It’s strange, how so many things start to ‘open up’, once the Rav alludes to them in his shiurim.

Off the back of that series of posts that ‘Hitler only wanted peace’, where the Rav is making lots of connections between people who ‘only want peace’ and the destruction of the world, and particularly, the Jews, God forbid a billion times, I decided to take a closer look at ‘Erik Jan Hanussen’.

You’ll recall from HERE, that we started the basic investigation into him, and we already learned that his real name was Chaim Hermann STEINSCHNEIDER.

That’s not a common name….

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We also learned, that he is a direct descendant of the Frankist royalty in Moravia, descending from ARON BEER WEHLE – side-kick of Jonathan Eibshitz in Prague, whose descendants became known leaders of the Frankists in Prague. Steinschneider’s’ ancestor appears to be that same JONAS WEHLE, who academics state is: “usually recognised as leader of Prague Sabbateanism”.[1]

Another Frankist chronicle, written by Moses Porges, talks of the Frankists writing a “compilation of The Prophecies of Isaiah, ascribing the book to Abraham, Akiba, and Joseph Wehle from Prague.”[2]

It’s remarkable, that Hitler’s ‘stage-craft’ coach, who helped make Hitler electable in 1933, should descend directly from one of the leading families of Frankists who remained behind in the Jewish community.

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But what’s more remarkable, is that there are more ‘interesting’ members of ‘Erik’s’ direct STEINSCHNEIDER family hiding out in this story.

Before we get to the one we will be taking a closer look at today, Dr MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, I just wanted to make a detour, to tell you about the ‘Red Letters’ that Jacob Frank wrote to the Jewish community, between 1767-1768, when he was imprisoned in the fortress of Czestochowa, in Poland.

So called, because they were written in red ink, and promised that the Jews of Poland, especially, would be annihilated, if they didn’t convert to xtianity.

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Let’s quote a bit more of The Mixed Multitude:[3]

The first epistle was addressed to the Jews of Brody…the letter predicted imminent doom for the Jewish communities of Poland, especially “Krakow and its surroundings,” and an approaching war between “the nation of the sons of Edom”… And another ‘rebel nation’….As a result of this war, the latter stated, the Jews would suffer terribly: “the corpses shall lie like dung on the ground, and dogs shall like their blood.”

The only escape for the Jews will be conversion: “anyone who has the spark of the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob must enter into the holy faith of Edom, and whoever will accept this creed with love will be saved from all [the persecutions].”

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Maciejko continues:

The second epistle, addressed to “all Jewry” (klal Yehudim), developed the same message.

Again, Frank warned of impending tribulations and predicted the increased hatred of the Jews by “all dukes and princesses of the world.” There will come troubles, he stated, the likes of which have never been seen in the world, and the Jews will find no safe haven in any country, great or small.

He concluded by saying that before the wheel of the world can make a full circle, the Law of Moses must be “exhausted” and Jacob must fulfill the promise given to Esau.

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This refers to Jacob’s promise to follow Esav to Seir when they meet up upon Yaakov Avinu’s return from Haran.

It’s all warped kabbalah, and people with very bad middot attempting to delve into mysteries they don’t have the keilim to deal with, in a holy way.

But the point is – the ‘Red Letters’ of the Frankists were basically predicting the total annihilation of Polish Jewry and the Shoah, 170 years before it happened.

Isn’t that quite the CO-IN-CID-ENCE?

And what’s even more of a CO-IN-CID-ENCE, is that Hitler is then helped into power by the coaching of Erik Jan Hanussen – who just happens to be a direct descendent of Frankist royalty in Prague, via Prossnitz – another Sabbatean stronghold.

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I’ve just got hold of an excellent book on ERIK JAN HANUSSEN, and I will be coming back to him shortly, BH.

In the meantime, let’s take a closer look at dear Erik’s uncle (according to Mel Gordon, but I think he’s probably his grandpa), a man named:

DR MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER (1816-1907).

