[lit-ideas] Re: Jewish communities in the ME
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:52:48 -0400
"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 ?"
Omar - Denial seems to be your primary defense mechanism for dealing with
uncomfortable realities. The passages you selected about Jewish refugees in
Middle eastern countries support my contention that Jews are virtually
non-existent - persona non grata - in those countries. I'm Jewish. I would
be crazy to be a tourist in those countries. It's dangerous enough to visit
Israel today.
For an intelligent person, you can be awfully dumb. Denial doesn't help you
make your case.
Stan Spiegel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Omar Kusturica" <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:49 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Jewish communities in the ME
> --- 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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