These Rabbis, they claimed, condone all sorts of iniquitous business dealings with Gentiles, including usury and misrepresentation. In addition, Lilienthal continued, the Rabbis preach a policy of separatism from the good Gentile neighbors, and demean them so in Jewish eyes that the very word goy has become an insult.

Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn The Tzemach Tzedek and the Haskalah Movement, 1946