At 07:06 PM 12/11/2003 -0800, Vance Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >JEWISH IS A RACE, Judaism is a religion.
By definition yes. Practically, it's a difficult case to make. There is no direct racial affinity between a Yemenite or a Falasha (Ethiopian), and Moishe Rabinovich from Brooklyn, or Igor Iglanov from Moscow, or Hagop Turovian from Yerevan, or Ansor Tilskhastizishvili from Tbilisi, or Baruch Matsliakh from Buenos Aires. All of whom may be secular non practicing Jews, and thus, not part of Judaism. I myself am not a practicing Jew, but I can recite much of the Tanakh from memory. In Hebrew. It's been said that natural red hair occurs in only two racial groups. The Celts and Ashkenazi Jews. In other words, a definite proof that the Irish are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel...:-) > During the Holocaust The Jews were persecuted because of their race not >their religion. Correct, but Hitler's concept of what that race constituted of, was as murky as his concept of what the Arian race was. Hitler's notion was not based on any scientific data, but on a _societal_ concept of who is a Jew. Thus he proved the maxim laid out by Jean-Paul Sartre in his Reflexions sur la Question Juive, that a Jew is simply any person who is considered by his contemporaries to be Jewish. According to MT, RT et al, so is a Nazi. Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 Phone: 614-846-9517 Fax: 614-846-9794 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orphee.com
