Judaism Confusion…by Robert M. Katzman
Robert M. Katzman’s Amazing Story: Â http://www.differentslants.com/?p=355
© September 7, 2013
Where are they?
I can’t see them
But I can, too
Long tables laden with delicacies
Old country flavors
Old country accents
Customs from across the sea
Brown eyes that see more than I do
Seen too much
Prayers in Hebrew
They speak among themselves
In Yiddish
Little American grandchildren
Wondering what comes next
Terrible-tasting purple wine
Fabulous chopped liver
Made by hand
Gefilte fish
Roast chicken
Matzo ball soup
Puddles of shining schmaltz
Floating between
The fluffy round icebergs
The carrots
Flavors I’ll remember
Sixty years later
But never find again
Aunts and uncles
Speaking of who isn’t here
‘Here’ means America
Who missed the boat
Conversations spanning a century
I didn’t understand
What boat?
When?
Poland
Lithuania
Belorussia
They meant:
Jews without a country
Even after one thousand years
Sharing the same land
Fearing the same Czar
Never to be accepted
Never to be trusted
Blood of Christ on their hands?
What does that mean?
What are they talking about?
Where have they all gone?
The Immigrants
All their children/Our parents
Now dead
Cousins indifferent
Scattered
Melting into America
Culture-less
Belonging to nothing
No Czars in Illinois
No shtetls in Brooklyn
No pogroms in Cincinnati
No delicatessens, anywhere
Not really
Just pretend Jewish food
Temples shuttered by Jews
The young seeing empty dustiness
While I saw rooms bursting
With ideas, concepts
And wonderful stories
What is left of us
If no one believes
Anything is worth believing?
From Abraham in Ur
To Goldman Sachs in New York
This is being a light
Unto the nations?
Do the Jews eternally require
The constant encircling
Threat of extinction
To continue to remain a people?
Is peace the ultimate extinguisher
Of four thousand years of history?
All of us safe now
Safe enough to disconnect
Safe enough to lose common purpose
Safe enough to blend in
Safe enough to disappear
Into the transparent arms of America
Tolerance melting us away
Where are we?
Happy New Year?
What the hell happened?
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