Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THERE'S not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet," a wrinkle-faced, cigar-chomping Jewish businessman assures the nineteen-year-old entrepreneur. "A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right...
...Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in a Jewish suburb of Baltimore, and a large part of the audience consisted of middle-aged, middle class businessmen whose backgrounds could not have differed much from that of Cohen. It seemed a bit strange to me when these men chuckled at the rapid accumulation of bones by the capitalist whiz kid in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. How could people who agree with Cohen's statement, and who have similar experiences, laugh at a teenage boy who cheats, lies, threatens, and eventually forges checks in an effort to be a success in the business...
...audience's comic reaction is a measure of both the movie's appeal and its failure as a moral statement. Duddy Kravitz is a thoroughly lovable character. Richard Dreyfuss is superb in his portrayal of the poor mischievous Jewish boy who sets out to make his mark after his hunched-over bearded grandfather tells him, "A man without land is a nobody." Motherless since the age of six, left to fend for himself by his taxi-cab driving father, ignored by his rich uncle, and taunted by his peers, Duddy determines to win the respect of his grandfather...
Finally, it is simply not possible in any meaningful way to compare the Jewish tragedy in Europe to the tragedy of the Palestinians. One of the many differences is the open doors for the Arabs and the closed ones for the Jews. These closed doors and all that followed caused the Jewish demand for immediate statehood at the risk of everything laboriously built up over two generations. It is this Israeli state which has now begun to recognize a Palestinian entity but not the right to an irredentist Palestinian mini-state...
Roth found that those who lived on memories of beautiful secrets ran into problems with those whose interests demanded quick and complete forgetting. In 1933, just a year after he published The Radestzky March, he left Germany--he was a Catholic son of Jewish parents, and known as an anti-Nazi. He moved to Paris, and never went back to either Germany or Austria. These countries' rulers--the fascists who succeeded the old imperial barons--learned from their predecessors' decline how hard it is to hold change back, and how much strength there was in new ideas like national self...