[Fwd: Europeans and Jews, part N]

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Jack Falk wrote:
> 
> >I was in Spain earlier this year, and found a tremendous fascination with
> >all things Sephardic in many circles. I was left to wonder about the human
> >impulse to remove (or worse, exterminate) the "outsider" in one generation,
> >and then venerate and study them in succeeding ones.
> 
> In some respects, today's European Judeophilia seems awfully similar to
> America's "buckskin hippie" flirtation with Native Americans, circa 1970.
> Curious?  Take a look at an early Neil Young album cover, rent "Little
> Big Man," read Carlos Castaneda's tales of Yaqui peyote mystics.  In a
> good used book store (or library), you can still find some of the dozens
> of books that were published about Native American subjects by University
> of Nebraska and elsewhere.  (Tony Hillerman hadn't made it big yet.)
> 
> A very different era, pre-casino.
> 
> Yankl
> 
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Interesting observation, Jack.  But --  whereas many North American
"hippies" were forever changed, opting out of the
consumer/waste/status/heartattack-machine bourgeois society for
rural/garden/owner-built/less-is-more lifestyle---I don't think
non-Jewish German youth are going to begin to live more like observant
Jews, do you? Klezmer music is a commodity to be consumed.  It will be
discarded eventually and replaced with "the next big thing".  I think,
by some of the great African and Middle Eastern musicians on the world
scene today. 

Like Ingemar says: If you were a German teenager and wanted to display 
dissatisfaction and contempt for  your parents' world, what better way
than to embrace the music of the odious untermenschen, who  have now
become exoticised and eroticized  --  cool, mysterious and sexy.  

Neil Young (my fellow expatriate Canadian)  has sustained a career for
over three decades and  is still finding common ground with musicians
who were not even born when he started out.  Keep on rockin' in the free
world, Neil.
                                    "Ain't singin'for Pepsi 
                                       Ain't singin'for Coke"

 
Wolf

PS -  Yankl, hot ir bakimen mahn nayem disk?  Der post arbet?