{"id":1811,"date":"2009-09-14T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2009-09-14T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T04:00:07","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-14-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/14\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-14-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 14 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1812\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/nazi_propaganda_eternal_jew.jpg\" alt=\"nazi_propaganda_eternal_jew\" width=\"243\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/nazi_propaganda_eternal_jew.jpg 243w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/nazi_propaganda_eternal_jew-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/em><\/strong><em>:Frye scoffs at &#8220;Senior Common Room&#8221; anti-Semitism, which, unfortunately, seems to have been common enough at the time.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[113] I\u2019d like to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_Yorker\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New Yorker<\/em><\/a> type story with echoes from a club like our S.C.R [Senior Common Room]. Krating: \u201c\u2026you see it isn\u2019t the Espiani Jew, the real Jews, that are the trouble; it\u2019s the Polish kind that cause\u2026\u201d \u201cSo when the inspectors arrived they found the coal all stacked up in the bathtub. You see, you just can\u2019t\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<strong><em>Bob Denham\u2019s note (103):<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>\u201cApparently a reference to the controversial depiction of the Jews by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishencyclopedia.com\/view.jsp?letter=S&amp;artid=1012\" target=\"_blank\">Alfonso de Espina<\/a> (15<sup>th<\/sup> century), the chief originator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_Inquisition\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Inquisition<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slopenagency.com\/sa\/alanmendelson\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Mendelson<\/a> notes that NF is ridiculing Krating for expressing a common prejudice at the time \u2013 that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sephardi_Jews\" target=\"_blank\">Sephardic Jews<\/a> are acceptable because they are good candidates for assimilation and converstion, but the more recent immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe are not, because they are ignorant of \u2018our ways.\u2019 The prejudice was common also in England at the time. Mendelson points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Grant_(philosopher)\" target=\"_blank\">George Grant<\/a> also refers to \u2018the coal in the bathtub\u2019 example in one of his own journal entries at about the same time (28 October 1942).\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>Below is a clip from the notorious Nazi propaganda film, <em>Der ewige Jude<\/em> (German with English subtitles).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2OxTmH5KGGo\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2OxTmH5KGGo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1942:Frye scoffs at &#8220;Senior Common Room&#8221; anti-Semitism, which, unfortunately, seems to have been common enough at the time. [113] I\u2019d like to do a New Yorker type story with echoes from a club like our S.C.R [Senior Common Room]. Krating: \u201c\u2026you see it isn\u2019t the Espiani Jew, the real Jews, that are the trouble; it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frye-diaries-september","category-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Today in the Frye Diaries, 14 September - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/14\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-14-september\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Today in the Frye Diaries, 14 September - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"1942:Frye scoffs at &#8220;Senior Common Room&#8221; anti-Semitism, which, unfortunately, seems to have been common enough at the time. 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