Jewish Exile mentality is fiction. Jews of Exile were strong and arrogant. They spitted when passing the churches, traded on dangerous routs, made loans and claimed the debts through magistrates, maintained many synagogues, religious schools, and libraries, and often fought pogrom mobs courageously. Incredibly poor Russian Jews enjoyed their life. Contemporary literature, such as Sholom Aleichem’s, picture wholesome, joyful communities.

Exile mentality is a product of assimilation. Jewish communities abandoned traditional isolation and opened to the outside world. Jews confused equality with similarity, attempted to become similar to Gentiles, realized that’s impossible, abandoned Jewish identity in the process – and became desperate. Faithless Jewish leaders invented the Exile mentality to gloss over the real cause of Jewish moral failure – desperation. Assimilated leaders want to assimilate the Jews so that the leaders’ moral bankruptcy won’t be that evident. To condemn the desperation was to condemn the leadership and its goals.

Some desperate, exasperated, morally exhausted Jews died sheepishly in twentieth-century Ukrainian massacres and Holocaust, while others support Israel’s suicidal policies. Humans are not only bodies, but also souls. Jewish idea is a soul of the nation. When that soul was destroyed, Jews lost the source of dignity, the reason and the will to live. Thus the observed Exile mentality.