The Escape Artist - And Tale of the Jewish People
Posted 11-04-2022 at 10:57 AM by jbgusa
From The Escape Artist.
I think the tale is much deeper and darker than for which anyone gives credit. Over the years I have read books such as:
Even in modern times, the national self-determination rights of the "Palestinians" seem to trump that of the Jews among polite company. The Jews, in the perception of the rest of the world, are different. See:
The Jews, on the merits, have accomplishments that far outsize their numbers. Much more previously powerful empires have not a remaining trace; the Babylonian, Assyrian, Roman (though through much of its time a republic), Egyptian, Moghul, Aztec, Inca, Holy Roman and others are either vanished without a trace or are a remnant, a shadow, of their former selves. As for religions, the idolatrous religions of yore are largely gone.
The Jewish people and religion, as hated as they are, still survive, thrive and contribute.
I think the tale is much deeper and darker than for which anyone gives credit. Over the years I have read books such as:
- The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and the Holocaust,by Rafael Medoff;
- While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy by Arthur D. Morse;
- 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik;
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II;
- FDR and the Jews by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman; and
- The Race Against History: The Mission to Build a Jewish Army in America to Fight Hitler by Rick Richman
Even in modern times, the national self-determination rights of the "Palestinians" seem to trump that of the Jews among polite company. The Jews, in the perception of the rest of the world, are different. See:
- Why the Jews? by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin;
- Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust by Aly, Götz;
- From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism 1700-1933 by Jacob Katz; and
- Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg.
The Jews, on the merits, have accomplishments that far outsize their numbers. Much more previously powerful empires have not a remaining trace; the Babylonian, Assyrian, Roman (though through much of its time a republic), Egyptian, Moghul, Aztec, Inca, Holy Roman and others are either vanished without a trace or are a remnant, a shadow, of their former selves. As for religions, the idolatrous religions of yore are largely gone.
The Jewish people and religion, as hated as they are, still survive, thrive and contribute.
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