From: lbs@tkmhp2.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Lech Borkowski)
Subject: Re: A Jew knows German ?
Reply-To: lbs@tkm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:30:45 GMT

 This post appeared originally on soc.culture.jewish. I thought
it would be useful to let the readers of this group read it as well.
I leave it without comments.

Lech Borkowski



In article <lexier.716520553@sfu.ca> lexier@fraser.sfu.ca (Lyle Lexier) writes:
>tichauer@valpso.hanse.de (Manfredo Tichauer) writes:
>
>
>>lexier@fraser.sfu.ca (Lyle Lexier) writes:
>
>
>>> Hallo Manfredo,
>>>      Das ist ganz interessant zu sehen judische Leute, die Deutsch spricht
>>> und schreibt.  Ich wusste nicht, das Juden Deutsch wissen.
>>>  
>>> For non-Germans
>>>      This is quite interesting to see Jewish people who speak and write
>>> German.  I didn't know that Jews know German.
>>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                   
>
>> Ludwig,
>
>> May be  YOU  should learn how to write German and English correctly, and by
>> he way, to learn something about German history AND literature.  Until 1933
>> there were about 550.000 Jews  (not Jewish people) living in Germany.  From
>> them, almost 250.000 were murdered by the Germans and their accomplices,the
>> rest  fled for their lives  (in Germany it is said that Jews "emigrated" to
>> other countries).
>
>> Now about Jews knowing German. May be you heard or read about the following
>> names:
>>                Vicki Baum                    
>>                Berthold Brecht
>>                Max Brod
>>                Martin Buber
>>                Elias Canetti
>>                Albert Einstein
>>                Lion Feuchtwanger               
>>                Sigmund Freud     
>>                Heinrich Heine
>>                Franz Kafka        
>>                Else Lasker-Schueler
>>                Stefan Zweig          
>
>> These are just some of the hundreds of Jews that wrote in German and became
>> quite known.
>
>> BTW, you write your name is  Ludwig Lebrechthausen,  although actually Lyle
>> Lexier. Did your father/grandfather "emigrate" to USA before 1939 or after
>> 1945? I'm just curious, as you are astounded that Jews know German. 
>> 
>>                                                         Manfredo
>
>> PS: I forgot to add the  hundreds of thousands of Jewish  Austrians, Czechs,
>>     Slowaks, Hungarians, Swiss, etc. whose first or second mother tongue was
>>     German,although I should better write Austrian, Czech, Slowak, Hungarian 
>>     and Swiss Jews. Do you understand the difference?
>
>
>>> Ludwig Lebrechthausen
>>> (actually Lyle Lexier)
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> |  Lyle Lexier        | There should be no discrimination against any person|
>>> |lexier@fraser.sfu.ca | for his/her race, sex, or sexual orientation.       |
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>>               ???  AND HOW ABOUT    R E L I G I O N  and  B E L I E V E  ???
>>                                     ===================================
>
>
>
>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Manfredo Tichauer M.                       EMAIL : tichauer@valpso.hanse.de
>>  Opitzstrasse 14                            VOICE :     (++ 49 40)  27.42.27
>>  2000 Hamburg 60 - GERMANY                  FAX   :     (++ 49 40) 270.53.09
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     What is the difference between "Jews" and "Jewish people" ?
>     Also, my name is actually Lyle Lexier.  I just love the German people
>that is why I chose a German name.  I have a real interest in the German
>people and their language.  My parents were born here in Vancouver.  Their
>parents came to Canada in the 1920's.  
>     I always thought that the Jewish people left Germany in the 1920's and
>1930's in order to avoid the anti-semitism.  I didn't know that Jews were 
>actually murdered by "Germans".  To me I find it discriminatory against the
>German people when you blame them for Nazis who murdered people.  Then again,
>don't all people kill during war time!  The Germans are no different than are
>Americans, Russians, English, Israelis (who persecute Palestinians), Chinese,
>Japanese, and the list goes on.  I hate it when people keep blaming the Germans
>when Hitler never even planned to murder Jews in the first place.  Didn't 
>Hitler plan to send them to Palestine or Uganda or Mauritania?  Yes, of course
>there were bad Germans, but most of us were good German people.  In actual fact
>there were only the odd Nazi murderer that existed in Europe, just like there
>are murderers today in America, Canada, and elsewhere.
> 
>Lyle
>
>-- 
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>|  Lyle Lexier        | There should be no discrimination against any person   |
>|lexier@fraser.sfu.ca | for his/her race, sex, or sexual orientation.          |
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