http://campusj.com/2007/01/26/lecture-of-canadian-jewish-history/ Jewish Collegiate News Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:45:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://campusj.com/2007/01/26/lecture-of-canadian-jewish-history/#comment-7210 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:44:41 +0000 http://campusj.com/2007/01/26/lecture-of-canadian-jewish-history/#comment-7210 I am Swedish because I am a second generation Canadian of a grandmother of Swedish stock in the Ukraine. My people have run from persecution for 400 years. If the people of Laval wish to question "bringing up the past", they need to understand living memory, at the very least. It is not in the past if the people who lived it are still speaking, nor yet if it is remembered by those who heard it. I will not forget, nor yet my children, that my grandmother was welcomed to this country (unlike my other anscestors in other countries) because she was Lutheran, not Jewish. And I will weep for the countries that my people were excluded from for their belief, as I will feel ashamed for my (current) homeland that refused others for their peaceful and honest belief. I am Swedish because I am a second generation Canadian of a grandmother of Swedish stock in the Ukraine. My people have run from persecution for 400 years. If the people of Laval wish to question “bringing up the past”, they need to understand living memory, at the very least. It is not in the past if the people who lived it are still speaking, nor yet if it is remembered by those who heard it. I will not forget, nor yet my children, that my grandmother was welcomed to this country (unlike my other anscestors in other countries) because she was Lutheran, not Jewish. And I will weep for the countries that my people were excluded from for their belief, as I will feel ashamed for my (current) homeland that refused others for their peaceful and honest belief.

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