American Rabbi Bernard Drachman “The Jews of Germany” a Lecture, 1911, NY
Bernard Drachman
Excerpt from The Jews of Germany: A Lecture Delivered Under the Auspices of the Jewish Community of New York in the Course "Jews in Many Lands" At the Educational Alliance; April 6th, 5671 1911, 16 pages, soft cover, 22.5 x 15 cm. Condition: covers worn, stained, chipped to edges, detached; pages are loose.
Added original visit card of Rabbi Dr. Bernard Drachman
Their loyalty was put to a terrible test during the first Crusade, in the eleventh century. The fury of the fanaticized Crusaders broke with unrestrained savagery over the easily reachable and helpless Jews. Entire communities, such as those of Treves, Speyer, Worms, Mayence and Cologne, perished as martyrs, pre ferring death to apostasy. About German Jews met death then, either as victims of the murderous fanatics or by their own hands. Vast multitudes fled to the Slavonic lands, thus becoming the ancestors of the modern Russian and Polish Jews. These bloody events cast a pall of gloom over the lives of the German Jews. Their sadness finds a poetic expression in Piyutim and Selichoth, hymns and penitential prayers composed in this period, which are full of lamentations over the Jewish victims of the crusades. They also had a very injurious effect upon their social and political status. As the German adage puts it, Wer den Schaden hat brauch fuer den Spott nicht sorgen; that is to say, whoever suffers injury can be sure of insult as well, and so the wretched Jews, having felt the cruelty of the Gentiles, be came also the victims of their calumnies and false accusations.

Rabbi Dr. Bernard Drachman (June 27, 1861, in New York City – March 12, 1945 in New York City) was a leader of Orthodox Judaism in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Drachman was born to parents who were immigrants from Galicia and Bavaria. After studying in a Hebrew preparatory school, Drachman earned a B.A. from Columbia College. He earned a scholarship at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau where he received his rabbinic ordination. He also earned a PhD from the University of Heidelberg.
In 1890, Drachman began serving as rabbi in the Park East Synagogue, where he led for the next fifty-five years. Drachman was president of the Orthodox Union and professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
He translated Samson Raphael Hirsch's The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel into English.
This was ironic as the works of Zecharias Frankel of Breslau, a man Drachman considered an important Orthodox leader had been condemned by Hirsch as heretical. Historically, Frankel is considered the founder or at least a forerunner of Conservative Judaism.