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  1 1     |                ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.~Chapter
  2 1     |             of anti-Semitism in the Russian Orthodox Church as in society
  3 1     |      Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in Russian today (a sociologist's view)',
  4 1     |           around 10 per cent of the Russian population as a whole could
  5 1     |             power and to direct the Russian people into the communist
  6 1     |             as anti-Semitism in the Russian Orthodox Church at all,
  7 1     |           Christians than among the Russian Orthodox intelligensia both
  8 1     |          for all the misfortunes of Russian history is also widespread. ~
  9 1     |             aggressive as in modern Russian Orthodoxy. However, one
 10 1     |        becoming Christians than the Russian Orthodox Church. ~I do not
 11 1     | Christianity and their love for the Russian spiritual and cultural tradition
 12 1     |           which is inseparable from Russian Orthodoxy. ~It seems that
 13 1     |    Philadelphia 1981, p 89/. Modern Russian experience gives us quite
 14 1     |    communism. Admirers of the older Russian classical culture in which
 15 1     |              The reason being, that Russian culture itself is Christian
 16 1     |     national characteristics of the Russian Church and argues for establishing
 17 1     |     exercise. ~The Anti-Semitism of Russian Orthodox Christians, however,
 18 1     |        process, because Jews remind Russian Orthodox Christians of the
 19 1     |        cultural forms. Each side in Russian Orthodoxy is taught by God
 20 1     |           people, and both Jews and Russian Christians claim to be one,
 21 1     |             th century by the great Russian religious thinker Aleksey
 22 1     |         Paris, 1973,p.185, and with Russian translation by A.Sidorov, '
 23 1     |            be he a Jew, American or Russian). Every nation is predestined
 24 1     | Characterising the situation in the Russian Orthodox Church as regards
 25 1     |      Borovoy has said: "Lately, the Russian Church has proclaimed new
 26 2     |             of anti-Semitism in the Russian Orthodox Church, this time
 27 2     |           this theology because the Russian people underwent a different
 28 2     |             most conservative among Russian Orthodox Christians use
 29 2     |               Christian dialogue or Russian Orthodox dialogue with other
 30 2     |            too eagerly accuse these Russian Orthodox circles of complicity
 31 2     |    free-speaking, open, and liberal Russian Orthodox Christians in dialogue
 32 2     |    conservative counterparts in the Russian Church. And this is very
 33 2     |         ecumenical task for liberal Russian Orthodox Christians is to
 34 2     |             dialogue within our own Russian Orthodox Church. This poses
 35 2     |           the Jewish problem in the Russian context. As I noted, the
 36 2     |        noted, the greatest wound in Russian history is Communism. And
 37 2     |           proudly declared that the Russian Revolution was created by
 38 2     |            not surprising that some Russian Orthodox would say the same
 39 2     |             labour camps during the Russian Revolution were Christians(
 40 2     |            all of them, of course). Russian clergymen and monks were
 41 2     |           to the misfortunes of the Russian history. From the historical
 42 2     |         Christianity and/or the new Russian national state. For non-Jewish
 43 2     |    conservatives, Jewish as well as Russian, see the emigration of Jews
 44 2     |       rooted in that awful wound in Russian history the name of which
 45 2     |             spiritual motive. Those Russian Orthodox Christians do not
 46 2     |     themselves, but the presence of Russian Jewry confounds them. ~We
 47 2     |     anti-Semitism. But conservative Russian Orthodox survivors of communist
 48 2     |           road which finally brings Russian Christianity to hatred.
