One Man’s Answer to the Question: “Why are you a Jew?”

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Notes

^1. Meyerkey, pen name of Meyer Levyne, cited in Hyman, From Dreyfus to Vichy, 291 n. 34.

^2. Fleg, “Why I am a Jew,” in Hertzberg, ed., The Zionist Idea, 478–85.

^3. Ibid., 480.

^4. Connelly, From Enemy to Brother; Nord, After the Deportation, 264–86; Tobias, Jewish Conscience of the Church. On the concept of the “aryan Jesus,” see Heschel, The Aryan Jesus.

^5. See Kertzer, “The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives.”

^6. Cited in Landau, De l’aversion à l’estime, 337.

^7. Cited in Ginzberg, Students, Scholars and Saints, 209. Charnow mentions the influence of the great nineteenth-century Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz upon Fleg, but she does not mention Frankel, although Frankel’s perspective was close to Graetz’s.

^8. Hyman, From Dreyfus to Vichy; Hyman, The Jews of Modern France, 115ff; Malinovich, French and Jewish.

^9. Moore, Sacred Dread; Crane, Passion of Israel; Nord, After the Deportation.

^10. Hyman, From Dreyfus to Vichy, 192.