In fact, in some regions Jews were farmers. The Emperor Joseph, son of Maria Theresa, helped hundred of thousands of Jews to settle down as farmers in Galicia in Poland. And a very large part of the farmers in Galicia were Jews for 150 years, until the nazis came to Galicia. From what I remember.
(And jews were craftsmen too. I am just reading Elzbieta Ettinger's biography of Rosa Luxemburg, and from pages 33 and 34, about a man (a jew living in Wilno) called Jogiches: "He apprenticed himself to a locksmith, earning his living by manual labor; and although he never developed a taste for the work, he could now identify with the laborers. Indeed, he promptly established contacts with stocking makers, shoemakers and printeres. If these contacts were almost exclusively with Jewish workers, it was because workers were predominantly Jews,") Tor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:30 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fw: Why Jews Don't Farm > Might this also be the reason that successful composers starve? > > REH > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fw: Why Jews Don't Farm > > > > Why don't jews farm? > > > > Might the reason be largely that the life of the mind > > cannot flourish among persons who spend the best hours of their > > lives *toiling*? > > > > The kind of intensive and subtly nuanced > > studies which I gather go on in the Yeshivas(sp?) > > cannot come "after" wearing yourself out in agricultural > > labor (not to mention the calluses such labor > > forms on both the hand and the soul...). > > Or do we have some persons here who say not only > > that it is possible, but that hard labor > > in the hot sun all day nurtures in-depth > > esoteric hermeneutical > > studies and stimulates them to widely *flourish*? > > > > I reacently read that a study found that Yeshiva students > > did much better at solving difficult geometry problems > > than the students in normal schools, even though they > > did not have as much nominal math education, etc. The reason > > seemed to be that they are trained to approach a problem from many > > angles in depth (hermeneutics, again...), etc. > > > > As Charlie [the Starkist...] Tuna asked: > > > > Which do you want: A tuna with good taste, or a > > tuna that tastes good? > > > > \brad mccormick > > > > -- > > Let your light so shine before men, > > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Futurework mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
