Why Killing Is Essential : Nazi vs. Communist

[Michael K.]

[youtube:9mes16l4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3uFUxMwA1w[/youtube]9mes16l4]

This video sheds a new light on claims by some in the camp that Hitler is any measure of a populist hero.  In fact, early Hitlerism compared to Leninism = no differ.  What comes through strong is that the origin of writings which are pro-political genocide is identified in those of Engels and Marx, and all socialist planner states are predicated on a previous cultural attainment of at least Capitalism.  

Those who haven't yet made it there in Europe are considered white racial trash, specifically Highland Scots, Serbs, Basques, Slavs, Poles...etc.  Religion is categorically rejected, but then attempts are made to harness man's innate spiritual feelings to a materialist culture through sublimation of faith from intangible and unrealistic things (like Heaven) to more tangible and practical things (like winning the War).

A must watch for anyone who contends that the Germans were really better off with Hitler than, say, at any time prior to WW I.  In fact, the things that made life better for people under the Reich were only relative Germanic cultural factors, and these were also taken away by defeat, and in any event didn't spring into existence by the magic of Hitler.

In fact, the basic theory which I challenge is that Capitalism equals a free market.  Because Capitalism is a prerequisite for Revolutionary Socialism, and this is due to the fact that both systems believe in the magical power of money (i.e. capital) to make more money, and the Capitalist-Communist squabble is over who will get the "Goose that Laid the Golden Egg."  

Capitalists say whoever owns it already will keep it, supporting grotesque inter-generational criminals and so forth in their ponzi schemes;  Communism asserts that the magic eggs should be distributed to the Revolutionary Party.  At the end of the day, Socialists are the most extreme and power mad, but less individually greedy and cynical.

But whereas the Capitalist system relies on vampiricaly parasiting a free market to actually generate the increase of capital through interest, because the fact is that money makes nothing;  only Communists are ready to abolish all peasant land ownership and lose all that production just to insure that every bit of real wealth gets confiscated the minute it gets made on a state-owned farm, and that nobody can do any different.  

Hence the Socialist system is really based on the same underlying exploitation of the land and peasants, in order to get the natural increase to instantaneously and directly serve the increase of state-held capital money; just like a bank but different and more direct, more philosophically perfect than doing business with dirty "Goyim" to milk their naturally self-derived riches.

[Michael K.]

from Political Ponerology:

Vassily Grossman was a Soviet citizen, a Ukrainian Jew born in 1905. A Communist, he became a war correspondent, working for the army paper Red Star - a job which took him to the front lines of Stalingrad and ultimately to Berlin. He was among the first to see the results of the death camps, and published the first account of a death camp - Treblinka - in any language.

After the war, he seems to have lost his faith. He wrote his immense novel, Life and Fate (Zhizn i Sudba) in the 1950s and - in the period of the Krushchev thaw, which had seen Alexander Solzhenitsyn allowed to publish A Day on the Life of Ivan Denisovich - he submitted the manuscript to a literary journal in 1960 for publication.

But Solzhenitsyn was one thing, Grossman another: his manuscript was confiscated, as were the sheets of carbon paper and typewriter ribbons he had used to write it. Suslov, the Politbureau member in charge of ideology, is reported as having said it could not be published for 200 years. However, it was smuggled out on microfilm to the west by Vladimir Voinovich, and published, first in France in 1980, then in English in 1985.

Why the 200 year ban? Because Life and Fate commits what was still, in a 'liberal' environment, the unthinkable sin of arguing for the moral equivalence of Nazism and Soviet communism. [Editor's note.]

Lenin should nevertheless be included with the first and
most characteristic kind of paranoid personality, i.e. most
probably due to diencephalic brain damage. Vassily Grossman
38 describes him more or less as follows:


Lenin was always tactful, gentle, and
polite, but simultaneously characterized
by an excessively sharp, ruthless, and
brutal attitude to political opponents. He
never allowed any possibility that they
might be even minimally right, nor that
he might be even minimally wrong. He
would often call his opponents hucksters,
lackeys, servant-boys, mercenaries,
agents, or Judases bribed for thirty
pieces of silver. He made no attempt to
persuade his opponents during a dispute.
He communicated not with them,
but rather with those witnessing the
dispute, in order to ridicule and compromise
his adversaries. Sometimes
such witnesses were just a few people,
sometimes thousands of delegates to a
congress, sometimes millions worth
throngs of newspaper readers.

