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M L Clark's avatar

This is breathtaking work, Jay. It's also the kind of work that must have been so difficult, on an emotional and psychological level, to compile. To go through generation after generation after generation of suffering in one's lineage is no easy task, and I can see now why you'd mentioned the weight of this task on you in recent weeks.

Nevertheless, it is important work, and powerful work, and I'm grateful to you for having done it. May the rest of these days of awe find you able to lean on that word in both senses: not just in horror, but also in wonder. You are *here*. You are here because some light, through so much suffering over the millennia, survived.

Much warmth from afar.

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David Roberts's avatar

Jay, this is an important contribution to our understanding of the history of persecution. Christianity has a long and violent record of refusing to accept any doctrinal differences. Against both Jews and other Christians. Each Jew alive today is in some ways a miracle.

While your post is mainly a record of horror, I left it also with gratitude for my ancestors who persisted and who were lucky enough to come to this country. Now the torch of survival has been passed to us, a sacred duty.

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