[lit-ideas] Re: Jewish communities in the ME
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 04:49:42 -0700 (PDT)
--- Austin Meredith <Kouroo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(snipped)
> Later on that year, after the Shahanshah and
> Shahbanou had fled and the
> Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had returned, the
> tombstones of the Jewish
> cemetery in Tehran were bulldozed. A building has
> been erected atop the
> graves. Nothing now remains, I am told, to inform
> anyone that Tehran ever
> had a Jewish population.
*Well, there is the Jewish population. (I provided the
link somewhere.)
I remained for some time in
> postal contact with my
> former landlady (until such postal contact with a
> USer became too dangerous
> for her), and she reassured me in her fractured
> English that to the best of
> her understanding, after I had myself fled, when the
> Jewish family had
> later fled from her apartment building, they had
> departed at night without
> incident leaving all their furniture behind, and
> must surely have made it
> safely to the border -- she assured me that I need
> not be concerned that my
> former neighbors had been killed.
*This happened during the early days of the Islamic
revolution. So are we now going to tell an anecdote or
two from Europe during World War II and conclude
thereof that the European societies are, have always
been, and will always be, pervasively anti-Semitic ?
Or an anecdote from Russia during the 'pogrom' days,
and draw similar conclusions about the Russian society
?
I seem to remember that the grandfather of Nathaniel
Hawthorne sentenced a Quaker woman to be whipped in
the streets of Boston, which is mentioned in one of
his stories. What could this tell us about the
American society ?
O.K.
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