...When the Europeans killed and expelled the Jews during the Holocaust, it marked a watershed in their history, from which they never recovered, just as the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 marked the beginning of the end of that great Empire. For the Jews, with their remarkable wit, energy and creativity, had truly transformed the old continent. As Yuri Slezkine writes in his great book, The Jewish Century, the creation of modern banking, to take just one example among many, was largely a Jewish enterprise.

In the early nineteenth century, thirty of the fifty-two private banks in Berlin were owned by Jewish families; a hundred years later, many of these banks became shareholding companies with Jewish managers...In fin de siecle Vienna, 40 percent of the directors of public banks were Jews or of Jewish descent, and all banks but one were administered by Jews (some of them members of old banking clans)...Between 1873 and 1910, at the height of political liberalism, the Jewish share of the Vienna stock exchange council remained steady at about 70 percent, and in 1921 Budapest, 87.8 percent of the members of the stock exchange and 91 percent of the currency brokers association were Jews...

Ditto for education, where the Jews inverted the normal sequence (get educated, then make money, whereas the Jews made money first, then sent their kids to school), and of course science, medicine, fashion (did you know that the pushup bra is a Jewish invention?) and...war.

After the Second World War, some of the old families-the Rothschilds are the most celebrated case-remained in Europe, and have continued to flourish. But the two countries in which Jewish genius has made its greatest post-Holocaust contribution are not in Europe. They are Israel and the United States. It is accordingly no accident that so many of the world's Jew-haters focus their bile on those two countries (the Iranian rulers call them "the great Satan" and "the little Satan")...