Re: gilded script on the inlay

[Marvin <physchem...>]

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From: "Lori Cahan-Simon" <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: gilded script on the inlay


> You know, Josh, since you bring this up, I don't feel it invalidates the
> artwork, but nonetheless I am annoyed at the horns.  It's just plain
> wrong.  It has helped propogate the idea of Jews as different, as
> demons, doing horrible things.  My father told me that when he was
> stationed at Indiantown Gap, PA, during the Korean War some other
> soldier said to him upon learning he was a Jew, "But where are your
> horns?"  Not humorously.  He was genuinely perplexed.  So, the artwork
> itself may be great, but the misinterpretation ruins a part of it for
> some people, either the subject or the audience.
> Lorele
>
I had a similar incident.  I was wounded on Leyte and sent to a hospital on
New Guinea.  In a troop ship on the way back to my unit on Leyte, I happened
to pass a group of soldiers clustered around one in the middle, who I heard
say (in a Southern accent), "There are no Jews in the infantry."   I
immediately turned back to the group and announced, "I'm a Jew, and I'm in
the infantry."  He said, "You're not a Jew.  You don't have horns."  With
nothing left to discuss, I went after him with my fists.  The fight was
broken up before anyone got hurt, but I thought I made my point.

It was the only antisemitism I encountered in the Army.  In a combat unit,
people get along because they have to depend on each other.

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