[lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 (NY Times)

[andie nachgeborenen]

Technically, maybe. But Jews have't been treated as Russian of any sort in Russia/USSR/Russia, maybe ever. Not like the Welsh in the UK. Maybe more like the Irish. (Certainly not like the Scots!)  We've been regarded as Yids. 

When I have time I will tell you the story about Ryabakov's DiL. 

And assimilation has to be both sides. German Jews between the wars thought they were assimilated Germans. The Germans, however, disagreed. 

You know the Wessi/Ossi joke from unification, right?

Ossie: Wir sind ein Volk!
Wessie: Wir auch!

--- On Mon, 8/4/08, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89  (NY Times)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 4:08 PM
> Well, yes and no. A Russian Evrei is a Rossiyanin, a member
> of the class of Eurasian peoples, alongside Russians,
> Chuvash, Tatars, Ossetians, etc. etc. etc. He or she is not
> a Russian, which is an ethnocultural category. As, for
> instance, the Welsh and Scots are British, but not English.
> 
> Of course, these things are much more blurred today now
> that 99% of Russian Jews are assimilated, as opposed to 80
> years ago, when they spoke a different language and had a
> totally different culture.
> 
> --- On Mon, 8/4/08, andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Anyway, I would not be considered a Russian. Least of
> all
> > by AS.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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