6/20/2023 0 Comments The Hard Tomorrow by Eleanor Davis![]() It is also the focus of Eleanor Davis’ new book, The Hard Tomorrow. As we assimilate into our new environment, we bring with us our own historically Jewish ethics of compassion, kindness, education, and celebration. With each displacement, exile, and holocaust, Jews find a new home, build a new life, set up a new community, and move forward in the world. Still, Jewish history is also infused with hope. As a result, Jews, for the most part, have historically lived in anticipation of the next act of rejection, banishment, horror, or violence. ![]() But we have also been subject to expulsions, pogroms, Inquisitions and genocide many times over - often, indeed, fueled by the trope of the greedy, crooked Jew serving as the scapegoat for other stresses and complexities in society.”Ī matter of fact, the list of the persecutions suffered by Jews via state-run agencies is staggering in its length and savagery. Many times in history we have been tolerated, and even embraced, by the rulers and locals of our host country. “ Most Jews throughout history lived a precarious existence, economically and otherwise. As American author and educator Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg once wrote, Much of the history of the Jewish people is one of persecution and suffering. ![]()
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