Jewish quarter

Whereas Rosemary is just a spineless pushover.

You might know more about this than I did, but I was reading up on the Jewish quarter.

I don't know if it's pronounced Juderia, but the area where she gets lost in the beginning.

And what I read was that it was intentionally designed as a maze to stop and confuse outsiders and trap them, like invading armies and such.

Do you know much about the design of these kind of neighborhoods that she gets lost in? Because I think it's a very clever use of that for this kind of story, because it is...

And even when Jews are not so well-educated and not living in an environment where they can really blossom and be productive because it's locked out by so many restrictions, we still see Jews doing it.

You look at the Rothschild family, which lived in Germany in the Frankfurt ghetto, the Judengassen.

that suffered from massive discrimination.

But nonetheless, he started dealing in coins.

And it justified anything that the Soviets did.

Thus, it looked as though not only Bolshevik Jews but all of Jewry had decided to take the red side in the Civil War.

Could we claim that their choice was completely deliberate? No.

Could we claim they didn't have any other choice? Again, no.

They will never take responsibility for what they've done, the lives they've told, and the misery that they've brought to the world.

And people like Bruce Lincoln will talk about alleged pogroms against the Jews to cover over the fact that there were actual pogroms in Russia at the time, and it was against Orthodox people and churches specifically.

And yes, there were Jews then who appealed to their compatriots looking back on the tragedy that had befallen both Russia and Russian Jewry.

In their proclamation to the Jews of all countries, this group wrote in 1923 that overly zealous participation of Jewish Bolsheviks in the oppression and destruction of Russia is blamed upon all of us.

Okay.

And then from there, we headed over to the Jewish quarter, which had amazing little cafes and restaurants and lots of, the weather was, even though it was cold, there was still all the outdoor stuff set up.

And then the glass square was there too, which is, it's just a, I don't know.

It's just cool.

Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

So we come out from the Jewish quarter and she says, okay, here's the magic portal.

And I'm like, I don't know what the heck you're talking about.

There was even a salt embargo that Jewish speculation caused, which is one of the things that led to a major riot.

And the mob went straight to the Jewish quarter.

And deceit, and the chronicles talk about the, or not just the chronicles, the Patericon, the lives of the saints of the Kiev caves, say that this group of people who ruled were aware of their illegitimacy.

It was all based on usury, which almost inherently is based on deception.

Uh, so at the point we're talking about here, just prior to that, that riot, that uprising, Jewish usury had much of the country in debt.

Um, and especially when facing unrest among princes, foreign occupation, defeats from the, the Turks to the south, the population had enough.

In that very year, the mob looted the Jewish Quarter.

Um, and yes, it was an urban movement, but, um, uh, this was against the mentality of the merchant class and those profiting from them.

So the Segway to that is that we stayed for this wedding outside of the usual area, so it's not quite Colosseum land, etc.

And it was near the Jewish ghetto.

And this is another part of the history that really backs up all of our chats.

So that is a ghetto where it was established.