![]() ![]() When Marx shows disdain for the soldiers implausible fidelity to Jewish law, Grossbart compares him to the passive Jews who had only recently allowed themselves to be slaughtered: Thats what happened in GermanyThey didnt stick together.īefore the term Holocaust had even come into use, Roth has one Jewish character accuse another of complicity in this horror. ![]() Grossbarts scheme to get Marx to sign off on a leave from base during basic training involves a persistent claim that he needs to eat kosher food, and to attend his aunts Seder, although Passover has been over for a month. The letter ends up on the desk of a goddam congressman, forcing the ambivalent Jew Nathan Marx to explain to his superiors that Jewish parents, sirtheyre apt to be more protective than you expect. Respect for parents Grossbart forges a letter from his mother complaining about the non-kosher food he is forced to eat. Roth explodes every sacred stereotype about Jewish life, leaving ugly little fragments. As Grossbart explains to a non-Jewish captain frustrated with his odd requests for religious accommodations, Some things are more important to some Jews than other things to other Jews. ![]()
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