The Jews came to love the Polish and Ukrainian physical environment and in the nineteenth century (if not much earlier) wrote poetry lavishly praising the farmland, forests, and climate of Eastern Europe. The rise of the great Jewish communities in Slavic Europe, remarkable for their enterprise and traditional learning, and also innovative in religious and literary expression, was a direct result of the Black Death. ~ Page 164
The huge migration of Jews from the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and 1990s to Israel and the United States has subliminally and genetically reinvigorated this bond with the Slavic past of the sixteenth century even though under Stalinist repression the Soviet Jews lost much of their linguistic and cultural identity. Perhaps if we wait long enough history will surprise us. ~ Page 167 Excerpt: “In the Wake of the Plague” Author Norman Cantor
I was just reading this book since last few days and I came across this. Probably this is happening again?
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Malik Raoulda said:
Bonne et agréable semaine salutaire.
Roger (Grisly) said:
Great sentiment that we can all agree with.
Gabi Lombardo said:
Günter Klaus said:
..........wünsche noch einen schönen Nachmittag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni:))
Berny said:
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Annemarie said:
But I hope the weapons stop!
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Dinesh said:
The huge migration of Jews from the former Soviet Union in the late 1980s and 1990s to Israel and the United States has subliminally and genetically reinvigorated this bond with the Slavic past of the sixteenth century even though under Stalinist repression the Soviet Jews lost much of their linguistic and cultural identity. Perhaps if we wait long enough history will surprise us. ~ Page 167 Excerpt: “In the Wake of the Plague” Author Norman Cantor
I was just reading this book since last few days and I came across this. Probably this is happening again?
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