Re: One klezmer's experience

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

Friends,

For the record, in my post last night, I meant to say "appropriating," not 
"expropriating."

Sandra
resolving to get more sleep (sure, right...)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sandra Layman 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:43 PM
  Subject: Re: One klezmer's experience


  [snip]

  The situation with entities such as the "messianic" site is different, 
however. Put very starkly, such organizations, which target Jews for 
"conversion" by expropriating and manipulating Jewish culture and religious 
symbols, are -- whatever their stated intentions -- attempting to erase the 
identity, and probably thus eventually the existence, of the Jewish people. In 
this respect, they are a smiling and sly cousin of anti-Semites of other 
stripes. 

  Hmm, interesting choice, come to think of it... Would we prefer to be bitten 
quickly by a venomous cobra, or slowly hugged to death by a nice, friendly boa?

  All the best,
  Sandra