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I don't know Irv Zuckerman, but he is a great storyteller of what are undoubtedly true stories. Told from the heart. Thank you Irv. You may not still be around but I hope you are.
Could you imagine how different things would have been if George Lindsey (Goober) had been cast as Spock as Gene Roddenberry is rumored to have wanted? Can’t do that gesture. I’d have to glue my fourth finger to the fifth.
Although I'm a Gentile, I love the Jewish people & the Yiddish language. When I studied the Shoah, I was drawn into their stories. Yiddish is such a fluid , flexible language. Thanks for sharing this! May her memory be a blessing!
I 'm a Jew who read "The Apostle." And I don't think he was trying to convert anybody. He simply told the story of Paul from it's Jewish roots. And not only did that story not make me want to be a Christian, it solidified my belief in my own religion. Because the bottom line is the only evidence that Jesus was the Messiah was through the testimony of his disciples. And just because somebody says something doesn't make it true.
It’s sad that the history of Jewish anti-Zionism is so little known. It is as old as the history of Jewish Zionism, if not older considering the end-times Protestant Christian roots of the modern political Zionist movement. Herzl had to move the first Zionist Congress from Munich, Germany to Basle, Switzerland because the Jewish German community (many of whom were native Yiddish speakers too) was so outraged by Herzl’s Zionist ideas and plans, German rabbis even wrote and spoke of “Der Judenstaat” and Herzl’s other writings as literally “antithetical to Judaism”. Now it’s seen as some fringe position to be an anti-Zionist Jew, when Zionists were once seen as exactly that by the vast majority of Jewish Europeans.
This was a truly terrifying moment in human history. It shows that not all Germans and Europeans aligned with the Nazis and hated Jews. These small acts of kindness and bravery (those hiding Jews could be shot) saved untold numbers of people. The comments below are full of stories in which regular people and sometimes soldiers saved people whose only crime was being Jewish.
While I share Zamir’s preference for I.J. Singer over the Nobel laureate brother, it isn’t on the grounds that The Brothers Ashkenazi is a socialist revolutionary pamphlet in novelistic form. I.J. Singer's primary gift as a novelist is not his advocacy of a specific agenda, for socialism and against capitalism, but the insightful cynicism that he aims against all corners. The Brothers Ashkenazi is a historical scrutinization of how these polar economic and political alternatives confronted each other within pre-WWII Poland. Israel Zamir's socialistic interpretation of the novel belies Singer's nuances as a writer. It's only superficially persuasive to reduce The Brothers Ashkenazi to anti-capitalist fodder in support of Bundism or any other socialist program.
It sounds like german cause jews migrated to germanic countries about 1000 years ago and learned the language mixing in their hebrew words eventually making this language
Love how you brought your blessing into our lives. Even some actors later, your blessing is brought into our homes today. “Peace and long life.” Nb 6:23-27
2:15 Vroclav (Wrocław) is a big city in SW Poland, not a village nearby. The village meant here is Włochy, 3 km east of Pińczów. Thank you for sharing.
I agree that there is multigenerational trauma. I see it in my own family. The Holocaust trauma was also completely denied. From what I understand about epigenetics, the environment affects gene expression in real time, but I have never heard that it would affect the choice of genes that are passed along in the sperm and egg. I have discovered the concept of dysregulation (altered neurological development) due to childhood trauma, also called complex PTSD. Your neurotransmitter systems and wiring are affected by all the yelling, screaming, nervousness, constant criticism and correction, guilt, neurosis, feeling the need to be perfect, etc. So epigenetics might be a factor in one's childhood but as far as I can tell it isn't operational at conception. This isn't just a picky point. It means that if you were able to correct the nervous dysregulation prior to having kids, that your kids might turn out much better. They aren't doomed to a life of neurosis bc of their genes (although maybe jews are genetically more neurotic).
Forever in your debt, Sugihara. Thank you. You're the lighted beacon in the hopeless, darkest days of humanity. You are rightfully seated among the righteous.
