National Post | 10Dec2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.financialpost.com/todays-paper/Shameful+degree+self+hating/3956088/story.html#ixzz17iR8CCm4
Shameful degree for self-hating
Jew
The reference to Jewish "privilege" in the title of Jenny Peto's
master's thesis recalls a brief introduction Isaac Bashevis Singer
wrote to his 1972 novel Enemies, a Love Story, about a chronically
skittish Holocaust survivor. With mordant irony, the future Nobel
laureate warned readers of a deficiency in his own life story: "I was
not privileged to go through the Holocaust."
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta.
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In fairness to Jenny Peto, last year scores of movie-theatres across
Ontario showed the revenge fantasy film Inglourious Basterds. It
contains scenes in which Holocaust-era Jews are portrayed as clinical
sadists, who seek out and destroy their Nazi foes. Indeed, the film
constitutes a complete U-turn to the standard Holocaust narrative. But
one heard no squawk of concerted protest from Ontario's decision-makers
or demands for remedial action.
Different strokes? Well, I guess!