Whaddya know?!

There’s a lot of pertinent information to learn about him, too. According to Mel Gordon, Moritz should be the brother of Siegfried Steinschneider, that wannabe Viennese actor who got Julie Kohen pregnant out of wedlock, resulting in the birth of ‘Erik Jan Hanussen’.

As usual, the two brothers (if that’s what they are – the timing seems to be off, and I think they are probably father and son) are kept very firmly apart, in any telling of their various stories, and especially on geni. They don’t want people to figure out how much of Jewish history is being shaped by exactly the same small group of people.

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So, let’s start with this:

Do you know who was the first person to coin the term ‘anti-semitism’ in 1860?

If you said ‘Dr Moritz Steinschneider’, award yourself 50 brownie points.

There is a whole website devoted to this illustrious family, which you can find HERE. This is a snippet from that site, about Dr Moritz Steinschneider, the ‘famous orientalist’, who hung out with Abraham Geiger, Leopold Zunz, and a bunch of other people Marvin Antelmann wrote a lot about in ‘To Eliminate the Opiate’:

STEINSCHNEIDER, MORITZ (1816-1907), father of modern Jewish bibliography, one of’ the founders of modern Jewish scholarship. Born in Prossnitz, Moravia, Steinschneider received his early education in his native town and was influenced by his uncle Gideon Brecher. He attended a Christian school and studied music as well, maintaining his interest in music throughout his life. At the age of 13 he entered the yeshivah of R. Nehemiah Trebitsch. In 1833 he left for Prague to take up secular studies….

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While he’s in the university of Berlin, he gets friendly with Zunz and Geiger, who take a keen interest in him. That snippet, which is copied from the Jewish Encyclopaedia, continues:

In 1843 he received a formal rabbinical diploma from the rabbi of his native town, Hirsch B. Fassel, and also, a very warm recommendation from S. L. Rapoport.

As soon as he gets his smicha, he apparently becomes ‘anti-orthodox’ Judaism. So now, he’s offered a job in 1859 at the ‘Veitel-Heine-Ephraimsche Lehranstalt’.

VEITEL HEINE EPHRAIM has been on the radar for a very long time… He’s a fellow mint-master (crook…) with Daniel Itzig, builds his own palace in Berlin, carefully scrubbed out of all the history books, despite the fund he began for ‘education’ in his lifetime still continuing to this day – here’s the website:

It is as full as full can be – of Frankists.

So, MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER teaches in that school for 48 years, and pay attention to who he teaches:

1. Goldziher, Solomon Schechter, Hayyim Brody, Judah L.  Magnes, H. Malter, A. Marx, George A. Kohut, and others.

STEINSCHNEIDER also get a job at the Royal Library of Berlin in 1869. By 1894, he’s made an ‘honorary professor’ by the Prussian government, the honors are rolling in… And around this time, it seems that CHAIM HERMANN STEINSCHNEIDER, aka ERIK JAN HANUSSEN is born into the world.

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Now, here’s the thing.

On the German Wiki page for the STEINSCHNEIDER family, it goes to great pains to say that even though ERIK  has a grandpa called MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, it’s not this Moritz Steinschneider.

This is repeated on the family website, where you can see a gravestone HERE, where apparently grandpa Moritz dies, and is buried together with his 19 year old daughter ANTOINE, seemingly in the same grave. I don’t know what the real story is, but that seems like a very unlikely scenario to me. (Also, ‘Antoine’ is meant to be another name of Julie Kohen / Kohn, said to be Erik’s mum.)

So, you can buy that story if you want.

Me personally, I have been all over the family tree trying to figure out how this second ‘DR MORIZ’ (grandpa of Erik…) is meant to fit into the family tree. I can’t see it. I also can’t see where Erik’s dad, meant to be SIEGFRIED STEINSCHNEIDER, according to Erik’s own autobiography, is meant to fit into this tree. It’s distorted all over the place, as I’ve come to find in so many Frankist family trees, when they are trying to hide the real connections.

