Re[2]: ATTENTION - The German thing...

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

I totally concur with Abe.


Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky


>From: Abraham Malz <MALZ (at) POSTBOX(dot)CSI(dot)CUNY(dot)EDU>
>To: "World music from a Jewish slant." <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Cc: 
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:11:44 -0400
>Subject: Re: ATTENTION - The German thing...

>> Date sent:      Mon, 23 Jun 1997 08:05:32 -0700
>> Send reply to:  jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>> From:           Musawwir Spiegel <musman (at) mother(dot)com>
>> To:             "World music from a Jewish slant." <jewish-music (at) 
>> shamash(dot)org>
>> Subject:        Re: ATTENTION - The German thing...
>
>> >A musician friend once told me,  "the difficult thing about playing in
>> >Germany is you never know 
>> >if the old guy in the back of the audience is the one that killed Grandpa."
>> 
>> 
>> For us Jews to blame current day Germans for what their parents or
>> grandparents did more than fifty years ago rests on the same kind logic as
>> the Nazis espoused.  I know that if I ever visited Germany or Austria I
>> would be haunted by the vibrations of what happened there, but I 
>wouldn't > blame German people as a collective matter.  
>
>Many of the Germans who took part in the Holocaust are still alive. 
> We know what there ages are and a first guess at what someone in 
>that generation did at those times would suggest your statement is 
>too forgiving.  The youth, of course, are not part of that 
>generation.  I hope that they reject the principles and actions that 
>their parents and grandparents so enthusiastically supported.
>Abe
>


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