yi asked Liu Yimin how he knew that Lesser was a rabbi, and Liu Yimin replied that the rabbi was a special class among the Jews, and only a rabbi could serve as a community leader.
Lesse and the others discussed for a long time, and Liu Yimin, who was waiting, was a little anxious, and Leser and the others walked out of Lesse walked up to Liu Yimin, holding a copy of the Old Testament in his hand, pressed one palm on the book, and said solemnly: "General Liu, in the name of Jehovah, our Middle East Jewish Refugees Association has decided to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army and select a group of skilled technical personnel to work in your army's base area. If the report they send back shows that the Eighth Route Army has indeed fulfilled its propaganda promises, we will send a second batch. ”
Liu Yimin was happy and shook hands with Lai Sai and the others one by one again.
Lesser then added: "We have one more condition, which is to ask your army to help the Jews working in the base area to build a church, and they need to listen to the voice of Jehovah. ”
This is a normal requirement, Liu Yimin said with a smile: "Elder Laise, we respect your religious customs, and we will naturally help you build a church." Rest assured, we will respect not only your religious beliefs, but also your habits. ”
Now the two sides have reached a complete agreement. There was no need for the Eighth Route Army to publicize it, and the Central European Jewish Association carefully selected 200 technical personnel of various types, and sent a rabbi to lead the team to follow the Eighth Route Army.
Liu Yimin was overjoyed when he looked at the list and professional introduction, this Jew is really full of talents, covering almost all scientific research fields in this era, military industry, civilian and all of them, and they are all top talents who graduated from top universities.
Liu Yimin told Zhou Yi to report to Cai Zhong and Cheng Cuilin, and allocated 500,000 yen and 500,000 yuan of central savings bonds from the seized funds to the Central European Jewish Association for the resettlement of Jewish refugees. The 200 technicians sent to the base area of the Eighth Route Army were each given US dollars to live with their relatives.
At this moment, the Jewish refugees were boiling, and those scientific and technological talents and their families who were not selected surrounded Lesser and others to demand additional personnel. In the end, 200 people became people, a whole NO times increase!