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To: Little Joe who wrote (125468)	2/5/2001 1:02:45 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

It is a problem. Part of it is that secularization did not produce complete alienation from Jewish history, and, indeed, frequently expressed itself in such things as Zionism, which originated among non- religious Jews, although eventually some religious Jews got on board. There was the retention of a strong sense of identity as a people, not only a religion, re- enforced by the herding of Jews into restricted areas like ghettoes and the Russian Pale of Settlement for centuries. Of course, ethnic identity does not require racial themes to emerge, and it is obvious that a good deal of intermarriage occurred in the remote mists of the past. Chinese Jews (originally from Portugal) ended up, after several centuries, looking Chinese; Indian Jews (again, originally Portugese) looked Indian; and Jews from Poland usually resemble the surrounding Polish population as well. No, the Nazis were crazed on racial theorizing, and traditional anti- semitism metastasized into the horrors of the Holocaust.......