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...reasonably certain that one reason the Harvard Korea Institute was so willing to give me a fat wad of cash for thesis research in Korea was the fact that I’m a lily-white Jew. Such people don’t usually go to Korea, so how could the Institute pass up such a public-relations coup...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The One Jew in Wonju | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...ahead and laugh, but I’m as serious as a heart attack. No offense to the Koreans, but they’re not my family, and I was in a country where familial ties are vital. I found myself—an agnostic half-Jew, at best—quoting Exodus 2:22 for comfort: “I have been a stranger in a strange land...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The One Jew in Wonju | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...only met one Jew in Korea...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The One Jew in Wonju | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...interviewed him for my thesis, but we quickly got off-topic. “What is a Jew?” he asked...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The One Jew in Wonju | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...wife is Korean. This man is a Jew. And a Korean. He doesn’t know a single ethnic or religious Jew within hundreds of miles of where he lives. But he lives with Israel every...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The One Jew in Wonju | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

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