Harold Brodkey Quotes
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
Brodkey, Harold. This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death. Metropolitan Books, 1996.
The Nazis and most of the Arabs were allies in WWII. The Jews of Palestine—although they were opposed to many of the British policies regarding Palestine—were active in the Allied cause contributing units to the British Army. Although the Germans were brutal to civilians, murdering millions, they refrained from public pronouncements or exhortations to kill civilians in most cases. The Arabs did not. The Mufti was actually given the rank of General in the Nazi SS and had his own SS unit. In this despicable exhortation he actually uses a concept and wording from the Koran. See {584355}. This quotation is important in that it refutes a common claim by some Palestinians that it was only the Germans who were responsible for the Holocaust and the post war Jewish Refugee problem and that the Palestinians had to bear the price rather than place Israel in Europe. This quotation and the other by the Grand Mufti prove that Palestinians were not only complicit in persecution of Jews but took a leadership and advocacy role.
There will never be another Holocaust in the history of the Jewish people. Never again, never again!
Prime Minister Lloyd Geroge actually had used the phrase over half a century earlier. See {603047} The Jewish Defense League used Begin’s phrase as a motto: {605148}
Some bigots blamed the Jews for the Black Plague, then rampant. This is documentation of the Pope’s intercession to protect Jews. Pope Benedict XII, ?-1342, was an enlightened and moral leader who did not share the superstitions of many and realized that something was transmitting the disease. See {611790} for his behavior. The graphic is of the Pope.
Zangwill had been asked to be part of a team to assesses the accusations of pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine.
Kissinger and Nixon had just had a meeting with Golda Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister who had asked them to support the right of Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel. Kissinger himself was Jewish and Nixon’s closest confidant about world affairs. It is not clear whether or not this was another example of Kissinger pandering to Nixon’s prejudices which he did often. See {621138} for Nixon’s reply. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released.
Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.
