www.forward.com
Have you read the Forward recently?
It's under new (old) ownership, I'm told.
One of the old-timers told me it's "back on track."
mbs
Absolutely. As one of the last few in the old tradition, I'm a dinosaur.
jks
[In re the TV version of the Warsaw uprising]
Sure the film was lousy with Nazis. But there was nothing
about fascism -- only terribly bad guys called 'Nazis'
some pretty bad guys called 'Poles,' and some schlemiels
who were jews (one of whom redeems himself).
The Bund was referenced in the con
>I wrote:>> a friend of mine -- an anthropologist named Martin Cohen -- has
>done a lot of research on this (and he's not the only one). He argues that
>there was an amazing amount of Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis, even
>in
>Germany.
Well, what's an amazing amount? I visited the very mov
> Not necessarily. Properly reconstructed, the resistance
> could serve the purposes of elites. For instance, the
> recent TV movie about the Warsaw ghetto uprising was
> leached of left political content and framed the rebellion
> as a more honorable form of suicide: stand-and-fight
> as a matt
I remember hearing an interview on KPFA in Berkeley sometime ago regarding
a story of several teenagers, boys and girls, who were Jewish partisans.
Perhaps somebody knows the book. They showed incredible courage and
ingenuity. Eventually they settled in Israel.
The leader, hardened by the war,
> I think it's slightly more sinister: the elite wants passive
> donors to their
> cause and support for Israel no matter what. Zionism and
> standing-and-fighting are seen as mutually exclusive
> alternatives. Further,
> the Bund tradition of socialist or labor-oriented Jews is
> anathema, whe
I wrote:>> a friend of mine -- an anthropologist named Martin Cohen -- has
done a lot of research on this (and he's not the only one). He argues that
there was an amazing amount of Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis, even in
Germany. Also, he argues that the U.S. Jewish establishment hates this
