Word: goyim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onetime leader of a guerrilla band in Galicia; then numbed and jobless, battered by the Depression. Finally and most poignantly, he sees the suddenly aged figure as a tired warrior, so embittered by pogroms and concentration camps that he opposes furiously any contact David may have with goyim-even if the non-Jews are biblical scholars. At the novel's end the boy has become a theologian following his own books, not his father's bitterness. The reader is at once unsurprised and informed, wholly aware of what it must have been like to belong to such...
...Cuddihy, on the contrary, it is a description of the Jew as the universal capitalist whose "worldly God" is money. The Gentile capitalists worshiped the same God, except that they affected a veneer of civility as "a figleaf for the cash nexus ... The civilities are a kind of games goyim [Gentiles] play...
...discussing the Oedipus complex, for instance, he assumes that the crucial element in Freud's childhood was his deep shame when he learned that his father had meekly endured an anti-Semitic insult on the streets of Vienna. Thereafter, Freud is bent on vengeance -"He will unmask these goyim" by putting the offending Gentiles on the analyst's couch. The problem is not that Cuddihy's theories are preposterous, but that he has left too much out of his calculations - most notably the vast clinical experience that Freud always refers to in his speculative essays...