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— Zygmunt Bauman"In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition."
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Throughout early modernity there were very strong pressures on Jews to assimilate. Assimilating meant cutting your ties with the community of origin.
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In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were Jews. All the rest were Scotts, Irish, English, French, Swedes.
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