I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible. And then they had to come to Brussels, to run away from Poland, because there was too much anti-Semitism. They lost everything they had.
People have been trying for centuries to manipulate genes, enhance certain traits, and achieve racial purity, even in humans. And of course I thought of the Nazis and their efforts toward Aryan magnificence.
I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.
The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.
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