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Finally, Weiner should ration self-pity out a bit more strictly. Though it may be true, as he says, that "it hasn't been easy being Jewish during the past few months"--and I think, as an American Jew, I know what he means--it's been a good deal more difficult being Palestinian, being Lebanese, or for that matter, being Israeli. Scott A. Rosengberg...
AFTER WORLD WAR II, the sickening realization of what had taken place in concentration camps turned world opinion against the rawest form of anti-Semitism. Like the Southern bigots who were forced to don the robes and hoods of KKK to carry out their lynchings and burnings with impunity,. Jew-haters after the Holocaust could not practice their bigotry without assuming some sort of disguise...
...exploring in depth some of the social roles--mother, tourist, Jew--she has accepted. Pastan gives her writing the special vitality that comes only from external matter. The poems in PM:AM are always reaching out beyond conventional scope, grabbing onto things that exist wholly apart from the poet and her realm of existence...
...Jew who recalls the silence of a Pope and the indifference of President Roosevelt while 6 million of my people were burning, the choice for me is simple...
Since time immemorial the Jews have risen from the ashes, standing yet stronger in their beliefs. How else could they have survived, if not for their devotion to the past? In every Jew, including American Jews, is the remembrance of those who came before and of their trust that tradition will be carried...