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i have had similar experiences to FLMM, sadly. the deniers may be the minority, but there are some very vocal ones, and in some pretty well thought of american academic circles.
i would not say that i am uninterested, but i think that in some cases, the way it is addressed, and how it is framed, is not something i agree with.
yes, that makes me feel better.
when i read about it, yes i get quite upset about it. same for the pogroms. particularly chmelniki (sp?) and how his legacy is viewed. but it is certainly not something on the forefront of my mind, or even something that comes up, nearly as often as the holocaust. surely time lapse is the major contributing factor.
There really aren't that many deniers, to be honest, virtually all of them are in Muslim tyrannies or soon to be tyrannies, outside those realms they have no influence at all.
Sadly, I've met two young, otherwise quite pleasant, people who doubt the Holocaust and try to minimize it. Pretty awful. A third insinuates they brought it on themselves. I mention it literally everytime I see them to try to shame them. I live in a pretty liberal town (called the "Berkeley of the South" at one point) and it's still a small sample but I wouldn't be surprised if the Holocaust gets the revisionist treatment at some point in our lives.
i have had similar experiences to FLMM, sadly. the deniers may be the minority, but there are some very vocal ones, and in some pretty well thought of american academic circles.
I agree.
My kids' school, which is a Jewish School but pointedly NOT a Yeshivah Day School is really into the Holocaust and has all sorts of programming about it. I am mostly uninterested in the Holocaust. Horrified, but uninterested. My wife is more connected because her father was a survivor and she grew up around lots of survivors. She takes my kids to an all night "reading of the names" of the murdered (it is staggering, they can only cover one region or large city a year).
i would not say that i am uninterested, but i think that in some cases, the way it is addressed, and how it is framed, is not something i agree with.
If it makes you feel better, I was using the word in the academic sense - an important, shared story that binds a group together and gives it identity. In that context, historical truth or non-truth is really irrelevant. What matters is that the story is shared and used to create identity.
re the Inquisition, think how much the trauma of the murders during the Crusades has passed. Do you ever get upset about it? Yet it was so horrific that memories of it entered the liturgy in many places, even the Kin'os. That is barely happening yet, if at all, for the Holocaust (in the Orthodox community(.
yes, that makes me feel better.
when i read about it, yes i get quite upset about it. same for the pogroms. particularly chmelniki (sp?) and how his legacy is viewed. but it is certainly not something on the forefront of my mind, or even something that comes up, nearly as often as the holocaust. surely time lapse is the major contributing factor.
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