Symptoms:
Asthenization.
Fixation and stereotypia.
Pathological egotism.
Paramoralisms.
Spellbinding and of consciousness
and its effects.
Lack of the self- criticism.

 

[ada]

Rabbi Waton
Waton was a religious communist, and in this book he explains the Jewish worldview -
the connection between Judaism as a religion, and Internationalism or Communism.


in his book:

A Program FOR THE JEWS
An Answer TO ALL ANTI-SEMITES
A PROGRAM FOR HUMANITY

BY HARRY WATON New York 1939

Rabbi Waton shows that Nazism is a kind of Judaism.

[p. 54] "33. What is nazism ? Nazism is an imitation of Judaism; nazism adopted the principles and ideas of Judaism with which to destroy Judaism and the Jews. This alone places Hitler on the same level with Balaam. And, first, we must acquaint ourselves with Balaam. Of all anti-Semites that ever lived, Balaam was the greatest. His greatness is attested in three ways. First, the Bible tells us that Jehovah spoke to Balaam, and that Balaam believed in Jehovah. This alone shows that Balaam was great; the mere fact that Jehovah spoke to Balaam makes him great. Next, the Talmud tells us that Balaam was even greater than Moses. The Bible tells us that among the Jews there never was and never will be a prophet as great as Moses was. The Talmud tells us: among the Jews, but among the other nations there was one that was even greater than Moses and that was Balaam. The Talmud tells us the reason why Balaam was greater than Moses. When in the Last Day of Judgment Jehovah will judge the nations, the nations will say to Jehovah: If Thou hadst sent to us a prophet like Moses, we would also have accepted Thy Torah. To this Jehovah will answer: I sent to you Balaam, who was even greater than Moses, and yet you did not accept My Torah. But the greatness of Balaam appears in the method he used for the purposes of destroying the Jews. Let us consider the facts as told in the Bible. 34. The Jews were approaching the Promised Land. On their way they conquered the nations that warred against the Jews. Now the Jews were near the land of the Moabites, and the Moabites were overcome with dread. Balak, the king of the Moabites, knew very well that his people were no match against the Jews; he also knew that the Jews would destroy

Judaism gave birth to Marxism

Marxism is the soul and strength of the Russian revolution, and the Russian revolution is the beginning of proletariat revolutions throughout the world.

"Jews are GOD"

"It is not an accident that Judaism gave birth to Marxism, and it is not an accident that the Jews readily took up Marxism; all this was in perfect accord with the progress of Judaism and the Jews. The Jews should realize that Jehovah no longer dwells in heaven, but he dwells in us right here on earth; we must no longer look up to Jehovah as above us and outside of us, but we must see him right within us."

Since the Jews are the highest and most cultured people on earth, the Jews have a right to subordinate to themselves the rest of mankind and to be the masters over the whole earth. Now, indeed, this is the historic destiny of the Jews,"
Judaism is communism, internationalism, the universal brotherhood of man, the emancipation of the working class and the human society. It is with these spiritual weapons that the Jews will conquer the world and the human race.

http://www.archive.org/details/AProgram ... ndHumanity

http://mailstar.net/naz-jud.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=q2vy ... rch_anchor

http://winstonsmithministryoftruth.blog ... ch?q=waton

[Michael K.]

Dear ada,

Great documentary contribution there.  One phrase seems to resonate particularly with me:

Since the Jews are the highest and most cultured people on earth, the Jews have a right to subordinate to themselves the rest of mankind and to be the masters over the whole earth. Now, indeed, this is the historic destiny of the Jews.

Over a millennium ago the Carolingian Franks (whom I will contend are of at least partial Jewish descent) relocated all urban Roman Citizens, in certain rebellious areas under their feudal regime, to slave labor camps:

http://www.romanity.org/htm/rom.03.en.f ... ine.01.htm

The Franks applied their policy of destroying the unity between the Romans under their rule and the Romans under the rule of Constantinople and the Arabs. They played one Roman party against the other, took neither side, and finally condemned both the iconoclasts and the Seventh Ecumenical Synod (786/7) at their own Council of Frankfurt in 794, in the presence of the legates of Pope Hadrian I (771-795), the staunch supporter of Orthodox practice.

