@Helios_Movement Begs the question, with a dad like this, why was he depressed in the first place?
If he was depressed because he wasn't getting enough attention, who was the one not giving him enough attention?
If your child has suicidal thoughts, you already failed as a dad.
@MaxNordau Chanukkah has ZERO to do with nationalism and 100% to do with being able to practice Judaism properly.
The Maccabis fought against other Jews as well, who were helenists. So it wasn't even jew vs non jew.
The people they fought are more in line with secular zionism
Weimar Germany: German Jews were not recent โrefugeesโ but citizens with roots going back over a millennium. The republicโs crises stemmed from Versailles reparations and the global depression, not Jewish presence. Conversely, cities that received Jewish immigrantsโOttoman Istanbul, Amsterdam, London, and 20th-century New Yorkโconsistently became global financial centers. History is remarkably clear on this pattern. Inclusion drove prosperity; expulsion invited decline.
Spain & the Ottoman contrast: After the 1492 expulsion, Spainโs century of hegemony quickly unraveled under chronic bankruptcy and deflation (the โPrice Revolutionโ paradox). Sultan Bayezid II famously welcomed Sephardic refugees, declaring Spain had โimpoverished itself and enriched us.โ The Ottoman economy and tax base grew markedly in the 16th century, while Spain defaulted repeatedly.France: The last major expulsion occurred in 1394. The subsequent century saw devastation from the Hundred Yearsโ War and fiscal collapse. Jewish emancipation under Napoleon (1806โ1808) coincided with Franceโs modernization and re-emergence as a financial power.