literarymagpie:This is part of an exhibit of photography by Didier Ben Looulou that’s sprinkled arou
literarymagpie:This is part of an exhibit of photography by Didier Ben Looulou that’s sprinkled around the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris, which interviews primarily elder members of the Jewish community in Paris to show a diversity of beliefs and Jewish lives. English on the plaque reads:“I was born in France, my parents came from Poland.I grew up in a Yiddish and communist milieu. We stayed on in Paris until June 1942, as we had to wear the yellow star.I remember people turned round at me in the street, everyone looked at me, it was fun. In fact, it was my father who made me wear it, before it became compulsory, to show we had nothing to hide, that we even had to be proud of it.It was one of the great lessons my father taught me, without a sermon, without words. My parents were communists, therefore more lucid than the average person.A lot of people are searching for their Jewish identity. But I’ve always had the Yiddish language and culture, it’s a non-practicing, non-believing Judaism.” —Louisette Kahane, former president of the Association fo the study and the diffusion of Yiddish Culture (I assume in France)Look, I’m not highlighting this to praise her attitude over others, obviously, but I’ve never heard the like. The chutzpah is profoundly Jewish, and she was a badass. -- source link
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