in public-interest organizations, 370 religion among, 349–50 secularism of, 350 socialism of, 265, 357 and Soviet Union, 264–65, 291–92, 327 and Stalin, 264 student radicalism of, 348–50 success of, 118, 260–62, 315–16, 327, 367–68 and Trotsky, 264, 265 urbanism of, 261 and victimhood, 370–71 wartime Jewish appeals to, 291 and West, 264 and youth, 263 and Zionism, 359. See also United States Jews (Ashkenazi), 121 Jews (diaspora): as antipodes of Apollonians, 40 assimilation of, 60–64 by blood, 286–88, 295, 359 bodily cleanliness of, 15–16, 45 business connections of, 28 chosenness of, 26, 185, 366 in commerce, 1, 5 culture of, 1 defined, 3 divine punishment of, 22 endogamy of, 12–13 as entrepreneurs, 1, 5, 6, 30, 43, 72 as exiles, 1, 22 extermination of, 38 food taboos of, 13 Freudianism as solution for, 2 Germans of Russian Empire as, 114

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