In the time of Pippin of Herestal (697-715) and Charles Martel (715-741), many of the Franks who replaced Roman bishops were military leaders who, according to Saint Boniface, "shed the blood of Christians like that of the pagans."[ 4 ]...

Meanwhile, Roman revolutionary activity in Gaul had not yet been fully suppressed. Pippin III had died the year before and Charlemagne and his brother Carloman had taken over the rule of Austrasia and Neustria. Within the surprisingly short period of only twenty-two years, from 732 to 754, the Franks had defeated the Roman-Arab alliance, swamped all the provinces of Gaul, and had swept into Northern Italy. This was made possible by the new feudal order which was first established in Austrasia and Neustria. The Roman administrative units of the civitates were abolished and replaced by the military comitates. The former free Romans were transferred en masse from the cities and were established on the slave labor camps called villae and mansi, alongside the serfs. They were called villeins (villains), a term which, for understandable reasons, came to mean enemies of law and order.

The Visigoths in Spain were overthrown by the Romans, who opened their city gates to the Berbers and Arabs. The Franks reacted with determination to avoid the occurrence of the same in Francia (Land of the Franks) by abolishing Roman urban society.

The history of the Frankish Holy Roman Empire and that of the Jews is intertwined to a much greater extent then I would have originally thought, and where Roman Christian civilization originally guaranteed basic rights to Citizens, even Provincials, the Judeo-Frankish feudal order brought the same kind of regressive barbarity which was later compared to life under Judeo-Communist rule in the USSR.

When we recognize the history involved with the rise of the schismatic Latin "Holy Roman Empire," and witness a familiar pattern of events, we are struck both by how long this has been going on in secret, and how completely it fits with the Judaic Messianic conspiracy.  Below are sources contending that Charlemagne either was closely allied to the Jews, or in fact was a Jew:

http://www.britam.org/Tribesman/AncestryAthol.html

THE HOUSE OF DAVID
by ATHOL BLOOMER

I have spent many years researching the ancestry of Machir Theodoric of Narbonne since I read about the work of Professor David Kelley in a book by Sir Iaian Moncrieffe entitled "Royal Highness- The Ancestry of the Royal Child" published for the birth of Prince William in 1981. It is only very recently that I discovered the identity of Hernaut de Gironde as King Harald Hildetand, ancestor of Rollo of Normandy from whom descends William the Conqueror. I had done a lot of research on the other lines and it was only as the information accumulated that I started to see it all clearly. Of course a lot more work needs to be done. I was shocked to discover that the Carolingian family were Jewish on their female lines, as at the same time many of them seemed to be devout Catholics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

Charlemagne's expansion of the Frankish empire around 800, including northern Italy and Rome, brought on a brief period of stability [dictatorship-MK] and unity in Western Europe. This created opportunities for Jewish merchants to settle once again north of the Alps. Charlemagne granted the Jews freedoms similar to those once enjoyed under the Roman Empire. In addition, Jews from southern Italy, fleeing religious persecution, began to move into central Europe. These Jews carried with them, the Haplogroup G2c (Y-DNA) which now accounts for the largest haplogroup within the Ashkenazi population.[20] Returning once again to Frankish lands, many Jewish merchants took on occupations in finance and commerce, including money lending, or usury. (Church legislation banned Christians from lending money in exchange for interest.) From Charlemagne's time to the present, there is a well-documented record of Jewish life in northern Europe, and by the 11th century, when Rashi of Troyes wrote his commentaries, Ashkenazi Jews had emerged also as interpreters and commentators on the Torah and Talmud.

http://willofjehovah.com/Family%20Histo ... detand.htm

Dudo of St. Quentin, a close friend of Richard I of Normandy the grandson of Rollo, writes the history of Norman people in France as a favour to Richard as Richard is two years from death and thus far no such record has been written. The old Roman name for the town of St. Quentin was Augusta Veruomanduorum, and it was Count of Vermandois Albert I The Pious (first cousin to Richard I of Normandy) who founded in 964 at St. Quentin the monastery of St. Quentin. Albert of Vermandois sent Dudo to Richard in 986, and it is on his second visit that he writes his History of the Normans, or, as it is called in the Latin, Gesta Normannorum to be dated 1000. Richard I died in Fecamp, Normandy by the latest source 1002. Richard's wife Gunnor is of Danish descent by means of Harald Hildetand through a line of Danish kings—

