In a message dated 10/22/1999 9:27:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, zharadon@inconnect.com writes:
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You think she changed her name because she was ashamed of her Jewish
heritage? That's a very odd theory. Her first name was originally Alice. Why
did she change that too?
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Yes, she was "passing" as ... just like many people hid their heritage in
those days.
Read her books, remember this was the forties and fifties ... do they ever
once mention a Jewish neighborhood, segregation, racism against Jews? Any
culture other than mainstream, Christian America? Nope. All whitebread
clean-cut types with no discernible cultural barriers.
Considering her self-congratulatory theory tat she was 'objective'
I have often wondered why she was so blind to her own pathologies, while
preaching so self righteously that everyone else was so unaware.