“French Jews of the nineteenth century had a ‘theory of three generations’: ‘The grandfather believes, the father doubts, the son denies. The grandfather prays in Hebrew, the father reads the prayers in French, the son does not pray at all. The grandfather observes all the holidays, the father Yom Kippur, the son no holidays at all. The grandfather has remained Jewish, the father has been assimilated, and the son has become a mere deist . . . if he has not become an atheist, a Fourierist or a Saint-Simonian.” ~ Paul Johnson [A History of the Jews (New York: Harper & Row, 1987), 564]
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:47:10 +0000
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