Gunnor, her father Herbastus de Crepon Arque who married Gunnhild Olafsdottir, his father Herfast de Crepon Arque (Noble House of Danes of Scandia in the Sjaelland Island) who married Elfgifu of Wessex (daughter of Alfred The Great and Ealhswith of the Gaini), his father Harold Parcus of Denmark who married Elgiva the daughter of Ethelred I of England, his father Gorm Enske of Denmark who married Sida of Denmark, his father Frodo of Denmark, his father Harde Canute Sigurdsson of Denmark, his father Sigurd II Ragnarsson of Denmark, his father Ragnar Lodbroc Halfdansson who married Aslaug Sigurdsdottir, his father Halfdan The Black Haraldsson who married Tora Sigurdsdottir, his father Harald Hildetand King of Scaniae who married Alfhild the daughter of Ivar Vidfadme (Wide-Fathom), his father Theodoric I Makhir who married Princess Aude of the Franks, his father Judah Zakkai Exilarch of Palestine who returned to Babylon and married the daughter of Babylonian Exilarch Hananai ben David. The connection from Harald Hildetand to Makhir is due to Athol Bloomer and without it the line goes back through Wodin and the Trojans to Zerah son of Judah. With the connection to Makhir it is from King David descendant of Perez the son of Judah.

(References: Dudo, Gesta Normannorum, Felice Lifshitz, editor; Athol Bloomer, Hernaut de Gironde and the Norse Kings).

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_ ... f_Narbonne

The Jewish Nasi of Narbonne came from Babylonia, and may therefore have been named by the Babylonian exilarch. The office of Nasi, the Hebrew term for prince or patriarch, of Narbonne was preserved by the Jewish family of Kalonymus until the later Middle Ages. Similar officials probably existed in the larger settlements of the Jews in Gaul, Italy and Spain. The community of Jews was called Iudaei. Rabbi Machir (Rabbi at this time meant 'Mr' or 'Monsieur', not master or professor as it later came to mean) was head of the Talmudic school at Narbonne...

According to Zuckerman, the concern of the House of Arnulf (their ancestor was Arnulf of Metz, d.643 or 647) was to control their rebellious counts in the Southland and hold the Umayyad Saracens at bay until they could drive them out of Spain and acquire the divine right to rule by succeeding to the biblical kings of Israel....

According to Zuckerman, in return for Pepin's promise to grant recognition to a prince of their own, the Jews surrendered besieged Narbonne to the Franks in 759. Pepin redeemed his pledge soon thereafter when he arranged with Al-Mansur, caliph of Baghdad who ruled from 754-775), that the Natronai-Makhir (Machir), a Davidic exilarch (from Baghdad, Babylonia), who may have supported the Umayyads in Syrian Damascus, was forced into exile "to the West" by a political upheaval in Baghdad (the Abbasids threw out the Umayyads in 756, though the actual take-over seems to have taken place in 751). Rabbi Machir became the first nasi (patriarch) of the Jews in southern Gaul under the Carolingians at their invitation. The Jews (of France) acclaimed him as Messiah ben Ephraim, whose advent (arrival) in 768 coincided with the end of seven hundred years of Temple ruin, corresponding to the period "prophesied" and calculated for the duration of the sway of Edom-Rome, the Fourth Kingdom and its barbarian conquerer.

According to Zuckerman, all the (Hebrew) exilarchs were descendants of Bustanai, c.610-60, descended from King David, whose wife was the Persian princess, Izdundad, daughter of King Khosroe (or Yazdegerd III). The conquering caliph at the time (who must have been of the family of al-Abba) took Izdundad's sister for his own wife. At any rate, the exilarchic family became related to the Persian military aristocracy, and in time to the ruling Abbasid dynasty...

 Another confusing aside is that at the organization of the royal provostship in Languedoc in 1364, the Narbonne town councillors presented as argument in behalf of their city as capital, that in the days of Charlemagne it had been a royal city where ruled two kings, one Jewish, one Sarracen. However, after 759, (which was nine years before the start of the reign of Charlemagne), or perhaps after 768, there is no evidence of a Sarracen king in Narbonne. Only Theodoric (and after 778-81, Chorso/Torcin) and a possible Davidic exilarch from Baghdad...

