Re: why Jews became fiddlers

[cohenk2 <cohenk2...>]

My father---who is NOT a holocaust survivor---forbid me, as a child, to
study piano on the grounds that if the nazis come, you can't pick up a
piano and take it with you.

now, it's certainly true that my father's sanity is quite suspect.  to be
polite about it.

kev






Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net> on 09/24/98 06:09:57 PM

Please respond to jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org

Sent by:  Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>

To:   "World music from a Jewish slant." <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
cc:   (bcc: Kevin B Cohen/Gates/NWIE)
Subject:  why Jews became fiddlers





>> Our parents, I think , live in a constant
>>  "paranoid" state, which really is justified due to the circumstances
they
>>  experienced.    Anybody else have thoughts about this?      LINDA
>>
>A friend, Dr. John Krug, once interpreted it this way:
>Why were Jews Fidlers (as in Fidler on the Roof)?  Because it is portable!
>That was the emphasis on education (? And medicine)- because it can be
taken
>with you- just in case....


Sorry I have so little time to write on here or even respond to posts
addressed to me, but I thought I would send this off.


Just found this comment on a mailing of children of Holocaust survivors.
Do others here think that this is why Jews chose to become fiddlers?    I
don't think so, but am curious about other people's opinions.


Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky