A lot of Eastern European Jews were dirt-poor farmers. Kaganovich was one of them.
--- Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> >From Adorno's talk "Zur Bekämpfung des
> Antisemitismus
> heute":
>
> "When an anti-semite says that Jews avoid hard
> physical labor, it would not wise to point out how
> many Eastern European Jews were shoemakers and
> dressmakers, and how many Jews in New York today are
> Taxi drivers.