not Martin but Mircea

[Mark Kohut]

Here's a little grenade into ...things. Henry Adams & T.S. Eliot were also,
in an on-paper opinion-mongering way, --don't
know of any real life examples--- said to be anti-Semitic.

Din't bother our genius who plundered for intellectual influences...?

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the annals of anti-Semitism, Romania holds a particularly egregious
> position. For example, it is estimated that 130,000 local Jews were
> slaughtered in Romanian-occupied Ukraine, and that Romanian forces
> massacred 150,000 Jews in the area of Odessa and Golta. In a pogrom in
> 1941, as Sebastian records in his *Journal*, Jews were herded into an
> abattoir and hanged by the neck on meat hooks. “A sheet of paper was stuck
> to each corpse: ‘Kosher Meat.’”
>
> Of course, Romania was not unique in this regard. In the early years of
> Nazi conquests in Eastern Europe the ravening enthusiasm for pogroms among
> the indigenous populations of countries such as Poland, Lithuania, and
> Estonia startled even the SS. However, the detestation of Jews among all
> levels of Romanian society, particularly intellectuals, was unrelenting.
> Here is a typical outburst, recorded in the *Journal* in September 1939:
>
> The Poles’ resistance in Warsaw is a Jewish resistance. Only yids are
> capable of the blackmail of putting women and children in the front line,
> to take advantage of the Germans’ sense of scruple…. What is happening on
> the frontier with Bukovina is a scandal, because new waves of Jews are
> flooding into the country. Rather than a Romania again invaded by kikes, it
> would be better to have a German protectorate.
>
> Who might the speaker be? Some embittered partisan, perhaps, or a
> street-corner orator? No: the speaker is Mircea Eliade, one of Romania’s
> leading scholars and writers of the time, who after the war slipped away to
> America and there became a highly respected and influential thinker and
> historian of religions. In 1937 Eliade says of a left-wing student flogged
> by Iron Guardists that personally he would have put his eyes out as well.
> Sebastian writes, “Perhaps one day things will have calmed down enough for
> me to read this page to Mircea and to see him blush with shame.”
>
>
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/05/26/surrounded-by-jew-haters/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Prisons%20Uganda%20anti-Semitism&utm_content=NYR%20Prisons%20Uganda%20anti-Semitism+CID_ab89f8bfb0519728730ad1d09ee20312&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Surrounded%20by%20Jew-Haters
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20160520/9fddcef1/attachment.html>