Tuesday, March 6, 2018
6/Secrets & Lies
Bill's cold, anti-Semitic father never talked about his family, except to say they were French. Eventually the father died, and then, later, Bill died too. I remained curious. The internet makes it so easy—all those old Censuses. There they were: the mother, the father, the five siblings, their immigration from Austria, Yiddish their native tongue.
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Do you think Bill knew?
ReplyDeleteHe knew it was a possibility, but one of several. His father looked like he could be French, or Jewish, or an Arab.
ReplyDeleteWow. That was actually a sub-plot in a book I recently read. (I cannot remember what book it was though.)
ReplyDeleteThat's a sad story.
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