The Hebrew Bernard Lazare says of Marx: "This descendant of a lineage of rabbis and doctors inherited all the logical force of his ancestors. He was a lucid and clear Talmudist, who did not stop at the silly minutiae of practice, a Talmudist who made sociology and applied his innate qualities of exegete to the critique of political economy. He was animated by the old Hebrew materialism that perpetually dreamed of a paradise realized on earth and always repelled the distant and problematic hope of an Eden after death. But he was not merely a logician: he was also a rebel, an agitator and a harsh polemicist and took his gift of sarcasm and invective from where Heine had taken it: in the Jewish sources." -Antisemitism, its history and its causes, Bernard Lazare.