not Martin but Mircea

[Mark Thibodeau]

I don't think it's fair to compare "Martin" and "Mircea". The latter
was far more viciously and viscerally hateful than the former could
ever fairly be said to be.

J

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
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