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Show Rose (1/20/83) page 26 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R starts " " which is the 6th day, not the 7th. The rest of your kiddish is what he did the 7th day; He finished, He rested, and He blessed, you see. The story that goes with that is that the 7th day was given to man and the finish of creation will be when man perfects himself, you see. That's lovely. That's a lovely thought. Well, it doesn't originate with me, I assure you. I didn't say it does, but it's lovely nontheless. I have to, in all modesty, say that it didn't originate with me. That's O.K. I wish it had. I think to come up with a concept like that would be the work of a life time. I'd be content with it, but it didn't start with me I'm sorry to say. Let me ask you something. This, of course, happened much later in the 1930's •• of course, this is difficult ground for you, but in what way did you become or did you start becoming aware that there was antiSemiticness in the air? How did you slowly become aware o this? Well, in the first place, there was so much coming out of Germany that, you know, actually my first feelings about that matter were resentments of what was happening to Jews in Germany. AntiSemitis didn't start there. I lived in an era way back in New York when I was first looking for work, you could see ads in the paper, ever paper in town,~I'm not excluding even the New York Times, NJNA, those were the letters in the ads, No Jews Need Apply. It didn't even have to be spelled out, I mean, everybody knew, every Jew knew what NJNA meant. You never heard that before? |
