I'm afraid that Hayim Sheynin has unfortunately already besmirched
the approximately 3,000 Jews among the 30,000 Argentinians who
"disappeared" through his unecessarily harsh comments. It is
well-established that the Argentinain police and military were
systemically anti-Semitic. To say that these Jews, most of them young
and vibrant in their beliefs and commitment to social justice, had no
connection to what I perceive as a rather narrow view of what
constitutes being Jewish gives their lives and the lives of their
mourning families a shockingly disgraceful put-down.
Are we so far removed from the events of 1933 to 1945 that we've forgotten
what the "criteria" were for being Jewish during the Shoa? Were all
those tragically cut short lives only people who participated in
Jewish movements
and in Jewish causes? Were they not *all* of them Jewish martyrs?
Shabbat shalom,
Bernard.
Bernard Katz, former head, Special Collections and Library Development
McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph
author, descriptive bibliog. of L.M. Montgomery's books (in progress)
and chair, Ontario Library Association Copyright Task Force
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