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re: Teachout on FIDDLER
Posted by: Vectorbabe 12:58 pm EST 12/23/15
In reply to: re: Teachout on FIDDLER - NewtonUK 08:39 am EST 12/23/15
Thank you for your wonderful and sensitive reminder of the exodus under Tsar.

My family on both my grandparents sides made it out of the Russian/Polish shetls at the end of the progroms. (My maternal grandmother was a very small child. My paternal grandfather's parents made it here much earlier.)

It is because of this migration that my family was untouched by the invasion of the Nazis into Poland and the death camps.

But one thing I disagree with your comment.

From the first time I saw Fiddler (with Zero no less!) I always took the exodus from Anatevka to be the salvation of those Jews. I never saw them marching to their deaths. It was too early and those Jews were not welcome in many European countries.

Very few of the Jews leaving Poland/Russia would have moved to Germany or Austria. German Jews looked down on Polish/Russian Jews. Some might have moved to France, but for the most part they went to America with some going to Palestine as Yenta's travel indicates. In fact, it was those Jews in Palestine who started the Zionist/Socialist movement to create a state for the Jews.
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