Don't tell my father that......he would have said Disraeli stole it from
Plato!
-----Original Message-----
From: Abe Feder
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:08 PM
To: Antique Phonograph List
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Edison and anti-semitism
Actually-if you look that up you find that Disraeli said "Yes I am a Jew
and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable gentleman were brutal savages
on an unknown island mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon. He said
that as he was addressing the House of Commons in England. This has been
the basis for many such statements for the last 175 years including the one
in the movie.
Abe
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Michael F. Khanchalian <
[email protected]> wrote:
You mean you look down on everyone except the Armenians.
Come on now George :-)
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On Jan 27, 2013, at 8:33 AM, "George Glastris" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Be that as it may, we Greeks look down on everyone else since we are the
creators of Western Civilization. As the father in "My Big Fat Greek
Wedding" said......"Every thing comes from the Greek."
>
> Or as my late father would say to his best friends (Mr. Kelley, Mr.
Germeroth, and Mr. Freed) "When my people were writing the great
philosophical books of the ancient world, your people were swinging from
trees." Then again, he would remind my mother that HIS family were
Corinthian but that HER family were only Thessalian.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Vinyl Visions
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:12 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Edison and anti-semitism
>
> Honestly, growing up in western Michigan, even as a white male I felt
somewhat oppressed by the very nature of the clannish ethnic groups. It
didn't matter if you were white, what mattered was whether you were Polish
or Dutch. For example, the Dutch had bumper stickers that said "If you're
not Dutch, you're not much." Talk about discrimination... you couldn't buy
a house in Zeeland, Michigan without going through an "interview" with a
Dutch realtor - there were no "For Sale/Rent" signs in Zeeland, even
though
houses were obviously available. If your last name didn't end with a "ski"
or other Polish ending you weren't accepted on the west side of Grand
Rapids and the blacks were all located in their own section of town,
because to avoid the busing and integration laws each small community that
made up the total of Grand Rapids proper, incorporated into their own
small
towns. Benton Harbor, Michigan is a prime example: in the 1950's it was
predominately white, but in the 60's
a
> nd 70's as blacks moved in - whites moved out across the river to St
Joseph... the last time I was there, Benton Harbor was referred to as
Benton Harlem and St Joseph was almost totally white.
>
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:44:50 -0500
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Phono-L] Edison and anti-semitism
>>
>> Given when he was born, where he lived, and his own ethnic and
>> cultural
>> group, I would be surprised if he were either more or less
"anti-semitic"
>> than others in the United States who weren't themselves Jewish.
>>
>> It wasn't remarkable for a Christian home owner to want to sell his
home
>> to another Christian; for a Christian employer to want a Christian
employee.
>> What we have here, I think, is a kind of "social distance" felt by one
>> social and cultural group from another.
>>
>> In my own lifetime, newspaper advertisements for houses for sale or
>> apartments to rent in New York City included clues in their texts
about who they
>> wanted, e.g. --- "churches nearby" --- carrying with it an implication
of
>> who they *did not* want.
>>
>> Edison was a man of his time, place, and background.
>>
>> paul charosh
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