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My Sephardic Guilt on Kristallnacht

JL;DR SUMMARY Rachel Delia Benaim reflects on her feelings of Sephardic guilt during Holocaust remembrance days, such as Kristallnacht. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryHolocaustJewish IdentityMadeiraHolocaust EducationAshkenaziSephardicInclusionKristallnachtAshkenormativity

Places mentioned

Madeira, Portugal
"While other Jewish families suffered unimaginable brutality in the Holocaust, my family lived like royalty in the Portuguese paradise known for its wine, Madeira."
Gibraltar
"My family is from Gibraltar (like the straits you learned about in history class), a British territory on the tip of the Iberian Peninsula."
Jamaica
"to Madeira, where my family went, and Jamaica, another tropical paradise."
Greece
"First of all, there were some Sephardic communities, like the one in Greece, that did experience the Holocaust directly."

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