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...Freud, the result was the theory of repression. Just as the assimilating Jew repressed the crude Yiddish-keit of his inner being, says Cuddihy, so did the Gentile repress the id that was at the root of everybody's being. As Ordeal would have it: "The importunate 'Yid' released from ghetto and shtetl is the model, I contend, for Freud's coarse, importunate Td.'" Marx, like Freud, is depicted as an iconoclastic unmasker of the hypocritical civility of the Gentiles...
...into the 1970 Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, "A Tale of Two Hoffmans," provides one of the book's most fascinating moments. Cuddihy puts aside the legal issues and instead analyzes the proceedings as "an ancient scenario" played out in the courtroom by Defendant Abbie Hoffman, an uncompromisingly "coarse Yid" if ever there was one, and Trial Judge Julius Hoffman, archetype of the assimilating Jew striving for Gentile "refinement." When Abbie labels Julius a "front man for the Wasp power elite," he bluntly expresses the "sociocultural wounds" that, Cuddihy says, Marx and Freud expressed only indirectly. But when Cuddihy poaches...
...Wall. "Triumphantly exciting," says the Herald. "Emotionally charged," says the Monitor. "It's amateur night in the Warsaw ghetto," says the Globe, "in this starkly inept dramatization of John Hersey's novel, which memorialized the suffering of the Jews during World War II." 'Sist schwer ein yid zein. 8:15 at the National Jewish Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
...Link. Dr. Arye Lev-Ran, who left Russia in 1967 and now lives in Israel, writes: "In buses and trains, and in queues outside stores, [the Soviet Jew] constantly hears the words zhid [yid] and A brashka [Abie], and overhears how crafty Jews grab up everything and are the cause of all shortages. There is probably not a single Jew in the Soviet Union who has not heard a drunkard voice his regret that Hitler did not finish off all the Jews...
...than the ritualized tea ceremony is to that of the Japanese. Wyke is very pukka. Tindle is half Italian with a half-Jewish father. Wyke can be loftily amusing about this ("Some of my best friends are half-Jews"), but he can also spit with rage ("a wop, a yid, a not-one-of-me face"). This is a seething ethnic confrontation and it gives Sleuth a core of passion that most mysteries, and all too many plays, lack...