Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

But it did cause them trouble.
  Massacres , deportation, ghetto , demonisation.
   In an never ending, repeating cycle.
    The eternal wandering Jew.
      Der Ewige Jud.
     In the middle ages when one was spotted at the town gate
   all the Burgers came to drive him away.
     A bad omen.
Hardy
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From: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Miriam Taylor"
<mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

>I agree very much with you, only I'm not sure if our families didn't WANT
>to stay Jewish. They didn't mind it as long as it didn't cause them trouble
>because at the end there were the family ties. The main cause was that they
>wanted to distance themselves from the "Shtetel" life style of their
>ancestors. They visited the Temple (not the "Groisse" or the smaller ones)
>on the high Holidays wearing their best clothes to hear Rabbiner Mark
>preach in German, and of course they were very class-minded. I think you
>mentioned it some time ago.
> Yosef Eshet

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