Katz suggests (p.162) that after the capture of Narbonne, Pepin the Short discovered a large Jewish colony there. Through the agency of their chief or Nasi, a survival of the Roman period, the Jews requested not new privileges, but the confirmation of ancient rights. Pepin granted these rights to the Jews, probably shortly before his death in 768, notably that of hereditary allodial tenure. This hypothesis is strengthened by a letter of Pope Stephen III (768-772) to Bishop Aribert of Narbonne. The Pope deplores the confirmation which has been made by certain kings of the right of the Jews to possess hereditary domains. These kings are not named, but it is clear that Pope Stephen refers to Pepin the Short, Carloman, and Charlemagne.

[Michael K.]

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[Michael K.]

I didn't yet use the internet when the following post was published.  Having just discovered it today I thought it best to give credit where it was due.

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/151926

'The Seed of the Royal House of David' from Frankland to Babylon
By: Crack_Smoke_Republican on: 29.12.2007 [05:12 ] (635 reads)
   
Professor Zuckerman states that he was recognized by the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad and by Pepin as 'The Seed of the Royal House of David'. Zuckerman also mentions an assertion that the Western Exilarchs were of purer blood than those in the East. Machir (Theuderic) married a sister of Pepin called Alda. His son Guillaume i.e. William d'Orange, is also famous in the French Chansons and was nicknamed 'Hook Nosed'. He was fluent in Arabic and Hebrew. The Heraldic device on his shield was the same as that of the Eastern Exilarchs — the Lion of Judah. Guillaume observed the Sabbath and Sukkot during his campaigns...

It was in the 11th century that the Catholic descendants of Machir and Gershom had conquered Palestine and established the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

[Michael K.]

The other side of the story, use your own discretion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Gellone

In 1972 historian Arthur Zuckerman published A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France, a book about the dynasty of Makhir of Narbonne published by Columbia University Press. In that book Zuckerman argued that it was possible that William of Gellone was in fact one of the sons of Makhir, who he identified with the individual known in medieval sources as "Theodoric, King of the Jews of Septimania." Zuckerman made no definitive conclusions on this point, and the suggestion has since been refuted. (Graboïs, Aryeh, "Une Principaute Juive dans la France du Midi a l'Époque Carolingienne?", Annales du Midi, 85: 191-202 (1973); N.L. Taylor, "Saint William, King David, and Makhir: a Controversial Medieval Descent", The American Genealogist, 72: 205-223.)

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

But Michael K, Hitler's actions demonstrated that he was anti-communist. Take, for example, his giving the boot to homosexuals and psychoanalysts. But some of the above information is hardly new. It's no secret that Nazism was a form of socialism. One could argue that socialism was necessary during the Jewish economic boycott of Germany in order to build the cohesive society that Hitler had envisioned to combat a highly cohesive Jewish enemy.

[Michael K.]

Dear Timothy Fitzpatrick,

I am not 100% in agreement with the materials in the videos, particularly the second one.  But I think Hitler is being given a makeover when he is presented as a rational answer to Jewish Messianic conspiracy.  His own vision was clearly Messianic and anti-Christian, that makes him a Jew on two out of three issues.  I presented the WW II propaganda film because it demonstrated how dramatically megalomaniac and mind-controlled everything was then.

The fact remains that revolutionary Socialism has as a prerequisite the Capitalist viewpoint, as opposed to the traditional values of agrarian/pastoralist man, which says it all to me.  In essence, one must accept a sophistic and urbane Jewish point of view to participate in a revolution to take over all sources of private capital to harness it to the idealized Platonic republic.  It's all psycho make-believe.

The left/right struggle within Judaism is between Trotskyite Marxists on the left and Hitlerite Stalinists on the right.  I say resoundingly NO to both.  When your problem is the way Jews act, you don't start acting like a Jew to fight back, or you are simply winning the battle only to lose the war.  People have to base their existence on the family and small business economic relationship, not some whacko-Jew political theory.

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

MK, I tend to agree with you; however, I think that exposing Hitler and the Nazis is counter-productive and only feeds the Jew paranoia out there. It would only be useful perhaps in setting a wayward white supremacist, not to be confused with white nationalism. Hitler was no angel, that is for sure, but he was friendly to Western individualism, in a sense, and Christianity. His occultic tendencies are most likely exaggerated; although he was probably involved in the occult. But he was a lesser evil. And I concede that Nazism was indeed serving a Jew-created Hegelian dialectic.

