tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3501416668255895192..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Flashback 1999: Jews' history as victims doomed to repeat itselfNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69425496824709066162022-11-29T16:12:25.194-06:002022-11-29T16:12:25.194-06:00Certainly there is no logic as to why the Jews are...Certainly there is no logic as to why the Jews are hated by some but your theory makes sense. I would add that it is also because the Jews were always hated. There are other groups, maybe newer on the radar, that are successful and different but don't suffer quite the same.<br />Asians for one and of course the billionaires.<br />My first exposure to bigotry was soon after we moved to Miami in 1956 and a schoolmate called me a Jew as if it were a bad thing. Only seven years old at the time I could only question why he thought I was a bad person because of my heritage. He didn't have an answer.Lesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-61255808104757413492022-11-29T12:55:00.969-06:002022-11-29T12:55:00.969-06:00Well, you could write a column about this every ye...Well, you could write a column about this every year (perhaps you have), but I don't see how this one could be much improved upon.<br /><br />The "Christ-killer" pretext has always baffled me. Largely because I was raised Catholic and it was never even something I was aware of. I always thought there was a fair amount of focus on the faith being Judeo-Christian. <br /><br />Obviously, Christ, Mary and Joseph, the apostles, Paul -- all the folks at the beginning -- were Jewish, and the New Testament relies heavily on the theology and prophecy of the Tanach. It's just not logical to hate all Jews because of the ones who sought the crucifixion. (What, logic doesn't matter, you say?) It's like hating all white people because so many serial killers have been white. Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-55517539416913589322022-11-29T11:01:48.963-06:002022-11-29T11:01:48.963-06:00My grandmother left her family behind and emigrate...My grandmother left her family behind and emigrated at 17, from the town where "Fiddler on the Roof" was set. Twenty-five years later, they all became soap and lampshades. The letters stopped coming to East Garfield Park. The Germans told the rest of the world that Europe's Jewish population had been shipped to "resettlement" or "labor" camps...mandatory extended vacations in the East. She knew better. <br /><br />My grandmother never spoke about it while I was growing up. Almost nobody did. The word "holocaust" (no capitalization until later) still meant only a disastrous fire, with many deaths...like the one at Our Lady of Angels. But years afterward, when she was already past eighty, and I was already past thirty, something on TV (probably the news) prompted her to mention her big family in Russia, and how they all "went up the chimney." <br /><br />That was the phrase that my uncle and I heard, the same one that those in the camps had used. Spoken in an unemotional, and even a casual, tone of voice. Like someone saying: "Yeah, they all went up to their cottage in Michigan for the summer." <br /><br />She lived another six years, but I never heard her mention her lost family again. Like a neighbor's silent dog that suddenly lets out a single bark in the middle of the night, it was as startling as it was unforgettable. My grandmother and my uncle are long gone, and it's almost 45 years since that moment. But remembering it still gives me the chills.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-33346817719098935302022-11-29T09:57:35.445-06:002022-11-29T09:57:35.445-06:00Very sad indeed.
Very sad indeed.<br />privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18413982311699012802noreply@blogger.com