tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1567944303431396507..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Le Juif InconnuCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-2167965300015491972013-06-13T01:22:09.099-04:002013-06-13T01:22:09.099-04:00Poignant and beautiful and intensely Jewish. In t...Poignant and beautiful and intensely Jewish. In the midst of our sorrow, yet still we dance.Angie Moorenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-47258896440585355972009-08-04T19:50:02.015-04:002009-08-04T19:50:02.015-04:00I also felt this was a story about time, and — thi...I also felt this was a story about time, and — thinking more about the family dynamics here — about how your kids both expressed a confidence in their futures: there would be time, later on, to go in, to be serious, to return to Paris. There is a time for dancing, too, and it's often when you are five years old. There is a time to pay respect to the enormity of horror, and sometimes that is by refusing to watch, or witness. I speak as an outsider to Jewish history, but I would have thought it reasonable for a kid to take his own time to re-visit that history.This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-19169986516807674082009-08-04T12:38:24.026-04:002009-08-04T12:38:24.026-04:00Thanks for this beautiful and moving post. And per...Thanks for this beautiful and moving post. And perhaps--just perhaps--the Shoah itself is always on the move, both in the past and present simultaneously, alive still somehow and transformed and still lived across all of the flickering consciousnesses of those who were there and will never remember it in the same way. Until, to cadge from Toni Morrison, enough time passes that the weather takes over and it is only weather.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-46668042714476993092009-08-03T22:16:22.831-04:002009-08-03T22:16:22.831-04:00Beautiful work, Jeffrey, and my heart goes out to ...Beautiful work, Jeffrey, and my heart goes out to Alex. Thanks for this.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.com