Jack Ross on my assimilationism:
Does your wife really celebrate your holidays too?
My line is that if I had lived in Wilhelmine Germany or even in a certain place and time in this country I would have been a Christmas
Jew (that was actually what the Germans called the assimilated elite); but a hollow capitalist observance in a propositional nation just isn't
worth it.
My line is that if I had lived in Wilhelmine Germany or even in a certain place and time in this country I would have been a Christmas
Jew (that was actually what the Germans called the assimilated elite); but a hollow capitalist observance in a propositional nation just isn't
worth it.
Still, I certainly try not to actively shun Christmas, and I always have my Jewish Christmas with the tourists in Times Square, as I would probably faint at the sight of the Chinese place I like in Park Slope on Christmas Day.
That last is a joke about all the Jewish people eating Chinese on Christmas. My wife does celebrate the family rituals that are important to me. And I think she'd put Christmas and Easter in that category.
