“Do not tell anyone; they will try to stop us.” An earworm for lifestyles. “They will try to stop us.” I didn’t perceive. I used to be 10, and I didn’t perceive. So what if my pal known as me a “zhid”? So what if any person exclaimed in wonder, “You don’t really look like a Jew”? So what if a classmate drew a Star of David on some other boy’s table, the one different Jew in my magnificence? So what if that boy and his circle of relatives fled a couple of months later? So what? I didn’t perceive. “We were not wanted there,” my mother would say. “We belong in America.” In the early ’90s, the cave in of the Soviet Union gave method—as soon as once more—to rampant antisemitism all through the fragmented republic; a twister of prejudice wreaked havoc at the post-Soviet states. The hostility against the Jewish other folks was once glaring. Jews have been restricted to sure jobs, Jewish marketers have been briefly silenced. Their companies have been demolished. Attaining...
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