 49 2     |          not mean, by the way, that Russian Christians must out of their
 50 2     |       Church, or the enemies of the Russian nation, teach to not forgive;
 51 3     |           was a real danger for the Russian Orthodox Church to mix Orthodox
 52 3     |            is a main danger for the Russian Orthodox Christians. I do
 53 3     |              I do not mean that the Russian Orthodox Church, being understood
 54 3     |    righteous, chosen from among the Russian nation, has ever failed
 55 3     |           own flesh, the god of the Russian nation. It was this god,
 56 3     |     rejected by the majority of the Russian population during the communist
 57 3     |    well-being of the people and the Russian state in general, this god
 58 3     |      resistance and hesitation, the Russian nation rejected its old
 59 3     |           about the holiness of the Russian people in general, and peasants
 60 3     |       saints, chosen from among the Russian people (which I believe
 61 3     |     Orthodox view of God) among the Russian peasants. Thus according
 62 3     |             was quite usual for the Russian peasants in the end of the
 63 3     |          Pugachev, described in the Russian literature, particularly
 64 3     |             problem of decay of the Russian peasant's community see
 65 3     |         this places belonged to the Russian Empire). Thus, it was Russia,
 66 3     |          support on the part of the Russian "intelligentsia", and, finally,
 67 3     |       finally, simple people. These Russian Orthodox Christians who
 68 3     |             the Jews, who has drawn Russian intelligentsia from Orthodoxy,
 69 3     |      teaching of Marx.) ~As for the Russian peasants, when the Bolsheviks
 70 3     |           Each of the bodies of the Russian Revolution has its own responsibility
 71 3     |     temptation, and majority of the Russian people appeared to be carnal
 72 3     |          Thus, God has punished the Russian people, which claimed to
 73 3     |                 The majority of the Russian nation was seduced. No Revolution
 74 3     |            supported by the mass of Russian population. However, there
 75 3     |      Christians (the remnant of the Russian Orthodox people) who were
 76 3     |             that moment. It was the Russian Orthodox Church of the Patriarch
 77 3     |             role of the Jews in the Russian revolution (as in the world'
 78 3     |           the great majority of the Russian state belongs to different
 79 3     |     nationalities, and first of all Russian", ibid. p.67]. This role
 80 3     |             could be forgiven. ~For Russian Christians, it is not enough
 81 3     |          places were defiled in the Russian land. Yet, there was still
 82 3     |          place in the hearts of the Russian Orthodox Christians who
 83 3     |         source of the events of the Russian Revolution. Everything came
 84 3     |             was the attitude of the Russian Church, the Church of Patriarch
 85 3     |             why the majority of the Russian people, especially of the
 86 3     |             with the tragedy of the Russian history and being more or
 87 Conclu|          own). Take for example the Russian Jewry. The Jews in Russia
 88 Conclu|        neither religion. They speek Russian, they are brought up in
 89 Conclu|          they are brought up in the Russian culture. To say that they
 90 Conclu|       understand what this phrase, "Russian people" means. There is
 91 Conclu|          country as Russia. And all Russian citizens of whatever blood
 92 Conclu|          Jews!). If now we take the Russian culture, here we can also
 93 Conclu|           may write, say, poetry in Russian (moreover, they may write
 94 Conclu|            they may write poetry in Russian, living in America and being
 95 Conclu|             What a scandal, for the Russian nationalists!). Even in
 96 Conclu|         nationalists!). Even in the Russian Orthodox Church one may
 97 Conclu|            Russians, some typically Russian place. [Not a restaurant
 98 Conclu|           but a place for the whole Russian people]. ~If now, in this
 99 Conclu|         pluralistic societies. ~Now Russian society has no Truth of
100 Conclu|         ideology to consolidate the Russian nation. And without this
101 Conclu|          waste of the energy of the Russian nation. ~Thus, some, who
102 Conclu|        other way to consolidate the Russian nation than in its opposition
103 Conclu|             understand as typically Russian - the Russian Orthodox Church,
104 Conclu|             typically Russian - the Russian Orthodox Church, to consolidate
105 Conclu|          Church, to consolidate the Russian nation. They seek to proclaim
106 Conclu|    Orthodoxy is something typically Russian. The only possibility to
107 Conclu|       Orthodox at all, and only the Russian Orthodox Church is true (
108 Conclu|      responsibility lies within the Russian Orthodox Church. Here I
109 Conclu|        Church. Yes, it is true that Russian politicians are seeking
110 Conclu|           which can consolidate the Russian nation now should be anti-Western.
111 Conclu|    Orthodoxy as something typically Russian, denying the Orthodoxy of
112 Conclu|             in the West. ~Thus, the Russian Orthodox Church is faced
113 Conclu|       having no authority among the Russian nation. They promise all
114 Conclu|          Church, on her role in the Russian history), above all this
115 Conclu|    countries one day go astray, the Russian Orthodox Church should not
116 Conclu|           not say: I believe in the Russian Orthodox Church. ~Yes, it
117 Conclu|             mistake to say that the Russian Orthodox Church is not the
118 Conclu|             Apostolic Church is the Russian Orthodox Church. This difference
119 Conclu|            Apostolic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church should be
120 Conclu|          which has won in the West, Russian "Orthodox" ideologists have
121 Conclu|            the West in general. The Russian Orthodox Church should teach
122 Conclu|         world" which lies in evil. "Russian world", lies in evil either.