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Skin care Face Body. What happens when I have an item in my cart but it is less than the eligibility threshold? Should I pay a subscription fee to always have free shipping? At the hanging, the servant requests to play his fiddle one last time. Soon the Jew, the judge, the hangman, and everyone gathered to watch the hanging are dancing to the tune of the fiddle.
At the point of exhaustion, the judge cries out and pledges to release the servant from his sentence if he will only stop fiddling. Teddy, being dragged behind her, looks at me with the same accusing eyes. Duckworth and I stand under an archway at Christ Church, one which barely affords us shelter from the rain that has cut short our walk around the quad. Duckworth stuffs his hands deeper into his overcoat pockets. Jew in the Thornbush last night. Duckworth looks at me askance. You ought to be protecting her from such things. I am not sure how to answer.
That is displacement, which is what I think I am talking about. I introduced her to an anti-Sematic thought—before that adjective has entered her vocabulary—in a safe, nonthreatening-to-her fashion.
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She does not have to take action, or make a judgment. The act of judgment she passed off to her teddy bear. And yet, in a small but significant way I have prepared her for facing anti-Semitism when it comes around again in a more direct manner. That appears to me rather unproductive. Besides, children will face prejudice soon enough without us foisting it upon them at an early age.
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Jews are much more accepted in our—let me call it—cosmopolitan times. Oh, I know in the Muslim world there is plenty of.
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In our context, the Muslims are simply the new Jews. And for how many decades will that go on? It is misty enough that I can barely see the first line of trees at the edge of the Magic Forest. Johannes dozes on the window sill. I will not disturb him with my questions.
I can image what less than generous things he might say. I decide to explore how The Jew in the Thornbush reflects the time and culture from which it came: To help educate myself, I have balanced the laptop on my knees.
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Starting in the Middle Ages, Jews were confined to ghettoes, and barred from many occupations and trades, allowed to fill only those positions considered socially inferior. Both money lending and tax collecting fell into that category. Money lending, in particular, Christians saw as a sin, a necessary sin at times, but a sin nonetheless. Not surprisingly, the Jews, whether they practiced those services or not, acquired the reputation for being stingy, greedy, and corrupt.
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At some times and places the restrictions on the Jews were so great, they turned to crime to survive. I close the lid of my computer as I settle back to consider how this applies to The Jew in the Thornbush. In this tale, the Jew appears as the butt of the joke, a comic character, not to be taken seriously. Even his hanging is portrayed as entertaining. The purpose of the tale is to have an underling, with whom a peasant might well identify, get the better of those outside his class. This brings to my mind The Blue Light , in which a soldier gets the better of the king, his daughter, the judges and their assistants Judges, too, come in for a fair amount of abuse in the Grimm tales.
The Jew in the Thornbush is not meant to be an anti-Semitic tale. It is casually anti-Semitic, using the Jew as a device for humor.
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Violence in the Grimm tales is certainly not unusual, but usually has a purpose. The tales were structured so that violence becomes an obstacle for the hero or heroine to overcome during the tale, and serves as punishment for evil at the end of the tale. That the Jew is hung in the last act of the story is meant to signal to the reader that evil has been destroyed.
As my pipe goes out, I must sadly conclude that my precious fairy tales, for all the good they do when reflecting on personal concerns—such as feelings of abandonment, fear of the unknown, finding a life partner— fail when they touch on issues of social justice. They bear no more insight for us than could be provided by a medieval peasant, for whom the tales were meant to entertain.