IIRC ethnic nationalism wasn’t even much of a thing until around 1800, and I doubt many people “lamented that the political Left was treacherously weakening the nation” a few centuries ago.
That hardly counts as stressing the need for intense loyalty to a strong Fatherland (before Zionism became widespread) or worrying about pollution of that Fatherland by inferior races (?).
A Jewish woman is prohibited from marrying a non-Jew (that’s why Jewishness is determined matrilineally), but in any case I’m objecting to “ethnic nationalism wasn’t even much of a thing”. It most certainly was.
IIRC ethnic nationalism wasn’t even much of a thing until around 1800, and I doubt many people “lamented that the political Left was treacherously weakening the nation” a few centuries ago.
*cough*Old Testament*cough*
That hardly counts as stressing the need for intense loyalty to a strong Fatherland (before Zionism became widespread) or worrying about pollution of that Fatherland by inferior races (?).
A Jewish woman is prohibited from marrying a non-Jew (that’s why Jewishness is determined matrilineally), but in any case I’m objecting to “ethnic nationalism wasn’t even much of a thing”. It most certainly was.