Obviously, the Christian answer to the Jewish question is in the individual while the non-Christian answer lies in systems—ethno-centric systems accordingly. Having said that, however, a Christian would have more freedom in a white-nationalist-based system; therefore, it is beneficial, to some degree, for the Christian to engage in or support the push for such systems. It is no coincidence that Christianity has flourished in highly individualistic Western societies. BUt now that those societies have been infiltrated by ethnocentric Jewry, Western individuals need cohesion in order to survive. (This can be done, of course, without a resurgence of Nazism; although it is highly likely that any white nationalist cohesion would be perceived as a resurgence of Nazism by the mere fact that Jews have ingrained the fear of said resurgence into Western minds).

[Timothy_Fitzpatrick]

As for a solution, it depends on what one desires as an outcome. The Christian cares less about the governments of the world and more about individual salvation. However, the more oppressive and anti-Christian governments become, the less room there is for the Christian to help save souls. So what is a Christian to do? Engage in political affairs or sit back?

Personally, I don't think the world will last much longer; thus the predominance of the Church age (theocratic anti-Jewish rule [1000-year millennial reign of Christ]) for the last 2,000. It appears God's timetable is winding down. But man instinctually fights till the bitter end. I say support white nationalism all you can, but don't let it interfere with your mission as a Christian. The longer there is WASP dominance, the more chance there is for souls to be saved by the blood of Christ. God would never let Christianity (Western Civilization) die. If it does die, the end of the world is very near. Think about what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. And that brings me to my next point about the Jews faking Bible prophecy. It's difficult to say how much God will let them get away with. Expect the unexpected, because things will not pan out the way Jews think they will. You can be sure of that. The Jews probably never imagined in a million years that Jerusalem would be destroyed, and look what happened in 70AD. God surprised them in their disbelief and ignorance just as he will in the near future.

[Michael K.]

Timothy Fitzpatrick wrote:

As for a solution, it depends on what one desires as an outcome. The Christian cares less about the governments of the world and more about individual salvation. However, the more oppressive and anti-Christian governments become, the less room there is for the Christian to help save souls. So what is a Christian to do? Engage in political affairs or sit back? ...

You ask very good questions worth pondering, but I don't have any good answers.  One thing that is true is that the worse times get, the more impetus to choose either good or evil strongly.  Perhaps this is how God uses time to separate the wheat and the tares?

I say we hang on to our best cultural traditions come hell or high water, and if you call it "white nationalism" in an historical and non-Marxist sense I fully agree.  A normal man is born with certain beneficial inherited dispositions and we are not about to let them mind-control us into an effective schizophrenia.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

You need to read more German Michael...

http://mk.christogenea.org/CommunisminGermany

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

I was first looking at the Jewish question back in 1995-97 at Iraq-war.ru.  Found a lot of things on from Brit-am but later found much of the Brit-am story to be a huge hoax of sorts.  I'm not sold on the Brit-am theory. They show up in a lot of searches though... used the kingdom name of Septimania in a lot in searches since it was apparently Jew friendly... --CSR

The First Source:
http://www.thule-italia.org/Nordica/Gre ... Franks.htm
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NASI, JOSEPH, DUKE OF NAXOS (as a Christian, called João Miguez):


    Banker at Antwerp.
    In Turkey.
    Lord of Tiberias.
    Duke of Naxos.
    Political Influence.
    Seizes French Ships.
    A Mæcenas.

Banker at Antwerp.

Turkish statesman and financier; born in Portugal at the beginning of the sixteenth century; died at Constantinople Aug. 2, 1579. His father, a younger brother of Francisco and Diogo Nasi-Mendez, and a member of the Marano family Nasi which had fled to Portugal from Spain during the persecutions at the end of the fifteenth century, died at an early age. To escape the religious intolerance in Portugal, Joseph soon emigrated to Antwerp together with his uncle Diogo. There they established, in partnership with their kinsman Abraham Benveniste, an extensive banking-house. Nasi's handsome presence and amiable character, as well as the far-reaching commercial relations of the house, soon won for him the favor of the nobility, and even that of Queen Mary, regent of the Netherlands from 1531 and sister of Charles V. Joseph, however, and his aunt Gracia, who had gone to Antwerp in 1536, felt oppressed by the pretense of Christianity, which they were obliged to feign even here; and they determined to emigrate to Turkey. With much difficulty and at great expense they succeeded in 1549 in reaching as far as Venice.
In Turkey.

