Jews, Church, & Civilization V

1897 CE: ZIONIST CONGRESS / HERZL

many listeners believed an invasion was actually in–progress, causing possibly America’s most notable example of  (at least partial) mass hysteria.

1899 CE:  POLNA, BOHEMIA

Twenty–two year old Leopold Hilsner was arrested for allegedly murdering a Christian girl. It soon developed into a ritual murder accusation. Although no evidence linking him and the murdered girl was ever presented, Hilsner was forced to sign a confession and was sentenced to death. Through the intervention of T.G. Masaryk (later to be president of Czecholovakia) his sentence was commuted to life. In 1916 he was granted an Imperial pardon and set free.

1899 CE:  FREUD RELEASES THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS

–psychoanalytic classic for all time

Britannica –

“In what many commentators consider his master work, Die Traumdeutung (published in 1899, but given the date of the dawning century to emphasize its epochal character; The Interpretation of Dreams), he presented his findings. Interspersing evidence from his own dreams with evidence from those recounted in his clinical practice, Freud contended that dreams played a fundamental role in the psychic economy. The mind’s energy—which Freud called libido and identified principally, but not exclusively, with the sexual drive—was a fluid and malleable force capable of excessive and disturbing power. Needing to be discharged to ensure pleasure and prevent pain, it sought whatever outlet it might find. If denied the gratification

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