I picked Emma G because I thought she might be known, rather than reaching for osbcurity: as a figure in woman's history, in American history, and with a Chicago connection, as well as as a important (nonJewish) Jew (Isaac Deutscher's characteriztion of irreligiosu leftist Jews like himself). I was both shocked and surprised that no one had heard of her. --jks
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>Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> > bring the names of a couple of
> > famous Jews, choose ten clues that identified each, and everyone was
> > supposed to guess who based on the clues. Most people picked sports and
> > entertainment figures. We of course picked political ones: Trotsky and
>Emma
> > Goldman. Trotsky, they guessed. No one had heard of Emma Goldman. --jks
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>Since Eleanor was the first of the Marx family to take anti-semitism
>seriously,
>perhaps you should have used her. She's probably less known than Emma
>Goldman.
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>Carrol
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