In a message dated 11/4/02 6:31:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << The first involved only making a narrow technical assessment; the second a broad moral judgement of the sort that I thought went out of style with the 19th century movement of WASP elites to "Americanize" all the foolish foreign immigrants (or at least with the 1950s attempt to force everyone into the same bland, homogenized soul-less mainstream religion in the name of fighting godless Communism). >>
In all fairness, upon reflection, I must say that although historians tend to talk about WASP elites, especially around the turn of the century, I seem to recall from growing up in Chicago that Jane Addams, the founder of the immigrant-Americanizing Hull House in Chicago, was (like me) Jewish. David
