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

The Exile mentality is a product of assimilation. Jewish communities abandoned traditional isolation and opened to the outside world. Jews confused equality with similarity, and attempted to become similar to Gentiles. Realizing the impossibility of this, and that they had abandoned their Jewish identity in the process, they 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 rest of the Jews so that the leaders’ moral bankruptcy won’t be so evident. To condemn the desperation was to condemn the leadership and its goals.

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