Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxt!martillo From: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Holocaust Message-ID: <298@ihuxt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 09:40:40 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxt.298 Posted: Tue Mar 6 09:40:40 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 07:26:10 EST Sender: martillo@ihuxt.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 28 Merely to have children and teach them about the holocaust is not revenge on Hitler unless the children are raised to be observant. The Germans made war specifically on rabbinic Judaism. The Germans did not molest Karaites or Samaritans who came under their control. Hitler did not simply kill people but also wiped out a culture that was different, more beautiful, and superior to European culture. If a Jewish parent raises his child as a secular American of Jewish origin or background, this parent guarantees that his descendents at the forth or fifth generation will be non-Jews who may be among the Jew-baiters and persecutors of that age. To raise Jewish children as secular Americans is national suicide and gives Hitler a posthumous victory. According to my maternal grandfather, Hakam Hassan Ajemi az-Zanzuri, assimilation into Euro-American society is particularly disgusting for Ashkenazim whose ancestors were subject to centuries of persecution by European barbarians. He attributed the rapid assimilation of American Jewry to the low class status, ignorance, and vulgarity of the Jews who immigrated to the United States of America before 1920. American Jews will only be able to transcend their ignominious origins through Jewish learning. Unfortunately, even though American Jews have more opportunities for serious Jewish learning than any other Jewish community in history, American Jews are perhaps the most Jewishly-ignorant Jews in history. Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo ATT Bell Laboartories IH 2F332 -- 312/979-2410