These two snippets are from a powerful book written in the 1980's called, "A Certain People." ITEM: A few weeks after a neighbor’s father moved in with her, members of the block association came to call – not to welcome the elderly gentleman but to protest his habit of sitting on the front lawn quietly reading his Yiddish newspaper while he caught the afternoon sun. “It’s not nice,” they complained, by which they meant that they were embarrassed by his public display of Jewishness. Had the eighty-two-year-old man read a French newspaper, the block association members would have been delighted with the touch of class he added to the neighborhood. – Charles Silberman ITEM: The funeral had been uplifting as well as moving. The dead woman, who had died in her eightieth year, had been filled with vitality until the end, and in his eulogy the rabbi evoked her presence with warmth and humor. Reluctant to break the spell, the mourner...
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