To my friends of the Hebrew persuasion--Jack and Judih
Posted: July 5th, 2010, 5:19 pm
Jack and Judih,
An interesting thing has happened to me. While my sister and I have been sitting around here going blind from the cataracts that we both have because of our fair eyes, she started checking our family out on Ancestor.com. I've never been in the least bit interested in who my ancestors were unless I was in their will. But she started searching and it seems that we are a quarter Jewish a couple of generations ago.
This was not completely surprising to me because for some reason I have always thought that there must be a yid in the woodpile somewhere. My first Jewish friend in school was Barry Goldblatt. I always had this strange kinship with him like he was my brother. There has never been a hint of Jewish culture or religion in our family. We were raised as Methodists. But for some reason I read all of Leon Uris' books and I've always been fascinated by the saga of the Jews.
I was never particularly aware of any anti-semitism when I was growing up in Texas. Of course there was enough racism to make up for that lack. I can never remember it being a topic of discussion in our family.
I'm glad that my sister found that out though. Now I feel much better about hating myself....haha! Anyway, 'next year in Jerusalem.'
An interesting thing has happened to me. While my sister and I have been sitting around here going blind from the cataracts that we both have because of our fair eyes, she started checking our family out on Ancestor.com. I've never been in the least bit interested in who my ancestors were unless I was in their will. But she started searching and it seems that we are a quarter Jewish a couple of generations ago.
This was not completely surprising to me because for some reason I have always thought that there must be a yid in the woodpile somewhere. My first Jewish friend in school was Barry Goldblatt. I always had this strange kinship with him like he was my brother. There has never been a hint of Jewish culture or religion in our family. We were raised as Methodists. But for some reason I read all of Leon Uris' books and I've always been fascinated by the saga of the Jews.
I was never particularly aware of any anti-semitism when I was growing up in Texas. Of course there was enough racism to make up for that lack. I can never remember it being a topic of discussion in our family.
I'm glad that my sister found that out though. Now I feel much better about hating myself....haha! Anyway, 'next year in Jerusalem.'
