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It's the riff I'm talking about!

Mark Williams wrote:

> > Money changer means Jew, like it or not. The derogation of Jews as
> > exploitative usurers, worshipers of money, etc.-- not to mention blood
> > libels and alleged secret plans for world domination -- goes back a long
> > way, and is still around and spreading. It's the language of Jew-hatred.
> > It's common knowledge, on historical record, offensive, and deadly.
>
> This old libel against the Jews is as bad as you say except that, if you are
> referring to Aeschylus as the author of the original quotation (upon which SW
> was playing a riff), it is unlikely that Aesch. had the Jews in mind.
>
> MW
>
> Mark F. Williams
> Classics Department
> Calvin College
> Grand Rapids, MI
> USA  49546
> wilm@calvin.edu

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