Posted on 04/05/2018 8:32:06 PM PDT by PA Engineer
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II” begins as many Holocaust documentaries do, with a history of the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany mixed with what is now standard archival footage of Brownshirts and Kristallnacht. Throw in interviews with some Jewish celebrities — in this case, Carl Reiner and his friend Mel Brooks wearing his old Army jacket — and it has all the workings of a typical PBS documentary.
But the film, which premieres April 11, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, quickly takes an unexpected turn. Jewish-American soldiers, the viewer learns, weren’t only fighting Nazis during the war — they had to battle the anti-Semitic prejudice of many of their fellow soldiers.
All told, some 550,000 Jews served in World War II. A few had experienced anti-Semitism at home already in the form of “Gentiles Only” signs, for example, which were found at some public facilities across the country.
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I adored Jackie Mason long before I knew he was a) conservative and b) a rabbi. His routine about Jews ordering breakfast just slays.
"No Irish need apply" is usually associated with the mid-nineteenth century, and academics dispute as to how widespread the sentiment was.
Sorry we diverge on this one
I just don’t care about worries about anti semitism amongst GIs in WWII
I have no ground to judge them
They were killing Nazis
That should absolve them of anything to do about Jews
By our standards today every one who ever lived before us was
An anti Semite or racist or homophobe or mysoginist or islamaphone
I just don’t give a shit
It’s like the village is on fire and the taliban is at the gate and Comanches are in the wire and yet folks are worried that my Jeep driver carrying the M2 said “nigger or heeb or faggot” years back
I don’t care..
We are under attack to destroy us and our way of life and often by the very folks we are suppose to care about being offended 50 years ago
And individuals have a right to dislike groups of folks especially if their experience with that group has been negative
Take me with hood rats
It ain’t bigotry it’s self preservation
I’ve had Ultra Orthodox Jews in the diamond business that I was in be rude and ugly and untrustworthy to me
I don’t sit around wanting victimhood for it
I dated Jewish girls in Israel who were gorgeous and uninhibited ..like IDF babes.....they were wonderful but their parents were chilly and they made it very it clear it was sex only and no chance of permanency given I was a goy....and one who talked like Matthew McConahey at that
I just dealt with it and licked my wounds and moved on
I have literallly fought against black men for my life outnumbered and prevailed ....I’ve been beaten severely while cuffed by corrupt black cops shaking me down in Miami
Again do I want some special redress or victim classification
Hell no..I’m a man
Are Jews victims in America victims of anything serious this side of Yankel Rosenbaum or Leo Frank?
Very few
America is the best place ever for them....no question
Every group gets picked on...
Tough
Did Meyer Lansky whine when Masseria would only talk to Luciano?
I doubt it
Does Bibi cry if Abbas looks at him stink eye.?
Again of course not
Be a mensch and you’ll never go wrong
I’m not angry with you personally of course but this subject just doesn’t sit well with me
I saw most of his New York shows. I loved his routine about goys who love and adore their bosses and Jews who referred to them as schmucks.
Can you expound on Uris? I have read three books by him. I really enjoyed all three.
Not from you.
Lame.
Likewise.
but this subject just doesn’t sit well with me
Likewise. Agree to disagree. But given that you mentioned having a cardiologist at a young age, I urge you to calm yourself, FRiend.
If it makes you happy to fight about it, whatever.
This is news?
Cool! For all its faults, online media is an amazing phenomenon.
Lol
Experimental retrograde catheterization at Edward Heart Institute in 10 days
It looks worked up when I write
I haven’t been in a fist fight since 2000 at 42
Good job! Keep up the good work! Take up prayer and meditation!
I had wanted to raise earlier that the first two Jewish Senators were both from the Deep South: David Yulee (Florida), and, of course, Benjamin (LA).
I hate the way the South is stereotyped and/or treated like a monolith. I guess love of diversity doesn’t apply everywhere.
Anyone else like Greg Iles?
Actually, the US military put "H" (for "Hebrew") on the Jewish servicemen's "dog tags." My father, who served in Europe during WWII, once showed my his.
I suppose there was a religion identifier for all servicemen, so that the appropriate clergyman could be called in case of death or serious injury.
The main discrimination problem for American Jewish servicemen in WWII was the Nazis extra-brutal treatment of Jewish POWs, who could often be identified by their tags.
BTW, the percentage of American-Jewish servicemen in the US military during the WWII era was slightly higher that the percentage of Jews in the general US population of that time.
You are correct. I was wrong. H and not J.
You are correct. I was wrong. H and not J.
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