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1 " A group of Nazis surrounded an elderly Berlin Jew and demanded of him, ‘Tell us, Jew, who caused the war?’The little Jew was no fool. ‘The Jews,’ he said, then added, ‘and the bicycle riders.’The Nazis were puzzled. ‘Why the bicycle riders?’‘Why the Jews?’ answered the little old man. "
― , A Treasury of Jewish Folklore
2 " During the year that the atrocities in the Ukraine occurred, a young Turkish Jew of arresting personality and magnetism announced himself as the Messiah in the city of Salonika. This was the cabalist Sabbatai Zevi. Because the Jews of his day had the will to believe in a supernatural instrumentality that would save them from further disaster, he came as the answer to their prayers. Messianic hysteria swept like a conflagration over all of European Jewry. Tens of thousands liquidated their worldly affairs and readied themselves for the End of Days. "
