The Jewish press
I wish I could show you a scan of the Jewish Telegraph front page this week - a picture of Stefan Ruzowitzky, who made the so-so film “The Counterfeiters”, with the tagline “Oscar win for Nazi’s Grandson”
It’s a film about Nazis, yes. And about Jews. But just because he’s the grandson of a Nazi doesn’t make him “Nazi’s Grandson”. I’m a “Jew’s Grandson” but I’d rather not be referred to that way. What a typically awful bit of press from an awful navel-gazing newspaper, maintaining that status quo that Jewish readers could only be interested in the Oscars for their Jewish content - by which of course I mean usually their Holocaust content, because that’s still the only acceptable story in town.
We’re a group of people most international and worldly-wise, most intellectually sharp. But now, it’s terrible - I wish Jewish people weren’t so easily led in paranoid insularity, a secret gang of death-related nods and winks.
By the way, a nod to my boys and girls if you haven’t already seen it…
Tags: jewish telegraph, jewishness, jews, oscars