Word: luftmenschen
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...against the traditional image of the Diaspora Jew, the Ghetto Jew, born with a burden of guilt into a hostile world which he was unable to challenge and from which he therefore retreated, into the stagnant world of the Eastern European Jew, a world of peddlers, of scholars, of "luftmenschen" (literally, "men-of-the-air" that is, parasites, do-nothings) where he would scrounge a life until the next Good Friday when the mob of Christians would burst in for revenge upon the "Christ-killers", who would be cringing in their houses, under their beds, praying for salvation from...
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