All the Maranos in Venice were banished in the year 1550. It was probably at this time that Joseph asked the republic of Venice for one of the neighboring islands where the exiles might find refuge and whither the heavy emigration of Portuguese Jews might be diverted. His request, however, was refused. When Gracia, in consequence of the incautious statements of her niece (who bore the same name), was imprisoned on the charge of relapse into Judaism and her property was confiscated by the republic, Joseph appealed to Sultan Sulaiman II. (1520-66) at Constantinople, and through the influential court physician Moses Hamon he succeeded in attracting the attention of the sultan to the commercial and financial advantages which Turkey would gain if the Nasi family and other rich Jewish houses should settle in the country. The sultan thereupon sent an ambassador to Venice with the command to release Gracia and her property. Two years, however, elapsed before the negotiations with the republic were completed and Gracia was able to proceed to Constantinople. She was followed the next year (1553) by Joseph. Here at last he could openly profess Judaism. He adopted his family name, Joseph Nasi, instead of his Christian one of João Miguez, and married Reyna, the beautiful, much-courted daughter of Gracia. Through his letters of introduction Joseph soon gained influence at the court of Sultan Sulaiman. In the struggle for the throne between Sulaiman's two sons, Salim, prefect of the province of Kutaya, and Bayazid, the younger but far more talented, Joseph from the first adopted Salim's cause and succeeded in influencing the sultan in his favor. In the decisive battle at Konia between the two rivals, Bayazid was defeated. He escaped to Persia, and was there murderedwith his four sons. After this success Salim made Joseph a member of his guard of honor, while Sulaiman gave him Tiberias in Palestine and seven smaller places in its vicinity as his property, to be used exclusively for Jewish colonization.
Lord of Tiberias.

Joseph sent to Tiberias Joseph ibn Adret, in whom he placed implicit confidence, with a royal firman and well supplied with money (derived principally from Gracia's property) to rebuild the walls. In spite of the opposition of the Arabian workmen, who, partly from envy, partly from superstitions roused by an old sheik, wished to withdraw from the work, the walls were completed in 1565 with the help of the Pasha of Damascus. During the excavations a flight of steps was found leading to an old church vault filled with marble statues; and three bells were also discovered, dating, it was said, from the time of Guido, the last king of Jerusalem. These were recast into cannon.

To promote the industries of Palestine, Joseph planted mulberry-trees for the purpose of raising silkworms, and imported cloth from Venice. At the same time he issued a proclamation to the Jews to the effect that all the persecuted who were willing to labor as farmers or artisans might find refuge in the new Jewish community. His invitation was addressed especially to the Jews of the Roman Campagna, who had much to endure under Pope Paul IV. (1555-59), and who were to be transported from Venice to Tiberias in Joseph's own ships. The little community of Cori in the Campagna, numbering about 200 souls, decided to emigrate to Tiberias in a body; and they sent envoys to their coreligionists in the larger Italian cities asking for money wherewith to defray the expenses of their journey. The longing for this new Tiberias was increased when Pius V. issued his well-known bull (Feb. 26, 1569) banishing the Jews from the Papal States. Thereupon the community of Pesaro also sent a ship from Venice with 102 Jewish emigrants; but it fell into the hands of Maltese pirates, who sold their victims into slavery. The Pesarians in this extremity wrote to Nasi for help, but whether their petition met with any success is not known.
Duke of Naxos.

When the pleasure-loving Salim ascended the throne in 1566 on the death of Sulaiman, Joseph's influence reached its zenith. On his return from Belgrade, Salim made Joseph a duke and gave him the islands of Naxos, Andros, Milo, Paros, Santorina, and the other Cyclades, which had hitherto belonged to the regent of Naxos. The latter, Giacomo Crispo, had been deposed on account of the numerous complaints of his Greek subjects. Joseph governed the islands through a Christian Spaniard, Francisco Coronello, probably to avoid any antipathy on the part of the Greek inhabitants, and levied very light taxes, as he himself had to pay to the Turks only the extremely moderate tax of 14,000 ducats per annum. Salim also granted him the tax on wines imported into Turkey by way of the Black Sea.

