Re: Germans and Klezmer

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: Leopold Friedman <apikoyros (at) juno(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Germans and Klezmer


> Marvin,
> Punishment is God's prerogative.
> Forgiveness was the prerogative of
> those who suffered and died. We may
> not presume to act for them.

I tried to say  I was not judging the survivers, but perhaps I wasn't clear.

> I am just asking those well-meaning
> (for the most part), talented German
> musicians to refrain from intruding in
> Yiddish culture if they wish to claim
> any sensitivity to human feelings.
>
> Incidentally, if you were a soldier who
> "fought back," I don't think you should so
> carelessly repeat that the victims of the
> Holocaust didn't fight back, no matter
> how little thay had in the way of weapons.
> The Warsaw ghetto rose up without help
> from the neighboring Poles or the Americans
> and, somehow, partisans did what they could
> to a degree that exceeded efforts of other
> "occupied" nations.

Please read what I said carefully to be sure you aren't "putting words in my
mouth".  What I wrote was " I am aware that my experience as a soldier - who
had the means to fight  back - is very different from the experience of the
victims of the Holocaust."

I know about the Jews who resisted in small groups, but that is a very
different experience than being a part of a large and powerful army.


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