Hardy describes the situation very well, at least it was so in my family.
My maternal grandfather, Saul Leib Steinmetz was the founder of the Poalei
Zion in Czernowitz, yet he was a small industrialist and reasonably wealthy.
My father was in the 1930ies a communist sympathizer, even though never a
member. At one time he hid for a friend, Communist pamphlets in our house.
My grandfather found them and insisted they be removed.
Mimi
On 12/4/10 1:10 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:
> Strange as it seems Jews stood out at both sides of social standing.
> The most affluent but also most ardent socialists .
> Sometimes in the same family.
> This did not make us very popular.
> The antisemites accused the Jews for conceiving communism.
> With more than half of the Bolshevik Politbiro being Jewish
> they had a very good case.
> In 1940 Jewish teen age activists with red sleeve bands humiliated
> Rumanian military.
> A year later , they remembered this with dire consequences.
> Hardy
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