My current best guess is that yes, Erik is a grandson of the famous DR MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, who was the first person to coin the term ‘anti-semitism’ – which then quickly got weaponised, and turned against the Jews in a whole bunch of ways.

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In the process of trying to trace back more of this STEINSCHNEIDER family, I discovered that their progenitor is meant to be R DANIEL STEINSCHNEIDER (PROSSTITZ), ABD of PRESSBURG (1759-1846) – and the guy who is meant to get R MOSES SCHRIEBER, aka the CHATAM SOFER, his job as the rabbi of Pressburg.

That’s interesting for a whole lot of reasons. Over on the onthemainline blog (which I keep quoting here, solely because that is where I’m finding a bunch of interesting, relevant info, pertinent to what I’m writing) there is THIS strange story, which links Daniel Steinschneider and the Chatam Sofer to the VON ARNSTEIN family of Sabbatean bankers in Berlin, at least, tangentially.

Snippet:

The story, as told to the author by Rabbi Daniel Prosstitz (a close friend of the Chasam Sofer) takes place in 1785, when the 23 year old Moses Sofer accompanied his rebbe Rabbi Nathan Adler on his journey to Baskowitz, where he was to become rabbi. When in Vienna, they stayed in the home of a wealthy man, Reb Nathan Arnstein – who was none other than the banking giant Adam Isaac von Arnstein (1715-1785).

And Daniel Steinschneider’s siblings are busy marrying into that same family of Sabbatean Goldschmidts that I find myself writing a lot about here, for all sorts of reasons.

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The STEINSCHNEIDERs apparently get their strange name, because they are distributing kabbalistic amulets, printed from an etched stone – this is the theory of Mel Gordon, who has written the book on Erik Jan Hanussen that contains a huge amount of first-hand information.

Gordon says that R DANIEL STEINSCHNEIDER / PROSSTITZ, ABD of Pressburg under R MESHULLAM IGRA, is known as a mystic and a ‘wunderworker’ – who prints off kabbalistic amulets, and that is family trait continued by his son, said to be ‘R AARON DANIEL STEINSCHNEIDER’ (1769-1809).

This little cottage industry struck me as distinctly Sabbatean…

That’s when I remembered who apparently got buried in Pressburg.

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That would be YEHUDA LEIB PROSSTITZ, the ‘false messiah’ / Sabbatean prophet, who is meant to have taught none other than JONATHAN EIBSHITZ, and been followed by MEIR EISENSTADT, the MEIR PANIM (descendant of the SHACH’s brother, and a known Sabbatean, whose descendants went on to run the MIR yeshiva, amongst many other things….)

R’ Emden said that PROSSTITZ slunk off to Hungary, somewhere….

We’ll park that for now, because unless more information shows up, I can’t prove for sure that he ended up in Pressburg (except, I remember a few years ago finding his grave there, and thinking that strange… I need to go back over my old blog.)

But, it’s surely a strange CO-IN-CID-ENCE that this family surnamed PROSSNITZ / PROSSTITZ are big rabbis in Pressburg, printing kabbalistic amulets for distribution, have effectively been ‘scrubbed’ out of Jewish history in a whole bunch of ways, have a severely distorted family tree – and gave us both the guy who literally invented ‘anti-semitism’, AND Hitler’s stage-craft coach, ERIK.

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Tov.

Let’s stop there for now.

I am half-way through the book on ERIK JAN HANUSSEN, and it’s fascinating.

We’ll pick things back up then, BH.

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PS: This is a quick little read on how STEINSCHNEIDER ‘came up’ with the word ‘anti-semitism’. It was part of the push to split Jews off from authentic Torah Judaism…

Something these guys were sadly, very good at.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Pawel Maciejko, The Mixed Multitude, p. 251.

[2] Ibid, p. 246.

[3] Ibid., pp. 184-185.