Despite the jealousy and intrigues of the grand vizier, Mohammed Sokolli, Nasi was so influential with Salim that the representatives of European powers sometimes found it necessary to interest Joseph in their behalf. When Maximilian II., Emperor of Germany (1564-76), desired to conclude peace with Turkey (1567), he did not fail to direct his ambassador, Verantius, to give presents to Nasi as well as to the other high court officials. Verantius did not do this, however, but borrowed money from Nasi instead. In 1571 the emperor addressed an autograph letter to him.
Political Influence.

In 1566 Nasi encouraged the Protestant council of Antwerp to hold out against the Catholic king of Spain, by pointing out Salim's hostile attitude toward the latter country. Thereupon William of Orange (1569) sent a confidential messenger to him asking him, in view of the revolt which the Dutch were planning against Spanish supremacy, to urge the sultan to declare war on Spain so that the latter would be obliged to withdraw her troops from the Netherlands. Joseph, however, did not succeed in obtaining a declaration of war. He carried on an active and friendly correspondence with Sigismund August II., King of Poland, who borrowed a large sum of money from him in 1570, granting him in return extensive commercial privileges, although the council of the city of Lemberg protested against this action.

In Sept., 1569, a great fire broke out in the arsenal at Venice. Nasi learned of this almost immediately, and at once urged Salim to carry out his long-cherished plan for the conquest of Cyprus. Salim finally allowed himself to be involved in a war with the Venetians and deprived them of Cyprus in 1571. There is a story that Salim in a fit of drunkenness promised Joseph the title of King of Cyprus, and that Joseph had already placed in his house the armorial bearings of the island, with his own name beneath them. However this may have been, Salim did not fulfil this alleged promise after the conquest of Cyprus.
Seizes French Ships.

In 1569, to punish France, which for years had been trying all possible means to escape payment of the 150,000 scudi which it owed the Nasi family, the sultan gave Joseph permission to seize all French ships sailing in Turkish waters and to hold them as security until the debt should be discharged. Joseph succeeded in capturing certain French ships in the harbor of Alexandria, and sold their cargoes to the amount of the debt, despite the protests lodged with the Porte by the French ambassador. The French government tried to take revenge for the humiliation, and the French ambassador at Constantinople, De Grandchamp, succeeded in bribing a low fellow named David to charge Nasi with high treason. The latter discovered the clumsy plot in time, however, and easily convinced the sultan of his innocence and loyalty. David and his accomplices were banished to Rhodes, and at Nasi's instance were excommunicated by the rabbis of several communities. When, however, Joseph heard of David's repentance, he tried to have the rabbinical ban removed; but most of the rabbis declined to accede to his request.

On the death of Salim (Dec. 12, 1574), Nasi lost his political influence, although he retained his officesand income; and the remainder of his life was passed in quiet seclusion in his castle of Belvedere. Nasi died childless; and his property was seized shortly after his death by the sultan Murad on the advice of Sokolli. The death of Nasi was generally lamented. The poet R. Saadia Longo composed an elegy upon him. Moses Almosnino dedicated to him his ethical work entitled "El Regimento de la Vida" (Salonica, 1564; Venice, 1604), and Eliezer Ashkenazi his commentary on Esther, "Yosif Leḳaḥ" (Cremona, 1576).
A Mæcenas.

Although Joseph accomplished nothing great or lasting for Judaism, a certain Jewish interest, both communal and literary, is associated with him. He supported Talmudic scholars and especially the yeshibah founded in Constantinople by Joseph ibn Leb at the instance of Gracia. In his house he had a considerable Hebrew library; and he allowed the public to make use of his manuscripts. He also founded a Hebrew printing-press in Constantinople, which, however, existed only a short time. As the result of conversations with certain dignitaries at his castle of Belvedere, Nasi is said to have composed a small theological work to prove to a Christian that the Torah was superior to the Greek philosophy. It has been supposed that it was written in Spanish, and that Isaac Onḳeneira translated it into Hebrew under the title "Ben Porat Yosef" (printed in Constantinople, 1577). According to Steinschneider, however, Onḳeneira was the author of the book.
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    A. Brüll, Populär-Wissenschaft. Monatsblätter, i. (1881), 29 et seq.;
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