An alarming impression: most American Jews seem to find their Jewishness first and foremost in the food.
Next in demonstrating how nonchalantly non-Jewish-normative one is.
Third, in a mandatory sneering towards Israel as a distinct mark of what is Jewish. /1
Next in demonstrating how nonchalantly non-Jewish-normative one is.
Third, in a mandatory sneering towards Israel as a distinct mark of what is Jewish. /1
"Now we will suffer loss of memory :
We will forget the things we must eschew.
We will eat ham, despite our tribe's tabu,
Ham buttered .. . and on fast days . . . publicly . . .
Null, then, and void, the k*ke nativity.
Our family albums we will hide from view. /2
We will forget the things we must eschew.
We will eat ham, despite our tribe's tabu,
Ham buttered .. . and on fast days . . . publicly . . .
Null, then, and void, the k*ke nativity.
Our family albums we will hide from view. /2
Ourselves, we'll do what all pretenders do,
And like the ethnics mightily strive to be.
Our recompense? . .. Emancipation-day!
We will find friend where once we found but foe.
Impugning epithets will glance astray.
To gentile parties we will proudly go; /3
And like the ethnics mightily strive to be.
Our recompense? . .. Emancipation-day!
We will find friend where once we found but foe.
Impugning epithets will glance astray.
To gentile parties we will proudly go; /3
And Christians, anecdoting us, will say :
"Mr. and Mrs. Klein — the Jews, you know. . . .
(A.M. Klein, 1953, Montreal) /4
"Mr. and Mrs. Klein — the Jews, you know. . . .
(A.M. Klein, 1953, Montreal) /4
"Of course assimilation might be a quite good thing, but it doesn't work. Never has worked, never will. There isn't a Jew in the world known to me who somewhere inside him does not have a tiny drop of uneasiness vis-à-vis them, /5
the majority among whom they live ... one has to behave particularly well ... [or] they won't like us." ~Isaiah Berlin
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"Berlin resembles the assimilating Jews he describes in "Jewish Slavery and Emancipation," who for survival's sake had "to make themselves familiar with the habits and modes of behaviour" of Gentile society, to "get this right" and "not miscalculate." … /7
When.. "it was suggested to [Berlin]that he was surely the exception ... he had an immediate response: 'Nevertheless, I'm not an Englishman, and if I behave badly...'" ~Joan Cocks, “Individuality, Nationality, and the Jewish Question Social Research, Winter, 1999
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